“OOoo. Nice Thread”
Here, let me fix that for you…

Actually, a lot of fun to blast around on, and nice’n’light unlike a lot of the bikes here I’d wager.
😀

What we need here is double braking and integrated gears on the lever on a single front ring setup.
Now that would de-clutter things nicely.

Has to be a walking pole.

Alternately, over here in Aus it’s all windfall stuff. Some pretty big stuff mind, and trails end up going round them unless a ranger gets in there. But not had any malicious trail damage that I can recall.

One is always cautious of overly regular sized sticks mind, lest they have a mouth and poisonous fangs at one end – always better to be the first person in the group when riding…

T Rex

FTFY

Yes.
There was/is an Ex_Pat on here too, (s)he was first so perhaps I should change it.

Youngest has one of these:

She’s had it since 2 and loves it (Nearly 3). Last weekend she had her first big crash on it – racing/rolling down a grass hill and ended up basically going over the bars in a big tank slapper. Scuffs and shock were mighty. Once she’d recovered she said she wanted to go back to the other hill as it wasn’t quite as steep (not much in it).
Bless, I have a future DH rider!

The eldest didn’t have a balance bike (she’s 4) and whilst she enjoys the biking with stabilisers she does moan a bit when we’re out ride playing that she can’t off road as well as her sister…

Not sure there’s much in it in terms of ability though – they both can balance on it fine, and the eldest has a good concept of pedalling and brakes now which is handy.

One thing I did do with stabilisers soon after she started riding was to raise them a few cm’s off the road on both sides, so they stop her falling but do allow a degree of freedom in terms of balance. It’s interesting to see how when she starts riding she’s leaning but by the end of the play session she’s balancing more and more.

Don’t like pedal back brakes though (her bike has one), I’d prefer she had a proper brake and used that, but understand her little hands aren’t (weren’t) strong enough.

+1 Molegrips.

I love to read sci-fi, and Star Wars is in the right ball park for the sort of sci-fi I like to read. Then some years ago I started to read a chap called J.T.Edison – he wrote westerns. Amazingly similar.

Just need a frontier where the general rules that we live by are stretched a bit, add some dodgy locals and a hero in some form of struggle to achieve something, and you’re away. For me anyway, the likes of Star Wars represents a bit of escapism. That and Empire Strikes Back is the best one of the set by far.

As Ja Ja would say…
“da biiig empire strikes back movie is da most bombad ”

Anyone in America*

*On average**

**Gross generalisation***

***Bad pun.

Could do with some more weight too, light as a feather it is…
[/ultra sarcasm]

I carry a block & tackle in case I fancy pulling a manual on it, it only adds a few percent in weight.

And, @Kaesae, service you say? What is this service thing you mention? ❗

And…
Around the time of the older Big Hits, when they were 24″, the rear end setup was licensed out to Norco, as a 26″ :

I know cos that’s my bike and it has a specialised license sticker on it (from new), here:

With regards to hub gears etc, I refer to a learned fellow on this very forum:
Stu McGroos lets put this alfine weight issue to bed once and for all thread

Seemed to make things pretty clear…

*sigh* So, is the consensus that buying from CRC with anything other than Paypal is to be avoided still?
It would be good to know a proper responsible (i.e. upfront about what they’re doing to eliminate risk) line from CRC themselves on here (I’ll be dropping them a line anyhow).
Having swapped out my card at the start of this thread, I don’t want to compromise another one…

Had a conference that the entire department went to, a few hundred of us.
Anyway, in past years we’d had some excellent speakers, but this time we had some actors who were utter rubbish.
We’re an IT department, so really not an exciting bunch on the whole. So being told to ‘Go to your happy place before you do the performance of your meeting’ was totally inappropriate.
Well, I did go to my happy place, I walked out and went home. Boss was understanding…

Quite glad that Kuko’s anal massage post came in before the “what do I do with the body” post… 😡

@ kimbers
I saw that a day or so ago, I hope it’s everything it could live up to be, it’s been way too long since a decent mech game has been out there.

