YGM.

You can buy a nearly new rear one off me (160mm)?

Anything by Carlos Castaneda. Also The Silmarillion by Tolkien.

I love it too, though i would never buy it. It is quintessentially Japanese.

Brave new World is a great book. I thought of another: “The Long Walk”, by Slavomir Rawicz. It’s the story of a Polish army officer who was captured and sent to a work camp in Siberia. He, along with a group of other prisoners, escaped and walked (!) to India.

It’s allegedly autobiographical, though there are some records that suggest it can’t have been entirely true. Either way, i can’t recommend it enough. Incidentally my grandfather was a Pole and was also captured and sent to Siberia, and – like the author – eventally moved to Nottingham after the war.

Bit of a cliche but War and Peace is geniunely amazing. It’s such an epic, and you spend so long (entire lifetimes almost) with the characters, it’s like a part of my was missing when i finished reading it.

My dad gave me a Jimi Hendrix t shirt he got from the Isle of Wight festival.

All aboard to Wood Green.

Bitches,

Here’s a dick:

8======D

Go eat it.

Regards,

Pandy

I’m the lowest scorer here (can’t speel for toffee) but it was definitely a hyphen. An exclamation mark would be optional, but it had to be ‘long-lost’.

16. Feeling uber retarded now.

Thanks, i thought basically going for ‘small’ would be right. Just not sure about how big the difference would be between, say, a 15″ and a 16″ (or a 21.5″ and a 22″ tt)?

I know trying for size would be best but i will probably order mailorder and i don’t want to dick a bikeshop around by using it like a fitting service only.

Gone from interested to irritated. Tomorrow!?

HA HA at the reflector. Bet there’s a pie plate on the rear wheel too.

ce:

I think alot sports can be expensive. €150.00 for a pair of running shoes. FFS!

Ain’t no running shoes cost that much, apart from Asics Kinsei. And they’re for fatties anyway.

I remember ’91. Snow drifts that had completely filled in footpaths edged by two dry stone walls, so we dug tunnels through the middle.

Who or what the blinking flip is Robert Dias/Dyas?

edit: just read the thread properly, ignore me.

Could you go and spend a sh1t ton of cash and then blame it on the scammer? That’s what i’d do.

zOMG! It’ll be just like Klein and Trek all over again. Only without the nice paint.

Ugliest new car that really has no right to be ugly.

The Fiat Multipla literally makes me “lol” though, what a retarded looking machine that is.

I like ‘aggressive’. Not sure of a better term to describe those times when you’re really attacking a trail, using lots of body english, railing the corners and generally pumping every ounce of speed out of it. Maybe while riding your xc race weapon, which just plain looks fast. Man, i’m stoked even thinking about it.

Is actimel the one with the unbelievably irritating advert? Some brassy northern bint that can’t pronounce bloated properly? “Bhlouuuuuted.” Cow.

Remember being gutted when our metalwork teacher wouldn’t let us make stunt pegs on the lathe.

(did it anyway, mind)

tried. failed.

Geniunely surprised at the number of people who’ve said Nescafe.

Null

Weezer. Well, kind of. Their debut album every track could have been a single, the follow up was equally fantastic in a different sort of way, and then they made three godawful records.

The new one is a step back up though.

Damn good.

Any love for Weezer too?

Thanks for the headsup pancake, i might give one of those a go.

Frame is for sale if anyone’s interested. It’s great, but i want something i can put a disc on the back of.

I do that too. It can be problematic on the bike at low speeds.

You’ve probably tried it already, but foam roller-type itb stretches? Google those words and a load of sites’ll come up explaining it better than i can.

Fausto Coppi explained it rather well:

“Ride a bike, ride a bike, ride a bike.”

Okay, i think i can provide an explanation that might help those who are still confused.

A plane on a conveyor belt/treadmill is not like a human on a conveyor belt/treadmill. The human has to move their legs to stay still, and if the speed was increased enough they wouldn’t even be able to do that, and would fly off the back.

HOWEVER the plane doesn’t have legs. It has wheels. And (providing these have frictionless bearings) it can stay still on the conveyor belt/treadmill WHILE USING NO POWER – its wheels will just spin round underneath it. If it turns its engines on, it will move forward, and its wheels will spin even faster.

The idea of the plane on a treadmill of short length just doesn’t work. It wouldn’t take off, but it would hit the front of the treadmill straight away.

2h40m… crikey.

Funny that two marathon runners on the thread are injured. Make of that what you will :-)

Surfer – yeah, they’re the only two i’ve done. I was going to do London again this year but i haven’t trained over winter due to injury, so i will be pulling out. What time are you aiming for in April?

Dunno, just for sh1ts and giggles in my case.

I did one a couple of years ago and my training consisted of about 12 miles a week plus one (one total) long run of about 15 miles. Crawled round in just under 4 hours, with two 16-minute miles at the end.

Was infinitely more painful than doing 2h54m at London last year, but i was still glad i did it.

Go for it. Running a marathon isn’t really that hard, and it’s quite cool. It’s going to hurt if you don’t do much training, but nothing you can’t handle.

If you do one you’ll soon want to do another faster one though. It’s a slippery slope.

sarcin make good bieks.

S’not Burberry, it’s a houndstooth check.

I have been known to eat wasabi on toast.

Now that is a breakfast.