You don’t say what size your 5 Spot is!

I’m 6ft 3with 35-36 inch legs (long legs) I have a HL too, origianly I had a large and changed to an XL. The XL fits me much better – I always had too much post sticking out of the large and the drop to the bars was too big. The top tube lenght on the large felt good with a 90mm stem. the tt on the XL feels fine with a 50mm stem.

I managed to just get a front triangle from turner but this was in 2008.

You could ride a bike in plaster, especially a road bike with out too many problems. Just don’t fall off.

But – when you get a plaster cast taken off after 6 weeks your arm will be pretty rank, imagine if you had ridden 3 times a week and all the sweat and muck could not be washed off! It’s also not a nice feeling once you start sweating under a cast makes it itchy. That’s the reason I didn’t bother trying to ride when I broke mine last year.

make sure you don’t have battery saving turned on and then turn off HD in Vimeo. Both of these are need to for it to play properly on my Samsung NC10

So to sum it up so far – pretty much all 140 – 160 FS bikes are good, just try them all then join Stuartm55 in confusion! 🙂

Hang on …….. you already have two children and you’re only just getting married!?!?!

£100 worth of breast pads……you don’t want to be seen with a leakytit’d woman even if she is your wife!

considering that she’s preggers the booobjob bank account could be a good call too

or save the ton and use it so you can get a hotel for a night and get some rest once littlesuckingmatt comes along.

Get a proper one with proper wheels.

We got our Son an Isla bike at christmas when he was 18 months. He’s fairly tall but at first the seat was all the way down. He had the balancing sorted at 20 odd months and used it round the house to gain confidence. A month of chainsing the dog aroudn the kitchen Island and he was ready to go to the park on it. We could’nt get it off him. Yesterday at 22 months, we went for a walk along a local bridleway – he did about 2.5km’s off road and loved riding through all the horse poo. He still hasn’t worked out the brake which gets a bit scarry at the speeds he goes downhill.

Remember that if it’s around it’ll get used for things it’s not designed for – hence it has to be strong. Ours gets dragged to the table so he can stand on the wheels to help climb up.

EDIT – Little lucas (not that one)got his when he was 87cm tall and it was fine with the seat right down, now he’s 95cm and I had to put the seat up so it sounds a bit smaller that MG’s Spesh

Those people who come to your door at 6:45, when you’re in the middle of bathing your kids. They ring the bell like there’s a medical emergancy so you leg it down only for them to say “I can see all your windows are new, your sofits are new but have you thought about having your porch re-done in UPVC?” no **** off and if you’re going to turn up on my door trying to sell me stuff then at least get a decent hair style and take some of the pearcings out of your forehead.

Also people with umbrella’s in busy places – not the small people I don’t mind being hit in the chest so much, but people who are average height who wave those spiky basterds around at my eye level.

I also hate the tube at rush hour, not much of a problem as I don’t live in london but tomoorow I have to travel on it with a big bag

I have never done what you want to do and I don’t have one of these GPS’. I do work with georeferenced images and maps though so I had a bit of a look. The following looks like it should work. If not at least your looking in the right places.

Go to that ICC page – zoom in to the area you want, select the map scale you want in the right hand side. Click on the map you want and a pop up window appears download the .sid file. These are georefereced (ie in the correct geographic coordinates) images of the maps

Now use one of the tools from (you’ll have to copy and paste as I can’t get the link to work)

“http://garminoregon.wikispaces.com/Custom+Maps#FAQ-CM5.)What other tools can I use to make Garmin Custom Maps?”

to convert the sid file to a file type that will go in the GPS.

Elmo – a bit tired after doing the south loop at Whinlatter last Sunday

I’ve got some metal in knee and fly about 1-2 times a month on average. It’s never set off the big walk through scanners (my belt always did that) it does set off the small hand held ones but you just tell them you have metal in there or show them the scar. Most of the time they don’t care as I think the knee is not the best place to hide something bad.

My couple of year old KS pads have started to move about and rub – I presume this is due to wear, stretching and washing. A 5 hour ride on Saturday has let me with grazes on top of both knees which were pretty painful at the end of the day. They were very comfy when I first go them so I think you have to replace them fairly frequently

I have a massive battle with my 21 month old son every time we take him out on his balance bike. He only wants to find the steepest slope around and ride down it, push back up, ride down it again there is no way he wants to go home. I came home from work last week and he was having a tantrum – apparently his mum had taken the bike away as he was trying to ride it down stairs!

He rode his first boardwalk in the Lakes at the weekend and was very upset when my friends and I went out biking leaving him sat on his bike at the front door – I don’t think he’s really ready for a 33mile loop round Skidaw yet.

Does the thread title ‘Removing exterior paint from brickwork’ not imply that the paint might be applied to bricks?

