lol im with mintimperial on this thread …i dont know either :mrgreen:
width /lenght….. all i know is that my carbon monkey lite bars are quite long but you get better leverage apparantly….

yeah podge thats right…. but they didnt know they’d cocked up in the first place….lots of bike shops or any shop for that matter always have some problems with gear that is ‘incomplete’…. geez i bought 2 sets of dinner ware for xmas and when i got home the 2nd box of dinner ware had lots of breakages in it which wasnt apparent to me until i opend the box at home….no wonder it was all taped up well…bloody shop didnt want anyone opening it in the shop..just to check it …grrrr :roll:

think im the only one on ere that hasnt visited ‘Rivi’ yet…. its not a million miles away either,,,. :roll:

seriously buy another helmet !!!! dont buy online try lots on as all helmets are different….. especially Specialized hemets…they only fit specilized heads’ apparently… :wink:

peter poddy you are abit slow… :roll: did you not read the thread (all of it…

life begins at 40 matey lol :wink: :mrgreen:

she made alot of music/concerts in her short lived years….such a shame..i liked her music but the excessive drink etc always catches you out in the end….such a shame …R.I.P Amy :(

philconsequence :lol:….its illegal to change gear uphill where you live (lol)…only fools change gear uphill (snap)(chain) :wink:

yeah i learnt ages ago to drop the elbows,, i force my elbows inwards whilst climbing and its just a natural thing to do now and also -sit as forward as you can on the saddle, sometimes if i think im almost not going to make the crux of the climb i lean my body forward abit too… :wink:
hope this helps :mrgreen:

hmmmm yeah yep i just love this video…lol

slips over in the colden valley..lol :mrgreen:

oh hi Brant.. :wink:….lol
yeah, 130 forks would sound ok to me…. duno how they got away with it on the orange bikes tho for a 14 inch frame, but it seems to work out fine…
so : just dreaming on for the future (wouldnt mind a piglet .. you can never have enough bikes eh ? :wink: :mrgreen:

so 140mm i wonder would be ok……..
my orange bike full sus is 14 inch frame with 140mm fork but every bike is built different.. :wink: ok cheers

sorry :wink: just looking at a ragley piglet bike frame specifications and thats what it said on the specifications sheet..120mm optimised
(this would be for a size 14 inch frame btw… :wink:

yep its a must straight away…out comes the hosepipe… or if im cream crackered then its defo the next day otherwise you will get rusty chain if left wet n muddy… :wink:

i just had a handful of Raspberrys from my raspberry tree….very nice.. :wink:

hang on thats wrong… A whole mint with NO hole in the middle as in Trebor mint….. is that correct now… :wink:

mint condition is a ‘whole mint’ with ‘NO hole’ in the middle as in ‘polo mint’ :mrgreen:

nobody ever tried and extra topping (like sprinkles) or wud that kill the scone altogether :lol:
it doesnt matter wether you pronounce ‘scone’…. as ‘scon’ or ‘scooone’
you’re not asking for scone and tea anyway….you’re asking for a ‘cream tea’ ! :mrgreen:

PJM …. you cannot be serious !!!!!!!!!!! 8O :roll: :mrgreen:

geez ther’s alot of old gits on ere….. :wink: :mrgreen:
im a 45 year old grandma and still going strong….. :wink:

im very wary of what to use cos about a year ago my son used some kind of spray on his forks and it badly damaged them (went a weird colour then the forks stopped working (cant remember what he used now…lol…costly job..

i got my purple Altura jacket really muddy today after riding through a man-made forest (top secret)haha ….anyway its brand new only worn once, but today it was extremely mud splashed…… i sponged mine down and didnt throw it in the washer ….. how do you guys wash ya jackets if muddy to hell….
it does say on the washing instruction labels NOT TO USE ‘biological powder’.. (i guess you have to use something like fairy washing powder then to get it clean….
if you do use biological powder : does this mean the waterproof gets stripped from the jacket (then jacket is ruined ?

butter, jam, cream……….years ago b4 i new what cream teas were hubby said where does the cream go—i said in yer cup of tea so he put the cream in his tea…hahahahha :wink:

if you live anywhere near Hebden Bridge or Todmorden then you can get the mag ! local shop and a bike shop… :wink:

yup i just got some shimano 520…… you can adjust the pedal too if you finf it hard to push your foot down to clip in….mine are brand new..quite stiff so had to loosen it so i could clip in…never had ‘clip -ins’ before its all new to me …….im just wondering what to do when i come to traffic lights… cant put me ruddy feet down…lol.= is it compulsory to rest on a car wing mirror then…. :wink:

hey i used to have a snake like that….then it died………now we have Amazon tree boas…2 of them….. its very rare in the uk for them to breed but we are living in hope it mite happen one day… :wink:

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http://www.wiggle.co.uk/hope-vision-4-led-front-light/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=base&utm_campaign=products

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found this but its a twister shifter..what are these like…. im just after a front right shifter

fine for me this morning… :wink:

why wud you wear flip flops anyway :roll: :wink:

lol…… :roll: :mrgreen:

hmmm i was asking a similar thing about my hardtail…majority of people were saying i shud go no more than 100mm….then agin my frame size is only 13 inch…
still awaitng email from Loco tuning, see wot they have to say :wink:

you need an orange ‘five’ in this neck 0 woods …believe me !
year after year the ‘five’ gets 10/10 in Mbr magazine and thats for the last five years running !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :wink:

i have apple green five too…..good choice

i said hi to two donkeys whilst MTB-ing…guess what :they were more than happy to say hello :wink: :mrgreen: then one of them got abit jelous of the other and tried to bite my tyre through the fence… :evil: :wink: :mrgreen:

we all need to carry a mr bean on board with us sticking the thumbs up hello sign..lol mite brighten the grumpys up alittle (mr bean life size cardboard cut out.. :wink:

first video is awesome….so chilled, it really does make ya just wanna get out there and dont look back..keep going forever….lol just brilliant :wink: :mrgreen:

yeah my 661 knee pads always used to fall below my knees too…bahumbug. now i have some ‘Race-Face dig’ knee pads…just use them in winter really… havent fallen off uch this summer….. i even rode 47 miler bike challenge knee pad free…didnt fall off then either…wow im so good…. :wink: :mrgreen:

you’d better not verbally abuse me….i,ll be forced to use my stinger on you…lol :wink: :mrgreen: