oh yes, i forgot about the trek/prada ‘relationship’

that post now makes no sense since the silly spambot advertiso-post above it was removed.

there are judges? I thought we were soon to degenerate into freestyle arguing about watches, espresso machines and german luxury saloon cars.

Stoner’s power tools is my favourite list so far.

However:

5891 Apple Tree House

10199 Winter Toy Shop

and

7639 Camper

😀

oh yes, i forgot about the trek/prada ‘relationship’. 😕

my (teacher) dad’s nickname at skool was also Beaky, or Captain Beaky from his more reverent pupils. He didn’t teach physic though.

Back on topic, as above it’s about leverage. And the other thing is the larger rotor conducts more heat away from the pads and disspiates/radiates it out to the air more efficiently, meaning it is a bit further down your enormo alpine descent before your brakes overheat and stop working.

Plymouth finally had about 5mm of snow overnight. My kids were well giddy on the way to school. No sideways quashquais on the way though. It is also far less cold today with dusting of snow than it has been the not-snowing last 5 mornings. I suppose that’s ther way isn’t it?

Stacey
Kat
Alfie

Kung Po
Szechuan
Black Bean

somthing you can put proper mudguards on. The difference between a rainy day on full sks and the same sort of day on crudcatchers is great!

antigee – Member

wasn’t tyres banned at one time?

as i recall, on the old pre-hack forum if you typed ‘what tyres’ in that order, you got ‘**** *****’

[stoopid double post]

bikeradar

lockout depends on the integrity of seals and oil in the top of right leg. If all you did was pp’s guide, you won’t have touched it. Perhaps it was a coincidence?

Are you getting full travel on them now? If not, it will be a seal in the right leg letting the motion control oil fall into the bottom, hence no lockout and fork ‘botttoms out’ on too much oil in the bottom of the right leg.

Also the blue spindle on 09/10/11 forks with poloc or pushloc is a bit particular about exactly how you set it up, meaning it doesn’t want to lock out unkless the cable is just right. Did you disconnect the locout lever when you took them off/apart?

toys19 – Member

Is this the one next to bryn bettws lodge?

Yes. It is way ‘bigger’ in real life than on the video. Even when you look at it from the road, with little around to ‘scale it’ against it is suprising how big it is. Much higher from bottom to top, biiiiiiiiig tabletops and very wide in places. Makes the average bmx or pump track look rather insignificant. How people ride this sort of thing on a hardtail with 100mm fork is beyond me!

Delightfully typical stw argu-thread from last winter about the same thing.

I seem to remember I got told I was an idiot/similar for suggesting the same thing as your first paragraph pixelmix 😐 [edit] actually maybe it was a similar ‘why can’t these teachers get to work’ type thread. Anyway…

By post count/location, I reckon stw is centred on Edinburgh though 😉

yes, great and light brakes, but I notice on the other thread today that they don’t seem to have a uk distributor any more, so hope they don’t need any help.

Mine have been fine fwiw, just the plastic bushings on lever and barrel pivots getting a bit rattly and bled once a year.

Is it a Frenchism?

‘d’or’ = made of gold
‘dorée’ = golden

I saw them on their own tour about six or seven years ago. They were much more distortion/overdriven in the guitar department and very ‘tight’. Ithink they played all their songs a wee bit fatser than on the record too.
Dick Valentine was a properly funny frontman at that show too. During a long-ish guitar solo bit he put a foot up on the monitor, removed a billfold from his jacket and fanned out a massive wodge of cash Del-Boy style to show the audience, then just popped it back in his jacket (as in suit jacket) and took the mic stand for the next chorus.

you could try the UK formula distributor http://www.propelbike.com/%5B/url%5D. Although phone them (well, him really) rather than email; perhaps they have a really picky junk mail filter because my 2 emails to them in last couple of months went unanswered.

leaning towards the defy as i have a tendency to wreck phones and its touted as a bit tougher than normal?!

cheers,(fatmutha, on monsieur wilson pc whilst babysitting his kids)

From their website:

COUNTERFEIT – IMPORTANT

UPDATE 21 NOVEMBER 2010 – PLEASE BE AWARE THAT FOLLOWING WEBSITES ARE SELLING COUNTERFEIT POWER BALANCE PRODUCT. DO NOT PURCHASE FROM THEM AS THE PRODUCTS DO NOT WORK.

And why would that be reason not to buy one? 😆

Sharki and TSY, you have both done excellent jobs of coming across as men on the forum. So many blokey contributions to threads over such a long time.

Like a kind of internet gender ‘deep cover’. 😆

mrs julian is a long-time lurker here and probably posts a couple of times a month. She will be mostly out riding whilst I am wasting time on the computer… She posts on shecycles a bit but remarks that there are only about 20 or so regulars on there too (probably the same ones on this thread).

Whereabouts are you?

-Penhydd trail at Afan before they felled. No idea if its been reopened yet or if its changed though.

