I like the logo more than the music:

and this one seems to have lasted well:

you can get a bearing and 'top hat' kit by enduro from BETD for £25. Bit of work tom knock out the bearings from the gxp bb (they are sort of glued in!) but the enduro bearings are better and so are the seals that go over the top. A bit of work but definitely the heapest way to get better lasting bearings for GXP. I would tell you how mine are doing but TBH I haven't given them a second though in the year they have been on my bike. I suppose that is pretty good going for £25.

A friend has DH rims/tyres, lyrics and a dhx coil on his, and it absolutley flies downhill.

I used to have one as a lease car from work. You know how there are a million and one options about how it looks? A friend swore blind that mine was just like her leg waxer's.

Hair salon in my street has 2 nearly matching yellow ones that live outside most days.

Hilarous fun to drive though. I would often carry 2 medium sized xc/fs bikes in the back with the seats folded and both wheels off and piled on top.

Slight diversion: there is someone that usually comes to our local xc races with 2 bikes in the boot of his TT. And there was a Porsche Carrera with 2 bikes on a roof rack at last year's 24/12. Where there's a will, eh?

I've got an older NRS and it takes a semi integrated headset. This has cups that you press in but only the outer lip of the cup sits outside the headtube, if that makes any sense. I have one of these ritchey ones in mine.

was it the red one that went for £92 your bought?

aaaahhhhh, I always love Mudshark's chickenopolis! 'bout time we had another hen thread. :-)

and yes they will trash whatever grass or plants they spend any time on. And it is amazing what quantity of poo they produce. FWIW with a diet of layer's mix and random leftovers, our 4 ex batteries did about 20 eggs a week between them.

….only mbuk would do a 'race a dog sled' feature…

I remember reading about helen mortimer with diving weights on her bike and scuba gear trying to 'ride' underwater. And a zillion other 'wacky' features.

60 quid. Blimey!

I won't bother boring you with a picture of the achingly beautiful surfing star I share a name with. :(
It would be ok if he was a munter….

I am popping my cross cherry on sunday. (on a mountain bike :oops: )

Ivybridge round of the south west cx series.

a friend has a 203mm: works just like the hayes he had before.

Mark, your 'harvesting' account is fabulous! Do you reckon these places have wifi? :wink:
Your positive outlook, dignity and genneral lack of wailing/gnashing of teeth through all of this is (in my short experience of that 'end' of healthcare) really rather outstanding. How you make it humorous at these little points is even better. Good skillz!

helped: I am sure there are plenty of folk who would like to see the UK 'out' and this will surely make some of their minds.

Yikes that sounds a bit Daily Express; FWIW I side with the french monkey's opinion, and I also had a little chuckle as his name sounds a little bit silly to my own cheese-eating lefty ears. :-) (sort of sounds like "the doofus" to me)

sometimes, yes.

i like their rather close take on the Marzocchi 'M'. Classy!

Matt Page of Trek 69-er fame (also the heckling megaphone man at 24/12 this year) used to ride and occasionally race on a trek single pivot/faux bar which he ss'ed up using some sort of sprung tensioner. No idea if it was fun to ride or not…

money no object is rather apt for your barchetta Hora, despite being a punto with a different (and looooovely!) lid on, it is insurance group 20! All to do with the parts and bosy panels apparently.

are the specialized concept stores franchises?

Completely impractical:

Less impractical:

Fairly practical:

mmmmmmmmmm, syyyyyyncro……

34×16

I've sold loads on ebay to italy. You can still do 'international signed for' rather than Airsure which I suppose would put off scam buyers a bit. FWIW in a hundred and fifty odd international sales, the only stuff i have ever had go missing was going to Holland.

Spero que aiutate. :-)

a couple of places do a +5mm headset. On-one springs to mind. It will have an extra tall bottom cup. This moves everything 5mm further away from the down tube. Common in 29ers apparently hence there being a few choices these days.

Otherwise I have an fsa pig DH which is huuuge at the bottom; that might do it if its only a couple of mm.

(no relation to above)

the number of trick or treaters you get is inversely proprtional to how many sweets you bought. Loads of sweets here, only 2 visitors so far and we invited them over anyway! I have eaten all the Maoam Pinballs already.

snaps you star, YHM.

