We forgot cows and methane. I read somewhere once that if humans didn’t rear cows for milk/beef/veal/leather/glue/rennet, the amount of methane in the atmosphere would be well different. Goats milk/cheese is ace, and they are way more fun to rear look after. Not sure about the meat though 😕

Blower, I’ve emailed you one.

Either that or cyclocross tyres for mud…

oi, i have been superstitiously warding off torrential rain at bike events by bringing my 26″ scwalbe cx pro’s with me for 2 years. 8) Only ever fitted them once though, to do a cross race.

Ah, bottle bosses…. My SC bullit has them, but with little plastic ‘bolts’ presumably for weight saving? On a 9lb frame? 😆

I’ve started using cages and bottles sometimes (short-ish rides) for simple washing-up laziness, I’d rather wash 15 bottles than give my camelbak bladder a scrub, it’s a right faff.

I think it’s about time we had a new bottle boss standard. Like old bottle bosses, but further apart for at least 66.67% increase in cage stiffness. Perhaps with internal hydration tube routing so you can lean into your slammed stem (oooh, we haven’t had a new standard for that for a while either have we?) and have a slurp of the latest energy/isotonic wunda-drink from it.

cynic-al – Member

You can still move the wheel about in the stay,

If i used it with the axle in the middle or back of the slot, my awesum turbo thighs would overcome a qr and have that wheel forward/wonky at the first sign of a hill. 8)

I had similar to dmr ones on a commencal once, they were indeed a royal faff to remove the wheel. Mind you, my mate’s slotty dropout scandal with gears (basically like Al’s mod but already built into the frame) is a bit of a faff too even without tuggy bits.

rosbifs

oooh, get you mr ‘factory tweaks’, you even drilled it out Al. 😀
If you are ok with the chainstay length that is a much simpler way than the dmr one.

Thing is, being a ‘family event’ doesn’t reconcile with stories of people getting so pissed up they self soil, then have no recollection of what happened

‘Fredgate’ occurred about 50 yards away from where my very young family were sleeping, no families were harmed in the enactment of the ‘event’, and I’d never have known about it if i hadn’t overheard earwigged Poddy talking discreetly about it the next day.

I am seriously considering leaving my bike at home this year and seeing how much fun we can have as a family without it being complicated by Daddy disappearing all the time to ride his bike.

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Edit, i meant the one with the bit on the end that goes over the track end::

dmr used to ‘do’ a chain tug with a gear hanger on, try googling them/that.

That looks ace for the money. You’d be well gutted if you’d spent the original £1200 rrp on it though 😕

One of my friends is a Clinical Psychologist and although he could be if he wanted, he is never ever ‘Dr A’ for anything at work (too many ‘real’ doctors work with him for a start!), but he uses it for car insurance purposes too. I laughed.

Job title only in work correspondence. When it’s to do with the Mental Health Act I will add the RN(MH) bit because in those cases the specific part of the nursing register I am on is required by the law.

I have a BA too which most people I work with or have met in the last 10 years don’t even know about, completely pointless me shoehorning in a reference to my impressive knowledge of French cinema and absurdist theatre let alone putting another 2 letters after my name. (never did the ‘hons’, opted to have more fun in 3rd and 4th year 😀 )

Hmmm, seen dodgier looking listings. Neither seller seems to know all that much about what they are selling. I suppose it’s possible that the second seller bought the bike outside of ebay cash on collection because it was local and he could see what he was buying… And then realised that a 38+lb bike isn’t really the thing for croozin’ the streetes of the gloucestershire projects….

shortcut – Member

It’s a 19″ dh bike. Ask the guy how tall he is. Less than 6’2″ walk away! Otherwise go so and maybe cash on collection.

Maybe seller did the rookie mistake of buying a bike too big because he liked the look/price of it? We’ve all been there!

And also no, american sizing is often very loopy. The ‘large’ size does indeed have a 19″ seat tube but it should be considered as a 23″ top tubed freeride-as-opposed-to-downhill bike. My bullitt is a large, and i am 5’11. It fits rather like my ‘small’ yeti asr, which has an ever so slightly shorter tt and an 18″ seat tube, but was still the second smallest of the four sizes they made.

Awesome troll DS. Postage, who’d have thought? 😆

I always understood the ‘widowmaker’ as being a bit of a tounge in cheek name for it. Its just doubletrack with lots of 10-30cm rocks, some fixed and a few loose, seemingly easier the faster you go but with a higher ‘failure penalty’, as in if you lost your front wheel you would be more than likely to land on something hard and pointy. Gives your bingo wings a bit of a shaking on the way down, and a moderately satisfying climb if you do it the ‘wrong’ way.

Loads of semi-cheeky round there too. Lights and someone to show you round when all the walkers have gone home would be ace. Yogi cycling[/url] do a not-too-strenuous group night ride on a thursday usually meeting at the car park in Yelverton. Never done the thursdsay rides, a few different faces from the ones I know but apparently they are a nice bunch.

Are we defining ‘trail centre’ as being free to ride in?

…only lots of pay-to-ride or members-only dh trail centres have well mad stuff… and I have no idea if there exists a trials trail centre setup like some in europe but i would imagine lots of that can only be hopped over rather than ridden conventionally.

