best not to… ive had 11 months off!!!

you could go to the delivery office and speak to who ever is your posties line manager or delivery office manager. it isnt likely to get your stuff to you unfortunately but it will highlight there is a problem, and you will still most likely have to go through customer service for any compensation, which tbf wont be alot unless the items were insured.

Give it a week or so and then if they have not come give customer service a shout, number is on the web sie. sometimes things just get delayed…

Love it. Nicely done and hope you had a great day. 8) and I for one think that deserves a beer or two!

I have been in a similar place to you for the last couple of years. .. I found myself not sleeping at night, my brain going over and over silly things. Feeling depressed and not riding because I couldn’t get motivated. And all the other things associated.
Finally went to the doc who knows me very well and his prescription was get off my arris and get out on my bikes. It took a couple of months to get back to some semblance of normality but (before I fell off and been off the biike again… just started riding again this week, after 11 months) I ended up sleeping almost 5hrs every night and actually getting fit and having a more positive attitude to pretty much everything!
I say go for it! But don’t feel bad if you don’t make the whole distance, just enjoy the day.
Oh and a big +1 for what jekkyl said…
Good luck and let us know how you do

See the thing is I have a garage for all my bike stuff, engine parts etc and they still make it into the house!! She will get all the spam they send so i don’t mind where we go. Thanks for the suggestions and somafunk… take yourself off their mailing list? It might work tho I have been getting spam fron rebok for years despite replying no to every email

matt…. i showed her that thread with no luck… unfortunately! :lol:

Thanks… it felt sooooo good to be riding again. Even tho I only did 10 miles and I know its gonna hurt tomorrow. 12 miles tomorrow 8)

nice idea but sadly everyone i know that lives abroard is europe or asia…

everything in the uk is bloody expensive! and its worth a shot to see if they will… re did the maths and saving a grand over all on frame and fork (including taxes) isnt to be sniffed at imo

yeah… just did the maths online and i reckon i would only save myself a couple of hundred at the most… bugger! hate the fact that there is such a mark up on some brands, niner frames in particular

cheers guys…

@geetee… its ok… it was my left wrist and i am right handed!!! :wink:
tore 3 ligaments. one of the tfcc ligaments, so they made the hole in it bigger, had another one cauterised and a further one left alone beacause its apparently a big ligament that can cope with it…
cant do dieting, when i want to loose weight i just do more sport plus i have been using the turbo but not as much as i’d like/need.
and thanks i should be up and riding again in a couple of weeks, may even go for a short ride on the road bike tomorrow

@jim… off to see the chaps at freeborn on thursday and have now decided that i may try the large wheel thing… possibly in carbon!

will i die?!? :lol:

yup spoke to joe this afternoon and he was thoroughly helpfull and nice chap. would love to come out on a sunday but currently unable to ride for (i hope, after 11 months off the bike!) a couple more weeks. then it’ll be road bike for a couple of months.. THEN i will be back off road (fingers sooooo tightly crossed)

bump for the evening people…..

been looking at their website and looks good, will be making a trip to see them can ride again (post op on wrist)as they are only an hour away

Thats a point by danw… are there any detrimental issues with hanging bikes up? Mine the are currently unused(just had a wrist op) and mrs vaders are almost never used!…

excellent (mrs vader is sat next to me spell checking FFS!!!) thanks for these. hooks are added to the shopping list. will have to put some of the hooks fairly low as mrs vader is a short a**e (goes to find ice for minor bruising to ribs)

thats kind of what i was looking at… i take it they are just normal bnq type hooks?

shhhhhhh…. some of us are still unable to ride :cry:
going to take the dog out tho 8)

for a few months now… ben howard the wolves as seen on danny mcgaskills video

out of interest… with all the people on here that are post op/broken does any one on STW actually ride the bikes they own?!? :lol:

i am hopfully on the last month or so of a 11 month stint off the bike. my advice would be…
same a most of the sensible options from previous posts, and…
strip and rebuild bikes so there are no last second “oops should have fixed that” on the first ride back out.
try and stay as fit as possible, i have put nearly a stone and a half on since last year AND i do an active job.
oh and new bike related rsearch is… sometimes depressing, wanting to go and test bikes and not being able sucks

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new today… had the last of the lining done… next session will be the start of the colour and shading

i had a similar thing happen to me one morning… however as i was going to town rather than work i followed the bloke who blasted past and found him a few hundred yards round the corner puffing like a train about to explode and leaning against the wall… :evil:

i am in for the second session on my full sleeve tomorrow… hopfully finishing off the line work and maybe starting some of the coloring…

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tbf it looks more like the lego version of the SSD…

Nothin beer related. … co-codamol for me :cry:

Really that bad? I was looking forward to it. Bugger!

Great news. .. would raise a big glass but it’s a little early. .. :D

redthunder… no they are surprisingly cheap, but atm all my spare cash is going on other stuff.
i went over there one sunday as a guest and had a really great time. was made to feel welcome and it only took about 10 minutes before the usual banter started to include me!!
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nice people and nice club looking forward to finishing current projects so i can do the 50ish mile round trip on a sunday and during the week

Does his now mean there will be the opportunity to test ride some of the bikes?

there is a chap on my delivery, i kid you not, called Robin Loxley :D
nice shot btw i am looking forward to being able to afford shooting at fleet ibex field club soon

2 displaced vertebrae in my neck from an old rugby injury
torn cartelege in my right knee
blown synovial capsule in left knee
planar fasciitis in right foot
and i go in to hospital tomorrow to get 2 ligaments fixed (hopfully) in my left wrist…
seems slight inconsequential to some…. good luck to everyone

thanks for sharing this. very nice… :D

Anyone? !?

i say just butter…. mrs vader says butter and marmalade

danny b… that was almost exactly what i was thinking!!! :D

I will definitely try to get a test ride of the bandit… but tbf the majority of my riding is down south. Hence the 120mm area of fs…. good for trail and epic days out but fun on the bigger stuff…

its about 2k max.