'What about all the wars over religion?

…is it alright if someone else asks it? :wink:

seems to me that a big part of having a faith is being under no illusion that you might be at the most rational and least self-serving end of it. Even in the average moderately happy clappy church in the UK there is usually a spectrum of 'why do you come to church' reasons. Extrapolate that out to the whole world and its no wonder you get fundamentalists in every religion.

(Biased because I looooove my soloist, but…) …whatever you lose on seling the sanderson for another frame will be similar to what you lose selling 8-speed alfine to buy an 11 speed one (when you can actually get hold of one!). 8 alfine gears is still going to feel remarkably different to one gear.

i've got a 27.2 carbon post on my sanderson and its rather flexy in a very nice way. It used to be on a very stiff aluminium race HT and was a real bonus!

Genesis day one has a flip flop hub IIRC. And its orange!!

wiggle were doing smallish lezyne hydration packs with multi-tool and pump bundled in. Not bad value for the pack alone, let alone the bits it came with.

EDIT: Here's the larger of the two.[/url]

You could also ask him why whales have vestigages of legs in the bone structure too I guess.

easy: the Devil put them there (probably the same dark night he was out burying all those 'dinosaur' bones) in order to make us doubt the True Story Of Creation. There will always be an answer in my experience!

I knew a couple of waaaay christian geology/paleantology students at university who were and still are quite happy reconciling their studies with their faith.

Conservatives: grants started to be phased out in favour of student loans.
Labour: university tuition fees. :?

Conservatives: 'non pupil' (aka Baker) days.
Labour: class sizes down in primary skools.

This would translate as: "Hey devoted husbands/partners, great news!!! It is alright to have a lapdance! See, we found some rather lame proverb to back us up on it. Once she's heard it, she'll be fiiiiiiiine about it."

my mate's malt 2 didn't. tbh if i didn't use shimano anyway, i'd rather pay a bit less and then buy the pedals of my choice. Merlin do shimano spd's pretty cheap usually, come to think of it.

[Conspiracy] Whilst all the NooLab hoo-ha about the hunting ban was going on last time, many Daily Mail readers momentarily forgot about Hans Blix, wmd's and Iraq.

I reckon Callmedave has his eye on somewhere a bit classier and with less guns, say Mauritius? [/Conspiracy]

my first full bounce (and also oil-damped fork and disc brakes) was just like this one:

nug/nugget
peanut
chicken-worrier

Out of interest, where would anything by Superstar Components fit into this equation?

Depends.

Pedals, grips and hubs are either outrageously good value, or the same products with the names of other trendier manufacturers are very overpriced.
Brake pads are in competition with many other cheap ones out there so somehow don't seem such a good deal.
most of the ssc branded rims are available from your raleigh/cyclelife dealer with different stickers on for a quid or two less.

These crazy combat school dvd's.which appeared as one of those random ads on the right of the screen that google gives us based on what's written in the thread. 8O 8O

My parents' old priest once did a sermon on April fools' and had a congregation believing we were going to go to metric time and the government would supply us with free digital watches. Its not all hellfire and catholic guilt. :D

…and a little bit more than that if parts are in good nick and you split it.

I use one of these:

to hold the ebb in place whilst i tighten the lockring.But yes it puzzled me a bit at first too.

2/40. Although one was a thread I started which in retrospect is the lamest PSA ever, and thoroughly merited its tubleweedy silence.

i'd get some s/h rebas for that money.

There is nothing that frustrates me more than the thought of dropping a gear and overtaking small cars whilst carrying only 4 mates and 5 bikes, and still burning less fuel doing it than my old fiesta. Crikey, the increase in insurance premnium and road tax for all this cost me a knee-trembling £200 a year more than for the car it replaced. Caravelles are rubbish, really, get a 2 seater sports roadster instead. Youi'll never regret it! :D

(not mine but apart from being the euro way round its pretty much identical)

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Yaeh okay – no dogs, no squids and no baby robins

SSC coming again? He was quite an ok bloke to yap to/at, and had two or three of pretty much everything he stocked at the time in the van/tent, and for sale at less than web price (minus postage i guess). And lets not forget the pile of prizes he donated for the end.

Wilsons are in btw, and i promise not to make any cuttlefish jokes until at least september. Properly looking forward to it! :D

oh, the thing in the sea I posted earlier is called the Plymouth Sound Breakwater. It would have been helpful to have mentioned that, really.

It doesn't look like much now, but the idea of spending much of the early 1800's sailing to and fro to dump 4 million tonnes of rock out in the sea seems like quite an undertaking! It's a mile long and has a 1 in 5 gradient slooping into the water at the seaward side, so is far bigger under the water than it looks from the top.

mine is cheesier though. 8)

even if they do not get fees from the transfer itself, Paypal still have the money earning interest (or offsetting it from uncleared direct debit payments of other paypal users) for them in their accounts, until the seller moves it on via another paypal payment to someone else, or transfers it to their own bank account. I wonder at what point/percentage of giftyn paypal transactions this 'service' becomes too much of a drain?

blimey, all he wants to do is see whether his local dh riding location is any good for an xc race and you lot come along and accuse each other of dumbing down/willy waving. :lol:

FWIW, the spot in the jambo's original question used to have small grassroots xc races in the earlier 90's, albeit on very different trails to the ones there now. I expect the last 2 pages ^^ have put him off inviting any xc racers there though. :?

slacker head and seat angles and lower BB height I'd have thought. I found a few people on american forums talking about it when I looked at getting a SC Bullit (for which it would seem to be A Good Thing) but i suppose it depends on the bike. I have ridden some FS bikes that were plenty low and slack enough already!

jambo, in the name of 'research', if I pitch up at chipshop on the 'wrong' (100mm xc) bike and clippy pedals, will the big boys pick on me? The more i think about it the more of a laugh it sounds. A little diversion off the open track round the proto-pump track would be truly funny.

