Nice work Samuri

Struggling with that one… :-(

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:lol: race through WTF cougar?

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Bullitt – just rumbled on and on, and the car chase isn’t all that.

Yeah – saw that a few years back – brilliant idea, well executed!

I just moved house and therefore commute. It was easier than getting off my bike.

I think they have to be not just connected but registered with your provider before the deadline, i.e. you have to post them the certificate and they have to receive it…

Best of luck

Edit – too slow by far!

You still rode a vehicle across the crossing when the green man was lit. tut tut tut

Drat!

I bet you’d never do that :wink:

I didn’t say that :lol:

I said I rode across the junction. As it’s one of those, all-peds-get-green-together junctions the center of the ‘box’ is ’empty’.

This junction in Edinburgh amuses me – I am really not sure what youare supposed to do legally at the end of the cycle path – there is no cycle light.

Ha! I used to commute through there for a few years. I just pressed the ped. button and rode across the junction when the green man appeared, giving way to peds as necessary. Never had a problem. Greater problem was the smokey joes hanging around outside the pub just behind the camera, using the bike lane as extra pavement… :evil:

New or 2nd hand?

I got a 2nd hand Magura Menja a few years ago for my singlespeed. Not the lightest but, simple and tough, and a piece of wee to give a quick service to. Has lockout.

I’ve given mine a pasting over the last few years, and it’s still happy. Would recommend them.

needs replaced

You from central Scotland?

Bought? Rarely buy anything now I have Spotify.

Latest album on there on regular play;
The Qemists – Spirit in the System

Negatives?

Putting on cold wet kit to ride home in if you got soaked in the morning and stuff hasn’t dried out.
Headwinds + rain. Either one was fine, but combined = yuk.
Feeling like a 3rd class road user.

Didn’t stop me though.

Once crossed the line and picked a scab off my missus’ leg when she was watching tv. Never again.

8O How long were in you hospital?

I haven’t used Wiggle since they screwed up an order right royally. One of their servers reset during the night, so they tried to process my order with my roll-backed customer details, which I had updated before placing the order.

Wouldn’t respond to my emails, just endless cookie-cutter responses, round and round in circles. Eventually printed off all the emails, sent them to customer services recorded delivery. Got a phone call from the customer service manager the next morning, refused to apologise, and then they still charged me for priority shipping. Utterly useless, and sounds like they haven’t got any better in the following years.

They really should just give out a phone number, as they are unable to deal with any nuances through email. “It looks from a 2 second glimpse that this is problem X – send them problem X generic response”

:evil:

I’d have thought, just from looking at the pics, that the saddle will slope too far back to be usable. Perhaps @was could try and let us know…?

Hmmmm…. :twisted:

I’m intrigued by your ‘no brand names’ in your art redthunder… ?

Apart from that – great drawin, you’ve got the gloves a bit lot better than I did. Mine look proper deformed, and that was after several attempts.

Draw our user names…

:|

:?

:idea:

:twisted:

How about that, half way through pulling the thing off & knowing that you cannot stop, even though you know its going to hurt like hell to get the last part off!

Yep – keep going!

I’m definitely a scab-picker! It’s just something I have to do, it really annoys the wife.

My old faves were Intense System 5 C3. First time around the knobs peeled off every set I had, but bought another set and they have been ace. Rather like the old Specialized Enduro 2.2″ – which I also loved.

I’ve ridden at GT with a Super Tacky Minion DHF 2.5/2.3″ combo (just back from Alps and couldn’t be bothered to change for one ride) Whilst I would describe the grip as inspiring – I’d file it under super slow.

I have the Helium jacket, used occasionally for a couple of years now. It’s been really good, apart from one end of the elastic draw-cord around the neck came away – required a few stitches to fix. No biggy.

In general terms, it packs down small, it’s cut really well for me, not quite as neat fitting as Assos stuff, but much better than most. I’m not blown away by its breathability, but it’s not shocking either.

If I lost it tomorrow – I’d replace it with the same thing.

Edit: And the red is really RED!

I like the ‘going silent mid-sentence and waiting until they hang up’ method. Or answer their first questions, and then don’t say anything. You have to be good at not laughing for either to work well though.

Half an hour, as late as I could manage. Normally about 1pm before the starving hunger took ahold. Any earlier than that and it was a long afternoon!

He looked awesome! Enjoy the memories.

it may well make cable routing better as the ‘loop’ of cable when it’s dropped will just naturally fall behind the post?

But the cable doesn’t move as the post drops – it’s on the static part?

Glad it wasn’t just me being thick!

I can’t think of any reason to do it the way they have… :? Surely it would have been the same process to have it out the other side.

If it’s not a silly question, isn’t the cable coming out of the wrong side of the post? I’d have thought that it would be better exiting from the front to run it along the top tube, so you don’t have a loop of cable behind the post… :?:

(The RASE post, and the Gravity Dropper both have the cables on the front.)

Modable to put the stops in the other side of the ‘stanchion’?

717 disc or the one with the braking surface?

I’ve pulled dings out with an adjustable spanner plenty of times in the past. Doesn’t sound too bad – I reckon it’ll be fine.

I thought I’d try something different. This is my first attempt at a digital painting. I drew it out in the sketchbook, then scanned that into photoshop as a guide.
I had great plans to add decay to the scene, as per the Caravaggio – y’know, rips in the jacket, dents in the helmet etc. but it was enough of an effort just doing it ‘as-is’.

The hub will be the first thing to give up

The threads on the fixed side of my hub gave up the ghost after a year or so, but my oem bottom bracket only lasted a few months. Hopefully they’ve solved that problem; the fact that at the time there were no basic units that would fit made it a real hassle.

You could always try and get an ex-demo Kona when you’re out there? A friend of mine used to work in Whistler – I’ll ask him.

If it’s geometry you’re worried about, I have the original Langster, which is considered more ‘track’ than later models, or so I’ve been told. Aesthetically, it’s not ‘track’ looking at all.

Have you considered the Genesis Flyer? If it had been available when I bought my Langster, I would have gone for the Flyer.

Agree with CFH about the mudguards though. I used SKS Raceblades, which are merely OK.

google image search has nothing for Intense Arseslasher

Which is odd, as the only hit I get for the web search is this thread – often google pulls out the pictures from the thread into the associated image search.

You can’t seriously have just got me that bad! I thought it was a real name! Luckily I didn’t google image search…..

Proper LOL!

I’m a fan of the thin saddle too – currently have my bikes using old SLR clones. Love em to bits.

Yes it is expensive, but compare the service we have to that in, for example, the US (even their North East Corridor, which is the busiest bit of line). We don’t do that badly!

Speaking as someone who lives at the bottom of said corridor, I’d rather have the UK network any day!

Local trains from here are commuter hours only – so 3 in the morning, 3 in the evening, none at the weekend. However, if you are prepared to travel during the week, you can get to New York on local trains – 120 miles, costs about $25, takes ~4 hours.

The ‘proper’ Amtrak trains are a joke however. We took a 2 hour journey back from NYC as we needed to get back on Sunday. For the princely sum of $105pp (£67), one-way, you get a crummy, old, smelly train, that runs late and is 100% booked solid, with no reserved seats. So it’s a crazy dash onto the train to find a seat not next to the weirdo. There’s no luggage room either. Bike space… :roll:

So, I’d rather be riding trains in the UK y’all hear?

I personally take a drill to the hard drives, coupled with a big hammer. Very stress relieving.

I donated a load of computer parts to my old workmate, who butchered them for working parts, and recycled the rest. Have Freecycled one as well.

I’m still working on mine…

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