Amsterdam is great, Tallinn is beautiful….

I love it, so long as its not that wet rain.

Horses are vegetarian, their faeces is harmless, indeed, it is much sought after by avid gardeners

Hmmm……I’m vegetarian, do you suppose a gardener would want my poo?
Ka-ching!…

Hmm just went for an LG1+ but really don’t fancy filing down my crankset.

Anyone got any other ideas?

I also didnt want to file down the tabs on my Saints and found I would have to do this with a Superstar BB mount and other devices.
I got a Blackspire DSX and the way it works means no filing….

Fatima whitbread…

Sure you can. I had a bt line and ukonline broadband for severl years. Bt line and Orange now…..

I used to teach furniture making evening classes but since moved onto daytime. They can be very rewarding and a good pathway into new avenues. Do it.

Dogs can’t look up.

42/16 on this here charge plug fixed in rolling Warwickshire.

Nice….

Marrow Stir-fry
Marrow Casserole
Marrow Rissotto
Marrow Pie
Marrow au Gratin
Marrow a l’orange
Marrow surprise

Hope that helps….
:-)

Seeing somebody spell unprofessional wrong has a twisted beauty about it.

Ha ha…..oops. you’re right of course.

I really love the beauty of a virgin tub of margerine and so have to preserve its untouched surface for as long as I can.I just cannot understand people who just lunge the knife in anywhere, taking the contents sporadically and horror of horrors, take too much then scrape the excess back in, often leaving bits of toast/jam/marmite with it too…
To this end,I extract the margerine from one end, inserting the knife vertically with the tub upended and work my way along the tub until finished. It actually works better this way too as the knife is presented at such an angle so as to get a better load on its edge, rather than the unproffessional and shallow angle used by indiscriminate tub-divers….

Sadly, my girlfriend and her two kids don’t share my view of buttery perfection and it pains me deeply…

I have a 1.25 fiesta. about 2003 or something.
Its pretty great to be honest. I stick bikes all over it and in it and it never complains. Petrol is cheaper than lots of other cars.
I’ve had two mountainbikes, a bmx and 3 people inside it, although one of us had to duck a bit.
Great.

This would go well with that…. ;-)

If they dip it, they’ll not charge too much more to powdercoat it I’d have thought.

Respect for trying. I’m currently enjoying a fixed charge plug but cant see myself trying Mtb fixed. Fell off yesterday in front of a load of teenagers trying endo crankflips on a playground. Ripped my jeans up to my knee getting them caught in the chainring. Not too cool…..
Are you clipped in? (Can’t view photo)

Los- I took my Giant to a powder coaters/industrial strippers in Leicester. They dipped it for 25 quid which I thought was reasonable.
To be honest, just Google ‘chemical stripping’ in your area and you should come up with something. I gave it a little rub over with fine wire wool and it looked great. Re-doing the wire wool every once in a while if you can be bothered brings back the shine. EBay for the decals….

I quite liked it for a self filmed….

ChunkyMTB wheres that pic taken? looks great

It really reminds me of the Swiss National dh track…….but its not.

My Stolen Sinner in Raw steel, you can see the weld burns under the lacquer, lovely.

…and I must have caught the bug as I later rawed my Giant Reign by having it dipped. Its blummin gorgeous built up…

I wasn’t too bowled over by the Tarw personally. Dragons back is brilliant though, the beast if you fancy something longer.

I used to have Talas 36’s and would generally use the travel adjust quite a bit, not at the top and bottom of climbs though but generally in that I’d have about 130-140mm for xc/trail and wind them fully out for DH tracks.

I now have 160mm Lyriks which I much prefer. Not sure if I had a bad set of 36’s but they felt quite dead to me. My coil Lyriks are far better and the travel adjust is very handy(if for nothing else than creating an extra few inches space when loading the bike in the car…)

The grass isn’t particularly ‘lush’. It looks as though its had too much sun and not enough water. Not keen on the low maintenance area at the back, its needs a lil’ something.

They are excellent IF………they fit your bike easily.
I had problems with chain alignment on a BB-mounted version so got a Blackspire instead. Spot on otherwise..

Dual ply for DH, single for trail…

Not a massive fan of PORC but its alright. The 4x track is nice and fast.
I’d go to Chicksands area, as you have Woburn too which is great, although it doesn’t have a 4x track but loads of mini dh jumpy tracks.
You also have Aston Hill not a million miles away…

One word….. Charge Blender.
Ok, two words.. its a fantastic frame, nice and forgiving, strong as anything for dirt and general ragging. I’ve done lots of xc on mine. It’s a great frame.
The krisis sounds good. I had a jeckyl which I loved.

Remember, its postage AND packing….. ;-)

I like a nice cup of Earl Grey and a bourbon biscuit…

The superstar one doesn’t seem so tough backplate-wise and the wheel isn’t as good. I’d get the blackspire fo sho…

Rock garden on the Gethin DH track, it needs to be ploughed through at speed for success but one time I hooked up and went OTB and smashed my face in on the rocks leading to a concussion and big grazes across face despite full facer and goggles.

Second time I hooked up on entry, went OTB from the entry rock-drop, landed on my knees and broke my Tibial plateau leading to all sorts of metal plate nonsense.

Not been back there since but its fair to say I have a mental issue with that section.

Why no button for the forum section you are in at the bottom of the thread? Annoying.

Superstar knocking? Yawn…….

Not too impressed with the seattube-mounted top-guide from Superstar (XCR ST).

The guide-cage is mounted to the seat tube clamp via a small rod, which is held in position and adjusted via a very small grub screw. Its just not man enough to hold it in rough conditions.

I fitted one to my GF’s Zesty for Morzine and it moved on several occasions, despite twisting the allen key on my tool from trying to do it up so tight.

Its a design which has potential I think but currently I’d only use it if I couldn’t afford an alternative.
I think you could make something work with a DMR clamp, spacers and an MRP roller or something.

I run a 1×9 and use a Blackspire DSX C4 ( I got mine for £50) and its perfect, very light and negligible noise and drag.
Blackspire DSX C4

Dakine Nomad…..
Excellent. Maybe a little on the smaller side of what you are after but the size up (Drafter IIRC) should do you splendidly.

I personally find the added wind resistance of carrying on top and the resultant increase in fuel consumption put me off a ‘permanant’ roof mounted carrier. The fuel and speed goes down noticably with the bikes on the roof.

When I can, I carry them in the boot and use an old duvet cover to wrap around and wash it often but, when I want to carry them on the roof I have my own little system which doesnt use actual carriers.

I have foam covers on the roof bars (pipe lagging taped on would do), I then have 4 ratchet straps which I cut real short. The bikes go upside down with the bars along the roof bars, one forwards, one backwards. I then ratchet the grips to the roof bar each side, and finally put a third strap around the other roofbar and the upturned saddle.

Its rock solid, pretty quick to do(although not as quick as a dedicated carrier obviously), cheaper, and produces less wind-resistance than a couple of carriers in addition to your roof bars….

I just whip the roof bars off and stick them in the boot for non-bike trips. Saves petrol.