We have one of them there specialized concept stores near us, and unsurprisingly there are loads of specialized in xc places. I once encountered a group of 8 riders in my local woods, all of whom were on different and varying-spec but current-or-previous year specialized. Group road rides start at my local b&q, and when i was there the other day, a group of 20 roadies set off, I counted 11 specialized amongst them. 8O

Also increasing volumes of mondraker and lapierre on dh trails.

Oh yes. Torchbearer. (midnight-to-midday solo). Probably in the solo area this year. Big blue tent, straw hat, retro-ish turquoise yeti asr-sl.

Ciderinsport, you want to get WCA and a loudhailer in your camp :lol:

Bonjour. Whereabouts are you/where do you ride?

Strava is no more reliable in my experience.

Last week I did 65k of open moorland under a cloudless blue sky and it recorded only a third the ride with a big straight line between where it stopped and started working again.

Also last week I did 20k round local woods, but strava tells me that actually I went to Belgium and then did a 50k loop (not even the same shape or direction as what I actually rode) round goodness knows where, at an average speed of 450kph. Because I travelled there by as the crow flies by sea I also got 500k extra on my ‘dirt search’ count as it was ‘offroad’. :?

the freewheel tool looks just like a shimano/sram cassette tool until you put them next to each other, the freewheel one is slightly smaller.

If a commitee designed it, where are the rack mounts? :evil:

Cameron on R4 just a moment ago has stressed that the timing of this is absolutely nothing to do with Lynton Crosby. :lol:

I would assume they are just creating a big fuss to distract from some other nefarious activities.

Oh indeed.

Cough cough! Even the Torygraph picked this one up and ran with it, albeit with a poorer smoking pun/gun than someother media outlets. :lol:

fwiw trek kids bikes (well, my kids 20″ ones in any case) come with cranks with 2 holes in each to move the pedals further down the crank as child grows. The arms are alloy too.

Also/but, riding with even a not-very-bent crank is most peculiar: (anyone want an old and lightly bent fsa megaexo crank/bb?) -you’ll need to get the location and angle of the drilling absolutley bob-on or they will ride ‘bent’.

They are much of a muchness on road, but specialized nimbus 1.5″ (with the ‘mark 2’ swirly tread/sipes) were suprisingly good when I rode them round wet steep and in parts muddy forest roads. Nothing like an xc tyre of course, but way better than I expected.

Did this on a parts bin singlespeed for a mate (Fritz Von Rundle of this parish), just beacaue the fork had no disc mount and the frame had no canti bosses. It worked. Bike looked a delightful state, also had 26″ wheels, singlespeed, 1″ slick on rear, 1.8″ slick on front, and drop bars :lol:

ChunkyMTB – Member

This thread is screaming for TJ

^^ and GW (coughs).

Horst link bikes. Read MBR, had three different ones. Now have 2 single pivots and they are the funnest bikes ever. I am sure there are terrible single pivot ones and great HL ones but that will teach me to buy a bike on magazine guff advice alone.

Also indie/alt/metal-fan undercuts with long hair (think whatsisface from the Wonder Stuff or Jason Newstead from Metallica) all though my teens till age 21. So wrong.

And for the guitarists, in the mid to late 90’s I was also wont to compensate for my lack of skillz with over-use of silly effects pedals. (super phaser through a digitech whammy and 2 second delay? ooh, suits you sir!). Seriously, I took longer to set up than the drums. :oops:

IIRC the caffine effectiveness thing was proven to be in the head?

Some evidence back along to suggest that something ‘over your regular dose of caffeine’ (ie loads if you drink coffee, not a lot if you don’t) slightly alters the ratio of ATP and stored glycogen you use at a not-breathing-out-your-arse heart rate, meaning if you have a little bit of blub (ie not Froome) you can theoretically go for slighly longer before you bonk in endurance races as you use more of your beer gut relative to what you also ate last night. And that in the same way it would help you lose body fat at a slightly better rate in cardio exercise/training as long as you also watch what you eat before and recover with. But I read about it at Nursey-school ten years ago (iirc in some highfaluting sports science journal), can’t remember whose research it was now.

cynic-al – Member

Where it broke… at the J=fatigue, by the nipple=corrosion/specialized wheelbuild[b] ;)

i) which parts of the NHS have been privatised since May 2010?

ii) How much has NHS spending reduced, in either fiscal or real terms, since May 2010 (the infamous cuts!)?

