ahh, this is what makes this forum different from southerndownhill isn’t it? 😆 What a monster thread, I will follow with genuine curiosity.

physiology and consequences of exercise induced heat stress

Seen the weather outside? No danger of any of that on tonight’s ride.

at 5’6″ mrs julian tried (I say tried, what I mean is I built her one up, she rode it twice and then I had to sell it 👿 ) a 14″ inbred and thought it was too short. She now has a 16″ one with inline post, 60mm stem and mid-rise, er, risers, and says its just right.

He seemed like a really nice bloke from his very entertaining posts on here, and had the envy and respect of loads of us on here in him making guitars for a job.

What a tragedy. 😥

Mrs julian has looked at this thread. You’re talking about exeter/east datmoor way this aftenoon, right?

She was out on east dartmoor over lunchtime with another lass in blow-you-over crosswinds, rain and hail in summer shoes and gloves, both of them still laughing after 4 hours in it.

I looked after the children and went to the pet shop for some rabbit treats, so I am unable to comment on the unseasonable conditions myself, but mrs julian suggests you should man up a bit. 😀

oury or yeti logo’d lock ons.

a more sensitive chap could get the wrong end of the stick there.
:-))

grapefruit, you could be a right chuffing big biffer and still fit in the biggest size ‘proper’ stw jersey. 😉 Lycra stretches outwards fabulously in my experience!

Its more about whether the image of stw is rad/core enough for enough non xc/roadie types to want to drop £40 on a more t-shirt like jersey. A bit like if southerndownhill did a 3/4 zip back-pocketed xc jerseys. With elasticated sleeves and optional arm warmers.

rOcKeTdOg – Member

why the beercan?

Some sort of ‘death to aluminum’ message, non?

If enough of you are interested all at once, ask STW nicely if they will lend you the pictures for their xc jerseys, then you can get the likes of Champion Systems or TheCycleJersey to make you a big (ie >10) run of them. Then STW don’t have to go to the bother/risk of ordering and selling them themselves.

Stumpy, I can forward you my work rota for the month, if you can be round my way for then, you have atg least one garuanteed ‘kill’. 😀 (how many points will you bag for overtaking a geared slicked up mtb with panniers, full mudguards, spd’s, baggy shorts and a beard?)

I saw a load of the free (and in all fairness really rather nice) mbuk/norco socks for sale minus the magazine, in amongst all the other socks at one bike shop recently. For a fiver a pair. Now that is enterprising! 😀

normal 991 chain is about £28 in my usually rrp’d LBS. or at least the last couple i got there were.

CRC seems to list the rrp of the normal one as £35.99 and cross step (but not hollow pin) as £39.99.

So shirly your lbs is only a quid or so out?

The universe will not collapse: don’t worry, I get overtaken on the way to/from work all the time. All I ever overtake is folders and halfords specials, which of course score no points. I am sure my monumental fail rate will redress the imbalance in commuting mojo.

not racing at all but i saw a lad manual a bmx all the way through the traffic lights (green of course!) at the bottom of my road today. Yeah!

islabikes are well nicely made and come excellently set up to boot. At first I balked at the cost of my boy’s 16″ one, and then had a word with myself and thought about there being flat pedals out there that cost a whisker more than his whole bike! So we upgraded to proper conti explorers on it too. 8)

It is far more confidence inspiring than his big sister’s appollo which is the same size wheels-wise, but weighs twice as much, is much harder to pedal and has crap brakes that are very hard for small hands to pull.

Good resale value too.

Burial at sea, non?

‘the dark heart of italy’ by Tobias Jones has a chapter on football. Just what brazen and barely disguised/vehemently denied skulduggery goes on between refs, managers and sponsors is a huge eye-opener. Not excusing violence, but no suprise that the fans are pissed off and nasty.

only crc, but they don’t do spokes that long iirc. You ight do wellto have a look on ebay to see if anyone else is already doing likewise (ie splitting large bargain boxes) but otherwise I think i would go with the the ones you linked to up there^.

That’s really really great value for 100, but what are you going to do with the other 68 you don’t use? I suppose you could keep a few for spares and sell the rest as 2 lots of 32 on ebay.

yes i would start with 294 both sides if its much costlier to get 2 lengths. I’ve been up to 1.4 mm less than what the dt spoke calculator said and its been fine.

I had a scott that came with 125mm on the back and 90-120mm on the front, which i would usually wind in to about 100.

I suppose the angles are more important. Theoretically, if you bottom out 120mm on the front and 160mm on the back at the same time, but your head angle was just right when you were just sat on the bike, then your head angle becomes a little bit slacker at full squish both ends. Which doesn’t sound like a bad thing.

I am sure the new breed of short back long front travel slopestyle bikes will also have slightly different angles to go with the movement of the fork and back end in compressions and big hits.

They are wrong: if the brake was correctly assembled and bled, and there was enough fluid in the reservoir and the reservoir cap was on properly (ie without trapping air inside the rubber membrane) in the first place the pads would be down to the metal before any air got into the hose.

Shimano are not that daft a company, with huuuuge r&d and would not manufacture a reservoir that was too small and led to this happening on such a safety critical component. ( BTW, this would be one of the dangers of mixing and matching your levers and callipers between brands, home bodgers.)

