Creak may be from the replaceable dropouts on the back of the swing arm, take them off, grease the mating surface and then do up the weird (very expensive) allen bolt and collar things using some thread lock.

Klytus I’m bored………………..

Destroyed a pair of Canfield Crampons in a few months, same problem, small bearings at edge of pedal just self destructed. Got a pair of old Crank Bros 50/50XX’s with a grease port and I get about 18 months-2 years out of a pair and half the price of the crampons.

It’s not new, I just polished it…….

And to further confuse matters I’m actually a qualified Technician Engineer according to my old apprenticeship paperwork.

4 pages and nobody’s mentioned the Stubb Gun from the Apocalypse War!!!!!!

Not hand held but hand played and my favorite:

The Pandemonium

Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Behave!

one point twentyone gigawatts!

We have them at work, awful things. The load space in the flatbed is a manual handling nightmare and the racking and extendy shelf thing they’ve fitted to get around this loses a large chunk of the load area. Ride is terrible on-road and our lot saw fit to get them with faux wheel drive tyres so they are absolutely shite in muddy fields.

The old landrovers were much better, if a bit more maintenance intensive.

Bontrager FR3 for dry to mixed conditions.

Seriously, mind the “Tree of Doom”. Otherwise, enjoy!

Tis nesting season so it’s a criminal offence to disturb nesting birds.

Try looking here

Loads all over the downs but trawl through and there are some in Eastbourne/Jevington/Filching.

I’m sure there’s a troll here somewhere……..

Over my rotting corpse.

Hospital, take a book and some patience. I’ve read some very nasty stories of spongers getting cuts and nearly dying from infection as they failed to get it treated promptly enough. At least you won’t get hit with a £15K medical bill using the NHS.

+1 Riding Giants
and
+1 Inside Mavericks (book); perhaps the most chilling, terrifying yet beautiful break I can think of, way beyond my league.

Iron Sky……..very B movie watchable.

Great film, very sad and poignant.

Try not to ride into any trees.

Top banana! Took me 14hrs 35 just to do it one way and I was broken for a month afterwards.

Fantastic device, very useful on the climbs.

Trek Remedy?

No picture of you riding on those highly polished slightly elliptical handrails. Poor Form! 😉

Laying my kitchen floor, it was the work of Sisyphus.

Sun’s over the yard arm…..

somewhere

I’m not criticising Stanmer, it’s a great little spot, tight, nadgery and a great fitness test. If I thought Mrs Ming would let me I’d be Big Dogging this year.

My accident was totally down to me, tired, end of a fast lap for me (would have been sub 40 without tree…..) and poor judgement/looking ahead.

Does it have a little coal powered remote?

Done the big Dog twice, first was in the wet a few years ago, that was challenging and last year the Stanmer Tree of Doom (c) got me and I was out of commission for 7 months.

It is very tight and twisty with lots of climbing. Narrower bars and looking ahead help!

Friston’s rubbish, no singletrack at all and really flat and boring.

A good, if painful test for a broken scaphoid is get the injured party to try unscrewing a camelbak with their duff hand. If screams occur then time to stop riding and get it x-rayed by somebody who knows what they are looking at or better still a scan.

For our muddy@rse club rides containing mild peril and danger we’ve had:

1 collar bone broken
1 dislocated shoulder
1 scaphoid broken (mine)
1 ripped face on barbed wire
1 destroyed elbow and arm bone assembly
several concussions from mild to severe
neck injuries

numerous cuts and abrasions

mild hurtee knees

and more than a few hangovers……..
oh hang on that’s post ride drinkies to blame.

Another vote for Almax, got a series III and IV for my bikes + ground anchors + assorted cable and stretchy locks for the ones in the shed. A noisey dog is also a good deterrent as well as living in waiting-for-god-cresent neighbourhood watch.

What DD said.

I won’t say what Mrs Ming has done, suffice to say it’ll be huffiness at dawn………….

Top marks too Cal, a new “alien” in the making?

Loving our plasma, another Panasonic.

Pedal as fast as possible staring at the spot of ground 6 inches ahead of the front wheel, at the point of corner entry wiggle bars randomly and see what happens. If the outcome is desirable i.e. you make it out of the corner pointing roughly where the exit is remember what you did for the next corner.

GF2 user here and very, very happy with it.

Dry to damp, Bontrager FR3, damp to wet Bontrager FR4

Got the XTR version on my Rocky, running a triple up front and not dropped a chain yet.