I have just bend my rear wheel during lunch time ride :(
Ok i have a bit “short” on the step down the trail… 1.3m high step isn’t really xc me think.

Lucky you I am very jealous :D

If I get my way some of the new official XC bits on Cannock Chase wont be rideable by these roady type MTBs with no skills weekend warriors unless they want to carry their bike back in a bag.

Wanna marry me? I am perfectly housetrained.

If I may correct your grammer

Erm.

Yup pod, middles are cheap, but usually the casette goes as well, due to spending more time in the small cogs, then it gets expensive..

Buy only the small cog then…

well the cheapest one would be to ride I shall say ;)

I am the only one wondering about what and how do you ride?

All these fancy wheels with fancy uber light tyres and tube, would they be able to handle 6 hours or rocky trails?

Just wondering…

hairychested thanks now I will sell my helmet :d

Buy a treadmill

He said he wanted to loose weight not take the plane…

I know, I know, mine is hanging here in the corner

For once I agree with simon.
I am not aware of the torture cases he reports and they seems a bit extreme to me though.
I agree with Napalm too.

And the war in Irak was NEVER about freedom. Cheap oil it is.

PU shell are menat to be changed eery 3 years.
No date on fiber shell. However the inside might be ruined…

And what TJ means is: No one will buy a helmet from a stranger.
I’ll buy a helmet second hand. but it will have to be less than a few month old and own be someone I know.

Others will disagree of course

Have you watched the video “new world disorder”

What level is this for? GCSE? A level? Degree? Phd?

If it is for a PhD I will be quite worried to be honest.

but I have to admit they are dead cheap :D

I don’t feel the need but I am not sure using something that is not from the manufacturer is a good idea (look for example at SSC pads).

zippy this is not a hope disk is it?
Plus once you add postage to france :'(

Oh go on then. I’m such a looker

I can’t comment on that but can I have your bike pretty please :D

don’t listen to anyone on here go and try some…
We all have a favourite pair, but it’s your feet that are going to be in the boots for several hours of walk.

I love the feel of a salomon and asolo, but it doesn’t mean you’ll like it.
Go to a shop and try as many shoes as you can. Then once you have a few models you are comfortable in, talk to a sale man.

Hope it helps

Actually, sod this. I’m helping people post pics of them having more skilz than me, or in more exciting places than I ride in… [:(]

And eat better food

GNAR GNAR as a point your life is on the fence so kick the fecker with whatever you have, foot, fist, bike, rock.

I shall imagine that a big wack with the bash ring should teach it manners.

CFH nope I am in the south of France I wish I was in winchester instead though.

Do you dare calling what rude boy is eating pasta? Beurk.

Now I guess that willy waving by being the 100th of a thread will be a bit how too say…

So last year ;-)

I know there are “dodgy” coppers

I though you end up as a copper if you weren’t though enough to be a gangster. Uk is getting as bad as France. Is that fred said is true. When I see a cop in the street I change pavement just to be on the safe side. I think I’ll do that in uk as well.

VTT the french mag

Surely that is a joke…
Test are piles of poo, the best bike being the one from the brand that sponsors Sam. The quality of the writing is amazingly poor. Plus there is no such thing as a bad product.

The “whatever they are testing” will always be one of the best or one of the lightest etc etc etc…

Plus it’s clearly orientated toward XC/jey-hey… The only races that gets good coverage are the one that have subscription inside the mags…

And I could still rant a lot about that.

Mine was liek jedi’s one before I went to england/UK.

Now I barely ride with them as I don’t think their attitude is correct.

I’ll do saturnday as I have a bloke’s waistcoat colour to match ;)

Bash ring user for 4 years now 22/32/bash that 2 years after all my friends (because I was too poor to buy one) and way before it became fashionable. I just really cant see the use of a big ring… Unless you use your mtb on the road. And even so it has to be flat or downhill roads.
Steep Rock/tech playground = double + Bash
Non steep non tech playground (à la lordswood) = SS (in my opinion)
Inbetween the two you are not going to be on the big ring anyway. Plus as brant say (crap I am going to need a mouthwash for that) shorter chains is much nicer.
To be honest I would only see the use of the big ring on a DH bike…

RD it’s just to help jo to get to 1000. All the pictures already were on STW. But if you are offended I’ll remove them.

Dave is the second picture lordswood?

I do that only to help my favourite posters to get their thread to 1000.

Pictures

More

Some

yup subluxation
Happened to me
twice

on each shoulder

Come on I am sure we can reach 800…

Botley Village near Hedge End to southampton General Hospital via the a 27

Aouch…
Good luck with that

Tails – Who was that then????

Not me for sure

I got UST about (omg) 6 years ago. Basically the budget wheels from mavic at the time (crossroc) where tubless. Ran them with tube for about 18-20 month until I needed a new tyre and then gave tubless a go. After several puncture, and a poped out rim I decided that it was not worth it.
I was thinking of giving tubless a new try but GF thread put me off.

For off road nothing will work better than a tube.

Where Cote d’azur in France, between la Roquette and Cannes and in Nice.
What Either my trusty handjob SS, or my commuting bike: a jaune cocu road bike from 1997 that have been ssed and whoich handlebar as been cut and reversed…

Did I missed tinker bell back side… :'(