Use hussle.com and get a day pas for whichever gym you like – I used to use it all the time, but haven’t for a while as I no longer work away from home.

Lowey has it I reckon

As above, 6 months at 3 sessions a week is about right. Get mine re-soled at cobblers and coffee in Plymouth and the re-sole seems to last longer than the original. Takes them about 8 working days to turn them around.

Currently black diamond method s and Scarpa VSR both holding up well for me if you’re looking for a moderately aggressive shoe.

Boreal joker lasts forever, and evolv Elekra also good if you’re after something less aggressive.

5:10 climbing shoes don’t hold up since the addidas takeover IMO, but they do fit me super well which is a shame. Couple of friends have gone through the kirigami at the toe, and not that impressed.

<p style=”text-align: left;”>I used to use JEFIT – it’s pretty good, lots of options like a workout calendar, massive database of exercises, progress tracker, pre built programmes etc</p>
Pen and notepad is less hassle, and have gone back to that.

Anyone for a game of corson?

“CORSON”: THE RULES

My edge had a similar problem – the set points can go a bit awry. Mine used to go to 0% then truck on for another 4 hours.

The fix was run it until it switches off with a dead battery, turn it on a few times (basically get the battery to as dead as it can be) then do the factory reset/button combo and that should do it.

Yeah the redwoods (Whakarewarewa Forest) just outside of Rotorua are ace and should be fine in winter. Sticky woods just outside (15mins ride) of Wanaka will probably still be ok – but would have thought all the bike parks would be shut, and most stuff on the South Island pretty crappy for riding in winter. There might be skiing/boarding if that’s your bag.

In my experience, outdoor kit hire was way cheaper and easier than in the UK, so might be worth considering ditching either the boards or bikes to make life easy – assuming places still rent over winter.

2005 Renault modus in gold. £475, 66k, mine since early 2020. Looks like the popemobile, drives like the popemobile with a shagged clutch. Absolutely terrible in every regard. I love it. Bangernomics is ace.

Are you like the some people who have posted on this thread whose happiness is literally inversely correlated to the BTC price so the more it dumps the happier they get (they never confirmed this but presumably the more it pumps the sadder they get)?

This is me! Cryptocurrency preys on the financially illiterate and the desperate. It is literally a negative sum game. The sooner this shit burns to the ground the better.

GTFO while you can :)

As above really, financially rewarding and I’ve travelled the world for a decade or so on someone else’s money, but it’s cost friends and relationships. Have also seen plenty of people crash and burn. Could see it hitting me hard in a few years, so made the jump back to a job where I my commute is 6 miles. Lots of regrets doing it, but lots of regrets if I hadn’t. Mixed bag really.

Not really no – you’ll need the music/audio/whatever files in MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, or FLAC format.
You can convert from spotify to these formats but its very un-official.

Its like an old school mp3 player – you need the files.

NFTs are like the beanie baby market in the 90s. Except you don’t get the actual beanie baby, you just get the receipt proving you paid for it. All whilst consuming the power of a medium size country – neat!

The Blockchain is like a regular database, with much lauded benefits that never seem to materialise.

Crypto is a massive rug pull, sure lots of people made money, lots of people lost money, and when it crashes it’s going to be a disaster. It does nothing better than fiat. I’m looking forward to the day that tether gets audited and to no one’s surprise they don’t have the cash they claim to.

All this stuff is just Herbalife for tech bros – the reason they love talking about it is they need more people on board to keep propping it up.

I have.

Think I paid £80 for someone to write up my CV, with a bit of email chit chat before hand. It was shit – but I work in a technical field, might have been better if it aimed a wider market. Ultimately canned about 90% of it.

Did you somehow post a link to an email?

You might want to amend the link, because your email address is exposed there.

https://gorillabrakes.com/
https://tibike.co.uk/

Use code 20off

Anyone who has ever owned, looked after, or spent any time with a dog has done this.

Trends and forecasting. What’s selling, what isn’t, at what price points is stuff selling, what are the margins on the areas you identify. What’s going to be the next gravel?

Customer profiles – who’s spending money and what are they buying.

Focus on facts and numbers.

Foil shaver does that for me. It’s a pretty annoying thing to use though it does have a built in beard trimmer thing.

Shropshire.

Stop in Ludlow, nice food/drink.

Ride: long mynd and stiperstones for natural, hopton and eastwood for waymarked TC, bringewood and Bucknell for enduro/DH options.

ANC = active noise cancelling.

It’s a circuit that has a mic on the outside of the buds, and will try to cancel out what it hears. Really useful if you’re in a train/plane/buzzy place. Less good where outside sounds are variable, and rubbish on the bike. It’s not all equal – Sony and Bose are way head of the others when it comes to ANC.

Stay away from skullcandy, any decent audio brand will have good options. Dodge anything with a wire connecting the buds.

Yes they stay in, ideally you’d be able to check fit before buying, everyone’s ears are different. If you can’t, go for something that will take a memory foam tip – £3 for a set on eBay and they’ll be bombers. Jabra are great – they cut their teeth in the exercise headphones arena. Wireless is a game changer, especially for active people.

Colleague of mine did on a work trip to Mozambique last year. 2 weeks isolation in a converted shipping container on a mine with 500mb a day internet allowance – grim.

