hank you

Today’s work, a nice understated Brompton:

Rohloff, Hope discs, Speed Drive, King headset,…

did you make the frame too Ben?

this is how it should have panned out car v cyclist

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VXRf1brpHCM

im read the book from the head of the lockheed development mob…

merlin replied with the pictures for illustration purposes only which isn’t on the screen anywhere or in the basket

At least you got a polite and not the draft message they probably really had to stop themselves sending

skunkworks by ben rich

I pity the fool that doesn’t know about mrt

i didn’t know about the windows system image tool till a few days ago

dunno but for a living on the edge experience delete it and see if anything breaks

Er, and now you can see him going faster on harder courses on a more suitable better bike. Doesn’t matter how good you are, having the right tool for the job is always better than not.

I think for peat its true for you and me its called a skills compensation, i still enjoyed my shed bike back in the day….. one way to settle it just because downhillers cant beat a peregrine falcon down a hill might be to stick him on his old bike and some middle aged armchair biker on a v10 see who wins

Yeah, the glory days of one bike that did everything equally badly. Think I prefer having 3 bikes that each do quite a lot of things brilliantly tbh!

yep seeing steve peat on his rigid kona hei hei going downhill faster than a lot of folks ever will…badly then going racing cross country and doing that badly on the same bike

talent comes from t bike obviously

Blimey that Chinarello is only £260. Can’t even get a decent second hand Allez for that! Hmmmm

yeah and they are made in the same factory as the real ones

True, was talking more about the overall genre of LT HTs.

bitd before genreisation took over and you had a bike and **** off everywhere on it and did everything on it
Yep, those halcyon days when you did a weekend of DH, XC and trials, all on the same bike! Bula hats for slalom markers, isn’t it? Wasn’t it?

Dunno chap I’m only 21 bit before my time

Trailstar was 96, IIRC, FTW was welding at Spooky from 95, and was behind the original Metalhead.

Sounds a bit like a draw!

yeah but frank was welding at yeti before that ,however i suppose this was bitd before genreisation took over and you had a bike and **** off everywhere on it and did everything on it

Can someone cut this circle jerk off at the knees please?

thats new

someone has asked much more politely above

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Its a question thats all it seems you need to have been here a long long time to understand wtf some of the stories even are about and the names

You need attention by constantly reminding a forum full of middle aged IT managers that you’re a lesbian?

+2

what exactly was wrong with fred?

why has no one just been and pointed out they will break the guys nose?

jesus christ folks only get away with shit because they can

you wait nine months for a baby why not a bike?

the cure for winter blues and dark mornings isnt an off switch

its an aeroplane trip to sunny warm climes

failing that a SAD lamp is 60 quid

disclaimer other lamp types are available

Is this the test where they roll the wheels down a ski jump and see which goes furthest

Now surely if you spend thousands of pounds on something that you would hope to get good use of would you not expect said companies to make parts for it for atleast 5 years or so.

Imagine buying a new car and then in three years being told by the manufacturer, sorry we no longer make the parts you need and the few we have you can’t have.

with cars and stuff I’m sure they have to make spares for a certain timeframe after with bikes not so sure though even if some enterprising company makes a pattern part or copy part to cater for that market a manufacturer can sue your arse

unless you make technical progress (improved product) to replace the OEM part

why don’t all the LBS bike shops club together and order the entire production run of wheels for the year
surely they would get a massive qty discount

I can imagine the reply being

**** off you old get

anyone who’s been riding 20 years isn’t our target market disposable income or not, our target market isnt the old giffer who has been going in the local mom and pop bike shop he remembers lusting after a bike in when he was a lad ,after all there shouldn’t be many of those left due to internet cowboys and our big brand trying to compete with each other concept stores, you know the ones that only sell our brand

The young naive Ipad generation is our market now …they dont know what a wheel size is and flock into our brand stores like a tourist homing in on the apple store……cuz its cool innit

as you are neither young or naive and your possibly past it old bean i suggest the ping website and a subscription to golfers weekly be more suitable use of your time than writing emails to us

regards

the minute the bikeradar logo came on the screen at 00:01 seconds it went off that wa it enought

you lot are only upset your not all virgins and cant believe this stuff

Air in tyres….the only time you hear folks whining about air in tyres is when there isnt any

Vee brakes were ok too iirc

Is that £260 before tax?

When you factor in leasing a car, insurance, servicing and tax, even £400 a month NET doesn’t leave a lot of change.

I bought a cheaper car with cash and now spend the monthly allowance on drugs and hookers, while my colleagues have nice shiny cars.

Your real life name isnt’ Rob per chance and you work for Cosworth engineering

More killings are made by sober drivers.
Surely we should be properly nailing down the people who can’t drive when they’ve not had anything to drink first.

What a chuffing ridiculous idea…..you mean actually do something that isn’t easy, next youll be saying they only put cameras up to reduce road fatalities

they should do a race where everybody just cheats and whoever has the best most complex method would obviously win

i never steal from utorrent i always give it back……its more of a temporary borrow

i read the other day regards judges no longer having the power to say life is life its a discretionary thing

If a drunk driver ran over my two year old the driver wouldnt ever get to appear in front of a judge so its not a problem in my book

If you worked where I worked and saw some of the scams I see

So call me dave Mr cameron….how long have you been a member on singletrack

look on the bright side if the seatpost ever gets stuck removing it with caustic soda will be so easy

a film about isaac newton?

the worst bit is

the worst bit is it goes over this hill into lancashire

does that translate into looks like every other piece of carbon squashed in a mold and obliterated with garish logos at the moment

they should organise proffesional cattle rustling in the new forest ,as you know if a cow damages a car the farmer just waves you by like nothing happened imagine stampeding cows running amok int village

oooh arr

fascinating being a Bike journo back when stuff like this was coming ou

yeah it must be real interesting to make shit up just because an advertiser wants you to say their product is great accurate observations regards a product and have them in print for others to base their purchasing decisions

m62 is broken no matter what

its the shittest road in britain

dunno why single legged forks never took off

once remember a chap on here asking the same iirc i got a socket for about 5 quid and lathed the front off it

and gave it him

ps the socket…was not a euphemism

Aluminium is filthy in terms of materials to glue the ano and etch is more for future reference

Any form of surface conversion is always a help but cleanliness is pretty much key