Ardents?

Not bad, 7th place and in touch with the leaders!

I agree with Jabba, what Eddie did was a world apart from the other sport relief stuff.

but looking at the page source it uses an antiquated coding style with no style sheets and also contains thousands of blank lines

You might want to get your own house in order before you have a pop at someone else though!

I'm in!

Spoke to one of their guys the other day and I think the 19C is all but sold out, plenty of 19 Races left.

You'd struggle to split them really, Trek don't specify how they measure their angles but either way the Core should be a bit more relaxed and descent friendly as it looks to be a bit slacker.

Obviously the U-Turn fork will weigh a fair bit more but then you can whack it out to 130mm and go very slack for the descents.

Sanny, any plans for Bristol?

Five was more than up to Cwmcarn DH on just 15QR 32 Vanillas.

One lap at a time but at night pair off, two of you sleep while two of you ride, swap half way through the night. Seemed to work for me and a my mates who placed 6th a the CLIC24 – we were 20th before the night shifts so leap frogged a lot of folk over night.

Edit: what the last two said…

What is the tyre clearance like? plenty room for mud.

Plenty with a 2.1-2.2, a 2.3 would be pushing your luck.

Really best to think of it as a 5" bike not a 4" bike. Low and very fast. The thinking man's singletrack bike…

2010 is noticeably stiffer but more importantly doesn't chain suck.

Instead of an Orange Soul, I renewed my car insurance… I'm glad this thread is failing and sparing me the reminder of what I would have been riding.

Summer soon? What does that mean?

June '09:

Feb '10

wowsers, some of you eat through brake pads….still on the same pads i put on in november

Some brands and certain conditions/locations simply don't mix. If Afan is proper wet, a set of Avid Elixirs can be gone in a single lap. Yet the same conditions won't even register on Hopes or Shimano XTs.

I've got some not even deore non-series hydros on my singlespeed and you'll kills those in a couple of wet Afan laps.

I'm going to chance a local Bristol ride seeing as the weather's been nice. Five days without rain is uaually enough to make things at least rideable again.

Those bottles of finish dishwasher cleaner have brought ours back from the dead a few times – worth a punt for a few quid.

Doing the Bontrager 24-solo (my first) and I'm going down with spare bike, mechanic and two feeders/motivators. The one thing everyone has been stressing to me is the pit crew will have earned whatever result you get as much as you have…

Based on last years Bontrager, it would appear that actually riding non-stop is a top 15, maybe top 10 finish. AFter that you start seeing big gaps in the time sheets.

Try and freewheel on a track bike.

Non-oversized is popular with the rigid fork crew, a comfort thing as it supposedly gives a slightly less harsh/stiff ride.

Genesis ship the iO with non-oversized bars.

Looks like a nice place to be all the same…

I second Hopes with their own organic pads – there simply isn't anything out there as long lasting.

I live by the mantra that if you want to ride all year round with any degree of regularity, and you want to a) not be poor and b) not wash your bike non-stop – you need to own a singlespeed, and the cheaper and nastier the better!

They are particularly massive, a 2,2 RQ dwarfs a 2.4 MK…

Dibbs, I'll be writing the ride up shortly, it's not a good route at all to be honest. Probably the very worst bits of Exmoor, the worst bits of the Mendips, the Quantocks felt great at the time but ultimately just riding along the ridge, then a lot of minor roads and sustrans routes interlinking it all.

Just ridden Barnstaple to Bristol offroad over the weekend via GPS. We did have maps and they are a good idea – they came out a handful of times.

But 99% of the time we just followed the black line on the screen and trooped on!

I use an eTrex Vista HCx. I plot my routes on "Where's the path" (Google it) and use the talky toasty (or whatever they're called) basic vector maps on the actual unit. 215km and we only got the maps out maybe 3 times, all within a 15 min period on a particularly subtle bridleway in Exmoor.

Medium cage on a triple isn't an issue unless you're a serial chain crosser…

Not sure what the bike has to do with anything though. 🙂

My QR adapters were pretty sticky and needed some work with the needle-nose pliers but otherwise no sweat.

I use Modx, it's very good but support is flaky and learning curve can be a little steep as a result. I use it for everything now as it's our CMS of choice at work – it would make little sense learning something else now.

If you can code html and css, wordpress, drupal, joomla should all be fully customisable without too much effort.

Something like wordpress might be worth a look if you're semi web tech competent…

Not sure how you'd turn a wordpress template into something a bit more distinctive and well, LVIS…

What is your level of ability?

t®ibal©hief – he did say in terms of skill as well. I was merely observing that not all of these sports listed require nearly as much skill as windsurfing for example.

The skill in shooting in Biathlon is kind of debatable because once you've learned to shoot, surely it comes down to having the fitness not to be a jibbering wreck when it comes to steadying your aim…

Gripshift worked for me as a youngun…

I think in terms of skill level, few things come anywhere near Windsurfing.

Hand on heart the longest learning curve and most rewarding sport once you can finally do it.

And the first time you get in the harness and start to plane is a feeling to behold, the first time you do that and get in the footstraps is better than any chemical high!

Haven't windsurfed for about 8 years now, Vasiliki in May – hope it's like riding a bike… 🙂

According to MBR the Alpine feels as capable yet is a fair bit lighter.

I've ridden a Pat as an all day bike (36 talas and lightish build, XT, triple etc – 32lb) and it just felt too slack in the seat to be comfortable past 20 miles – the Talas was essential. It was rideable and I ended up doing 40 miles in the end – but it was a slog by the end.

I think the Alpine is more suited to being an all day up and down bike – if you're just after a mainly DH/play bike, stick with the Pat…

I've been amazed at some of the views I've seen quite openly broadcast by facebook 'friends'

Pedals are left and right specific, as coffeeking says, check you're putting them in the right sides.

White

Bell Sweep

Looking good LoCo!

Not what you were asking for, but all Canon users should do themselves a favour and get EF50 1.8

So cheap, and I probably use that lens more than anything.

could someone please translate the last two posts? unfortunately i don't speak geek

This:

and this:

Ride about the same.