Just for balance I loved the ending!

Fresh = fun

Old and frozen/ compacted – not a lot of fun

Try hammering your Allen key into the rounded off bolt first – cleat bolts fill up with mud. Clear as much as you can with a knife or something – then hammer in your Allen key. I’ve found that you can access fresh unrounded off bolt doing this and get it out

I often get up at 6:30, riding by 7 ish. Will ride for up to 2 hours (luckily I don’t have to be at my desk till 10 and I live a 5 minute ride from work)

In the winter when the trails freeze overnight, but warm up during the day – it’s by far the best time to ride

I prefer riding before work – afterwards I’m usually just wanting to veg out or go out.

I struggle for motivation when it’s muddy though.

It’s not really “training” though – just riding cos I like riding

whatever you think about the magazine that is an interesting article

I do enjoy a bit of pop economics

my chrome bag is about 5 or 6 year old now and still going strong as ever – waterproof as anything. The seatbelt style of the buckle is the best for fast on/ off adjustments

I just put my work laptop in a sleeve inside the main bag – loads of room for shopping etc. i have had some crazy big packages etc in it

I recently got a timbuk 2 x-small for when I just want to carry my d lock/ a book/ gloves/ lights/ whatever. It’s fine but compared to the quality of the chrome it’s like a toy. And the top of the bag “gapes” open a little – meaning water would almost certainly get in in a downpour. Seems like careless design to me. The buckles, clips and method of adjustment feel over complicated and flimsy compared to the chrome as well

I worked there for about 6 months in 1997 (on the switchboard – with the death of Diana it was an interesting time to be taking calls from the public)

It was an amazing place – I often just used to wonder around at lunchtime, peeking into studios, spotting newsreaders and kids tv presenters , checking out the blue Peter garden etc

I think it’s a very poor decision – and one the corporation will come to regret in time

Richer sounds sell a perfectly decent one for about £20

It’s what a got when I realised that the option marked “phono” on my amp wasn’t actually a phone stage

Having said that I intend to upgrade to the one Rega do for about £80 at some point – I’m sure it will sound a bit better and it has a USB out so you can transfer to MP3 as well

You’re just describing an annoying person. There are loads of Americans I would rather share with than any number of British people.

Whatever the current mrs can get from work (I seem to have a habit of marrying/ dating medical professionals)

Take a look at the videos on the stans site for tips on the correct way to fit tyres

You need to get the bead of the tyre into the central channel.

To be fair to a lot of these people – the forecast was not that bad, and it wasn’t snowing when they left for work in the morning. Most people were just trying to get home from work

Cheryl Baker on the other hand decided to drive from Kent to brighton to “help” her grow up kids who have already had an accident in the snow – she is an idiot

R6 podcasts don’t actually feature any music though

grum – Member
Climachx is great fun – but short. Its done and dusted in an hour or so
15km off road with 380m of climbing in an hour? I know I’m pretty unfit but that sounds very fast to me.

I did say an hour or so. It’s been a couple of years – but it definitely wasn’t any longer than 75 minutes

kayak23 – Member
Has anyone any thoughts on using Vaseline?
I used it recently as an emergency lube on a long trip.
Bad? Good?
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Sounds like a crazy trip!

martinhutch – Member
If the record industry dies on its arse due to piracy, will we simply be left with people who write and record music simply for the love of it and wanting to share that with others, rather than rubbish bands and artists whose sole focus is record deals and stadium tours?

There have always been very talented people out there who are unable to ‘monetise’ their work. This would actually level the playing field while handily disposing of several million tons of manufactured shite

This is very untrue. I agree no one will cry if Justin Bieber can’t make a living anymore – but there are lots and lots or artists that just “get by” – making money touring, selling their music etc. You would be suprised how many bands are barely able to keep going

Grizzly Bear are a relatively high profile band who claim not to be able to afford health insurance

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If they all had to get day jobs – they wouldn’t be able to buy equipment, they wouldn’t be able to spend as mush time writing and recording, they wouldn’t be able to get time off to tour. I don’t want my music to be made exclusively by bedroom musicians.

This argument is not about manufactured music – this will always exist. It’s about keeping the good stuff

Climachx is great fun – but short. Its done and dusted in an hour or so

I did Mach2 once – found it annoying TBH. Lots of descending on tarmac. Frustrating because it’s a great area and I just felt I was being taken on a poor route round it. Also don’t expect to be signposted round Mach 1/2/3 trail centre style – there are signs but they are small and easy to miss. Take an OS map

sorry mate this is nonsense. I LOVE music,I love all the tunes on my HD, otherwise I wouldn’t have got them regardless of the means of acquisition.

