@mixmaster – We will be there July 22-23.

Be sure to wave at the knackered looking bloke on a Cube trying to keep up with his teenage sons.

Surely the motto is buy a really good frame. One that’s ‘just right’ and that you love. From that point on, it’s triggers broom innit? It’s just a case of hanging different things off it to replace the stuff that’s karked it and fallen off

So they can change every single standard on it leaving you with a nice frame you can’t get forks, wheels, bottom brackets, tyres etc. for, and can’t sell cos no bugger wants an obsolete frame/

Bastids.

We are Calderdale based and my wife swears by Bontrager Muds all year round.

They’re tubeless ready, light at 540 grams and have softish compound for decent grip. Might be a bit small for most riders in the peak but my missus gets away wit them as she tends not to hit stuff hard.

Problem I see with making it all dual carriageway is that you’ll get what we get on the A1; massive tailbacks with one lorry taking 15 miles to overtake another with a 0.001mph speed differential!

Then you have to make it a 3 lane motorway (much of the A1) or ban lorries from the overtaking lane at peak times (seems a fair bit of this on the North East A1).

As for average speed cameras we had them on the M62 for a while while the managed motorway was constructed. Everyone moaned about the 50mph limit but traffic did seem to flow better resulting in my run from Huddersfield to Castleford (25 miles) actually being faster at busy times.

Also there seems to be better traffic flow with the motorway management, I have not gone to complete standstill for months now.

BB5’s are supposedly poor compared to BB7’s according to mates who have used both.

I like window winders – they should be offered on all cars.

Remembers all 4 windows opening and refusing to close in a force 10 hurricane (ok maybe not quite that bad) 120 miles from home.

Yeah OP. Don’t try to do nice things with your kids.

Make them have crap holidays like we had; never did us any harm.

I am sort of in the same boat, pisser, isn’t it?

2 years ago you could ‘send it’ on a rad bike with 160mm forks and a 1 and 1/8 steerer.

Now you need the stiffness of a tapered steerer on a 100-120mm travel cross country fork or it will just not be stiff enough. and will shatter and kill you.

FFS.

Try this as a concept : you are able to phone in advance to book a time for your appointment. This time could be written into a book with your name against it. There could be a set number of times each day that are left empty to cope with emergency appointments that are added to the book on the day. This way the less urgent appointments could be booked for the less busy days and the peaks and troughs in demand could be smoothed out.

Except when this was done lots of people felt a bit better over the intervening days between calling for an appointment and the actual date, and didn’t bother going.

Nor did they bother calling to cancel.

Hence people who did wake up that morning feeling unwell couldn’t see a GP as they were booked up for days on end with a significant percentage who would not turn up.

Have emailed you regarding an Inbred frame.

Do any of you bastards spend half as much time making the world a better place as you do whining about other people’s attempts?

Well I try to with donations to various charities and have just helped my lad raise around a grand for a charity.

Unlike many of family and work colleagues who have pretty much all just posted on Facebook and hit like; to most of them it’s just a giggle and a dare like the drinking game a few weeks ago.

I never understand the penny off a pint thing.

In real terms it means pretty much **** all to the individual (a really big drinker could save 12-15 pence) yet the cumulative effect would be quite a lot of tax revenue.

Long time ago there was a braking bumps thread on here and someone scientificcy showed that the occurrence of braking bumps offroad was about the slowing of the wheel and would still occur if no one locked up.

Do they have the same low pressure qualities as the CM which I can run 10 psi front and 15 psi rear.

Is it just me who thinks those pressures are a little low?

Some tyres I could take them off the rim by hand with 10-15psi in.

I don’t think I’d want to win that big, especially if everyone knew. It would give me more stress than piece of mind I think.

Would be almost impossible to keep existing friends and I think it would be hard to be accepted with either ‘Old Money’ or successful entrepreneur people.

Only people you’d really fit with are other lottery winners.

Just went to look for this and it has sold for £400.