Lvl29, seem to have been on there for ever. Despite clearing all but pretty much the enduro levels.
I’m finding that I’m buying road car exotica and then racing that on home made Toscana road tracks, doesn’t get me any cash or experience.
Online racing is OK, though better with mates I know from work rather than the open lounge – they’re incredibly tough.

LOL. Came on here expecting some rave reviews, as looking for something else too (need to wean myself off GT5). But already have BF BC2.
For the PS3, I can testify that it’s a very addictive game, single player isn’t bad, and the multiplayer is most excellent.
There’s nothing better than taking out a building with a bad guy in it using a tank. Or doing proper sniping across the entire map. I’ve not played it for a while, and last time I turned it on there were the old BF BC1 maps on it, didn’t like them, but mostly as I hadn’t learnt the good/bad points of the map – and it had become a bit of a shoot fest.
Also, there’s the vietnam add-on. Have that, and for $20 it’s fine, but didn’t really rate it compared to the other maps. Flame thrower is fun mind!
If you’ve not got it I’d recommend it as an excellent online shooter.

Alternately, I really enjoyed Deadspace 1, if deadspace 2 is anything like the first you’ll enjoy it. And, really out there, I enjoyed Red Faction 2 – very destructible environments, nothing better than rescuing hostages by driving a dump truck through the ground floor, ala lethal weapon!
Wouldn’t recommend Transformers War for Cybertron unless you like the genre and don’t mind almost full on arcade shooter – was fun, but extremely linear and (even for me) pretty easy to complete. Did burn a few nights on it mind.

Sat at work – In Aus you see.
My night is mostly racing on GT5 – have an on line league.

Though last night was a night walk, interesting as we watched a car leave the road (skidded off) knock over a mail box, reverse up and drive off. Glad we were stood on the inside of the bend…

Lived and breathed Chuck Yeagers Air Combat Sim. Was ace (think 386 spec), graphically challenged of course but the combat and flying was most fun.
Then got x-plane, and built my own aircraft. I seriously enjoyed that, staying up late making scale spitfires etc (that actually flew too!) or making rockets that could hit whatever mach level and still land OK. Or maybe make it onto an aircraft carrier (I made a bi-plane that flew the same speed as the ship, easy!).
Anyway, new version/update came out and wasn’t compatible with all the aircraft I’d made but was way better – shelf time after then.
Now I have a PS3, so flight sims just don’t feature really. About limited to Battlefield’s helicopters etc…

That’s some serious wind chimes they have there…

Won’t name names, they’ll be reading this…

But let my bank know of this thread (post cancelling my card as above) and risk, got a phone call back to say thanks and being handed over to CC fraud dept.
Nice warm feeling at mo for my bank. 😀

That’s for the fraudsters…

NZCOL has it.
Not all organisations can hand off CC data (we don’t in the main part), but I can testify to PCI-DSS being pretty thorough. We adhere to it, and are audited on it regularly.
And whilst it won’t stop your min-wage person stealing the odd card details it does a credible job of preventing bulk theft (as it’s designed to).
I wonder if CRC is PCI Compliant? Anyone asked?

Card cancelled as a matter of course…
May or may not be real, but I’m happy to ditch the card I used on their site in the past month and get a new one – good risk aversion.

Interestingly I want to buy a load more kit from the site. Perhaps paypal is the way to go…

Unless he’s done something special with the frame that’s going to snap very soon indeed.
I’d be wanting to put a tensioning cable as the down tube to at least stop the ‘triangle’ opening up. That would be trick maybe.
Rear stays, not sure, but if he is getting pedal bob on that frame he’s going to have to sort his welds I’d think.

Oh and LOL at tonyd.

