I bought my old man one of those universal remote controls. He’s absolutely stoked with it, “this changes everything!” he reckons.

nothing smells quite like “old man’s poo and toothpaste”.

the aroma of campsites all over the country. boak.

It’s a defintiely a frustration I can empathise with.

I ran MM as my DH-ish winter tyres for a couple of years. Supergravity casing meant I could get VertStar on the front and Trailstar on the back. I would have kept them on more but for the weight and the draaaaaaagggggg….

WRT the Maxxis lineup, I could get a 3C MaxxGrip Minion DHF2 2.5 in Exo casing!

I probably should have been racing, instead I did some chilled out riding with some new and old mates in the Central Lakes instead. How was it compared to the previous round at Grizedale this year? Only a couple of similar-ish stages from a quick look at the route map?

My trail bike covers XC to DH, so yes.

I’m running 2.5 DHF2 and 2.4 DHR Minions on 30 mm Flows and they’re spot on.

When we were looking, they are small inside and you don’t have to spend that much more to get a T5 and the extra space that entails (esp with a LWB). People don’t seem to hate on the Bongos as much as the T5’s though 😆

https://www.canyon.com/en-gb/urban/commuter/commuter-4-0.html

That’s annoying. Really anoying. I’ve been looking for just this for the Mrs (Alfine, disc brake commuter/tourer, belt drive a plus) and haven’t seen anything quite so on-spec as this. I’d rather not buy from Ze Germans, would rather go local.

I may have to anyway as they’re out of stock in anything except XL…

Hey! I noticed you haven’t looked at your Facebook app for 30 minutes? Do you know *insert random loser with no mutual friends here*?

Having updated (presumably overnight last night! didn’t notice any issues with unexpected restarts, sorry) I have to report that Cortana is back and with no obvious way to kill him/her/it.

I’ve just gone through these steps to disable and get the search bar back – but haven’t yet restarted to test it out so can’t vouch for it.
http://www.howtogeek.com/265027/how-to-disable-cortana-in-windows-10/

It was all very weird. Still don’t know what to make of it.

He must have met you before 😉

My favourite is PORCA TRIOA but normally all I manage is FUUUUUUUUUUU KENELL

Ground Effect (of course) unless you can afford a Swanndri

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/best-quality-flat-pedal

And in fairness, there are often many people to turn to, and many avenues open to chase.

If you phone 111 they’ll have an ambulance round for you before you can explain what the problem is.

If you phone your GP surgery and explain to the receptionist what the problem is, they may well be able to say “oh, Dr X has a special interest in dermatology, I’ll book you in with her”. Or they may well be straight out of F2…

If you go to the high street pharmacy then you risk mingling with the hoi-polloi….

But about those cheesy balls, perhaps you need to see a doctor about those….

+1 for Alex. I’ve put my thoughts down many times, have a search through the forums.

Summary for those out of the loop?

So are you getting one?

I’ve had very fast and very good VFM from Jungle. They’re now my go-to guys for the occasional service.

For a while My Mrs had a much nicer bike. Now I have a very similar one. Maybe more expensive but no ‘nicer’ and definitely heavier.

I recently put a dropper post on one of my bikes….but I found I couldn’t ride it until I had bought a bolted seat clamp to replace the QR one. Why is this!!!

Because you’re a silly, that’s why. When (not if, when) you send your dropper off for a service you’ll need the QR to make do with a rigid seatpost while you wait. Also you want a QR for the extra double drop when it gets reeeeallly steep.

Oh, and you lot make me feel so much better about myself, thank you

“Postage” isn’t just the price of the stamp, it’s the packaging and assorted costs of your time, petrol money to take it to the post office, and so forth. P&P can be 50p or twenty quid, whatever, it’s clearly stated on the advert and people can accept it or not bid.

I had a friend who was stung when a buyer complained that they had overcharged (pennies) for postage as it was not the exact price on the label. I can’t remember if the entire postage was refunded or the entire sale value.

FWIW, in NZ eBay is nowhere to be seen. Gumtree and Craigslist neither. Everything goes on Trademe. Low fees (like 3% for normal sales, flat fee for cars etc) and local focus its brill.

Cut them from old inner tubes – I have a handful of wheels done this way. If you do the nut up quite tight (as you may have to depending on the rim bed) it’ll eventually tear the rubber off.

Removable cores on tubes exist only so that if you use a Lezyne screw-on style pump you will unscrew the valve core instead of the tube, leaving you with a deflated tube and a valve core somewhere across the busy road 🙁

From having seen mates lights, I’d never rely on a singl elight on your backpack – they might avoid the worst of the mud but that can be left resting at funny angles showing almost no light. They’re also quite liable to be pulled off from vegetation.

Does your dropper not have any of the non-dropping body poking out of the seat tube?

Which normally leaves the light obscured by the tyre (depending on seat tube vs tyre height).

Loving the saddle rail mount for my new Moon Nebula

I shall look in to on of these for myself. I normally clip a small one with elastic straps round the top of my dropper for road sections (at the beginning/end of the ride) and/or an old light on my bag.

Cat eye do lots of different mounts (pannier etc.) for their standard clip styles, might be worth checking as well.

Well I do but you’re not supposed to remember!

