Is all this really just about that disc brake thread? Good lord!

spesh Captains are doing very well on 2 of my mates’ bikes, and you’d nearly have your own signature tyre… :D

my friend did the cwmcarn xc loop about 2 weeks after his (keyhole, mind). But he is a bit keen…

christowkid,
yeah, i wonder if trees suck up a lot of the moisture so seems to dry a bit better, plus trees in woodbury are in fairly sandy soil. My local trails are also mostly in the woods too. Finally a silver lining to the unpredictability of all them there roots.

whereabouts are you?

Are you, ahem, ‘Giving’ or ‘Recieving’ the CBT?

2 of my mates are proper CBT therapists: i could get some recommendations?

i’ve been riding in dust round plymouth all week. Been to the little dh trails at the back of Woodbury common this morning and still just have a dusty bike to show for it!

but yes its much warmer today.

agreed: sponging machine on here had a 130mm fork on his trance for ages and it was greeeeeeeeat!

(recons are usually 100mm or 130mm iirc but you could always change your mind and reduce travel by u-turn if coil or by putting a spacer in if air. In fact you could cut the spacer down if you wanted to reduce the travel by less than the length of the spacer you put in.)

you could sell that on ebay…

very useful bodge: suprising how many frames have rack eyelets but no chainstay bridge.

BTW madison also do a seatclamp with rackmounts on it if you have mudguardy bits but not rack ones at the top of the chainstays.

ruthie, read meehaja’s post again: it would suggest to me that there may well have been no point in carrying out any care on this man. In fact in emergency and critical care there are many situations where you could do something but the parameters and lielihood of success mean you don’t.

These are not personal judgements, but can be thought of as ‘flowcharts’ with steps that have been agreed by huge panels of experts. There is very little ‘choice’ in it if you follow protocol. This is why crash teams in hospital can cease or even do not initiate cpr, and this is why we do not have whole hospital wings full of patients in what the protocols rather sadly call ‘persistent vegetative states’.

The comment ‘not worth saving’ from one crew member to another could actually be verbal shorthand for “the situation, odds of survival and correct procedure have been considered. It would be inappropriate to commence CPR on this individual in these circumstances.” That may not be a ‘choice’ as to whether someone lives or dies but more of an ‘evidence-based clinical decision’.

agreed, excellent response.

i do not understand paramedic ‘gallows humour’ any more than the next person but i know that this doesn’t make it a wrong as it sounds to someone who isn’t an ambulanceperson possible out of context or incomplete. In the same way that i am sure you could cut and past together hours of damning mental health ‘humour’ if you cherrypicked some of the conversations i have had in the line of duty.

The public and indeed sometimes the ambulance service an police have great issues understanding the rationale of some of the clinical decisions i make in my job. That doesn’t necessarily make me bad at it.

what i mean to say really is that this case should be reported a bit more sensibly until it has been properly investigated and reviewed by other paramedics.

you have no idea how glad i am that googling that ^^ there phrase came up with only sensible answers!

fill that hole!

i tagged the ‘sickness’ thread with some barely witty (yet in no way sweary or rude) spanish and it has disappeared.

Bah.

I was the frontperson/guitar in a (local crap gigs) band called ‘The Liquid Silk Explosion’.

We were not very popular.

But then what do you expect if you attempt to upset your audience with Lionel Richie’s ‘Hello’. With a drum solo in the middle.

my polaris 5 led commuter light sometimes stays on really dimly if you switch it off, although this is intermitent. I reclon its got some water in it somewhere.

errr, no pics but:
2001 hardrock.
surly 1×1 fork
original sti 8sp and v brakes
dead wheels replaced with merlin bargain deores on xm317’s.
Spesh nimbus tyres
sks full mudguards
anonymous rack and rolltop panniers
lots of reflectors
bell
smart 5 led polaris on the front and 0.5w red on the back.
those £10 locking skewers/seatclamp with the pentagonal allen bolt thing. (keep the tool on my keyring)
smallish ‘sold secure gold’ u-lock

dead fast at 90psi in tyres, fairly puncture proof, as dry as you will get without getting in a car instead.

Oh, and it looks soooooo geeky i can’t imagine it is a hugely nickable bike either.

Get one with motion control damping (302 has less good lockout and rebound damping) and you’ll be reet: performance is similar but heavier than more expensive coil rockshox. The motion control cartridges are pretty reliable, as are the seals, so i wouldn’t shy away from 2nd hand ones, you will find recons for the price of new 302’s which have slippier stanchions and weigh a smidge less.

