Not a hit and run. Taxi that he collided with stopped at the scene.

Same problem as the Trans-Scotland. Awesome event, but the organiser coming all the way from Wales costs a lot of money.

2013 Marathon Champs are Builth Wells IIRC.

They’re all the same. I’ve replaced Centaur and Veloce lever bodies with those from Mirage and Xenon. Same really crap looking plastic composite.

couldn’t find out if it was n or N on the BT site

There’s no difference, though the official designation is n, as in IEEE 802.11n.

Had Infinity installed last month, looks like we got a Homehub 3, which supports wireless-N, the fastest that most devices (Macs, iPhones, iPads, decent PCs) support.

@dogbert – The advent calendars are usually £20. As soon as people start panicking about getting them the price rockets on Amazon and Ebay.

If you’re going to report stupid rumours from Twitter, at least go the effort of not posting the short URL!

Not surprising really. When I was a kid the area was well known for post-crime dumping of cars and bodies.

I-Cycles in Innerleithen are a dealer.

In two years our daft pointer has had three major incidents due to crashing about: broken ribs, inhaled grass seeds, and puncturing her retina with a thorn. Luckily she is insured.

All these stupid vets bills, are they only this high as vets know that most loving owners will have insurance?

No, that’s just how much it costs. Becoming a vet means being an A+ student at school, then spending five years working pretty hard to get a degree. Despite the apparently high vets bills, the wages are still pretty crappy.

I think you’d be pretty shocked if you saw how much treatment for people costs if it wasn’t hidden by the NHS.

Why do people just sprout shite without checking on it? Diesel and petrol duties are exactly the same in the UK.

From Wikipedia:

From 23 March 2011 the UK duty rate for the road fuels unleaded petrol, diesel, biodiesel and bioethanol is GB£0.5795 per litre

I could fill my car up three times for £128.9!

Inspired now make a replica of Danny’s bike:

http://www.inspiredbicycles.com/inspired_skye_bike_p33.php

Nevermind.

As pointed out the tyres are bogging, get those off ASAP.

The saddle needs adjusted, no-where near level.

Was the rear brake hose too short to route it properly? I don’t remember seeing these bikes with the hose going straight from the bottle cage boss area to the chainstays.

It’s all in the details!

27mm? Why not get the proper imperial socket? Make sure the new socket is flat-drive, that way you won’t risk rounding off the corners.

Another GWP:

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Mental, but lots of fun.

to be fair to the op I sympathise – he’s had os upgrades forced on him & now doesn’t have the functionality he had before the upgrades without paying out more money for the latest version.

This functionality did not exist before. He’s not lost anything, just whining about spending £10 to add a new feature to the £1500+ he’s already spent.

I’ve had great success with all-flavours of Maxxis run tubeless. They take a while to seal completely on Ksyriums, but once on there they’re perfect.

More clues:

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s/tool/tube

I always carry a proper tool, and a £4.99 pump that I’ve had for about a decade now.

On the rare occasions where I do puncture tubeless, having a proper tube (rather than a thin/lightweight one) has meant I’m less likely to puncture again.

The pump is also a reliability thing. I know it will pump my tyre up. No worrying about wasting gas or the tyre going down again and needing a topup.

they just make sure that gel wrappers have a riders number on them.

Rider name on the gels at point of purchase? 8O

No error. There are two Apple stores in Glasgow: Buchanan Street and Braehead

WTF do weegies need two Apple Stores for?

Cmon Apple, get your finger out and open the Princes Street store.

another Glasgow Apple store

That was your error: there only is one Apple Store.

I’m guessing the second time you took it to iRepair or somewhere similar?

Getting two free logic boards seems pretty good, especially when last year they refused to replace mine even when my machine was within a serial number range for a GPU issue.

Im fed up with lockouts that dont ie – Reba SL & Team leaving and inch of travel and lockouts that dont unlock at the first sign of mud.

The floodgate should have enough adjustment that the forks have no movement when locked out. If they don’t, then there isn’t enough oil in the damper.

I run one on the front all year round, sometimes even racing too if it’s too wet for Aspens.

Loads of grip, very predictable tyre when it drifts and slides in the proper wet stuff.

Oh and I managed nine days out of the new XTR vented sintered pads. Not sure if that’s good or bad but the resin ones without the vents seemed to be the longer lasting option in a mix of wet and dry riding. Think I’ll be sticking to the latter in future.

Resin pads last silly-long, I’ve not actually managed to wear any out yet, keep replacing them for races due to contamination. Will clean them and stick them back in eventually.

Wotans and a CB BB? What have you done with the real Sanny?

NEWSFLASH! – YUMEYA HAS BEEN DEPRECATED FOR THE PURPOSES OF TRAIL CENTRE POSING!

PLEASE UPGRADE TO XTR M980 IMMEDIATELY!

The electrons in an atom are not subject to the same macro-scale physics that bodies such as planets are. You start to get into Quantum Mechanics when you get to sub-atom small.

The electrons have no defined speed of rotation, though it is proportional to the temperature. An atom at absolute zero would have stationary electrons.

If you believe in Heat Death of the Universe [1], then yes, eventually the electrons would stop moving as would everything.

EDIT – Forgot to say, you can’t measure the velocity of the electrons without interfering with them Schrödinger’s cat and all that.

[1] – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

Your forks should bottom out a couple of times on a ride/race. Nothing to worry about.

A DH racer I sometimes ride with told me if he doesn’t bottom out his forks on a practice run, he keeps dropping the pressure till they do. The same logic can be applied to XC, though most people set and forget.

It tickles me how fussy xc riders are about their bikes and kit, but when they’re racing they treat them like ****.

I’m fussy about what’s on the bike, and how it’s put together, so I can treat it like shit during a race and know it’s going to get me to the finish. Mechanicals are something that happens to the unprepared.

Anyway, here’s Katy Winton, a 17yo girl riding that drop yesterday.

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Lots of Lego Technic models.

I won’t tell how many of these I bought a few weeks back:

Ive seen a few cracked carbon frames at races, never seen a cracked alloy one. Go figure…

You don’t hang around at races very much. Everything snaps.

BB30 on my Jake the Snake, no problem over about 1000km so far. Certainly better than BB92 on my race bike which are lasting about 400km before needing replacing.

it’s not substantially different to a cassette tool after all

Have a go at using a cassette tool then. Remember to let us know how you get on.

How odd, I just posted a tweet a few minutes ago about my experience with press-fit BBs:

Shimano Press-Fit BBs. First one lasted 462km, second one lasted 414km. Wonder if I can glue a UN-72 in there?!?

Gimptards who wear replica team or TdF jerseys.

THIS!

Locally we have…

– A guy who commutes in full 2009 Euskadel-Euskadi kit.
– A guy who wears full British kit.
– And a guy who were’s full Paolo Bettinni – Quick Step – World Champs kit. Gloves, helmet, the works.

The first guy looks daft, but the other two are just being plain disrespectful.

And what difference paying an extra 29p is going to make on the other side?

If it’s only 29p, why not just pay it and STFU?

while you’re at it tell the major logistic companies, you know, DHL and TNT who charge by weight

They will all ask you for dimensions of a package when booking a collection, and charge accordingly.

Bone hard at the moment, would have thought the thundery showers promised in the next few days would struggle to really soften the ground all that much now

2006. Bone dry hardback for the entire week before. Rained for a few hours overnight, became worse than the Somme.

Oddly I’ve not been back since.

There is a hilariously sad picture of Matt Page pushing his completely jammed-up bike around, sums the whole thing up for me.