@jkomo has a valid concern on group rides, Roxybike bike is good for this as they are all graded and you will be questioned about skill level when you book in for harder ones.

Used both these, one south and one east of Pollenca:

http://www.tramuntanatours.com/mtb.html

Great variety of routes when I last went, guide was bonkers fast and more capable than me (not hard) so could have slowed down a bit!

https://www.roxybikemallorca.com/mountain-bike-events-coaching-english/index.php/

Great routes again, mix of XC and DH, the XC bits can be quite quick as there is lots of german lycra action in the area, the DH is great around Son Servera but its not Tramuntana length downhills

Have followed this guide book around the Arta area quite a bit (our place is on this side!) in the Parc natural:

https://www.rockandride-mallorca.com/fantastic-mtb-trails-mallorca/

Follow these guys on insta and love their gravel routes as this is really a wonderful part of the island for that, if I’d been able to make it our there recently it was on my list to do:

https://www.amigobikes.com https://www.instagram.com/amigobikescalaratjada/

They’ve even had a world mtb champ out with them!

Hope that give a bit of food for thought

More votes for Zen, Bourne, Hardy. Tolkien I did because I felt I had to and won’t do again, didn’t read any of his appendices (WTF)

Loving this, couldn’t even tell you whose in the men’s final, much better tennis this

+1 for owenh and the horizontal sloshing and leaving overnight, also +1 for binning the mucoff and going stans (race better for low volume tyres). Bubbling reminds me of early tubeless on Maaxis minions, even worse were Spesh storm control 😂

2 options – Portion size is standard and price will fluctuate to accommodate market price variation, or they’ll ask you how many you want or what size portion you want and then weigh it and charge accordingly. This may involve short trip to the fish counter or they may bring it to you. Fine opportunity to over-eat 👍

Vaughan was talking about Liam Livingston being a useful player for Aus, given his experience down there. He’d be useful today to dispirit the bowling attack and get the scoreboard moving. Draw seeming more likely, it’ll all be clear in the hour after lunch…

DrP
I’m in the Brizzle tomorrow for a hospital appt for #2 child, could nip from the children’s hospital to Hengrove for you, would be early afternoon (appt 1330 – rads/poss CT, chat afterwards, so would prob be about 15-1600).
Have lots of cardboard boxes at home so could pack it and then if you organise a Parcelforce collection…
Let me know if that helps 👍👍

Really hope they give it a go tomorrow, nothing fancy to begin with just keep the scoreboard ticking over, build pressure on the bowlers and fielders then go for it… I can dream

Nothing on the mtb as it is all seems to be useful (well the Ti rotor bolts may be the exception), or looks fab (Hope coloured trinkets on the seatpost and steerer) but on the road bike…
Carbon wheels – they are lovely and I think I g o a bit faster but not £1000 faster.
Finned rotors – maybe I get less brake fade, but I didn’t really get much fade anyway
Carbon blade pedals – maybe they are light and yes my feet do feel planted so I can “get the power down”, but I’m no Sagan
Token ninja BB – yes it is easier to fit and applies a threaded approach to press fit and the solid axle seems to make things stiffer (so again I can get the power down 💪) and it doesn’t creak (but then the last one didn’t)
Would be better to spend more time losing chub than gaining stuff.
Enough I’m off to search bike bargains

Test cricket is bonkers these days, love it but it seems to be a mental game more than ever. Would have loved Hameed to get a ton. Thoroughly enjoying the pendulum swing in England’s favour, knowing it will swing back!

WTAF been working all day (not at desk) and come back and India 78 all out and our openers are still in.
What is happening in test cricket? This is more batting fragility than suddenly bonkers-brilliant new style of bowling. Why is becoming widespread?

Reeksy,

Thanks – just tried the SM link and all is working now…

Hot Fiat – I’m sorry to hear about what you’re going through, it is awful. He did think about including wider family, but wanted to focus on people currently playing / those involved with them to assess the current level of knowledge and attitude. Early results (about 600 responses) suggest that knowledge of concussion is better than the reaction to it. Hopefully that might change in the future.