-The ‘motorway’ across the top of the quantocks would be a really lovely scenic but non-technical blast on a clear day but you will be tempted by all the legendary combes that branch off it.

-Red route at Haldon Forest (Exeter) is easy but fun on a rigid or nearly rigid bike. I rode there a few months ago with a bunch of IT bods on a collection of retro bikes, and even the man on the original orange clockwork with 18″ bars enjoyed it.

I hear the south and south east of England has a plethora of non-technical bridleways with insignificant gains and losses in height. (Biiiiiig 😉 )

reba at 115mm is nicer (mrs julian has this). They only said 100mm max on the website since the new CEN regs came in, loads of folk on here have taller forks than that on their inbreds. Fox seem to attract fewer moaning posts on here over lasdt year or so: I wonder if they are more reliable these days, so i suppose it depends if you are going new or second hand. Rebas are v reliable indeed at the expense of being slightly less yummily damped than fox. If it was me i would still get the reba though fwiw.

depends how cold your hands get. Fox antifreeze gloves are stoopidly hot for me wearing both inners and outers, and rather a lot more expensive than the aldi gloves, but not too much sliding about and great proper leather palm.

Go Rotheram! 😀

Good call Woppit, it was ace wasn’t it? Particularly hearing ‘the ocean’ on radio 4. 🙂

I am an entirely average STW-er (30’s, multiple bikes, commute by bike, a few xc and big events a year, cheeky night rides in all weathers, beard and steel singlespeed, social subsection of guardian-reading bleeding-heart socialist).

I have been veggie for 12 years. I don’t consider my diet to have made any difference either way in my riding/sport habits. I am about the middle of my riding frineds in terms of fitness and gnar, and would be fitter and slimmer if I ate and drank more sensibly. I weigh a good stone more than i ever did when I ate meat. When riding I tend to ‘run hot’ not cold.

silver dt comps from crc. Silly-cheap and good balance between weight and durability. I’m not really a spoke breaker myself but I have read that the same wheel built by the same builder will be more durable with double butted spokes because they sort of ‘soak it up’ better. 😕

I am currently ‘in credit’ with the ‘perfectly useable/repairable tubes found hanging from tree/post and taken home from trails’ versus ‘other folks tubes replaced or repaired’ balance.

My favourite was a dad who seemed to be holding out for his bike being irrepairable so he could stop being dragged up and down more hills by his lad. 😆

Mrs Julian is slim and pretty ( 8) ) and once had a passing policeman insisting he changed her tube despite her insisting she could quite easily do it herself. [edit] Is there an innuendo somewhere in there?

Oooooh, that’ll end in tears!

How much do you like the cranks? Tried grinding the granny ring mounts off? You can still use a ring in the middle position plus bashring but you may be able to get the cranks closer to the chain device.

dunno but unless you need to log in first, they will be moderated by a real person to stop them getting full of spam.

By way of reviewing the miracle pwer balance bracelet on CRC, I have just posted a link to that bbc news article where they say it’s all a load of nonsense. Will be interesting to see if that makes it on. (though to be fair there are some really angry one-star reviews on crc so i expect they do not systematically edit out bad ones.)

I’ve ordered a couple of the placebo bands (link on first page of this thread) to wear as a control group/statement, in the distant hope that I will have a giggle when someone wearing a ‘real’ one greets me as a fellow power-band buddy. If this could happen at a race in the middle of a long climb, from someone riding in expert/elite, that would also be extra funny please.

By the way, the skepticbros shop is selling them at 2 australian dollars (about £1.22) each on a not-for-profit basis. If that is what the powerband factory also charge wholesale for a couple of holograms in a silicon band, who gets what share of the other £28.77? 👿

lol +1: you really do bring it on yourself don’t you? 😆

plenty of them in health service. Not sure if i am just more awake to it after 2 years of playing at people managment (didn’t like it, eased myself nicely back into my old 100% clinical job just in time to miss a new wave of restructuring horrendousness, phew!)

I will be really contentious and wonder out loud if some the extra money spent in health by the last government was incorrectly spent on lower/middle managment and fancy conferences, hence the seemingly higher proprtion of ‘bastards’? I wonder if a lot of them are like this cos they got promoted too quickly and are striving towards the next pay band or latterly just keeping their own jobs?

Thing with squeezing public services is that you lose all the ‘talent’, who are either crushed or just leave, and all you are left with is a bunch of bastards managing a bunch of stubborn and inefficient old battleaxes. Great.

My ass is in Devon (UK) but my heart is usually hovering in the Pau/Lourdes region of France.

you can use parcelforce, parcel2go etc (in fact they sent the parcelforce man for me when i used them except it was considerably cheaper than if i’d gone direct though parcelforce) It will be expensive though, think in the region of £30-40 because of the weight and size of the box.

Is what he does these days still a sport? Also an awesome example of a whole generation of frenchmen who thought long hair was a great idea.