And if you’ve driven from Surray with your bikes because you didn’t know that you had volunteered not to ride?

At pk -Not if access was shared a little more equally

At Jameso – sign at the bottom of each path

So why not a one day per fortnight ban on walkers?

Of course it’s a ban FFS – they’ve just called it something else to increase palatability.

At least with my idea of a one day per fortnight voluntary ban by walkers the access would be shared a little more fairly.

Isn’t this just something that has always just ‘worked’?

I.e. If it ain’t broke and all that………..?

According to the front page it’s not working because some mountainbikers aren’t aware that they have volunteered to not use the mountain at certain times.

I’m not saying it’s not necessary, just don’t try to sugarcoat shit – if you are going to ban a user group then at least be honest.

Or perhaps, in the spirit of fairness, walkers have a voluntary ban say one day per fortnight, so that bikers can enjoy the mountains.

And at what times/dates are walkers restricted?

And how exactly can an order to forbid all cyclists be voluntary?

And if it was voluntary then surely I. and all my biking friends, would have been asked to voluntarily give up the right to legal access.

To call it voluntary restrictions is absolute bollocks, it’s a ban, pure and simple – your type are not wanted.

Not TLR.

I recall Shiggy (the designer of the tyres) commenting somewhere that he could not endorse them being used tubeless.

Yeah. Why sell something for £10 when you can put it in a box and sell it for £30?

Wife is from Newcastle so we often travel up there. The frame has been sat waiting for me to do something with it for the past 3 years (this is unlikely now as I have just bought a 456 Evo2).

Next time we visit the mother in law I will email you and, if you still want it, I will drop it off on the way through.

I suspect the Epicon fork you have is a single chamber affair so you can ignore the advice regarding the negative chamber.

Basically you need to put enough air in for an appropriate amount of sag, typically between 20% and 30% to suit you and how you ride. You should, occasionally, use all 120mm of travel.

I would wait until you have a shock pump then you can raise and lower air pressure til you get it how you like it.

It’s a 17.5, fits about the same as an 18 inch Inbred.

When WW3 is over the only surviving things will be cockroaches and that frame – it’s seriously tough.

Where are you based cos I don’t think I could be bothered posting it.

I have a Planet x armadillo frame for free if you want it hora. Make a nice jump bike for you.

Personally I’d just ride it as is, you will likely adapt to the extra 20mm travel. However, if you are only getting 75mm of the 120mm then a bit less air would help.

Get a pump before you start messing with the air pressure. As Al says it will come out pretty quickly and you have no means to add air if needed.

I’ve done this with a number of Hope hubs over the years, as have friends. I have also killed an XT in a similar fashion.

I also have Hope and Shimano hubs that have lasted forever.

I reckon some will fail as a result of minute manufacturing/metallurgy faults, some due to a massive unexpected force.

In the last month I have also bent a front wheel, snapped a frame and rounded off a set of splines on my XT cranks.

Don’t admit you like Llandegla on here, it’s only for crap riders like me.

I thought about asking if it was you but I was a bit concerned approaching a bloke with kids in a busy queue and asking if they were ‘hora’. Seemed a good way to get into a fight or the next suspect for Operation Yewtree.

Oh ffs. So I wasn’t stood up. Passat estate 2 kids. Will email you when I get home.

Not any more. And I made a special effort to put my best biking shorts on, did my hair/makeup and wore a carnation like he said.

TBF he’s probably just enjoying himself too much in Sheffield and forgot.

In fact looking closer it seems to suggest that even if you pay the extra premium to include downhill and extreme it will cover for all areas except personal accident and liability – to my mind two of the things you most likely to want covering.

Antares:

Page 28 of the document states ‘Mountain biking (not including downhill racing and extreme ground conditions)’ for the Standard travel insurance policies (Silver, Gold and Black).

Page 35 details that it covers ‘Mountain biking (including downhill racing and extreme ground conditions)’ under

‘…… activities where you need to tell us in advance of your intention to undertake the activity. Cover is restricted in that no cover is provided under either the personal accident or personal liability sections of this policy whilst you are undertaking the activity and an additional premium is required.’

So Virgin Black cover does not insure you for downhill or extreme riding – both of which, I think, riding down the Alps will be. You will need to speak to Virgin directly to be quoted and issued with a certificate of insurance.

Free rent, free electricity, cash to spend and all my bills paid. Find out how you can get the same inside.

You lot have totally missed the point.

It’s not a racist rant, it’s a job advert for MP’s.

Anyone commuting into London by car deserves to be stuck in a traffic jam.

don’t forget though, that barely anyone drives to work in London

But this is true. Last place I worked had a thousand or more employees and 3 parking spaces, which weren’t always full. Usually one posh car and one or two cheap ones, no idea to whom they belonged – bigshots or the disabled maybe I dunno.

I reckon 50% of the traffic in Central London is work-related (ie deliveries, tradesmen etc), 30% taxis, 15% chauffer driven cars and 5% private cars.

