ohh that looks good.  Helmet has to stay on (like Dredd) and very few words.

Oh and his spaceship looks a bit like the one in Battle Beyond the Stars (showing my bloody age here)

Leatt pads. So far the only ones that don’t abrade the skin on my knees.

PTFE tape the valve so its a push fit through the hole.

Absolute shocker, should have started up north and worked down.  I hope those poor sods that have been blighted by this and the lousy prices offered for their homes sue the crap out of HS2 for the stress and angst they’ve put them through (and I’ve been a railwayman since 1992).

Romulan Ale in Vegas and some weird blue cocktail at the Yellow Submarine bar in Vegas, not sure which, but one of them had so much dye in it my poo turned bright blue for two days!

Is it a built in bottle opener?

Years ago I did some work at the Royal Mint, they were refining gold and casting gold bars, pallets and pallets of new gold bars.  They made sure we had a security guard with us at all times and we were not allowed to take any coins or jewellery in.  Tool boxes were searched as well.

Ask the Office of Road and Rail Regulation (ORRR).

I use Viking Tapes.  They do three metre rolls of the 3M stuff.

I enjoyed Sundiver, Startide Rising and the Uplift War.  A well crafted universe and I love the idea that when we get out there we find that the big boys are maniacal environmental zealots.

Larry Niven for more old school, RingWorld, an Inconstant Moon, Protector are all a good read. Mote in Gods Eye and The Gripping Hand as well.

+1 For Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat series (love his description of time travel).

Amtrak Wars by Patrick Tilley is a great read with unpleasant twists and turns.

Just read Neil Asher’s “The Soldier” and “The Warship”. Quite enjoyable space opera/sci-fi, not as good as The Reality Dysfunction or The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F Hamilton.

Sargasso of Space, Plague Ship and Post Marked the Stars by Andre Norton are good old school 50’s science fiction (no computers/good old fashioned blasters and the terror of deep space travel)

Topeak Joe Blow Booster, works very well.

Montgomery Wick of this here parish as done this around China and the UK , crazyguyonabike is his website I think and also he has a blog on Tumblr, Tracksterman

The Railway gets its feed from DNO “grid sites”. We star feed off these, with strategic gaps on our HV network to separate grid sites.  This stops us running them in parallel unless we are doing switching when we have to check for synchronicity and sometimes get permission to close our gap.  We then move our gap to another HV breaker on our network keeping parallel time to a minimum.  The Grid sites sync is important as if we get it wrong huge currents can flow causing all manner of tripping/outages and interviews without tea and biscuits.

Sitting at each of our subs stations on our HV network (33kv/22kv/11kv) are auxiliary transformers that supply signalling equipment, normally one on each side of the sub station HV feeders and some sites also have an area board feed as well as an emergency back up.

The problem occurs when we loose the grid site and all the signalling kit tries to switch to the local DNO and if that’s fed from the same grid site…….

The other problem we had was that the loss of the OHL 25Kv upset some off the new trains and a tech with a laptop had to go to each one to reset them!  Quite why this caused the above issue I don’t know

( I work in a third rail D.C. control , which has both an HV AC network and a D.C. network)

Crazy pricing and as Wills write up suggests it’s evolving a bit beyond the original Enduro’s classification.  Far to much bike for most of the UK. Says me with a 2015 Enduro😁.  It’s almost like the Stumpy has mutated into the Enduro’s role.

At those prices I’d be looking at a MegaTower.

Had mine out in my early 20’s.  My dentist at the time had looked at the X-rays and advised me that though they were stable and not moving, in my 60’s they might decide to make a painful appearance so advised me to get it done which I’m glad I did as it was very uncomfortable and not something I’d want to have done in my 60’s

I’ve done 4 frames now, well worth doing.  The only thing I will say is I put an additional layer of heavier duty 3M viking tape on the down tube of all my bikes to protect them from Sarf Downs flinty attacks.

Take your time, make sure the bike is spotlessly clean and thoroughly clean the room you’ll be doing it in to remove stray pet hairs!  Make sure the room is warm to hot and follow the instructions.

Chinese Armed Police are massing in Shenzhen and China TV has put out a video showing armoured cars and quoting when the Armed Police can be used….

https://t.co/OHRR3nrXkj

Should be a link on the BD website once they are uploaded.

Yes DrP that was me, I was blowing badly by that stage in the race, first time on SS in 6 months so by my 4th lap every time I tried to put the hammer down my thighs started cramping so all I could do when you passed me was give you a load of “thought abuse” 😂.

