for AlasdairMc

A big but beautiful Scottish hill

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Fin[/url] by mrmichaelwright[/url], on Flickr

A mountain (Col de Palheres, 15km, 1000m vert)

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P1000745[/url] by mrmichaelwright[/url], on Flickr

yes, i’ve ridden it on a loaded tourer

it’s a cracking challenge but in no way does it’s 5 mile length compare with the severity of the big mountain climbs in the alps and pyrinees, some of which i have also ridden

short but steep i’d imagine in the chilts

there are no climbs in the uk that compare with continental style categorized climbs for length but there are some pretty steep ones

maybe MrNutt is on a one man crusade to resurrect tumble weed threads to make the OPs feel, well, less lonely?

i’d go for out and back

long myre is so named for a reason

thanks Jon, i’ll have a look

how’s tricks?

we had a 1.7 di (pre-dated the CDTi engines)

was great

4 bikes and camping stuff in the back no probs

will take a DH bike stood up with just the front wheel removed

drove it all over the place including northern scotland

it was rattly, noisy and draughty but we loved it

it had loads of cool and rare stickers too which we sold with it :cry:

damn

there’s no way i’m putting away the ceremonial bombers without owning someone.

alternative candidates please.

chalky – Tim at forkenglish

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fork-english-details

top service

RIP Harley the super dog

Great read, looking forward to the next instalment

Jedi – you rode bikes in canada? i thought you just got wasted 8O

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you said a bad swear

all outside the first year of warranty that was included

it’s like any form of insurance, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose

got one on our 3 year old (when we bought it) golf.

So far it has covered about £1000 of repairs and cost us £340 so it’s worked for us.

Check and check again what it covers and what it excludes. I’m always prepeared to phone the warranty company direct if they refuse a payment to check it’s not the garage being dumb (and they often are)

recently for instance they wouldn’t pay out for a couple of oil seals, the garage told me this was because they were ‘minor parts’. This turned out to be utter tosh, it states in the customer booklet that external oil seals are not covered, i was happier with that explanation.

:cry: <- that’s what those mudguards make me do

giggedy

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some nice looking bikes on here, and some awful ones (clubber i’m looking at you AGAIN)

Mine looked better with the old wheels but they died a death:

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think i’ll put a proper stem and seatpost on it this year, i rarely ride it but it’s still my favourite and the one i spend the most money on (those pace forks need servicing every 2 mins)

It will be buried with me

thought about going to a manics gig just to see them last year

couldn’t risk getting that close to hearing the manics though

me too

Can’t make any of the dates on this tour which is dull

haven’t got new album yet

Intense Edge Lite DC

THE peaks tyre

i ordered one just to get my name on one whilst looking at one on the classifieds, went for the one off here in the end and cancelled the order, they really are a bargain and the guy’s in the warehouse over there seemed adamant that they would ship with shock in three weeks

mrmichaelwright that looks steeeep!

it was indeed, the top part is overhanging

despite making the roll down and managing to make the almost 90 degree transition my ride out was somewhat ungraceful

i’d like to see him climb that hill in a single camera shot……

could just get a proper dinner plate rotor but i’m not confident that a 220mm rotor would last that long and the forks are only rated to 210

sorry – edited post to reflect my stupidity before you replied

8O

that’s about £900 shipped and taxed

if you are biking it then it costs very little as bikes are free.

We did Kennacraig-Islay-Jura-Colonsay-Oban-Mull-Ardnamurchan as part of a longer tour and there was one ticket that did the first few journeys and another for the rest, they gave us excellent advice as to which ticket to buy at Kennacraig.

The wife tours up there quite a lot and has been to most of the islands by bike. Sky isn’t particularly good as a [road] cycling destination as there are only really 2 roads and they get pretty busy whereas Mull oddly enough seems to be quieter.

