Bony’s always looked closed whenever I’ve been in pebbles which was disappointing as we tend to stay on the outskirts and its a bit of a walk into town.

The Crown tends to be our go to place, food is cheap mon-fri pretty much buy one get one free, plus I can get a pint of Hop House which is my current favourite drink!

The Prince of India is good for a curry as well, always seems quiet early on up to 8ish but its quite busy as a takeaway.

We got the standard V6 last Christmas in the sales mainly for stairs and the car but its took over from the normal vac for everyday duties. Must remember to plug it in, always forget.

Lol no, they swapped the tube, I thought it was slow as it let it self down once a week so kept pumping it up until I had time to fix it. While it was on the stand at the concept store it decided to let its air out. Turns out I had a massive metal pin stuck in it.

The Birmingham one has always been pretty good, yes they charge a fixed price for some mudguards I wanted on the work bike and couldn’t be bothered tinkering with, but while it was there they fixed what I thought was a slow puncture but turned out to be full puncture, and they indexed my rear gears no additional charges. Before anyone says nope I got the crosstrail from somewhere else.

The best service I’ve ever had from a bike shop is the one at glentress, I’ve said before they sorted my avid out on my camber which decided to lock all for £10, and this summer they replaced all the bearing in my headset and didn’t charge a penny. I went to the café and got them the whole choc cake and put some pennies in the air ambulance can. Seems I can’t go to glentress without getting a mechanical!

Yep rounding it was £984, and yep official HMRC.

Thanks for the calculator link, this month I did 15hrs overtime at double time and took a day unpaid so could be flat to a normal month as its showing my tax will be about £100 more than usual. All depends on how reactive our payroll dept has been.

Its a new 2017 so they are 2 years behind? that Giant is a good looking bike, pity looks like no UK version online.

I hope not as really enjoy riding my 27plus, I almost got the stache 29plus but due to my height issues even on the small the 27plus was the perfect choice, 3″ tyres 100mm front sus, I really do enjoy just riding around on the Fuse.

I will admit I haven’t seen any out in the wild, i’ve seen some full fat bikes but very few semi skimmed. Maybe its too early to tell but scott, specialized and trek still seem pretty keen on the wheel size, you know its a winner when Giant start making one they haven’t as yet that I’m aware of.

Lego! Imperial shuttle and a wall-e

Been faffing around with this, on my road bike and camber, no issues perfect fit and got the angle I want. Its the semi skimmed fat bike that’s the issue, ive ordered a different mount, the seat post mount works perfectly!

Yep, some strange fascination about this event, and the old reactor control room is like an immense time capsule, imagine that tech compared to modern tech running power stations. The future tech of that arch is amazing, will it actually last 100 years and give them time to remove the reactor itself?!

Would love to take one of those holidays there, its not like I’m having any kids at any point!! Would be the ultimate ghost tour.

Technically Sky haven’t done anything wrong, yes its close to the line but I remember in a press interview they always said they would be close but would never go over the line, this from what I understand is that close!

It seems very british to be great at something and try to destroy it, its as if we can’t settle knowing we did a great job.

I’m sure Team Sky will go from strength to strength, I just think possibly the management of the team will change after this, forced by this issue.

I agree on the pug issues and a dogs not for Christmas, we have been looking for a dog for 6 months now. Found dogs for friends and family just not found one that’s for us yet….

We have an Ikea, foam mattress and recently got the memory foam topper very comfy bed!!

Yep I get that, was thinking this one was local to Cannock which isn’t too far to go and I’ve travelled further to get a dog in the past, not for me.

Turns out I have more friends that don’t drive hence me travelling the country for bikes and the odd dog here and there, and yep isle of man is massively out of the way.

I’ve been using the dhb from wiggle thermal one from last year, tempted to get a new one this year.

Really like the sainsburys shortcrust pastry ones from the in store bakery, must have gone through over 100 already this season, when I run out then Tesco finest is the back up but there nothing like the sainsburys one’s.

Just the usual wiggle deal £15 off £100 spend brings them down to £110 plus I have a £20 voucher from an error they made with an order a few months back, £90 for winter shoes is pretty good.

Cheers for £3 worth a punt!

My Plus bike, its a proper laugh to ride! and it came with my first ever dropper post, never had one before and I’m converted on that now!

Yep ive seen those on wiggle, wanted something to hook on the bars and have the camera under the garmin, not going to be a regular camera user, but plan to use it on those big day trips.

Will it be an 8 next year or a 7s?

Going to the pub this year, all booked and paid for.

Got my last one through Citroen the car loan worked out cheaper than the bank, plus I paid it off early in the end meaning I paid no interest. Car dealers sometimes get it wrong, I was shocked when mine cane back pretty much interest free.

