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  • Greg Minnaar: Retirement 20 Questions with the GOAT
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    Just found the paintings of Shawn Thornton

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    After 20 years of depression trying just about everything out there I walked the heroes path and it literally disappeared after a day of ‘processing’ what I’d experienced. Mindfulness and meditation did nothing before the experience afterwards I ‘got it’. That was two seasons ago and I’m still entirely med free.

    It won’t be for everyone, 5g of dried P. semilanceata is an intense experience but taken once or twice a year it works for me.

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    I’m never one to do the fanboy thing but I strongly suspect I’d turn into a fawning mess if I ever met Mr Stamets.

    With the exception of the members of my family and possibly Professor Roland Griffiths I struggle to think of someone who has had such an influence on the way I think. I’m not just referring to his work with the Psilocybe genus either.

    It’s a fairly bizarre tangent to go off in in a mountain bike forum but why not!

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    Have you watched his TedMed talk from 2011? He’s got a finger in many promising medical research pies.

    He’s written some great books too, big fan of Mycelium Running

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    Paul Stamets is a genius, never listened to Joe Rogan before or since this episode but this is well worth a couple of hours of your time.

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    Hericium erinaceus contains a couple of interesting compounds called hericenone and erinacine that have been shown to promote nerve growth and restore the myelin sheathes on nerve cells. Whether there are any of these compounds within the ‘brain dust’ is anyone’s guess. Whether it contain myceliated extract or actual fruiting bodies also seems to be a mystery, there can be marked differences in levels of bioactive compounds between the two forms.

    I have no knowledge of the other ‘elite botanicals’ in this concoction and the use of such terms and the complete lack of regulation within the supplement industry would cause me to give it a wide berth as a matter of course. You’re better off just eating Hericium erinaceus, it’ll need to be cultivated though as I believe wild grown specimen are protected.

    In terms of fads I’m guilty of fasting (also promotes neurogenesis) and not much else.

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    I’ve always had a face like a bag of smashed crabs but I’m comfortable with that.

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    My last drug* fuelled all nighter was on my bike. I am also wearing some lovely Dunlop carpet slippers.

    *caffeine

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    How do I find out the type of threads on the bolt?

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    This happened to mine too, I think I got the bearing and bolt set from AMazon

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Sports-Outdoors/SRAM-Bearing-Bearings-Hardware-11-5018-023-000/B00TTLHXXS

    It’s the part listed as 2 and 4 in this diagram

    https://static.bike-components.de/cache/p/z1/5/1/SRAM-Guide-RSC-B1-Brake-Lever-Spare-Parts-2017-2-black-51907-173346-1486645566.jpeg

    If I knew more about bolt lengths and threads chances are that I could have picked the bolts up infinitely cheaper.

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    Thanks for that, I now have a mental image of the OP applying fork parts to his Chalfonts 😯

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    You can guide the cable from insertion to its eventual exit from the frame with a couple of neodymium magnets if the hoover and thread trick doesn’t work.

    Worked with my PX N2a

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    What length stems are you guys running? I have flat bars with 55mm stem and the reach is huge.

    Don’t ask me I flipped the stem, slammed it and put a Jones bar on there 🙄

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    Cracking bike, I love mine good layout and feels nice to ride. I’ve ridden allsorts of stuff on mine but it’s principal use so far has been ‘from the door’ bikepacking trips.

    I’ve done metric and imperial tons on it super happy.

    Edit: I’m 188cm and a large fits me – not much use but worth adding incase taller forumites fancy one

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    What’s a coffee tamper? In nearly 40 years I’ve never knowingly tamped anything. I fear I may be missing out.

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    Much easier just to write a custom function and use that

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    Nature Valley bars – why do they have hay ricks in field of grass?

    McCains Oven Chips – Scarecrows in a field of potatoes?

    Edit: The inneficiency of Chuggington gets on my wick too!