i) Local to me: all of the previously NHS childrens and families services in Devon PCT have gone to Virgin ‘healthcare’. Is that the sort of answer you were after? Serco are also doing a smashing (actually I mean terrible) job managing Cornwall out of hours GP services the last couple of years, and the whole thousands of frontline and support staff of what was Plymouth Primary care NHS trust are now a ‘Social Enterprise Trust delivering services on behalf of the NHS’ and those TUPE’s were included in the present government’s claims to have helped create so many thousand private sector jobs since they got in. So by their own claims, I will claim that service as privatised too.

ii) Google CRES savings. NHS trusts have been ‘saving’ (ie not going on frontline care, lord knows where it is going) 5% year on year since 2010, although to be fair New Labour strted that. Never understood how that tallies with the slight increase in DOH spending but operating budgets of individual services/wards are clearly falling year on year.

HTH

Catchfrench (east Cornwall)
Mousehole
Budeleigh Salterton and Newton Poppleford both near Exeter/Woodbury Common. In fact now I think of it to get to Budeleigh from Exeter you go past the twin hamlets of Inner and Outer Ting Tong. :D

Sometimes, they run xc races on actual mountain bike compatible routes, rather than just riding round fields

with 29ers it’s possible to stick cross tyres on your 29er, which begs the question when does a cross bike stop becoming a cross bike, or when does a mountain bike stop being a mountain bike?

I’ve got 35mm cross tyres for my 26″ mountain bike. to be fair, i don’t find it any faster on a mountain bike course than with proper tyres on, most obvious difference/advantage over 2″+ tyres is on tarmac/concrete and wet grass. I even beat a few people on proper cross bikes last time i used them (grassy damp but not really muddy cross race) 8)

Um, where does it say he

A: Didn’t commit the crime?

and/or

B: Wasn’t the actual killer?

Retrial made it rather clear that he simply couldn’t have been there at the time of the murder, and iirc he was not picked out of id parade by the witnesses that saw what was likely to have been the killer leaving the scene.

I suppose with the word count, this article presupposes that his acquittal was the right decision, and that he was neither the killer nor committed murder and instead concentrates on the story that he is “not innocent enough” for compensation.

IMHO the real story here is that Barry George does have a rather alarming criminal record (of things he clearly did do), and raises the debate of whether it is a good use of public funds or morally right to compensate someone who in the rest of their life did cause such harm and misery to others (just not Jill Dando!) and with such a large criminal record.

Hmmmm. Only thought is gt85/wd40 type water dispersers.

gt85 can have a similar effect ie swelling/failure on seals/etc of dot-fluid brakes. (iirc the overzealous use of gt85 posed a frequent problem with avid juicys back along)

-are you sure you couldn’t have got some on/in the lever when cleaning/lubing/removing anytning else on the bar? IIRC there will be a little breather hole inside the bar clamp that has the bladder/bellows bit behind it and I would imagine that would be a weak point in terms of a contaminant getting inside and sitting there unnoticed until failure of the bladder.

Re: Ryder’s sunglasses: already done!

The lovely and obsecenely quick xc-steve of this parish, and of Silverfish/Mondraker race team has been wearing that look for at least three seasons now. Plastic Aviators Blog.[/url]

fwiw my cane creek 110 has a split race but with an intact seal around it.
Also for loose ball 1 1/8″ headsets that you cannot split, the top half (as in the bit that goes up and down not the foot part) of my one of my halfords axle stands has just the right internal diameter to go on the race without touching the actual smooth bearing surface and you can hit it really hard for stubborn and slightly-too-wide (04/05 rockshox iirc) steerers.

paulsoxo you had it right the first time.

the headset in the linky up there is for 44mm headtubes (that take a 1 1/8″ steerer through a zero-stack or semi-integrated headset.)

Alas this will not help the op as unless he has a 2011 or newer 5 spot (that’s when they went up to 44mm), his ‘normal’ headtube will only ever take a straight steerer.

If it is 20 years old I am dismayed to see no box for “black to neon link fade” which is what I was on in 1993. :D

I work with an art therapist and know a couple of others elsewhere in the service.
Good advice/observations above re distribution of jobs and full time/part time. (ours is 1.5 days a week as there just isn’t enough work to justify employing her any more. Suits her though as she is a new-ish mum with full time professional husband.)

Other issues will be the extraordinary cost of training (it is a masters-level qualification and apart from the rather specialist tuition, you need loads of supervision in practice by already-experienced art therapists.) …and that last point means unless you live in a sprawling metropolis, you are potentially looking at a lot of travel for your ‘practice’ time (ie at work) and wherever you find a vacancy when you are qualified…

great job though imho.

ooh, my (admittedly rather old but only maybe 1/3 worn tread-wise) intense system 2 did that ^^ a few months ago.

