I'll be buying it.
My kids need a step up to get to the toilet, and it has the added bonus of spare sheets should they run out of loo paper.

@ bravohotel9er. Marvellous, I do feel better now.

lol. The other half said I should if it makes me happy. It's a classic bluff tactic that always works. Now I feel guilty so probably won't…
Fair call about Pakistan, totally absent in the media over here in Aus, shocking really, some celebrity's son going off the rails is bigger news.

Anyway, am very tempted I can tell you. It'll save a bundle on trying to make the existing bike work like that one, which it never will thanks to incorrect dropouts and a frame that's too large.

Hmm, convinced myself, but I bet I don't – 'n' for me is five at the moment… too many.

Blimey. 😯

Should you be getting the frame checked as well? If it was a stack big enough to do that I'd certainly consider checking an alu frame for cracks & stress damage.
Is checking a carbon frame a user level exercise?

So, most reviews are not any good, and subject to the whims of the reviewer – so if you don't know their ability/style then it's a biased review.

I'd recommend a read of an edition of Evo for prospective journos, certainly a couple of years back the reviews were excellent. More a story with the detail mixed in for good measure. A very engaging read.

For my sins I bought Spoke* (IIRC) recently, it's over here in Aus, and best to describe as toilet reading as articles are good for a two crimp session and no longer. Besides the articles are littered with profanity – no need for that at all. No f*cking need at all.

*Actually that sounds like a mag for 'special' people, and maybe it is…

Gooner. Now that's a nice example! 😀

Changed tyres since then of course (this was years back). Less red now.

Love the bike, more capable than I'll ever be, very predictable. And with a platform shock on the rear (Think I'm the only person who liked 5th elements) and eta lock down on the front (30mm) it climbs well too, although as others may say, a bit light on the front.
Have done DH (put fat tyres on) to enduro (Picos, 6 hour+ epics) and it copes with all easily.

My build was a tough one at the time, 521 V rims, ditched the standard carbon for EA70 finishing, coil, etc. But that's paid off in longevity and a bike that is ready to roll anytime. Awesome machine.

Oh yeah, if anyone rode a red demo Heckler in 03 at Cheltenham Leisure Lakes, likely it was this one…

These in fact from maxxis

But they're 2.2 or 2.5, not the slim 1.95 that I had – I'd def try the 2.2's though personally.

[edit] Oh, a bit niche:

Designed for the muddiest downhill racecourse in the world: Les Gets France. Not for your local trail, the WetScream is intended for competition use only on professionally maintained courses. When the course turns ugly, trust the WetScream to carry you to victory.

+2 Swampthings
Actually, for XC I ended up with a set of the Tioga mud tyres – not sure if they're available now. But Maxxis do a similar thing, 1.95 width and damn near spikes on it. Made a HUGE difference in proper mud riding.

Very good indeed. I've had the pleasure of some young oik sat behind me on a hardtail whilst I'm bedecked in Dh gear on a Team Norco, and thinking I'm flat out. Full helping of humble pie I can tell you and a lot of respect to those that ride that well.
Actually it's an interesting topic to discuss the need for full sus or not. I love my heckler, but over here in Aus it's completely wasted – a $700 mid range specialised with some nice forks (and rim brakes 😯 )on it does everything around here.

Dude, not being silly, but I had a look at this writeup[/url], and looking at the sweep etc, and the fact you're going to roadie 29er tyres you need to be careful you don't end up with this:

😯
Albeit littered with bling…
Especially if you decide to do Audax on it and have to put some guards on.

and $15,000 for WHEELS
LEW Pro-VT

😯

"To save weight, you add more boron," says Vaccaro. Why is boron fiber expensive? Because, according to Richard M. J. Renneboog at sciencemaster.com each fiber of boron composite is made up of a very fine seed wire of tungsten with a boron coating applied by chemical vapour deposition from the reaction between boron trichloride and hydrogen gas at between 800 and 2000 Celsius. This is an expensive process and the fibers can only be made into uni-directional tapes: they are too stiff to weave.

I think I bought some speaker cables like this.

Recently bought an ebay store PC (in Aus) for Au$470 (that's cheap in pounds).

AMD 2.9Ghz dual core.
4Gb RAM
500Gb SATA II Drive.
Nice case (amazingly) – front ports etc, blue led fan, quiet, etc.
DVD drive (SATA too).

Upped the spec with a $110 delivered pci express graphics card, and a $20 card reader for the 3.5" drive bay. Well chuffed as it's pretty nifty and runs a whole heap of more recent games without issue.
Have put ubuntu and windows 7 on it too and both fine.

Paid via paypal and had it within 48 hours.

Marvellous.

And whilst we're at it, I broke with tradition completely and (allegedly) put the wrong one's on the front/back, here.

Having done this, I feel like I've got a guilty secret, as two rides in I'm loving the way the bike handles, and it's giving me heaps of confidence into corners, now playing with leaning over front & in to get cornering even better. The front doesn't wash really, and if it does it's very predictable. And the back digs in and goes just as it's supposed to.
Really surprised at how easy the bike rolls though, on the to-trail commute on concrete it feels like no resistance to speak of.
Anyway, I am curious if anyone else has (in a fit of madness) tried a similar oddball combo?

Apologies for the slight threadjack, seemed sort of on topic though…

I wish I'd read this thread before 'treating' myself to a couple of Maxxis HR 2.35's a few years back. They didn't last more than one long excursion, wayyyy too tacky for XC however hardcore.

Cruelty to cats is bad mmmmkay, however, the ol' nokia cat makes me laugh every time.

Just don't follow the craze into scarification tattoos.
Pretty horrific when you realise what the 'red ink' is.
Not for those of you who are squeamish.

