Picture links dead for me

At least he's got lots of friends.

As he's selling all of their bikes for them, what a nice guy

deft – Member
Just stick £10k in to make sure you win it!

I agree with deft, at least it will buy you more time, and you won't have to pay the £10k unless someone bids £9,999.99

11 so far.

Fancy a pi$$ up in Douglas after the event?

Normal front wheel for speed as it's not technical :wink:

Are you going over Ton?

dandan – Member
roundwheels, it aint that bad mate, I fit into neither category.

John, do you ride in a club?

Yes, I mentioned above
http://www.thewoollybacks.co.uk/index.html
:wink:

Yep, every Thursday night locally and Tuesday's Rivi or Gisburn

http://www.thewoollybacks.co.uk/index.html

Two mates have them, one rides hard and bought the range topper which is always breaking bits off. The other is a plodder (sorry Roger) but fast downhill, he bought the cheaper one and although it's a couple of pounds heavier it seams to be tougher.

Both rate them though.

Knottie8 – There are several STWers on a photo a day on Flickr.

Please feel free to join in and carry your photo a day on until the end of December

http://www.flickr.com/groups/onephotoeveryday/

Thanks for that.

Our house is on the market but it needs the kitchen updated as a couple of recent viewers have said.

Do we spend the money and up the value of the house or keep the house price realistic as it is for the new owners to do the work?

Ours is the only detatched house in the area with country side views but we've priced it £10-£15k lower than the updated middle of the estate semis nearby.

What would you do?

That guy in blue was a star and yes he was counting the 100km riders.

Down the last climb he said I was 113th and I dropped 2 places after seeing him, so the 115th came home in 6hours 38mins.

He counted me in at 63rd on the top of the 2nd climb, but a split tyre and bodge dropped me down the field, but hell it wasn't a race.

Times are here http://www.mtb-marathon.co.uk/results/results.php

6hr 38mins for the big loop.

What about other STWer's?

If you have to ask "why" then it's not for you.

How tight was the Merida prize draw?

50% off a bike you don't really want to own :roll:

Yes it was good to meet you clareymorris, I did the full route and it was just perfect for weather, trail, technical and climbing.

I dropped about 20 mins when I split the side wall on my getto tubeless rear wheel and I put in a tube only to realise my pump had bounced out of my bag somehwere on the trail, luckerly my CO2 pump got it up to a good pressure until i caught a rider with a pump sticking out of his pack and I asked for a borrow, Thanks if it was you.

I just got the the top of Minch Moor when I got a text from the wife who was at the cam saying "the first 100km rider has just finsihed how long are you going to be" thanks for the support luv

mogrim – Member

I wonder if the 456 TI isn't being tested because it's still THE ultimate TI hardtail

Bah, the ultimate Ti hardtail is still the mighty Kobe.

For ultimate Ti hardtail read Jones 3d spaceframe [cough] [cough]

Yep, white campervan black graphics with wife and dog heading up this afternoon.

Come over and say hello and help me choose which tyres to fit.

STOP SHOUTING

Tonights forecast Saturday rain moving through, Sunday Dry.

So it's a Racing Ralph on the back and either another Racing Ralph on the front or even an Endomorph. I might even do the first climb and downhill on Saturday evening before I choose which to use.

I'm glad I ordered my bits on Monday which turned up on Wednesday.

36 hours on a normal postage, who pays the extra with such good service?

Didi on 25 gets my vote, but there's all fantastic.

Good find

I don't watch much TV :oops:

singlespeedstu – Member
All this "what tyres talk"

You guys planning on winning or something…..

Good point Stu, see you up there but I'm sorry to let the side down as I've got gears on for this so called "summer"

To RR the back again or not?

Just fitted a mud x to the back of mine and it was slipping all over the wet rocks of Llandegla in the rain today. I may risk something else on the back for Sunday

No way to semi slicks 8O

For those in the know please can you let us know just how muddy will the the 85km route be if this fantastic weather carries on?

Do we need full on mud tyres or will the new route be more fire road?

Ta

flyingmonkeycorps – Member
Yeah might well be out John, what kind of time? And how long a ride are you after?

It's true though, we don't have much by the way of hills…

Sorry FMC not kept up with this post, I've got something sorted but if you see this post please email me at johnmoore200 @ aol.com (without the spaces)

JohnClimber – Member
Stu any chance you can upload your route for this year on to the MapMyRide site as before please?

Any chance of the upload?

9/10 from me here but the 10/10 goes to H-Bars

Thanks for that, I'll have a look at Limar.

He's live on the radio right now.

http://www.manchesterradioonline.net/stream/player/

Just back in after 3 hours in the saddle, very, very wet but still happy.

Bike needs a clean and but clothes are in the washer.

Why does it stop raining when you get to the end of a ride?

It was still better than working eh ArtDave :wink:

Lance asked me to join his team after asking Wiggins and even I said no

Just got the Octane 8 to fit in my camera gear only 2 weeks ago and I really like it, it's got great compression straps as well. It holds more than my mule as well.

I got it from Merlin in store but also on line http://www.merlincycles.co.uk/camelbak-hydration-systems-camelbak-packs/camelbak-summer-range-2009/camelbak-octane-8.html

Want to buy a 2nd hand mule?

most easy to service

Anything rigid

The Marin Trail is nice and mature now that Llandegla has taken it's traffic away.

If it's dry Penmachno is great, but it does hold a lot of puddles all the way around.

Why not do Llandegla on route from Chester to ByC?

Nearly every night in the summer when it's not raining here

A sad, sad day and an end of a era for all of us.

Let's not forget what they did for us all :cry:

Contact Kevin at VeSource http://www.vesource.co.uk/

Cracking service and great prices, they will always try and beat your best price if you've got a good one already.

No, I don't have any links to them but I use them without any complaints