Her parents don’t speak basque as it was banned by Franco. My wife went to an illegal Basque language school – until the hijo de puta died and then they were free to speak whatever they liked.

I wouldn’t if I were you – her Dad works with local Special Forces. Their dog had plastic bullets as a toy.

mcwyc – don’t bother changing to winter tyres – the new surface in Ashton Court is still very smooth and even if it rains, there wont be any mud.

Anyone had their briefing packs yet?

Just me then?

Started off with Revs at 150mm then dropped them down to 130mm. The drop has speeded up the handling, which works better for the type of riding I do.

I have no idea what taught / plush means.

sounds like you need somewhere comfortable to sit down :wink:

I assume you are no longer interested in the chair…

The full list of Ig Nobel winners:

Physiology Prize: Anna Wilkinson, from the University of Lincoln, and colleagues for their study in the journal Current Zoology titled “No Evidence of Contagious Yawning in the Red-Footed Tortoise”.

Chemistry Prize: A team led from Shiga University, Japan, that determined the ideal density of airborne wasabi to awaken sleeping people in case of a fire or other emergency, and for applying this knowledge to invent the wasabi alarm. Patent pending.

Medicine Prize: Shared by two teams whose independent research jointly established that people make better decisions about some kinds of things, but worse decisions about other kinds of things‚ when they have a strong urge to urinate.

Psychology Prize: Karl Halvor Teigen of the University of Oslo, Norway, for trying to understand why, in everyday life, people sigh.

Literature Prize: John Perry of Stanford University, US, for his Theory of Structured Procrastination, which says: To be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that’s even more important.

Biology Prize: Darryl Gwynne and David Rentz for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer bottle. The pair have published two papers on the topic.

Physics Prize: Philippe Perrin and colleagues for determining why discus throwers become dizzy, and why hammer throwers don’t.

Peace Prize: Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, for demonstrating that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armoured tank.

Public Safety Prize: John Senders of the University of Toronto, Canada, for conducting a series of safety experiments in which a person drives an automobile on a major highway while a visor repeatedly flaps down over his face, blinding him.

Mathematics Prize: Shared by a group of doom-mongers for teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations –

Dorothy Martin of the US who predicted the world would end in 1954
Pat Robertson of the US who predicted the world would end in 1982
Elizabeth Clare Prophet of the US who predicted the world would end in 1990
Lee Jang Rim of Korea who predicted the world would end in 1992
Credonia Mwerinde of Uganda who predicted the world would end in 1999
Harold Camping of the US who predicted the world would end in 1994 and then later in 2011

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Pros – your school gets more money
Cons – everyone else gets less money

Pros (?) – your school gets more money but has to do more things with it
Cons – everyone else gets less money

The government has confirmed that academy status should not give schools a financial advantage. The school will be allocated its share of the money that is currently held by the local authority to make provision across all schools for pupils with a whole range of special needs, pupil support, education welfare and school transport.

Once the money is allocated to the school, it will have to make provision to replicate those important services previously provided by the local authority. It may find, if, for example, it has a significant number of pupils with special needs, that it has insufficient funds to match the provision previously provided by the local authority.

It is likely that your headteacher will say that the school will get extra funding by becoming an academy. You should treat statements like this with great caution. In the first case any apparent financial advantage will be for one year only as the government will be introducing a completely new funding formula for schools in 2012. Also, you should check the sums – what about the costs of all these support services that were previously provided by the local authority and for which the academy will now be liable?
And what about the safety net provided by the local authority, for example, in the event of a fire or a flood (as happens to too many schools each year). As things are, your local authority would find you new accommodation and sort things out – if your school is an academy you would be on your own in these circumstances.

Interestingly if you are an Academy and our school floods/ burns down, there would be no one to help find alternative accommodation.

School in the back of an Asda anyone?

Any info would be gratefully received. Would like some solid points to go back with rather than ‘I don’t trust you’.

Moving kids wold not be an option as school is at bottom of road and we would be unlikely to get in any others locally.

mmm Headmaster is a god botherer and quite a few of the governors.

Hora – did you want the arm chair?

Ideal for eating Big Macs on…

Colorado MTB brand to be distributed by Silverfish, which last week ended its relationship with Rocky Mountain.

Yeti Cycles has announced Silverfish as the new UK distributor, effective October 1st.

thanks.

Just back from Molini (washed the dust of the bike this morning). Truly excellent. Trails amazing (51km in one day with 3.5km of descent). Food amazing (pasta, rabbit, wild boar).

Already talking about booking next year.

Hire a demo bike?

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Ask if they will do a deal for extended hire. Given where there are rented out, it is assumed they will be well used while on hire.

ask him to ring you…

and just to rub it in;

wife up early to make chocolate birthday cake with little’uns
hand drawn birthday cards
just off for lunch with wife
riding tonight then off to pub.

Accept nothing less.

and its not even a ‘significant’ number…

(44)

Yeti 5 frame and Revelations
Week in Molin with Riviera Bike (leave on Saturday)

and some new socks…

May be worth fitting one of these?[/url]

to make sure the chain suck doesn’t get any worst

ygm

Do it!

Great bike. Started running with 150mmm front fork then took it down to 120mm. Works fine in both modes depending on what you are riding. Back end travel does feel unending but not in that vpp magic carpet way. Manuals really easily and really encourages you to launch off everything.

Recommended.

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Thanks Slax.

I’m there from the 17th.

I think it’s going to be rather more ‘grrr’ than I’m used to. (goes off to strap some on..)

Someone mention getting a Soul?

Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.Doit.
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And Merlin do another 5% cashback via;

http://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/leku

I would disagree with that. I run Revelations dropped to 120mm and they seem excellent. Great for hacking through the woods on tight singletrack.

ASRs alloy
5’6″ – Small
70mm stem with Use Atom bars
Fusion X dropper post
Rev RLT forks dropped to 130mm
Heavier than my last Yeti (ASR-sl) but it climbs better whilst sat down. Manuals very easily.
Love it.
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A Higgs boson particle walks into a bar. The barman says ‘ah there you are!’.

Cheers.

I’m just nipping to the shops – anyone want anything?

and another 5% off by going via here!

so that would be £234.65

Not quite. This is the greatest bike in the world..

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Second full ride last night – A’****’mazing!

I emailed Hope and they called me back within an hour or so (which is why I will always buy Hope products whenever I can).

183mm rotor requires their ‘H’ 183mm bracket.

is that Foes / Yate / Hope disc braking second best ever present / BWP scruff?

Shininess is a state of mind.

I’m Spartacus – actually I am John (hello?)

On the new ‘rocky’ downhillish section – excellent. My old ASR Yeti tended to plunge head first off everything. This seems much easier to manual.

Frame bought from the bike chain[/url] with cracking service.

done