I too am reading with interest, having had disastrous problems with Havens and needing a new rear wheel. The 2012 Crossmax SX looks great but I’m really put off by the stupid hub preload system.

Currently thinking of a Stan’s Flow rim with a DT Swiss 440 hub, not the lightest but should be durable. Any thoughts?

Usually get a card from either of the two vets we use when one of the carpet sharks has been put to sleep, it’s a nice touch.

Stripped thread on a motorcycle caliper after a torque wrench didn’t click, threw hammer through wooden garden chair and damaged it so lost the plot completely and beat the chair to splinters, a full on mantrum (like a tantrum but with a more expensive outcome). :x

Sharks, would’nt trust them an inch, Mrs Ming signed up to them a few years ago for a new mobile and they conned/tricked her into signing a landline agreement as well. Trouble for them was that I pay BT for our landline, so reported them to BT and OFCOM, BT said it was not the first time they had heard of this scam.

Attitude back in the shop was “well you signed up”.

*unts, wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire.

Hope it’s not the same frame design as the current MotoGP bike. Still, if it is, it’ll give all the track day Fogarty wannabe’s a get out after they lose the front end out of their own ineptitude. :D

I’d rather have an NSR-500V, now that was the ultimate twin.

Will do, thanks

Booked in as “urgent” for mid december so not too bad. Told graft would be from radius as well. Yep SE.

Not healing now; bone graft and pin/screw to be fitted. Looks like I’m out of commission for the foreseeable. :(

ohh I did, but fear not, the plan is to use the work industrial x-ray machine and a dremel to insert the herbert screw and my two piece scaphoid will be as good as new!

One of these:

Not had a very good experience with Bennets and felt ripped off at the end of it all so I would avoid them at all costs.

Singletrack = speederbikes from Return of the Jedi.

Puddles, the bigger the better, even more fun if you hang back from the pack and scream “PUDDLE” as you ride into it flat out, timing your plunge so that a lady victim is next to the puddle.

Mussels, never again, last time I was so ill from both ends that I can feel the bile rising just looking at the photo’s.

No safety rope because he’s an idiot. Yes safety gear slows you down but at least you have a fighting chance of self recovery in a fall.

Barrel, fish, gun

Got a GF2 and it seems to do OK.

radioactive, very radioactive after the Germans and Yanks fought a limited Nuclear conflict over Europe. Assuming the yanks could buy time with the horrific logistics faced by Germany invading from across the Atlantic. I doubt that their rocketry would have come on far enough for ICBM’s by the time the B29’s were built.

An interesting idea of what if…….

@ Muke, hope they do that, maybe with the mileage expired engines so they can wind them up to 11 (if any are left).

and my Gixer may becoming out in sympathy

Not me but a mate let a couple of cans of condensed milk boil dry whilst trying to make banoffee pie. The ensuing carnage looked like Freddy Krugger had run riot at a party, it looked like dried blood on every surface, wall, ceiling and light fitting, including huge dents in the extractor where the cans had exploded.

Ellipse, a maintenance management database/tool, truly clunky shite, not helped by the complete idiots that try and manage the beast that it has become. It has truly become the tail that wags the dog in my industry.

ohh and it struggles to run on windows so how it’s supposed to work on an iPad/phone as an App I don’t know.

CSR maintenance tech aka minion aspiring to be a lackey

Don’t let messy things like facts get in the way of a good story.

We get a male and female visit our garden, normally the only evidence is a pile of feathers but I have seen the male take a sparrow down, very impressive.

Black Rock Beach near Bude, with Duckpool and Northcott and Sandymouth within 20mins drive.

Dog friendly cottages

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It’s gonna be hard for the racers at Valencia……

I could never make up my mind whether he was a bit OTT or just learning how not to crash but no others racers death has affectted me this much.

Excellent piece by Moody

RIP Marco

Wedge, thin end of.

Only a report,

We’ll only sack useless staff,

or he one’s who make trouble about Health and Safety,

or the people who’s face does not fit,

or one’s that didn’t get a degree

or one’s that don’t have connected parents or go to the right school or be members of the appropriate club………….

Mind you before this gets enacted it’ll be financial meltdown, better start buying the bottled water and cross bows now……….

Sitting here typing this I have our rescue ferret (Little Q aka Hissamina) glaring at me from the depths of the shoe rack alternatively hissing and dooking as she cannot make up her mind whether I’m a threat or too be played with. :D

Got Chewie as a pup, he’s great, intelligent, loyal, well behaved, good for 15-20 miles offroad with bursts up to 35mph, an absolute scream racing him on singletrack. So lots of riding and long walks.

You do have to put in a lot of work to get the obediance but it pays off in the end. You must be pack leader at all times.

Took a while to get his food right, Royal Canin Sensible, otherwise it’s funny poo’s and pub emptying farts.

We have a dog walking service who walks him in the morning and a neighbour who comes in to check on him in the afternoons before we get home from work.

He’s a great people dog, lives with 18 ferrets who play with him (just keep an eye on him incase the ferrets get a bit excitable and try and over clean his ears).

Downsides are he’s a bit jumpy uppy still (working on that) and is a bit grumpy with other dogs occasionally, especially small angry ones that want to kick off (again working on the “walk away”).

Now a headline on the BBC sport page,

RIP Marco

Ours is set to 22 (I set it to 18-19 but Mrs Ming puts it back up again). Oh and I’ve been told our wood burner apparently requires testing tonight so the house will be at 30C pretty soon.

As I’ve chronic IBS my arse resembles one that’s been for a long weekend in Brighton on Rhohypnol, so it’s nothing unusual for a bit of the red stuff due to a split, overworked arse. However that’s me and it’s had more imaging gear up it than the Hubble telescope so I don’t worry too much at the sight of blood.

But if it’s new to you then back to the quacks for further checks, could be a fissure, could be a pile but it could be something else. Get it checked, keep a note of your bowel habit (changes in regularity, consistency, smell etc) be persistant, don’t take No for an answer.

On the funny colour note I had a rather large blue cocktail in the Yellow submarine cocktail bar in Las Vegas (Mrs Ming was in attendance before anyone sniggers at the back). My poo was bright blue for 3 days after that, God knows what food colouring they put in it ………

As above, also check for loose suspension linkages if it’s a full susser.

Ran over a badger once, that nearly ended in tears.

Rescued a ferret in the middle of nowhere, picked her up and she spent the rest of the ride asleep in my camelbak. Empress Hera as she is now known, owns the house and has a harem of 5 hobbs to fuss over, clean and organise!

It’s not the glue factory, it’s the Cloaked skeletal figure standing behind me in my mirror reflection that scares the willies out of me; keeps tapping the hour glass he’s holding and there’s more sand in the bottom than the top!

Yep, mother’s genetic payback kicked in at 40 and I inherited sleepless nights, no matter how much excercise I do or if I take a nytol or sominex. A re-org at work is not helping either.

I also notice that crash recovery takes a lot longer these days.

@rse, good luck finding another job, I have a feeling I could be on joblesstrackworld in 6 months after “devolution”.

I don’t have the best knee’s and when on the ss I feel them beginning to push back I get off and push (as fast as I can), no problems if I remember to do that.