cheers

your google powers are stronger than mine

that does seem to be harrogate, otley and skipton then :(

anyone know of any others?

well unless phil and paul have been talking rubbish all these years then its all about a suitcase of courage to do a job of work being a mountainbiker makes you a good descender.

you wont be living in oldham…

Yeah but in true SRAM style it will be pittance to bike companies as OEM so we are looking a full hydraulics on 1500-1600k cross bikes for next year I reckon.

Excited excited

Always found superstar pads absolutely fine but there new website is sloooooooow.

However, in the past their pads (and subsequent customer service) have let a number of people down so they have baggage on here.

It does looks good this. I’ve been up there with snow in July, it could be a genuine adventure.

disclaimer: actual weather may not match that illustrated :-)

heard this trailed. This is terribly comendable and terribly sad all at the same time. :?

As they told me when I went back for my meetings, they’ve had people working til very late at night… & having to cancel days off.

There is so much wrong with that logic. If not bs. They can’t have it both ways. You can’t be so important the organisation and sackable at same time. And anyway that’s their management issue, they can’t drive you out with stress and then blame you for the implications. How they maintained morale and productivity whilst you were there is their lookout.

Good luck. Sometimes companies/organisations are just crap and so crap the normal rules (logic, gravity) get lost in weird organisational cultures. It’s important to remember that sometimes everyone else can be wrong and you can be right. You are out which is part of the answer, no take the above advice and get some expert advice. After 17yrs it might be hard to see but other companies are out there with different cultures.

Ps sounds like you’ve been made the scapegoat for a systems failure to me.

northern end: the calf and swaledale on the mountainbike.

southern end: mastiles lane and surrounds on the cross bike

I think they came up with the thin blue line (for exmaple) all by their own when they were still adidas. I think its beautiful that Rapha and Sky have now found each other. :-)

No rices cakes? wheres the rice cakes!! i want rice cakes otherwise i cant be Chris Froome!!! :D

Other teams have done this before, I think CNP used to have a tie in with Cervelo test team, but i dont think they quite match Sky’s pretentious pofaced self regard. good old sky.

To volunteer as marshal I just mailed the organisers. Email address on their website.

Thanks

To folks who have marshalled previous years how does one go about volunteering?

Began mid seventies and fanned by fatcha during the first boom in the 80s when we were sold the neoliberal dream of a home owning democracy.

It wasa mix of factors, we inflated ourselves out of recession in the 70s (prices and wages) houses went up most whilst mortgages repayments shrank relatively. Your parents generation or a bit older thought this house owning marlarky was a win win.

Espically when in the late 80s early 90s negative equity fell proved only to be a passing issue and the effects of new houebuilding falling off a cliff as fatcha stopped council house building began to be felt in prices due to reduced supply meant that for those who could afford it house owning is fantastic investment as we as a country are in too deep to property inflation fuelled economic growth. Even in the last recession we didn’t get a real correction because its too important not to have one. we bailed out the banks. All our pension companies own land, property and have shares in housebuilders. We now all depend on it.

Alternatively, spray the creaky bits with either GT85 or superglue!

:lol: engineering solution

Have you tried hitting it? And then hitting it harder?

I found sag bel air very similar to a spoon, is there a thin version of the sdg?

I expected to click that and go mutter curse grumble… But that ATAT walker is hilarious!

Don’t know about the Boone but the trek crockett does look a sorted bike. Doesn’t set the heart racing as it’s a Bit dull in the flesh, looks better in photos, but they’ve got the important things right, clearance looks very good with no bridges. Geometry is nu Skool US, whether that makes a difference in real life I have no idea :-)

I rode a very muddy race last week. Even with v brakes the worse area was around the crank and jockey wheels. The clearance on the kinesis looks a bit crap! this led me to look at the pickenflick.

Bum. That might be off my list. I wonder how long before we get mtb crank spacing on cross frames for this reason. 29er space with 32c tyre heavenly.

Problem is those who take cross seriously solve it with two bikes and a jet wash.

they say only race what you can afford to replace.

i struggle to see past an kinesis alu pro6 when looking at racing frames, just seems sorted in terms of features, clearance and affordability. i worry about the top tube – bar interface on carbon frames in the inevitable crash.

xls looks lovely esp. in the flanders colours but it has a big mudshelf on the bottom bracket.

Please google French randonneurs, rough stuff fellowship, Tom ritcheys first bike, Geoff apps. Etc etc.

Pace RC200, in red. thread closed :-)

Do it properly and get a T5 :-)

The evidence for it working is contested and on balance the advice is normal protein, normal fat and high carbs to fuel you to do even more exercise=get faster.

But if you must the best fat burning rides are looooooong moderate intensity rides without fueling. Too fast and your body needs carbs and eats its own muscles to get them.

From experience tar and chips on car. Not fussed. Tar on road bike however, absolute bitch.

Fair enough. What’s the point in swapping for tyres then? :lol:

Bit confused. Do you need a a tyre for100% road or a bit of both? If 100 then any fast road tub. If not something with a file tread like clement LAS but I’d be surprised if even that is not slower than a land cruiser?

It’s 30th/1st June midnight I thought, but it’s a lottery isn’t it? So no point staying up

The manufacturers of my spd shoes thought to build reflective material into the design of my shoes do this is never an issue. As the manufacturer doesn’t only supply me, others must have benefited form this thoughtful additon also?

charge ready made wheels on ebay. very cheap.

folks on mtbr are all over duallys. Most of them are running 2.4/2.5 ardents, racing ralphs and the like and they havent died.

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/caring/listing/listed-buildings/how-do-buildings-become-listed/

(yeah yeah its the english heritage, scottish system is the same but different i i dont know where that lives on the internet)

youre right in a way, buildings are valued for a range of different things, the point youre missing is that GSA IS pretty high up them all for it to be grade A. e.g. political importance is proved by the fact restoration has already become a football between westminster and holyrood.

Hard to go wrong with Bonty mud x

I found schwalbe dirty dans even better but they are pricy.

Barcelona, home to Guadi, is outweighed by a Glasgow Arts and Crafts building.

Sorry, but I just can’t see that.

See Sagrada Familia

Blurty believe it. The asymmetry, the way exterior was subservient to the needs of the interior, use of glass and light, reduction of decoration. Revolutionary and forms a link to skyscraper building in North America and early modernism. [/pretentious]

probably one of the most architecturally important buildings in Glasgow.

Probably in western architecture.

Bum. :(

I keep trying to tell myself it’s only a building but it’s not is it? It’s the Glasgow school of art. Why did it have to be that. It’s like a bad joke. Gutted. I feel for the students, but the building! Bencoopers picture broke my heart.

Edit: epicyclo that’s the point, the contents, he did everything, not just facade. So rooms, doors, furniture, murals that’s all gone.

Black.

I had this a few months and could not get to the bottom of what’s in the rc at all. Only a few American websites have any crumbs of info. I saw one somewhere else at a good price and I accepted it would be OEM/grey import so thought ill have that but ask SRAM to clarify whats in them, and they said rc’s are not available in uk/aftermarket or some such almost to the point of refusing they exist. Wouldn’t me what damper it was. Didn’t fancy buying any after that.

It’s like a UKIP mountainbike :-)