If its the rise in cycling in London to blame then is it also Boris’ fault too? :twisted:

igm – Member

Heckler? That’s the American and less expensive version of the Five isn’t it. fify :D

In fact I think it would still have been signficantly less than a 5/sub5 when they were welded in USA then shipped here and Jungle Tax applied (and cost a little more than the taiwanese versions iirc) then shipped here and import and ‘Jungle Tax’ applied.

-If you get a new one in the UK you get free pivot bearings for life. Only £15 a set for the hecler but every little helps…
-they look nice, almost round tubes and everything!
-iscg 05 tabs on new ones.
-30.9 seat tube for droppers
-newest ones have tapered headtube for unnecessarily-sized fork steerers.
-I think they are fun. Others think they are to high up (esp compared to a five) Both the five and the heckler are also ubiquitous enough that chances are someone near you ought to have one in your size you could have a go on.

But yes the sizing on sc’s is interesting: pay attention to top tube lengths. (I have ’05 vintage small size yeti and a large size sc, both have same seat and top tube lengths, go figure!)

Slight tangent, but a few months ago someone on here posted a chart of various popular roadie tyres rolling resistance (actually it was watts required to maintain a particular speed given same bike rider and tyre pressures) and the differences were quite remarkable including between some quite high end tyres. See also the difference between cartridge bearings and lightly greased and properly set up shimano hubs ;) .

I couldn’t believe he’d had the nerve to trot that one out again. We’ve not heard it for a while.

Barrel-bottom truly scraped there. Perhaps he should have invested in an extra hour’s coaching with his ‘helper’ beforehand. :?

I already have only one foot in the NHS (the other in a social enterprise trust ‘delivering cut price services for the NHS and not for profit’).

The service I work in is performing marvellously, in fact although profit and loss are rather abstract in a not-for-profit healthcare provder, in the last financial year my part of the service has made a theoretical ‘profit’ equal to 45% of the losses made by the rest of the organisation.

On this basis, and on the basis of the changes in tendering brought about by the health and social care act I fully expect to have our successes recognised/punished (delete as per your political leanings) get ‘cherry picked’ by serco/g4s/virgin at the next re-tendering and be a private sector employee within a couple of years.

Sadly, that has nothing to do with the economy, it’s a fundamental Tory belief that the poor must be made to suffer for their sins so the rich can feel even better about themselves.

…you heard the chancellor on r4 this morning too then? What little faith I had in his own convictions/belief in himself went out the kitchen window when he trotted out the “we are all in this together”. You know any politician is running out of explanations when the partyt straplines come out. Respect to the interviewer for not laughing out loud at him.

danielgroves – Member

About £3.20-£4.50 depending on what pub and what ale.

(Plymouth)

danielgroves, get thee to the Fortescue, I reckon you will be much closer and under £3 a pint for proper beer. And even less in any of our wetherspoons if you can stand the company!
That said I think I paid nearly £4 for a pint of peroni in posh pub the other night.
Ooooouuuutraaaagge!

I have in mind the owners my most local lbs, who are the most un-snobbish, friendly and enthusiastic people: euqally friendly whether you buy a patch kit or some dura ace bling, and whether you arrive wheeling in a carbon race sled or a beat-up commuter. Totally not snobs and give lots of support for local racing. Despite their relatively small size, they will also be burning the midnight oil as a trade/shop tent with the some sensible prices and great bargains to be had at the 24/12 if previous years are anything to go by.

I can think of a couple of employees of lbs’ (as opposed to the owners) who come across very haughty/superior (“I suppose you want those spd’s for a spinning class, madam?” etc) but these two tools are happily the exception rather than the rule round our way.

before I opened this thread I would have suggested Santa Cruz Superlight (or indeed juliana!) :lol:

2009 RS sid perchance? You didn’t even need to crash to get some of them to do what you have described; many lowers replaced under warranty.

mintsauce5 – Member

All it is is eBay stacking their whole system in favour of buyers

And high-volume ‘power sellers’. :(

Oooooh, good skillz Moda, I love bodges like that ^^. :D

I see your stupid ‘need the unreliable lockout lever fitted to make the fork work at all’ system and I raise you a cable ferrule and an old gear cable. :P

Yes it does, well did: Hone and LX had one with a smaller diameter thread than the others. Last time I bought a spare for my hone crank it was listed as being for LX. Tool to fasten it up is the same for both sizes however.