HTS – I was going to try and shift my 1.5 y/o Sony Z1C if that tickles your fancy? No idea what it’s work but will see you through. Email me if you’re interested.

Depends on the finish of your frame/paint surely 😕

Gloss paint would work better with gloss finish tape, raw carbon or matte paint with satin finish….

Also big plusses with a barn door type rack

You’re not as long as with a tow bar mounted rack. Nowhere near as long.

Your highest point is high – typically well above any other vehicle for example.

Your bikes are clear of the numberplate and lights so don’t need a tail-board.

Fiamma and Thule make bolt on, fold out racks for vans with barn doors (carry bike 200 DJ) but

they’re permanently fitted

Not a downside IMO

and kind of obtrusive

Nothing states ‘lifestyle vehicle’ more than advertising your hobby!

since we’re expanding around the original question…

2) M6 in biking is almost always the coarse thread

Almost all bolts in common usage use the coarse thread. If an item does not explicitly state the thread pitch, it is very likely to be coarse thread.

And anyway, the M6 pinch bolts on HT2 cranks – don’t they have a slightly smaller diameter head? I’m sure I’ve tried to replace on before that was a bit rounded and gave up.

What kind of bike shop can’t build wheels?

I’m a bike shop and I can’t build wheels.

Oh no, I’m not a bike shop and I can build wheels. As can half the forum I’d guess.

What time so us poor saps in the UK have to be up to watch the Finals live? It’s 5:30 am on Saturday or something?

It feels kinda wrong to me

Perhaps you should begin by explaining road safety? Make sure they understand it’s not a race? Will your kids have completed their cycling proficiency before you allow them unsupervised on to the roads?

No warning from the school this was coming

Oh no

@John @Jon how much range can you get out of the secondary wifi unit ? We tried one and could only get 5-7m so we took it back to the shop and got a refund.

WiFi range is as good as the original router. Easily covers our main living space and through a few walls.

The powerlines ones are great and can be set up with the same network ID so it all works seamlessly.

Someone had to say it.

I can kind of recommend the TP-Link ones I have. They’re strangely faffy to set up but work ok.

I think I got this one
http://www.ebuyer.com/519588-tp-link-300mbps-av500-wifi-powerline-extender-starter-kit-tl-wpa4220kit
and you don’t need to plug a router in at the other end

/pendant mode/ waist not waste /pendant mode

😆 I wonder if it was ironic?

I have an Aqua2Go Pro. It has a 25 litre tank which is nearly enough for 2 very muddy bikes and the pray is a decent balance of concentrated power vs. flow.

The battery will do well over a tank, haven’t tested it to see exactly how far.

It comes with stuff to plug it in to the car’s 12V supply, you can charge USB devices from the battery and you can use the pump without the tank to draw water from (for example) a river.

It’s over a £100 but fairly impressed… once I got my hands on a working on (1st one was DOA but Winstanleys sorted me out well).

My Tynedale riding mates are through this site here – and they mostly met through NCT/ante natal classes or something!

I found my way in to the amazing riding scene in Christchurch through my brother in law who was already there.

Right – so assuage my desperate middle-class need to be environmentally responsible by simply fly-tipping it somewhere poor?

May I recommend the cycleway 72 just near the Scotswood bridge?

Although I saw a lost pheasant there a few weeks ago so maybe it’s still not poor enough.

whilst screaming like a fox.

what does the fox say?

It’s all down to reach and stack though isn’t it. Some bike manufacturers want to use the same head tube component for multiple frame sizes. The result is that different nominal ‘sizes’ of bike will have the same stack for different reach measurements. Simply requires the use of a few spacers to bring the bars up to the ‘correct’ height 😉

Ground Effect!

Slightly stretchy, v comfy. Not DWR though.

Cunning how that profile up there disguises the mid-way uphill sprint on S4 and the flat sprint to finish, isn’t it!

Anyway, I’m starting to think I enjoyed it now.

Also cheers to Tracey for the marshalling and timing chip stuff!

Also Switch-Backs (XC/AM/Enduro) based in Bubion for trails in the area if you want more uplifts 😀

You should take those microfibre cloths back and get a refund asap. I bought a pack and they’re the worst, least absorbent, most useless microfibre cloths I’ve ever had the misfortune to use.

And yes, it took about a minute for the cashier to correctly listen to me a spell out my email address.

I’d be surprised if anyone got through yesterdays #enduro at Grizedale without a crash….

just can’t see the strike doing anything to help.

whereas doing nothing, turning up to work and accepting a disastrous contract will help?…

It’s got to becoming clear to you where the balance of blame lies?

