New lawz???

Nigel Owens said the ball held up in the act of scoring will now be a defensive scrum. Christ knows how that improves anything! WRONG! I mean it’s a goal line dropout. :D (Fewer scrums = good)

My mum seemed surprised at how tall and lean the high-jumpers were in the Olympics. Like, I said, it helps when you want to jump high. We’d been watching the rugby, so maybe the contrast provoked her to comment. Physique talk. its where its at.

BJM have been a hub for so many great bands over the years: BRMC, Warlocks, Black Angels, Beth Jeans Houghton, off the top of my head.

I didn’t know that, I do really like Black Angels. Couldn’t explain why. BJM once released their back catalogue on free download. There was so much of it, I didn’t know where to start, so ended up listening to none of it.

Sprinkles

Ours already had a name, was Hope, which being bike related worked for me. 2 syllables are better though, as someone already said. She ended up being called Hopey. Or Hopeless. or Lolo (from Harry Enfield’s “poor lulu”, Yeah, I know)
Bum, now I’m sad again.

Saw them back on an NME tour, jeez, musta been 20 years ago 😂
Decent rock n roll band, not much more really. Can’t say they’re overrated cos nobody really rates em anymore 😉

Here’s a long forgotten* one, that I bought on 7”

*with good reason 😂

Playlist already had an official release, a few surprises in there: Shane MacGowan 😊
https://www.discogs.com/Trevor-Horn-Trevor-Horn-Compilation/master/1777559

Watched that top one the other day, very impressive riding.

I’m going to go against the flow here

Not really though – opinions are just as mixed on here

Totally agree. Especially when the video ref has to have the same thing explained 3 times to him by the ref, which turns out to be the way the ref saw it to start with. And then the video ref says “I agree with the facts”! the Facts are the facts, you idiot!

Anyone actually ridden one?

Few years ago now, me and my son demoed a couple of Haibikes. I must say, we both thought they were awful. Compared to the others we tried, Cannondale, Focus and Specialized, hard to describe really, but got the feeling they were cheapo ebike manufacturer who jumped on the mtb bandwagon. The suspension just didn’t feel right.
Saw one recently at Swinley and it was the fattest, ugliest bike I’ve ever seen too. Not sure if that counts for anything.

👍

Seat Ibiza

Much better game than last week. Gutted to lose that one. What did Nigel Owens say at the end there – he won’t give a penalty unless he’s 100% sure… then he gives a scrum pen… ah well.

Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth and Nobody. You seen them @DezB?

Nope, not yet

I filled it in, but after I clicked Submit I got a dead page, so don’t know if it actually submitted.

I was looking for this thread the other day. I thought I’d added to the 2020 one and my post vanished, so oh well…
Usually in agreement with Rone, but I loved the violence, mayhem and silliness of The Suicide Squad. Had my doubts beforehand cos since he’s been whoring himself out to Sky TV adverts, got sick to death of Idris Elba. But, he was good. Funny, lots of swears. Strangely thought Harley’s was the weakest part. Enjoyable 2nd trip to the re-opened cinema. Oh, and the sound at Vue was incredible, almost too loud at times. Music soundtrack choice was pretty decent. Nice to hear the Pixies blasting out.

Last week saw Black Widow, that was just ok. It was only last week, but I can’t actually remember much about it. Very meh, as the internet kids say.

Re: Contents photo – 3.5 months old “trail dog” – surely not? How jolly irresponsible!

I knew you’d love it!

I might start doing a STW version. Based on a thread that appeals to me. Not on instagramb tho

Full stops! 😳

Punctures are the only thing gone wrong on the demos I’ve been on.
I’ve only got bikes you can’t buy anymore, so not sure anyone would be interested in trying them out! 😁

Don’t show Charlie the Cannondale Topstone Lefty :D

Hopefully this news story will be a Google result when people search for The Bicycle Company UK and put people off shopping with them.
Yeah, as Frankconway says, this isn’t a repeat thread, it’s a news story with comments.

Lauren’s done a story on the STW homepage now

That looks amazing. Once sorted, what a facility Soton will have :)

Didn’t some comedy pair do basic training for it on telly recently. Wasn’t something I’d normally watch so can’t recall who… Romesh and Rob Beckett maybe, or no! I think it was Bradley Walsh and son! How could you have missed it??! :lol:

Cool, yeah, that’s what I thought. I guess the warnings with hardtall MTBs is for longer travel than the frame is designed for, so it alters the geometry.

Yeah there’s a thread for that .https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/if-you-like-d-n-b-and-bicyclesyou-might-like-this/.

We prefer stuff that links to the last track in some way

This could be quite a long bit of typing, will try to keep it brief! Funny/strange story about a date I had once – met in a pub, got on amazingly well, really laughing and felt like we’d known each other ages. I was quite keen, but played it cool, didn’t rush to text back after the date for a few days, then when I texted she had a go at me for not being enthusiastic enough. So I said “Well, I don’t know the rules of middle-aged dating.” or similar. She lost her nut! Left me a long rambling voice mail, including the words: MIDDLE AGED? I’m not Middle aged! She was 52, iirc. hmm… So we talked about the Fury-Wilder rematch – are you watching it live, she said? No, says I, I’m reffing rugby in the morning so need a proper night’s sleep. Called me boring! Oh, this is an historic event! etc. I’m having people round to watch it live! she says, makes quite a big deal of it.
Day after the fight, (which Fury won easily by KO, in case you don’t know) I call and say wow! did you watch it? She says, yeah, hmph, another draw! Erm, are you sure..? Turns out she’d watched a replay of the first fight! I mean, mental. I did get a big apology for the voicemail rant, but I left it there. Mostly out of fear. :lol: 😲🤪

Lucky Todmorden getting a new skatepark! I’d love to have a ride on something like the Olympic park. Just carving round it would be amazing.

Here’s a question – would putting sus forks on a gravel-type frame designed for rigid forks put extra strain on the frame?

I’m never sure which way to swipe on the Tinder profiles who’s main pic is of their children, or teenage daughter.

For me it was the bit where you landed and was immediately presented with ‘Largest Bicycle Manufacturer’

Exactly – as I posted up there somewhere ^^

massively stacked towards men, which means that many/most women are pretty much swamped with matches/message

It’s true, I think a lot of the extremely cagey messages you get back are because they have to weed out the married and the just-after-sex blokes. Seems there’s a good many on there giving us a bad rep.

At least it’s easy to spot the completely mental women now, they’ve got a “sticker” saying Proudly Unvaxed :D

It wasn’t so clear it was a scam apart from the price

And the homepage of the website.

Bumble? Not heard of that one. Do all the women, every single one, say “no ONS” and have a photo of themselves licking a horse’s face?

See, you can do it if you try.

He managed it :D

thepurist
Well I looked at it and found it weird, but I wasn’t sure what it was all about…

You, obvs.