The whole thing is quite a lot thinner when:-

– You live with a Vet (free checkups, trade on any equipment and drugs used, free/trade food from reps)
– The dog has a massive fan club who are falling over each other to look after it on holidays.

Walks every day is not a chore, I love doing it even in nasty weather.

The wall at Inners received similar treatment this year. Pics, and response from the FC can be viewed at the following: http://s2.excoboard.com/exco/thread.php?forumid=49727&threadid=2046860

I did have some GoreTex walking shoes and the waterproofing lasted less than a year.

It's a membrane, it'll never lose it'w waterproofness. What likely happened was that parts of the shoe structure that permeate all the layers (stitching) lost their DWP (Durable Water Repellent) coating.

The other thing to note is that Gortex has now lost the patent or the patent has now ran out so other companies can now make the fabric and improve on it, ie Endura, their new fabric is basically a copy of Gortex but its much more breathable

Gore only patented the generalised technique for creating the *tex fabric. The actual manufacture process is a closely guarded secret.

Crewlie – The EUCC are a good bunch, have been riding skills rides etc for beginners recently. Definitely get her to look them up.

Always found the ERC to be a bit too big and horrendously cleaky.

They're not safe.

Sell me yours for £5 and I shall dispose of it in an appropriate manner.

http://cashforbikes.com

Used those same innertubes from CRC.

As for the Stans nozzle thing, cut it just enough so it fits tightly over the valve. Then without the core, use it as a funnel, pouring the fluid into it from the measure cup.

Has anyone contacted the ranger centre about this? The track is well used, and is indeed mapped on an OS map.

Use artists latex diluted 50/50 with water in my ghetto setup. Seems to do the job OK.

Maybe if they lost weight they could chase the abusers and give them a good thumping. Oh wait…

Latest Ubuntu out today, now even more user friendly apparently. Wireless works out of the box etc without any fiddling these days.

Last release was pretty good, my mum uses it, so it must be good.

Richmars – Any chance of more info on your power monitoring setup? I have a E-on monitor and a ethernet <-> USB adapter for it, but never got round to setting up a monitoring server.

A while ago I came to realise that posers are AMAZING for our sport;

– They increase the numbers in our sport.
– They spend shed loads of money making sponsorship for our athletes a more palatable experience for manufacturers and suppliers.
– The high end kit they buy will encourage manufacturers to trickle down the good stuff for the rest of us sooner.
– They find out what's good and what's not as they buy it first, so we know what to buy a few months down the line.
– They inevitably sell off last month's kit to buy this month's kit, so we can pick it up a bit cheaper.

I honestly struggle to see the downside of anyone who spends lots of money on bikes.

A slightly more hardcore option is to create a separate partition for the pagefile. I used to keep a 10GB partition just for pagefiles and photoshop scratch files.

Our 12yo Springer passed a month or so back. He was a fantastic dog, full of energy but super obedient at the same time.

How was he on the lead? Pulled like a nutter with me, though the SO could get him to walk at heel.

Got a GWP puppy now, still working on the training.

25 rear, 20 front. Up 5psi on both ends if the course is particularly rocky.

Near (Early December) 4yo Pro II still going strong. Love the noise. As said already, bearings don't last as long as XC, but still a year of wet riding out of them.

XTR has a few cogs in titanium which reduce the weight, but will wear out faster because titanium is softer than steel

What are you smoking? The XTR lasts longer because of the Ti cogs. Ti wears slower than steel. If it didn't, we'd have titanium brake rotors (for the rich, admittedly).

XTR 970 outlasts XT 770 by 2x for me anyway. Run the same cassette for two race seasons, might even run it for a bit of next season.

If you can afford it, go for it.

IRC Mythos. Design must be about 15yo now, still an awesome all-round tyre.

Did this in our old flat (turned images upside down for anyone not in our trusted list): http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html

At least that lad picks up his elastic bands.

My (admittedly small) parcel contracts have all gone to HDN recently. 1/3 of the price, and I can rely on them getting to their destination.

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Definitely.

And it's why I have a 2010 Top Fuel 9.9 on order

Good choice sir!

