Great looking bike, any possibilty of putting a line of moving LEDs on the front and getting the bike to make Cylon noises, would be a laugh for night rides! 😀

I might trail round with the gnarly-jumpy group and take pictures if that's OK with you lot?

Must remember to cut the buttocks out of my Lyra shorts! 😈

It would be nice if folk wrote their forum name/real name on a sticky label and stuck it on their jacket

… err you are expecting STW forummers to WRITE! Good God what ever next.. 😀

No probs riding a Saracen I do all the time, Saracen Zen2, apart from the shoddy Hayes brakes (replaced with Shimano) it has served me well.

Swinley Forest Ride Jan 2009

Here is the link to Garmin center for the ride done in January this year, you can either load into any compatible GPS unit or print it out via Google earth/ Mapmyride/ Biketoaster ect…

Please note this was the route taken by the 'Lost Tribe' so it does repeat itself 😀

Yep, Hitch Hikers Guide, Slartibartfast designed the earth, was particularly proud of the fjords

I think he even got an an award for it!

Thank you Graham S for your graph, indeed this shows falling infant mortality due to measles due mainly to increased living standards. What is not mentioned is the infant disabilty caused by measles, this is what the jab is for.
Looking at the WHO statistics we have

Ref:www.who.int/immunization_monitoring/diseases/big_measles_global_coverage

At lest my graph is referenced unlike the Informed Parent one

Small Pox
Diptheria
Measles, Mumps and Rubella
Whooping cough
Polio
Tetanus
Hep A and B
Yellow Fever
Tuberculosis
… all either reduced or their effect on the whole community reduced.

moutaincarrot go to a local grave yard and see the average life expectancy for a child in the mid 18th Century and you will relise why they had to have so many children

Jenner you are a hero for showing vaccination works for smallpox

As for 'Dr' Andrew Wakefield he was paid by the solicitors of the families affect by autism to carry out the reaserch.

Goto: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_schedule]
and compare worldwide childhood deaths to UK childhood deaths

Torq Natural Pink Grapefruit in a Camlebak, tastes like a margarita! The Torq bars are good tasting and easy to unwrap on the move.
Cosr effective end try Boots isotonic range.

cinnamon_girl, count me in plus one
Saracens HO! (niche bike- I think therefore I am bike)

Count me in, the temprature should be warmer this time, just swimware me thinks ;{)

Had a set on my Saracen Zen, swopped them out for Shimano and have not had to change them since. As mentioned before pistons were seazed so would needed replacment. Not the most eviromentally friendly brake fliud either.

yes it is a Cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, see official photo here http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/c/cuckoo/index.asp 😀

…bigger pipe I guess

Mo-wett et Chandon is how the French would pronounce as they do not have the word ‘and’ in their lexicon, this link should give some idea.

Thats why I order Taittinger so much easier to pronounce.
Anyway how do you pronounce Cipollini as in ‘Mario Cipollini’

Try this site.

http://www.altecweb.com/home.asp?cat=Subcategory4200

I have being looking on the web as I think earmould tubing used with hearing instruments would work (don’t ask how I know). You can get 30m for £9-£20 GBP. 🙂

You will have to be riding one of these, waaay to cool for me though 🙂

…forsooth, jeepers, KV (beware), chaps and blimey

try http://www.biklely.com or http://www.mapmyride.com there might br some rides on there in the area

I had this problem with a steel Bianchi. In the end the local bike shop sent it to an engineer, who sawed the seat post off, tapped a large thread into the seat post and then screwed in a nut. Then using spanner removed the seatpost by tightening the nut.Au and steel do not mix using copper slipgreae will stop them from binding together.

