What about a spot of off roading? There are 2 or 3 interesting spots and you can hire bikes.

I found the HK Mountain Bike Assocation team very helpful on trails, etc:
http://www.hkmba.org/

Graham, if I have understood your diagram properly I believe:

1) Some liquid will flow out of the top container into the bottom container due to the effects of gravity (we call it liquid head)

2) As this happens the vapour in the lower container will be squeezed and it’s pressure will increase. Some of the vapour will condense, and the heat of condensation will warm the remaining gas, so it is now gas at a higher pressure.

3) In parallel the opposite will happen to the vapour in the top container – it will expand, cool and and up at a lower pressure.

4) Soon the pressure difference between the two vapour pockets will be equal and opposite to the gravity effect and the liquid will stop flowing.

5) In the longer term the flow of liquid will continue very slowly from the top container to the bottom one, as the differences in temperature tend even out and the pressures in both vapour spaces try to return to their original values. Depending on the size of the original vapour spaces and the properties of the liquid, the original vapour space could disappear entirely.

Please do not try this at home with any sort of pressurised flammable liquids.

Anybody got advice on running these tubeless?

I see some posts have said that for the 33mm rims use Stans Downhill rim strip, but that only seems to come with a schrader valve fitted, not a presta.

Will the Lite Bike rims accept a schrader valve?

OP: Yes

A couple more ideas:
1. Newlands Corner. Flat ride along NDW east or west and cafe / loos and brilliant view at car park.

2 Denbies – up the Tarmac path to the top of the vineyard, great views of Box Hill, then back to the car park for tea at the visitor centre, or round the corner at Pilgrims Cycles by Box Hill railway station.

flyingmonkey – if you pee a lot you are not dehydrated.

Drinking that much might make you over hydrated, and cause you to have low salt levels. The hydration tablets should help with avoiding low salt levels. But also, dont drink so much.

But whether that is causing your headache is a different matter.

Anybody everyplace done the Sawmill climb? That’s the steep one heading west out the sawmill end of Honeysuckle Bottom near Horsley.

I’ve never got more than about 2/3rds up before dying, but I suspect on the right day , not too wet not too dry, somebody could do it.

With thanks to “nbt”.

The legendary D’Andy at Gatton Park:

2 Dandy and bluebells at Gatton 210414 by muddymoles[/url], on Flickr

At Gatton Park, Reigate:

OK – how do you post a decent image here from Flickr?

If it’s got pretty gross a few sessions soaking fully of miltons will do it over a few days.

After that a quick rinse and then a Denture cleaning tab for an hour or so seems to keep it clean. I prefer denture tabs to miltons because I get the impression they are milder, which I prefer if all I want to do is keep the already clean Camelbak staying clean.

+1 what ComradeD says, that’s what I always use.

For the full answer read Money Saving Expert:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheap-travel-money

I travel quite a bit and rely exclusively on a Halifax credit card for getting foreign cash from an ATM when abroad. If you get the right credit card it’s by far the best rate, much better than an exchange bureau:

http://travelmoney.moneysavingexpert.com/

Too late

The Surrey Hills, just 15miles from London.

Count Zero – that is fascinating.

Thanks guys – some very helpful suggestions.

without reading the link – no

But actually reading what he says, the opposite is true!

There is only a 2.4% chnace of us seeing this in 8years, so “For whatever reason, this is therefore a surprising cluster”

It’s not really looking at the bigger picture, is it?

But it’s useful to resort to having some facts before discussing the bigger picture.

Hijacking the post a little bit – can anybody suggest good areas of Dalby to ride?

We’re off to my sister’s for Christmas at Thornton e Dale just south of Dalby. And Mrs R says if I am good I can bring my bike and she might let me go out to play in the forest for a few hours.

So as somebody who knows nothing about Dalby, and prefers XC to downhill, any areas or routes in Dalby you would suggest?

In fact it WAS a Court Martial at the Military Court Centre in Bulford, Wiltshire, and he was tried by a panel of army personnel.

In WW2 people were Court Martialed for similar offences and if there is an apparently clear case of murder of an enemy prisioner it is difficult to say they should not be tried by the military against the rules they are expected to follow.

Having found him guilty, the situation he may have been in should be taken into account in the sentance.

Thanks to everybody who suggested iRideAfrica. I had a great Saturday morning out with Jennie in the Jonkershoek near Stellenbosch and I would definitely recommend them.

The only thing that works for me is contact lenses. If it’s raining or foggy, that’s what I’d use instead of glasses.

