Bye Bye Badman.

Thanks all, thats great. We looked at a place in Spean Bridge so I’ll shortlist it. Cycling not an option unfortunately, as we have two small kids and a dog. I’ll hopefully have a trade stand, so parking shouldn’t be an issue.

North I think, there are a few chalet type places about 20 miles outside Fort William

Looks like we should be ok then. Thanks all.

Thanks Easygirl.

Thegreatape; Probably 30 mins or so.

Dropper post? Or **** beads?

Great, thanks all. I’ll see if they can refund it.

I’m in!

I’m in. It looks like I somehow managed to select a guide option too (language selection feature continually returned me to the homepage so completed the process in French). Does anyone know what the guide option gives you?

Does anyone know what time entries go live on Monday? The website says 12am but the countdown timer on the homepage would make it 12noon?!

I rode up there today, it’s all rideable (I rode the blacks). Plenty of snow on sections outside the woods but nothing to stop you riding.

The role is home based because the office is in London and the clients my wife is responsible for are in the North of England (as are we). They did actually provide a subsidy for energy bills too, recognising that we incur additional costs from her being at home for the majority of the day but this stopped some time ago.

Its not a big issue at all,I’m just surprised that what I see as tools required to do the job are no longer being provided on the assumption that we can already have them ourselves. As someone pointed out earlier maybe its an old fashioned point of view from when we were not so well connected with cheap unlimited broadband etc…

All sorted, thanks Bennn!

Hi Mountainlight, YHM.

We had a couple of issues with our order processing over the last few days which should be resolved tomorrow. I can confirm there are no issues with our payment gateway and as tmb467 points out, the funds are not collected until we despatch goods.

Chris @ Ace Components.

Me too. What worked for me last night was finding the program I wanted to watch again via iTunes, not the purchased tab and going through the motions as if I was purchasing it again, the program started immediately.

If you can face it, Asda are doing the 250gb XBox 360 with Halo 4 and Forza Horizon for £99 from 8am in the morning.

Sugru cheap: Sugru

It’s worth checking the reconditioned section of the Apple website too, I got a 128gb iPad Air with £110 off recently.

Parted company some time ago.

John Grant at Liverpool Philharmonic in a couple of weeks.
Kate Tempest at Kasimir in Liverpool, Feb.

I strongly suspect my anniversary pressie tomorrow will be DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist ‘Poets of Rhythm’ tickets for next Feb in Manchester.

Thanks Cougar, I meant to put the link in. There is also the Merkur Barber Pole at a cracking price.

http://m.lookfantastic.com/merkur-barber-pole-safety-razor-in-black/10465650.html

A bit of a PSA here. I just googled Merkur razors and a couple came up on a site called lookfantastic.com at a decent discount. I just got a Merkur 43C for £19.

Quite some tangent there JHJ.

rubbish seam alignment

I think that’s the first time that I’ve seen IMBA mentioned on this thread.

I thought that IMBAUK was originally set up to represent mountain biking in the UK but I’ve not heard them mentioned for some time. Does it still exist as an organisation in the UK these days, and if so have they had anything to say about this travesty?

There was a seperate thread about them earlier. I think with increasing trail sanitisation issues, a central, collective voice such as IMBA may be more effective/popular than it once was. Perhaps its time for another membership push. I actually went on the website earlier and the membership link doesn’t work.

Mine is matched with a 150mm Pike on my Five Alpine, seem well matched but not happy with the way I have the inline riding at the moment (which I expected, its only one ride old).

From Facebook:

