I have a protec ace sxp which i wear for night rides simply because my headlight is a bit of a faff to get on and off, and ‘normal’ helmet for commuting/daytime xc.

It is much warmer in the winter and the pads are definitely above average for a ‘potty’. AFAIK the only reason to wear an xc helmet over a good potty is the heat/sweat/ventilation issue. A good one will even ‘venturi’ air onto your head at slower speeds if you believe the blurb. Otherwise there are plenty of other less ‘hot’ action sports that all use their own minor variations on the potty. They must have their reasons to do so. So it depends if you rate protection over a boiling head.

what it looks like is irrelevant: you can avoid daft colours a bit, but basically we all look silly whatever we wear for riding.

And get whichever fits best, as potties don’t have the slight fit compromise you get from the head cradle thingy.

Ralf Hutter?

I would love someone from the trade to tell us that shimano spd’s are a ‘loss leader’ and underpricred, and that the cleats are worth what they really charge us. I am sure that is not the case however.

i think cleats have always been one of the most ridicuously priced shimano products, when you consider the cost of the cheapest sets of pedals that come with identical ones -If you bought a headset for £30 and then got charged a tenner for a replacement top cap for it, you would walk straight out of the door and buy someone else’s compatible topcap. The gubbins/beariungs etc in a whole set of double sided spd’s compared to a pair of cleats seems comparable. Except you have to buy shimano’s cleats!

I think they set the price of replacement cleats at just below a price that will make the buyer buy a whole new set of someone else’s pedals instead.

It about time superstar started selling theit own versions of shimano and CB cleats.

possibly you are a victim of the ramjet effect common on roadie saddles from the 70’s and the air is actually getting into you from the other end.

quality! :lol:

I burp a lot on rides. Anything over half an hour, really. I expect this is cos i swallow air with my poor breathing skillz. And i do fart a lot on really long rides but i expect this has to do with wierd exercise-whilst-digesting stuff and also go bars/energy drinks.

I knew a carpenter once who had been a rear gunner on Lancasters during WW2. About 40 years after he went on a bombing raid to destroy a ball bearing factory in Germany, he said that sometimes after a hot shower he would find little bits of shrapnel had made their way to the surface and he would break the skin to release them. True story that.

He’s probably dead now.

There is a bit in the ‘No Logo’ book (you know, the ‘Nike and Gap are eeevviiillll’ book) where loads of the locals in a town still ‘shed’ tiny shards of glass through their skin from where they witnessed/watched a factory exploding many years ago. Bleurgh!

Jimmy Page?

hmmmm, I have got one just like that. And apart from whatever its previous owner did to it, I have given it a right, errr, ‘owning’.

Great gussetry up front but no good if it snaps just after the gusset :(

someone was selling some new k18’s without rotors on the classifieds earlier for £150. Just in case that works out less than the ones you are buying.

and they are awesome brakes, best i have used and silly light too.

Chairman_LMAO banned for pointing out grammar Nazi-ism (er?!) and then forgetting his full stops. :P

[edit] Weren’t you already ‘banned’, RB?

…highest point in Conrnwall is called ‘Brown Willy’. I thought i would have grown out of chuckling at that too….

…if riding cheeky trails on not-entirely-public land is ‘transcending geographic boundaries’ then I do it every other week or so. I could tippex it on my top tube alongside my customised ‘velo club de Plympton -lanterne rouge’ errrm, ‘decoration’.

Daft graphics. Nice looking frame.

yes, ‘volunteering’ is a bit optimistic! Unless volunteering is also a word for ‘a group of sullen 18 year olds standing around trying not to paint railings in a park’.

until recently in the motherland, er, France, (and Germany I think if i recall correctly), you could do exactly that, ie ‘volunteer’ for social care, fire brigade, foresty commission etc as an alternative to your military service. It is a terribly silly terminology/way to explain what isn’t really all that bad or unusual an idea.

[edit/PS] …in fact, whose terminology is ‘compulsory volunteers’? A link to some political waffle from the bbc article might clarify whether this is Brown’s expression, as they don’t seem to have directly quoted anyone saying this. Did the reporter just, errm ‘paraphrase’ this?

Pull your trousers and pants up, and stop doing gigs in the bathroom.

…if i had trousers like them up there ^ to get into, I’d have to set aside an afternoon to get them back up.

What, like this?

(Matthias Jabs of Scorpions fame.)
I think most, errr, serious guitar players will call it ‘concentrating’.

Apparently I look like I am having a poo when i go anywhere past the 9th fret.

I really should find that other forum called ‘SocialistBatteredFiestaDrivingFroggyTwattingAboutInTheWoodsBuildingSillyLittleTrailsWorld.com

I do like to read a good long word that I then have to look up in the dictionary though. I have learnt quite a few from here. But I save my grammar pedantry for when other folk correct each other and then get their own posts less than perfect. If we didn’t say things wrong or jumbled up then we would still speak like the Elizabethans!

yerp, they are a million miles away from Dirt in terms of design. (and say 350,000 miles from ST i suppose)

My dentist’s has those magazines in the waiting room with stickers on them saying they are provided by some company or other that supplies inoffensive magazines for anxious people in waiting rooms. (I know, who would have thought there was a market for that?!) Anyway, MBR looks like one of those magazines, just about bikes rather than golf or center parcs.

