It depends how much you want to spend. I used an Alpkit Viper last winter and it was perfectly adequate on the trails I know well.
I am now using a Nao+ and it is seriously bright, lasts for several hours and gives me more confidence on longer runs. The main problem I find with it is blinding dog walkers and other night owls that you come across in the middle of nowhere at night.

As madhouse says, yes it just works. Go to your strava profile and garmin connect is one of the options under ‘social connections’. Set up your details there and they stay synchronised.

Or get the FR935 which does everything for less £?
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/03/garmin-forerunner-935-depth-review.html

I used some of the routes from the online book afew years ago. From memory many of them are around Soller and are pretty challenging (at least for me), the black grading does mean black. I enjoyed them all but obviously be prepared for very long and steep ups and downs…

For me high cadence and warming up properly has solved the knee problems I had when I first started running. Also only increase distances gradually.
Running without a bit of walking followed by very slow jogging first still gives me the sort of knee pain you are talking about but then my joints are a fair bit older than yours…

Don’t think there is any danger of finding anything difficult!
Thetford is the best place in the area with loads of singletrack (some marked but lots more that isn’t) but no hills. Try http://www.timbermtb.org for more info.

You might want to ask him if his CCTV complies with the info commissioners codes of practice…

Lipreading is the answer
http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:2395309/component/escidoc:2395307/Sumby_Pollack_1954_Visual.pdf

Can you use an allen key in it from the non-lever side?

On the older ones you can use an allen key on the non-lever side to undo it if it is too tight.

Both my XTR pedal axles snapped at the locknut and the pedals fell off. I suspect this is something similar – apparently it was a bad batch of axles, shimano replaced without question but this was a couple of years ago

Saw an interesting presentation by the technical director of british cycling a few weeks ago. He explained it as a medal factory and most of the cycling medals are in the track events where it is relatively predictable so this where all the investment goes. The road race is not predictable and not many medals, mtb has very few medals and we don’t have the riders so no investment:(

I suggest you don’t mix cheap inners with shimano outers. When I did this the new inner was a tiny bit thicker than the shimano cable it replaced. It took me months to work out why my shifting was not quite right. Replaced with a shimano cable and all back to normal.

The TVR rebuild comments are nonsense. The Griffith, Chimaera and V8S all have a bullet proof mildly modified rover V8 engine (mine is currently on 105k with no issues). The later TVRs have a TVR manufactured engine which is more fragile and the early speed 6’s had a cam/valve issue which required a rebuild to sort out.
Before my current one I had an S3 (which has the 2.9 V6 out of the scorpio) – I did over 100k in this as well without any issues. In my experience any TVR reliability issues are down to lack of use or care (owning one is a hobby rather than an A to B practical thing).

Go on then, how did you do that?
I have the dreaded black lichen and the only thing that seems to work is covering it up for a couple of months.

I have also used the guide and found it really good. Personally I wouldn’t bother taking your own bike, by the time you have paid excess baggage costs etc it is almost as cheap to hire a good one and then you don’t have the hassle of getting it to and from the airport at each end.
From memory (it was a few years ago) I was out there at that time of year and didn’t find the heat too much but obviously avoid the middle of the day.

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I’ve got a TVR, drive it with the roof off whenever possible to get the full burbling v8 aural experience.

I used to live in Potton to the south. Thetford and Woburn are a short drive or you can string together a number of bridleways in the local area but don’t expect anything particularly challenging.

Getting power out of any battery is fundamentally limited by the internal resistance of the battery. Its then down to Ohm’s law if you short the battery ie P=V squared/R. To get maximum power transfer into a load, the resistance of the load (ie the motor) needs to be the same as the internal resistance of the battery. Typically dry cells like alkaline AAAs have a much higher internal resistance than a lead acid car battery which can deliver a lot of power in a short burst. In practice you would struggle to get 10W from a 1.5V alkaline cell and it would get very hot.

The physics of that doesn’t work does it?

Are you sure its not the cateye over reading the speed?
Otherwise it is probably a loss of satellites and the Kalman filter trying to fill in until it gets enough satellites back to give a fix.

Seems the company was dissolved in 2011 and lots of us have bought stuff since then. I suspect he is out of contact (I think its a one man operation).
companies house info

After losing mine I got some of these BBB end plugs[/url] and haven’t lost one since – to the extent they are now looking battered by all the trees I clip.

She loves beating me because it doesn’t usually happen playing anything else.

I’m going to look at those links and then relish the look on her smug face when I beat her at her own game.

Are you sure you have thought this through???

I dump it on our driveway so it gets covered in frost…

I know we are strange but we actually use our garage to park our car in rather than fill it up with random junk.

Ours was dead easy to replace – the new one had the same fault as old one, then I discovered a mouse had chewed through half of the control cable which was causing it to act up…

As above, last summer I hired a bike from tramantana tours (pick up from port soller not soller) and did a load of routes from the book linked above. Most of the red/black routes are pretty good (especially if you like long steep climbs!). If I went again I would base myself in the north west as that’s where most of the good mountain biking is.
If you buy the ebook they also send you gpx files of all the routes.

Merc E estate will fit bikes upright with front wheels off and saddles down. If you take both wheels off one will go in the boot with the seats up and load cover over if you need to leave a bike in the car overnight.
Lots of space for sleeping as well although a tent is probably more comfortable than a car.

I have used cyanogenmod successfully on a galaxy s1 but it is fully supported whereas the i5700 isn’t.
Could try this:
http://forum.samdroid.net/f28/how-spica-i5700-sim-unlock-free-4886/

It’s much better since they put the new numberplate readers in. When I do it I usually get there around 7:30 and there is rarely a queue (but I avoid Mondays).

Ditto re Katec’s, available on ebay.

Try here: https://voteforpolicies.org.uk/ . It makes the choice for you…

I quite like my Mud Xs as well but they did exactly the same thing in Hertfordshire mud the other week. I have this vague hope it is a sign the mud is drying out which is why it is so sticky.

I’ve got the Zyxel NSA325 which takes 2 disks. Seems to work well and is reasonable value. I also use Logitech squeeze center for my music and this is built in which swayed me towards Zyxel.

Pawsy Bear, you must either be very tall or have never fitted a new fork?

I used to own a TVR Griffith 500 and a bodged downshift in that would overload the rear wheels and even cause them to lock up

This, plus it sounds great 🙂

From memory you just need to remove the foam ring that sits under the air chamber plunger/seal. There is a fox part that replaces the ring but I think it is optional. I did this to mine a while back and it has been fine ever since.

Just keep an eye on what they are doing if they start using the myriad of online servers. Some are strict around language and griefing but others aren’t…