sc-xc. You need to sign up using the link, then click through the confirmation email you get sent. £1 is then added to your account. And it doesn’t seem possible to just get a list of albums available. You need to click the “discover” tab, then search for the albums/artists you’re interested in.

The “easter egg” 99p albums do seem to keep changing – some have gone, others have appeared. A good way to check for new ones is to click on the “trending” tab, then on “trending albums” on the list on the left – that gives you a list of the most popular albums at the time.

edit: another way to look for bargains is to search for #Easter, or #Easteregg

VortexRacing – you need to use Facebook to get the £1 price on albums. When you click the link to “Like” a particular album, the price drops to 99p on the site.

I actually quite like the look of those. 😯

I have propedal on for most of the ride (Whyte E-120). I just take it off for long technical DHs or if there’s a lot of small high frequency stuff. I forget about it most of the time tbh.

I changed from Mono M4s to Elixir CRs on my DH bike. Admittedly the M4s were the old lever design (The “Tech” levers are a lot better) but the Elixirs are in a different league as far as power is concerned. They’re a little more fiddly to set up & bleed but are much more powerful and just as progressive.

Mrmuddybum – I got one of These – they sell through amazon and their own website too if you’d prefer. German company but I got mine in 2-3 days. Seems really hard wearing and the Matt, anti-reflective finish seems to help in bright sun.
They were doing 3 for 2 when I got mine too 🙂

I’ve had one since they first came out and love it. The screen could be easier to read for mapping but it’s a very powerful bit of tech. Jamie’s link has a very detailed review of it.

I’d buy a good screen protector straight away though if you’re going to use it off road – its pretty hard wearing but can still scratch.

That XTR “Shadow Plus” jobbie sounds a bit odd – more tension during the ride then switch it off to make wheel removal easier?

The XT stuff does look nice though. Hopefully the price reduction will bring Sram stuff down too 🙂

I found the Gobi really comfy but, as others have stated, they do seem to wear really quickly, especially on the side of the nose. If you want to try one though, last years model can be had on the Bay for around £40

I’ve changed to a Bel Air and love it.

🙂 @ ourmaninthenorth!

I’m pretty certain it’s not the HRM as it shows a steady increase/decrease, not an abnormal spike. Plus it gets to 203-5 regularly. I haven’t got a particularly low resting HR either but there you go. Not much I can do about it so I’ll just keep going – it’s only my heart after all 🙂

Same problem with the 800. Memory map “may” produce a software update but I wouldn’t hold your breath. The easiest way is probably to upload the logs to garmin connect, then save it as a GPX file. That’s what I tend to do

What, so you guys stick to the trails – Losers! The only way to get down Snowdon is straight down the scree slopes!

The best one I’ve found is from the higher railway bridge on the Llanberis track – straight down to the road from there is proper “techy” 8)

You’re not far from Coed y Brenin if you’re close to Machynlleth.

No – you’re right. I wasn’t expecting anything particularly impressive. I’m just surprised it got a score that high to be honest. There were some quite favourable comments on LoveFilm so I though it would at least be entertaining. As it was, I can’t think of anything good to say about it!

Jeremy Vine is a complete twonk but you have to admit, he’s very good at what he does – ie, stir up public opion. Look at the number of posts on here whenever anything to do with cycling is mentioned.

I could’ve got it for free. But didn’t bother

Choice is what makes the world a better place. I rather like it myself 😉

lol – yeah, I know. Best to deal with the organ grinder eh ? 😉

Trip to CyB would be good, especially with a guide. I love the place and it would be great to see some of the quieter bits of riding there :).

Neil

I did the same – lent the bike up against a stump on a windy day. Turned round as it crashed down, fork first, onto the adjacent rock. Only a small scratch but I know it’s there and it’s soooo annoying 👿

yes renting saves you money and landlords do it as some sort of social duty it is philanthropy really and no landlord makes money out of it so it must be cheaper to rent obviously.

😀

Having said that, there’s no harm in renting until you’re a bit more stable/sure of your job/prospects/likelhood of staying in the area etc etc. Not wanting to patronise but a mortgage is a pretty big commitment to a job/area

edit – I think that was patronsing after all wasn’t it 😳 IGMC

Actually though planet x bikes cut out the middle man as its an own brand product so margins are possibly higher for those bikes.

Have you seen the deals they offer? I doubt very much they run on much of a margin. They just offer high value, high volume sales. I got a carbon road bike with full Ultegra groupset for under £1000!

I bought a PX road bike on the BTW scheme last year. I saved the 10% fee as I dealt direct with them and my boss (avoided cycle scheme). I think it’s fair enough though given they run on high volume tight margin sales. If you’re not using the cycle to work scheme you get the cheapest possible price, if you are, they have to up it a bit. That’s the price – if you don’t like it go elsewhere (Ribble etc as others suggest).

I’m not sure where the “fitting” fee comes in. They sometime charge £100 to build the bike for you (if not, you get a box full of bits – which was a highlight for me:)) but they’re throwing that in for nowt with the current deals. They certainly weren’t charging for fitting you with the right bike last year.

