I think essentially Hitler was Zionist in the sense that he wanted the Jews out of Germany – encouraging them to leave for Israel with ‘some’ of their belongings was one method. When that wasn’t effective enough he just took to killing them instead. To call him a Zionist is at best glib and at worst grossly misleading.

With Ken is in fact an anti-semite or not… I couldn’t say for sure but if he had any sense he would simply apologise and move on.

I love the orange colour! Reminds me of my original Marin back in ’92.

Expecting my replacement forks in a day or two. Did everyone else have to kill their old ones? I crushed mine in a vice.

I read somewhere that the average 30-40 year old man in 2017 has seen more vaginas than ALL his ancestors combined. That’s a lot of vagina.

More or less impossible to control so I always took the view that they’re going to see regardless of anything you might do so, better to talk about it and make it clear that what they are seeing has little or nothing to do with real sex and relationships.

I explained it as Porn is to Sex as WWF is to fighting.

Just a typo.

‘Loose’, ‘ridged’ (instead of rigid), ‘would of’…

illiterate! 😉

I think it rather depends on your audience. If you are certain of your non racist credentials and of your audience’s too and you are using the term in a semi ironic way I would say it’s ok.
But any doubt at all about who you are talking to and best stick with ‘a chinese takeaway’.

I don’t think I’d use the term chinky anyway but I wouldn’t necessarily find it offensive. Applied to a person thought – no dice!

They should just mount the disk in the middle of the hub, between the spokes and safely out of harm’s way.

There you go bike industry, no thanks necessary.

😉

Mindfulness?

They used to have a French film on there called ‘Basie Moi’. My French isn’t that good but I do like foreign language films. I learned what Baise means only afterwards.

Notorious trap for learner – un baiser (noun) = a kiss

however ‘baiser’ (verb) = to ****

hence ‘donne-moi un baiser’= give me a kiss
but ‘baise-moi’ = ‘**** me’

It’s a surprisingly dull film despite the graphic content.

Far easier watch them his early effort Irreversible. I’m still recovering from that one…

Star Wars Episodes 1-3

Seemingly universally hated but I watched ALL the films over the last week and they are way better than I expected. Out of both trilogies together “Jedi” is probably the worst due to muppet overload although the story is still strong.
Yes yes Jah jah..but he’s no more annoying than an Ewok.

As many as you can fit in.

Usually worth replacing them anyway as they cost f-all. Just take a couple of examples along to a bike shop and buy several.

Oh, the Fluxients are back. Highly recommended…

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Latest-Fluxient-U2-Mini-1100-Lumen-rated-Cree-XM-L-U2-led-2-x-3400mAh-battery/122256218008?_trksid=p2047675.c100013.m1986&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D38661%26meid%3Ddb90518e386a460998c32318170089d8%26pid%3D100013%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D172424039987

I had one of the torchy fluxeon lights. They don’t seem to be listed currently so don’t know if he’s finished with them or if they’re just out of stock.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Latest-Fluxient-U2-Mini-1100-Lumen-rated-Cree-XM-L-U2-led-2-x-3400mAh-battery-/291924718671?

Great light, waaaaaaay brighter than any joystick, will squeeze into a joystick mount (tight but it goes) and takes 18650 batteries so you can ride with a spare in your pocket. Each one good for about 3 hours on full.

I just keep the lights of and don’t answer the door. Same as any other day.

Tescos own brand cartridge. Essentially a clone of older Gillete models.
Indistinguishable in use.

Razor development and marketing is the biggest load of bollocks ever.

https://goo.gl/photos/dkV4D5t1echt3zA49

Hey Grant!
24 years for Me I reckon. Well, there were a couple of years before that on a Raleigh Mirage before the bug really built. Still got my first proper bike (my ’92 Eldridge Grade). Here it is next to the latest addition…

I feel what we have to offer would suit people who wish to discover the area by bike rather just come here to challenge their riding skills.

This totally sells it to me. 🙂

Video preview of the routes to help gauge if your idea of moderate/extreme etc tallies with the rider’s.

Hire bikes with brakes set up UK style.

Pointers to local culture for those who do want to immerse themselves a bit.
Easy access to beer and food for those who don’t.

No carrying the bikes up mountains on your shoulders.

🙂

You could try and draw some back out through the valve but really – I’d leave it be if it’s sealed.

Another tip (that not everyone will agree with). I don’t do this checking/topping up business. Just ride it and carry a tube. One day it will puncture and fail. On that day fit the tube go home and then redo the tyre. It might be 6 months, it might be years.

Especially if half the songs are french. Got to be a bit ‘special’ eh?

Yep, keep splashing the goop about. It should settle down in a bit.

I’ve found if you use enough tape the tyre will be tight and will go up with a track pump (plus a bit of soapy water around the beads.

Ah right I see. 🙂

You need to put enough wraps of gorilla tape to make the tyre *very* tight to put on. If you don’t struggle a bit to get it onto the rim then you’ve not used enough tape. If you have, then the tyre will be snug against the tape and there is really no way for the air to escape. Non tubeless tyres may blow bubbles a bit until their permeability is fixed by the sealant but after that it should be rock solid.

Not this one with the bouncy fork then?
http://www.marinbikes.com/ca/blog/2017-pine-mountain-1-debut#image-3

Ah – didn’t know they’d brought out another. looks good! Not even sure how wide the bars are on mine. Wider than anything else I ride that’s fer sure. Love the bike anyway. 🙂

GavinT – odd question but are you “the neighbour with the Pine Mountain”??

PS there is a “no ukulele” rule for Sunday rides, sorry

Yep! 🙂

Of course, one can’t pedal and strum at the same time. Or can I…

Do come out and ride Stanmer one Sunday morning with us.

Yeah – I should do. Haven’t ridden there in ages!
When do you turn up? 🙂

That’s my neighbour that is. It was great, I’m glad he doesn’t do it at home though

I do it all the time! You’re probably just far away enough to be spared. 😉

I enjoyed that although my strumming finger is a bit sore. Hope I didn’t traumatise too many of you. 😀

Yes. Always.

‘Sorry to be a pendant’

Well hung are you? Don’t be ashamed.

Bad start this week! I don’t expect I’ll catch up for a bit unless Will’s got any holiday planned! 😉

Waterproof trousers not worth the extra heat. Just rub your legs with lard or something.

Yeah, I noticed that. Good effort! 🙂

Good of you – I didn’t ride yesterday so gives me a chance to catch back up! 😉

Not only did she cycle 620 miles, she also fitted in a 620 mile run and still had time for a swim AND another 62 mile ride.

She’s awesome… 😉

Just a thought but is it worth making the challenges private at some point. Not yet necessarily but in the last few days at least. Stop any dickheads jumping in at the last moment.

The top two places in this look a bit suspect atm – they don’t even appear to be cyclists?

I’m only marking commutes, shopping trips or errands as ‘transport’ ie – things that might otherwise be done in the car. But if any seem innapropriate shout and I’ll change them to something else to remove them from the challenge. 🙂

Yeah they did but I bet this isn’t one.

If it IS and you can be bothered you could disassemble the two cassettes and use the sprockets from the 7 speed and the spacers from the 6 to build a new one.