So what the hell causes the traffic jams? Surely there can’t be so many tradesmen and taxis etc over and above other major cities to account for permanent gridlock.

Might be worth firing an email to the Huddersfield Star Wheelers – big club and between them will know lots of local riders:

http://www.starwheelers.com/index.php

Freecycle’s a bloody joke any way, I know of people getting stuff off there and just selling it on eBay. I know some will say more fool the people giving it away but it’s hardly in the spirit is it!

It happens on here too. I gave some stuff away as they (said) wanted the parts for a family members build and just needed a minor repair – fixed, cleaned and back on sale on here in a few days.

Where does the flexing occur in a QR system when compared to a 15/20mm?

Every time my therapist helps me get my life back on track, McMoonter pops up with another amazing lifestyle thread.

*sobs uncontrollably*

LOL Me too. Serves me right for wasting my time looking after the disabled. I really need another job with pay and prospects and stuff.

Just build it, I’ve been waiting all week.

Looking at both pictures the chains seem very dirty, do you clean and lube regularly ?

They look very clean for mtb chains to me.

From Wiki:

During the filming of the third episode of the BBC documentary Frozen Planet (2011), a group of orcas were filmed trying to “wave wash”[13] the film crew’s 18-foot zodiac boat as they were filming. The crew had earlier taped the group hunting seals in the same fashion. It was not mentioned if any of the crew were hurt in the encounter

On June 15, 1972, the hull of the 43-foot-long (13 m) wooden schooner Lucette (Lucy) was stove in by a pod of killer whales and sank approximately 200 miles west of the Galapagos Islands. The group of six people aboard escaped to an inflatable life raft and a solid-hull dinghy

I suspect that the above footage is a bit of practice for them rather like the chasing and killing of the young whale. I certainly wouldn’t fancy stopping the boat and jumping in for a swim – it might get a bit more serious fairly quickly.

I don’t really lust over bikes, just want them to work preferably for a long time. Maybe that’s why mags don’t appeal.

I used to subscribe to the mag a long, long time ago when it was about grown men pissing about on bikes over the moors of Calderdale. When they weren’t doing this they were doing other silly stuff like the pedal car story which, again, appealed to me greatly. There was a distinct feeling that the kit they tested they had quite often bought or blagged directly from the manufacturers, and the bikes were stuff I could, usually afford.

However, over the years the success of the magazine has led to it having a bigger voice within the industry and they get more opportunities to obtain, and test, higher end stuff; the Fresh Goods is a lot bigger and contains much pricier stuff than of yore.

The demographics of the core readership developed as the hobby became more popular and it has attracted a significant number of people who are affluent. The magazine, as a business, has to recognise this and respond appropriately – they would be pretty stupid not to.

I am still just a bloke who generally rides bikes over the moors of Calderdale on an oldish, slightly rusty and wobbly selection of bikes and enjoy messing about with them and related stuff.

I haven’t changed but the pastime and it’s participants have, and so has the magazine.

I don’t think people like me and the OP are the core readership anymore so I don’t buy the mag. Reckon the OP should do the same.

I know of people who have been sacked for a combination of Facebook and discussing confidential work based information.

Did you feed them some of those Dangerousbeans?

Shouldn’t lol but I did, compassionless person that I am.

Enough of this thread, it’s stressing me now. Off to sort out the wife’s bike.

Oh Hora, do rise above it. Cos that’s where those compassionate darlings are, up there.

I am not talking about compassion, I am trying to be realistic.

It is generally accepted that some people found guilty actually aren’t (perhaps you dispute that) and I don’t like the idea of say one in twenty people dieing in pain when actually innocent to ensure we get the 19 really guilty ones (perhaps you think this is an acceptable number).

Also I find it a bit odd to say that those lacking compassion/remorse should be killed horribly as that puts you either in the same category as them. Or you want someone the same as them to do the act on your behalf (which seems rather cowardly to me).

Speaking as someone who has killed someone, albeit by accident, and having worked with some killers and victims I think it can be difficult to separate emotions from what should be practically done.

I would prefer that those found guilty of such crimes be incarcerated indefinitely in order to protect society and to allow the truly innocent ones to mount a robust legal challenge even if it means that money and time is wasted on those who are guilty.

If I was ever accused and convicted of a crime I had not committed then that is what I would want.

I would not want a system that killed me painfully (or at all) in order to ensure they got the guilty ones too.

No, but I reckon baths are a bit fuller now we don’t have a storage tank.

Wouldn’t have thought that would have offset the difference between this winter and last though; about this time last year we had 12 foot snowdrifts up the front of the house.

I really must speak to WB, there must be something not right somewhere.

Me neither, sad as it may seem there are just folks on this planet that have no remorse nor compassion. Some of these folks are incarcerated in US Prison waiting on Death Row.

And some post on STW.

Not me. Obviously.

Nor them. That’s why they are where they are.

Probably Lapwings