Nepal? I did something not too dissimilar to the recent ST article (Annapurna circuit). Fab trails – some will have you walking, some will have you whooping and you can pace it as you like staying in the tea houses.

Wot NorthWind says.

In your situation I’d be voting labour.

But imagine that 80% of your constituency are closet LD voters all convinced that they don’t stand a chance and would be throwing their vote away voting for the LD candidate 😈

If only someone had attempted to get the STV in during the last parliament 👿

All the stages will be closed off on Saturday

I read the email and interpreted it such that there is one stage on private land or FP that it out of bounds so Don’t Even Go There.

However I’ve not ridden at Grizedale trail centre since I was 13 so assumed there might be some benefit in just riding the normal trails (I believe there’s a red loop and a ‘black’ section as well?).

Anyway, I’ll most likely steer clear on Saturday and go find some rocky stuff in the South Lakes to go and ride.

I’m wondering if it’s worth riding at G’dale on Saturday for a bit of a mooch and practice before Sunday or if I should just go and do a proper* ride on Saturday instead?

It’s safe to say that I’ve never ridden any of the stages before.

*like in the mountains

Not my experience by the way 😉

I have some friends who started out with a budget of £12000 then spent £25000+ with too many rounds of “a little bit more”!

Lots of stuff on local facebook groups… it’s actually a very useful resource!

Step 1. Think of a budget.
Step 2. Do some research, increase your budget.
Step 3. See some vans a be disappointed with what they look like for your money compared with the adverts. Resolve to look harder.
Step 4. See a mate’s really nice van. Double your budget.
Step 5. You’ve lost your weekends to driving around and viewing vans. Resolve yourselves to buy the next OK van you see.
Step 6. See a nice van. Buy it.
Step 7. Break down on the way home.

Charity shop. If they don’t sell to customers off the street they’ll sell them for rags.

I got a letter telling me that BHF had made £85 from a single bag I gave them! For my tat!!

You should drink a finger for every spoke you get fitted and keep us updated.

That’s good, cheers scotroutes. Can I pre-download an area on to the phone for when I go out of reception yet?

I’m unlikely to keep ym OS subscription for another year… I’ll probably just spend the money saved on OS tiles in Viewranger.

You could always buy a new set then connect new caliper and lever to the old (internally routed) hose?

You’ve resigned yourself to bleeding them anyway!

Here’s a Leopard with the driver training cabin fitted

Wear what the hell you like, when you like! It’s only a tie! Who TF are others to dictate what you can and cannot wear?

What if it’s a medal?

Other way round- the chinbar passes the ASTM testing but the upper helmet doesn’t because of the vent positioning (ASTM is a pretty inflexible standard, it puts impact tests in certain sites and if you’ve got a vent in that sight, you’re going to fail whereas if the vent was 1cm away maybe you wouldn’t)

That'The fact that it doesn’t meet the ASTM F1952 DH standard will be a deterrent for some riders, but it’s a matter of honestly assessing your riding style and protection needs when contemplating purchasing the Super 2R.[/quote]
from http://www.pinkbike.com/news/bell-super-2r-helmet-review-2015.html
http://forums.mtbr.com/apparel-protection/bell-super-2r-923814.html

Have you tried sanding it down through the top layer of crud to get a good look at the metal?

Did some have a problem with causing some chainsuck until they wore in?

Otherwise, they should all be the same for a given material (seems some are 7075-T6, which is a pretty darn strong for aluminium alloy).

My One-Up had a different chainline form the Revolution Components on that I had before though.

remove decals as opposed to stickers

Whatever the decals on a 1st gen Ti456 were, came off with nail varnish remover or meths.

I’m not sure what I’d trust on a painted or varnished frame though.

I had the 1st gen Archi-Enduro – it was ok but venting was poor and there were concerns over the durability of the chin bar, so I was kind of relieved to write it off in a crash without doing ym mouth in.

The new one looks better and the Parachute is also on my list as it’s a (very) well-vented FF.

The Super 2R isn’t on my list. AIUI, the chin bar is removable so it is removed for the testing. 😕

My point is that it isn’t a few wood burners that create a problem so much as the millions of cars and power stations. Getting rid of them would clean up the air but that’s not popular is it.

I can’t provide a reference for this as it’s from memory, from an exhibit in Te Papa, the National Museum in NZ. It’s a fantastic museum and well worth a trip. Anyway, an exhibit on air quality and what NZ is doing about it.

They monitored the airborne pollutants in lots of places and found that in winter, upwards of 75% of some size of particulate (PM10? Total Suspended Particulates? not sure) in lots of in major cities (in particular, ChCh) were of the type produced by domestic stoves.

Not industry, not cars, but 75% of that smog was from wood burning stoves.