“Giving up downhill to focus on XC is like giving up sex to get better at chat-up lines.” Someone on STW…

Love it.

Keith Bontrager: “Strong, Light, Cheap – Choose Two”

88: “Marriage, Weekend Riding, Happiness – Choose Two”

Yep, as mentioned just the short red/blue at the end(which actually has some nice swoopy bits).

You might not feel like riding straight down after you’ve done School Lane climb in the middle, but make sure you do the Hope Line a couple of times – it’s great fun. Though be careful on the jumps at the bottom, though lack of ability because they lined them up wrong I some people have had some big offs.

Thanks dknwhy, just as I suspected / feared. While I applaud your efforts I don’t think I’ll be doing the same. I guess I’ll just take the little cut out with me.

Ah well, at least trusty STW gives it to you in a nice straightforward download.

I’ve tried to do that, and followed VR’s help section. Where the button should be there are only two options, a greyed out button saying ‘Route owned’ and another button saying ‘Print to PDF’.

The route is called Betws-y-Coed, Wales (MBK303), but ideally I want to do it regularly so want to sort it out.

That ultra light cycling blog is the nuts.

I cycled through France last year and some of his nuggets of advice were invaluable.

Brilliant.

A ridiculous help device. No one wants to be shown up by an inanimate object.

Thanks Jamie. You’re like a wondering IT helper. Like that paperclip on Word. But less of a chippy little shit.

Oh, it looks like I’m trying to print a document does it? DOES IT!?

The comments below the line are painful.

One part of me thinks crikey, what a full lycra mess.

The other part of me thinks fair play for getting in the saddle and giving box hill a crack.

Nice one!

The old 26er has done me well. For the kit you get on it, there is nay better value to be had.

You’ve ballsed that up bud.

Btw, I’m a southerner who lives in Manc and I don’t know the Peak at all. If someone want to show me some routes one weekend I’d be very grateful.

Smashit – I’ve found not seeing people on trails can be quite deceiving. Both car parks at Gisburn were pretty full, yet, like you, I only saw two riders on what is quite a short (18km) bit for trail!

I would love to head out in the hills for two but I just don’t have that amount of time, so a few hours at a trail centre are my release. They shouldn’t be knocked. However, next time you go out I can come and ruin your peace and quiet if you like and you can show me what the Dales has to offer.

Bin the helmet for sure, before it gets mixed in with any other you have and you can’t remember which one you were wearing.

This definitely didn’t happen to me.

I’d give it at least a week. Sounds a lot, but the effects of a concussion can be latent.

Also, I’ve fallen off and not found the resulting cuts and bruises until the following day.

Thanks Alex. In which case, sorry Piemann. Unless you want to have a look anyway?

Ah, the Gift of Future Faff. That’s what the 4th Wiseman brought baby Jesus wasn’t it?

Changing tyres for where you ride is taking riding pushbikes too seriously

Is it? I mean I ride pretty tame trail centres (Degla, Gisburn) for the post part. But I tend to change tyres if its slopping wet and I’m at Inners. Am I taking myself too seriously?

For me tubeless isn’t about going fast it’s about not getting punctures

That’s what it would be about for me. Though I should balance that with the fact it takes about 5 mins to repair a puncture / change a tube.

I am, would after work suit best?

Can I apologise in advance if it’s not the right size?

It’s the original seat post from a 2012 Boardman FS pro if that helps?

Thanks Brassneck. I’ll pass in that case.

Mmmm….not sure I have to be honest. After I fitted my reverb post I put the post and a few bits and pieces in a plastic bag and popped it in the garage.

Sorry to bombard. I just realised I have a spare seat post and live on Deansgate if you need one Piemann?

Yea, HH was my other suggestion.

You could always go to the Bikerooms on Deansg….. sorry I can’t finish that sentence and keep a straight face.

That is unusual – they always seem well stocked when I go in. Can’t they whip one off one of the display bikes? :D

Thanks Houndslow, very interesting.

I have actually been dealing with the store manager. I think if things got silly I’d try and contact Rob Swyer, I know he’s a big cheerleader for customer service.

All in all things have been (pretty much) spot on so far.

Sorry Molgrips, that’s what happens when you don’t order the ‘Gold Service’

Doh. I meant brakes (though I have a feeling you already knew that)

What on earth is a Gold Service?

They use lotion and….oh hang on, I think it’s just ‘works’ – breaks, forks, transmission etc.

I was like, no ta let’s see what it looks like first!

What Mike said. Pinkbike, filter by location, price (put it up to £1500, people might be open to barter) and size and you’re away.

*Update Klaxon*

This thread may soon have run it’s course….

I rang today (I didn’t get the call back on Monday…), but alas, good news, the frame has arrived!

A helpful chap said he will hopefully build it today. He asked if I wanted a ‘Gold Service’ which, annoyingly, I turned down before asking if it was free.

I’m expecting a new frame, so the only thing that can go wrong now I guess is if they’ve just botched a repair on the old one….

Now, who’s interested in a Boardman FS frame? I’ve heard they’re absolutely bomb-proof….

Thanks Sam, much appreciated.

That’s the problem, when I go into the link and click save as, it doesn’t give GPX as an option

Nope, tried it on my phone.

Can anybody talk me through the steps of getting it onto an 800?

Imagine I have the IQ of a toddler…

Happy to be corrected on this, but in the quantities we’re talking I don’t think it’s helpful to call it an ‘insecticide’. When compared to alcohol it’s a fairly benign drug – slightly raises heart rate, restricts blood and is of course massively addictive. But again compared to alcohol, fairly mild.

If the vapour delivery system is even half as harmful as the tar filled death sticks I would suggest they are a good thing (btw, I think they’re much less that half as harmful)

I’m seeing more and more of those e-cigarette things. Personally, having done a little research (paper based – I don’t smoke and not tried either nicotine delivery system) I think they could hopefully marginalise cigarettes even more, with little or no negative health effects.

It’s hard to imagine MTBers are cool, but like everything it’s contextual: A few weekends back, elliptic and I were muscling along the The Quirang trail on Skye and were repeatedly greeted by groups of wide-eyed, beaming, dusky Spanish maidens, on holiday with their miserable, envious boyfriends. I cite this as evidence that in the right context, mountain bikers can be cool.

Ahhh yes, same thing happened to me last week. Only I wasn’t in Skye. I was in Atlantis. And I wasn’t on a bike. I was on unicorn.

Apart from that, exactly the same.

Agree with you Mike, I’d absolutely need to demo it.

‘Impossible to whip’ – That gave me a good laugh….Give me the most whipabble whippiest whip-machine, I still couldn’t whip it.

Wl – I will be copying and pasting that statement as part of my broader funds application.

Thanks Northwind, I was subconsciously trying to dismiss it. My first attempt at this was reasoning that it was just a list of top end components they’d just thrown together, an endure bingo if you will. Though every write up says it also rides like a dream…..doh!

I heard rumours of a YT demo tour??

Good ol’ write up in MBUK.

It really is too much bike though isn’t it? (I’m convincing myself here…)

Fantastic value mind. Would it be considered déclassé to buy the bike in a box and mosey into your LBS and ask them to build it? It would seem a reasonable request, but I’m not fully versed in the unwritten rules of LBS etiquette!

Thanks all (apart from maybe Drac….).

Porlus – I’m going to give that a crack, thanks! If that fails I might try some of the lower budgeted manufactured guff suggested.

For whoever was asking about my work situation, I work in the centre of town so I have other access to hot food. Also I don’t work for a big employer, there are two of us.