Rumbelows and the shop I can’t remember the name of on Underbank in Stockport and the record stall in the Manchester underground market. I only ever bought Northern Soul records.

If you read the reviews, one person resolved the ‘flickering light over bumps’ and ‘red light indicator coming on immediately after full charge’ with a 5 pence piece.
It would appear that the battery spring isn’t very strong and a 5p bridges the gap which solves the above issues.

Due to ill health, I’ve barely ridden a bike apart from to work and back for the last 18 months. I live on the edge of the Peak District. I have an almost brand new, upgraded carbon Scott Scale and an upgraded carbon Di2 Ultegra Focus Izalco Pro….. and no desire at all to ride them. I should have been riding part of Canada and the length of America this month…
Went out on Saturday morning, did 20 miles on the road and I was knackered and fed up.
Currently fighting the urge to whack them in the classifieds and call it a day on bike riding.
Although I really would like that Genesis Day One in the classifieds…

I’m only very jealous

Somebody else on here has got one just like that……. http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/new-road-bike-friday-custom-steel-content…..exactly the same actually…

This thread reminds me of the really odd person on here….can’t remember who it was…who confessed to regularly experiencing random sexual stimulations and erections….
It seemed like even the slightest of things would set him off. Weirdo!

They’re all over the shop….
http://www.manchesterbicycleclub.org and this weekend, one of the tattoo places in town are doing tattoos of them for £50 each with all funds going to one of the charities supporting the victims and families of the atrocity. My daughter thinks she’s having one. I’m giving the charity £50…she’s not having a tatttoo

I’ve just read on the internet “They shut the Arndale for 30 mins…. b4stards can’t even stop us Mancs from shopping!”
Love it!
Albert Square was a privilege. EDL morons not so but democracy prevails.
Looking forward to the Manchester Games this weekend. No surrender. We are not afraid. The city is ours.

Controlled explosion in Fallowfield has just been reported.

My daughter and some friends are making banners for this evenings vigil in Albert Square. 6:00pm in case anybody was wondering.

“Stay Strong r’ Kid”, “Stronger Manchester” and “The City Is Ours” (not affiliated to MCFC though). Lots of worker bee images as well.

Thoughts with those involved.

Thank you MCTD. I’ll go and have a look at those two websites. I naturally spin rather than grind and all of my rides involve steep hills where going up hill takes a grunt or two and going down hill involves a lot of freewheeling. On the flat at full effort I’m always switching about in the smallest two cogs on the cassette so smaller rings would be ideal for me while keeping nice, smooth steps In gear change.

A few years ago, before `Rapha made it a ‘thing’, I rode from London Velodrome to Manchester Velodrome in one day. The ace people on here, friends and colleagues donated in total £1500 to St Anns Hospice. I spiced it up with a raffle for everybody who donated getting tickets to win various things including a tv, a days Jedi UK Bike Skills coaching….. it was ace but I spammed the forum for months.
Some of the forum guys and even some guys from a bike shop in London did some miles with me.
My point is, it took a lot of effort and an enormous amount of generosity to raise £1500. I’m guessing you won’t be the only one trying to raise 100k?
Jon and a few friends from the bike shop in Hazel Grove did a ride from Poynton to Snowdon, up it, down it and home again in one go to raise some money. Maybe call in and have a chat with him to see how his fund raising went?
I’ll donate as soon as I can get off the phone and on to the Mac but i think you’ll need to publish your ‘challenge’ to get any real interest going.
How about a Two Towers ride? I’ve been thinking about it now that my Tour Divide ride is off. Blackpool to Paris and back in a week or something? I’m in if you are.

“I care enough about truth, beauty and love to want to record and present this to the world.”

Why didn’t you just tell them that at the start? They’d have probably given you a cuddle…..

It reads to me that you’ve got your head so far up your own ‘artistic’ arse, you’d have been safe from a face punch, anyway.

Bimbling about just up the road from me on the edge of the Dark Peak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d6NUG7_2P8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1IyAb3cqK8]
it was steeper and faster than it looks…the camera is rubbish…..honestly…

I’m having a great time on one of these, hooning around the Peak District. Priced matched to £999. https://www.evanscycles.com/scott-scale-735-2016-mountain-bike-EV253337
I’m *very* happy with my purchase.