No pics, but…

Now logging rides with a GPS logger, and just started using a cheapo camera (first proper ride with it). We’re happy with the results, and a little bit of tweaking it’ll be ace. was GBP50 from here[/url].
Oh, and winter’s here, woohoo! Dry rides and cooler days!!! yeay!

Just watched that other video – none the wiser.

😀

The policeman from Brum[/url] the TV show was an ‘actor’ in a team leader training session I was in, they played the part of a disgruntled employee (as opposed to a disgruntled actor who is stuck doing kids shows).

Other half organised the holidays around Europe for the rich/famous (mostly rich actually). Including George Lucus before the premier of Phantom Menace – Clone Wars had a number of locations in it that she sent him to… 8)

Good to see some on here with coil shocks, they’re well suited to them IMO.

This bike is something like 7 years old now (was one of the first heckler’s in the UK) and still going strong!

And, gosh I’m star struck, I’ve shared a shop with the bloke who plays Kryton in red dwarf. Bonus points is that it was Leisure Lakes in Cheltenham.

In our family tree on me Mum’s side we have Tom Hanks and the mother of Abe Lincoln.
Can’t do my dad’s side, the spreadsheet gets a circular reference.
😯

And…
My Dad’s wife (RIP) was friends with Richard Burn’s Mum. I found out about a month after he’d stepped off (Burns that is) – and he was a hero of mine.

Same departed Step-Mum’s granddad ‘invented’ Newcastle Brown Ale apparently.

LOL @ CharlieMungus

Anyway, I have another one that doesn’t include stilts.
When I was 18 I was shot… Single pellet from a shotgun hit me in the chin (guy fired through a hedge). Pellet hit was like a punch, bled like a shaving cut. That wasn’t the bad bit.
Ended up in casualty (always remove foreign objects etc), they pulled down my bottom lip then cut down using a scalpel – no anashetic as I had to ‘feel’ where there pellet was. It’s where I learned the whole sea of pain and you’re in a boat metaphor actually. Ended up in shock.

Pah, nothing.
I live in a Queenslander house (on stilts) and wondering around underneath it sorting stuff I’ve many a time caught the edge of one of the retaining bolts straight into the noggin. **** me that has to be the frickin worst, not least as it’s totally avoidable by ducking (and yes, I’ve done the duck and head-butt routine too).

+1 Australia.
But not riding anything like Ishouldbeworking’s – can understand why though, I discovered the myth that is quicksand at the weekend.

Sunshine Coast (ha, I want my money back for calling it that) for me.

Won’t return even in a pine box…

Local:

Remember to take your wizard’s outfit, staff & sleeve…

Two minutes ride into the woods (we’re talking State Forest in Australia here) and a bed head and old fecked TV. WTF? There was a perfectly good fly tip point at the trail head too as it turned out.

More fun was in the middle of nowhere (TM) finding an old holden car. There must’ve been a more substantial trail at some point in the past, resulting in the car wreck making sense – since then a complete set of bushland has grown up around it. Was very strange to see it there.

Also odd, again middle of nowhere, but at least on a power line access road, an old engine block, minus any parts, just the block. I’m assuming it was dumped in the back of a truck to give traction.

Many a single shoe of course. Never understood that.

sigh. at work and how much do I want to click on that link…
😐

Back when Star Wars was all the rage I wanted an At At, wanted it more than anything, and you know I could probably have got it.
But my Mum decided that rather than the At At, they’d get me a transformer truck – not the super cool Optimus, oh no. This was some rip off shizer that looked a bit like an arthritic (no leg beds see) At At, and was in no way bad-ass (no frikin’ lasers etc). The back sort of folded open to make a base thing. ’twas utter rubbish to be honest and probably cost the earth but just wasn’t anything like what I wanted. was relegated to back of cupboard before the end of the day. And actually I regret how I felt very much, I knew it was me being picky.
35+ years later and I’m still bitter.

Still, my Mum is ace and love her to bits.
Hi Mum!