You can actualy get an 8 to boot to start screen just schedule it todo so on boot it skips that touch screen front page

Any one found their product key yet ? Best find it and make a note its now held in BIOS not on a sticker on the back.
As for is it any good well hell NO
I run many PCs with 7 XP or Vista and its the worse interface, so it will soon be wiped and 7 pro loaded.

The slippy stuff and look no helmet, grey hair or ropes 🙂

Must go find my cover piccie from a few years earlier

ianv – Member

I’ve never seen any sport climbing in Britain that has remotely inspired me.

You have obviously not seen malham, gordale or kilnsey.

Yes have you tired the cave routes, or even the trad routes of gordale. Malham has some excellent bolted stuff and some top notch Trad, Slender Loris springs to mind.
Now as for Kilnsey well I never liked it as I was always pumped by the time I hit the roof, still got to go back and finish 50 for 5 as I could never get the last foot of climbing.

Blue scarr what about blue ?

Trad rubbish ? Rubbish

Good more cassette choice 🙂

Small world 🙂

Ride of the Valkyries ?

Mmm Llanberis

Last SFU trip taken by my little one.

So rusty spanner, who are you ? Must ask an acquaintance who’s in the Salford club.

Sun rock, hope to see some this year [sun that is]

Warranty or Guarantee, there’s a difference. I’d of thought that Spesh would at least do a crash replacement for you.

geetee1972 – Member

those were the day, youngish, thin, could train for hours and no commitments. Summers were always sunny on the rock.

<big sigh>

I am so with you on that sentiment.

*Bigger sigh*
Mind this year I hope to get back to more activity on the rock, still a lot of lines I need to do, its been a few years since a new route and with the new Godsstone guide out its time to put it out of date 🙂

pedalgogue – Member

Liked the dynamic belay on the crack though, certainly not going to rip your gear when done like that

Only when she passes through the gear on the way up 🙂

In this short span

between my finger tips on the smooth edge

and these tense feet cramped to the crystal ledge

I hold the life of man.

Consciously I embrace

arched from the mountain rock on which I stand

to the firm limit of my lifted hand

the front of time and space:-

For what is there in all the world for me

but what I know and see?

And what remains of all I see and know,

if I let go?

Winthrop Young

Have had the experience of belaying Dawes, didnt drop him when he came off 🙂

Try Specialized in the US

Sandwich – Member

no abseil clean/inspection, everything else is red-pointing.

Some one has to clean it, so even a on-sight lead/FA has had help.

Its about getting out and doing it yourself

I have 2 man caves, a summer one and a winter one.

Well after carefull consideration I’ve decided on the 170s £84 from Merlin for XT

Yes I suppose you would notice what is 5mm I have 175 on all my MTBs but have chance of a bargain XT chainset at 170mm, which is suggested is the right length for me anyways.

thisisnotaspoon – Member

Not sure where the bee in your bonnet’s come from, I was advised to run my brakes much slacker than I was, it works.

Bit like runing MTB brakes with the bite point close to the bars, and there’s no need to have them set up close that they only just clear the joint in the rim. It gives them far more power as you’re pulling with a shorter lever (rather than the wholelength of yoru fingers). Same as beginers going rock climbing, first session you end up with blisters on your palm as that’s where you’re strongest, after a few months you get callouses on your finger tips as you’ve developed strength there. Avereage cyclist is never going to brake enough to develop that kind of finger strength!

Bee no, bad advice yes, its different on flat bars riding on the hoods as you need to pull the brakes closer to the bars your hand rotates with the associated problems.
As for rock climbing and blisters on your palms and callouses on your fingers WHAT !

Run your gears slack as well just in case you may not really want to change gear, take some air out of the tyres you can always stop and put it in later. Lower your saddle another tip gets your centre of gravity down for cornering and if you put some short cranks on this may prevent you from pedal strike in the event that your slack brakes dont slow you up enough to take a bend and your shit tyres with the wrong pressure haven’t dropped you on the road.

Big thing check how easy it is to get certain tyres on/off your rims. Michelin are very easy to take off put on. Some combinations are not.

Pro 4 Endurance

shermer75 – Member

There’s some great advice in this thread. That counter steering vid is a revelation to me!

Counter steering is something you probably already do although no one has ever pointed it out to you.
If you have a video of you riding off road just check, more than likely you will flick left ever so slightly before a right turn and visa-verse.

Pancakes

Some FUGGLY bikes, come on some one put a decent one on FFS

Fact is road tyres grip roads better than knobbly tyres.

I have 105 [with Ultegra shifters] on one bike and full Ultegra on the other. There is a noticeable difference with shifting on the front mech 105 more clunky.
The other noticeable difference is the braking Ultegra calipers for some reason deliver more stopping power its not the pads as they are the same or the rims either. Dont know why and I would guess with Duraace being a true dual caliper they are maybe betterer again ?

I have a bottle of Kilchoman got it for Christmas, worth finding as whiskeys follow the same formula for buying bikes.

Balvenie doublewood, to mellow out the smoke.

A)

Tie wraps

Celtic Nations, I still have a bottle £50 to you.
Caol Isla
Old Pulteney

Kryton57 – Member

For me, its the different kind of satification/noise that comes from a hard earned beer at the end of the day, ending up with my head down the toilet (I never stick to two )

There FTFY

Come on whats this middle aged at 40 ?

Most of you have missed the boat, you’ll not live to 80+

The number of women that come in the radar.
Reckon there must be a formula somewhere to work it out.