See, the problem is that we have a thread history, a quick check and a posting and that's it.
I suspect the best and only thread killer is going to be one of the mods…

Liver? What do you mean, 'liver'? You can't just say 'liver' and that's it.

Don't worry, I've redressed the balance and put said 'Liver' comment in one of their posts.

[edit] no, actually someone else's post. Comedic Fail. 🙁
[edit2] one of yours actually. jeeeze. Not even drinking (yet).

Liver

Threadjack…
Over here we have our own bio-cycle system, essentially a mini sewerage plant in the garden – even have a license for it 😯

How we laughed when the 'old boy' who painted our house decided to wash and flush the resulting paint shiat down the kitchen sink. We had:
a. A dead bio system – so whole thing started to stink like a cesspit (which it was/is) .
b. White (well magnolia I suppose) feature highlights all through the system.
c. Contamination of local ecology no doubt. Errr, move on past that point though.

****.

As an aside, rotten milk is a good primer for those systems, as is a bad curry as it turns out (though not such a good delivery system).

I thought this was what dirt was for, to leave a clean/grime tide mark on my forks so I can see where my travel is at.
But then really, if I'm not shaking my teeth out then I figure the forks are working and all is good.
Sag, well, that's measured in inches of gut over my belt.

It's about £1,300 pcm

😯
Blimey.
That would get you a very large house out in Queensland – we're talking a mortgage/rent on a 4 bedroom, 2 living, dinning, 1700sqm plot type house in the country*.
Easily.
Mind the pay is less out here, but not that much less to be honest.

*I do commute to Brisbane.

Need it? No, I could live without.
But I desire one as I have two children and do a 12 hour day at work, so useful.
What's more having a blackberry means that I get work email all the time too, which is in fact handy so I don't end up with a a backlog, or handling a team issue on my arrival at work.
Useful because I cycle in a remote area by myself, and whilst it won't stop cranial issues etc, it does afford some level of security, if only to tell the other half that I'll be late home as I'm 'walking out' as has happened.
I have one because it's handy, but I won't be running up a 2k bill.

Think the point here is that it's not cyclists that are the problem, it's folks who happen to spend recreation time on a bike. If you get my drift.

Chalk and Cheese.

BK if I want to actually eat something vaguely recognisable.
MacD for the taste, on the understanding that by taste I mean that wood pulp with sauce on does in fact have a taste that I enjoy.

MacD's – get a hamburger, fries and extra BBQ sauce, no pickle shiat. Put fries in with 'patty' and smother with BBQ sauce. Edible.

Never, ever, call that yellow plastic stuff cheese, and never have it on a burger, truly makes it taste proper rank.

Is that the 12 step plan seriously? If it is then a bottle is the least of my worries, I'd be hitting something with a needle.

Am seriously contemplating this: http://www.fat-tyre.co.nz/dirtyweekend.htm as a holiday, maybe something to work into the ol' honeymoon?

Night Johnboy…

I'm not. At least I hope not as I'm now at work for the day.
My nemesis on this is going to be NZCol, but I reckon I can pith even him as he's a few hours in front of me.
Any Perth folks will get the drop on me, but I'm here for the long(ish) haul now…

Said MrNutt as he spied a man's cock in a communal changing room

The fact that this thread didn't die right there is testament to the tenacity of the posting community I think.
Nicely ignored though Simonralli2 (what happened to 1?)

It does look a little unconventional I must say. But blimey it smooths out the trails having a balloon at the front, wasn't really ready for that difference.

2.2 holy roller rear and 2.4 ardent front!

Really, seemed odd to me that way round. Not much I can add to that, at least I'll have conversation every time I run into other cyclists…

"Oi, Mate, your tyres are on back to front"….

Well, theory was that I wanted roll on on the front and something that'll dig in as I pedal on the rear. Bit like the ol' two wheel drive desert type vehicles, can't bring myself to say dune buggy.

Seemed to work OK. First technical descent I'm sure I'll decide otherwise…
😆

Got to remember it's dryer than err a dry thing (that I can't say here) over here. Even a days rain (we had two inches in 48 hours) and it's dry by the afternoon, mostly.

Ah, this is almost too easy for me – being in Aus, I check postings in the middle of your night. And it seems yesterday's news is old news when it comes to the chat forum.
That and I really do have nothing interesting to add to anything I post about…

Mouse, currently fighting a war against the little feckers. Digging up drains outside the house on Saturday as consensus in the road is that the drain was not sealed properly going into the house as everyone else has had to do this.

We had a mouse epidemic one year, turned out that the water pipe (1 inch stuff) was fed through a common underground drainage pipe to all houses on the row, I guess to make it easier to lay foundations. Basically picture a larger diameter pipe with off shoots going up underneath the cabinets on each house. Basically the builder had made a mouse motorway.
A bit of expanding sealant later and all was good.

LOL.
Boringly I subscribe to the blog's RSS.

Question should be, out of all the amusing bacon related artwork on the posting, why did that one take my fancy?
😯 ❓

Indeed. How about tonight you put a note in the oven asking where elvis is, remember to leave a wax crayon to write with, just in case they don't have a firm grip on this dimension (other than your extractor fan switch, which, as you say is a bit stiff).

Anyway, not nice, I'm making fun, so apologies. Fear is real kids. However much bull the after life is.

Of course it's possible. The OUTSIDE of the switch is stiff, the actuator mechanism, you don't know what's going on inside or where there are loose wires etc.

+1

Basically you've said there's issues with the switch, to you it's stiff, and now there's another problem with said switch.

Nice that the ghosts of centuries past put on the extractor fan though, maybe a wormhole to another dimension populated by the after life – try wiring it up in reverse so it's blowing not sucking and see if you get something from the other side (other than gobs of chip fat aka ectoplasm).

My f****kin DVD playe

Good thread bleeding there…