grum – Member
This is why I have a dual ring/bash.

Still too dangerous.

Single ring, carefully adjusted Plasma and bash.

Shame all that still doesn’t stop your pedals smashing into your shins…

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Northwind – Member
Bikes are awesome.

This.

Choose your weapon (FWIW mine’s a short travel 1×9 bulletproof HT), and go ride.

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Would have to be “Make no mistake, it’s our future we’re making” from Only People.

Mainly as we chose it as our strapline for the house I’m head of at school (named after the man himself as it was a nice fit with the Arts and Humanities subjects that make up the house).

slainte 8) rob

Northern Lakes – http://www.scotgateholidaypark.co.uk

Brecon – http://www.pencelli-castle.com

N Yorks – http://www.middlewoodfarm.com/index.html

slainte :-) rob

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Sting.

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710 Wisers on main bike. Was running 760 Azonics but found these too wide for me (5’6″ but with relatively long arms).

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Ro5ey – Member
A few mentions of archery up there.
Are you sure that’s a sport?
On par with darts (funnily enough) and snooker really, in my book

Archery (recurve anyway, the compound archers have possibly an easier time) can be surprisingly physical. A decent level archer will be shooting a bow that requires a weight of 45lb or so to be held on three fingers up to 144 times over a competition FITA round. That’s without the physical weight of the bow or weather conditions being taken into account.

what makes it a sport though for me is the sustained level of concentration and psychological strength required to be competitive. A full days archery competition is probably the most mentally tiring thing I’ve ever done.

Of course, if you’re not competing it IS just a leisure activity (like any other ‘sport’ I guess).

slainte :-) rob

Was into archery a few years back but drifted out of it. Would like to get back into it. Am starting an archery club at school in September so probably will.

Just started snowboarding (had a few beginners lessons indoors) and would like to continue that.

Heehee – at some point I think I need to find a sport/hobby that isn’t gear-heavy and expensive…

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Biased (HTC user – Desire HD), but the HTC Sense UI is great.

Defy is a pretty tough phone if you’re taking it out biking etc.

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Currently awaiting 4 deliveries from CRC. Must be a voucher in at least one of those?

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takisawa2 – Member
Cheese & lime pickle is nice also.

This sounds awesome! Must try.

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As with all contact points, very subjective.

I have an alloy Wiser. I like it. It holds all my brake levers, gears and stuff and gives me something to hold on to while I ride.

Trying to be more objective. I had a 762mm Azonic Double Wall previously which was nice but a bit too wide for my 5’6″ frame. The 710mm width and 25mm rise of the Wiser is way more comfortable for my build and preferred riding position.

I’m shallow so I like the Ragley graphics too.

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highclimber – Member
there is a nice campsite in Braithwaite at the bottom of the hill to whinlatter. its got palace-like toilets and showers for a campsite and is near to a pub. I think it was about £7.50 PP

This.

Excellent campsite. Cafe does (or did last time I was there) a pretty good full english.

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Lettuce & ketchup sarnies.

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Just about (tomorrow) to fit twist shifters to my wife’s bike for the same reason.

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When I first heard about it in May I was going a couple times a week.

Haven’t been for a while due to a foot injury and manic time at work (last few weeks of term always are).

Now I’m on summer holiday for a few weeks will getting back over there fairly regular I think (mostly when I can’t be arsed driving the hour-and-a-half to Thetford.

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logic1980 – Member
to Colournoise – yep thats the one – how are you meant to ride that? before my brian had caught up i was at the bottom – lol

If it’s the bigger one at the end of the section (and not the wheel-sized one earlier on) then what I do is approach slowish and drop a couple of gears, roll into the dip real gently with weight back and then as the front wheel hits the bottom apply some gas and throw weight back/pull bars up. It’s then just a case of powering/lurching up the other side.

It’s the uphill 90 degree right-hander round a tree a little further on that stalls me nearly every time.

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Any excuse to post pics of our two mentalists.

Pablo.

Stig.

Most people think I’m a petrolhead with those dog’s names, but I’m an art teacher whose surname is Paul (hence Pablo), and Stig was covered in mud and piss when we collected him, so appeared to be ‘of the dump’.

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logic1980 – Member
did have a laugh at myself as near the end there was a small drop and i pretty much fell in it and ended up picking half a tree out of my rear mech.

Would that have been the ‘ditch’ at the end of the wooded section after the car park/picnic area by any chance?

If so, you’re by no means the first rider to be caught out by that bit!

Haven’t seen any jumps off-piste at Wakerley – it’s not really that kind of place (yet) as I guess most of the jumpy types round here head over to Corby?

