Move to Spain the people are so nice there.

British people have a problem with everything! Except doffing their cap, knowing their place and shitting on anyone below them, for the sake of petty one-upmanship, which is so easily exploited by their betters.

Avoid public facing jobs. Thick as **** people make you want to kick every last one of them to pulp, grind them to powder and burn it. If only you could burn away all the combustion by products!

Insider tip: If the pub proudly advertises Sky Sports as the main attraction, nine times out of ten you will be better off elsewhere!

Sold as seen get teh fek ya ****.

What the flip is a life hack?

Salty much.

Americanisms are the fewcha broski.

Edit: Damn undermined by lack of Z

What’s not to like mountains meeting the sea. Personally I would drive and ride about as much as possible!

Oh shit that’s it now house/holiday let/caravan/shack/shed prices will go up tenfold again!

Biking eh everything is a compromise.

Ideally I would change tyres to suit conditions and to suit the majority of terrain types being ridden on the day. Apart from racers, who can be arsed with that!

Remember the days when people used to ride around on single ply 120 TPI tyres (thankfully that’s over) and wonder why they had about four punctures per ride on rocky trails! You can still buy those tyres if you live somewhere, where they work.

But yeah I reckon some people are using dual ply and inserts they don’t really need and too wide a tyre that aren’t as efficient but more comfortable!

It’s more of a cycle is it not?

Something something shitshow something something It’s expensive and I really like it something something **** you I’m right sumthing sumfing trousers down then the beautiful face of acceptance…

@molgrips

Some services do not allow use without agreeing to telemetry in the terms. You can only opt to not use the service in it’s entirety, like banks, accept the terms or **** off. After you have bought a device that utilises a service like this, you either put up with it or get a refund. IME it’s rarely made clear upfront and alternatives are not always offered or possible.

Certain LG smart TVs opt you in to all the Legal Documents, they’re ticked by default. You have to untick them, then go through sub menus. You can’t get rid of the advertising window without losing all the other services. Even when you untick all the consent options it still sends telemetry data.

Hobsons choice sprinkled with some gentle coercion.

The concerns are not only are you paying for it (consumer electronics). You’re “voluntarily” allowing spy devices into your home, which in most cases the exact details of what is being used by whom and when is not fully disclosed/obfuscated.

You are also providing corporations with additional revenue streams (you have paid for the hardware implementation and get no cut), which you have no control over and is for their’s and others benefit not yours.

Many of these devices can and would function without the spying elements but manufactures choose to not offer the option at all, make it very difficult to opt out, opt you in by default, use hidden menus and bible length T&C’s. The use by security services of these systems will never be fully disclosed to the public at large.

Have you ever read any of the privacy statements?

Let me sum it up for you: By using a service you agree to them and their “partners” (subject to change) doing what they want, whenever they want, forever.

What about the canny way they track your usage across different apps (Android) by using a separate app for the touch keyboard. So they get everything you type in regardless of what other apps you’re using!

Everything about it is dated. I think that’s what I like most about it.

Who’d have thought it eh……

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-27887275

https://www.zdnet.com/article/rogue-cctv-technician-spied-on-hundreds-of-customers-during-intimate-moments/

I can see home CCTV being the next middle class babysitting boom. Maybe not have a camera in the master bedroom, just the kids LOL

I’ve not watched the video but I remember a corporate video posted by LG on it’s website, for it’s partners, gleefully showing all the tracking technologies used in their smart TV’s. It was geared toward advertising engagement and demonstrated the face tracking.

I think you can still find it as someone copied it before it was hastily removed from their website.

The fact they get you to pay for all this shit and I’ve seen instances where the GUI stutters/delays and glitches while attempting to access an internet connection when it’s off/unplugged. DVD players used to show a splash screen, while all the region and copy protection software did it’s thing, so delayed playback. We didn’t ask for all these wonderful features that don’t benefit us in any way!

I also included that eventuality, altering the print run and splitting it into supplements knowing what snides they are!