I got a lot less posty on STW when I realised that fold do remember everything – some fully, some not-so-funny, and some downright stalkerish*

Take 2 went swimmingly btw.

If this is the only time you’ve failed to measure twice, cut once then it’s been cheap lesson. Mine involved a steerer tube.

*an episode a looong while back involving an ex….

Replaced it with a 170mm Reverb, it simply has no competitors.

Is the lever any better? Having first got used to a KS Lev lever and now a KS mounted to a modified XT shifter, the reverb feels relatively stiff and difficult to use*

Meanwhile I’d get a 170 drop KS in a heartbeat, I double drop my KS the last 20 mm for steep stuff.

* I have pathetic hands, especially in the cold

I go right for reasons as above. I’ve considered moving to the NDS so that I can use a fibre flare on the DS seat stay, but never did.

The 42t sprocket is quite a but narrower than the teeth on the chainring, no?

The answer to your problem is to go back to 1×10 and use a sunrace 11-42 with the steel 42t sprocket (can’t remember the model and can’t find the email, but from Triton Cycles).

Also keen an eye on Revolution Components. They’re a small NZ outfit but I was riding with someone who had a steel big sprocket made to replace the alu one from a SRAM 10-42 cassette.

I’ve flown with bikes in boxes once… there was definitely no space inside these boxes to leave the wheels in. Load of packing, nothing rubbing.

One bike had spacers between the forks and frame, the other didn’t. We ended up with one broken mech hanger and one broken frame. Must have had a hell of a lot of weight on it to crush the frame.

No idea if any other sort of box would have been better anyway and my Mrs bought herself a new bike to replace it.

I’ve posted this before but…

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/two-by-craigieburn-new-zealand-tandem-video-2014.html

(you can see me in the background for a few bits

and a newer one

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/436445/

arguably by going to the FC it’s in fact benefiting trails (and other outdoor woodland pursuits) nationwide.

I think that as some people fail to see their pound coins being hammered in to the braking bumps and conclude that paying for their parking contributes nothing to the forest whatsoever.

I think in some ways it’s kinda sad that there is a National cycle to work day

Absolutely. I worked with someone who ride to work once. On census day. 🙄

Yes, but I didn’t know. Bike racks at work aren’t particularly full today.

Some of the ideas in this thread have put me right off socialism.

And FWIW I buy an annual Hamsterley pass and when filling in the details they know that I come for the biking and not (at least admittedly) for the Gruffalo.

eating berries at waist height!!! at a wee stop eeeckkk!

If you wee all over my brambles then I’m going to come and wee in your bombers 👿

FFS stop telling peeps about the Wakamarina

I’d agree with you, but as they’re using in on the NZ Enduro (along with the Nydia Bay Track and Whites Bay loop) one more is hardly going to spoil it.

I certainly have mixed (ok mostly negative) feelings about using these tracks for racing on 🙁

I’ll also 2nd WillH – I’ve done the TAP twice, it really is stunning.

Completely agree. I didn’t expect an in depth article with interviews etc (like Dirt), but surprised at the lack of acknowledgment of a brilliant achievement for the Brits.

Agreed, a 5 minute article – Headline, 1 paragraph and a “more to come later” to a link to the official results page is all that’s needed if the staff are working all hours at Eurobike.

/edit. Besides – what a race!

Nice one, sounds like I to need to get over there.

FWIW I’m also not a fan of evening prologue stages – although closed road town centre MTB racing is amazing – the only one of those I’ve done before*, I was still in the car for, so was awarded the slowest time of the riders to complete it.

*Dunedin 3 Peaks

From Akl

Drive to rotorua, 2-3 days there, ferry to Picton fr Fush n Chups.

Drive to Whites Bay, ride sleep.
Drive to Havelock, ride Wakamarina*. Needs a shuttle, a long drive or a big out & back. Next day ride the Nydia Bay Track (also requires a shuttle, a lond ride around or an out & back)
These 3 are some of the finest natural rides you’ll ever do.

After that, go to Marahau, and sea kayak and drink til your’re sunburnt.

Then find a base in Nelson, buy The Nelson & Tasman MTB Guide (can’t find it on google, but the local MTB shops have it) and ride to your heart’s content. You can have DH (Kaka, Broken Axe, Maitai Face), natural mega-tech (Black Diamond & Peaking Ridge, Little Twin, Fishtail) more bike park stuff (629, Turners Bike Park, Hira MTB Park).

When you’re spent, you can just lie on the beach

You’ll not exhaust it in two weeks.

If that’s too much biking then break it up with the Tongoriro Alpine Crossing (“The Worst Finest Day Walk”), the Whanganui River Journey or some multi-day hiking in the Nelson Lakes National Park.

*I don’t want to hype it up too much, but it’s my favourite in the work ever

It sounds like an amazing cooker. Pics please, we need to see if you’re overreacting.

I think it looks like a decent post for the money, at least the lever is better than the one I used to have on my cheappie. It mechanically simple, like the GD but for an extra 25 mm drop is it worth it? stick a QR on a double drop for the really steep stuff?

ancient Five

#filingcabinetretirementhome

the popular term for a ladygarden that isn’t the c-bomb.

Am I the only one who has no idea which words he’s on about?

certainly isn’t “twit”

/edited for context