Middlewood Way in Marple toward Macc. Pan flat, *all* off road, some nice views and a lovely playground at Bollington.
Rosie & Jim Cafe next to the canal at Higher Poynton.
Easy, free parking at the start and much closer to Manchester than Monsall Trail etc.
The Ladybower Loop has a couple of ascents that the youngsters might not like and the road isn’t closed mid week so it can get a few cars going both ways and I’d say “gently undulating” is stretching it…..more than a little.

The bolt heads are tiny. I don’t think there is a torx head small enough?

None of it is particularly out of the way. It’s not A6 in to Stockport straight but it’s a mountain bike ride. I took a new rider out last week and part way round he realised he was about 1 mile from his car in Marple. “Why are we going away from my car, it’s just down the road, might as well go that way”
It’s a bike ride, not a fastest way to get back. I use most if not all of the Marple to Stockport stuff up ^ there on my commute into Stockport or Manchester from near Hayfield every day. It meanders but it doesn’t go in the wrong direction.
The Reddish Vale Singletrack is just the other side of British Gas on New Bridge Lane. Nowhere near Werneth Low. In fact, reading back, If you take the road from Marple locks to Mill Lane and then Mill Lane to Stockport centre of Stockport Rd etc. you’ve actually gone past everything mentioned above.
Here’s a suggestion. If you find yourself in Marple at the end of the very boring Middlewood Way. Go straight down Dale Rd. Keep going as it becomes a broken, winding downhill road……right past the canoe place until you reach the end (farm house with holiday lodges). Keep right of the house wall, pop off the drain pipe onto the singleteack and keep on it (can’t do anything else) and you’ll arrive at the Sustains bridge / Chadkirk. MUCH more fun than Stockport Rd along Dan Bank. Just one way of getting down there…..

I’m still looking for an xs / 14″ mountain bike with 26″ wheels (or 27.5″ at a push ) for my wife.

Scally Alley aka Mill Lane aka Alan Newton Way? The Bredbury end obvs. not the blue rinse permanently indignant Marple end.

I’ve just looked at that route from shitDove Holes. It’s road all the way from the start to Old Dam Lane where it heads to Cavedale or Dirt Low Rake. Scenic country roads but often being chased down by quarry lorries. The Marple end of it is lazy. Goes right past all of the above.

“they jump lights” while conveniently forgetting the ‘Red Light + 2’ gamble that is becoming so common by people driving cars etc.

“Red means stop. It’s not a vague suggestion that you may want to consider slowing down.”
“Fork off you silly cant!”*
“Charming” accompanied by my best cheesy grin.

*not quite the correct spelling

“But the bit between Marple and Stockport is always very very boring though.
It’s really not. You need a local to show you the fun. Brabyns. Dale Rd. Chadkirk. Jesus Trail. Andy Nearly Died. Alptastic. Whoop. Pooh Sticks. Goyt Bank Footpath. Back Of The Running Track. Football Field Down And Up. Brinny Tunnel. Vale Singletrack. Tesco Singletrack.
The last three are not the greatest but by there. you’re within two miles of Stockport town centre and at the end, looking at the back of Asda in the town centre.
“Once you hit the dull climb out of Roman Lakes”
if you’re referring to Lakes Rd, I agree. But why are you going up Lakes Rd? Getting a Costa in Marple? Turn around and climb up and down toward Marple Bridge. Less than 100 yards on a very small road and you’re into Brabyns. You’re even riding past a very tough climb on your left if you do decide to go up Lakes Rd.
“Uninspiring and dull” You’re going straight past so much fun stuff and for roads: You can get from behind Asda in Stockport town centre to Fairholmes with a couple of 100 yard stretches at most of road. In fact, the road in Edale to the foot of Jagger’s is probably the longest bit.
That’s Pooh Sticks Jonny. Over the Goyt and climb right towards Woodlands Park. Stay behind Stockport Harrers Stadium at Woodbank and drop down back into the woods at the far, right end. You’ll come out on the edge of the football fields. Stay on the Singletrack and you’ll have a pretty challenging Singletrack climb to bring you out close to Stockport Museum at the top of Vernon Park.

An indirect route? It’s not a commute, it’s an enjoyable mountain bike ride :-)
I’m just in from work and my day off is isn’t a day off anymore but I’ll do some co-ordinates when I get chance for you. It doubles back on itself a few times to get some good trails in.
I’ll wave harder and shout louder next time I see you go past James.
My Shouty Dogs is just off Sitch Lane. Go up the PBW at the back of the houses. turn left at the top, go up Swallow House Lane and then right on there bridleway toward Howarth when it becomes Sitch Lane.
Zig and Zag (or Gaz and Giz – genius) is joined by Mellor Road. It’s just up the road from behind my house. I know where I mean……
When I say Dark Lane, I mean Mill Lane…. Pooh Sticks goes over the Goyt below Offerton High School….turn left off of dark lane Mill lane in between the horse fields…..