We finished 32 in male pairs which were chuffed with as it was my mates first race (and race crash) and my second ride on the Curtis SS! (and I turned 50 this year).

Great day, top marks to my teammate who binned it hard on lap 1 but still carried on for another 3 laps.  Thanks to the Marshalls for the motivational abuse, especially at the end of the first climb (I was the bloke pushing/jogging/finally staggering on the silver single speed rocking the 80’s racing pyjamas).

2.0mm rain in the last 24hrs in Eastbourne.

Some of my NR colleagues got ticketed in a station carpark (GTR administered by Indigo Parking).  Trains were at a stand due to a signalling failure, they arrived at the site to find the railway side of the car park gate full of 1T ballast bags and contractors so parked against the fence (both had signs in the windows stating they were “rapid response staff attending safety critical failure” and went into the relay room). They were not blocking anyone and the carpark had loads of spaces left.

One of then came out of the relay room for spares a few minutes later to find their branded vans being ticketed, he spoke to the Parking Taliban who said they hadn’t got a valid ticket so they were liable, it was pointed out that they were trying to get the trains running for the stations leaseholder but that held no water.

Note that GTR charge a huge amount of money for all stations parking passes and they are hard to get hold of.    Crazy system.

Always used to take the bike with me when I could as I only went to a few regular locations, so got to ride Cannock a lot and a Mam Tor/Jacobs Ladder route when I was at another site.

My last trip was 4 weeks in BasingGrad.  That was soul destroying.  Hotel was average, its gym cycle machines were awful and the food was naff.

Well my garden is still here despite sounding like it was going awol last night, hopefully no trees down in Stanmer.

Still says 48mph gusts for Stanmer on the BBC.  I’ll be slithering around on my new Curtis cursing my optimistic tyre choice.

It is not for the dropper, it is the Fork lockout.  Chain tension is fine with oval ring, just a bit floppy at its loosest point but chain stays on ok.  Yes EEwings cranks (I blame those on the LBS)

Black Alert!

You do realise there is the last bastion of the Third Reich on the Dark Side of the Moom?

Joseph Cavor got there first!

Beachy Head Birling Gap bit is footpath.  Though there are bridleways around the downs at that point and it can be cheekily ridden.  We do a cheeky night ride that takes in Beachy Head and the 7 Sisters and by Exceat your legs are FUBAR.

It splits at Alfriston, TR and head towards Litlington for the footpath which will end up at Cuckmere haven and the 7 sisters or TL and follow SDW Bridleway over Wendover hill

Ming coming!  Team of two, I’ll either be on the Curtis bling speed (if it’s ready) suffering from lack of fitness or the White Enduro struggling with draggy tyres😁. I will of course be wearing my Fox Racing pyjamas.

im going to really try and not break my wrist like I did at big dog 2 !

China will STOMP on the protesters soon.  It won’t be the white shirted goons we saw earlier this month beating on protesters with sticks it will be the military using tanks and guns.  The protesters are pushing too hard and China as Trimix stated earlier will not tolerate dissent in the masses for fear it will snowball into a wider revolt against the communist party.

Winnie the Pooh and the Communist Party won’t care about the whining from the West about casualties and in 10 years time the event will be washed from the Chinese memory like Tiananmen Square has been, or it will be used to accuse the West and Colonial troublemakers of stirring up anti Chinese rioters that needed putting down and help fan Chinese patriotism in preparation for the Pacific Expansion program.

A certain government owned transport network suffers the same issues.  £3000000 spent replacing standby batteries that had been installed but never put on float charge or the room aircon switched on, so they baked and froze for a couple of years before trying to be put into service.  I could go on but my urine starts boiling.

I think unless you ventilate well or insulate they suffer bad condensation issues but I’m sure someone will be along shortly to say how they got round this.

So is your bum like a Sarlaac pit now?

I’ve trashed 3 Maxxis tyres around Friston, HR2 where the knobbly bits fell off, and ardent sidewall removed by a flint and another sidewall puncture on a Minion SS (all were silkworm/Exo flavour).

That looks a tad moist, hope everyone’s OK.

Another vote for Almax.  I’ve a 3 which is just portable, a 4 and 5 which is frankly huge and looks like something you’d use to chain the Nimitz down with.

I was the first ever winner, a lovely set of 36’s.

Bontrager SE range have tough sidewalls, SE5 front and SE3 or 4 rear.  Michelin Enduros are also very tough and grippy (they survived a 5 day trip to Wales and me riding amazing hamfistedly at BPW)