sorry, wrong end of the stick. One of the benefits of being a contractor is no more performance review!

welcome on board brother :-)

you’re contracting and you have a job description & you’re having performance reviews?

*cough*IR35*cough*

I bought a Blood instead of a Five, haven’t looked back. Let my heart rule my head, fantastic decision :-)

I can recommend the B54 :-)

play it by ear, sometimes best to stop and wait for a while to give em room (beginners, families, big groups).
it’s a bike ride, you’re at a trail centre, what’s the rush?

Bent’s done in, Keane’s back in the US, Zog’s out for a month

oh and McLeish is in charge

we’re doomed!

With Reina suspended & Carroll having chosen the path of the non-scoring striker, Villa should beat them. But they way they played against Arsenal makes you want to cry – just try and score FFS!

We need to unleash the Heskey, they’ll be quaking in their boots! ;-)

TBH i think it’ll hinge on the Liverpool game this weekend – Liverpool are there for the taking at the moment – even Wigan & QPR beat Liverpool recently

As a Villa fan I’ve been worried about this for a couple of months given their form. Selling their best players and bringing in McLeish meant this season was always going to be tricky…

+1 for O’Neal. The SaasTec/VPD stuff is tougher than the d30 stuff, no?

I bought a couple of sets from Bike a couple of years ago, try them? If not, PsycleWerx?

i don’t think WMP will sync an iPod – try RealPlayer instead if you want to get rid of Itunes

we call one of the trails in LW “Chris’s crack” – no end of hilarity; “i rode Chris’s crack really hard today”, “Chris’s crack was dry and lovely”, “Stay away from Chris’s crack as it’s too wet” etc etc

:-)

ride your bike hard, really hard
do some weights + core exercises

Stayed at Rosetta a couple of years ago – was pretty run down then

genius tandem troll i’d say. Has certainly done the trick! ;-)

9/10 – Good troll :-)

TSY – you’re missing the ;-) surely? ;-)

It’s interesting how some of the names are pretty much universally known/used – Picnic Bench, Knicker Trail, Rocky Horror – despite being ridden by different groups. Is it because these are more recognisable, rather than “you know, the bit near the holly bush next to the dog turd tree”?

“Unitard” ;-) Some young fella was working on it last year during the summer months IIRC

“Bluebells” sounds like what we call “2 Streams”

So by “Don’t look down”, you mean what’s now part of Yer Tiz? You used to hook off to the right to do some DH?

Not sure where you mean by “don’t look down” or “route 41”. We don’t have a name for the one near Knicker apart from “the one near knicker that’s not quite as gnarly” ;-)

They’ve done studies, you know. 60% of the time, it works every time

Is it just me or are the normal Tory stooges/apologists very quiet on the forum at the mo?

I wear a Brooks hi-viz running jersey for my commute

there’s a lot of haterz on here today – embrace the hair brothers, it’s your aerials man ;-)

I’m keeping mine long until i start going bald

if you fancy a change, try it :-)

i think there were some decent frame-only offers on Scott Voltage FRs on t’interwebz. Coastal Crew seem to go alright on theirs!

I’m running mine on a Blood – someone was selling a frame on here yesterday I think and there’s an offer online somewhere too.

The Patriot 66 would be worth a shot seeing as you already have the frame.

I’ve noticed quite a few sticks across Yer Tiz of late, plus trees etc pulled across some of the off-piste stuff

In no particular order:
Lay off the brakes
Practice your cornering
Ride more (!)
Practice riding with more flow
Look further down the trail
When you ride, batter yourself
When commuting, sprint in between each set of lights
Do squats

welcome back to Brizzle :-) If you like Ashton Court, you’ll love Leigh Woods :-) Have fun

If you’re running 1×9, Saint arms + Renthal ring works a treat. Stiff, reliable, tough

those little metal shrouds you crimp onto the end of your gear cables, they’re pretty dull

draw a willy on it?
Or replace it with a slightly bigger/smaller one every day

+1 tracknicko – that’s exactly what mine does when the screen gets even a bit moist; has a complete fruit until i buff the screen gently and convince the phone it’s in a warm, dry, safe place with people that love and care for it deeply

I’ve got a Defy. It’s definitely rugged (dropped, kicked, crashed and if you get it muddy you can rinse it under the tap), but it’s a bit laggy and the touchscreen seems to have a mind of it’s own sometimes.
Battery life is so-so, obviously using the GPS chews through it quicker.

I pitch in a tenner if he scraps hereditary peers and the Conservative Party. Just thinking big for a mo ;-)

a BabyBjorn is what you need