The western isles are stunning for cycling

SYHA hostels generally very good and there’s also http://www.hostel-scotland.co.uk/ and various black houses to choose from

ditch the car and do it by bike.

what am i saying.

the islands and scotland as a whole are rubbish, boring, flat and unwelcoming.

don’t bother.

if you do decide to spoil it for the rest of us brve it then be aware that if by ruffing it you mean camping then don’t bother, the midgies on the islands really are a serious consideration not just a passing nuisance.

crc sold out of mediums before i plucked up the courage.

i’m not a big one on bothering with lots of test rides and having owned a few different suspension systems i’m pretty convinced if the geometry suits me then i’ll get used to the suspension so i was happy to buy before ride as it were.

now looking at a titus on the classifieds

Lightroom user here

it does 99% of what i need it to do on small numbers of photos and will handle batch operatiions/large export (including rename/size/sharpen etc) when i need it very easily.

NX2 supposedly does a better job of High ISO noise reduction but then there are bits of software specifically for this that are far better.

Lightroom has a lot of support material and loads of user submitted process presets and lens calibrations.

I’d do what Three Fish suggests above and try the three of them first.

SFB off’ve here extols the virtues of another package (darkroom or dbx or something)

:WAVES:

hello flange

looking at similar spec bikes myself after the SX went the way of the tax bill.

Thought i’d plumped for the Tomac Vanish until i spotted something in the classifieds that caught my eye.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=46084

It appealed to me as i’m not really a fan of all these bendy tubed frames you get nowadays.

plus it’s a Tomac. :LEGEND:

It’d look well mean leaning up against the bench outside MaccyDs in MK as well

hows you and the family?

still got a spine made of liquorice boot laces?

parts are in at my local little spare parts shop (gotta love that they still exist) so i’ll know in an hour or two

You have no idea what you are missing

having been carted around on and off road in all weathers since i was a baby in every kind of landrover short of a forward control I know exactly what i’m missing.

For the last 3 years the only vehicle able to get to my parents house for at least 2 weeks of the year has been a landy so i’m fully aware of the need for them. It’s just that after the half mile track i far prefer to get into my car :D

less than hers

:FACT:

You should see me waving the tow rope out the window as I drive straight past.

I like to wave my comfortable, air conditioned, nicely music listened, not deaf, 600 miles a tank, oil retaining arse out of the window as i pass landrovers on the roads of britain on the 363 (average) days a year they are perfectly passable to a normal car. :P

yeah, that’s what i had to do when the washing machine gave up 12 hours before i had to fly out of the country for 2 weeks with no clean clothes

Dunc – parts have been £80, time i have a lot of.

Compare that to the call out cost for a white goods repair man (about £80+labour+parts) or a new dishwasher (£450)

I did the same for our washing machine, total parts cost was £11 having been told by a repair man that it was irreparable and just to replace it. IT did a further 4 years service after i fixed it

do you take your bike to the shop every time it needs repairing?

3D was the ONLY reason I didn’t walk out half way through Avatar

Had it been in 2D I’d have walked out when the love theme started and i expected an iceberg to appear through the screen

I see…. 44sec

Near far…. 56 sec

I could forgive the childishly simple plot ripped off for every other film about an indigenous population in trouble but for that much money he could at least have commissioned some new music

not now sky have got behind it for broadcast it wont

pypdjl – at the time you needed a stupid stereo audio system though……

Ashley – Holographic TV is probably a fair way off yet

i think the problem is that it’s still a relatively new technique and directors/animators/DOPs are yet to really learn how to use it

Tron 3D was pretty good as the extra dimension was used almost exclusively behind the field of the screen (ie nothing coming out of the screen towards you)

this makes for a far more comfortable and enjoyable viewing experience

Having watched Piranha on my laptop screen it’s obvious that certain scenes have been created purely to gross people out in 3D (throwing up over the audience for instance) and that’s evident despite the 2D rendering i viewed.

I’m sure people said the same thing about stereo audio when it started to become common place after the Beatle began to champion it. If you listen to early stereo recording there is a fairly brutal and naive amount of panning going on, it’s not until engineers and producers got used to it that it became more than a ‘special’ effect in recordings.

I’m happy to give 3D a chance to mature before condemning it, if used correctly it has the chance (on the big screen at least) of enhancing the overall experience