Tai Bride? 😆

Ok, so its against the highway code to undertake for one sensible reason, because the driver in the right hand overtaking lane will not expect anyone to be traveling faster up the inside, and will potentially not properly check the mirrors before moving over to the left. Thats the one and only reason you shouldnt do it, and why its acceptable when traveling in heavy congestion, when the drivers in the right hand lane can clearly expect the traffic in the left lanes may be moving quicker, and so will give moving back to the left the due care and attention it deserves.

So now consider some tit hogging the outside lane who know's your behind them and would like to pass. Why would they not move over other than to be obnoxious barstuards. They know your there, you can see that after miles and miles of clear motorway they refuse to move over, at which point its fair to say that undertaking cautiously is only a fair thing to do and that the car in front should reasonably expect such behaviour. Sure, its perhaps only stooping to their level, but why show them anymore respect then they have for the trail of traffic beind them?

The incident in question on the previous thread was a typical example of such moronic lane hoggin behaviour, with a "I own the right hand lane" attitude and "ill be **** if anyones getting past and if you dare undertake me….." In which case, why show them any respect at all? If they want to be funny buggers, and i'm willing to risk an undertake, If the worst happens, I sure as hell wont feel any guilt for their loss.

Sorry, My bad, I wrongly assumed you wanted to remove the sprockets off the freewheel, in which case I am quite right. The smallest sprocket unscrews anti-clockwise off the freewheel so you can slide off the rest of the sprockets. Did one in work the other night on a collegues bike so we could clean them up in the solvent tank. 😛

Two chain whips. One to hold the largest sprocket whilst you unscrew the smallest sprocket anti-clockwise.

Mine does the exactly the same. Cold water filled straight from the mains. Warm bathroom, cold cistern = lots of condensation, in fact a surprising amount, enough to leave the floor wet where it runs down. Dont know the answer other than hoping summer comes soon. I've thought about trying to line it with some kind of insulation as mentioned above, but Im not sure what and how or even how sucsesfull it would be?

Mister P – Member
Renton, if you are so important you need to get to work on time why not leave a little earlier instead?

Talk about completely missing the point. We are discussing peoples lack of lane disaplin, and how those who obviously have none get somewhat upset at the use of a perfectly reasonable signal to let them know of your presance as detailed in the highway code signals section part 110.

Wellgo MG1 peddals, £30 probably sheds 150gramms or more, assuming your on flats.

All areas have there little pockets of scum. I'm south manchester in Davyhulme, its very nice here with fantastic neighbours but I think I just fell lucky. You can get to some crappy areas in less than 5 minutes drive from here, but they tend not to venture over this way. Lymm would be a nice place to sell up and move too perhaps?

If your changing the pads you might aswell do the discs too. They tend to wear more at the outer edge where the speed is fastest and get thicker as you near the center of the hub. When you put new pads on an old disc against this angled face you compromise the efficency and it dosent get any better with wear. For the cost that most manufacturers will sell a complete braking set, rather than seperate discs and pads, you might as well change the lot. For example, last time I did the Astra brakes, it was £40 for the pads, or £60 for the full set of discs and pads.

Maintenance enginner, keeping the printing preses runing throughout the night so you all get your copy of the Gaurdian in the morning. Wish I printed something more entertaining tbh 😛

Romance is all about the little things. You cant just buy a bunch of flowers now and again, or book a weekend away once a year and then consider that enough to last the season. Its things like opening her car door for her, pulling up her chair, rubbing her feet while you watch a movie chilled on the sofa, make her a nice packed lunch for work, cook her a lovely candle lit meal with a cold bottle of wine when she gets in from work, tell her she looks fantastic now and again. Thats romance, a string of thoughtfull gestures, not a one off effort to redeam your lazyness every once in a while.

