Brighter light on helmet an dimmer light on bars seems best for me.
Dimmer light stays on for whole ride and bright one for anything a bit twisty rocky or rooty. Dimmer bar one good for road bits and ride to/from the actual ‘mountain biking’ bits without ‘upsetting’ motorists.

crap singlespeeder wheeze-core.
and budget ‘just-go-past’ dh brake-drag-tech some weekends.

I have recently seen one on the wrist of a race-winning employee in my local enormo-brand bike superstore.

I can’t believe he would wear one just to sell them in the shop. And he really honestly is a great and fast rider. So they must work, non? 😆

The first bronze coloured trek ss 69-er with maveric duc’s. Mmmmmmmmmm.

We hate the EU!

Is that a ‘royal we’, Kev?

I like the EU.

And (back on topic, sorry) I like and would vote for Obama.

as a Technician it’s unlikely he works on Rapid Response

My friend left Bristol ambulance service a little under four years ago, one of the things she was unhappy about in her job was exactly that. ^ Yes, in Bristol, hardly out in the sticks. 😕
As a newly qualified staff nurse in CCU now, she is much much more supported in her work.

I’d go 20mm simply becuase it will be easier to re-sell your fork or find a wheel for it in a hurry if/when you pringle your hope one. Weight difference does exist but if hardly worth worrying about with a pro2 hub and newest 20mm maxles.

As an aside, as much as I like old fashioned shimano qr cup and cone hubs, the hope/halo/superstar way of making hubs that are ‘future proof’ with the use of easy-and-cheap-to-machine adapters and hollow axles is the way forward in light of all this axle standard jiggery-pokery.

I’ve looked all over for gloves for my two (now 4 and 6), never found a full finger one that wasn’t much too wide and long in the finger for hands below 6 or 7 years old. Including the 661 kids sizes (though they are ‘proper’ gloves)

Mine have the smallest size bontrager fingerless mitts, which come in a proper size for tiny hands black bontrager logo for boys and blue/pink flowers for girls. My two like them very much.

The paramedic, who asked not to be named, said: “We believe the only mistake he made that day was answering the phone.

“We’re not supposed to answer a call from control if we are on a break. When the controller asked Owen if he was available he said no. A lot of us would have gone to that call-out, but Owen’s very new and I think he didn’t really understand the implications.

💡 hmmmmm, just supposing he hadn’t answered the phone then?

Would the ambulance service then be answering questions as to how it took them 21 minutes to get to a clear-cut call for a 33 year old in a cardiac emergency?

Anyone know if that would be a normal or unacceptable repsonse time for that area?

It wouldn’t be normal down here (devon), particularly in light of the tragic loss of this lady, and probably wouldn’t be remotely newsworthy if it was a less serious case. (although our rural response times are greatly improved by the existence and attendance of first responders, I am not sure how long it can take for a paramedic to attend right out in the sticks).

🙁

😆

my favourite was the episode which starts with the train blowing up in Iran, simply for the amazing ridiculo-gadgetry. Injectable drug with special homing beacon in it? Coming right up sir! 😕

Language course?

When i did Italian at university, we were three lads in a year group of 63. And the other 2 lads weren’t interested in girls.

Also any type of dancing. Apparently.

not that he had a stolen identity, but stuff like this does happen…

psychle – Member

Saying that those fox 36’s are too cheap to be believed…

That’s kind of what I thought…

STW classifieds in ‘priced to sell’ as opposed to ‘reposted 20+ times’ shocker. 😆

(not aimed at anyone on this thread btw, just nice to see things sell straight away!)

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longer hose, 2 olives and 2 barbs will do it, you can re-use the 2 fittings that go into the lever and caliper. Though that may come in as expensive as a complete replacement hose kit anyway.

this one will do fine, ignore the ‘M525 only’ bit, this dates from a few years ago when most shimano brakes had a banjo fitting at one end.

