Can anyone suggest what tyre is best for riding my full sus bike on tarmac?
[sorry for the hijack]

Didn’t mean to sound harsh, just been there and had too many t-shirts to take any chances!
What lock did it have? was it cut or picked or jimmied?

I live near Oulton/Swillington and often ride out by methly/cas and garforth. send me a mail in profile if you want a ride out with a fat 30something!

You chain a bike like that up in Leeds…you mental?
Thnaks for the heads up on the spate of thefts, but any bike over £500 is always going to be targeted by scrotes.

Taken last year.

Ton, take it.
Get someone else to handle some of the workload as part of their development. You can still stay close to the action and not become an office boy.

Bunnyhop is wrong, milk goes in last with tea.
What has been said about cracking cups in olden days, and tea brewing at close to 100C is correct.

My mate just got a v70 on motability for very little contribution. Can find out details if interested.

I have a stumpjumper 2005 with vanilla forks, hope and Shimano XT kit and that comes in a 29lb. So yes, 29lb is about right for a good full sus without going for a scott scale or spesh epic with carbon everything.

nice!

Really fance an xtracycle, but not as a conversion. Hope a few frame builders bring out an alternative to the Surly Big Dummy

late model 2004 Volvo V40.
My 1998 one is coming up to 150,000 with (touch wood) no problems.
Should be well under £7000.

oh one last tip…download the PDF’s for your model fork and shock, fox only keep about 3 years worth on their site.

I have just serviced mine today (Fox Vanilla 2005 RLC forks) for the first time. To be honest, they didn’t need it, internals were clean as a whistle.

THE SECRET WITH FOX FORKS IS:

Wipe the stantions clean after each ride, including the gunk that builds up round the seals.

Keep the stantions lubed, I use a mix of finish line teflon after cleaning, and finish line cross country dribbled on just prior to a ride.

Also store the bike inverted every once in a while, that foam wiper seal can soak up a lot of oil, but the bike needs to be inverted for a few hours fo this to happen.

Other than that I would not fret too much. Having had my forks appart this weekend I am increasingly impressed with Fox stuff.

Give some coin you tight bastids!
Everyone on this forum is richer than most of the world population.
Give what you feel you can.

Havn’t seen it in the flesh, but from the pics the rear mech and brakes look cheap compared with the polished finish of old Dura-Ace, more SLX than XTR. Cranks are nice though!

Another one lusting after an Z3M coupe please. in Metallic blue if possible.
Guy I used to work with had one, never seen anything so gawky looking and cool.

Or maybe a fuji s5pro if ISO is your need. Basically a D200 shell with a fuji sensor. Ideal for weddings and portraits, less good for action.

Wow spot on!
Audi…CHECK
Gut…CHECK
Titanium mincer…CHECK
Thinks Brants OK despite his limbless fetish…CHECK
Signed up for the JoB posh book…CHECK
Work in IT…NOPE

In fact other than the gnarly language (well this is Yorkshire!) it mainly fits. Very astute observation.

Never minded if anyone drafts me (though more often other way round!).
Surely its just part of being a cyclist, and makes you a bit more visible than one bike to traffic.
If you are fast enough to catch-up and overtake then you really ought to be fast enough to pull away and drop any tailgaters, or at the very least make them work hard for their draft!

I can imagine in central london the above might not apply, as I wouldn;t want to think of the rider 6inches behind me if I needed to brake suddenly due to a taxi or bendy bus.

Where: South Leeds to Harrogate (Colton,Seacroft,Wike,Harewood,Kirkby Overblow,Rudding,Starbeck).
When: Not flippin often at the moment, but 0630-0800 in and 1700-1830 home)when I am not too soft and the roads are not icey!
What: Fat bloke on a PX sportive, probably commiting cardinal sin of wearing a camelbak. Often seen trying to keep up with the guy with the pony tail coming down Harewood Bank!

light grease, I tend to add a splash of finishline crosscountry lube to finishline teflon grease.

Duck and Drake still very much open and still serving some of the best beer in Leeds (fantastic pint of Landlord in there, plus many guest beers). It’s a funny pub, looks like an old whino’s dive to the casual passer by, but the customers are a good mix of old soaks, students and Leeds folk who have grown up with it. Probably my favourite Leeds pub.

Theres indoor carting on the edge of the city centre (near Tetleys brewery,about a mile from the centre). If you are in cars you might be better going to Xscape just of J32 of M62 (15min drive) where you can do skiing, bowling, laserquest and there are lots of bars and restaurants.

I would start at xscape then get the train (right outside) to leeds for the evening out.

Looks like Leeds email system is ahead of the rest of the UK by 48hours, I found out sunday morning, rest of UK seems to be today.

Any happy/unhappy parents?

Second JD in Ilkley. Nice bunch of people, deserve the custom!

Nearly ordered one when you first posted, but was puzzled how to mount it.
The picture of velcro and zipties on your photobucket gallery explains it all.
At the moment I will have to make do with my upgraded cateye halogen with new 5000mah battery pack that I swapped all the cells in pre-xmas.

Impressed, hope to be a customer in the autumn.

;-)

I have a North Face placket polartec 200 fleece that I bought in 1992. Still wear it for gardening and DIY.

Wow that looks nice!
Whats battery voltage and connectors does it use?
What are the run options for brighness/beam pattern?

I have just got the regular Hunk for my son, and its great. Feels a lot nicer than my UK forces issue Bivibag. Think that the jump from £30 to £50 is a bit much though!

nah…contraband like that is onlyfor after he goes to school! Can’t go sharing my drycure now can I!

nice garage!

great idea…pulls up chair and asks the lad to get the kettle on.

Have 4 sets of Merlin wheels…all straight and true after lots of use.
Maybe Merlin should advertise “Tested by Ton” … it would make me buy em!

Can’t comment on CRC, might be just as good, but I have never had any.

s5 pro

sorry I bought the last two alpkit 400’s in the country last week! None showing on website, but they had a couple lurking (years of dealing with on-one made me ring up to check!).
I saw a decent down sleeping bag at a huge camping shop in wakefield last week.
Can’t remember brand but it has elasticated baffles and was goose down and rated to approx -5.
It was reduced from £180 to about £95, I froogled it in store and it was £150 plus everywhere else.
Had I not just bought two skyhigh 400’s then I would have been coming home with me. Think its still there.

Spongebob, agree with both your points there.
It is really sad for anyone who bought a first property in late 2006 to early 2008 as they may not have been around for long enough to remember/know about the early 1990’s!

Long term though it is in no-one interest except the banks to have everyone saddled with high mortgages at 4x, 5x or even greater salary multiples.

We live on a crowded island and love to buy property, so long term I am sure prices will recover, but I think the start of that recovery will be 2013 at the earliest.

embers

Keeping me in gainful employment!
Well done James and Oz.

You been to Doncaster?