trail_rat – Member
An bmw 850 fun ???
About as fun as hammering your face with a meat tenderiser.

Never driven one but way cooler looking than the other big cars mentioned.
For fun I would always go for a small slightly fast car that won’t kill you the 1st time you see what happens on a wet roundabout. And the fact I couldn’t afford anything big is beside the point:|

You can’t blame people, you can buy a £20 Hoover or microwave from asda that work pretty well so why would their £100 full suspension special be any different. An old friend had a bikeshop and he swore that most kids bikes are sold on weight, dad would pick up a few bikes and declare the heaviest bso the winner due to being solid or something similar.

I started out on a Peugeot team Tim Gould IIRC, I had a king fit when my parents told me in late November a Raleigh activator had been ordered for Xmas. Even at 14 with no mtb experience I knew the Raleigh was a POS. I’m guessing I would have given up cycling shortly after.

If I had the sponds for fuel, tyres and repairs a slightly old large BMW or merc would be high on the list. 850 particularly.
If you go down the other route with a panda 100bhp please take a look at a micra 160sr/sport+, same car different badge really but they both are 1600cc 110bph with decent suspension. £2000 gets you a very good one with all the gadgets working.
As I’m nearing 40 I had to take the 160sr badge off due to embarresment and it is nice to see the looks on the boy racers faces when they can’t shake off a beige micra.

Is ice-t still with bodycount?
Doesn’t he have a missus with a huge bahookie that starred with him in a reality tv show.

FunkyDunc – Member

All looked very amateurish, and unsafe.

I thought that was the point of the programme.
hacking the oar down to size was unbelievable though.

Looks nice enough but I would either go super cheap or wait for the full carbon options that are supposed to be on the way for not much more money.

Yes that should be an adequate punishment for lane hogging

The way I see it is that I can outrun anyone downhill and even when going uphill I only need turn around to make my escape.

Doesn’t work when someone comes out of the bushes behind you on a long uphill drag, that’s how I usually do it.

deadkenny – Member
Well built, well designed, reliable, robust, easy to maintain, great support & warranty and look fantastic. There’s a reason why they are popular and the frames are expensive. You get what you pay for.

I really liked my sc frames but easy to maintain and robust are two things I wouldn’t agree with.
Top shock bushing needed replacing every 500 miles or so and the bottom four bearings with funny sized inner sleeves that could only be sourced from sc needed done every year or about 1500 miles at about £10 a bearing in a kit. To change the top link bearings needed Allan keys cut down and custom made pullers or sc sourced tools at very high prices.

Think things are better now but too far out my price range these days

A few years since I sold my frame but liked it as a do it all hard tail with a pair of revs on the front. As with all do it all things it will never excel at anything. Very stiff and short stays make it better for some things worse for others etc.
Prob best set up as a trail bike it suits big tyres and forks better than xc IMO.

Sounds like they where using different fuel. Plastic probs according to the article.

She tested negative for Ebola and has no symptoms.
It can only generally be passed on when you are in the stages where you have symptoms, she isn’t showing any symptoms. And just to say again she tested negative.

Thought it was quite interesting, it doesn’t look like the powers at be can or will enforce a quarantine. What happens if someone that actually poses a risk does a runner.

Hope she had a nice bike ride in the sun.

Me and my friends all had parents that tought right from wrong but that didn’t stop us from being a bunch of semi feral monsters when some fireworks and a couple of bottles of white lightning where involved.

I’m sure plenty of kids also have good parents but their idiot kids will do horrible things regardless.

Back in 1998/9 I spent a massive grand and a bit on a spesh stump jumper fsr. 5 star bike in the reviews of the day.
Hated almost every moment on it. Worst bike I have ever owned. Worst bike I have ever ridden was a 2003ish spesh enduro I hired for weekend in ft William. Waste of £60.

Think the extra wide bar might have contributed it was also during a low speed shimmy through a gate thing meaning the bar was turned at a big angle.

Endura singletracks and XT shifters if anyone would like to try replicate the accident:)

It doesn’t matter if you wear Lycra or baggies you look like a weirdo to 99% of the population

Sorry was on a fatbike so wearing Lycra and attracting even more attention wasn’t an option.
Then again falling over and crying isn’t a good alternative.

The fuel burn per hour is a bit misleading since the Concorde did the trip in half the time.

