mk6 joystick comes with a usb lead charge it as well as the standard (mains) charger. I expect you could buy a spare usb lead to charge other eposure lights if they didn’t come with one as standard. No idea what the charging time is like on them if you use the usb though.

GaryLake – Member

I’ve been on the Jury for an inquest… at least half the jury were openly prepared to say what they needed to say to keep it short.

+1, that was exactly my experience of my inquest/jury service.

nicko74 – Member

Well quite. But (in spite of pursuing the most unfortunate and embarrasing possible example of leaked police reports in recent years) the whole thing’s (being touted by the government as) a storm in a teacup.

“MP chief whip of governing political party narrowly avoided arrest for a public order offence, using language unrepeatable on this public forum barring the word called a policeman a PLEB!!”
erm… so what?

“Chief whip publicly denied the above; Policeman LEAKED the report that an MP called a policeman a PLEB! detailing the circumstances of chief whip’s near arrest”

OK, well that’s fairly naughty, but again, if it hadn’t’ve been blown out of all proportion the chief whip of the governing political party hadn’t tried to lie his way out of it the first time around, this probably wouldn’t have been picked up.

There, fixed it for you. 😀

Al looks smaller than I imagined for a start. Or perhaps its the bike.

I recently straightened out a pair of mavic (ksyrium?) bladed spoke road wheels: I used a dinky (5″?) little adjustable spanner closed over the spoke about 1/3 of the way up from the rim, and then spoke key as normal. (this also worked for some crossrides I once had too)

Zulu- yes indeed.
What will be interesting is whether the prosecution offending/leaking officer (and whether he/she was paid by the press), or what Mitchell really said/did ultimately makes the most headlines and is remembered in 5 years time. 😆

Duane, I see your single santa and I raise you a couple of dozen:
Charidee ride dressed as santa. (you can’t hotlink pictures from that there website, but I am the one with the beard and red suit. 😀

I saw that advert on telly last night for personal loans (for people with poor credit ratings) with a one year repayment period and an apr of 278% 😯

Hopefully alongside this case, the investigation into the “false information” in the log-book will also remind us of what Andrew Mitchell does actually think of us normal voters/taxpayers. You’d have thought they would have just moved the ‘offending’ officer sideways and tried to bury the whole embarrasing thing. 😈

Of course its not actually in their interests to actually tell us the real ‘cost’…

…that smells a bit of “we don’t really care: our profit margin is so fantastic that the money we lose on fraudulent loans is comfortably less than the money we would have to spend on more robust ID/details checking” So what if a few random people they have never met or done “business” with get their bank accounts wrecked for a few days? 👿

yes: when they went to 150mm that was with the newer shape lowers.

I love a cheese thread! I opened this one in the hope of finding someone getting flamed for suggesting Applewood. 😆

+1 for Yarg, it’s gert lush. If you want to go leftfield but still celtic, see if you can get some Abbaye de Timaudec.

xc lid carrier = bananas and baguette carrier in my world! 😀

Worse if wet! I found myself slowing down on downhills when we went out roadying round the lanes of the lovely Rame Peninsula the other day, my tootsies hurt so much! (and it wasn’t nearly as cold as -1!) Much nicer back uphill though. Never thought I would say that!

There shouldn’t be a lot to rust inside your fork as unless it came on a £200 bike, most of it will be made of some kind of aluminium or magnesium alloy, and coated in lubricating oil and grease.
The top “o-rings” (i think you mean what manufacturers call ‘dust seals’) on most big-name forks are pretty durable: I would be dismantling, cleaning and re-greasing/re-lubricating the fork quite a few times between replacing the dust seals. (most folk refer to this as a ‘lowers service’) -to put this into perspective, I have been known to ride my rockshox forks for a year between services and despite mud, rain, river crossings and of course lots of hosing down and washing, I have never found water or emulsified oil inside them when I dismantled them: if the stanchions are in good condition and there is adequate lubrication inside the fork, the seals on rockshox pretty much are waterproof.

What fork is it? -that will probably help people in here give advice.

I though Tom Hardy did ok as “a bit posh and a bit bookish” in ‘A for Andromeda’ and Insheeption. But he is too chunky-looking.

Guy Pearce has been my favourite suggestion on here so far.

(And then you could shoehorn Alan Dale in as some long-in-the-tooth civil servant/official type. And Stefan Dennis as the crap comedy villain who gets it in the opening bit before the theme tune. 😆 )

Did i dream it or was a player killed by a coin once? (I am thinking south america and 90’s…)

[edit:no, I must have just dreamt it, but I did find a very long and grim list of other “died in action” football players on wikipedia…}

??? Can someone enlighten me ? I don’t get the point been made ?

3 pages of mickey taking mickey taking will be partially about component choice/long stems (see mine above! 😳 ) but mostly centre around the OP’s propensity for very frequent frame swaps, and his very public dithering about it on this forum.

*points at black seat post*

That’s not in keeping with what you just said.

AFAIK they don’t make carbon seatposts in white or silver yet. 😛
(the completist in me still worries about the black hubs, hoses, brake adapters, chainring, saddle and grip lockrings, mind!)

Rob, that tiller stem was a lovely shade of shiny chrome, but was a ridiculous 110mm: I had to roll the handlebar back to a silly angle just to have a comfortable reach. Now replaced with a slightly less shiny but rather shorter one.

http://money.aol.co.uk/2012/12/04/starbucks-cuts-paid-lunch-breaks-and-sick-leave-is-this-fair/%5B/url%5D

As one door closes, another one opens. 👿 I wonder how much of their increased tax bill this is hoped to offset?

