slight hijack but i've got one of those deuter attack rucksacs going spare if you want one cheap.

and i think its the 661 'core saver' that's a bit cheaper than the others on crc that has padding rather than articulated plastic bits on the back.

are you still getting full travel? Mine started this when the seal head in the right leg failed and the oil from the motion control fell into the bottom. You could confirm this by letting most of the air out of both chambers and seeing how far you can compress the fork. (don't forget to turn the bike upside down if you let air out of the bottom one as a load of oil will come out).

I hope they are not in cahoots enough with each other/wierd enough to google the name of their old driving instuctor, find his umpteenth internet login (I seem to remember goan's real name being mentioned many times on the old forum), and then find him calling them retards.

That will really help then.

Oh and yes I would have thought your well kept receipts and accounts should knock any legal proceedings straight out of the park. Strange why people would bother trying something like that on really.

carbon bars and some 717's. Yum.

Now its properly sunny in Plymski, hardly a wisp of cloud at all.

dartmoor will be snowy soon enough, but the last time it settled thick enough to sledge on (ie my childhood benchmark for 'proper' snow) in plymouth was about 1991! 8)

I have now found a v-class owners club in internetland. Im Deutschland, of course! My German is rather rusty but it features many pictures of super polished and pimped out v-classes and almost as many photos of trays of ham and sausages they evidently consumed at some meeting they had by a picturesque turreted Schloss.

Yikes, will I turn German? 8O

I suppose its christmas time…
FWIW I got mine just inside 24 hours once, not sure if they already had a cancelled order on the shelf or just really quiet that day. Despite the rumours that they are machine-built (that would explain it coming so quickly i suppose) it has lasted/stayed straight as well as my merlin ones and my own ones.

This book Hirschfield is similar, but pretty much his diaries of service on one boat (mmm, actually i think one gets sunk whilst he's on leave and he goes on a second one), whereas Das Boot was an amalgam of real (but often separate) events and characters put together in one story.
If you liked Das Boot it is well worth a read.

^^ 8O !!

naaaaah, the 6 hour-long tv series is where its at! That was on telly over my honeymoon 10 years ago and was the first test of our marriage!

yes, too high. Funny really since u-turn springs on pikes and revs always seem to be softer than you expect. The fixed (100mm) travel soft coil spring on my wife's recons is too stiff however. It feels slightly harder than the firm one i had on my pikes, which is theoretically 2 sizes heavier! You'd think they could crack something fairly measurabe like that wouldn't you?

Also I agree, quite a lot (25ish) less psi in negative chamber seems better for me.

I was a little disappointed not to read anything juicy about the 'Lazy Susan'. That bike really does look like a brave new direction!

offered? try working in frontline nhs and see how far one can stretch the definition of the word 'offer' if worried enough about an epidemic! :evil:

TroutWrestler – Member

I once saw an old fella get decked in a 'scrum' for a piece of President Camembert…. It was a piece of CHEESE FFS!

Yeah, but they were French people, does it make more sense now?

they probably decked him because they mistook it for a better Camambert than Président, about the equivalent of Catherdral City to us.

Oh, anyway back on topic, I would definitely chuck a plaster Basilica di San Marco at Berlusconi for a modest payment in cheese. Although I bet the 'assailant' is getting a right good shoeing
err, interviewing now. :(

too hungover for squeaky noises right now but at 32 i can hear those 'mosquito' hoodie-deterrent noise things. they are well nasty! [edit] they weren't that bad and i could hear them all though the last couple are definitely 'quieter' to my ears. I can also spot nice boobies from a couple of hundred yards but my wife does not seem to think of this as a 'gift'.

oh fwiw i am on holiday until 25th dec, but on call all that day and nights the rest of the week. Swings and roundabouts.

barnsleymitch, do they make you do those hours? Most nhs trusts seem to be trying to get away from that. Plus you need 11 hours between shifts in nhs according to my director of nursing. 'My' nursing staff (for 'tis I who has the unenviable task of looking ater everyone's leave and rota) love doing long days and having 4 days off a week. Mind you, only a couple of them ask to do them all in one go.

line 6 spider 3/4/whatever number thay are up to now. Great value for money, sensible-to-bonkers range of sounds and silly loud for a 100w tranny amp. For more money you can buy a couple of different pedals/boards to change sounds mid-song.