Anyway – it’ll kill you trying to get that off so either pay someone to sand blast it or paint it a colour of your choice (baby blue would be good, you don’t see enough baby blue houses)

1 is too young, but you could get it anyway, no harm is having it around. We gat a Rohan for our son when he was 18 months for christmas. He’s pretty tall so could reach the ground and liked having a go round the house. He rode the 600 meters (all up hill) to the park on Sunday. He’s 21 months now, found a nice steep grassy bank at the park and we could not get him away from it. Up and down up and down – ace!!

Had to carry him home screaming as he wanted to stay and session the bank! Wife sys he’s too young for the BMX track this weekend.

Elmo 2.5 years ago:

Elmo at 1 year and Raffa, my parents dog when he was a puppy:

No, I have a brother called Tom, he worked at the Miners too (we are going back 16 years to when I started there though). We went to school in Chesterfield.

My work is 10-15 mins round the ring road from the University so it’d be a 1.5 hour journey for me which is too much. I did it in 50 mins the other day though.

LS – I grew up in Alton, started mountain biking in Butts Quarry, and worked in the Miners Arms in Milltown for 6 years on and off, we still go there for meals occasionally. My parents only moved away 3 years ago.

How do you find the drive to Nottingham everyday? I work in Keyworth to the south of Nottingham so it’s a bit further than the north. We’ve got a 20month old son now and another due in may and I’d love them to grow up in the same kind of counrtyside as I did. Althoug i’m off home now and it will take me a minute by bike so I do get loads of time at home with the Kids in teh evenings.

I went back 2 weeks ago for a ride up the hill and through the old quarry behind the Miners across to tops and down to kestedge. Made me realise how lucky i was to have grown up with rides like that out of the door!

I grew up near Ashover (over the hill from Matlock), every weekend we’d cycle out Chasworth/Bakewell way – I’d love to live there still, and probably could if I could come to terms with going down the M1 every morning to south Notts.

Great riding from the door and a nice place to bring kids up. We lived out in the sticks a bit which was great for biking and stuff but a bit crap when my brother and me started going out to town etc. But you find ways round it.

If you want to meet random people in a new place then get a dog. You see the same people all the time and people with dogs always talk to people with dogs its weired. I walk my dog every morning at 6am with 4 other people who were complete strangers 2years ago, then on the way home I have a daily chat with an old bloke who loves our dog.

I have a M2000 in the loft – 1994 I think. That has a 27.2 seatpost. I also have a ’93 lava dome up there too but that has a 27.0 post and is pretty much irrelevant to this thread!

First ride on mine on Saturday and I thought it was great. I came from 9 speed Sram X9, which I have always liked the positive clicks when you change gear. I did miss that a bit when changing down at the lower end of the SLX cassette – it seems that the last gear changes have almost no click?

I got 3×10 with thoughts of changing to 2×10 but on my ride I found myself in the big ring a fair amount so I’ll have to see about that.

With regard to noise: I noticed, when setting it up, that it was sensitive to cable tension, the B-tension screw adjustment and also the limit adjustments of the actual mech. This was the first time in 20 years of biking that I read the instructions re the order of making adjustments and it all worked very well after doing that. It’s also worth having a look at the length of outer from you last cable stop to the rear mech, I had it too short and this caused problems setting it up.

It looks good, works good and I got the whole lot for £180 delivered from Germany!

ON the north loop climb there is a bit where you come off some singletrack go up a fire road for about 20 meters then climb up singletrack again. As you climb there is a drop to your right – it gets bigger as you go along.

Don’t wait until just before you turn left to have your front wheel slip on a root and point you off the big drop. You’ll fall a far way and possibly break your wrist.

If you do this you will discover that the local hospital does have an x-ray, but they don’t have doctors all the time so you get a cast then go to Carlisle the next day to get it re-done.

It’s my fav trail center though, good total length if you do the three routes but you can set the length of ride by doing different routes.

It true STW style I did not read your post properly, if I had a wood sub-floor then I’d nail it.

Been looking at this too, apparently you’re supposed to line up the wood get it tight etc on top of the adhesive backing sheet – you then peal/pull the sheet out from under the wood whilst holding it in place. See the fitting instructions here

I spoke to the bloke at the place I will be ordering our solid oak flooring from on Friday and he said that as long as I use the ‘strong’ variety then he has no objections to me using it. By the way I’m thinking of using it since I can get a moisture barrier under it (I’m not very confident in the DPM in the concrete floor) and I can’t have the extra height that lining the floor with 18mm of marine ply would add

WCA – photos are usually high res satellite imagery or aerial photography there is a little bit of text at the bottom left of the view that tells you when the data were acquired.

A) not sure but he ^ does
b) use screen capture software (records your screen to a movie file). Fraps is good and there is a free version. Fraps

Or is it McCrackin?

If Elmo saw him normally he’d poo his pants, roll on his back and stick his legs in the air……..but in that hat he reckons he’d have him.