I have a forclaz 30 from decathelon. £35 and bloody brilliant. Nice big hard wearing foam pads keep the pack off your bag and allow ventilation and has a removable steal reinforcing bar down the center. Bladder compatable with a thin devider in the main sack for it to be stashed as well as all the pipe routing. 30 littres as you want, but comes with well designed straps for compressing it down to a very thin pack if traveling light. great little stash pokets on the waist belt, and a rain hud folded away in a zip pocket in the base of the bag. Ive used mine for riding a lot too and its very hard wearing. Extreamly good value for money I think.

http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/forclaz-30-air-3230782/#

Strange, I have a 2008 MV and the thule 590 works nice. I clamp the downtube right between the lower bottle mounts. The clamp dosent completely encompas the tube but it matches the profile at that point and as you pointed out, the top edge of the clamp is narrower so It cant pull through the buldge in the downtube profile and like you I tryed very hard, but didnt move for me? which spacers did you use in the clamp? the long or short? Done pleanty of miles with mine on the roof at distastfull speeds and its never moved. In fact it was recomended by a few other MV owners who also used the 530. 😕

Personally liking the feel of the Marin Quad link. Really does feel "bottomless" with the rising rate, and the zero chain growth beyond the recomended amount of sag means no kickback. Cant say Ive noticed any adverse pedal induced bob either. Cant see any cons of this system, but I'm sure theres something? It cant actually be perfect can it?

I lower mine for hammering down steep rocky stuff. Yea, I could leave it up and mince down I guess? Suppose it depends what floats your boat. Cant see how you soak up a jump or drop if your saddles firmly wedged up your crack. Please, explain just how you do this and keep your weight centered? No really, pics and vids or it dosent happen.

I've had some 661 evo d30 elbow pads since early last year. I think they are great for elbow pads, very very flexible, dont know your wearing them an all that, whislt giving suprising protection, as tested out with a big hammer 8O. Dont slip down and certainly dont restrict arm movment at all, unlike the veggie wings i tryed, my god they were rubbish.

Couple of offs at lee quary, cant say weather the elbow pads took any really big hits, but I've been unscathed on all ocasions, so they may have just done the job properly.

That said, I couldnt justify the cost for the evo knee pads, and went with the kyle straits for my legs. That joint articulates a lot less than the elbows, and I recon knees are subject to more impact force where the hard shell wont impeed movment as much and offer more protection.

Sorted, cheers fellas. Tiggs, ill send you an email thanks!

Just booked a cottage in Innerleithen for the first week of march. Myself and two of my mates all turn 30 that week 😯 so were dragging our Gf's up there for a bit of riding, drinking, etc. 8)

Can any locals pass on any tips for riding that area, and what the best pubs are! lol. The girls are gonna need something to do while were out on the bikes too.

I've had one since christmas and I'm really liking it! Lots of good features, and little in the way of cons other than its perhaps very very slightly on the heavy side for a modern short/mid travel FS bike. Saying that, I went from a very light hardtail to mine, and the gain in comfort and traction outways the small sacrifice in weight, I can go much further on this!

As for roof mounting bike racks, I found this a problem too, but the Thule 530 works perfectly! looks like one of the cheaper thule racks, but its twin arms stop the bike wabbeling as much and the clamp is very secure.

Gloves, pretty sure they make them in childrens sizes? 😈

maybe stuff em with some of the cotton wool you have em wrapped in? 😛

So I tried "squirt" dry lube in the summer after degreasing the nearly new chain and sprockets in the chemical bath and work. Trust me, it was very very clean. Gave the chain a couple of days to dry out and applied the lube exactly as described on their website, twice and all that….

….bloody rubbish! Went out and after less than a few miles of road and fireroad it felt bone dry, rattled and squeaked and changed gear awefully. Is that just how dry wax lube is supposed to be? or did I not shake the bottle in some magic special way before I applied it?

I really like the idea of the stuff, so please tell me what I did wrong, because Ive got a full bottle gathering dust whilst I rely on the finish line wet, which to be fair is very good.

"whats she gonna look like with a chimney on her?" – Feel it by The Tamperer featuring Maya.

WTF? The thing with this one being that I think those are the actual words, but suspect something got lost in translation? 😯

Whats the chances it will all be covered in snow tomorrow 👿

That 5mm must make sooooo much diferance 😕

Olly, I like your thinking!

Not sure the pressure would be quite as good, and long persistant use might eventually kill the pump, but for £8 you've got to have a go! You get points for ingenuity anyway 8)

59 times the pain – Member
Nah, you can just do it by hand, or at least i do

What? you must have……..

oh forget it, ill save my breath

Thankyou Jules.b and Munqe-chick 😀

I didn't want to try pulling the bb apart and breaking it when I've no spares at hand. But I'm glad to know that they are semi-maintainable and I'll take your advice and try poping the seals off next week when I can get to the local bike shop should i **** it up.

Did you machine a piece of ally bar or something as a punch to drift the bearing out from the back? Just there didn't look like much, if any lip to get a purch on the bearing from the back of the bracket?