Gives an example of a decent useable bike that can be found secondhand:
Singletrack Advert

If you are not confident buying second hand then you might have a mate to advise. Alternatively there are one or two folk on here who might be prepared to offer an opinion. :D

It’s all going to become like the Hunger Games; massive community of affluent city dwellers serviced by poverty stricken regions via high speed rail links.

from the spelling it was an American thought

Not at all. The word ‘gaol’ is from the Anglo-Norman so is British to it’s core.

If you look at the pirate once his legs fixed he loses the grumpy face; you can even see the hint of a smile.

Seems to work, I can manage 500 wpm fine.

However, it would be no good for relaxing with a novel; I want immersion in the story and time to pick up my coffee/beer/wine/nibbles etc.

Would be useful for work stuff but I might feel that I was turning into a robot.

Play in the hub/freewheel.

Cassette not sitting perfectly square on the freehub.

Well I just think its terrible that somebody somewhere might be getting paid more or doing less or having more holidays than me.

It should all be standardised to whatever I’m on or it’s just not fair.

When the economy was booming and the private sector were getting well above inflation pay rises I can recall the government using low public sector pay increases to avoid excessive inflation, with the justification of good pension deals offsetting some of the difference.

When the economy was doing badly and private sector pay rises were lower (figures for last year were around 2.8% on average) the private sector had a long pay freeze and increased contributions to pensions with poorer pension outcomes.

Now we have some recovery in the economy there are predictions of private sector pay rises up to 3.5% (that I have seen) while public sector are to get 1% maximum and further increases in pension contributions.

?

Just trying to keep the ones we have going tbh. Can’t see me buying a new one in the foreseeable future; it’s all Triggers Broom and make do and mend nowadays.

I’ve done mine with a T30 but there’s a little more play than in other T30 fittings – not sure what Shimano have done.

I think you’re allowed to manual across them, providing your front wheel doesn’t touch any part of the crossing

That’s the exact wording in the Highway Code.

Revelation forks, no dropper post, <700mm bars. And it was dreadful!

less than 700mm bars and revs vs proper bars and pikes is gonna make any bike feel poor

So that’s why I’m crap – thank god, I thought it was me.

Top left of psychbikers pic I can see a white bodied pig with a bright orange head.

wiggles – like the one in the link

banks – few threads suggest they are made for Cube but was going to trawl round some hardware stores

scotroutes – cheers hugssmiley

Given that Teetosugars shoulders are further apart than most folks, he probably considers them to be narrow bars.

And I like it Nick.

Sorry for the hijack.

Northwind – did you get my email about the wheels?

I’m a bit like hillsplease – my head knows it’s fine but my heart is not so sure.

I like both the above. If Mr W is old and iolo is young then perhaps I’m middle aged.

Mind you, last night, I was listening to Asaf Avidan, Mungo Jerry, WASP, Randy Rhoads and a classic cellist whose name I forget.

Thank you

After visiting last year I would nominate Brecon as near the top of the list of places I would happily move to.

Spent all my life earning money and paying taxes, only for you lot to vote in politicians who urinate it up a wall.

On that theme I went and picked up my beer last night, thanks again for bringing it down from Eggland.

Tap.

From a learner driver website regarding reversing/parallel parking:

You must always give way to other road users. You must give way to any pedestrians crossing behind and avoid swinging the car out into the path of overtaking or oncoming vehicles.

Other experienced drivers will appreciate that if you rush this manoeuvre you will end up taking longer and run the risk of hitting something or someone. Therefore if traffic appears once you have started the manoeuvre you will usually find that they give you priority. Under no circumstances allow yourself to be hurried when doing this exercise.

This suggests the reversing vehicle is at fault as you ‘must’ give way to all other users but they ‘may’ give you priority.

:D

Bugger regarding the sidewalls, that’s the bit I tend to wear on the back being clumsy and all. Tend to steer the front through and let the back wheel hit everything.

I thought they were supposed to have tough sidewall as well.

Maxxis again at this rate.

I really fancy the Barons now it comes to new tyre time.

However, I don’t swap and change and favour just leaving the same tyres on til they wear out.

Anyone comment on how well the Barons do in the dry/summer/rocks etc., assuming we get one this year.