I don’t really use mine as I found a shocking correlation between using it and damaging myself…
Most of my videos are of crashes!

I would hazard a guess that they have never heard of L8!

But, the easy fix for that would be to remove it altogether, so maybe put up and shut up…

A car, with its windows up, can protect you from lightning because the lightning will follow the metal of the car to the ground. If the windows are down, the lightning could jump into the car.

Doesn’t even need windows… As long as you remain inside the faraday cage system you’ll be fine.

Maybe a possible excuse for n+1 though, carbon is marginally less conductive than ally! :D

They’re not pressure pads, they’re ground loop induction detectors…
If they are visible, try riding over the edge of them (along the line running parallel to the road) as they will pick up better with the smaller metal mass there.
Of course this doesn’t help if you’re riding a carbon super bike!

I once ‘somehow’ got a grass seed wedged in my slx shifter inside the actual cam which stopped me getting full selection. At this time of year – especially if you’ve been riding around tall grasses and crops – if you’re half decent at wielding a screwdriver, a strip down may have you sorted.

However, before you get too involved – I assume you’ve pulled the cable and checked that the cable hasn’t slipped and you’re getting shift 2-3 operating on rings 1-2…

Even 10spd SRAM ones???

Although I do those with normal pliers, each jaw on opposite corners, then replace with kmc so the issue goes away and refer to aracers technique!

I just fit the quick link into the middle of the bottom run of the chain with smallest sprockets selected, therefore allowing easy fitting with one half of the quick link in each hand without needing any extra tools :p

I can even tell you the reg numbers!
5 cars plus the use of two belonging me mam before I could afford my own
8 bikes from 50-1050cc.

Mum1 shitroen AX – m68 lat
Mum2 Renault Clio – x something lbe
Suzuki ignis 1.3 16v – x523 Awe
Escort estate 1.6 – v496lua
Disco 300 – m640jdf
Disco 300 auto – p987lwa
Vauxhall signum 2.0T – not telling you that one as it is current.

Peugeot speed fight – x853enu
Suzuki gs500 – l907uvl
Yamaha Tdm850 – p364mrf
Kawasaki kdx200 – f440mra
Honda vfr800vtec – this is where it gets tricky as bikes started hiding under a personal plate… Dx54tvk
Honda cbr1000rr4 – lc04xed
Triumph tiger 1050 – current one
Suzuki gs500 – commuting tool soon to be up for sale, as I now don’t burn 15mpg to get to work!

And yes, that is three vehicles for one single bloke – to go with the four push irons in the house! :D

I’ve got the team model from 2011 bought as my first ‘real’ mtb, last one was a Raleigh max circa 1994!

The position is more Xc than dh although the geometry is quite relaxed. I run mine with 150mm fork, 50mm stem and 720mm 40mm rise bar and it still feels quite ‘forwards’ compared to fives, stumpjumpers et al…

That said, the four bar rear end works nicely and barring being a pain to clean around the inside of the linkages, I’ve had no bearing issues frame wise.
BB is press fit, but since fitting the new hope one I’ve had no issues. Wheels are strong but sunringle free hubs a) have loose unserviceable bearing which will last around a year without specific maintenance (removal/immersion in oil) b) when it does fail, be f*ckin tight into the hub body and take much swearing and gnashing of teeth to remove!

Other than that it has been a cracking bike!

Assuming your local sparky will be the one passing off on the test and commissioning, I would ask him…

Under most circumstances, 2.5mm installed in the permitted zones with metal capping into (preferably) 35mm backbox would do the trick. Although existing circuits, floor area etc. can mean that would be no good.

50w halogens are crap, but they are cheap…

LED’s are superb, but good ones are: A) hard to come by and B) very expensive.

Unfortunately as with most of the latest greatest things, the market is flooded with masses of blue tinted dross that puts out stupidly low amounts of light for their unbelievably short life span…

What is required is for industrial type fittings to be taken up by the likes of B&Q to tart them up and make them acceptable to those who walk among us without wedding tackle. Then, we may just be able to achieve usable levels of illumination and lifespan – as long as people realise that the lower power consumption means that a £100 light fitting is actually very good value!

From the description, it would certainly appear that the circuits have been rewired reasonably recently…

The main consideration for me (btw, I am not a housebasher – but an industrial spark with plenty of house bashing practice – pre part p guv’nor) would be that there was no rubber sheathed cables left in the harder to reach lighting circuits etc. and whether or not the dist board was fuse/mcb and in good condition.
Secondary to that would be socket quantity and location, lighting types and circuit segregation.

Basically the statement from the surveyor is like the mot testers caveat of ‘at the time of test’, there is nothing fundamentally wrong about fifteenth or sixteenth editions of the wiring regs, they have just been improved (or have they?) upon over time…

I mount mine in the top pocket of my camelbak as it goes on my head – try it, it works incredibly well!

One of our party lost his rear brake pads in spooky woods this weekend, so we race lightened his rear braking setup for him…

Dare I admit, the crazy woman who’s usual issues include aliens nicking her fags after a KFC lives in my village…
Oh the humanity!