ScottChegg – you’re right, although it was the beens on a brick of toast and the bowls of rice pudding that I miss 🙂

Cheers Doug – I’m still waiting for Paul to send me some routes but I’ll have a look at them in the mean time..I think I could have a long wait 🙂

The original Pink Heifer was a more natural route that flowed around the area covered by the current way-marked stuff. It’s still rideable for the most part but some sections are “interesting”.

I’d help if I could but I’ve only ridden sections of it and don’t have GPS logs of them I’m afraid. I’ve always thought there must be more off piste stuff round there but very little info on the web.

They’ve always replied to emails I’ve sent and have fantastic customer service but yes, they do tend to advise you go to your LBS/place of purchase rather than dealing direct.

Just as an extra bonus, for those people who joined mflow, if you put REDDITCREDITFROMDAN in the promotional codes section, you get another £1 (1 album) added to your account for nowt too.

Ouch! Quite glad I’ve got no sound at work reading the comments 🙂

Bregante – maybe you should put a special request in – they say to contact them if there are particular artists you want 😉

Current list of albums included in the offer (they seem to keep adding more though)

A
Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
Avril Lavigne – Goodbye Lullaby
Avril Lavigne – The Best Damn Thing
Aloe Blacc – Good things
Alice in Chains – The Essential Alice In Chains
Amy Winehouse – Back to Black (Deluxe Edition)
Alexis Jordan – Alexis Jordan

B
Black Eyed Peas – The Beginning (Deluxe)
Blondie – Livid
Blondie – The Curse Of Blondie
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (2010 Mono Version)
Bob Dylan – The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964
Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A Changin’ (2010 Mono Version)
Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan (2010 Mono Version)
Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home (2010 Mono Version)
Bob Dylan – Discover Further
Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding (2010 Mono Version)
Bob Dylan – X2 (Another Side Of Bob Dylan/The Times They Are A-Changin’)
Bob Dylan – Another Side Of Bob Dylan (2010 Mono Version)
Bon Jovi: Discography (Inc. Special Editions).
Brandon Flowers – Flamingo (normal & deluxe – deluxe has more tracks)
Buddy Guy – Living Proof
Black Keys – Brothers (Deluxe Edition)
Black Sabbath – Seventh Star
Bombay Bicycle Club – Flaws
Britney Spears (Numerous dif albums)
Bruce Springsteen – The Promise
Bright Eyes – The People’s Key

C
Cheryl Cole – Back catalogue
Chris Brown – F.A.M.E. (Deluxe Version)
Clubland 17
Clubland 18
Clubland x-treme hardcore 7
Cypress Hill – Back Catalogue
Clare Maquire – Light After Dark
Casting Crowns – Until The Whole World Hears Live
Crystal Castles – Not In Love
Clash – The Essential Clash
Chase & Status – No More Idols (Standard Album)

D
Dermot O’Leary Presents The Saturday Sessions…. 40 tracks, £1.
Darren Styles – Feel The Pressure

E
Elbow – build a rocket boys!
Ellie Goulding – Bright Lights (Lights Re-pack)
Ellie Goulding – Bright Lights
Eminem’s Back Catalogue (seems like)
Emma’s Imagination – Stand Still
Eels – Tomorrow Morning
Elton John – Loads from back catalogue
Enrique – Euphoria

F
Fleetwood Mac – Loads from back catalogue
Florence + The Machine – Between Two Lungs
Foo Fighters – Greatest Hits
Foo Fighters – The Colour And The Shape
Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Foo Fighters – ONE BY ONE
Foo Fighters – In Your Honour
Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Foo Fighters – The Shape & Colour of My Heart: The String Quartet Tribute to
Foo Fighters – Long Road To Ruin
Frankie & The Heartstrings – Hunger
Floorfillers 2011

G
Glee Volume 4
Generation Dubstep

H
Hurts – Happiness
Hurts – Sunday

I
Interpol – Interpol
Iggy Pop – Original Album Classics

J
Jimi Hendrix – West Coast Seattle Boy
Jessie J – Who You Are (UK Version)
Jack Johnson (back catalogue)
Jason Donovan – Soundtrack Of The 80’s
Jeff Buckley – Original Album Classics
Jay-z – “The Hits Collection Volume One (International Version)”
Johnny Cash – Unearthed
Jame Blake – James Blake
Jimi Hendrix – BBC Sessions (38 tracks)
Justin Bieber – My World/My Worlds (international version)
JLS – Outta This World
JLS – JLS

K
Ke$ha – Animal + Cannibal (Deluxe Edition)
KoRn – X2 (Double Album Pack: Korn & Issues)
Kings Of Leon – (Back catalogue)
Kele – The Boxer
Kasabian – Full catalogue
Kylie Minogue – 12″ Masters
Kansas – several multimix-albums

L
Low Anthem – Smart Flesh

M
Megadeth – Rest in peace live (eAlbum)
MANIC STREET PREACHERS – 20+ Albums/Singles
Michael Jackson – 20 + Albums (INC – The Ultimate Collection:57 tracks £1)
Metallica Back Catalogue
MGMT – Back catalogue
Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More (Deluxe)
Monster Floorfillers
Magnetic Man – Magnetic Man
McFly – Above The Noise

