Got anymore gears yet Stu?

I’m 5’11” and a 16″ was way to small.

I had an 18″ AM, sold it and bought a 17″. The top tube length is the same as an 18″, but with more standover which is perfect for me.

Very nice indeed

Corrado or Golf Schrick?

Excuse the ignorant question but when you are spending £2-3k on a bike, surely you shouldn’t need to bodge repairs/fixes like this – the bike should not have these issues, surely (for that price?)

Ignorant isn’t the word I would have used personally…

Amature

all women will now have the option to have a cesarean

Um, I would hope that this is the case, just like everyone with appendicitis has the option of an appendectomy/appendicetomy (I’m never quite sure which of these terms is correct).

I think the point should be that only the people who medically require a caesarean section should get one; it shouldn’t be an ‘option’ in the sense that you get to choose.

So that would be why I wrote

all women will now have the option to have a cesarean, whether they need it or not.

then :roll:

I heard on the radio the other day that all women will now have the option to have a cesarean, whether they need it or not.

That shouldn’t be allowed.

Mosey, the 2012 version is a big improvement visually.

Are the angles etc still the same?

Buzz, yours looks like you stole it.

Can we assume your source is the Daily Mail?

Yeah and the Telegraph, but its in all the papers.

mostly in the form of violent and brutal occupation

In aid apparently

Being american, I think I have the right to spell it how I was brought up to spell it, don’t you?

Flow;

“First up, it’s spelled ‘oestrogen’
Errr really smart ass.”

That’s the American spelling, smart arse

APF

Still the correct spelling muppet

Take them off your chest and stick them on the wall, they become wallnuts

Sorry I got that wrong

Over the next four years, the Prime Minister has pledged to give £710 million to Afghanistan alone. That could mean up to £70 million of British money going to the very people we are fighting.

Quite a substantial amount more than 10 million.

The Department for International Development spent £102 million on aid to Afghanistan in the last financial year, but this will rise to £178 million this year. Of these totals, 16 per cent goes to Helmand province, where British troops operate.

A total of £35 billion has been given to Afghanistan by the international community since 2001.

1lb in weight

Do be serious

So this goverment can find money for this while making cut backs after cut backs for us .

Exactly my thoughts

flow, by the looks of it you don’t actually ride your cashima clad bike, just talk about it on the internet…ergo I’m not too convinced by your experience!

Only just got it (this month), not ridden it much because I have been ill for the past 8 months. Is that ok with you?

And its kashima, its not wool coated.

£10

So, 4 pairs of forks, 100 miles a month each – thats what, an average of a couple of hours riding on each a week.

Your really pushing them to the limit aren’t you.

I didn’t own them all at once, WTF are you going on about.

A pair of Fox F series for about a year. Some Floats 32’s for roughly 18 months, and some Float 36’s R’s the rest of the time up. All on different bikes.

Just got some Float 32 RLC’s, had them a month so they don’t really count, so call that 3 pairs.

All Marzocchi forks are now made by SR Suntour

Mmmmm, nice.

Back in the day (when they were supposed to be decent) I had a pair of Z2 Bombers. They were shite, suffered from stanction wear and I bent the steerer. I was only 16 at the time too. I still have them in the shed.

So, assuming you’ve ridden all 4 pairs consistently over the last couple of years (which given the service intervals is nigh on impossible), it still begs the question, how is that a test of longevity?

Considering I averaged roughly 400 miles a month, a damn good one.

Whats your point?

That I didn’t own them for a few months each, obviously.

Only joking stu, get some gears and some kashima and we might let you in.

Until then mingle with the rest of the paupers.

Edit: Actually come back, my shoes need polishing.

Chronic stress at work seemed to be the trigger for my Bi-polar disorder, which has pretty much **** up my life for the last 6 years.

Although I have been pretty good for the last 12 months looking back I have lost 5 years of my life, and I will no doubt need to remain on medication for the rest of my life, or the very least the next 5 years, and the risks of a serious relapse make me think I will choose to stay with the drugs.

I have no doubt I am an outlier and my body/brain reacted very badly to it, but stress is something to take very seriously

Stress is apparently what caused my CFS. Its only been 8 months so far, so nothing like your 5 years, but in that time it has reduced me to doing very little compared to what I used to do.

I ache all over like I have the flu, can’t sleep for shit (although its improving) and life is generally sucking hard at the moment. The worst thing being is I don’t know when/if its going to end.

Sorry to put an extra downer on things.

4 pairs in little over 2 years isn’t really a testament to longevity.

On four bikes :roll:

best to wiki the word as it covers many practices but my method ( buddhist “mindfulness of breathing” )simplified, is generally sitting quietly following the flow of my breath (and various aspects of it) whilst trying to observe the coming and going of thoughts through the mind but not getting distracted or too involved with them. the effect with practice is that the incessant chatter in your head starts to quieten down and not bother you too much ..which is great! many other benefits too .

Nice one, will have a read and try that out mate.

Ahhh Ti you say? Welcome to the upper class Stu :wink:

foxes wear for two reasons – seals that are not tight – low stiction but allow dirt in and very small quantities of lube oil so that the upper bush can run dry.

Strange, my foam rings have always been dirt free, and I don’t stick to the service schedule. A decent wash after every is all thats needed (not with a pressure washer)

I have had four pairs since 2009, no problems with any of them, and at one time I was averaging 400 miles a month (don’t make me copy and paste my sportstracker to prove it)

I’m not one for willy waving, rest assured not one is an overpriced piece of British crap

Ahhh, overpriced Taiwanese crap, how pauper-ish.

Only afford one gear.

Only joking stu :wink:

Fox Float 36 are the lightest of the bunch. If you look after them they are fine.

People on here can’t even be arsed to wash their bikes, no wonder you hear so many stories of them wearing out.

Stu, you can only afford one gear, I wouldn’t expect you to understand.

This very true – the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you’ve started. For example, today I looked around to see all the things I started and hadn’t finished… So far I have finished one bottle of vodka, a bottle of red wine, a bottle of Scotch, some Valium, a small box of chocolates and 9 beers. You have no idea how good I feel.

They say that laughter is good medicine.

You just made me LOL

Kaiser, how/what is this meditation you speak of?

Wouldn’t it be funny if a growing number of Kashima forks were beginning to wear through the coating – and that changing the seals on the forks actually made this problem worse.. that would be an unfortunate set of circumstances ey!

Its not going to happen though is it, lets face it.

They have stepped up to the needs of the upper class and supplied us with gold. Maybe the poverty spec forks/shocks will start to wear, but not ours.

Bike? I am not a single bike weekend warrior, I have a selection for differing purposes.

What bikes then? :roll:

Edit: Don’t even think that makes you one of us, pauper.

Appardntly its easy to nktice 10mm

It is when you only have 10mm to start with, you should know.

Once again all the petty squabbling gets put aside to help one of our own

**** you TJ :wink:

Very nice indeed.

They do look lovely in green I must say.

Alert: Annoying smug upper classes around!

:lol: who tagged that?

SC Butcher with 2012 Van 36 RC2 Kashimas 160mm

Ahh nice, I’m a fan of the Butcher, good upper class choice of bike there.