LEZ is for coaches/vans/commercial diesel vehicles. If you were in a regular car, you won’t have to pay LEZ

Thread on this here: https://sellercentral-europe.amazon.com/forums/t/poor-seller-support/471947/9

The code you’re trying to use gets converted to a tracking number by the looks of it. It should be 16 numerical digits and under the barcode on the label.

Hermes tracking codes are 16 digits, but they’re usually all numbers. Are you entering the correct thing?

Where are people riding to need 3000 lumens on the bars only?

Basically everywhere I’d ride a bike downhill. It’s not that I need it, it’s that I want the experience to be as close to daylight as possible.

It won’t be quite as powerful, but it will still be plenty. Shadows won’t be an issue so long as you get the mounting right. Sounds a bit faffy though, so depends on your tolerance.

Splurging on nice lights gets you more lumens, but (imho more importantly) it also gets you less faff – for example my lights have a wireless bar remote, it controls the helmet light and bar light simultaneously, and it only has 2 modes – low and high. Customised to exactly how I like it. Less to charge, more reliability, better mounting, better weatherproofing, better batteries, more sensible controls.

Lumens are nice, but not the be all and end all of mtb lights. They are spenny, but worth considering.

There’s nowt on the mynd that needs an enduro bike – take the hardtail.

Coconut milk, 1 can in a pan, mix in 4 tbl spoons of mild curry powder, 2tsp tumeric, some salt and pepper. Reduce down till its a bit thicker, pour over cauli, leave it for a few hours then oven roast, lime juice at the end.

What a tragic and horrible accident. I’ve got 15+ years on the water, a few friends I’ll not see again and many many good times here. I’ve been SRTA-W and WRT qualified and made a living(ish) from the river for a few years in my 20s.

The thing that sets moving water aside from other adventure sports is how dynamic the environment is – and it takes years of experience to be able to look at water and work out what is happening below the surface and exactly how dangerous a feature is. What was safe yesterday or an hour ago may not be safe now.

That’s what I thought initially, not knowing much about kayaking. But then, as a few others have pointed out. It’s after heavy rain that it gets fun.

The relationship between water level and difficulty/fun is not always a linear one. Some sections can be easy at low water, get harder as the levels come up, and then all the features wash out and it just becomes fast and flat over a certain level. Understanding where and when to paddle and where and when to go home is a really tough learning experience for so many paddlers, especially when ego, peer pressure and time comes into play.

To anyone on this thread considering getting into whitewater – it will take you places you cant imagine (or even access otherwise), with amazing people, but go safe, go humble, and go educated and experienced.

Contact his family, express condolences, talk about stu.

Find out his favourite beverage

Go for a bike ride

Drink the beverage

Think about your departed friend

Breathe out, you’ve done nowt wrong, enjoy the memories, feel sad/happy/whatever you feel.

The guilt will fade with time – use it to shape how you interact with people going forward.

Plenty out there on the internet – and loads of the goods in grizedale begin in graythwate, which is 2 miles spin up a country road.

It’s just letting you know there’s an open call – they haven’t targeted you specifically, your data has been scraped from somewhere along with thousands of others. Anyone is free to send something in.

If you write something shit they’re just going to read 5 words and bin it.

Give it a few full cycles and see how it behaves. Batteries can be a bit funny on the first couple of cycles.

Natural/XC:
Stiperstones (combine with Eastridge)
Long mynd (waymarked)

Waymarked/TC:
Eastridge
Hopton

Enduro/DH (Not waymarked):
Mortimer
Shelve (tiny area)
Bucknell
Bringewood
The Wrekin (avoid if it’s busy with walkers)

Shop: Pearce cycles
Eat: pub by the bridge in ludlow
Drink: Ludlow brewery

Stretch, go easy, make sure your shoes fit and aren’t worn out and run off the tarmac if you can!

I used to work in civils (geotechnical), did a lot of work with drillers and now work in the water industry.

I’ve just looked that company up – looks like a provider of specialist technical services. I used to do a similar role.

My experience was: brutal work, unreal amounts of time driving, likely a few hotel stays a week, regular drug and alcohol testing, the absolute destruction of your social life, regular mobbing on a Sunday night, and if he’s drilling it’ll possibly be being paid by the meter.

Massive red flag – as above, how can they offer him a job, salary, van etc and be self employed.

There’s going to be a catch here – could be no holiday, has to pay for fuel himself, has to pay for insurance himself, hotel stays if needed, salary based on “estimated workload” etc etc.

Might be like my explore where the battery hits 0% and then it just keeps trucking for about 6 more hours.

Check that it actually does switch off when it hits 0 – if it doesn’t you can recalibrate the battery meter by making sure it’s properly empty, then doing a factory reset. Instructions online somewhere.

Lived in that area for a decade and still visit sometimes – it’s shit for pubs and restaurants. Even the surrounding bigger towns are crappy for food and the takeaways are crap too.

Never tried it but I have heard good things about yr hwb in Bala (newish), and I know the setting is nice. Stori on the high street is good for a local craft/hipster brew.

If I hook up my explore to the HR monitor it gives about half the calories burned than without HR on a road ride.

On a mtb ride it’s about 30% more when I hook up the HR monitor.

All calorie counting devices are making assumptions – HR removes just one (although it’s a big one and as noted not always a bang on measurement anyway). Road/trail conditions, bike type, tyre type etc etc all make a difference.