Is there a noticeable difference between the session and the 5? or just marginal?

The camera will be mostly attached to the mtb.

No one then?

Out here road riding this week, weather has been 22-27 been a great week! No strava just cycling for fun, it’s a bit odd this year as everywhere is green, normally it’s pretty volcanic but this year green stuff every where, feels almost like home.

My oh has a canyon nerve woman’s version, she loves it, great bike although it’s a bit of a bmx for me!

I have a speshi crosstrail, can’t recommend it for that distance its ok for 3-5 miles 5 days a week but its a bit slow when compared to my road bike and its heavy. Once this c2w has been paid off I will be getting a boardman cx I should of got it in the first place.

Featured CYB this week, new slab feature looks fun a bit like the rock at lagan, cringed a bit when grating the chainring across a drop off. They commented that the minotaur route was like being a child and riding for the first time, my oh was not impressed as she loves that trail and she doesn’t ride much else.

On the look out for some 29er boost wheelsets as well, want to change my mid fattie to a normal 29er hardtail through the winter, if I spot anything will post it here.

I’ve got 2 a white one for the front, its useless as a beam for me to see anything but really visible to others and the battery has lasted for ages, on the rear chainstay I’ve got a red one and its lasted about 3 years so far, first time I had to change the batteries was today at work.

Tend to use them in static mode and use smaller lights as flashy here I am type.

17 dings in my last car when I traded it in, I work in a supermarket and I had the car for 7 years so not to bad. The two things that annoyed are 1 it was a c2 not exactly a big car and always parked central to the spot, and 2 after a minor bump I had the rear bumper and rear drivers side wing repaired, 3 months later when I traded the car guess what yep 2 dings!

I don’t use my car for work anymore I cycle and I refuse to take the car better to get a taxi home with the food shop if needed.

I’ve already got a spare cassette, I know Cannock eats them for breakfast! Just about to order the wheels, I’ve got the tyres and tubes, quite fancy some hope hubs on this set.

So a 148mm shimano then? Stick a shimano 10 speed cassette on it.

Yep that’s the one.

I’m in the wrong job…..

Update on the bike, took it out a couple of times now and enjoying the ride, its just basic biking. I do forget I’ve got the extra width on the tyres and even attempted a few jumps. The surprising thing is I’m beating some of my strava times, climbing being one of them which is odd seeing as I thought it would be slower bigger tyres etc..

The things I’m noticing are some of the cheeky trails I ride they have ruts and the tyres occasionally get stuck, mud clearance is good I’ve only had 2 sinking in the mud moments both at the same place so will avoid that cheeky shortcut in future.

When I get a crosswind it does hit the tyres and you can feel it which is something ive not had before, and that noise when going downhill I still can’t figure out what it is, seatpost in the frame or chain smacking off the frame ethier way I’m sort of used to it now.

The other thing is it attracts people and lots of questions, sat at the café getting a coffee today a couple of bikers sat opposite started up conversation about the bike, and while out on the trail you get the “looks fugly how does it ride?” “why the big tyres” “that frames a bit odd” and that’s a quiet day at Cannock.

The bike has one big negative, which is really frustrating and that’s the hex axle, to get the bike in the house I have to remove the front wheel, I thought I had mastered it I really thought out today job done, got home wheel off bike outside wheel on and washed it. The wheel off to get the bike into storage would the bugger go back on, nope at the moment its sat on its forks. There has to be an easier way!!

I don’t think these sold as well in the UK as specialized planned, the US models got an upgrade for 2017, the UK got a price cut and the same bike, they must have a warehouse full of them or they just want to keep them in range to sit alongside the Stumpy 6fattie, ether way I’m glad they have.

Any recommendations for 29er wheelset I could get with the boost option? thinking long term this ones a keeper.

Dentist and the sooner the better, I had a wisdom tooth that got loose and grew crooked pushing onto the next one and in turn the one in front. Left it due to not really aware of it, i had some pain and fillings in the 3rd one along but nothing fixed it, the day I went to get that one removed the dentist tried the wisdom tooth. It came out in under 20 seconds didnt know he had done it until after. Still have problems with the 3rd one along but nothing compared to before.

I’ve got a couple of spare pairs if your local to Solihull, will swap for 4 bottles of Hop House 13!

I’m a big fan of shimamo am range my storm trooper ones still going strong and the black replacements still as new. I got the new am9 as designed by the athertons etc…. so far not great first pair I destroyed on the first outing split the sole and the flap over piece ripped off. Second pair just don’t feel right, would rather use my speshi tahoo.