Update your Tomtom to the latest navcore and map[/url]. Just done a old One XL which now has the latest 865 Western Europe maps, bluetooth connectivity, IQ routes, HD Traffic (via bluetooth and phone or RDS-TMC receiver), lane guidance etc. The only thing missing is the voice control as my unit doesn’t have a microphone.

if you dont mind lugging a tank around!

If you don’t mind riding something that won’t break when you get things wrong.

09 Glory 0

Plenty of decent tracks within 25 miles never mind the rest of N Wales/Pearce tracks.

Mail me.

In Wxm.

Obviously the people you have heard from can’t find the good stuff at Delamere.

3 in 1 here with a small bottle of wet lube in the camelback for monsoon days. As I use KMC X9’s bought for just over a tenner on ebay. They tend to last at least a year each before failing the chainwear tool test.

£5 a bottle for bike specific lube lasting 6 months would cost me just as much if not more than the chains they are protecting 8O

Big can of 3 in 1 for £2 nearly empty after 5 years.

Even if you believed the hype and the lube doubled the service life of a chain it would still work out dearer.

Live to work or work to live.

Live! Bristol with it’s decent local XC riding, AM within an hour across the bridge and both the WDMBA and Pearce DH series within easy striking distance or Brighton with reasonable trail riding plus allowing you to knock a couple of hours off the annual Alps commute?

Work! Brighton has the slightly better job, Bristol pays more.

Watched it without audio out of curiosity. Got to the end and saw what track it was so played it again whilst typing this. Off to play the rest of the album again, cheers.

Got to be tapered?

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=49298

Coil Judy’s were rubbish with no damping whatsoever. Comparing modern mid level coil forks to your experience of Judy’s is like comparing a new 3 bed semi to a cave.

I drive people round the bend.

Ideally the referendum would be an AV format vote with FPTP, AV and PR being the options allowing all those inc myself that want PR a chance to register their preference before voting AV. No matter what your intentions, a no vote to AV will be seen as a vote to keep FPTP. England is so ingrained in the 2 party system that PR is too alien atm.

Give it a few decades of AV and coalition politics and views will change one way or another. The key though is to get AV, however flawed, now which will then let the electorate vote their true intentions before a compromised tactical one.

It would be interesting to see the regional breakdown of votes cast in a 3 way FPTP/AV/PR referendum within the Union to see how the forms of PR already in use in regional government/assembly are perceived.

Put it in a hockey bag[/url] then it’s just luggage ;)

When I’m doing rail replacement I will take no more than two unbagged clean bikes with wheels off if I’m pretty sure I won’t get too busy and on the understanding that they will need moving if a wheelchair user boards further down the line. Wheels off so they don’t fall over and can be easily repositioned between seats. Dirty bikes leave you open to all sorts of laundry claims. Bagged bikes are fine as long as the walkway and exits remain clear.

Won’t take them at all on urban service routes but I will take them bagged on the longer Trawscambria service.

no, stay centered on the steep as you would the flat. land both wheels together never rear!

What I was trying to say.

what has this got to do with this topic?

Exactly what the post said about forward weight shift into the downslope before the drop and no more.
Attempting to help TheBrick visualize how to perform a steep down to down drop using an existing point of reference. Usually quite an effective teaching method.

Watch the forward weight shift as he rides into the quarterpipe.

If your off the brakes then your weight should be pretty central on the bike rather than off the back. Think of skiers, they don’t stand vertical whilst skiing down steep slopes. Bikers only do this to counter the braking forces. No brakes = no forces trying to put you over the bars. Think of a BMX rider dropping into and then riding a halfpipe, they don’t have their arses over the rear wheel. Their weight is nicely centered on the bike.

Once you are riding the steep run in correctly the drop becomes easy. If you need to control your speed on the run in then by all means move your weight back whilst braking but make sure you bring your weight back forward and release the brakes as you commit to the drop.

Drop him a mail. I’m sure he will be able to work it out/tell you what happened.

“Talk to me about.” Discuss.