Elmo is a dog who is scared of everything, top of the list at the moment is bird scarring banging things.

You can cook the liver cake (the one mixed with flour) for 8 mins in the microwave too. Makes the house stink though, but comes out fine.

Might make Elmo some tomorrow as he’s scared of the banging bird scare-ers that keep going off at the mo.

Nice of them to give it away….

And if you want harmonised (by lithological age at least) 1 to 1million scale geology for Europe then you could try here:
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Obviously not quite as useful as the UK 50k stuff but it’s a start. Might even get coastal subsidence areas and geohazard areas added for the 52 largest EU towns added in about 3 years……

I’d be surprised in Mike Summerfield was not on STW – right pedantic he was, I used to get loads of marks knocked off essays for spelling and grammer when the technical details were spot on. He’d then spend half the next lecture lecturing people on English rather than geomorphology.
He book was good though – see if you can find some spelling mistakes 😆

Skillz from me – that’ll be why you’re crap on a bike.

All good but too much travelling with work, done now for Christmas but then off to Sweden in Jan, followed by Gay Paris, then Italy, Germany and the Netherlands and just up to the start of March. Need to plan another weekend in the Lakes!

Well done monkey – takes a bit of skill to treble post and get the thread on the forum and classifieds 😕

Sounds like you need a half link, I’ve got some chain tensioners you can use if necessary!

Danish oil – you know it needs doing when it goes dull. ours needs doing now. put it in 6 months ago and since the old wooden worktop had never been looked after and was really grotty round the sink I was dead paranoid therefore put about 7 coasts on and then one a week for a few weeks. It’s been fine since. We are careful round hte sink to wipe up.

Time to come clean, the units have been on the wall until sunday night when they fell off! I’d built a frame of 5cm by 6cm wood, the frame consisted of 4 verticals and 2 horizontals. the verticals were fixed directly to the wall and the horizontals screwed directly to the verticals. the brackets for the units were then fixed to the top horizontal. However I only used 4 (9cm long) screws to hold the horizontal to the vertical. 3 of the 4 screws on the upper horizontal snapped meaning the units came down (with a crash – but not too much damage).

So it sounds like I remake this frame with thicker wood which would allow me to use more screws to hold it together and then fix the frame to the wall using big old metal brackets?

I don’t think I’ve ever (in several years of being on STW) seen someone ask why someone else has started a thread…….and then people ask why on a subject like this. Why is this not worthy of discussion?????

Part of the breavement process is talking about things and people are shooting down surfmatt for talking about what has happened to him. I really don’t understand why you would want to do that? and to suggest that he would do it for vanity is just offensive. Maybe he finds it easier to talk about it this way.

My wife is currently 13 weeks and to think about this happening for the 3rd time (for us) is just unthinkable.

Some of you really need to have a good hard think about what you are saying!!

Tetley is like grey pisswater only beaten in the pisswater stakes by asdas own. Yorkshire is where its at, nice and strong so you can taste it, splash of milk and not of that soft sugar rubbish.

I must say that Yorkshire does not taste right in the lake district due to the water, still better that Tetley though

I bet you thought it’d only take a few weeks to sort the whole lot out – I mean how hard can it be, how long can it really take to knock down a wall or two, get the wall paper off, paint and put some new floor down????

f’ing months of hard graft that’s how long. nobody who has never done this type of thing ever realises how long it will take. They (you and me included) sit and scoff at the incompetent f’wits who disagree with bigtits-Beany. We know we could do it better and in half the time if we wanted to.

We wanted to and so did it………you realise that these things do take time to get done and get done right. Its a learning experience, you’re at the point of despair, it will get better once a few key things come together.

Some advice – it’s hardwork, now you’ve stripped everything back try and focus on sorting out a couple of rooms well – probably your bedroom and the kids room. Then sort out the lounge, the most important thing is to get somewhere comfortable that you can relax in when you’ve been working. Also make sure you finish every last thing in a room before moving on – otherwise you will live for years with no skirting. Getting a new floor down it magically finishes a room and makes it lovely!

Don’t do what I did, work hard for 6 months break the back of it and then break your knee meaning you can’t walk for 3 months. That makes things hard!

I keep looking at these and others with more aggressive tread and wondering if they’d be good for me. Thinking about it the route with the worst mud only has about 1.5km of tarmac (out of a 4 to 8 km total). I could wear the XT wings for other runs with more hard pack and tarmac. The problem with the mud is that I often run after work so its dark and I’d rather concentrate on where I’m going than not slipping over.

Last 3 runs (and the next 3) have been along playa de las cantaras (3.5 km long beach) in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria so no mud to be seen at all 😆

My runs are half on and half off road (V muddy at this time of year), salomons fit me well, but the XT wings I’ve currently got arn’t grippy enough – how do those speed cross soles last on the tarmac?