Pre-emptive pic heavy apology (but I don’t really care 😉 )

4 weeks

About 10 weeks

6 Months

10 months

20 Months (sept 2012)

Leonard

irelanst – Member

…..You started and finished at the same point, how much difference were you expecting?

😆

Usually the case for me, I’m going too slow to bump front wheel over root due to having picked a crappy line – or if I do, I end up with the rear just spinning on the slippery buggers. Weight transfer too far forwards I guess? Just feels a bit counter-intuitive to ‘lean-back’ whilst climbing.

EDIT: Still love the trail though – always ride it on the Sunday on the way home from a weekends riding

mrlebowski – Member
The climb is fun although a little trickier in the wet. Its well worth the effort!

Exactly this. Still not managed to clean this section, always end up picking wrong line/losing momentum etc. 😳

Thetford on Sat.

And then if I manage to get out on Sunday er…….Thetford.

Unfortunately I’ve had to deal with them twice – both times they have been fast and reliable.

As bike was stolen from garage both times they were covered by the house insurance (Nationwide I think) which didn’t have a limit.

Couldn’t fault wheelies at all. Other than it was a Trek – I’m in norfolk, Wheelies are in Wales so meant a long drive to pick up bike.

I appreciate this is actually Trek’s fault. 👿

PeterPoddy – Member
….I’m very well known on here….

Can’t help thinking of Ron Burgandy ‘I’m kind of a big deal!’ 😉

Usally there’s a digram with distances required between the side, back, top, front etc, on the instructions?

Formula for me. Heavy rider but great stopping power.

I’ve not had the faff factor some have had – but isn’t that the same for a products?

EDIT: as in ‘I’m a heavy rider but they still have great stopping power)

slowoldgit – Member
I have a 904. IIUR, it copes with both wood and coal smoke. I got a nice stainless label stuck to the wall by my fusebox telling me it’s a 904, ie it goes with the house. This might be important.

For flues, hearths, chimneys etc. a notice plate is provided, usual somewhere obvious, which specifies the performance of said items. If someone comes along and fits/replaces a combustion appliance the fitter knows what the existing arrangement can handle.

EDIT: sorry, not really answering the OP.

wolly – Member
Photo bucket?

S’what I use.

john_drummer – Member
Something with a good sized boot
that rules out the A4, BMW 3-series Touring and Volvo V50. Trust me, I know a big boot when I try

Exactly this, I’ve got a V50 and the boot’s not as big as you’d think.

Approved Document J

Just in case – Page 41

spooky_b329 – Member
I guess the chimney has been checked and you have a monoxide detector?

V Important – in the Building Regulations for solid fuel appliances.

EDIT: oops forgot silly comment er…….does it smell like something’s burning?

tracknicko – Member
thanks mrben. top response. just what i was looking for.

since they have wifi i might see if work will let me do some working from (not my) home and spend a longer weekend up there.

could do with getting out for a bit.

My OH is self employed and works from home, she had to work in the mornings during the week we had off. So took desktop, monitor etc hardwired into router and worked fine.

nbt – Member
On-one merinos are pretty good IME

Where I’ve bought from in the past – recently had a merino sale, might still be on.

JEngledow – Member

Check out those Spinones!

Any excuse to share some pics of George

Well if we’re doing none fire related spinone puppy pics…….. 😉

tracknicko – Member
/bit of a hijack

i’ve emailed the people who said their dog was in a north wales rented cottage!

looking for dog friendly/fireplaced cottages to rent in north wales for biking weekends!

please recommend if you can!

/end of a hijack

Have responded 🙂

I’m 32, the OH is 30, I just posed this question to her (as she deals with everything to do with the house) and the answer………..never!

Well that’s certainly something to look forward to! 🙁

geordiemick00 – Member
i’d study english before science, because it’s already being discussed

😆

EDIT: I’m always doing this!

Woody – Member
I have serious fireplace envy.