Or find some 04/05 100mm marzocchi mx comp/mx pro which are also right good for similar money.

I love the painfully honest description of dog-chewing.

If i’d had to guess i’d have thought he would drive a Trabant.

nice touch, Brant! my mate had a bontrager rack (just found it in lbs) fitted to his summer season which cleared the hayes disc calliper just fine. I think it comes made with a slightly prettier version of slugwash’s modification already on it.

Goodridge cables are a bit like that. And there is an avid one that does that. But they have rather, ahem, ‘visible’ plastic joining up tubes. (blue and red respectively.) In theory there is less compression of the outer with cable stops and therefore more accurate inner cable pulls. In practice gore, avid and goodridge outers are pretty much compressionless now anyway.

Les, are you going to be fit for the soggy then?

-can we start a “who was banned on old stw and is now back in” thread too then? ;)

I’ve got some bikehut ones which are the same as the old cyclo ones. They have been just fine, and have a nice fold-out pointy thing for opening out the wire bits when you cut your outers. Should be able to sharpen them with a cone/pointy shaped dremel grinding bit too.

yes loads and loads of singletrack. Which is all utterly ace btw. The climbs were almost all doubletrack or fire road so very overtakeable on. I don’t think anyone shouted ‘elite rider on your left’ to me last year. But then by my usual standards i was pretty fast on the narrow bits so maybe no one needed to :).

And yes oddly it did seem like there was more downhill than uphill: some of the interesting snigletrack is actually a little bit uphill and there was a lot of very gently climbing bits eg through the middle of the shooting ground and out round past the river, actually went up a bit but didn’t really seem like it.

my maxlight is too dull and ugly to post but i am about to build up an orange (colour) handjob for my mate. Mmmmmmmmm :D

its excellent! Not particularly more serious than SITS OR MM though there are of course sponsored teams trying to win stuff there are also large groups of amateurs.

I should mention that last year Newnham was bone dry (oooh, there was about twenty yards of sticky mud in the whole course if i am brutally honest) and yes the hills are short lived.

And yes the relay/swapping thing is exactly right. Last year each team had a little blingy anodized aluminium tube to pass between team members as a baton.

Deputy nurse manager of a child and adolescent mental health inpatient unit. Not sure how many teenagers are going to be gravely troubled by the credit crunch but generally never any shortage of business here…

BM boast 100K users (apparently), well where the **** are they?
They ain’t posting thats for sure.

yeah, i have an account and i haven’t posted on there for years. Or looked on there for at least a year, come to think of it. IIRC i registered cos of the monthly competition thingy. Actually i rarely if ever get any mail from either BM or STW.

2nd hand pikes and slx 20mm hub. Cheap way to transform a bike!

Also oro k24’s are top.

Inigo Montoya should be in Santana with those looks. Yes, its a truly fab film.

I switched over to The Princess Bride on Fiver. Actually stands up quite well compared to the glenister wierdness.

Assume it would alter the head angle, and have an effect on the steering/handling perhaps ?
yes and yes. I put replaced the 80mm judys on my old (2001) hardrock with 100mm recons and it was great, but an extra 30mm will be very noticeable. You minght find it ‘wanders’ uphill and steers a bit slower. (But will be a hoot downhill!) does he have a fork in mind already? otherwise some u-turn or similar would be ideal as you can alter them whenever you want in a ride.

he r a trained actor u knows. So he can talk wierdly if he likes.

I was suprised (and a bit disappointed tbh) to read that he doesn’t really talk like Gene Hunt all the time.

I fitted one as my Genius doesn’t have a replaceable hanger. So in a crash I get to rip off the rear mech not the hanger, and have to fork out for that rather than a whole new seatstay assembly.

I too have been getting the same volume in spam from ‘myself’ as i have from ‘Twinky Alvarez’ and other comedy names. And only this last three days or so.

But i used to get them all the time a year or so ago. Could just be coincidence and someone else using thie christmas holidays to set up some new stuff.

Strangely, I can’t get intyo evilzone this morning to see what they are chittering about. Coincidence too?

I am still me.

Can I be mountainforce for a bit too?

haha, give it a couple of weeks and the sides of this will be filled with flashingness again…

Nice easy to read forum at the mo though. Reading the thread on the hacking site about this made me realise just how much i really hate avatars, silly little animations and enormous signature thingies. Long may they not remain a feature of stw.