It would be interesting to know whether the brakes were supplied to on-one pre-assembled or as individual parts where they cut hose to size and fill with fluid themselves. (as an example, if you buy a whole shimano groupset OE in a big box from Merlin, they come as lever hose and calliper all separate with a bottle of fluid. I would imagine this is how merlin build their own bikes).

Assuming it has not been tinkered with eg hoses shortened, the fault is with whoever assembled the brake. And shimano brakes are so easy to bleed it seems churlish for them not to have just done it themselves when you returned it.

At least Thatcher had some integrity I suppose

Does that mean she’s dead now?

my grumbling appendix was all booze and fatty food induced wind! Hurt like billy-o and I properly thought i had real appendicitis. (I R a nurse and all 😳 ) My GP called it ‘grumbling appendix’ and also said it was basically wind. Much actimel, zero booze and coffee, 24 hours and lots of farts later I felt fine.

I take it you’ve had medical advice, ie it is your appendix or it is something else?

It’s directional speaker cables isn’t it Peter? 😉

+1 for sunday evening.

and +1 for ‘hardball’ comments.

I don’t think 10 day listings put that many people off, there are just as many who will not bother bidding on or even looking at anything unless it only has a couple of days to go, particularly if there are many similar things also on auctions. Thursday evening is also a nice boring evening to write and start your listings to catch 2 weekends worth of people looking and have your auction finish at 8-9pm on sunday.

Is it something well known? If its at all technical or nichey, offer advice via questions bit about compatibility/suitability, and then be available to answer these questions many of which will come in the last couple of hours of auction as people notice. The lack of information on many listings must put less geeky people off if they aren’t sure if the product is the right one for them, the sort of people who feel their only other choice is to go to Comet and get bamboozled into full retail for something shiny.

Simple black and white layout with bullet pointed facts works for me, brutal honesty about any tiniest flaws in it (good working condition overall, worst bits are here, here and here etc..) as well as some kind of statement at the end offereing better pictures if seriously interested (link to flickr page?) and transparency about postage and packing, ie charge what it actually costs you to post. Again, reassuring even if it doesn’t make you money you might get a couple more bidders this way.

how about a probably photoshopped picture of Dubya biting a kitten/tiny big cat?

Posting those daft ‘failboat has grounded’ etc pictures is if course a great indicator of intellectual pigmyism. Mat, surely you can flex your rad PR skillz to come up with something more witty or subtle than that?

once with ssc’s and once with imperials (no longer seem to be available 😕 )
A couple of other sets of both have been fine though.

yunki: 😆 and 😀

yes but its probably a fine line between getting the most out of a tame trail with a short travel or rigid bike, and wishing you were on something a bit comfier.

Someone will be along in a moment to tell you its way more fun when they ride inners/GT/W2/dalby on rigid/singlespeed/bmx/mum’s shopper (delete as appropriate).

For me, I reckon I would rather be very slightly overbiked than underbiked/underskilled for the bike and trail I am riding, nothing worse than being all knackered, mistakey and wobbly on trails you don’t know at the end of a large ride on a twitchy nervous racey bike with less good brakes and fork.

Didn’t she axe the Vulcan too? (runs for cover 😉 )

A dab of carbon assembly paste and about 5nm on each bolt should do it. 🙂

Nice tips Elfin, reminds me of many a great argument on here :D.

Surely by those rules, its time for a soon-to-be-privatised postman holding a baby otter?

Oh, and perhaps we should make the bare chested greco-roman grappling on the beach a special STW web feature to mark Mrs Thatcher’s funeral.

Back on topic, did I eat too much cheese before bedtime and dream it, or are we (err, the UK) really really planning on spending public money on a state funeral for her? 😯

2unfit2ride, if it was your thread i would have thought you could ask a moderator nicely about it. But not talk about it on here afterwards ‘cos that’s not cricket.

But it probably did get silly/nasty knowing this place on the last warm sunny afternoon of the year (well down here it is anyway) when we’re all stuck indoors.

But I like the ‘Sophie as hacker’ explanation best. 😀

yep, other thread is definitely vanished. Perhaps that Sophie from the competition is making like that fella from BikeRadar the other day and coming in “all special ops” on us. 😆

well there’s strange, i was halfway through reading the other mumsnet thread and it’s disappeared. Iz we being hacked?

our dear NHS (The UK’s largest employer) is looking pretty safe.

is it ****! I find the news about Thatcher in (a bupa) hospital today of particularly awesome irony and bad timing.

I had a kmc 8 speed on for a long while and it was fine, replaced with a kmc singlespeed proper one and can’t really tell the difference. (well apart from what they look like and a few grams in weight if you are fussy like that).

Also push from a seated “lever” , twisting lower body around and pushing up into a handstand –

😯

no wonder you need an awesome physiotherapist!

The only way to settle this elfy/mat thing is some kind of bare-chested greco-roman grappling on a beach in front of 5 foot and choppy waves. No knives, no eye-gouging or fish-hooking etc. On youtube so it can be pasted into this thread.

do they still make the bontrager ‘big earl wet’? Like a bigger (2.5) and still sticky mud-x. I have a worn set but not for sale, i like them.

Mat, my specialised commuter is so old and rubbish, i reckon its ‘mk2 520 in that red that went all pink with age’, (and threadbare beige velour seats). I too have ‘give way’ issues on it. (No one does.)