Are the stolen ads on classifieds more artfully written that the ones people link to on ebay from time to time?

I suppose its cost and all that, but it would be great if all the bike forums aggreed to have a shared 'stolen bike' page, ie you post it on BM and it comes up on all the other forums.

I'd have thought it would be easier to pinch someone's pictures from pinkbike etc and sell a bike that you don't actually have, rather than one you have to go to the trouble of 'acquiring' and then posting.

Not sure how tin-foil-hat to be about it really. I can't imagine you would be tapping into a huge goldmine of addresses of tasty bike collections just by lurking on here.

bananaworld – Member

I've been an RMN

Really Mean Nutter? Right Muddy Nightcrawler? Royal Mail Nurse?

RMN = Registered Mental Health Nurse. Not sure why we lose the capital H in there.

Not at all suprised how many folk on here are/have been depressed. One in three and all that. I am suprised how many of us on here work on the other side of the thermometer, so to speak. *waves at smell_it*

FWIW, OMITN and Dr Nick both speak much sense on this thread. And I am not a big fan of seroxat either. Little else to add to their comments though.

One other little point regarding possible side efects: there is a newer version of Citalopram called Escitalopram or 'Cipralex'(brand name). As mentioned earlier, 'normal' citalopram is amongst other things, not very expensive. Escitalopram costs a lot more (still under 10 year licence) and may not be available as a prescription due to its cost to the presciber (of course you pay your flat prescription fee whatever you get). It is supposed to have the same good bits as citalopram but with fewer side effects, so if the side effects put you off Citalopram it may be worth asking for this. I have only known a couple of patients take this, so not really enough to coment on whether the obviously optimistic drug-rep blurb and heavily funded Randomised Control Trials I read about match the reality for patients though.

All the best!

:lol:
Unfortunate and unintended innuendos are my clinical speciality. 8)

I am a mental health nurse. It looks like your friend has some behavioural traits that certainly wouldn't rule them out of BPAD, but to be honest my first thought was Borderline Personality Disorder, into which those behaviours would also seem to fall. I would want to know a lot more about your friend before planting my flag in either of those 2 areas though.

ooooowwwwwwww! Best enjoy the calzone yourself then. Before you go and pick her up. Otherwise that would be just rubbing it in wouldn't it…

in fairness, the foldaway/runny bits inside/dry bit outside nature of the calzone make it ideal hospital/smuggling food.

Though check the 'takeaway pizza shelf life' thread for how soon you want to make it: Timing of smuggled comestibles with a post op-wife who feels like eating or is allowed to is critical.

Hope it all goes OK Gary.

….more like a pizza pasty. Nom, nom, nom…. :D

[edit] just remebered it means 'trousers' in Italian as well. wtf??

George, I'm off for a ride in the local woodsy bits with mrs J. Shall I take the singlespeed, ride the tats off it and make her (on her full bounce nice bike) look like a clueless ****?

Of course I bleddy won't! And why should it be any different for anyone I don't actually know?

trackstanding just for the hell of it. Grrrrrrrr… :evil:

you'll be wanting one like this.

And a huuuuge great spanner to get it out with. Remember that one side undoes the 'wrong' way too!

oh thank goodness, I though Goan was going to tell us he'd fully embraced the student lifestyle and found himself naked in a tree with mushroom sick down him.

Stoner – Member

for some reason I always confuse AA Gill with Will Self.

Will Self also used to write restaurant reviews for sunday papers (Observer IIRC)

He rides a brompton too. Is that worse than killing baboons?

I bought the e-book last november or so; double/triple thickness mod on the dishing tool was already in there.
One of the best £9's i evr spent on bike stuff BTW.

best to find a couple of locals round your way and ask them. Your mud may be different from my mud (seriously!). For example, many people rave about trailrakers but they just don't seem to work well on anything much round here. However lots of locals round my way use Bontrager mud x's and spesh storm control or captain. I am sure there will be trails where these tyres are less great though (I can't imagine mud x's lasting long in yorkshire grit for example…)

finding the time to get a few rides in a week (on a good week).
and there are many trails i wouldn't ride round here in the day!

although I find then night laps of 24hr races by far the most fun too so i suppose i must enjoy it a little for the fact that its dark and wierd too….