White bikes look nicer with silver bits on them not black IMHO.

I suppose white is also easier to check for cracks etc, but harder to keep looking nice. Mine is remarkably chipped considering the life it has had.

Big John, Stephen Hawking was sort of a guest vocalist on This Pink Floyd Song (well, they nicked it from a BT advert…)

uponthedowns – Member

How much of it will be played live?

A lot more than Erasure/PSB (who I also looooove 😳 )
“Live”, the synth sounds Kraftwerk use are often well different from the records, and the both the melodies and vocals are often just “off” enough to be reassured that behind the comedy animatronic robots and zingy graphics, there are four very middle-aged men playing keyboards as opposed to just pressing buttons. Whether they are actually enjoying themselves playing keyboards together is anyone’s guess though! 😆

If I could get there, I would want to be at the Computer World night, just to see if they still play any of it on those little pocket calculator thingys. 😀

Formula oro brakes.
inner tubes
100mm stems
intense tyres
£8 240 lumen dx torches used as bike lights
shimano hubs
raceface jackets (x2)
8 speed drivetrains
ooooold marzocchi 66 (2.8 kg! Made in Italy mind, so it still works)

weeble – Member

I ride Singletrack on my CX bike

…and I ‘race’ cx on my mountain bike too. Yay! 😀

^^ candidate for post of the week, I think! 😀

pleaderwilliams – Member

As above, on earth: longest day(light) to longest day(light) is roughly a year.

Don’t know how you could work it out on a planet with a ‘vertical’ axis though?

Am I right in thinking that the tilted axis on our planet is one of many features (as compared to other planets size, distance from their suns, number/size/distance of moons etc etc) that made ours capable of evolving so many and such diverse and complex “carbon-based lifeforms”? ..that is to say that if you lived on a planet with a vertical axis then would there be anything evolved on it clever enough to wonder how many days there were in a year?

PS I still like the Revolutionary calendar with its fancy month names. Germinale, anyone? 😀

Ben, you need to post this exact same thread on 28dl (yes I am a long time lurker there too) and compare the responses you get. 😀

[edit: wrong Ben, doh! But join 28dayslater.co.uk and post that conundrum as your “hello I am new” thread anway. It will be ace.]

Do shimano make their own shoes in their own factory? And if not, would they also change suppliers from time to time as QC/price/availability/capabilities of supliers dictates?

Carl, our kids were well chuffed to be in the paper. Toze’s kids were cute reprazenterzz too, but got all shy when the cameraman started moving people around. Millie and I are also somewhere at the back. Probably just as well in my case!

Well done Dave/dcl too, you’ve put a lot of time and angst into all this, especially considering you have no vested/work/business interest in it other than getting your own kids and other peoples’ out on their bikes!

I like this. 😀

Hopefully all the haterz who said 9 months ago that this course looked too easy will come along on hardtails with 100mm forks, 2.1″ tyres and seats right up to show us all how it’s done! 😆

Best thread on here this week. 😀

just keep riding! 😀
I think I used to haul on the bars whilst sort of leaning my weight back to keep the back wheel dug in (easier to do than to type about it!) but now I don’t really think about it much. And yet I have a old half-worn intense system 2 (intermediate-to-summer 2.0″ tyre) on the back of my singlespeed. Spat it’s traction once or twice in the woods the other day but not much more than the mud x on my geared bike does tbh.

[edit] glupton is right too: the more you carry your speed into the gloopy or steep sharp bits, the less often you lose traction. Perhaps fitness and speed-carrying skillz are why it seems easier than when I first had a singlespeed.

Fingers crossed for you Poddy. 😀

It will be steel/chromoly. I would laquer it. On-one do the inbred 456 in “raw” steel and i believe it is laquered. Like this:

convert/ben/ittaika, you are only ‘lego ocd’ lightweights: for maximum points you must make sure that as many as possible of the tiny little lego logos moulded on the top of each stud are the same way round. I don’t, but according to the other forum I lurk/post on, there are plenty of people who do. 😯

Charliethebikemonger.com sells messenger bags made from “recycled” (QC failed but new iirc) schwalbe tyres.
Here! £23 delivered!

That ride sounds like a right slog, the weather we’ve had!

+1 for the yogis. After riding round here for years, I still learnt loooooads of great trails from them. Unless you know you that you are pretty fast, I would start with a thursday or saturday ride as the tuesday one is often 3 hours and a lot more than 20 miles in that time!
http://yogicycling.com/%5B/url%5D

Also, even if you don’t have a gps or smartphone, join Strava just to have a look at what/where other folk are riding: there are loads of local xc riders that strava most of their rides and you will find plenty of circular-ish routes from coypool between 10 and 40 miles.

Failing that, wait for the lovely xc-steve to pop up on this thread so he can point you to some of the many massive online routes he has recorded.

No, not already! How many times have you ridden it Juan?

PS no idea, but the ‘normal’ steerer angleset (as I think your new bike takes) can only slacken 1 degree for what it’s worth.

Three or four “rejects” I suppose. Although I don’t think I have too fussy a posterior: I still have three different shapes/models (all aftermarket, ie bought especially) of saddle on four bicycles.