If it was a Landy it would be new MAF, VCV and clean the turbo actuator and vanes.
MAF are cheap so replace if it’s old rather than just clean it.
VCV may require a re-learn, OBDII may have that option or it might do it itself.
Spray-into-turbo cleaner did well for me 👍
Sudden erratic power loss can sometimes be an overheat protection triggering limp mode (check the block temp sensors and coolant levels), can also be low fuel (or faulty sensor) to prevent injector starvation. Both will often re-set when the car is turned off/on (well in a Landy). But defo do MAF and VCV first.
Rattle in Landy = all is good, quiet = not working 👍

I have an Aeropress and a Nanopresso. Aeropresso is messy and coffee is meh, Nanopresso makes lovely espresso.
Sorry classic STW recommend what you have!

If you’re worried about cross contamination surely you could just clean the funnel with some spray brake cleaner and dry with paper towel to remove residue of the “last” fluid?

calling 111/999, or turning up at their local ED, they know how to play the system and what to say to the call takers to get an ambo call out.

This!
I’ve a friend who is an A&E consultant, this is their take.

They’ve analysed their attendance (large provincial hospital) and their 10 most frequent visitors (so not hospitalised) come in between 40 and 130 times per year; costing alone over £150k. They had over 1100 patients who came more than 5 times in a year (again no hospitalisations) costing £2M. These people should have been seen in the community by GPs and social care. So a combination of huge underfunding and unavoidable resource wastage. If an ambulance can’t unload it can’t leave, if the A&E team are seeing people who should be seen by a GP (some are equally aware of how to summon an ambulance unnecessarily) then they can’t see the less urgent patient on the ambulance etc etc.
It is a multi factorial problem with no easy fix, so no hope with the morons we have in charge with their short term goals. My friend says it should be driven from the bottom up (ie by those who actually do it), but that medics when they become political usually become useless (political disease!).
If you want to complain about it meaningfully – do it at the ballot box

I’m especially proud of my used expander ring collection – Hope, Absolute Black, Superstar to name but a few. All have very rounded teeth 👍

Black tea, no sugar. Fingers of right hand grab tea bag (asbestos hands) after it has sat quietly for a minute or so and up-down it then out. Nice

Been a while since I lived in the states, forgotten how bonkers some parts are and what weird things they get up to. Still was impressed with how much of lady in red I could sing (teenage son was perplexed about WTF I was watching and WTF was I singing, so that was a bonus)

Love their Kevlar pads, going to keep my fingers crossed they have the Shimano and Magyar ones I need (they won’t)

I take it all back, they do, so thanks hardtail for the PSA 👍👍

Hyundai i10, great interior size, all the bits and the 1.2 is nippy with low insurance. Really great little cars.

Totally get you! Should be in Mallorca but not due to a combination of reasons. Really missing some sun and heat, live on a hill here and am totally done with another day of cold wind. British climate is crap, loved living abroad where summer actually existed for more than a week at a time.
So yes totally get you 👍

We have a 1000L thermal store with a stratified heat exchanger on the side, inputs from 4 solar panels, condensing oil boiler and back boiling wood burner. Whole house is underfloor heating and v well insulated. In the summer the solar panels run the hot water (2 teenagers who love multiple long showers) and any extra heat the house may need (not much as we have central glass areas for passive solar heating) without the boiler being needed. In the winter they make enough heat for the underfloor heating so boiler(s) just put heat into the top of the tank for hot water. Would defo recommend as our oil usage is massively less than average for a house of our size (no gas in the country!).
Back boiling wood burners are not worth IMO as they have to be quite large so in a well insulated room put out too much heat.

