went to fracture clinic today, one look at my x-ray and instead of the stiff soled sandle thingy they gave me in A&E yesterday im now sporting a flippin back slab cast and crutches! can this get any better?

put some maggots on it 😉

once again BUGGER!!!!

Xrays confirm fractured 5th metatarsal, so that’ll be 4 weeks off the bike then apparantly. 😥

How long before you rode again?

couldn’t go to A&E last night as on my own with kids, going now, swollwn up nicley now 😯

anyone?

probably paracetamol based so other than liver failure you should be fine 😉

a forcefull advertising campaign……..sorry 🙄

Hi, I’ve got the 1200lmn xml version and mine is on red constantly, I got 2 more for mates, one is always green the other a sort of odd mix of the two. Its pot luck, no problems with any of them and when switching between high and low power you should easily get 2 hours out of it.

anyone?

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make sure you’ve got at least 80psi in your trainer tyre. I’d also recomend a proper trainer tyre

I’ve got an older WB boiler that went dead just before xmas, check if it has a thermal cut out switch (on the top right hand side of mine) if so check it hasnt popped and if it has press it back in.

Got mine going again 😀

this is a first, its 8.03am and both of mine (and the wife) are still fast assleep, normally there up at 6!

Result, either that or i’m the only survivor of a carbon monoxide incident!

same hear fella, everyone goes off MTBing for a while (i think). why not get a cheap/second hand road bike to start and if you end up using it more then buy a smart new bike?

I do a spot of roading on my ancient Raleigh (weighs more than my full suss 😯 ) but its just as much fun as something flash.

The other thing to try is getting out early, I usually hit the road around 6, 6.30, 35 miles back buy 8ish

blimey, any thread on hear seems to desend into a slanging match, I wasn’t slagging them off just an observation really hence the smiley face! 🙄

I push up climbs, but descend twice as fast as you. It really annoys me when people get in my way on the downs

Good point, well made!

there was one guy I bumped into who had hit a tree and snapped the top tube clean through and the forks and head tube were hanging on by about a third of the down tube, amazingly he only had a graze on his leg 😯

their still ace and sadly they’ve been the best thing on TV this xmas

I’ve got an 872, magic bit of kit nice and floody and fine for most stuff on the lowest setting and then lasts for hours. As its a flood light I would suggest its bar mount only.

Use your P7 on your lid or better still spend £30 on a DX T6 XML for your lid, nice tight spot beam, really compliments the 872

martymac +1

bump

I put a skirt on and said happy christmas to an ugly fella on a road bike…you should have seen his face!

you wernt outside boots again later were u?

My blind great aunt lost her white stick and some passing cyclist didnt even stop to help!! something about fast curry deliveries

My granny said she saw a fat indian on a bike who’d lost his glasses.

I’m liking all of these 😆

the vatican is very powerfull and no doubt has centurys of incriminating information stored away that if made public would destroy the reputations of anyone/country that tried to get the top people jailed.

S60 owner here, cant fault it. go for the 2.5 D5 diesel, roars like a lion, goes like a rocket and not bad at all on the MPG

you want the bike back? easy!

Its their busiest time of year so get yourself down there tommorow morning, stand on the pavement right outside.

Then while not blocking the entrance tell everyone who even looks at the shop that they sell stolen bikes and point ouy your dads bike.

I bet you get the bike back complete with a complimentary set of new brakes within about 2 hours!

sorted

oh wow, don estelle wispering grass, what a voice

oh oh lee marvin, wandering star

aint nostalga great!

my mate came off the bike last night and was keep in overnight, full CT scan etc approx cost £5000.

There wont be any more queues as people wont be able to afford the insurance (if were talking cover for full equivalent of NHS

err…….if you hate halfords why were you willing to give them £900?

I think all you public sector bashers are missing the point, all people want is what they were promised and have worked and saved for.

Think of it lke this-

you’ve worked hard and saved up and now your in the local LBS ordering your new bike, you pay up and agree pick up the following week

You go back and the man wheels out your bike

err…hang on you say thats not the bike I ordered thats a much lower spec.

Ah says the man, after you paid and left I realised my pricing structure was no longer financially viable so you have two choices:
You can take this bike or pay me an extra £1000 and I’ll get the bike I agreed to get you in the first place

I bet you wouldnt put up with that about a bike so why should people put up with being shafted over somthing so important as their pension.

And as for the ‘there all lazy feckers’ tell that to my radiographer wife whos just come home from a 17 hour shift!

+1 for the swampthing

i find it works if u slowly rotate the wheel until it reaches the point where its rubbing then loosen the caliper & pull the brake on, do that once or twice and it usually sorts it

even better in the dark!!

the secret to loving Penmachno is shimano mw80 boots and waterproof overtrousers! 😆

a sign above the door reading – abandon hope, all ye wh enter here will sum things up

All that jazz about how it completely chages your life, mate it doesnt even start to cover it!

how will it affect the biking – depends how understanding mummy is, and work on the principal that less will have to be more.

I dont think anyone should be barred from using the national parks but the impact of how they use it should be measured and a ban imposed if nessesary.

When I started riding 5 years ago the local moorland trails were a bit rutted (maybe 6 inches deep) 5 years later there so deep as to be unridable by anyone other that motor bikes (which is whats caused it) plus its forced other users to walk on the f;ora and forna either side which is now being worn away.

ah but you forgot that it’ll never happen to them!

used my 872 for the first time thursday, excellent really floody, filled the trail with a nice clear white light. I wouldnt recoment it for use on your lid as theres not spot at all, get a XML £30 special from deal extreme for that (there absolutely fantastic as well!)

happy birthday to you to don simon

bikes direct, holywell, n wales have at least one in stock I belive

£200! dont waste your money fella spend £30 and get one of these, excellent spot ideal for the lid!

DX T6 Assault Crown Water Resistant XML-T6 3-Mode 1200-Lumen

SKU 82508

works a treat 😆