yesterday rode through a puddle that was concealing mud below the surface. be vigilant.

the wife & I just started watching the first series. blimey!! doesnt half make you squirm!! even with a clear conscious! imagine trying to sit through this with your mrs if you’d ever been up to no good…!

Jerome Clementz hints at retiring from EWS?

What about the YT Mob branching into EWS with a certain Mr Rude as their showcase rider??

i only think about it if riding alone, gives you a bit of incentive. dont worry about it all in a group, just trying to either catch up or out run my mates…

Obvs. What other reason is there for Strava

i use it mainly for snaffling routes and segments off other users, and just to keep account of my rides. its also linked to my vitality plan do every ride = points and points = prizes!!

i despise waking up and not knowing how or what time i got there, scurrying through my discarded jeans to make sure im still in possession of my phone and wallet! and then just rotting for the next 24hrs (at least) with no inclination to do anything!

so much so i try to swerve any big night out or formal do. the only time i get drunk now is if its spontaneous or by accident, those nights dont seem to make me feel so bad. we went for a post ride pint recently, wasnt planning on doing but stars aligned, 1 became a couple, which became too many then the gin starts flowing – was a fabulous night!

on a proper night out i am consciously trying not to get too pissed too early, just have a bottle rather than a pint, swerve the shots, its not enjoyable and ultimately still end up wrecked anyway!!

like most people tho, theres nowt better than few pints of fine ale in a nice pub!

Yes I have a flux too, it’s great but just too warm..,

couldve posted same as honourablegeorge word for word.

they even repaired it for me after i ripped it in a crash! good as new.

reckon Jane Middlemiss was responsible for a good half a bucket worth of my adolescent secretions!

I ride solo couple times a week, at night usually and im always a long way from home (i work away down south during the week) so in theory nobody would miss me until i didnt turn up for work the next day!! does freak me out a bit… had a crash at Swinley last week on the off piste camel line, where i rode down and hit a jump that had had been built up since my previous visit, banged my head, had a lie down for a bit, thankfully came round and could carry on – fairly sure nobody else would have found me there that night if it had been worse!

sounds like you could do with a nice pair of sram guide RS’s…

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-full-set-of-sram-guide-rs-brakes

we go out to a restaurant and my plate is clean before she has even started!

im not much of a foody though, relate it to filling my car up with fuel!

i always say if they developed a pill that would give you all the nourishment you need and eliminated your appetite id sign up to a course of them!

Dishoom is a fancy night out too

Clicked this thread to quickly type ‘Tayabbs’ but I see it has already been mentioned a few times! BYO

i find the current batch of Evils the fugliest bikes on the market!

the lovely straight lines of the cotics are much more appealing!

my daughter is 7 and we gave her her mums old iphone. it has a free payg sim in with no credit.

we were sick of our phones being clogged up with kids games, apps and their notifications etc…

she uses it for playing games, watching netflix, taking pictures, and texting (whatsapping) its still my itunes account and she doesnt have the passwords so cant go buying stuff without us knowing. she’s not allowed to take it out of the house and it has to stay downstairs.

i work away during the week so love getting little messages from her. she also has grandparents in Wales, London, other relatives in South Africa and she can keep in touch with all of them.

works for us.

i turned my turn by turn navigation off too, then half way through my next ride i realised why all the the climbs were technical and all the descents were on fire roads!! :?

i use a race face rip strip. no good if you need to carry water too but i get everything i need in there, is fixed firmly to my back and hidden under my jersey. even provides a nice bit of lower back support i find…

yep was also gonna say Ride On.

fairies have been working on camel lately, the takeoff for the second double is considerably bigger! worth noting if you have not been for a while and drop in blind from the top!! i discovered the hard way :D

we moved into a house in the spring time this year that has a stove. ive been dying to light it all summer and i have finally started playing with it the last couple of weekends. i dont know what type it is but its a beautiful older looking cast iron double door stove, i guess 9 or 10 kw looking at similar ones online…

i have discovered that getting a fire going is a dark art, hugely satisfying when its roaring! but i struggle to build a fire that fills the space, i just tend to have a little one going in the middle, if i add logs to either side they dont catch fire… also its takes a fair amount of fuel before it gets really hot? and then its the hot metal that is kicking out the heat like a radiator, rather than the flames – you dont sit in front of it and get that crackly open fire experience… am i doing something wrong?

boom! thumbs up

may as well resurrect an old thread – snapped my visor, i can see replacements are readily available online but none of them say whether the bolts are included? anyone bought one? just curious as you can by the bolts separately… i lost one of mine when i snapped the visor…

Why do these people submit themselves to trial by Kev? Do they get paid by Channel 4?

something i always wonder… i expect they get something, but not much.
i think its the exposure they get from it, the architects and the builders and suppliers – they all probably knock a few quid off the bill too??

If this could be moved to chat that would be a bonus.

astounds me how this matters to people!?

when you have to spend loads of money on really boring shit like washing machines and lawn mowers

Chapter 2 is happening. i read that Jessica Chastain was cast as grown up Beverley…

:mrgreen:

went to see it on monday, on my own! as i do most mondays, on my own! (deep joys of working away)

as another huge fan of Tim Curry’s IT I was also sceptical when i heard a remake was imminent, but expectations were heightened on the back of all the reviews and record braking box office performance!!

was not disappointed, i thought it was great! i tend to find horror funny and was grinning throughout, loved the 80’s styling (nods to Stranger Things is apparent) and the bully was abhorrent!! there were a good few jumps in there too in fairness, and the the projector scene was creepy!!

one thing that crossed my mind tho, Derry must have the highest no of zero-shits-giving cops and parents anywhere in the world!! folk were dropping like flies but nobody ever noticed… :) top film.

also in a world where clowns run round the sewers killing kids, the most menacing character was Beverleys grubby father!!

cant think of any more puns, im stump.

I have the freerider pro’s and the EPS’s.

had a season out of each. EPS not as waterproof as id hoped but really warm. so warm i had to get something else for summer so got the Pro’s – they are really great. obvs not had too much exposure to cold and rain but they feel very light, comfy and super stable. no doubt ill be back in the EPS’s over the next few weeks….

Yeah I’ve no idea but I do, and I’ve snapped loads of the plastic insert plates too… if I don’t knock it off I hit the stop button with something!!

Never heard of Sugru but looks like it may just be the job!! My top tube mount is low because I need to get bands round, but with that stuff I should be able to tuck it in at the top..!

Where was the barfly from?

2 pairs of the UA boxerjocks are on their way to me. Saxx just too expensive for an experiment… baw bags maybe next time.

yeah, but dont need padded cycling shorts for an hour or so blast. just need good fitting, wicking boxers… im talking about wearing them under baggies btw

baw bags

large Jeffsy ftw. YT got £400 off at the moment

That was a good day!! Tracks were brutal! Could barely hold on by the afternoon…

I rented a bike from the broom of the chair lift. I asked for an enduro bike but the woman said I wasn’t allowed on the bike park tracks or the aosta freeride with an enduro bike so ended up with a beasty Devinci Spartan!! Amazing fun!! But obvs didn’t push it up to the top of Desarpa….

I wanna get one, and I also wanna increase my travel with a longer air shaft. is there somehere that can do the whole job in one hit?

Claudio will be there in his team manager capacity. no reason why he wont do a course preview and stick it on his fb page…?

im sure they signed off the vds broadcast with a ‘see you australia’ too??

frenchies got it right!!