Full-on Brextiter/Gammon, thinks folk should just work harder – the f**ker retired in his early 50’s!

They all repeat the same tropes:

– Politicians are all liars anyway
– All homeless people are fake/organised beggars
– Corbyn/Labour was/is going to let them all in (heard it too many times it’s a bigger issue than forum members think!)
– Choosing between heating and eating, maybe they should buy less booze/drugs and fags or get a job
– Everyone rents in Europe
– Can’t afford a house, they should work hard like I did, get another job instead of staring at their phones.

If only we could all be as right as they are, with everyone surrounding patting each other on the back in agreement. Cheered on by politicians who are only interested in exploiting there anger for power and a willing press/media who goad and agitate to sell papers, garner views and keep themselves in a job.

Certain vehicle types have to apply for a license round here (didn’t have to before), as I found out earlier this year when the bouncers refused entry to the Ritz.

Yet another problem exacerbated by public private sector agent arrangements that allow private sector businesses to dictate terms of a public service, while the LA/Government goes it’s not my problem mate!

Again we get a worse/more onerous/more expensive level of service, that no one voted/asked for in the first place.

Hard to see past Brand X given the prices.

I was an early adopter and don’t PSA or recommend many things but the Brand X posts are up there as no nonsense VFM kit, I have no problem recommending on the forum.

Still got one of the original posts, obviously I replaced the awful lever straight away. The original levers were really shoddy. Subsequent posts have revised internals a better shaped lever that is still a bit cheap feeling but functional!

I’ve known people in the past to drill a tiny hole(1/2mm, in line with the disc on one side through the plastic case, then push a needle through till it contacts the edge of the disc stopping it thus saving the meter clock from moving.

Hahaha yeah that old trick. It was best to cover it by boxing the meter in so you couldn’t physically get anywhere near it, to see it!

There is a non-invasive trick for certain types of gas meter but I’m not posting it up as I will likely get banned. The other approaches are a bit more involved and susceptible to disaster by stupidity!

3 especially in Summer. A decent back tyre doesn’t really matter until you need to slow down in steep Winter slop.

I don’t buy tyres with paper thin carcasses so swapping generally isn’t an issue!

What about the 40 hospitals? Dead in the water with a new captain and that.

This new captain thing every year or so means the agenda is super dynamic like. Just keep shuffling the deck until we get a good-en, that’s how it works isn’t it!

I can’t wait for the day where we rent everything from corporations, everything’s too cheap and why should anything be free right.

Political hijacking and corporate commodification of the green movement. Isn’t Elon Musk amazing. I’ve got Paramount+ and Disney.

Obviously you’re not Sir Timothy of the Mallett as he has this look locked down already!

Old TLD stuff used to be crazy, tie-dyed leopard skin fades and the like. There are a few MX brands who have ridiculous, I mean alternative designs like JT Racing.

I think you and your cohorts may find the bold embrace of colour freeing and invigorating not to mention addictive. A single day may become a lifetime of shame and family embarrassment, Timmy Mallet and Colin Hunt your new hero’s.

Don’t forget to accessorise the look, novelty glasses, tube scarfs, bandanas etc. Go forth and be bold my friend!

Who cares it won’t make any difference.

We only get to listen to a one-sided agenda. The arguments of millionaires, tax dodgers, exploitative employers who want plentiful cheap, preferably slave labour. Turncoats who want people below them to lord it over and landlords who feed off a desperate workforce and benefit from systemic scarcity. So much diversionary bullshit, obfuscation, bad faith actors backed by toady useful idiots and stitch-ups.

Good old Britain same as it ever was.

No they should not.

Might have got crushed when installed/installed badly/overspray in the recess/badly machined recesses, either that or water has got in and they have seized. It happens and can happen quickly where bearings are exposed and don’t benefit from any additional shielding. Different frame designs suffer from different wear rates for bearings in certain positions. Some frame designs eat main pivot bearings and shock bushes on high rotation points for example!

With just 10 hours use that is unusual unless the bike has been submerged!

He hoped that leaving the EU would end all class antagonism in the UK

Jesus there’s Inception levels of snobbery and general twatish stitch-up behaviour in the UK, never come across anywhere else as bad. Everyone has snide opinions on everybody else and how they should and shouldn’t live their lives and what interventions should be brought to bare.

crinkled/puckered/contracted

Seems to be an issue I’ve heard elsewhere. Taking the piss out of customers using lower quality materials I’m uoot.

+1 then shit belt aside.

The embarrassed working classes won’t have it. I bought an electric German car, I’m better than the skivvies. Besides they will be automated out in few years time, replaced by signs or vending machines.

Elon’s amazing isn’t he!

Is anyone ever surprised big corps who stamp out/buy up competition, then go on to whip the established customer base for more money, more often!?!

Exactly. And how much the kids hate you once you’ve got home. 😀

They promised Disney World and I got Android instead of Apple that’s why I turned to a life of crime.

Well it’s not like news providers to misrepresent information to the public, they’ve never done that before!

Nice to see some modern union reps are wiser to the nasty little traps they set.

The narrative as long as I’ve been alive has been don’t strike. Strikers cast as unreasonable commoners, represented by load-mouthed northern reps with unrealistic/outrageous demands. Interviews with enraged inconvenienced members of the public.

Don’t protest. The public aren’t on your side and the police will cosh you over the head. Interviews conducted to establish outrage, suggest inconsistency and contradictions in motives as well as discrediting individuals.

Working class people look everyone’s taking the piss and getting more than yow. Look scroungers even people in prison are living The Life of Riley. Diversionary BS so the real exploiters, corruption (government, employers, corporations) and piss takers can carry on as normal, while more and more, draconian rules and sanctions are laid on for the people at the bottom.