Does nearly everyone live on STW live in an idyllic cottage?

I wish we did live here, but was a cottage we rented by Coed Y Brennin for a week in september – any fire place I see now just doesn’t quite cut the mustard. I could stand up inside it and I’m 6’4″.

Managed to find one in front of a fireplace.

JEngledow – Member
..and another Spinone:

Ah yes, the Spinone does like a good profile shot.

EDIT: apologies for the lack of fireplaces with this one, however, in the background is a place with lots of fires……. 😉

Just about make out our fireplace in the background.

nah, too much risk ‘just in case’ he decides to bugger off. He’s quite selective when he is called back to the lead.

Exactly this with mine too 🙂

EDIT: thinking about it, only way I could guarantee he’d follow would be to strap a whole cooked chicken to my arse!

I find it amazing the dog was coping fine without the light to begin with

flatfish – Member
Saw this a year or so ago,

New to t’internet me 😉

So if conservation of energy………..

Helium at sea level is full of potential, balloon released and becomes utilised as kinetic as it rises transferring potential to the craft/diver. Diver jumps full of potential transferring back to kinetic as he plummets.

But on hitting the ground, now where is all the energy? Lost through heat into the atmosphere?

Insufficient ventilation can also be a contributing factor to codensation/mould growth.

For me I carry the Topeak Alien II.

Cost more than I wanted to pay – bit bulky but has done everything I needed and my mates are always borrowing it whilst out riding, even when they’ve brought their own kit!

footflaps – Member
Sure it’s really rising damp and not water ingress from leaking drain, gutter, shower tray etc?

This.

Best to make sure it is what you think it is before proceeding.

Used to have one and just ended up being something else to remember/consider using. (Also swung my leg over the saddle getting on the bike at the start of a ride and booted it clean off the bike braking the fixings. 😳 )

Now I just embrace the mud – my local trails are Thetford so just assume mud is default riding conditions anyway!

Cheers for sharing. Brought back some very recent memories.

Spent a week in wales right by CYB in mid september. At the end of the drive to the cottage was halfway round the Beast/Dragon’s Back.

Have to admit though, had to order a new pair of pants on the Cain and Abel sections of MBR – was soaking wet and slippery and was not expecting them at all.

My sympathies, as you say, after the initial shock you’ll (hopefully) just think of the good times.

I still miss the family dog we had growing up but remember her fondly.

glenh – Member
Are you sure there isn’t something wrong with the camera?

I do hope not – looking on forums etc, this isn’t an isolated case generally windows 7 appears to be crap for this kind of thing.

Just annoyed having spent decent money on a camera and computer that things don’t just work and I have to buy something else to workaround.

I should prob just add this to the first world problem thread I suppose. 😥

Was just trying to point out that not many people (outside of the industry) seem to know about permitted development – and get advised that this is the case by anyone.

I work in an Architects practice (though I’m not an Arch), and the rule of thumb appears to be: Planning granted = good planner, Planning refused = bad planner 😉

I can’t help but think that planning departments have been making money off planning applications for extensions that would have been allowed under permitted development anyway and not advising this is the case.

*So it only really appears to be an (ahem) extension of these existing rights.

More of a concern generally is that in alot of cases developers of sites usually have to give a proportion over to affordable housing – the new guidance I heard was that this would no longer be required if it wasn’t economically viable.

Can’t help but think that not many affordable based of developers calcs that the figures don’t stack up!

* I haven’t actually seen what the proposals are fully.

I still think of the family dog we had that died when I was 11 (32 in a couple of weeks) now and again.

It was the biggest consideration I had before we got our current dog – I advised the OH who had rabbits and small furry things growing up that she won’t have loved those anywhere near as she would a dog, and losing it would be devastating (in pet terms, obviously not people).

2 yrs on from having ours from a pup at 8 weeks and she fully admits she didn’t realise she would ‘love’ him so much.

Have had all manner of pets growing up and the companionship of a dog IMHO cannot be matched.