Third time lucky feb/March Corvara, great snow last two years but no travel, so this year will be travel and no fresh snow 👍

@oldtennisshoes that pic is indeed a wing but he’s on a foil board. Learning to foil involves much face planting. V cool but for the kids, not me

+1 for Pickfords when we moved to the US and defo list everything and get insurance. We lost a couple of things around customs (boxes opened, stuff taken, boxes re-taped shut) so take photos of packing boxes before you open them, then tick everything off your list. Insurance paid out without a quibble as apparently “this happens”

I have the Lifeline one and I put a small rubber ring on the measurement rod (on the non wheel side) so I can move the rod out the way to get round the wheel and yet still know the right length. All my friends comment on how perfectly my bikes shift 😂
It’s great, see no need to replace with more spendy Park tools one (which I have with other tools)

entrapment

Very valid point – leash to a waist band with quick release at a couple of points

broken ankles

Fall forwards onto board, or other three directions horizontally into the river. Helmet important 👍

I’ve got a Red Paddle Flow – pretty much same dimensions. It’s great on white water and surfs well, on flat water it didn’t track well so I added a central fin box so I could put a bigger central fin in for flat stuff, then remove it for rapids. Whilst it’s not as quick as my 14ft Starboard (but that’s a 24”) I reckon it’s not far off the 10’6 Ride. It also turns on a sixpence and you can do pivot turns easily. Have taught a few people to SUP on it too as it’s vv stable. So maybe a bit slower than the typical starter size of 10’6, but loads more fun and more usable. I would 👍

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/24/business/brexit-deal-northern-ireland-gbr-intl-cmd/index.html

Always good to know what a global news network is thinking about us and our esteemed leaders.

I had similar IT dept proving issues, so tried tethering to my iPhone hotspot and it worked fine, that convinced them it had to be the router, it was a chap on the TPLink forum who suggested the IP range thing, apparently it is due to the handshake which is initiated remotely vs the one done locally? Apparently BThubs use different IP ranges as BT love to log on remotely to check them (and you 😂😂) good luck take my advice with 2c as I’m just a clinician so WTF do I know!

Also check the IP address range of the DNS server which your home router uses – I had the same problem which went when I changed the home router address from 192.168.1.xx to 192.168.2.xx Apparently home and work on same range makes windows remote access software unhappy, vpn works fine and 3rd party software manages, but not windows. The PACS system we have uses a windows server, so also came back to life with the change!
Took 2mins to change on the router, home ip dynamic so everything reconnected. Worth a try 👍

900 notes for 150km riding, so £6/km. better be some pretty f’ing special trail or it’s a no from me

What guff

Went to a very interesting regulatory meeting a couple of years ago (I work in horse sport) where a presentation was given about biological passports (in people) and how they could be open to manipulation (metabolic creep with micro-dosing) and they are limited in what they measure being mainly based upon historic abuses (raising red cell mass etc). Testing has to be validated and defensible legally so will always lag behind, especially as understanding of endurance metabolism and routes to enhance it evolve.

flight to majorca

Meant to be there next month, haven’t been to our place since 2019 so would like to go and make sure it is OK, but cases there are going up quickly so Spanish govt may impose more restrictions and Bosser may turn it red. We’re vaccinated, kids aren’t though. watching closely before deciding…

Busy at the entrance to the W Country (M4-M5 corner) already. Can’t imagine it’ll be much different on the M50

Doing a pubmed search for Inigo San Millan (the Colorado chap) is interesting. All about assessment of metabolic flexibility in endurance athletes, mitochondrial energetics and lactate in disease (esp cancer and diabetes) and post ICU syndrome. So I wonder if they are applying interventions and training plans which have an effect in restoring function post disease to endurance athletes to increase mitochondrial efficiency.
Pure speculation but his research is an interesting read when trying to understand why he is involved…

Pogacar has a lot of genetic advantages (exceptional ability to use glucose

Will look up that interview too, but does this mean he needs to fuel frequently (rather than enhanced glycogen storage?), does he eat a lot. I do on long rides but then I’m a bit chubby and almost 50 👍