cheers managed to clean it with string.

cheers

ok cheers. any homemade solutions/ bodges?

to answer the OP question I think it is because many people ( possibly a majority) like to find union through exposing the differences of others, such as people who are different. Seems to be a human nature thing for some types of people. Take eminem the (white rapper). When he first hit the scene I witnessed people mock him because he was white and did not fit their comfort zoned rapper image.They 'united' in this and joined forces dismissing others views of the young rapper. However today no ones gives a second thought to the arguement in general. Eminem is just accepted. This example can be illustrated in other examples in life.

simon that is very a interesting statement. Granted common sense can be useful. But intelligence often goes beyond common sense and is mocked by others, who simple rely on their instincts rather than intelligence.imho of course.Nouse however i think beats common sense as relates more to a certain situation and is not as 'general' as common sense.I may however be wrong 🙄

my old 2004 ones have been converted to 80mm from 100mm. I bought a 20mm marzhocchi spacer from uk bikestore and used this.

cool

My best EVER ( from anywhere)clothing buy is a windprooof gillet. From aldi's or lidl's. It's superb and still going still 5 years later.Think it cost £7 or £8 pounds.

love all the seasons. autumn is super cool tho.

yeah, i saw a few others, but need to learn more of the trails, i was quite impressed to see a fair few 'begineers' giving it some.Plus i may have seen you 5am! I was on a jump bike and white pisspot with a Royal top!!

my sunn needs a rounded bolt removed – bikeshop job! All others fine!

I remember Dub snowboards!!!i knew someone sponsorded by them back in the day.
Cool.

I have been impressed at the level of customer service at central london evans ( and halfords) who have helped me out mid week a couple of times ( for the w/e ride you see).Without their mid week help I would not have ridden at the w/e.

awesome. A real car! Love that straight through exhaust burbling! Brilliant skills and superb edit. Loved it!

Would be interesting to see what mods that car has. From the flames and power I'm guessing seriuos mods/an engine transplant/4wd/NITROS!!

The kit generally is really good.Tops are ace. I have stuff from 3 years ago and still perfect.

£18 for a socket removal tool to service my zochis. It's deep seated and no car shops had anything to do the job.

£10 on a decent mongoose bmx to do the local , bread,milk and wine shopping trip.Didn't need it mind, could have walked.Used old bits to do it up. Good investment really.

samuri, lavender oil baths / or on pillow go can great prep for an early nights sleep.

lol. all the sensible posters are probably tucked up by now anyway.

breakfast will be a spinach and protein shake smoothy. mmm

Ok, thanks for all the replies. As you can tell from this post I am great at staying up. Not so good at getting up super early. Plan is to start next week.I'll either fail or pass.I've sometimes gone for day rides and then late evening rides, so getting up before schedule will certainly be a challenge.I'll try and repost next week some time or maybe a week after (by the time i've re-formatted my bodyclock)I can also get up really early, and still be up at late times, although this is not maintainable for too long.

thanks.

ta.

anyone who states 'blur are S***' are not worth listening too .Blur are brilliant.Just trying to promote their own sound through a known band that are good.

thanks all.

yeah, good point.

Jedi, I can assure you @ 4am I will be asleep.that's committed!

thanks all. 😀

cheers. I will try to plan a routine – and do it!

Richard Hammond. He just pulled up in a car park and appeared from a filming van.I was unlocking my commuter and he looked over at me with my bike. I politely nodded and rode off. At the time i was a student and hadn't watched top gear for a few years. I thought that guy seems familiar, and it wasn't until i started watching top gear again later i realised who it was.Doh..
He seemed really friendly and decent.

Also Shane Richie – he was in a carpet shop and kept himself to himself although he joshed with the staff.he was just like his character on eastenders.

Bez – He performed at a local gig i cycled too.I was coming out if the changing room, after a t shirt change and he came out of the backstage area before the gig. Bez looked very happy 😆

short chainstays are key as david says.

get a 4x frame or something like a surge or charge blender. Will be better for street than a 'singletrack trail' based frame.

have a look at some of the da bombs on ebay and chainreaction cycles.

my FR ht weighs about 36 lbs. Ride it most days at the moment. It's so stable on DH's. 😆

have a look at 'perv' bmx bikes on chainreactioncycles (although i am a cheapskate)

serj ( from soad) was ace and cypress hill ( i think it was them), g n r good, limp bizkit ace. liked others too but not too sure of all the bands names (getting old)

highlight for me – was Serj

you can still get 8 spd chains.

i'm enjoying it.

nope, lovin the rest tho

i feel better for a midweek ride or two then weekend rides, rather than just weekends.