These batteries seem like they would do the trick nicely!

A123 from HobbyKing

Yep, I would definitely want a 1800 kit.

“you just want a blonde slut to snort coke off your c**k”

who doesn’t?

+1! 😀

Take some steaks and beers down to his flat and ask him if you can join him next time he has a party/rant. Maybe he just needs someone to talk to. 😀

When me and the Mrs moved into our first house, a small council house that her nan bought and and left for my wife in her will, we were next to council tenants who were retired in their 60’s but were aggressive drunks. We were in a block of 8 bungalow’s, theirs being the only one still under council ownership and they had been terrorizing the other neighbours for years. He was a short 5 foot nothing ex drill sergeant and liked screaming at his wife and everyone else who would listen. Me being a 6ft South African and ex policeman too I couldn’t exactly go and beat up the little old boy either although it very nearly came to that several times. It took us 2 years, 5 court appearances, 2 weeks of environmental services sound recording and 46 times calling the police out to get them moved on. In that time my wife became pregnant and our son was born so was pretty stressful on everyone. The same day the council came to evict them we moved out to our new house. It was VERY satisfying seeing them kicked out, their windows being boarded up and their front door locked up after such a struggle on the same day as moving out. I don’t wish it on anybody.

Keep it, it’s awesome. I’ve been running large rotors on all my bikes for years and it’s fantastic. You don’t lose any modulation, you just need less effort to obtain the same braking force when pull the lever.

Yup, some of the riding is seriously on the edge and STEEP. Be mentally prepared to take your riding 3 steps up. Bike shops out there are pretty useless so make sure you go self sufficient. We are going back there’s again this year with Powder and Dust, great guys, great guiding.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?PartnerID=79&ModelID=49152

Motocross shops sell grip glue. It works pretty good and best of all is you can get it off again later. Renthal makes it.

And you lot wonder why there are so many ‘my girlfriend left me’ posts on here! 😀

I got her 2 cards, some awesomely delicious Thornton’s, booked a table for 2 at the marina down on the coast for this eve and have a bottle of bubbly + 2 glasses stashed away for a quick glass of champaign on the beach after.

And yes, already ‘got some’ this morning and will probably ‘get some more’ this eve. Life is good. 😉

I have a new 2011 Enduro Expert and I am blown away by it. I have had many Spesh bikes before (including some of the older Enduro models, SX Trail, SX, Stumpy, etc.) and a few others like Santa Cruz Blur 4X, etc. and this is by far the best bike I have ever owned. It rides light, climbs well and descends like a small downhill bike. I shortened the stem to 50mm and stuck some new 2011 Saints on. Stiff frame, very compliant suspension (Fox 36 Float, RP23). Amazing bike.

My boy has the Spesh and he loves it. We added the wide ratio gearing to the back because it comes with a 36t front ring and with short cranks he struggled a bit on the climbs. Since sorting out the gearing he is unstoppable on it. The forks work but not very well. I am going to cut one the coils off to see if we can get it to work better for his weight, he is quite skinny.

Great little bike with incredibly good brakes too. He has done the XC descent at Cwmcarn with it and about to start riding the local trails round the Surrey hills in the next few weeks with me.

So if you do get a dog all you have to do is stay up for the next 18months while you wait for it to grow up and be big enough to deter. 😀

Fit a loud alarm, outside motion sensing lights, CCTV in visible areas. Then stay up a few nights and see if you can ambush them.

Just get it serviced. It shouldn’t need a rebleed after every ride, not even after sitting there for a year untouched.

I have the stem. Incredible bit of kit, highly recommended! Looks better in the flesh than in the pics.

Spyderco Aqua Salt. I’ve used and destroyed a lot of knives, this one best I’ve had. Best of all, doesn’t rust in salt water.

I love my Planet Ocean. I wear it to work, riding bikes, surfing, diving, running, everything. Never take it off. 🙂

It’s no different from any other man made trail out there. You can use wood to create fun or challenging trail features in an otherwise boring landscape. It’s not all stupidly high skinnies, it can be very fast and flowing. It’s no different from digging out a berm or creating a jump from dirt where there wasn’t one before.

There are also the more practical side of it where you can use it to elevate riders off the boggy floor or create crossings over an immovable object but its not always done in a fun way.

It’s just messing about on bikes, don’t let it keep you up at night. 😀

DrRSwank, don’t waste a second thinking about how you used to ride and how unfit/fat you are now. I too visited Hert’s shore a couple of times before (hello Jedi, remember a loud South African from a few years back? :D) and then 3 years ago totally lost my mojo for all things MTB’s after a bad experience in Verbier.

