maybe they're just rebuilding it so you can hit it as a lefthander, for the numpty zoolanders amongst us.

Drop offs went after they realsied that it's a mite windy up there. Wallride was there last time I looked, and I still couldn't get it, but that was last year.

There's a particularly apt sign over my way which reads along the lines of:

Hartcliffe ->
Horseworld ->

Which, in that context, I always imagine to be some sort of skag-based theme park.

There are actually a few hundred getting around now – this is but a small portion – global domination will yet be mine

Hurry up and get the new frames in then, you've no idea quite how upsetting these threads are to me at the moment.

New cyclepath along airport road and some improvements to the crossings linking to the malago greenway. South of the river, though, so none of you clifton ponces would notice 😉

Weird. Is your axle slightly wider than the frame, or are the locknuts/cones set up so that one side of the axle is slightly proud of the dropout?

Couple of quick questions, if you don't mind? How tall are you and is that a 410 or 350 seatpost? (or whatever it is they come in)

Cheers

Damn you all.

None in stock yet… I have a box of bits and my little heart set on one of these.

Heh! Top work.

I can see that, its partly a recce jaunt I'm looking at.

As I'm a fat knacker and will be doing it on either a one gear clown bike or a tiny choppered out hardtail, pushing at some point is a given, so may as well go W-E.

Leigh woods? Bollocks.

Does skin so soft put the little buggers off?

Righto, Swift it is. I'm going to hold you lot responsible.

That's a novel combination of risers/flipped stem/spacers on that indy fab. Not quite sure of the logic there.

Swift, singular forks, 2nd hand on-one wheels, spares bin finishing kit is the rather more prosaic reality.

100mm stem about in the ballpark for a large?

Now if they did the salsa in jellybean..

'Aryan' in its pre-loony context refers to Iranians, broadly. As we all know a historically large number of Iranians moved towards and into the Subcontinent.

Obviously anyone of this background reading Mein Kampf without realising that the writer was a complete shortarse austrian nutter with chip on his shoulder might be given to think "Master race? Moi? Oh go on then".

Naturally such an individual would have to be mightilly ill-informed and rather hard of thinking, but in the context I feel this can be taken as read.

All of it. ALL OF IT.

eddyesi – it does, it really does. And I've had a Norco VPS, so I know a thing or two about ugly bikes.

The whyte is the nicest thus far, which adds a nice mirror symmetry to these threads.

Ooo, I rather like that. EBB or just geared? Anyone know what the bars are?

Yes, I do actually.

Oh really? What are they?

Bontrager Crivitz, 25 degree sweep.

Good Lord, well, there you go then. I see you have the same trouble with your trousers as I do.

Yes.

I've had it for about 20 years, but this year? Nada, nothing, zilch. No sneezeing, no itching, no burning skin, I can still smell things and I'm not at all dosed up on antihistamines.

Odd. Pleasing, but odd. Shame I'm still so bloody unfit really, otherwise I'd be flying up the hills.

A chemically burning smell of melting insulation. Something is shorting somewhere. Had this in my house and (ventually) traced it to a badly joined cable chased into a wall, halfway up.

Took it out, rejoined it, properly shrink wrapped it, all sorted, but the very bugger to locate.

The landowner will have been threatened with legal action and his insurance company will have panicked.

Fixed it, but otherwise right.

MTFU and get SPDs on there. Show some commitment.

I alwas have at least a 3 week layoff from MTBing before I go away skiing to avoid silly injuries, it just so happens I went skiing a lot this year. The gopping weather and agreeable levels of central heating at home had nothing to do with it.

Got any spare *ahem* 29er tyres? :ohtheshame:

I Can't Go Back to Savoury Now. Heartbreaking perfection.

Nice one. Thanks.

Scienceofficer – it's the same "enshrined, right not a licence" that we have the benefit of. If you are really careless about it, you can get done under animal welfare laws, though.

Seriously – a mineshaft?

Quantocks? S Wales? As if it's local and on a bit of singletrack I'd like to know where, with some degree of prescision, ideally.

I ride (in a clippety-cloppety stylee) down there from time to time and can attest that the bulk of horsey types are MTB friendly and good people to keep on-side.

From a horse-riders perspective as soon as anyone appears on the trail ahead down there you rein in, even if they're 500m away – safe braking distance is not really a concept you can apply to a moody horse on shared trails – so let 'em know you've seen them and that you will be slowing down in plenty of time, as that's what they have to do for everyone else, and everyone likes it when you're playing by the same rules.

If you're in a group doing a bit of (visible) self-marshalling and waving the guys up the hill to slow down or hang back will also get MTBers brownie points at no extra cost.

Bit niche if you ask me, can't see it being a popular choice.

There was that chap from IoM a while back on here, he's likely to know if he's still about? Name escapes me…

Complete halt, up on the back wheel, trials stylee hopping over them is the smartarse answer, though I only have the fittness and mad skillzors to do this over tiny, tiny logs on relatively flat sections. On a climb I just fall off and lie around gasping like a landed fish.

Might stop by the beer tent after a LW/50 acre pootle. There is a beer tent, right?

The IDF should simply nuke themselves. Deals with a lot of problems and would amount to a novel PR coup. Can't be any worse than the latest foot/uzi interface.

With the exception of an orange C16 that I ran with the original rigid forks for a couple of years, every single bike I've had since about 1992 has had longer forks than the frame allows. Though I've killed chainstays and downtubes from my idiosyncratic line choices, I'm yet to destroy a headtube.

Given that it's a Surly and therefore so dense that light bends around it, I reckon strength shouldn't be an issue.

None of the bikes on your list are Italian. A poor start.

1. Provenance: Has to be Italian, or at least have Italian kit on it. If you can't manage that then get one you've seen an Italian pro ride.

2. Paintwork: Must, ideally, be foul or irredeemably naff. Good examples are Colnago (frequently both foul and naff, horrible colours and the occasional F-14 fighter a la top gun), Pegoretti (Elvis and upchuck paintschemes) and Bianchi (in inexplicable shade a of colour not normally found in nature). If you do go Trans-Alpine and into the world at large it helps to have a bike that looks like it was designed by a colourblind Milaneese 4 year old in the dark, as this may fool people for long enough to let you get away with it. If you are French, Look and Time are acceptable.

3. Team Kit: Now, this is important. You can't go around in a pink Bianchi jersey on a Pinarello, you'll look like a right dog's breakfast. Consider what you are going to wear with the bike, this will help you narrow the field down from the start. If you do insist on wearing the jersey of a major team, make it one from several seasons ago, this gives you an air of seniority.

An old tube?

I use airport express and have had some problems. Installed Rouge Ameoba's Airfoil instead and it's much more stable. Has the added advantage that you can use it to stream internet radio/iplayer etc as well.

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'tis a ladies bike tootall. My gf has one because she's not tootall. Though not a 29er as that would be tootall.

Looks more like a cabbage tree to me.