I’m still waiting for Paul to send me some routes

Who do you think he will be getting the routes off ;) I’ll also try to get a date for a CYB excursion sorted with Paul for sometime this summer.

Loads of off piste in the area. Some of the best is covered by the following routes although there is loads of other stuff as well.

Heiffer Evolved GPX (Most up to date version of the old Pink Heiffer)Right click and save.

Pink Beasty GPX Starting from the lower carpark at Ganllwyd with a couple of DH grade descents towards the end.

Who gives a toss about Flash on a mobile devise?

Lack of Flash support is mostly a non issue.

There are plenty of people who are unwilling to put up without flash for one reason or another.

I can’t play Virtual Regatta on the iPad/iPhone as it’s flash based. I need to be able to access the game at any time of the day which rules out apple solutions. 3g reception in our canteen is also pretty poor on the iphone/pad but for some reason the lads with HTC’s don’t seem to have a problem even with the same networks. However good the interface is the product is next to useless if you can’t get a connection leaving you with a glorified media player.

Made one out of the inner part of a chainring bolt to act as the cable stop and some a little tube to keep it in line with the stop. No pics sorry as the frame has moved on.

Those forces retreating West from Sirte will almost certainly be identified as being a threat to civilians in Misurata.

There a more gentle XC track that starts from the trig point then goes further west crossing the DH tracks, it looked nice and flowy from the uplift landrover.

So, is that the next Middle East War now in progress

Not unless theyve moved Libya to the other side of the Gulf of Suez.

I don’t use GPX. Any chance of a description of those routes so I can plot them on OS, or maybe even a link to a map of the route?

Right click and save to your computer then drag and drop into Google Earth to see where they go.

Pont Scethin and the Mawddach Estuary GPX
Wayfarer and Ceiriog Valley GPX
Rhayader Miners Track/Roman Camp/Golf Course GPX
Dyfi Forest

Always wanted one of these.

More realisically and not really a car but it would be my only vehicle.

That’s the one Elmo

Watch out for the thorns everyone…….pssssssssssssssst!

IIRC it took us almost an hour to ride the following mile as everyone fixed flats that were going down at different rates. Someone literally ‘lost’ a chain and as for the idiot who tried to use water as their fork spring medium. :shakeshead:

As far as I know, there is still a TRO on a section of it due to water damage, so you shouldn’t meet many cars up there.

Big difference between shouldn’t and won’t. Seen a few the last couple of times we have been up that way.

From Cynwyd ride over to llanarmon DC. Then turn south and follow lane until it turns to footpath on map – it’s not, been upgraded to permissive bridleway.

Definitely the best Wayfarer route IMO although being Wrexham based I tend to start/finish in Llanarmon DC.

Then over the ridge between bronwen and berwyn and a 2 hugely fun bridleway descents choices lay in front of you.

At this time of year definitely choose the northern of the two over Moel Pearce.

For a killer loop, add in the section of the Upper Ceiriog Way heading north out of Llanarmon DC before dropping down the track to Pandy or Glyn Ceiriog depending on how long you’ve got left. Head back on the road or via the trails on the east side of the valley. GPX

The only working quarry left on that hill is the big opencast one on Manod Mawr. Everything else has been closed for decades.

Ridden it, it’s a great way over to Manod. Let them sue you for damages to the hardpack doubletrack up to Rhiw Bach quarry and then hardpack slate incline from Rhiw Bach up to Blaen Y Cwm at the top.

Every 4-6 weeks atm to free everything up. Was every week straight after my accident 19 months ago. Exercises tick.

Silky smooth on a HT pmsl

Go for it Suggsey, just stop regularly to let your legs recover. Bunny has cleaned it all on her Chameleon including the hard as nails ‘Mordor’ section at the bottom. I can’t fully commit to it yet but hopefully I’ll get it in the next couple of years.

Done.

Sedbergh/Calf/Bowderdale out and back IMO. Turn around when Bowderdale stops being fun. The blast back down to Sedburgh at the end gets stupid fast in places.

Anyone make a rubber coated filter ring with no glass to protect the end of the lens body from damage?

Your right, WELSH MTB is definitely worth shouting about.