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    Pah, Never! What will I do instead, give it all up and have a nice quiet heart attack whilst shopping on a Sunday morning? Go to my grave stinking of beige, mundanity and daytime television?

    Well **** that (pardon my French) do whatever you’re comfortable with, do whatever you’re uncomortable with. Ride a bike, buy a skateboard, climb a mountain whatever you want and do it until you exclaim ‘wow!’

    We get one bite at the cherry, better make it a good one because we’re all worms meat in the end.

    Edit: I’m also available for kids parties, bar mitzvahs and christenings 😯

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    Fleet Moss from the south isn’t bad, you can get breathers between the steep bits, the descent is very fast but watch out for sheep wandering across the road.

    Watch yourselves there as they’ve been digging and the road was copvered in gravel the other week.

    There was a landslip on the road just after Gunnerside a few weeks ago but it should have been sorted now.

    It was still there last weekend and some teddybears are having a picnic on top of it…..which was nice

    Enjoy.

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    I’d be interested in answers to this, I’ve just decided not to renew my membership next month either.

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    I had the mother of all tankslappers on once, turns out my wheel wasn’t in the rear dropouts correctly.

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    26 plus has been a thing since the Nokian Gazzaloddi and On One have the baby fatty which is 24×4.

    Aint no new thing, to quote somebody else.

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    yup tyres are generally good for general riding, round ones and usually black. Try halfords.

    For best results apply one to either end of your bike

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    Shimano have always felt a little on/off to me, given that you like 4 pots and modulation have you considerd Sram guides?

    Bags of modulation and bags of power

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    After beating down my immune system with 100km on the fat bike I got chicken pox, deep joy!

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    What tyre?

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    Coming soon, new and improved, Muc Off ‘Magic Beans’ simlar to beans the Sky team may have once looked at*.

    Only £199.99

    *Sky bean glancing may not have actually happened.

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    Get in!

    I see you’ve been making great strides since you left On One [/quote]

    Yes, things have really grown in the trouser department lately

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    IIRC guides are designed so that one set of pistons hit the disc before the other set as kind of a ‘toe in’ effect like on the old canti brakes.

    Messing around with the pistons may mess this up and cause moresqueal than it solves. Just a thought.

    I found the OEM pads to be cack, they glazed over and would not be un glazed no matter how much I sanded. They seemed to leave a film on the disc that caused the squealing

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    For optimal results I recommend two, apply one to each wheel and ride.

    In all seriousness you’re asking for the impossible, you want grippy for aggressive trail riding but smooth rolling for XC.

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    Biff – that’s possibly the most elequent and well reasoned post I’ve seen on here, cheers 🙂 .

    I’m off to see if I can put a Jones bar on my fat bike now.

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    Will you be completing it on Mr Hoppy?

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    Specificity – if you want to ride faster up hills then practice riding faster up hills.

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    I’m in!

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    Dossing down on the trail is the order of the day, I can deal with that.

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    Been giving this one some thought I need to do something that will challenge me this year.

    I’ve never done bikepacking before but it appeals, I’ve read the kit list but what sort of gear did you take along last year and where did you camp / bivvy?

    Edit: will I die if I attempt it on a fat bike?

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    Too soon to say Bowie?

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    Provided a very useful helping hand for a while 1-2 years. Gave me headspace to get my stuff together and address the causes.

    Oh and watch the numb lips when you come off it, mine wasn’t a textbook taper but it wasn’t cold turkey either.

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    I think ‘Stunningly gorgeous’ were the words you were searching for

    Best gastrocnemii on the idiot lantern

    Victoria Coren is also far too smug for her own good

    I heard that when he and David Mitchell tied the knot they had to have the house walls re-inforced to cope with the unprecedented levels of smugness it’d have to contain

    Edit: Her brother needs a good kicking, he’s supposedly a food critic and he can’t eat with his mouth shut. If I was a restaurateur I’d refuse him entry for that alone.

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