I’ll gt the map out later and email you some co-ordinates if that helps? I can even take a photo of the climb up the PBW behind the houses at Birch Vale as well as I have to ride down it to get home.

Could go through the village, on to Sett Valley Trail to the road crossing, turn right past Sett Valley Cafe and then right on the Pennine Bridleway at Birch Vale, climbing up behind the houses and then left and right to go through Shouty Dogs (even though there aren’t any dogs anymore) and down to Brook Bottom (Briargrove Rd) or cross over Chapel Rd and ride Chinley Churn to the quarry and then onto Sett Valley and PBW.

I’ve just ridden Shouty Dogs, Brook Bottom, Zag, Zig, Mellor T (no longer a cross), Linnet Clough, Back of the School, Chadkirk, Dark Lane, Pooh Sticks Bridge, Woodbank Park, Stockport and in to work. It’s pretty dry out there but my toes are freezing.
The wild flower seeds we planted on Zag are coming along nicely as well.

Hopefully somebody will have a link to a map or GPX for you. It’s really easy to follow once you know it, if that makes sense. Odd little lanes that look like nothing much are actually what the American’s would call ‘trail heads’. Even with a map, it wouldn’t take much faff as once you get to the turns, it’s really obvious where you’re going next.
A very nice ride. Dark Peak at its best and the best of Peak District Light to finish off.

Hope, Roman Rd, Jaggers Clough, Hollins Cross, Mam Tor, Rushup Edge, Roych Clough, South Head, Hayfield, Pennine Bridleway, Shouty Dogs, Brook Bottom, Zag, Zig, Mellor T (no longer a cross), Linnet Clough, Back of the School, Chadkirk, Dark Lane, Pooh Sticks Bridge, Woodbank Park, Stockport.
Even with the ‘local’ names, you should be able to plot that easily on a map. It’s pretty obvious.
You could stick on Bamford or Hathersage and follow a few routes to get you into Hope.
Easy is subjective but no, I doubt anybody would say it’s easy.
I’m off tomorrow and I have a new mountain bike. I think you’ve inspired me. Thank you.

seems legit

if the budget is £800’ish, the B’Twin bikes around £700 to £1000 look excellent for the money. https://www.btwin.com/en/13-vtt-cross-country

*Euston to Macclesfield is 2 hours. Easy and pleasant ride to Macc. Forest. Very nice part of the world. Campsites are not plenty but some nearby. Slightly hard(er) ride to Cat and Fiddle with a mostly freewheel into Buxton and lots more camping options. Also a very nice place to spend some time. Both on the edge of but not actually IN the Peak District.

or

London to Sheffield and then ride out to Peaks or get the Sheffield to Manchester train with stops IN the Peak District at any of Grindleford, Hathersage, Bamford, Hope, Edale (or again just outside the Peak), Chinley or New Mills. LOTS of camping options. In fact there is a nice campsite 200 yards down the road from me and lots of lovely Peak bike riding, walking, pub options here (alight at New Mills Central- the stop after Chinley) and cycle down the road a bit. Hayfield is just a bit further up the very flat Sett Valley Trail as well. Chuck me an email if you think this might fit the bill and you’d like some more info**

*not South London though.
** I do not work for the High Peak Tourist Board

I lent my tandem out to somebody who made contact through this forum a number of years ago. I hope he’s still enjoying it although he seems to have become confused with “loan” and ‘yours to keep”.
I suppose it’s technically stolen but I have to take some responsibility for the loss, I suppose. Random act of kindness and trust in a stranger and all that.
Still, If I had a one bike leaning rack for a car tow ball, I’d have no hesitation in letting Mr EssexGrunt. take it.

I’d climb up the Pennine Bridleway from Birch Vale cafe (even though it’s on the same road as my house, I couldn’t tell you name of it), then around the bottom of Lantern Pike, across the Boggy Moor of Doom, up the pitched road and down past Robin Hood’s Picking Rods, left on the road and right at the pub that now isn’t a pub and past the house and through The Cow Abusers farm, left at Mellor Church and onto Shiloh Rd, turn right to Mellor Road, slight right at the junction and go past Helicopter House to Mellor T (no longer Mellor Cross), left up the bridleway or right down the hill and do some stuff round Mellor and Roman Lakes.

