BadlyWiredDog – Member
I’m hoping I can knock the whole thing off in one ride soloing 24/12… it sort of makes sense.

Strava says last year’s race was 728 feet per lap. So that’s almost 40 laps!

Aha, I still have sram 9 speed on xc bike, shimano clutch mech for me next time! :D

Good lord. Could they really not find anyone with less dirt on them for party leader?

Torchbearer 12 hr solo. 8th 24/12 for me, and my 4th solo effort iirc.
Well excited as ever. Not that we will be seeing much of it, but mrs (who is also doing 24hr solo) has booked us a teepee this time!

BTW get yourselves to the Miner’s arms nearby for posh pub food, normal pub food and proper ale. Lovely and very outdoorsy-friendly pub, easy ride from the site and you can leave your bike well out of the way in the beer garden.

In before ninfan ruins the thread with his impressive Benn-hatred.

Pitt the twinkle in the milkman’s eye.

:D

Mail order still works: i ordered some socks and a baselayer on friday lunchtime, through my letterbox the following morning. Thanks!

anagallis_arvensis – Member
Better anyone but him.

Thats what i thought about Andrew Lansley as health sec, and they (by this i mean cameron’s closet full of lobbyists, lets not pretend that he was alone in making the choice about such a financially important post) still found someone even more machiavellian and utterly “for sale” to replace him. :?

Bell on my dh bike.
Spds, 15mm of spacers and a stem with 5degrees of rise on my already massive headtubed road bike. Which also has not-matching groupset. And another bell. And a saddlebag.
All my dh clothing/pad/helmet are horrendously mismatching, and then bike itself matches even less.
Oh and 100mm ‘normal’ (ie 25.4mm) stems on my xc and singlespeeds.

Skillz. ;) We’ve all been there, mind. At least you didn’t put the headset and fork in upside down (step forward northwind). Or put the lowers back on the wrong way round (step forward julian :oops: )

Not a teacher but related to a couple and friends with a couple more, and i work with several clinical psychologists and a couple of d.clin trainees.

The training is hard to get into and academically of a very high standard. During training the money is pretty good (and so it should be, the trainees we have make a huge difference to the care and outcomes of our clients) but the coursework and dissertation is big, that is to say that overall workload and homework would be big during training.
Once qualified however you should expect to work for the hours that you are contracted to, not limitless evening and weekend time that is expected of some teachers. Even basic clinical psychology wage compares favourably to teaching with 6 weeks leave a year but a real 37.5 hour week if you manage your caseload reasonably well. However even head-of-service psychologists do not get as much as many head teachers, so think about what you want in terms of salary/carreer/managment stuff.

The other thing is of course the stress which is very different from teaching, though i couldn’t dare quantify which is worse. You need to know yourself very well and some of the things that clinical psychologists hear and ‘contain’ are moving and/or disturbing, and that sort of stress is not for everyone.

Overall though it is a fantastic job imo.

Tom Ritchey’s moustache?

edlong: and the UCI!

[edit]my reply to previous post makes no sense since it was deleted (completely gone, as opposed to being edited down to a single full stop or whatever else we do to effectively delete something on here within the editing ‘window’) -all in the time it took me to read it and type my reply. fwiw, the deleted post wasn’t particularly contentious either IMO.

Hey ho.

high volume ebay shop sellers do this: they find it saves on listing fees to edit existing listing (for free) and raise the out of stock item’s price to “no one would buy it” levels whilst they are waiting for more stock, rather than to unlist it completely and then list for sale again when back in stock.

[edit] although this happens too:
http”those-silly-algorithms-book-about-flies-goes-for-23-7-million-on-amazon” :lol:

Worst part is it doesn’t have the correct joining pin, instead it has a normal pin half pushed in to the outer link.

Fwiw i bought a shimano chain in a proper box from wiggle recently (8 speed as it happens) and it was sealed in the inner bag just like this. Thought i would have a go since this was how it was supplied. Only done 100 miles or so on it so too early to say if this was a bad idea (ime if you bodge it like this you usually end up with a split open hole in outer plate before too long).

There is a guitar solo on “from time to time” which i have heard note for note the same on the Mondays live album, and something from the 60’s/early 70’s, of which i have embarrasingly forgotten both the title and band…

And there is the sad story of “down under” and the kookaburra song :cry:

Chysler badged delta is available in yookay too. It looks horrible. :(

Which country specs orange spoke reflectors btw?

Its not always bad.

In my line of work, one thing the clients always want is contact/appointments in the evenings, and one thing many of the staff want is longer working days in exchange for more days off. Some sections of our service have married the two requests up very successfully.

Gwaelod, yes they do: a friend’s dad was one (now retired). Pretty prestigious post within the Gendarmerie.

mccett, the wife has an original hooker. In pink! (iirc it’s one of only 2 pink ones that ever made it over here) It is a rather different ride to much else: 100mm on the back, 140 on the front, concentric bb pivot but shows that massive rear travel was not essential for a capable play/slopestyle/mini-dh bike.

She vacillates between loving it and thinking she is not rad enough for it and wanting to sell it. I reckon she could be persuaded to part with it…

New huster looks sweeeeeeeeet. :D
Plenty of older ones round our way but maybe that is because of the proximity of the distributor. Between us my friends and family have had four (hustler, hj, stiffee and hooker) over the years, all good fun bikes.