In my nan's village in the pyrenees the church bells play the 'angelus' at 0730 and about 1930 every single day. Thi is essentially a call to prayer too and about not far off the mosques in terms of volume, length and 'insistence'! The locals like it (this is the kind of rural village where you might have been so poor you didn't own a watch or clock in the 20's and 30's) and the rich folk from Toulouse and Bordeaux with holiday homes want the bells stopped. The bells are still going. :D

IIRC they banned the sounding of all church bells in the USSR, I forget if it was uinder Lenin or Stalin. It was a 'distraction' from the communist cause.

on a positive note, shimano shifters seem to just go on and on. I suppose they are out of the muck more than most bits of the bike though.

Old marzocchi's didn't die because they were carrying an extra 150g of oil sloshing around! I would still buy a new heavier-but-open bath fork for the performance and reliability. And I like the noise they make :)

low weight is a big factor imo: parts are engineered to be light rather than as durable as they could possibly be. Weight is not such a big deal in MX. Also fork seals etc in MX can be tighter (and therefore fork as a whole is more durable) as the weight of the bike overcomes stiction better. However there are proper dirt bike engines that are best services/rebuilt every 30 hours of riding. Not a million miles away from soem of our reccommended service intervals!

There is a big petrol station just up the hill from the towny bit of Pas De La Casa in Andorra. Fifteen years or so ago it was pump attendant only, and ours was smoking as he filled up the car. He dropped his fag in the bin by the pump, which then started producing rather a lot of smoke of its own. Cool as a cucumber, he reached over to a watering can and poured some in the bin. I thought my parents were going to have a stroke.

I haven't been there in ten years but I'm sure the petrol station was still standing then: lord knows how!

coffeeking: gt four?

…actually i looked at some dhb stuff this morning. and it is either 'full price' month or they don't do that so much with their prices. So I will be properly taking that last remark back.
i'll get my coat and stop whining now.

Sorry but its standard practice in the uk

What a shame that it is. :(
Now I think of it, has anyone seen dhb/pinnacle on sale lately at 'full rrp'?

Please note, this product was previously on sale at

* £199.99 between 07/09/09 and 12/10/09 inclusive

Seems like reasonable value, but I despair at this ^^. So it was only on sale at a price that no shopper who had done their homework would pay, for five whole weeks. That is not what I really call a proper '50% off' sale. Just like those apollos which are alway 'half price' too then?

you need at least a day for the varnish to dry enought to start puting/moving furniture all over it, and that's if your house is nice and warm. Otherwise, as above, you will find the price of getting someone in to do it is not a great deal more than machine hire, consumables and really good varnish.

weighs more than it look like it should.

Rule for NHS is that if you break it whilst on duty then employer pays the excess, if you are on your way to or from work or any other time (and its your fault!) then you pay. But then £800 is a drop in the ocean for our trust's rather large transport department.

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those bu55ers at Fotopic have suspended my site due to excessive viewing .

:lol: …if there was anyone on this forum that was going to happen to….

Mark – Resident Grumpy

Premier users will have noticed that they are now labelled as such in the forum.

Your usual 'member' tag has now been upgraded to say, 'Premier member'

can I have 'this man is so bored in the evenings that he paid fifteen quid to read back issues online' instead?

i have got trustfire protected 1850's (the blue ones) and they go noticeably dim way before they cut out altogether.

I use one of these on my helmet:
dx mount

Its just like a twofish lockblok (which I also use) but parralel rather than right angles and costs less than half as much. :-)

I've got a nimh version and it was great for the money 2 years ago. I suppose less so with the improvment in lights now, the rrp was only £150 2 or 3 years ago. The light comes out quite yellow compared to led's too. But I quite like that. The adjustable beam thingy doesn't really seem to make much of a difference but the helmet mount is good and velcro's on and off completely (you have to take a screwdriver to it to put it back on the bars though). Mine came with a trickle charger that takes 10 hours or so, and if i remember rightly the charger with the lithium one is faster. According to the website all L&M lights are 'backwards and forwards' compatible with each other so you can always use a different battery or head if one or the other dies.

I would definitely get another one at the right price, but I would probably continue shopping around rather than diving stright in and spending £100 on it.

[edit] but i would spend £65 on a second hand one^^!

that's not that bad! Off the top of my head in 2 years on here I've bought six forks, 2 frames, 1 complete bike and loads of smaller bits and bobs. I just think about what i would have spent on it on ebay and it all seems quite fine!

My money's on them owing singletrack mag some. Money, that is.

recently I got 2 26"x1.35 scwalbe cx pros from zepnat for under £30. They come up a tiny bit wider on 717's than proper cx tyres on road rims. But way skinnier than any other knobbly. haven't 'crossed' them in anger yet though.