Thanks all for your suggestions – JR

You might find this website covers the details on Vit D:

Your body was designed to generate its own Vit D through the skin, but in the UK you need strong sunlight direct on the skin between Apr-Oct around 1100-1500. Up north the time preiod is a bit more restricted, down south in midsummer a bit longer. But make sure you don’t get to the point where you get any redness – normally 10-15mins several times a week. There just is not enough UV of the necessary wavelength during the other months. Sunlight (specifically blue light) on the retina is makes melatonin, which is nothing to do with Vit D, it’s about sleep cycles and jet lag. Exposure through glass or plastic will not be effective for vitamin D, but will for melatonin.

A very few specific foods, mainly oliy fish, have significant amounts of vit D, but you do need to eat them consistenly. In the US some foods are fortified with vitamin D – so if you see comments on websites like “drinking milk gives you the vitamin D you need” that does not apply in the UK.

Saw them at Ranmore, then Newlands and finally in Guildford Hight Street. Then SS’d home along the NDW with Mrs R.

ToB Stage 7 snaps[/url]

A great day, although you’ve got to get a good spot to see anything at Guildford. I hope they come through Surrey again next year – perhaps I’ll go to Barhatch next time.

+1 for scotroutes

http://www.seatwave.com

Brilliant site – we used them for a spare U2 ticket a while ago.

But even if “threshold” is a more useful point on the HR range than max, I assume my HR @ threshold is subject to cardiac drift in the same way as max HR?

It’s called “warming up”, and I think it’s a reasonably well known phenomenon!

Hmmmm…so when I am “warmed up” I need an HR of 165 to generate the same power as I generate on my first hill rep at HR 145. And I’ve ridden 15mins at moderate pace to get to the hill first, which I thought would be a warm up.

Cardiac Drift – that article shows exactly what I see on my Garmin traces, so that must be it. Thanks guys.

It is starnge that so many people talk about their max HR as if it is fixed number, but in fact it will generally be rising during a ride so at a constant HR they will be working less and less hard.

So a positive effect of Strava will be that in about 18years we will have definitive evidence to apply for thousands of FPs round the country to be upgraded?

We took our 4 and 6 year olds to Austria because they had all day ski schools, whereas in France the ski schools were only half day. Then poor mum is not very happy when you want to leave her with the kids every afternoon.

We went to Saalbach for several years in a row when they were young but I am sure other Austrian resorts are similar from this perspective.

A couple of groups riding off Road in the Dorking area of Surrey Hills on Sundays are:

Muddy Moles 08.30 from Bockets farm on the A246, about 5 mins from M25 J9:
http://www.muddymoles.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=118 – regular rides info
http://www.muddymoles.org.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=3 – read up on the latest ride planned.

Nirvana Cycles in Westcott at 1100, about 15mins from J9:
Nirvana Cycles Rides

. . . or time for zipping up my saddlebag properly.

If you are on the BHF run you will be unable to miss the route because of the thousands of bikes ahead, beside and behind you.

+1 for Connex.

I’ve not used KMC so nothing bad to say about them, but I’ve used Connx for several years and found them to be reasonably long lasting and the quick connect is brilliant.

I am looking for a good spd shoe for road riding (not a winter boot). Needs to be a firm sole. Any suggestions?

Hope are generally very good – but unfortunately their QR seat clamps are HOPELESS!

So would you be in the medical profession of some sort?

I’s support the comments above. Surbiton is further from central London but has a good train service in. It is probably a “nicer” surburban area than Earlsfield and is very handy for Kingston for shopping and A3 for driving.

Driving from either to Epsom or St Helier won’t be fantastic, but could be worse, probably Surbiton has the edge. Train to Epsom might be slightly easier from Earlsfield as from Surbiton you’ll need to change – but not much in it TBH.

Personally, after removing the lowers from the stanchions I carefully take out the foam rings, gently clean any muck off them – hopefully there’s little or none. Then soak them a while in the Float oil.

Meantime I use a clean cloth to carefully clean any dirt or grime from the seals while they are still in place. Inspect them and replace if they look damaged – so far I’ve not had to do that.

Next I clean the inside of the lowers to make sure as far as possible old oil and any built up grime is removed.

Then I carefully refit the foam rings, refit the lowers, add the appropriate amount of any proprietary 10W fork oil through the holes at the bottom with a cooking pipette (they are marked up in ml volume) and finally refit appropriate nuts and washers. No special grease on the seals.

It is one of those jobs that is slow and messy first time you do it, but next time round it seems pretty quick and simple.

Good luck.

Good question.

Why not just set one up on Strava, see if it works, and post us the answer?

Having moved to a Five from a Stumpjumper HT I didn’t find any difficulty in climbing quickly. In fact I would say that over technical rooty rocky climbs, the Five (and other FSusers) are better than HTs because the back wheel is kept more in touch with the ground. But I would agree that a HT gives a slightly more direct response to pressure on the pedals.

But I fully agree about the downhills – lots of obstacles that I wouldn’t have attempted on the HT were ironed out into somethign I felt comfortable to tackle.