Bloody hell dude, I’ve never seen that before. Could have been really nasty. I got a bit distracted when I was stabbing the doll with the pin, missed the tyre and hit the bottom bracket. Sorry.

So, er, good ride then?

I hate you, you know that, don’t you?

Baaah, big jobs. I won’t be able to make tonight either, so won’t get to see Danny getting thrown OTBs 🙁

Danny – this lego ain’t going to build itself you know.

Will be good to have you back Bob

I’ll try to – I’m still waiting for permission as the gaffer wants to go running later and I’ve still got a metric ****-ton of work to do this afternoon.

Daveski – had the mech / stick disaster a few years ago too. It’s a ball ache innit

Nah, it didn’t ship with motors / controller but it did have instructions for adding a motor to the steering and one engine. I only had one lego motor so I had to keep reaching down and turning the steering wheel by hand.

It was completely awesome

I might be. Or I might not be. I dunno yet. But I will know. Later.

“Random mechanical” usually means some berk on a ridgid pinch flatting, or some numpty throwing his mech into his spokes 🙂

You’ll be fine as long as you don’t mind the very low quality conversation and poor company

Split races are fine on cartridge bearings. So are headset spacers 😉

Seriously tho, split the race or use a hammer & screwdriver. Just bodge it some how or hand over your Man Card.

As for getting some else to fit your star nut… You’ve let me down, you’ve let your family down, and you’ve let yourself down.

Wot he said. Never ever ever ever ever ever trust a trolley jack with your life.

Also most decent quality 2+tonne ones are incredibly heavy things (mine’s like 40 kilos or something silly), so if you’re lugging it around look for a light weight one.

Oh yeah, forgot about your new little OTB-mini-forks 🙂

Matt – will email some bad mobile phone pics of that hard tail, in case your mate’s interested

Another very entertaining ride and post-ride beer / rant. Thanks chaps 🙂

Bizarrely, my front tyre is still inflated despite the gopping great hole in it. I never *really* thought this silly Slime stuff would actually work – nice to be proved wrong.

Hope you got home in one piece in the dark Nathan

Don’t bash the valve with a metal hammer – if you’ve not get a rubber mallet get one first. The shaft is made of cheese.

Don’t leave the nut half on that valve shaft and bash that instead – the nut’s even softer and will distort, rendering it useless, before the internals free up

If it’s a HT2 BB, maybe it’s been assembled with the spacers on the wrong side? Should be 2 on the drive side, one on the NDS

Edit… doh, cartridge BB, guess you’re right about the spindle

I re-used them on mine. My memory’s a little fuzzy, but I think the entire world was destroyed

I ran that through Google Translate and it came up with:

“It might be raining, I do not want to get my shiny bike and trendy gear mucky. I am too soft to ride in the rain”.

Weird, huh?

😉

Just wait till tomorrow – you’ll see 🙂

Dude, if you’re late *one more time* I’m going to nut you

So who’s up for a muddy soaking tomorrow? I should be there’s no trouble at t’mill.

Hipster drink for ****, according to that BBC article

That’s the plan. Woodhouse Eaves village hall carparl, Ride-ready at 7pm. There’s another village hall a mile down the road at Woodhouse – that’s the wrong one. Make sure it’s Woodhouse Eaves 🙂

My experiences are similar. The Deore ones are completely hopeless, the SLX / XT ones last reasonably well

My missus had it really bad with monkey 1, and the fall out from it all on my own family has been really bad and is still bad – stupid ‘families at war’ Jeremy Kyle type nonsense. I ended up having to completely cut myself off from my family so had no support of any kind.

The usual practical stuff can help but ultimately the only thing that really helps is time. My missus was prescribed anti-depressants but they didn’t help much and she felt they made it all much much worse, and her being on them was my fault and my family’s fault. I guess it’s different for different folks, but taking them was a mistake for my missus.

There was no access to non-drug therapy at all where we live – 8 month+ waiting list. The GPs were quite dismissive – if the child is happy and not in danger they seemed satisfied, regardless of the state of mum. Obviously dad’s state is entirely irrelevant as far all the professionals (and everyone else) are concerned.

The whole experience was deeply rubbish and disappointing, it made me the foul mouthed objectionable misanthropic man I am today (sorry…).

Not sure what to suggest really. I had to ‘ride it out’ and it took a bit of a toll but 5 years and one more kid later stuff’s a bit more normal. Not entirely – there are still sleepless nights and minor breakdowns.

Just keep doing your best and remember that stuff will (eventually) get better

Nah, you have to hurt something otherwise it’s just a mishap. Was a timely lesson in “look where you want to go” and “don’t ride too close”.

Don’t worry about running out of awesome before the end. Happens to us all, but you did tire quite quick last night – you eating enough? Or maybe you’ve got a cold or ebola or small pox or something

Brill ride fellas, really enjoyed the change of scenery and change of pace. Glad none of the near-misses turned into anything more serious 🙂

Bet that’s a joyless shit-fest in the winter

Yeah, me too. It’s a 30 minute (ish) drive so there might be delays or retarded direction finding failures

I always poo before I get up

Ticknall gets my vote, think the usual blat around woodhouse is 15 or 20 miles so the distance is about right

Meh, the two magic phrases “no time wasters” and “no offers”, what better way to encourage people to buy. From someone else.

Got no pearls of wisdom, but does anyone else find the floaters give brilliant traction but rubbish lateral grip?

Sounds utterly brilliant Danny. Not jealous at all 🙂

My tubeless contis don’t lose air at all really (except for last night’s 2 inch long hole in the sidewall), so there’s definitely something not right.

Don’t go mad with the jizz – maybe lay the tyre on one side for a day, then flip it over so the jizz can plug the tiny holes

Meh, she doesn’t care if cyclists are run over and killed, I don’t care if she gets a load of abuse and sacked for being a retarded attention whore dick-splash with a flappy head and brain full of shit.

You don’t post this crap unless you think this crap, so as far as I’m concerned she deserves all the grief she gets. If she doesn’t really think this crap and is just posting for attention then she also deserves all the grief she gets.

Another smashing ride chaps, that was a good laugh. Good to see a couple of new (to me) faces too.

The damned fatty’s eaten its headset bottom bearing again, which is a bit of a pain.

I’ll join Danny in the eating of hat. I’ll even do it while mucking in with the digging / trail building. If I wasn’t such a coward I’d do some kind of forfeit, but no one wants to see me wielding a spade while wearing a dress

can’t make Friday fella – some of us have to work you know 🙂

Robertbooton – the plan is to be ready to ride at 7pm. Bring lights as we’ll be riding after sunset (or until Danny expires ;))

Any other takers then? Just me and robertbooton so far

Looks bloody fine to me, barely a scratch

Ruffride – I feel that pain, mine behave shockingly on Wednesday night as soon as they see my get my riding gear on. Not sure what to suggest – I just have to head out to the sounds of screaming and a very stressed missus.

We’re usually out and about for 2 – 3 hours, then a refreshing beverage down one of the local boozers. We’re not riding solidly for the entire time – lots of milling about, piss taking, mechanicals, and general ‘being rad’ as well as riding

I’ll be there 🙂