If you read the whole article that bit makes more sense. If you read just the first page there are about ten people moaned at for taking that one sentence out of context. Just like you have.

Very droll. The press will be crying out for an eagle-eyed subeditor like you to correct their lazy headlines. ;)

Oh, fwiw if you really are interested, news just in
Spire healthcare floating on stock market.

I think a more interesting question would be “which country would you like to live in if you or your partner/child had a chronic illness or suffered life-changing injuries and subsequent disability?” Uk hospitals are ace, but what is better is the true equality of access to a high standard of longer term care, and once you accept how this is funded, the relatively great value for money it represents to the taxpayer.

This thread needs more GW.
Also pittards leather palms are like gloves, but better. I wonder why they don’t they appear on more mountain bike gloves, since some folk apparently seem willing to part with the thick end of fifty quid for ones with synthetic palms.

Good luck guys, ’tis a bleddy scorcher, innum!
Considering going round the route a bit later in the caravelle offering “voiture balai pour dix livres” service :lol:

Fwiw, according to tfl website, contactless card payments are still £1.45 on buses ie a bit more than oyster but way less than cash and no £5 oyster ‘deposit’… When it was £1.40 last year we did really well using longer bus routes. Also if you only know london a bit and have all day (across the middle it is quite probably faster to walk!) its quite nice seeing it all from the upstairs of a bus.

The Regular Show has it. :D

I think we are long overdue a new pedal thread “standard”. :evil:

Boots, yes! Depends on the route, but many paths marked on maps are not so obvious on the ground on the open moor, and big plus one for the changeability of the weather and perhaps more alarmingly the visibility. Even in summer! Also some bogs are alarmingly deep if you stray off paths onto open bog-land. When we were at primary school they used to scare us with stories of people still being stuck in the, to this day…. Also remember the army ranges/firing bits but i am sure you have thought about this and they don’t generally fire on weekends if that is when you are going.

Plume of feathers in princetown is a great pub with decent outdoorsy sized portions. not sure about the bunkhouse as i live so close i have never stayed there. Jail ale is of course mandatory drink and brewed about 50 yards away but sold all over the south west. Also the Royal Oak in Meavy is a great pub/food/tea stop if you go that way, and community owned/run too. There is also the best named burger van (well its quite a. bit better than a burger van!) at hound tor called the Hound Of The Basket Meals which is a lovely food stop in a truly lovely corner of dartmoor.

Reliased i have a lot more ideas about eating and drinking on dartmoor than walking or riding for that matter. :oops:

…and shimano also made a “29er specific” slx hub a few years ago. I scoffed at first, but actually the idea was a poorly-named but honest attempt at recognising the impact of 36t cassettes (on geared 29ers but i guess any bike really) that we had at this time not really seen before. Perhaps there is something about the shimano freehub design that is particularly sensitive to the loads from bigger cassette sprockets. My new slx one has more clicks and doesn’t sound like any of the shomano ones i have had before. It is also bigger- goes about 3mm further into the hub body than the old shape used to.

Sucess is having every mode of transport and naming them all after yourself.

Shiny bit looks like helicopter tape was put there for that reason (compare it to the more matte looking upper part of the steerer). Why would you fit heli tape under the plastic sleeve? :?

Yes.
Cctv, d-notices, governments deleting e-petitions, political parties deleting their own speeches. Only bit he was a bit out on was airstrip one being run by rich people all over the world, rather than a particular nation/empire.

“Pleased to meet you.” In the style of ‘sympathy for the devil’.
Also, the local variant of “arayt buy/meht/muh burd” is technically a question, but the correct answer is to repeat it back to whoever said it.

wwaswas – Member

Not trying to be funny but do you need a different bar just because it’s a rigid singlespeed?

I do a lot more pulling and pushing on a singlespeed handlebar as especialy round here I am out the saddle climbing/gurning a lot sooner and for a lot more of the ride than with gears.
Although i have had a singlespeed mountain bike for five or so years and never got round to trying wierd shaped bars, going from 650ish to 710mm normal-looking/feeling risers helped a bit i suppose.

Clearly this is not democratic and is never going to happen but the numerical truth is that those who take more than they give have a disproportionately large influence on elections.

If the choice of low or no tax-contributing voters is (under fptp that is) between two cheeks of the same arse, whose policies are massively influenced by the biggest party donors then you can have that one, yes. However has it not been long understood if not accepted that the voice of big business, the super-rich, the old boys establishments and until recently the trade unions extends far beyond what choice you have on election day?

Remember that people who pay no income, council, inheritance tax, stamp duty etc still pay tax. Not on scale of someone on a six figure salary but even my eight year old contributes to the nation’s overall tax take when he spends his pocket money.

As a music nerd i was chuffed to bits to get 303 for a couple of xc races a few years ago. Didn’t help how slow i was!

Good luck everyone, sad to not be doing it again this year. Btw i did one of the wet ones a few years ago (i forget which year but the time when the steepest climb through the woods before the long road climb ended up being closed) and it was still a great fun race. You’ll be reet!

What a bargain! And the raw finish ones are soooooooo the best looking. Also you can claim to have the only 650b frame in the world that comes with both chain device tabs and rack eyelets. :D