I gave it all up and have been riding dirt bikes for the last 3 years but this year got a new bike and I am about to get back into it big time. As Jedi says, bikes rock, just get out and ride. 🙂

Pic below is me, unfortunately don’t recall photographers name but he took some stunning photo’s and got this one of me just prior to launching off Ronseal on my first day there published in Dirtrag. I too will take some time getting rid of the enduro fat and to build back up to riding bigger stuff but I look forward to every minute of it.

Start the successor to Facebook. You’ll be a billionaire in no time. 😀

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I travel/fly on average 3 days a week so I have experienced pretty much all forms of discomfort. Also, I have traveled with my kids back and forth between South Africa and the UK since they were born. It’s an overnight flight and both of mine have been great. We’ve never really had any problems but then we have always gone very prepared. As bad as it may sound, give them something to help them sleep if need be. It doesn’t just help you and the other passengers but also the child.

Anyone who moans about a crying baby on a flight is a **** period. We were all that age once and small children do not naturally scream and cry, if they are screaming continuously then something is usually wrong. Yes it’s uncomfortable for everyone but so is rerouting a flight because of a heart attack patient or whatever. These things happen, part of life and all that.

That said, there is nothing more annoying than an unprepared parent and I see a few of them regularly. I’ve been on a long flight with a visibly ill/in pain baby where the parent just plainly refused to give the child any medicine because ‘calpol is bad for babies’. I do sometimes feel like giving them a smack round the head.

Join here: http://www.jedichurch.org/

I would love a light to be that bright. If it has a few modes, say 1-5 in intensity then it’s up to the rider to select the appropriate brightness.

That sort of light would be awesome for fast riding at night and also for lighting up areas to session bit of the trail.

Good work, show us the results!

With 550+ million of registered users it is the main portal for many people. It’s not just kids either though it is largely a younger audience. It’s mind blowing when you get behind the data of how people are using it. My company tracks social media closely and I see things every day that surprises me. There is a significant shift in how the new generation interact with the web. My 17yr old niece doesn’t have an email account and doesn’t want one, everything she buys has been recommended to her by her ‘friends’ on facebook. She only now uses Google because she has to, not because she wants to and only uses it as a last resort. Younger people also have much less of a need to keep themselves private and happily give away tons of info about themselves online. Us older fogies find that scary yet the younger ones can’t see what the fuss is about. Further more there seems to be less of a differentiation for younger people between work – personal. They often have both worlds much more blended than what older people feel comfortable with.

It’s all changing and changing very fast. Get on the boat or be left behind seems to be the only way. 🙂

Time to get fit with this girl: http://www.bodyrock.tv/category/daily-workouts/all-exercises/

Belugabob – I have registered on the Sussex forum as I would love to join you guys for a regular night ride but for some reason I can’t post yet as I have not yet received the activation email. Just thought I’d let you guys know in case there are others that might want to join but can’t get onto the forum.

MotionX GPS is bloody brilliant

Had mine plated a week after a crash 3 years ago and have since also had the plate removed again. It’s very annoying when it happens but just let the thing recover at it’s own pace. Your body and your break is unique and so other people’s recovery times mean very little. I heard of a case where even after a year with a plate it didn’t join and so surgeons had to go back in to stimulate the bone for growth. I am not a doctor so don’t know the full ins and outs of it all but my wife if a pilates instructor and she helped me get the shoulder strength back. I needed quite a bit of rehab work as I broke the same shoulder but scapula 1 year before the clavicle.

I still have no feeling in skin around the area where the cuts were made and my collar bone is still sensitive if I knock it on something it really hurts even now! That said structurally it feels stronger than before the break. I have had a couple of crashes on that shoulder since and not had any problems other than the initial bit of pain from the impact.

The iPad is an amazing piece of kit. We absolutely love ours and will be buying 2 more when iPad 2 lands while holding on to this one. We have the 3G 64GB model and it is used everyday ALL day by me, wife, 7yr old son, 4yr old daughter. In fact, my 4yr old uses it more than most.

I also use it for work and it is superb. When I travel into London for meetings now it’s all I take. I run my presentations from it, read my books on it, etc. I fly often and it’s always used on the plane too for magazines, making presentations, reading, etc.

For me it is absolutely worth buying the 3G model as it is always connected and just works. Also, the 3G model has the built in GPS that the WIFI model doesn’t have so we can use maps and other location based apps on it. I wouldn’t even consider a device without the GPS now!

At the moment I see now use for a camera on it just yet. I have an iPhone and honestly don’t use Facetime on it much. I also don’t really use my iPhone capera for photo’s as I always have a proper compact with me.

Seriously brilliant bit of kit that you will use more than you think.