None of mine in a fit state for the camera.
My ’96 blade is under a half inch film of filth and still bearing the scars from hitting a deer.

My ’07 YZ250 has yet to be glammed up with a new sticker set. It wheelied off without me on my first excursion, far too powerful. Or to put it another way – perfect!

Just bought a little GPz 500 to rat into work on to save the blade from winter, and it’ll never be pretty!

Actually, I made a mistake; it’s one of those Leigh Woods trails that we all know they’ve recently made too tame. (There used to be vikings on it.)

Everyone’s posting images to help make their case. So:

(Taken on one of the blue trails at Ashton Court. ;) )

If you want a hardtail for Ashton Court type stuff, you want a kona five-0. Tough as a pee’d off Chuck Norris in a tank, huge fork, and it’s aluminium. And some of those other words you said, it probably is/has/does those too.

I don’t think cycling in the NL is a cultural thing, it’s cos their country is flat. Hell, it’s so flat it’s almost downhill. Get on the bike, pedal twice and then just roll to wherever you’re going.

Another factor that would help – and I have no idea if this is the case – would be businesses having more and smaller premises, and being prepared to have rural and suburban premises. My old company closed a site because it was too rural and swapped my 20 min walk into work into 45 mins on a motorbike (when I left the bunch of bar stewards). Other people who stayed had commutes go up to as much as 2 hours!

Maybe it’s not such a big deal in the grand scheme, but several hundreds of people had massively increased commutes, loads moved to petrol, and the tossers in charge actually said at one point “we don’t understand why this business HAD so many sites…”.

(Am I still on topic?)

I think you can get 2010 Kona Five-0s for that sort of money.

Huge fork, great lookin’, hardtail simplicity.

Not at GCSE level it doesn’t.

And in the real world if it’s the treadmill that acclerates to match but oppose the plane’s groundspeed, then it won’t get nearly fast enough to do either.

What a larrf. We have two possible GCSE level questions intended to demonstrate the idea that airspeed isn’t groundspeed, and most of you are arguing with someone answering the other question, and some of you are answering both at once. Backwards.

Can a plane take off at a standstill by running on a treadmill?
(No, because airspeed isn’t groundspeed.)

Can a plane with a runway sized treadmill take off even if the treadmill runs against it?
(Yes, because airspeed isn’t groundspeed.)

Thread over.

The only fixie I’ve tried was one of the modern (ie: not that big) penny-farthings.

I went over the bars.

While trying to get on.

I’m still not sure what the question is.

I ride a Five-0.

The -0 makes all the difference!

You lot have no idea how to do proper physics!

To start, let’s assume the plane and treadmill are spheres in a vacuum…

The helmet *caused* that crash.

Something made of rubber, with a deep coarse roughness – or “knobbliness” – to the tread surface.

I’ve used maltloaf, currently use jaffa cakes.

Have known of people using:
Malt loaf and marmite. 8O
Rocky road.
Banana and bacon toasties.

Trainers.

You seem to have the same desire I had when I bought my Five-0. You wanna be able to get up hills, in order to go down them!

If so then buy a tough hardtail with a ludicrous great fork, the fork letting you throw it at anything and the unsprung rear keeping it interesting. Forget that rear suspension nonsense. :)

In last Tuesday night’s rain the new AC trails were excellent, even though I still can’t get the hang of the New Barn Wood roller coaster-esque bit.

Rode them in Sunday’s rain (although the entire MTB crowd that day sheltered under the arch at one point) and thought they were *more* fun in the rain if anything! They’re looking nicely second hand now too.

I think LW will be better than people think, there’s some rollers to play with and it’ll wear down.

Kona had a questionnaire on their site which guided you to the right bike for you, scientifically proven. I knew what I wanted from the pictures so carefully answered the questions in such a way that it was the one recommended at the end – and I managed that on my first attempt too!

Which just goes to show, doesn’t it.