N
Noah And The Whale – Last Night On Earth
Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine (2010 Remaster)
Naked and Famous – Passive Me, Agressive You

O
Ocean Colour Scene – Moseley Shoals – Deluxe Edition
Olly Murs – Olly Murs

P
Primal Scream – Screamadelica (20th Anniversary Version)
Paul McCartney – Ram
Paul McCartney – Run Devil Run
Paul McCartney – Unplugged – The Official Bootleg
Paul McCartney – Good Evening New York City (Digital Wide)
Paul McCartney – Flaming Pie
Paul Simon – Graceland
Paul Simon – There Goes Rhymin’ Simon
Paul Simon – One-Trick Pony
Paul Simon – Hearts And Bones
Paul Simon – Paul Simon
Pearl Jam – rearviewmirror (Greatest hits 1991-2003)
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
Pure… 90s Dance Party – 68 tracks. £1
Pink – Greatest Hits

Q
Queen – Absolute Greatest
Queen – Queen II (Deluxe Edition 2011 Remaster)
+ Queen (Lots more available)
Queens of the stone age – Rated R (deluxe edition)

R
Radio 1’s Live Lounge, Vol. 5
Rod Stewart – The Classic Years
Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod Stewart – The Seventies Collection
Rod Stewart – Stardust – The Great American Songbook Volume III
Rod Stewart – Fly Me To The Moon…The Great American Songbook Volume V (Deluxe Version)
RnB Clubland
Rihanna – Loud (Explicit Version)
Rise Against – End Game
Rise Against – Endgame
Rammstein – Rosenrot
Rammstein – Herzeleid
Rammstein – Mutter
Robert Plant – Band of Joy

S
Soundgarden – Telephantasm
Stereophonics – Decade In The Sun – Best Of Stereophonics
Stereophonics – Performance And Cocktails
Stereophonics – Word Gets Around
Stereophonics – Keep Calm And Carry On (eAlbum)
Stereophonics – Language.Sex.Violence.Other?
Stereophonics – You Gotta Go There To Come Back
Stereophonics – Just Enough Education To Perform
Stereophonics – Pull The Pin (Digital Album)
Stereophonics – Live From Dakota
Stereophonics – Word Gets Around – Deluxe Edition
Stereophonics – Performance And Cocktails – Deluxe Edition
Stereophonics – The Best Songs (Karaoke Version In the Style of the Stereophonics)
Shakira – Shakira MTV Unplugged
Shakira – All albums
Salem – King Night
System of a Down – Back Catalogue
Saint Etienne – Good Humour (Deluxe Edition-27 tracks)
Saint Etienne – Tales From Turnpike House (Deluxe Edition-28 tracks)
Sugarland – The Incredible Machine
Sting – Symphonicities

T
Taylor Swift – Speak now
Ted Nugent – The Essential
The Cure – Disintegration (Remastered)
The Rolling Stones Singles Collection: The London Years (Remastered) – 58 singles. £1.
The Runaway – The Magic Numbers
The Script – Science & Faith
The Kinks – The Kink Kontroversy (Bonus Track Edition – Reissue)
The Stone Roses – Collection
The View – Bread & Circuses
The Naken & Famous – Passive Me, Aggressive You
The Wanted – The Wanted
Tom Jones – Praise & Blame
The Secret Sisters – The Secret Sisters
T. Rex – Get It On: The Collection
The Essential Weird Al Yankovic 3.0
Third Day – Move
The Walkmen – “How I Got Over”
The Roots – “Lisbon”
The Acorn – No ghost – the remixes
Take That – Progress
The Jam – “Sound Affects – Deluxe Edition”
The Killers – Human (Remixes)
Thin Lizzy – Live And Dangerous (Deluxe Edition)
Taio Cruz – The Rokkstar Hits Collection
Tenacious D – Tenacious D
Train – Save Me San Francisco (both versions)

U
Ultimate NRG 5

V
Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?

W
Weezer – Death to False Metal
Weezer – Pinkerton – deluxe edition
Why Did You Call? – The Magic Numbers
White Lies – Ritual

NikNak7890 – do you actually need to download the software though – it just says managing the tracks is “easier” if you do?

DD – any albums with an easter egg by the purchase price can be had for £1.
If you click the easter egg, then “like” the album on Facebook, the price changes to £1

Uh oh – just realise a flaw in my plan – anyone who joins via the link above will see my dodgy taste in music 😳

Cheer DezB – interesting link. Seems to work fine at the moment – I’ve just downloaded the new Elbow album 🙂

Nice – quite some work gone into that 🙂

I’m still trying to get hold of an Onza Octupus tyre – it just made sense 😉

Wow – didn’t realise he was that badly injured. Looking forward to next week now!

Good PSA to the OP btw 🙂

I’d quite like to be comfortable numb if I had to choose anything

Rich – on it’s way to you now (my tooth’s fine for now 😉 )

Do it…..do it……do it….. 😉

Is it just me or has this thread lost it’s way a bit.

Oh, and jam than cream you crazy fools!

Yep – that was certainly short….and a bit weird! Odd choice of questions but completed anyway 🙂