I appreciate the replys anyhow! cheers 😀

Ive upset so many chavets by pointing at there UGGs and comenting loudly to my mates "look she's wearing slippers the scruff". Women are quite sensitive to this behaviour and the younger ones usually go quite red. Yes I'm an opinionated cock, but they are bloody awfull, and half the time the heals are buckled over and their walking like tards. Cant be good for your feet.

Round the house, great. But leave the house with them on, that grounds for divorce.

When I bought my current house, it needed a lot of work doing to it, so whilst I was refurbing the thing I was living at my parents. I went out one night, got resonably drunk but not hammered, came home and went to bed, woke up in the morning and all was well.

A week later when I was out celebrating my birthday with my mates and my siblings, when my sister says to me something along the line of "so what about you getting into bed with mum and dad!" WTF, Then something my brain had obviously tryed to protect me from remembering came rushing back.

I'd got up in the middle of the night to use the loo, then instead of going back to bed, I'd bounced my way up the middle of my mum and dads bed like a kid and got in with them. 😯 Funny they never spoke about it.

That was the start of my sleep walking…ive been in a few incidents since. 😆

Panaracer Cinders 2.25 front and rear for me. Really like the setup, loads of grip in all conditions and roll much quicker than high rollers. Thinking of replacing my worn rear with a Rampage next after reading some good recomendations.

While your up preston way, I guess Gisburn forest wouldnt be all that far away either

Ti29er, I've sent you an email with a contact for a womans bike group in the manchester area.

I enjoyed the ride off the Pike (the rocky one that scares some folk) so much I went back up and did it again!

The rock steps down from the pike dont really bother me, its the grassy bit below them in the wet that can get interesting! 😯 If it isnt your rear wheel overtaking you then its bound to be a long grass covered rabit hole that gives you a wakeup call. 😆

Did you ride the snow road across the top Muddyfox courier? We tested the snow on sunday and it was very crispy, unridable, and decided it would be a long boring push back across to the pike.

Black pudding is just so wrong…..But I bloody love the stuff!! Bacon, egg and black pudding on a barm with brown source before a long ride. Awsome…. 8)

Do mine all the time. In the words of doctor Evil, "There's nothing quite as liberating as a freshley shawn scrotum, its breathtaking i surgest you try it!"

It is both liberating and breathtaking, but I do recomend you take a long hot bath first, use a little shaving foam and a fresh razer blade, preferably a saftey blade like the popular mach range.

Waxing isnt recomended for men, as the risk of a subsiquent ingrowing hair on your sac is quite high aparently.

I installed my own gas central heating system. Much better job than a plumber could do without pricing themselves out of work. Its easy enough if your a good DIY'er, have half a brain and are more practical than academic… 😛

I installed the system with 22mm headers and 15mm branches all in copper, rather than the plastic or microbore systems most plumbers try to justify too. I'm a maintenance engineer by trade, and I work with pnumatics a lot, enough to know that speed fittings are not infalable and fail at a good rate, especially when they are a few years old and the seals, nitrile or viton, can go brittle and fail, or the fittings just weep.

Install it yourself, and if your no electritian, get one in to verify the instilation before you turn it on. Youll save a fortune.

The ride up to the pike is fine, I was there yesterday morning, a little wet, but not very muddy. perfectly rideable.

We decided not to ride the loop around the lake though, as that ride usually includes a detour around the built trail in Healy Nab and that would have been very wet and muddy and I dare say would have erroded a lot of peoples hard work, so we're staying away till its had time to dry out a little, which seems only fair.

Instead we went up the road to the top of winter hill, with a few off road detours along the way, and aimed to cross the tops back to the pike. Unfortunatly the path back over the top was deep in snow and unrideable. Was good fun blasting back down the road at scarry speeds though!

Oh yea, bike choice…I used to ride all of it on a HT, but its a lot more enjoyable on my FS! Especially on the cobles, just so much easyer to climb, and a little faster back down, perticually on the ice cream run back to the upper carpark.

Winter Hill today

I love having a cuddle in bed, we generally start the night "spooning" 8O, but my fiancee is a bit like a radiator, you snuggle in to get warm but that quickly turns to way to hot, and is off to the edge of the bed for me. Cool down a bit, move back in for a cuddle, get to hot, move back to the edge, and so the cycle starts and lasts all night, finishing with quick warming period before getting up for work.

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