Kes.

fatmuthahubbard – Member

the title should just be a statement

‘mtb riding good…road riding not good’

haha, you should see the road poor f-m-h just had to ride up (with the mephasis on ‘up’) after our ride just now. No wonder he doesn’t like them.
But yes, the Motherland, err, France is waaaaay better for road riding in terms of variety and quiet roads (though not so sure about road surfacing in my experience!), and i think people are more courteous and encouraging to cyclists over there.

If you don’t have access to a torque wrench, do you know what 2.5nm and 15nm feels like? ‘cos they are pretty critical for creak-free performance. And you ought to check it again half way through and after the first ride too. Also I found that my bb creaked aainst my e-type (bb mount) front mech: a bit of grease between the outer face of the bb shell, spacers and cups won’t hurt. Otherwise the shimano instructions are pretty good.

does mudshark still post here? He has an amazing ‘chickenopolis’.
Yes we had rats and red mite (ours were ex-battery so came with a few ‘passengers’ I think.)

Far more time consuming and garden-trashing than you would imagine but there is nothing like a just-laid egg, and chicken poo is great fertiliser. Plus kids think they are hilarious. As long as you don’t get a cockerel (and you really only need one if you are breeding) they are actually really quiet too.

…i remember reading somewhere about the possible danger if your rear mech hanger breaks off and puts the mech in your spokes, and then the full outer whipping your handlebars around. I am not sure what the chances are of that ever happening, but i wonder if it is a liability thing, ie “don’t sue us if that happens”.

Some of the legalese on bike stuff is well silly. Last week I took the huge chunky OS stem off that came on my commencal maxmax jump bike, to find a sticker saying it was not suitable for jumps, stunts, downhill or aggressive XC.

the new mbr (my mate’s copy, honest!!) has a most off road route nearby which takes in the only bit of ‘kosher’ coastal path near Mullion, that woud be a couple if miles from where you are staying. But the route itself didn’t sound completely fabulous. I stayed a couple of miles away last year without bikes and the lanes and coast are lovely though: if it was me i would take a road bike and ride for the coast roads and the views.

Possibly yes.

i shifted a frame, fork and backpack in 2 days and 2 threads. Though I did think about how slow it has seemed lately when i put the first ad up, and subtracted 20% from the numbers i first thought of before i posted it on the classifieds. And I might just have been lucky.

it could be worse; someone was offering to sell their derriere on the classified the other night. Didn’t stay up long, unsuprisingly!

i watched episodes 1-6 on youtube before they pulled the guy’s account/uploads. They were ace, and I think as funny or better than the first series. The songs are also well good, more extremely well observed parodies of other famous music and it sounds as though they are relasing an new album with much of them on it. The song bits of the tv series are all very much still on youtube aswell.

but no i can’t find anything about when the bbc might get round to airing it.

…f-m-h, you can’t just unleash the Trago[/url] on some unsuspecting inner-tube-seeker! He will come out with a load of tat he doesn’t need and a UKIP membership.

oh, and i got some nice light/thin ones cheap from wiggle a few months back.

*pulls up chair, removes crash-hat and reflects on being not only a nurse, but a mental health flavoured one, and for teenagers.*

but seriously, it is interesting to see who you get the obnoxiousness/worse from in my job. It’s by no means the council house/crap school kids, actually its fairly across the board in kiddy-mental-health-land. There is nothing quite like a bright grammar-school type late teen who thinks they are all clever and wants to run the ward!

hard work sometimes but i have gone back to his books again and again. His ‘world’ (ie London, the sealink club, dr Busner etc) is sort of fantastical but very err, three dimensional (?).

The end of the first story in the new book ‘Liver’ is a great suprise.

..faut pas oublier la Mano:
Mala Vida

Une soirée typique chez moi:
pastis? patois?

errrrr, put risers and bar ends on it?

I had a pike on mine: atually still quite maneouvrable at 140mm and in the end that’s where i pretty much left it. But I would’t go less than 100mm; the stock rigid fork is actually pretty long to start with.

have you never worked smoewhere where they ‘hot desk? Now that is a riot….

only thing with your desk size will be the ergonomic side of working with a computer/vdu ir how far/high the sceen, mouse area and your chair is etc.

and I am sure your productivity will increase greatly with the visibilty of your screen. :-) I know mine went the other way when i once got the desk that into the middle of the room and overlooked by no one!

I have only been to the longleat one but there was no proper mountain biking on site: I would take/borrow crap bikes and a trailer as it is a good way to get around but you won’t be looking around wishing you had a ‘proper’ bike. And some of the trails get a bit ‘mulchy’ in the rain if you have proper mudguards so much the better.

When we went some loon had a new Epic cable locked outside the block of appartments they were staying in.

again?

20 seconds to mars. quality.

oh and its the only holiday the wilsons are going to be affording this year. So it had better be good.

No pressure :wink:

I like the items that are not just ‘rare’, but ‘very rare and cool’. :-)

“TROLLING ZOO-FIGHTER” !

:lol:

* awaits someone with this as their login name to wade into this thread*

We have to have a drivers log in each works vehicle. (NHS trust) Not sure if this is the law or just our organisation’s way of managing ‘unclaimed’ speeding and parking fines.

-where would the fun have been in that though?

fun?!

this is the sort of fun you could be having for that sort of money:

Tom Fun: Derek’s birthday.