I have bearings like that in a headset, not really that good IME.

The pinch bolt bit means like shimano ones do up as opposed to raceface. Its to do with sideways preload on the bearings (which would be less on pinch bolt ones: think of it as an aheadset on its side with the plastic cap being the top cap bolt and the pinch bolts as stem bolts).

Just hope your finger doesn’t break through the tissue

Rookie mistake. Get the wipee to bend further forward to present a wider flatter target area, and wipe with 2 or 3 fingers, spreading pressure across wider area of tissue (3 layers deep if wiper is anxious or lacks experience) and this minimises the chance of finger breakthrough.

Is that too much sagely advice? IGMC

The rev team’s bbmc damper locks out though doesn’t it:?:

philconsequence, i had you down as a nurse too? Even a proper mental nursie should have been up to their elbows in it at some point, and should be totally immune to dirty protests and great-escape style surreptitious depositing of dirt out of the bottom of trouser leg. 😀

In answer to the OP, I would.

It’s just like your own bum but attached to someone you also like and care about.

If i had a quid for every grownup’s bum i have wiped (in the line of duty) I would posting endless threads about my blinging workshop-full of matching titanium bikes and my yearly six weeks in whistler.

so if your bearing sieze you have to bin your cranks. great, thanks.

If you don’t notice your bearings wobbling or grumbling a long time before they seize completely, you probably shouldn’t be performing such bb surgery procedures on your bicycle at all. The one enduro one I had fail started a wobble noticeable when pedalling or rocking the cranks by hand rather than seizing on.

There was another thread on here recently where most people said they were rubbish, didn’t last any longer than shimano’s own and had crap seals.
We did a group/bulk buy amongst mates a couple of years ago and all apart from one bearing (oddly enough, the ‘unloaded’ drive side on a gxp bb, usually the non drive side gives up first) are still going fine now.

I wonder if they have changed the seals since then? Definitely worth a look at the price though, if they fall apart early at least you didn’t spend twice as much on a ‘whole’ bb.

Get her a phrenology head as a ‘hello’ present.

+1 wollie boolies, favourite socks ever. I have some shorter but lovely smartwool ones too which are so far very tough, they do a variety of wooliness and cuff length iirc.

i liked the story (?urban/aviation myth?) of the pilot who on a wander round the aircraft mid-flight, put his bag in a handy little alcove he found somwhere. It turned out to be an expansion joint of sorts so the outside could stretch with the heat and the inside trim wouldn’t fall apart. So when he went back to look for it after they landed it wasn’t there, prseumably trapped behind the insides of the aircraft.

This thread would be better on mumsnet, they would have a right old time on this subject.

My mum met my dad at her cousin’s and his brother’s wedding, so they are not blood related but it means I have a slightly smaller christmas card list than I would do otherwise.

and despite the genetic safety and normalness of my parents’ marriage, I still get a lot of duelluing banjos when people hear about it!

And yes OP if you aren’t trolling you will too, though I suppose if you are in your 40’s and she has 2 already, you may not be having children and loading the mental illness/learning difficulty/chromosonal disorder dice….

Yes.

Mrs julian has a toro and a joystick and has no idea which charger is for which, they both look identical and work either way round anyway.

I’ve had an A4 sized bag with single shoulder strap (so useless on bike but…) for 12 years or so. It has a three pen slots and a mobile phone pocket which fits a 90’s mobile phone in 8)

I suppose it’s a man bag (size large) but it’s more of a ‘dad bag’ these days: generally has just my sunglasses in it, and drinks/snacks/spare pants/trousers/hats/mittens etc etc etc for the children in it.

raced at Newnham, when the pipeline was still part of the course (and the tin mine) before it got sanitised