Nice tagging up there^^. 😕 (miserable and presumably chicken poster hasn’t replied in that spirit to the actual thead).

Am I the only one with a sooper dooper internet browser that allows me to choose not to open a thread on a topic I am fed up with?

How could I forget: “Mark it zero, Dude!”

Hell no! On my xc bike I might get about 3 boulders less than he does, fully armoured and big-biked up I would still get stuck where he does.

When the human race dies out the World will be populated by cockroaches on Hardrocks.

I saw one of the square tubed ones locked up outside Tesco’s once, it had Super T’s on it. I bet it still isn’t broke.

Stacey: “It’s a gun rack.”

Wayne: “But I don’t even have a gun.”

The Spesh Hardrock is t’wife’s.

My work bike is the exact same frame as that, but everything else apart from the shifters and brakes is worn out/broke/replaced, I expect that some weeks my hardrock gets more miles than my ‘nice’ bikes. 😳 I keep hoping it will crack and I will have to replace it something a bit more innocuous, but i suppose if i only ride it 60 road miles a week the square tubes will outlast me!

HTS, you also seem to have (presumably less infrequently ridden) 2 specialized’s and a scott in the way of your unused Uncle John and Inbred. Are you trying to get chased off the forum with pitchforks?

I can’t believe we are 3 pages in and no one’s called it “Padstein” yet.

I quite like Padstow fwiw, Stein or no Stein. Plenty of other poncey expensive places in Cornwall, just the owners are less famous than Rick Stein. I would rather stay there than Newquay anyway!

I do feel for the mining families. Galling, considering that the price of Tin went waaaaaay back up about 5 years after the (closed) mines had flooded and deteriorated so badly they were completely uneconomical to re-open. If they had somehow been able to hang on in business, or at least keep the pumps going, Cornwall could be a rather different place for the folk that actually live there. It sure is an odd place these days with a huge rich/poor gap. It takes an awful lot of tourism to plug the gap every time a china clay works or mine closes. 😕

oooh, whilst there’s a crc thread, does anyone want my ‘£10 off £75’ voucher? expires about 17th August.
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Goofy girl does driving test in Volvo 240 saloon.

French sex icon’s sadly unsuccessful eurovision entry. I forget who it was off here who recommended Sebatien Tellier, but thanks, he’s ace! 😀

How much is a new rubber bit? If not too spendy, I wonder if a temporary bodge might be to cut a slot in one side, cut/carve a groove around the outer edge of the bumper and then ziptie it on. I expect the ziptie would give out after a few hard squishes but you could check it every run and keep a load in your pocket.

Surrounded By Zulus – Member

This thread is quite sad.

The Ozzy bits are good though. 😀

Will there be the malt loaf contest and the ‘inappropropriate bike’ race again? I can’t decide which of those two was my raddest moment last year.

Also, night races? Pleeeeeeease?

in the interests of fairness, there were comedy-wipeouts-a-plenty on the men’s race of the same course. 😆

No way i could ride anything much beyond the start ramp…. 😳

Rob, if you’ve never built wheels before i wouldn’t start with stans! Allegedly they are easier to overtension (although I may be confusing myself with whati read about olympics rather than all stans rims).

355 erd is 540mm, it is 536mm for flow so at worst your spokes might be a smidge too long (somewhere between 1 and 2 mm given the angle the spokes leave the hub flange, geometry fans) It depends how much of the spoke is already in the nipple on your current build, the last thing you want is your rim tape getting pierced by too much spoke protruding from the back of the nipple. The rim swap bit is easy if time consuming (tape the new rim to the old wheel and swap the spokes over one side of the hub at a time), but for £120 of new rims I would be getting someone a bit experienced to do them as the lacing/rim swap is just the easy bit….

cynic-al – Member

Think of the tax revenues if it was legalised.

oldie but a goodie, Al 😀

not just tax, if you apply it to heroin and crack too, health implications of crap/cut drugs versus a good quality clean supply (rich heroin addicts look far chirpier than poor ones in my professional experience). Oh, and crime: both organised crime in selling it and chasing’kidnapping/torturing people for their debts, and also to a much lesser extent burglaries. (people will still be addicted to smack and need to fund their habits after all).

dunno about the bibs, but my new fox ranger baggies (once you lose the liner) are noticably much much less hot than my other ones.

if you rebuilt them yourself would it be worth flogging just the rims to fund new ones? (dunno if erd’s are the same or not but you may well get away with same spokes depending on what length they are built with)

precursor to the backstretcher 😉

Replace the old big foam rings with the black wipers then new smaller foam rings then grey outer seals, with as much 15wt oil dribbled into foam rings as you can get before you reassemble. All will be fine :D.

these ‘ere pedals look rather a lot like ssc nanos / nukeproof/answer/wah wahs but for £23 too. Bargain!

that’s a small price to pay for a fab stroll with my kids in the morning.

haha, wait until about middle of October, won’t be so fab then! Still, well done. 😀 Made a huge difference financially when we went down from 2 to 1 car for very little practical bother, particularly when mrs j also started riding to work. (again, buses and nursing/shift work not really compatible outside really big cities: unless you live right in the city centre)