Talent Compensator – Wildrnes

Danke!

I really lose the motivation to clean and lube my bike after an evening / night ride, but this morn got the bike out and chain was covered in rust from thusdays ride.

Spent most of the afternoon getting chain off, cleaning it, losing powerlink,having to buy another powerlink, and putting it back on 😆

Must clean bike more 🙁

seconded openDNS, I’m with Orange and saw no down time recently, this must be the reason.

Careful now!

For photoshop on XP you really want 2GB, certainly no less than 1GB.

For vista, you probably need 3.

Bah, darn companies sizing for normal people! If meds give the 32 waist, they will fit nicely. but won’t be near by 6ft 3 knees 🙁

Welcome to the world of cheese flavoured Hope bolts 🙄

Second hand bike, someone had got there first with mine. I used a hacksaw to saw a slot for flat screwdriver, worked a treat. Buy some new bolts tho, possibly not Hope ones if you can source them, even the slots turn to gooey, soft cheese pretty quickly!

i hear a dremel doers a better job than a hacksaw if you’ve got one…

Accidentally turned the conpression all the way off? If you have, lockout won’t do jack – at least not on my revs…

Thought they might have suffered another DDoS attack, but it loaded in the end.

O well, I spose it means I waste less time here 🙄

I used to do that horse mounting type, but then I heard it causes a lot of lateral stress on the rims. Now I have a full susser I just plonk my arse on and it sags enough to hit the pedals easily. 🙂

No having the seat up pushes your postition forward, whereas down pushes it backward. That’s why dhers have very low seatposts and high front ends.

perhaps some of us on here need to recognise that people use bikes for more than just mountainbiking.

NEVER! 👿

Use firefox, use adblockplus. You can simply disbale it and enable to visit pages that are more / less annoying.

http://adblockplus.org/en/

When I was in the US in the summer in a sports shop I saw some Slime pre-glued patches for about a quid or something, thought I’d give them a try, and seem great so far.

I could never get the hang of patching tho tbh – I think I’m too impatient with the glue drying – once spent about an hour trying to patch and innertube and eventually gave up and walked it home. Now I carry a spare inner 🙄

My favourite TV program. I don’t watch TV much at all, but peep show is quality. Just everything that happens is funny, becuase it’s true!

Theme tune after series 1 is much better tho, and nice that they still use the original for the scene cuts.

This the same charge bikes I know? That sell the ridiculously cheap and good saddle?

They always seem much unlike these brands like Howies to me, but what BS they are!

Ordered some SPD shoes a few weeks back and they took I think 3 days after ordering to arrive, and rotherham branch served me.

Would you?

😆

On my five they only claim "hand welded in Halifax, England", so not entirely made here, but as close as it gets…

*strokes five*…
*sighs*…

🙂

I second CCleaner, awsome little program, also makes stopping those startup programs a lot easier to do than in msconfig!

Virtual memory is RAM, not your hard drive space, so deleting files won’t help it.

To augment the proper RAM in your computer, Windows also sets aside a portion of the hard drive to act as RAM (paging file). Of course this is much slower than actual RAM, but necessary.

So to increase your "virtual memory", either buy more RAM and install it into the computer, increase your paging file as detailed above, or:
press windows key+r
-> type in msconfig into "run" box
-> go to the "startup" tab
-> Anything that your not sure why it’s there, give the process name a Google and disable it if you don’t see anything saying it’s essential.

This will mean less programs are running all the time in the background, they all use up virtual memory.

Generally, you want your paging file to be 2/3 of the amount of proper RAM in your system, but if that’s too little, just increase until it isn’t

Yeh I remember you. You were in a group as me and mate came up the hill that goes next to the black run. Then I saw you again at the top of the hill where you can go down the paved cycle path 🙂

That top does nothing for your figure btw 😛

Snaps, i went up to Haldon today too – on an Orange 5.

Actually that reminds me, I had my first clipless *can’t clip out and fall over* fall there too 🙄

o_O

:lol:! Above makes me think we need an "applying bike terms to human body" thread 😆

If they did the reduced rate thing, people living closer to the exchange would feel cheated, because they’d have to pay more whether they want it or not, and because so few are actually close enough to get the top advertised speed ISPs would either have to increase prices or go bust!

The real fault lies with BT. If they were prepared to invest in our cabling, we could have broadband like those in Scandinavia, where less than 100mbps is a joke…

That Monday movie is really good! A bit too much trials and tricks stuff for me – not enough of the "proper" mountain biking, but really well shot and edited.

Personally I prefer ROAM to Seasons, there seems to be more riding, less chatting.

Maybe he just saw this bike outside someone’s house, took some pics, noticed how much tread was left on the wheels, then listed it to try and make a quick buck?

He’s still waiting for those WMDs to show up 😆

Keep driving might be OK if you doubt they are police, but if they are chasing you through the underground and pull out handguns you better stop! 🙄

Newton Abbot, Devon here – stepped outside this morn expecting the usual biting cold and it felt like summer! By the end of my ride I realised I was vastly overdressed and sweating loads. Long live the heat I say!

RS Revelations.

New ones are 140mm and can still be had QR so no need for hub change, but RS have just hiked prices 30% 😯

I’ve just bought some ’08 ones (130mm) off the classifieds here for £160 for my Orange 5 – they should arrive tomorrow, so tomorrow eve I’ll be able to advise you better. From what I’ve read (a fair bit about 130/140mm travel forks) revs seem to come out on top.

Review

A review on CRC says avids are 1.7mm and hopes 1.8mm, so it looks like I could use avids.

Thanks for above advice

Ah yes interesting, but then there’s the energy spent by the body keeping warm when it’s colder…

😕

Currently happen to be doing A-Level physics, so I’ll have a go.

Your physics teacher is right – change in energy for moving something up or down is mass x 9.81 x height, so nothing about time.

However, that is too overly simplified for the human body. Your muscles are going to use more energy holding the bag of sugar for an hour whilst raising it 1m than they would in raising it in 10seconds.

I’d say you’d use more calories because you would be fighting to controll the bike more, and tensing / untensing muscles more.

Overall, not really related to time, just how much work your bodies muscles are doing.

£30k on an extension? No if you want a knighthood you gotta loan that to the Labour party 🙄

^ Damn straight! Now bogged down with revision I should’ve done over Christmas instead of riding.

Not the sweetest, it’s still a work in progress, but I love it 🙂

EDIT: hmm picasa web albums is breaking for me at the moment 🙁 try this

I considered the exact same question a couple of months ago, and decided on the former course of action. I could rustle together about £700, for which I could get a cracking hardtail, or scour ebay for the Orange 5 of my dreams.

I got an Orange 5 for £680 delivered, and I must admit it has been a lot, lot more work than just buying a new bike. However, I’ve learnt so much about my bike that I now feel really confident about servicing and maintaining it, and I feel so much more enamoured to this bike I’ve really had to work for, and on, than one I just buy and ride, and when it’s due for its service by the LBS a few months down the line they tell me how I’ve been riding with the headset loose and ruined it…

Rear brake still doesn’t work, and fitting clipless pedal this afternoon, well… I still cant get the non-drive side flattie off so I’ve got one clipless one flattie 😆

Can’t beat it tho, love ma bike to bits!

If I were to do it again, now I’d buy a frame off these classifieds and buy bits from CRC or the classifieds and make a real bike of my dreams. I certainly didn’t feel confident enough to do that two months ago!

Size 47s arrived today and are a great fit. Had thin socks on when trying them and there was a little bit of slip, but I think 46s would’ve been to tight.

Thanks for all the advice guys!