The bike shop at Manchester Velodrome is an Evans
The seller will be almost certainly ordering this through his employee account at trade.
This would be a ‘special purchase’ as it’s not a stock item for Evans. This is done through a specific person / department at Evans HQ. Pretty much out of the hands of the employee other than harrasing a colleague 200 miles away.
This would be why it’s taking longer than just ordering from Edinburgh Cyces etc. who have it in stock.
Armed with this information, I’d suggest to the seller that you both pay £12.50 each and get the freehub asap from EBC etc or just accept this as ‘one of those things..it’s a second hand bike’. If it were a cracked frame or something hugely expensive, I would not employ the same pragmatic attitude.
Seller appears to be a very decent chap.

My wife has just asked a friend who works for Shelter. The advice is: Original agreement stands as X and Y are legally bound tenants (assuming nothing has occurred to null and void the original agreement) and are subject to the content of that agreement. New person has no rights at all to be in the property unless X has signed a new tenancy agreement to allow new person to be there. Shelter person says X needs to contact letting agent immediately and preferably in person to ask for a copy of the current agreement which will either have

a) X and Y as tenants. In which case, new person needs hoofing out by the agents ASAP as he is there in breach of the tenancy. If the new person is there under these conditions (resident with the full knowledge of the agent without a signed agreement, counter signed by X), the agent are in breach of the contract and X can tell the agents that X is giving notice and vacating without further liability as the agent have breached the terms of the contract.

or

b) new person has signed a tenancy agreement allowing new person to be there despite the property already being let to X and Y which would make new person’s agreement nonsense and the agents are in deep pooh for allowing this to happen.
Shelter person says that if the agents have any idea that this situation has arisen without the signed agreement of both X and[ Y. the agents have acted illegally and Shelter would be very interested in hearing from X. In fact, Shelter person says X should contact Shelter first thing tomorrow morning and if before that time, new person makes any further acts on aggression, intimidation etc, X should call the police (which wouldn’t do X’s case any harm at all when talking to the agents and advising the Poice have had to be called.

My wife says if it was her property and she caught wind of this, she’d ask me to ring my brothers and go round to the house to assist new person in leaving and would be contacting Y very quickly to remind Y of Y’s continuing obligation with regard to the only valid and current contract (while checking with X that X was OK).
Shelter will help.
PS. Shelter person says, although it pains her to say it, new person has very little rights, if any, to be at the property.

My wife rents her property out and she says that as far as she is aware, the first tenancy agreement would be in place until the 12 months had expired unless she (my wife) tenant X, Tenant Y AND the new tenant were all in written agreement that the original tenancy was null and void and a brand new tenancy was drawn up for the two people who would be residing at the property.
She says that as far as she is aware, if this hasn’t happened, she’d be seeking to have the new tenant removed and tenant y would still be liable with tenant x under the original agreement.

I’ve narrowed it down to:
Scott Scale 950 2017 https://www.evanscycles.com/scott-scale-950-2017-mountain-bike-EV286098
and
Trek Superfly 6 2017 https://www.evanscycles.com/trek-superfly-6-2017-mountain-bike-EV286573
Any experiences, expectations, known issues or benefits of either over the other would be gratefully received.
My only definable issue at the moment is I’m not a huge fan of Sram components so the Trek is losing some ground.

Similar issue that my colleague had but his house is adjacent to the side entrance of a massive hospital complex which has a no smoking ban everywhere, including the car parks. Staff don’t even have a smoking shelter, apparently. The result is or was, that staff and visitors would stand outside my colleagues house smoking. Somebody stood outside all times of day and night. His house is a small terrace with a very small front garden. Probably 5 feet from the garden wall to his front door.
He dug up some concrete behind his low garden wall, planted some shrubs and and set up a sprinkler which went off randomly. People stood outside his house having a fag would get soaked. That seemed to do the trick until the council came round and told him he had to stop it.
Might be an idea for you to try?

Just not my kind of bike, I suppose. I hate over complicated things with cables all over the place. My saddle height is set and it stays there. I didn’t really use the 3 point adjustment on the Fox fork on my XTC. It was either locked out or it wasn’t. Fork lockout (non remote), 2.0 tyres, SLR saddle, flat and not too wide bar, 6 degree, 110mm’ish stem is more my kind of thing. I’m really drawn to the Felt, now I’ve seen it.