Frame – MSC Koncept Carbon (Fox Float RP23, some team-only custom mods)
Forks – Rock Shox SID Race
Shifters – M970 XTR
Rear Mech – M970 XTR (Rapid Rise)
Front Mech – M970 XTR
Crankset – M970 XTR
Casette – M970 XTR
Chain – SRAM PC990 Hollowpin.
Grips – MSC Foam
Bars – Easton EC90 Monkeylight SL
Stem – Race Face Deus XC
Headset – MSC with carbon spacers
Saddle – Selle Italia SLR
Seatpost – MSC Carbon Ultralight w. Ti head and fixtures.
Brakes – Avid Juicy Ultimate w. Hope floating rotors (round, not sawtooth).
Wheels – American Classic hubs, Stan's ZTR Olympic rims, DT Swiss Revolution Spokes.
Skewers – Hope Ti (MKIII, ones that actually work well)
Pedals – Crank Brothers Candy SL
Tyres – Maxxis eXCeption (various models)
Cables – XTR

ferrit – Thought you were signed up to do it this year?

I'm sure New Scientist and Slashdot.com, would both very interested in getting hold of you Mr Whoppit, and finding more about the directionality of conductors. Contact for both are below, best be quick though, before someone else pips you to picking up that Nobel Prize for Physics with your name on it.

http://slashdot.org/submission

http://www.newscientist.com/contact/us

Best take some KY.

Arthurs Seat as an alternative? Nice easy little hill with some fun (optional) scrambles.

The jealousy of some people!

'tis a real pic, one of a few from a Vanity Fair shoot.

SNAP!

I am a red head, and the people unliking ginger a predigest, if some one was predigest about the colour of someones skin would be racist.

What I really hate is folk who can't spell.

which foot this time?

This foot: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6266846/Royal-Mail-accused-of-misleading-customers-with-Sorry-you-were-out-cards.html

Sack the lazy sods!

Coleman – Orange and black TCX looks lovely, especially with matching tape.

Looks like the crash and/or poor grace caused the flat, not the other way round.

Bikes are looking a bit fat boys….

Tough to see past something like a Mavic Kysrium Elite. Super strong, super reliable hubs, sealed spoke bed (tubeless with just a valve and some gunk). I think the cheaper Kysrium Equipe may also have the sealed spoke bed, not 100% sure on that though.

Microsoft labs do release some incredible stuff. None of it makes it to production, but it keeps them in the press.

Apple on the other hand, do nothing, release few hints about future products, but when they do release stuff, it tends to be awesome that real-world MS products just can't touch.

Only really done the carpark test on one, seemed dead stiff, no rear-triangle deflection when pushing foot against side of BB.

Mud clearance is pretty good, could get fingers past a 2.4 Advantage FR (I think that's what it was).

Internal routing is the same as my Koncept, done using either a full run of outer through a tube, or with stops and a similar internal tube. Basically there's no way routing can go wrong.

140mm is what comes on them, I suspect it would go bigger.

I know of one in the Tweed valley, a phone call to I-Cycles in Inners would probably bag you a look-see. The 2010 one looks amazing (as does the ally one):

Hope that's some help.

(Disclosure – I ride for MSC)

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Speaking personally, by wearing my rapha tweed-effect cap under a peakless helmet. Not only does this shade my eyes, it makes me look particularly masculine.

I think the word you're looking for is '****t'.

Peaks and Rapha, don't do it kids!

What happen when you pinch flat a tubeless tyre?

A pinch is when the tube gets nipped between the tyre and the rim. With no tube, this just isn't going to happen.

What happen when the bead pop out of the lip on the rim?

You lose some or all of the air out of the tyre. If you're running tubes, the tube is going to come out and probably blow itself to bits.

what happen when you tear the side wall?

You patch the sidewall as you would with a tubed setup, and stick a tube in. When you get home you can do a neat patch and go back to tubeless.

what happen when you get a sharp rock to go through the tyre?

See above.

BigDummy – Best experienced with good headphones IMO.

Not a great review of the new book… http://www.keepingthedoor.com/2009/08/21/new-hitchhikers-guide-book-not-very-funny/