Two chains in rotation…
Remove from bike and drop in jar of petrol, shake for a minute and leave to stand whilst I set up camp stove and get my pan of EP2 grease and GL320 gearbox oil warmed up.
Remove chain from petrol and hang over bucket whilst wiping down
Using a hook through both ends of the chain, drop in pan of now bubbling castrol broth.
Decant now dirty petrol into second jar through filter.
Back to the pan – lift one end of chain out of broth, then ‘roll’ the chain through the mixture several times. Allow thickest to run off then hang again over bucket whilst you tidy away pan, stove and petrol.
Wipe excess off chain with oily rag and store in plastic bag until next chain requires lube (usually 5-15hrs depending on conditions and washing regime*)

*I once heard someone mention that their bike got wet occasionally when no river crossings or puddles were ridden through… Although mine never have!

Yup, although it has only occurred to me this evening:
Why would John mason have memorised the sequence of the steam boiler to escape, when on his way back in he has to pass under the boiler to unlock the door from the inside???

I’m far too fat to be a runner, in fact I managed to quite well screw up my knee trying to run on a treadmill out of sight of the casual observer…
However I’ve recently decided to start running al fresco (yes I may be a bifter running around and yes the sight of me wobbling down the road may offend – but at least I’m doing something about being a fat bifter!) which has had the marvelous side effect of tightening the calves on ascents and consequently slowing my pace and lowering the impact on my knees.

So far I’m upto 4.5miles at 10:30mins/mile with 2miles without needing to stop and cry at my calves, although I am working on a 3km loop and trying to get to the point where I can manage that without needing to stop.

It’s hugely satisfying to have a new set of milestones to ‘tick off’ and hopefully I’m getting more of a workout than I manage on the bike.

on BH Mon

There’s your problem…

My BH run was early morning and miles away from a trail centre!

I wonder if we should petition to add some gnarr to the first section or two of the red at Sherwood to destroy any BSO that may be steered towards it by their numpty owners! :D

The section after the next one is also a usual spot for tricycles (and usually coming up the trail too) due to it’s proximity to the green route… Fortunately there is pretty good vision so you can stop in time!

Not done it myself, but if you are going to the hassle of chopping out, why not install a nice big trunking instead? That way when you realise you’ve missed a cable, you can fish another one through. Might want a power cable for your telly for instance!

Full face brigade will have been heading to the ‘downhill’ park – thoughtfully the planners made the blue trail go straight from the car park to the play area…

On a more serious note, I would imagine it has something to do with longevity similar to why people would sooner see a pitched tiled roof than a flat one with felt…

Shingles, I thought they were for sheds and Yanks so that it looks more dramatic when filming a film about strong rotational winds??? :P

From the North…

From the saarf…

Emf is volts… Ergo – forget about the tinfoil hat brigade and think yourself lucky you have a Crackin pssc…

There’s another bush at the bottom of the inner post too… and that bush runs against the ridges of the outer post that keep the inner from rotating.

I currently have 1-2mm of steadily worsening fore/aft play although no rotational play (that would be caused by the brass key’s being worn/incorrectly sized), caused in all likelihood by me being a fat knacker.

My plan is to unscrew the top cap and test for play in there before ordering parts – in fact in theory, if you only have fore/aft and no side-to-side play loosening the top cap through 90 degrees should highlight this part as requiring replacement.

Oops sorry, just realised what I typed there – Missed out a few key bits.

Try

worksheets(“Sheet1”).Range(“P21:P25”) = worksheets(“Sheet1”).Range(“P13:P17”)

obviously if your worksheet is not called sheet1 you will need to change that bit too. or you could exchange ‘activesheet’ for ‘worksheets(“Sheet1”)’

Yep, there has been an increase in maximum column/row size from the ‘standard’ 65000, not something that will effect your example, but something to be aware of if you do anything which is for an entire row or column.

First thing would be to forget about copy/pasting as such…
so instead of

Range(“P13:P17”).Select
Selection.Copy
Range(“P21”).Select
ActiveSheet.Paste

You could use:

Sheet1.Range(“p21:25”)=Sheet1.Range(“p13:p17”)

Add to that screen updating and auto calc and the macro should run without you even noticing…!

But run the downhill park instead of the XC downhill run if you have any suspension on your bike…

9th of October 2012 at 2100hrs was my last cig…
I have photos of it at various stages of burning down and find that a quick glance (particularly at one about half gone) gives me all the willpower I need.
I did the wuss route of champix this time although only did three and a half weeks as they started really messing with my head…

Unfortunately, I also substituted food for nicotine – oh and caffeine, lots of caffeine…
Now I’m 6 months clear I need to really stamp on the diet/fitness side of things!

Don’t take this as gospel as I have only done a single strip down on a reverb, but from what I understand about the method of activation of the reverb and the condition of the post I refurbished I would say if you’re confident that the lever bleed is good, then the secondary hydraulic system requires rebuild.
WARNING: the secondary hydraulic system with its IFP is more technical than just the air seal and bush strip down and features four 10 minute videos from SRAM and also requires ‘special tools’…
I only found this out because I didn’t watch the video first and found myself having stripped too far before realising!

What you will need is a length of 20mm plastic conduit with 125mm marked off from one end – unless your poppet valve requires attention, I was successful in rebleeding the hydraulics without removing the poppet valve by leaving the central tube slightly proud of its location and allowing fluid to travel back up the centre tube (if you watch the four part video this description will make more sense!)

I believe the ‘suspension seatpost’ effect is due to air in the IFP assembly via leakage from the top of the air spring. It was quite shocking how much dirt had found its way so far into the innards of the post!