Labour policies reviewed by out of work musicians, single mothers on benefits to suggest to the rest of the working classes that it’s a party representing scroungers.

They have had to be a bit more subtle about it here and there but the basic narrative, do as you’re told or else remains.

Will become another sport I used to watch.

There is a competing series sponsored by IXS maybe that will get a boost.

Reasonable value and decent enough quality for home/DIY (not top tier anymore bar a few products) there is AEG, sold under the brand name Ridgid in the states. Don’t seem to sell well in Europe anymore but the yanks still seem to like them!

I think now is the time for a critique of your drop technique, with suggestions from forum members as to where you went wrong and how you could improve in the future. A skills clinic if you will, you know to help make you feel better and all that!

I think what I am saying is there is a direct link to how much fairy lights and stencilling they have in their houses!

Still relevant…..

I’m not saying a roundhouse to the temple is the answer or it’s because she is black and women and hitting a women who says stupid things is fine or whatever, what am I saying, anyway….. ;)

Not noticed damage from e-bikes, but have definitely seen damage from Sur Ron bikes. Bad damage from wheel spinning on lips and before take-offs (nice big holes just before jumps great eh) and full throttle out of mushy spots. Damage done in seconds that a mountain bike couldn’t do in several years!

Another good idea if you’re concerned about decreasing reach is to remove spacers from under the stem and use a bar with a higher rise to compensate.

I did that with a 50mm rise bar, 10mm travel increase (20 over release spec), -1 headset (should have gone 1.5) and slightly longer than standard offset fork. My bike has similar geometry to yours and has gained about 20mm in wheelbase, sits at about 65.5 HA. It already had a very low BB, so an offset bushing was out of the question.

It’s not slack by the latest standards (I’ve ridden DH bikes @ 63 HA and aggro HT @ 64 HA) but I’ve found it’s enough. I have no problems riding the steepest tracks at Ladybower, Macc Forest and Upper Goyt. On proper steep stuff a higher bar and squat down, elbows out, head over the stem riding position is a must, not to mention decent toothy tyres. XC rubber (especially when wet) won’t cut it!

I found the limits of shorter travel compared to a DH bike becomes the next bone of contention once you start pushing into proper DH territory on a lesser bike!

Let’s not pretend Manitou/Hayes didn’t have issues with bushing play with their forks, including Mattocs and Minutes. One of the big magazine review sites actually gave up reviewing the Mattoc Pro, when it came out, because they couldn’t get a working set from Manitou/Hayes! There are if memory serves me correctly three separate published articles which report the same problems.

Just because some customers don’t notice (you can feel the play like the headset is slightly loose and it affects fast small bump sensitivity but the fork still works) or complain about it, doesn’t mean there have not been issues. A known issue they only dealt with a few years back with their latest fork, having been made aware of it by journalists and customers as far back as 2016.

The pro dampers with the twin air chamber and hydraulic bottom out are excellent (for an out of the box product) and amongst the best out there. Be aware they are a little bit fussy to setup, depending on what you are used to! I’ve no doubt if you pick up a fault free fork for the right price, you will be extremely happy, maybe evangelical like MTBR (suspension tuner love in) and Pinkbike corporate defenders.

Lyrics (early dampers leaked) have been through several revisions like Pikes (SRAM have finally got the air chamber volumes about right) are now a well sorted fork and occupy a sweet spot in the market, depending on sale prices of competing products of course!

I like the phrase black belt in bullshit…..

Funny but sadly out of date with so much more to add!

A bit of revamped nostalgia for ya.

The 808 lives on (you here it all the time) and is probably the most sampled drum machine ever. The kick drum often being repurposed as a pitched bass.

Prefer the sound of the DMX myself.

Tyres from different manufacturers front and back? Never – I’m not a pervert! ;o)

Surprised I’ve not been burnt alive inside a wicker man yet.

GA2 fat grips for me.

Specialized did the best winged grips, Body Geometry or something. Shame they do not sell them anymore!

Magic Mary front, Wild Enduro Front on the rear. You heard it here first! Admittedly a bit toothy for Summer but grips like shit to shovel.

Still being called working class after buying German whips on finance.

I used to hop on and off the pavement at safe opportune moments and ride risky sections/junctions on the pavement and use crossings. Obviously alternate safer routes play a factor and the exceptions being busy pavements full of peds, city centres etc where it’s not an option.

It shouldn’t be like it is but being right with a smashed up bike and broken bones is no fun!

An American MX components manufacturer did a flex handlebar thing with the bushing at the handlebar stem interface. I know it was used on race bikes, surprised it didn’t catch on.

Such a simple idea that only requires a new stem with appropriate bushing. The user decides the durometer of the bushing, to suit the amount of squish they like and can use their existing handlebar!

Stoned as a boot but sums it up well.

@thisisnotaspoon – Yawn….

Was good to see the men talking unimpeded and I assume unscripted/MOD approved.

The few veterans I’ve known over the years were very similar and didn’t take kindly to fools who made light or glorified the reality of killing each other. Verging on violence when asked by blood thirsty idiots to recount the events!

Nah Kerley tore himself away from the arguing competitions on the chat forum to act like my forum Dad.

Must have been a slow day and/or quiet on Twitter!

Really good race.

Daprela is great to watch but Pierron is a bit of a unit and has that all out aggressive riding style nailed down tighter for now. It goes without saying the French lads are something else at moment and look like they could completely dominate the series in the coming years.

Tidy win for Matt Walker.

Pick one then. Then you can stop with posting more of this shit on this thread

What’s up bored of the perpetual arguing threads on the chat forum. This isn’t a refuge for Twitter drama queens.