Well done it looks a lot of fun.

Suppose you have got to have something to line a cats litter tray.

On another note the complaint handling is nearly word for word what I outlined on this forum years ago. Has somebody been listening? I’m sure they used to get away with pathetic apologies hidden away!

I try as many bikes as I can and always try my mates bikes as it’s good to get a jist of what you may or may not want next time you’re in the market. It can also help you spot where your current setup/components could be improved. Sometimes there worse, sometimes better. Sometimes that better is marginal/one or two things that have come at considerable cost. It’s not often my bike is trounced in all areas.

Because I switch between FS and HT on a regular basis I can go back to a less capable bike and not cry myself to sleep.

If you can afford it (and find stock), get it bought.

Seen as how the majority of my posts have been deleted I’ve still got one question.

How many Go Pros do you have to buy to get one that doesn’t randomly freeze/crash?

Narcissistic fools and their money LOL ROFL #nooneaskedu2 #flashingplasticdildo #lookmum #notshaggingabouthonestjustplayingonbikesinthewoods

A paper say wut.

Chippys are dead! Bog roll is plentiful (despite panic buying morons) and alternative window cleaning media is available.

It is still good for masking paint jobs and soaking up spillage.

Spinny thing

I think it’s only right to watch all of them.

I’ve done 26 with 27.5 fork and 26 with 26 fork in the same frame without any problems.

Do it.

Edit: 27.5 frame BTW

Leeds Urban Bike Park is exactly how to do it

Not the uphill part of the main jumpline! But yeah really good inclusive place that encourages progression. Seeing all the smiling faces both young and old is no mean feat.

Hopefully it’s the catalyst for more of the same.

They could have called it a day 7 years ago and almost no one would have noticed

They did some cool stuff but yeah pretty much.

A lady has to have some mystery.

Another compliment thank you kind sir. I do look young for my age.

Ok ok meebee I was a bit salty LOL

Anyway I’m reaching out here. So I was actually thinking and you could do like a sick lockdown dance edit with light up shoes, tip a abattoir mop bucket over your head: everybody like animals don@t they; a baboon a trail baboon that’s not been done has it blowvember planking on a BSOfree bike

Monetization (don’t **** swear) free swag_ merch_yeh for ya side hustle.

You can get that bushing direct from Igus!

I used this kit on mine https://www.oneupcomponents.com/products/kit-dropper-rebuild-v1

If it’s just sticking in it’s travel and not gritty/dry as well you will probably get away with just changing the top split bushing like I did!

You can squirt grease (must be thin NLGI 2 or less) down the keyways and cycle it in (ghetto service). This will not solve any issues with excessive play!!!

Smoke and Dart.

Nah just not a fan of helping hard-up lifestyle businesses profit from people chasing rainbows and providing new meat for the idiot culture grinder.

Don’t do it.

YT is already awash with wannabe influencers and tragic middle-aged sad sacks (still got it, it never left me) who can’t ride for shit yet give out “expert” advice on bikes and equipment.

No one is interested in your slow boring bike rides. Don’t be one of them!

Let me be your fantasy!

Haven’t had anything off them in over 5 months. Only use them as a last resort now-a-days, had way to high a proportion of faulty things compared to any other retailer.

Good thing their returns were relatively easy.

Seen damage on quite few trails from this, LUBP, Lee Quarry, Phillips Park etc.

The biggest problem with the MX crowd is they never pick up a spade. Just tear the arsehole out of a location, brap big wheelspin holes and ruts then move on to the next. It’s like the jump spot youths from our little hobby, they just don’t give a ****.

property

Such a crude term. Next you will be calling it a “home” for some kind of lifestyle blog or all smiling corporate brochure. Oh please it’s a investment vehicle.

Edgelord. Not enough kids named Gordon.

Sasha eh. Early 2000’s feel, a bit Bicep.

This would have made a great closing track.

To think when I was kid we used to take the piss out of things like this, what ignorant **** we were!