Hi friends of Wiggle.
As promised, following our internal investigation here is our statement regarding Anna Glowinski.
At Wiggle we pride ourselves on our integrity, fairness and transparency. Therefore we have taken the claim made by Anna Glowinski (through Facebook on Friday 24th October 2014) that we have plagiarised one of her designs for our new dhb ‘Superstar’ Jersey very seriously.
After conducting a detailed and thorough internal investigation we have concluded that no plagiarism has occurred and that no designer employed by us (directly or indirectly) has broken any of our policies or, more importantly, contravened our values.
We categorically do not participate in or condone plagiarism under any circumstances. This is a zero tolerance policy for us. Our review gives us full confidence in our internal processes and the integrity of our staff in ensuring that this could not happen. We thank our colleagues for their openness and support in resolving this issue in a timely manner.
As this story is in the public domain, for our customers’ information and on behalf of our hard working colleagues that have been affected by this story, we layout our key findings below:
• On 17/1/2013, Anna Glowinski met with members of our Cycle Clothing Buying team at the London Bicycle Show at Excel.
• On 24/1/2013, Anna Glowinski sent a proposal to our Cycle Clothing Buying team regarding the possibility of her designing an exclusive collection for Wiggle.
• On 12/7/2013 our Cycle Clothing Buying team met with Anna to discuss this potential collaboration.
• On 7/8/2013, having reviewed Anna’s proposal, our Cycle Clothing Buying team emailed Anna, politely declining to range the product and sharing our feedback with her.
• On 21/7/2014, following her resignation from AnaNichoola, Anna Glowinski contacted our Cycle Clothing Buying team again, enquiring if there was the possibility of her working for Wiggle. We considered this kind offer carefully, but again decided to decline this proposal. No designs or products were discussed in these subsequent communications.
• It is important to highlight that our Cycle Clothing Buying team (based in Portsmouth) work independently from our dhb Design Team (based in London). There has never until this investigation been a conversation between these two teams at Wiggle regarding Anna Glowinski or AnaNichoola.
• Therefore it is unsurprising that in parallel (and unrelated to) the conversations and meetings between Anna and our Cycle Clothing Buying Team, our London based dhb Design team were independently working on our Autumn/Winter 2014 range, including our ‘Superstar’ Jersey. We register the intellectual property of all of our designs and to do this must save all of the ‘inspiration materials’ and initial ‘draft designs’. We can confirm with confidence by reviewing this audit trail, that the dhb Design team had no knowledge of any conversation with Anna Glowinski, nor any sight of her designs. Additionally, there had been no communication between our Portsmouth Cycle Clothing Buying Team and our London dhb Design Team relating to this new range.
• The inspiration for the Superstar Jersey (and indeed the other designs in our dhb Blok range, which it forms part of) involved many influences, including national flags and jockey jerseys – absolutely none of which could be traced from AnaNichoola or Anna Glowinski. To be clear the dhb Design team have never been in contact with Anna Glowinski or AnaNichoola Ltd at any stage.
We have shared this statement with Anna before publishing and have offered to meet up and take her though our design process and all of our inspiration material. We appreciate that the coincidence of the designs might have been puzzling for her, though there are so many designs in the marketplace today that it is unsurprising that these similarities coincidently appear from time to time. We wish Anna every success in her new endeavors.
We would also like to take this opportunity to reassure our loyal customers that we, as ever, stay true to the core ethics and principles that have led to our success to date and thank them for their continued support and custom.
Thanks for reading.
Wiggle.

Rest Sam, riding at a high intensity will prolong it. I’ve been the same for the last couple of weeks.

What size are you after? Probikeshop have a medium Orange Five29/Alpine 5 frame for £1065 with an upgraded Fox RP23 Factory shock. As Northwind said, an amazing bike. I love mine.

Always found both T-Mobile and EE to be good. Been with them for 10 years now.

Isn’t that the coil one without the spring?

Nope, definitely inline. Should be here tomorrow.

I can send you a side pic of mine if it helps

I have one, it’s great fun. It’s a large if this helps.

Magazines, please never do that. Magazine buyers, if you want an article on canoes, buy canoetrack. It was irritating enough when Singletrack started filling its pages with cyclocross bollocks never mind some other random unconnected nonsense. What else, restaurant reviews? Celebrity watch?

This.

I have no personal experience of Push, but a riding buddy has just had his RP23 done and swears it’s transformed the shock. As an aside, I picked up a CCDB Inline today for £281 from CRC with the additional 10% off, a CRC £5 code and a £10 voucher. Even without the voucher you’d be able to get one for £291 if you can get hold of a CRC money code, which is a bargain.

I believe Ace Components do a chainring/bolt combination for £27 inc 10% discount for newsletter sign up 😉

I spoke with TFT just yesterday about a new shock for my Five Alpine, the advice I received was that either the standard DBAir (without CS) or the Float X would be the best shocks for the Five.

I asked about the inline but with the rebound issues for heavier riders (I’m about 90kg in kit) they don’t recommend them. To be honest it sounded like they would have recommended the DBAir over the inline regardless of weight.

You mean September right? I’ll keep my eyes peeled when up at the weekend.

singlespeedstu – Member
These are available now.
Work really well too.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Promax-DP-1-Dropper-Seatpost-Clamp/181519255655?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140107083358%26meid%3D95d0597131ac4d52b136a0d3b0d4935c%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D20140107083358%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D181498412856

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Free postage if you buy on our website too 😀

Have they sorted the weight limit issues on the inline yet? Interested in one for my Alpine Five.