I have had the same problem with Hayes, eventually my local bike shop replaced them with Shimanos, and I have not had a problem since. You can get replacement pistons but it would require a bleed kit as well.
Edited for grammar

Panracers, have used them on sand and mud with very good grip

Keep riding, otherwise you will succum to the problems of inactivity. Increase weight would be a major problem with OP as would increasing problems with your heart and general mental wellbeing.
Visit your local gym and see if they have a regime using weights/ resitance, as this has been proven to improve bone density.

http://www.nof.org/prevention/exercise.htm

piedi di formaggio – Member
I find the proper cleaning kit a bit lacking as the ‘pipe cleaner’ bit is shorter than the hose

I disconnect the hose from the bladder end then past the ‘pipe cleaner’ through both ends. Clean with soapy water, rinse, put in disinfectant fluid, rinse and then hang up to dry. The drying bit is important because most airbourne mould (black stuff) thrive in damp, glucose rich (your sports drink) environments. Repeat the procedure for the bladder, bite valve and tap.
When all dry then reassemble.
It did occur to me, you could cut the tube to the same length as the ‘pipe cleaner’!

In a shop at Weston Super Mare

Good God I lernt how to drive on one of those…
A MF I think, with a starter knob on the gear tunnel, down by your foot.

or this…
http://www.stroh.co.uk/stroh/images/stroh_original_80.jpg
80% alchol by volume.

Do buy a pickup truck, wear dungarees, call yourself Rab, Bo or Gunner and run for the county line! Listen to Steve Earle and the Dukes.
I have brewed beer for many years and found it very satifying, a least you know whats going into youR drink, unlike laegers.
Beware it can be very very strong.
Avoid distilling, the methanol makes you blgfdsrvaHSTSN… WHERE’S THE KEYBOARD GONE 😀

PendulumHold your Colour
Joe Satriani Surfing with the Alien
N.W.A Gotta Get Outta Compton
Cobra Starship While the City Sleeps

Email sent with Edge 705 data as a .tcx file

Olympus Mons would be a great ride

… never met her.
Also very very salty amd akaline, so steel framed bike out of the question. Plus coming back home, round trip of 9 months, immigration would be a nightmare! Heathrow would lose you bike and bags.

H and S…
a good example when everyone just runs!

or this…

or when H and S signage goes mad…

😀

they shoot frozen chickens into jet engines to test them, strange but true. [\quote]

I think the story (urban myth) went along the lines of that they test the cockpit window with dead chickens fired from a cannon. A test center ran out of chickens and sent someone down to purchase more. They came back and recommenced testing, only to find the chickens going straight through the window. On examination the chickens had not been defrosted first. No as bad as the test, where they loaded the cannon with a chicken, went for lunch, fired the cannon after lunch, only to find the cockpit window covered in blood, fur and guts. The theory was the a cat had climbed into the cannon was eating the chicken when… 😳

Great calander this year, good reviews on out of the way trips in Europe and Canada. As most people have pointed out, written in a very engaging way.

PS Ed do I get my free subscription now? 🙂

I am using a Oregon ATC5K, but had to purchase a skatebord helmet to get the righ angle, good quality about 1.5 hours on a 4Gb card. However need lithium batteries for cold weather.

nicko74 I think you have to log on to your Garmin account then [upload] to your Garmin device, then download to your computer or Garmin Traing Center.

diam Sherwood Pine pah! neaver got about -5C in Swinley 🙂

Probally looking 100 euros for 2 week hire. I have MBed in Fuertventura, Carnary Islands, going back this year with Thompsons, bike going over with me for £35.
Cost of bike bag £60
Joy of riding your bike in a strange land… priceless 😀

giantjason
Does anyone have a gps/gpx of the ride as i couldnt get and wanted to find out where certain sections/trails were?

Check my Garmin link on page 11 as well. No extras just two laps of the Labarynth, part of the ‘Lost Tribe’ 🙂
Saracens Ho!

nicko74

Cheers for the Garmin tracklogs, too – I meant to take mine but forgot. Not sure I believe the claimed 827 Calories burned – maybe in 25C it would be!

This due to the 418m (1300 ft) of climbing done, and in cold weather you burn extra calories just keeping warm. Also the 418m of climbing was done by a 81kG male on a 25kG machine using roughly 270 watts Ref http://www.analyticcycling.com. 🙂

I am a great beliver in Duck tape, couple of times aroung the frame should be as good as new.
Disclaimer Not evrything thing I post should be taken seriously
Saracens Ho! 😈

mrmichaelwright
see where 40 forum members went at:

Great time had by all, -7c to begin with warmed up to -4c at the end, though.