Bit rougher and more cut up now than in those days. Cottage run and elfordleigh woods gain a few rocks and roots every season for an easy example of this. Pipeline is just a steep hill with a ‘tractor beam’ tree at the bottom. Funnily enough it still gets put in the BMBS races because the spectators like it. (not the riders, well rubbish way to loose all that height!) (oh, and I see Martyn ‘second home is Newnham Park’ Salt is the designer of the course too)

I can’t see a problem with the course itself: remember this is very much a spectator sport for the purpose of the olympics, and there are many countries that will field ‘eddie the eagles’ just because they have a right to send someone to compete. 5.1k is a short lap for whippet/international level, particularly with that amount of climbing, but the interesting bits will come around sooner and more times, and ultimately for all the ‘lay-people’ that turn up or watch on telly, it needs to look muuuuuuuch more interesting than turning up to thetford on a wet sunday does.

It would be nice to leave it there afterwards though: if it does turn out to be too mimsy for the radmeisters on here, they can stick a nice café in the car park, a flat blue route round it and call it a family mountain bike centre like Haldon Forest.

Undercover cheeky forum night ‘research’ ride round about feb 2012 would be well funnny too 😀

a posh watch?

There used to be a google map with a load of our (approximate! burglars have the internet too!) locations in it, for the purposes of looking up locals for showing you round the trails i suppose, as well as good spots and LBS’.

Anyone remember where/how to get it?

Holy thread ressurrection!

Trail Snail Racing / Yogi Cycling muscleman Neil Vingoe (‘Vings’ on here when he posts once in a blue moon) gurned his way to victory in Plymouth the other day.

By his own admission Neil is not the fastest rider even on his local weekly club rides let alone xc racing, but somehow he excels at roller racing on his first ever try. He won over quite a few local heroes who are well faster than him in xc and cx, and posted the fastest time each round and overall for the night. How does that work?

I’m off to practice my gurns now. 😀

Been a while since I looked at his (admittedly very very funny) blog. I didn’t realise bikesnob had ‘gone public’. He now has a name, face and crucially a book of his witticisms priced £9.99 from all good book retailers.

you will most likely need a new seatclamp unless cotics come with one: aluminum frames have thicker seat-tube ‘walls’ for a given seatpost diameter.

I think the “tell the time” element of a watch is less important these days given that most people carry a mobile phone everywhere they go,

Indeed. My rather old mobile has the time in big numbers as its ‘screensaver’ but it seems to gain about 7 minutes a month! 😕

Oh and ‘atomic time’ is to do with the utterly accurate rate of decay of some radioctive particles or something isn’t it? So you base you super-accurate clock on the decay of some nasty radioactive agents. I don’t think that to benefit from this you actually need to have them on your wrist though. 😯

oh dear lord, not again!

(to save you reading the rest, what will now ensue is an argument discussion featuring several stw-ers with thousands of pounds worth of omega seamaters and various permutations of rolex, versus several stw-ers who swear by a £6 casio from Argos.)

Mr Nutt.

oh, just re-read your post c-g. Not in a town, yeah, south west will be as expensive as the rest of the south in that case.

Here’s a ‘fixer-upper’ for 130k in Princetown though. Its a village not a town, loooads of top riding and 2 nice pubs right on your doorstep. The prison is no bother to locals at all, and when it closes in next few years you may find the village gets a bit nicer and house gains value.

C-G, depends where inn the south west. Plymouth (chez moi), Newton Abbott, Camborne, some bits of St Austell and Redruth are a bit more reasonable if you look in the towns themselves rather than suburbs/outlying villages, particularly when compared to basically anywhere in dorset/hampshire/sussex. Unfortunately they are also fairly crap towns. You just have to appreciate the lovley countryside and beaches you are a small bike ride away from, rather than the rusty transit on your neighbour’s front lawn.

But i would move to mid wales or scotland if for whatever reason I had to move.

😀 of course! 😀

I nearly hit a badger when i was out just now. But better still tonight a yorkshire terrier on the loose outside someone’s place bit me on the ankle: saved by ankly bits on specialized defroster boots. 😀