Battery on my original iPhone worked well for about two years, then took a distinct dive in the last six months I had it. Applecare will not cover you for this as it is wear-and-tear. They do however offer a replacement service which is about £60.

http://www.apple.com/uk/support/iphone/service/battery/

My issue 62 is still AWOL. Hopefully it’ll turn up just as I run out of reading material from Christmas.

OP – What point are you trying to make, it’s hard to tell.

The mandatory equipment list has now been updated.

You are so right, you site is a much better example of what can be done………

Maybe I should pay to get it done, seeing as I’m a software engineer and not a designer. On the other hand, maybe I’ll leave it as it is because I don’t care.

less downtime than Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook.

Hardly good examples.

Maybe you should have had the site ‘redesigned’ for more than £600…

A few manufacturers do clamps specifically for oval rails. USE come to mind, as I bought one a few years back.

Yes. http://www.drumlanrig.com/default.asp?PageId=39

stopping distance at 80 about 120 metres 200 metre visibility sounds plenty

And if you are overtaking there is also the stopping distance of oncoming cars.

A68 doesn’t have a great safety record. Good fun to drive in the right conditions. Always get annoyed by folks doing 30 round bends then 70 on the straights, means you get held up for all the fun parts.

200m visibility? Best taking it easy methinks.

John Lewis had Jenga and their own brand one in on Monday when I looked. Own-brand traditional toys like that are great, really well made and finished.

Nearly 30lbs? Repost when it has the expected seven inches of travel at both ends.

Lemon + Legend = Lemond

No?

Godo for technique, not that useful for power workouts.

Bikeradar had a good piece on the differences the other day. http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/article/training-how-to-ride-on-rollers-28631

You need to run some sort of chain guide or just a front mech with the adjuster screws set. I can recommend the MRP X-1.

Rons should be fine for any round that’s not wet, Dave Henderson used them at the dry rounds.

Had a walk in Blairadam yesterday, it’s a bit of an iced-snow disaster for riding, those some folks were out.

We’ve had only two pieces of mail in nearly three weeks now. Combination of weather and Christmas must be killing the delivery industry. No doubt the lazy sods will go on strike with the mail still piled up in warehouses.

These wheels:

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/industry-nine-wheelset-on-new-stans-arch-rims-qr-rear-15mm-front

Considering what they are, £350 even if you have to pay £70 for new bearings seems reasonable. Fine to me means the wheels go round. It also sounds like it took the shop to notice the bearings being rough, and wanting to make more money out of you, showed you the tiny amount of roughness in them.

On the other hand, I wouldn’t touch i9 wheels with a bargepole. Ordinary spokes over here please!

Not got mine. Maybe the Edinburgh office has 100s of copies hiding in there.

LOL – you’re all so poor.

No wonder folk on here are always whinging about the cost of XTR

Are TheBikeChain is raising standards in the area of shop-monkey wages?

Had one letter in two weeks in North Queensferry. Have a fair few parcels lost in the ether.

trails frozen solid so plenty grip and fast rolling

It’s a man made trail, they are always going to have plenty of grip and be fast rolling.

The one ‘flaw’ with the Pro 2 is that to accommodate the larger axle sizes, the bearing are tiny even if you run a standard 10mm QR axle. That’s a hard problem to solve without using spacers in the bearing seats when running large-axles. I am running a Pro 2 from the first production run in late ’05, the two bearings that sit at the body/freehub interface need replaced every few months, the others are fine.

What is a Pro 3 style bearing?

M770:

M – Mountainbike
7 – Range, in this case XT.
7 – Vintage, in this case the 7th update of XT.
2 – Sub-model, in this case a shadow mech.

M770 is the rapid rise mech.
M771 is the standard rise mech.

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Nevermind.

now you lot make sure you keep warm, you don’t want to be catching a cold before Chrimbo now do you?

You’ll be the one with lowered immune on the way back breathing recirculated air that has been breathed by all the ill folk on the plane.

Don’t by the Ferrari if you can’t afford the tyres.

Makes a good climb descent on the south side. North side must be one of the most boring climbs anywhere.

So, in summary, England is completely devoid of trails worthy of being favourites?

Beagleboy – The two trails you describe in your last paragraph are incredible, love them both.

hilly terrain

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

no flies on oakley’s product placement. the mineros are all coming out wearing radars (unless they’re standard issue in mining…!)

I wondered about this too. Oakley donated the glasses to fill the need for 100% UV filtration to prevent retina damage on surface. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/chile/8049884/Chile-miners-sunglasses-men-will-wear-to-see-the-light.html

What’s the worst part about owning a New Mini? Telling your parents you’re gay.

And now you can be gay*, and go offroad!

*Women and estate agents excepted.

That’s a doo, no a coo.

Crispin – The anti-racing rhetoric was tiring almost a decade ago! Avoid the race, ride at your leisure. Jobs a good ‘un.

Think I might miss this in favour of ‘cross at Strathclyde country park, or a hillclimb, or visiting folks down south. Tough life.

Hairy Coo is one of these:

how would he know this, and how could he pinpoint what meal caused it?

These guys live a very controlled and recorded life. That meat would be the only thing not ‘normal’ the day before the +ve, compared to his diet for the rest of the three weeks.

Clenbuterol is one of the most easily detected things out there, as someone has already said it would be a massive error on the part of a doper or their doping-management to have them take it.

It appears as a contaminant in a lot of food supplements, one of the articles on Cylingnews covers this pretty well. There is also past examples of athletes being banned for Clenbuterol use, then finding traces of it in their supplements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Hardy

I’m not a huge Contador fan, but I do think it is a shame what appears to be a possible accident (even by the admission of the UCI press statement) is being aired so publicly.

Simpsons really got back into it’s stride during seasons 20 and 21. Last night’s first episode of season 22 wasn’t that great mind.

First lego set, for what was my 5th birthday:

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Our standard chess set:

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Bought this when it came out two years ago, great fun:

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