It’s a race isn’t it? Bit of elbows out, “on your left” is par for the course ain’t it?

I’ve just got some of the new Saint pedals. Look very bling and you get Shimano reliability for less than 50 quid.

Got some Saint M800 cranks in the shed that I don’t need….

Junkyard – Member

I do so love getting advice from those who do not have kids about what is best to do with kids.
Bookmark this page and re read it when you have kids.
We all thought like you , to some degree, before they arrived.
I dont think you will persuade a parent about parenting from your position tbh

Why do you assume everyone will have children?

Several of your comments reminded me of this:

Wild card: Is Strava having an effect? After all we can all now race each other without ever even meeting each other, when we like, where we like, without spending any money!

It all started when people got the choice of which school their kids go to. Back in my day we walked (unsupervised) to the nearest primary school and got a school bus (unsupervised) to the nearest secondary school because it was 4 miles away.

Of course paedophiles and murderers hadn’t been invented back then….

As the concept of Enduro has developed, the ‘old’ bits are increasingly bits of Dh tracks. i’ve done some Dh racing, and i’ve found these ‘old’ bits of Dh track to be the ‘easy’ bits.

(especially so at Ae/Inners)

so, we’re expected to ride stages that are steeper, and more technical than most Dh race tracks, on our xc bikes…

i think i’ll leave it the retired Dh pros…

I’ve done Ae and Inners rounds – all on a 140mm bike. Lets face it a modern trail bike is more of a DH bike than the old DH bikes that used to race those tracks was! I didn’t think I was ever under biked.

I’ve never raced DH. I think the courses are bang on for the type of racing: DH but without the massive jumps and drops.

I went up to 710 (with rise) years ago. Now everyone has overtaken me. However I find them just right: wide enough for the “control” but narrow enough to fit between the trees! I’m staying in the middle (but obviously now tending towards narrow!) ground.

The only racing I’ve ever done is Gravity Enduro style events. That’s because they are currently the only type of event that appeal to me. They are similar to the kind of riding I normally do i.e. a weekend away with one night in a B&B (no time off work), two days riding, spin up the hills, bomb down them, beers Sat night, home Sunday evening. Most important: technical, fun courses and plenty of banter.

Those who have commented about “ex-Pro downhillers”: sure they are in the race. That is one of the good things about them. Racing on the same track, in the same race as the pros. You can’t do that in many sports! However they are in different categories to us mere mortals. You actually race your peers.

As for 24 hour events: not my cup of tea. I was race mechanic for some mates at one once and can’t see the attraction in lapping non-technical trails in a state of sleep depravation and festering in a tent between laps.

Specialized Sirrus range is good. Google around for offers.

I’m actually doing more events this year. Did 2 Gravity Enduros last year. Doing 4 this year.

They are all selling out this year unlike last so not everyone is down on entries….

Bit of plastic toothpaste tube (always in my Camelbak) and a tube gets you out of the crap on trail.

Car mushroom type plug fixes it when you’re at home.

The Chunnel is well useful and fast for getting to Jonny Foreigner land….. IF you are in a car!

The rail links to it are next to useless if:

a) you want to take any significant luggage (e.g. a bike and everything you need for a couple of weeks holiday)

b) you live more than spitting distance from a station on the mainline (i.e most of the population)

S

You should have got there last night. It was a beautiful evening. Felt like… whatsit called? …… oh… errr… ah! Summer. That’s the one!

The disadvantages of them new fangled combi boilers!

Airing cupboard FTW :)

They go rusty and seize unlike a standard bush so I wouldn’t bother

I use Sony Vegas HD Platinum. Maybe not as intuitive as some but once you get the hang it’s good and fast to use. Download some trial versions and see which you like? Vegas is here: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/trials

Whichever software you use the more processing power you can chuck at it the better!

Try buying a tyre with UST written on the side?

As others have said: c# using Visual Studio Express (and SQL Express if you want to learn TSQL and databases too).

Loads of online resources to help you learn and you can head down any path you like: windows forms, services, web, whatever…

I program in it for a living. If you like it and learn it there’s plenty of careers in it too even in these dark days.

You could use a Powershell script to fire up the app(s) and rotate through them.

Any birthday is an excuse for a weekend or longer away riding bikes somewhere different to normal.

My 40th birthday present from the Mrs was a heli-biking trip on Rainbow Mountain, Whistler. :)

It helped as a general excuse to go there too even though it was a good while after my actual birthday.

We’ve used http://bearbackbiking.com/ 3 times now and will hopefully be doing so again next year.

It goes through my home town today! Luckily I’m at work avoiding it all.

How much is all this t*ss costing us? Why is the fire risk being paraded outside of London? It’s the London Olympics: it’d be nice if they left the rest of us out of it (especially paying for it). If we want in we could go down “that London” and have a look….

Tubeless without UST rims is like Noel Edmonds – a pain in the arse and mostly pointless.

Agree. I’ve mostly given up writing stuff like that on tubeless threads cuz people never seem to listen?

What we really need is to classify tubeless threads into “Proper” i.e. UST and “bodge jobs” i.e. anything involving rim strips or non-optional sealant or other p*ssing about.

A job worth doing is a job worth doing well.

As for the original post: get UST. You’ll then be able to change tyres whenever you like using no more than your hands and a track pump (sealant optional).

Pete
UST user for over 11 years (‘kin ‘ell – didn’t realise it was that long!)

The place I work isn’t a suit and tie place but I know they would think it weird if someone turned up for an interview without.

In fact my manager was interviewing someone a couple of weeks ago and said to me after “he didn’t even bother dressing smart”. Turned out that HR had advised the candidate he didn’t need to but had not told my manager this! Better safe than sorry!

Get some kids ones. Usually cheaper too!

Gerraint Thomas gets paid to wear a Bioflow one… he’s a pro cyclist. You just run a bike shop. I know who I’m going to believe.

Me too: Mark!

That is based on the sweeping generalization that all these people are a bunch of feckless wasters.

I said “certain types” NOT “everyone this would help”

Lesson learned 888trojan888 ? Next time don’t call the cops. Just batter the scrotes!

The weather has been a bit sh*te but “summer” only begins on the longest day….. so there’s still a chance of a decent “summer” after a piss poor “spring”

Different SSID names

Does this not risk becoming an “incentive” to certain types to stay sat on their arse rather than increasing their income through hard graft?

XTR ones every time for me

It’s hard to sympathise with any public sector workers whose pensions are being shafted when the same happened to the private sector ages ago. It’s just “welcome to the (slightly more) real world” Doc…..

Repeater will work but tend to be expensive ish.

Another alternative is to get (beg, borrow, scrounge – people will have them) another router and configure it as an access point and link it to the first one via network (length of cat 5 or use powerline connection).

I had a spare old router knocking about and did the latter which also gave me a wired hub I needed for plugging in some non-wi fi hardware (Sky box, receiver etc). Easy to do and works a treat.

Decent pub with car park near Peak riding with real ale and food = we’d use it to park at then come back for ale and food.

That’s how our rides usually work :) Non of that cake ‘n’ coffee bollox some writers in the mag are always going on about….!

There’s some tips for firmer feel with MT8 here: http://www.support-english.magura.com/index.php?showtopic=5053 Worth a go?

Royal Blood = Mineral oil = same as what Shimano use.

I’ve not tried the MT8 but have Magura (Louise) brakes on all my bikes. Why are the MT8 so hard to bleed? The older Magura like mine are a piece of p*ss especially compared to the faff of e.g. Avids…

Chain stay protectors….