Then pay for it! I have no quarrel at all with someone like Dez who uses blogs etc to find new music and I’m sure spends plenty on his subscriptions etc. I do the same sort of stuff

But someone with an HD full of music downloaded entirely for free “because they can” is just a freeloader. That music doesn’t appear from nowhere – someone sweated over it and deserves to be paid

I’ve never paid £18 for a cd in my life, has anyone?

Spotify is fine for previewing music, but artists get a pittance from them so don’t kid yourself that it’s a substitute for buying music

Recording from the radio is a grey area I think – the key difference though is you have no control over what is played. You can’t just grab an artists entire back catalogue like in a torrent site.

I think people who illegally download music can’t value it very much. This is a shame – but I do suspect that if they were unable to do it they would just be taping their mate’s CDs or whatever

People who love it pay for it in some way or another, those that don’t, don’t. it’s always been like this

WYWH – for a few reasons tied up with my childhood

I recently took possession of my step-father’s vinyl copy – the one I listened to as a kid, both from the vinyl and via a copy I made on a C60

listening to it again is so comforting – i think I know all the crackles. My CD copy just wasn’t the same

In an early episode they make a joke about the blossom actress being a neuroscientist now

My kids and I watch a lot of Big Bang!

The rules are totally based on looking “pro” – when riding in a grand tour no one needs to use a saddle bag as they have a support car

Plenty of “pros” use saddle bags when out on training rides – just make sure it doesn’t rattle

Yep – season 5 pt 1 is ace. Can’t wait for it to start up again

Count Zero – were you at the Brighton Calexico show? It was rather fantastic

What about some fast, spikey, raucous ones

You really got me – the kinks

Whole lotta love – led zep

Taxman – The Beatles

Whole lotta Rosie – acdc

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Everything that Greene King have bought over the years has gone pretty badly (the list is pretty long) and the beers that Marstons have bought have not fared much better (the list is also pretty long).
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bikebouy – Member
Old Speckled Hen.
For some reason, unbeknown to me, it’s lost a lot of its flavour and for some reason gotten a lot stronger..

Hen is one of the beers now made by Greene King. I grew up in moorland country, but can’t really comment on the changing character of old speckled hen as I was too busy making myself vomit drinking Stella at the time

given a choice of boring lager to choose between (stella, kroneburg, heineken etc etc) I would go for an american budweiser every time though

When served cold out of a bottle, its fizzy blandness can be very refreshing.

Whereas stella etc just taste rank to me now

I’m officially an old man now though as I tend to limit my drinking to pubs with decent ale on tap

I prefer Rumours/Tusk fleet wood mac to Peter green era. California/ cocaine insanity/ inter band affairs and divorce is far more interesting than PGFM which is just stodgy pub rock really

Oh. That’s rubbish.

Loved” the good life” and “ever decreasing circles” as a kid. They were shows the whole family watched and laughed at, 3 generations

Not a band but Van Morrison – 70s albums are amazing, everything I’ve heard from 80s onwards is awful.

Something awful happened to Stevie Wonder around the time of ebony and ivory and I just called to say I love you

Michael Jackson – the ultimate descent from genius to utter awfulness

REM just got really boring and samey

To be honest I like it when bands split up – it’s very hard to stay good without descending into a lazy parody of yourself

Only right wing lunatics say it was made up. No idea how many of them live in modern Germany, but there are plenty elsewhere

i have 3 kids and I agree with thx

he is right when he says that being a parent does not make your opinion more or less valid

If Venables was brutalised before the murder, then it just makes him another victim. I don;t think locking up a kid was ever the answer.

Yes – I have one. Bike rack on the roof for when the boot is proper full – 3 kids.

It’s been good – would be tempted by a mondeo or similar for the extra space next time though – but the focus is fine

I do. I can hear cars approaching from behind just fine – wind is far more likely to make it hard to hear cars

I also use my eyes to check behind me when I need to – as everyone should, headphones or not

Mean Streets is ace, but nothing much actually happens. I’m fine with this, you may not be

As above OUATIM is a re-run of desperado

Infernal Affairs didn’t really hold my attention, watch if you like Hong Kong style cinema. It’s not as good as The Departed

North by northwest is fantastic

Not seen Django, but I intend to watch it soon

Unfortunately, much like the word Gay, its been hijacked and given all sorts of connotations which weren’t there originally. Presumably, as an excuse for PC retards to leap about and make stupid statements without understanding either the historical context or reality.

You sound like you want to be able use the word in company, which is an odd thing to want

As mentioned above – the film is most likely not released because of the whole “uncle Tom” thing, which is far more significant in the us than here.