The design costs for a Mach+ plane would also be huge, was a shame they didn’t keep any concordes flying just to show what is possible.

If tiddles could stop raping and pillaging the countryside I might look on them and their humans in better light.
Yes I do have a smelly dog at my feet at the moment.

Anyone that compares HIV to something like Ebola should be instantly ignored.
With modern retrovirals etc HIV is not a absolute death sentence, it is the norm with modern drugs for children to be born with no virus load at all to positive mothers. Most people diagnosed will live mostly normal lives for decades after being diagnosed. A condom is all the protective equipment you would need and even without the risk isn’t huge.
I would rather chance an HIV needlestick then an Ebola kiss.

Another one of those series that was hidden away and no one got to see it, think you can still get some episodes on channel 5 catch up.
Might put on my tactical turtleneck and watch some later.

They where on R2 with Jo whiley while I was doing the dishes last night. A circlefk of smugness I have never heard the likes of before.

Stirling would be your best bet, it has proper hills and a lot more single track than you could do in a day.

Nooooo it’s where I go to escape the STW asshattery:)
Admit it you are all fat-curious you just don’t want your mates to see you with a chubber.

Looks great but is a total dog to use on iPhone and canny be arsed with another app.
I’m oot.

vickypea – Member
The Spanish nurse who caught it must have done something more than touch her forehead with a gloved hand.

Doesn’t seem too far fetched, touches sweaty brow sweat then gets in eyes.

It won’t take much to overwhelm the hospitals. A few people with no symptoms on arrival maybe telling a few fibs to get through customs then spend a few days wondering about a big city before seeking treatment. Again telling a few fibs about where they have been will see whole A&E departments contaminated and shut.

On a slightly worrying note my junior doc sis stayed at the weekend and told me about something that happened to one of her friends a couple of weeks ago. The friend is on call for the infectious diseases dept and received a call from an out of hours GP asking advice about an ill patient from west Africa, she passed this up to the consultant to query the best course of action. The advice given was to send the patient to A&E and let them deal with it.

It only takes one bad descision and lots of people will be screwed.

Think it is now time to move to quads after years of flying little gyro helis and foam planes.
You can get decent gyros for about £10 now so still good for a few months disposable fun, always found the charging point to be the weak spot on little flyers out of about 8 indoor planes/helis only one made it to the point of battery replacement.

edlong – Member

In the time that ebola’s taken to kill a couple of thousand, malaria has killed more like half a million and tuberculosis double that again. Estimated deaths from AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa in 2013 were over a million as well.

If we’re going to throw a load of resources at fighting disease in Africa, they might want to look at some of those.

yes because there has hardly been any research into aids, malaria or tb. I don’t even think there are any kind of precautions anyone can take against these nor treatments if you do catch one of them 😕

Cheers all looks like I’ll be sorting that tonight and as said any amount I can transfer is less I have to pay interest on.

The almost comical catalogue of errors in the Dallas case really makes you think how easily this could spread now that a kind of saturation point of victims has been exceeded in the original case countries. Just need a few ill people to slip through and end up ill in a normal hospital ward after telling fibs about where they have been and potentially infecting many hospital staff.

wilburt – Member
Any pan can be a chip pan, just put oil and chips in it.

Just like you put toast in a toaster;)

No bike is perfect all the time but I know I’m faster on any particular route on my cx due to faster climbing and flat out speed. Fatty is the only bike I think of taking out though, had it almost 2yrs and I can count on one hand the rides on other bikes in that time.

I suspect it’s to read the billions of texts and emails they intercept everyday.
Can you imagine having to read a never ending stream of poorly informed opinion from a bunch of beardy blokes.

If you get accepted you’ll get paid for it instead of doing it in here for free;)

99p A4 plastic document holder cut into a giant mucky nutz shape. Works well enough.

What a great story

Just watching life and death row on bbc3, that and life in solitary on bbc2 Sunday has been some of the grimest but interesting programmes ever.
Think I’ll watch the mall on catchup another night

Audi have had a similar sales slump. Interesting.

I’m in Scotland so it isn’t on till 00.20, this is obviously salmonds fault. Or browns.
I’m not sure I haven’t watched the news in a few days.

The devils staircase – ciarnan loop should be doable in 6hr with a nice lunch in KLL, navigation is also straightforward.
No matter how grim you feel cycling back by road and missing the return descent would be criminal. And cycling the road takes the same time.