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Not a bad little trail for this area (about 15 minutes drive from my front door). My review of it from another site –

“The Scartree Trail is not (as of May 2011) quite finished yet, with some sections still to be surfaced. It is all open though and is a great little red-graded XC trail – about 1/3 fireroad bash, 1/3 flowy singletrack and the final 1/3 more techy/rooted wooded singletrack. Nothing really tough to ride, but a few little technical features to keep you on your toes.

Only 6km long, but 2 or 3 laps is a good, fun little ride on a par with pretty much anything the nearest major trail centres (Thetford and Sherwood) can offer. The only thing it doesn’t have is any REALLY fast, flowing downhill sections – all the downs tend to be straight and easy. If you look around there are some nice little off-piste trails to explore to make up for this though.

Best fun here is to ride it hard – just pootling round is fine, but to get the most out of the trail you need to hammer the singletrack sections as fast as you can.”

If you head over the road to Fineshades, theres’s a Green family trail there that has 3 fun little Blue skills sections on it (with another 3 or 4 either just opened or about to open – haven’t been over there for a few weeks).

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Correct answer is whatever he likes to wear for whatever reason.

Personally that’s always white gold/jet wedding ring (pretty battered as I’m a leftie), silver ring on left index finger, watch, 2 neckchains and 4 rings in left ear. Supplemented now and then by silver rings on all other digits of left hand.

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Quite like them but can’t help thinking the Phil Spector Smiths thing has already been done by Glasvegas.

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A few spring to mind.

“And to those of you who moan your lives through one day to the next
Well let them take you next
‘Cos you live and be thankful you’re here
See it could be you tomorrow next year”

“When i am sad and weary
When all my hope is gone
I walk around my house and think of you with nothing on”

“Like Billy says whether you have or you have not wealth
The system might fail you but don’t fail yourself”

“People I see
Just remind me of mooing
Like a cow on the grass
And that’s not to say
That there’s anything wrong
With being a cow anyway
But people are people
With the added advantage
Of the spoken word
We’re getting on fine
But I feel more of a man
When I get with the herd

The look in your eyes
When you gave this to me
Just put me on my guard
In this elegant chaos
I stand to one side”

“They’re Justified and they’re Ancient
And they drive an ice cream van”

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toys19 – Member
rob, I’m open minded about it, but there has been as much proof for a big cat as there has been for the loch ness monster

I have no strong opinion either way TBH (although ill-thought-through logic suggests there are likely escaped to be big cats out there somewhere), it’s just that the OP’s description sounded like one of those to me.

slainte :-) rob

The lack of bodies is a problem in all these big cat sightings, but your description sounds dead like a Puma/Cougar – colour, stripe and low tail carry sound right.

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Wookster – Member
The gap for epically fast long rock run?? I know it’s Wales sorry!!

South heading north or north heading south?

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66.68 with a couple of falls.

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salt
then vinegar
then more salt + black pepper
then dunk into what chippies laughably call “Curry Sauce”

(unless of course inserting into chip butty when lashings of Ketchup need to be applied).

slainte :D rob

1×9 (34T/11-34) on a 30lb HT (lardy yes, but QUITE strong).

Fine for round here and local trail centres (Thetford & Sherwood), but have also ridden Dalby, Nevis, Laggan and Brechfa plus the Brecon Gap loop with it. Will be trying the Moray centres and Glentress/Innerleithen with it in a few weeks time.

Might have to get off and push occasionally but 34-34 has mostly been enough for the ups so far.

On knobblies I find 11-34 plenty on the road – they’re the bits you use for a little rest?

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Conqueror – Member
http://www.kdenlive.org/
free but won’t run on windows without some faffing unfortunately

If you’re serious about FREE video editing it’s possibly worth setting up a Windows/Linux dual boot just for this.

slainte 8) rob

Similar. I have a TZ10.

Metal body, great lens, big optical zoom for a compact, lots of shooting modes (including a VERY good automatic one).

slainte 8) rob

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/panasonic-lumix-dmc-tz18-compact-digital-camera-black-09635005-pdt.html

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Haven’t tried the black yet (lack of bounce and bottle holding me back) but the upper red is fun in a trail-centrey fast blast kind of way, the lower red is IMHO a better mix of surfaces and features, and the orange/blue is a short flat out rollercoaster giggle. Even the green has a nice swoopy downhill section in the 2nd half that is cool to ride if you hit it fast.

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Grass isn’t green. It just absorbs all other wavelengths of visible light.

What you have is what you have and is therefore the best you have right now.

Which is cool with me.

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Can’t resist posting this old thing

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