I suppose a less financially risky version would be incorporating it into the early morning of one of the cake race/timed run days so folk could bring 2 bikes and have a go at both, and you don't have to close the place for normal riding for another weekend day.

…you thinking about Chipshop then Jambo? I was there the other day thinking what a giggle some of it would be on an xc bike! The south west xc series is already going to Abbeyford so i suppose that could be an interesting test of fun lines/gaps/chicken runs versus twitchty xc riders.

The other thing to think about if you put a race on rather than razzing round on a shorter travel bike would be 'rider density' (ie how many racers per km of lap) and overtaking opportunities: an xc course on trails that are technical and fun will nevertheless become boring if you get held up behind slower riders for too long in the twisty bits and can only overtake on the fire roads/climbs. I reckon if you don't go for too many entrants, chipsop could have a pretty funny course in it though.

my spirally fractured tib and fib, (or perhaps rather the operation to plate the tibia back together again) took about 13 weeks after the operation to start walking on. I came home from hospital 3 or 4 days after the operation, but I was:

a) quite spaced out on codeine/co-codamol for a week or so afterwards (as in 'oh, its half past four. Where did that last hour just go?')
b) stuck keeping my leg elevated most of the time for a good 2 weeks or so as the swelling and operation meant it swelled up like it felt it would explode if I left it below tummy height for too long. That said, as long as you have a few days to get over the drugs, provided you can get an able bodied helper to collect some stuff for you and organise a workspace around the sofa you might do pretty well working from home, in fact the thing that got me the most was that I got soooooooo booooooored!

You get used to stairs and stuff: a 'satchel' type bag on a shoulder strap that you kan keep the top open on is ery helpful just for moving staff around as obviously its hard to carry it in your hand. And put lots of little 'occasional tables' or similar around the house so you can take big hops and hove your cuppa round the house with you as you go. Unfortunately you will discover that after a couple of weeks you will be perfectly able to hoover, do the dishes and hang the washing out again. :(

Oh and get one of these things: they are not breathable so you can't soak away for hours but ace nevertheless.

Happy mending!

[EDIT] oh, and if you do, for goodness' sake stop smoking: it slows up your bone mending (can't remember why, something to do with calcium).

on both ones i owned, there were three bearings under the u-turn cap.

as for springs, tf tuned shox or put an ad on here. If they were second hand it would be worth finding out what weight spring is already in there first!

a forestry commission guy who didn't know the law

…you've met 'Log Man' (our local vigilante volunteer ranger) aswell then? :lol:

Talking Heads; named after Alan Bennet monologues, non?

Radiohead: named after a (not very good) Talking Heads song. I would have liked 'The Great Curve' or 'Dream Operator'.

Funeral For A Friend is also the opening synthtastic instrumental track on Elton John's 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'.

Super Furry Animals was lifted from a wierd japanese comic book.

I used to be the front'man' in a terrible band called Liquid Silk Explosion: comedy karma to anyone who remembers where we got that name from.

As before, you need a truvativ gxp crank to go with this BB.

On GXP bbs the drive side bearing is ever so slightly larger than the non drive side.. for absolutely no reason whatsoever. They just wanted to be different.

partly true: there is a corresponding 'step' on the spindle so that when you tighten up the crank bolt on the non drive side you just fasten it really tightly on to the non drive side bearing alone, rather than preloading both the bearings like you do with that little cap
thingy on shimano ones.

I would have thought that this was an attempt at avoiding ham fisted over-the-top side to side preload on the bearings (and an early death!) however truvativ gxp bottom brackets are nevertheless not renowned for their logevity, and there have been many stories on here of non drive side crank arms coming loose and then knackering th splines. So not an altogether successful design!

That said, I do have a set of gxp's that have enduro bearings in them now and have always been on nice and tight. I check the crank bolt every so often but it has never loosened in the 2 years I've had it.

[EDIT: oh, coatsey said it. In about a third as many words as me!]

The same tool sells under a different brand name minus the faux carbon fibre bits for a tenner in at least 2 of my lbs'. Does it seem better value now?

good to see more cyclocross coming up, particularly in a drier/faster time of year. But nowhere west of bristol? Good job there is a winter westcountry cx series that is actually in the proper westcountry too. :)

I'll be needing to get an 'all day' body first then!

Paradise City. But when I first started trying to play, it was a bit more like this:

if it helps, this morning out on sunny Dartmoor poncing about next to/occasionally astride my big bike/full face helmet I successfully exchanged hellos and/or waves from:
-man on xc hardtail,
-man on proper road bike,
-man on singlespeed road bike,
-man on fixie roadbike, (all separate)
-2x farmers in 2x tractors, (one 'walking' his collie as he drove)
-volvo estate full of silvertops.

Only ones who didn't wave were pillion couple riding gingerly in high crosswind on proper fast sports bike. Perhaps they didn't want to let go, in that wind i wouldn't have!