wife changed her CX tyres yesterday, in cold garage (was -7 overnight) and both tubes exploded as she inflated the new tyres.

proper catastrophic failure too, split all the way round the seam

Sorry Oxford dictionary uses both snowplough and snowplough. No distinction between British and North American. If you’re going to be pedantic please be correct.

:lol:

if i owned a pair of slippers that couldn’t be washed they’d be walking under their own power in a matter of weeks!

my how things have changed.

when i were a lad it was a torch under the duvet and a copy of my Mum’s Grattan catalogue underwear section.

Mind you had such fantastical gadgets been invented I’d have been screwed anyway as my parents house still to this day has neither broadband or a mobile signal.

i’ll see your sleeping bag and raise you a snuggie

definitely on this years christmas list

plastic/foam slip ons i got at a french spa for 4 euros

still going strong after 3 years, that’s longer then any other pair of slippers i’ve owned!

ring ouzel, has an abrupt ring around neck but not white all over

not sure, i’m no expert. Don’t some of the bigger birds get full plumage in their first breading season?

i reckon it’s most likely to be a juvenile passerine of some kind

surf matt – in my yoof i lived in the peak district. My old man had access to such toys as a Unimog with blade and snow blower, tracked vehicles, 8 wheeled vehicles and lots of landrovers and quad bikes.

They still have the Unimog i think but have sold the snow blower, they are crap in wet UK snow unless you have mega horsepower available to the front PTO.

They’ve given up trying to clear snow up to the house, just compacts to ice so they leave cars at the bottom and use a landy with full chains, even with that they were reliant on foot for over a week last winter and the cars didn’t make it up for the best part of 5 weeks

juvenile woodpecker?

went out on a snowclocross ride yesterday and seriously misjudged the protection of my extremities.

I’ve been cold before but never suffered from agonising pain in toes and fingers whilst warming up, screaming like a baby i was.

Assos winter plus socks are no defence against the wind it seems

Surf-Mat – Member

The trouble with real snow is that it gathers under the vehicles and ends up lifting the front end.

If you do have a lot of snow, get one of these…

your problem there is that even a landy isn’t heavy enough to provide anything like enough traction to push much snow. We used to use a Unimog with 2 tonnes of stone/salt in the back and chains and still run out of traction in 2ft+ snow.

Okenagan Valley in Canada, less pricey and more laid back than Vancouver and far enough east to make access to other parts of Canada more accessible. 6 hour drive to Van/Whistler/Rockies and not too far over the border into the US. Also has a great wine producing region.

Canada has more public holidays iirc but with riding/winter sports like that on your doorstep holidays become less of an issue.

If you are not looking to change career then Kingston in Ontario seems to be where all the prisons are.

7.5w

if pace fork oil was thicker it wouldn’t spend it’s entire life escaping from the forks in a desperate bid for freedom.

then they just wouldn’t be pace forks at all

rant over

want to buy some RC40s? they don’t leak….much

the confusion stems from the fact that Titanium is more expensive and must therefore be ‘better’

expensive things are always ‘better’

It’s what keeps mountain bike manufacturers in business

I’m pretty good at sitting awkwardly in a quiet corner trying not to catch anybody’s eye and avoiding conversation at all costs.

It’s a skill I’ve been honing since i could speak

thanks

still looking for help on this

jackass is utter tosh

Fubar[/url] on the other hand….

it’s the fil that just keeps givin’r

it’s on my birthday every year and i ALWAYS end up working

humph :(

what druidh said

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get ones with velvety ear muffs if you are going to use then on a turbo, sweat and shiny headphones is a pretty horrific combination

not really, i got all excited about half life then my brief foray into gaming was over

got Call of Duty 1-3 etc fairly cheap i think

get the Steam thingy and you can download lots of games (you have to pay mind)

all of half life series kept me quiet for a while

hmm, perhaps a little more cunning than i gave him credit for :lol:

mcmoonter –

pretty sure that won’t work, the cost of building a house has remained pretty static iirc, it’s the land to put it on that costs

here we go

Drac’s legendary ‘like he’s smuggling babies down his trousers’ calves

no wait that’s not right

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Drac on the left, Christa(?) formerly of Bike Verbier on the right. Glentress November 2003

I know for a fact there is an even better picture of Drac on one of my old laptops

have you experimented with different size inserts?

adam porter and beagle boy tied for least views so far :lol:

i think the VW incarnation (Transporter) is generally considered to be better value and have better running gear and engine

aha yes, nickc has it. i believe i hosted the ‘rogues gallery’ for a while. Pretty sure Bez took it over

it costs a fortune?

intense system 4 maybe, they seem to roll quite well

think i’ve still got the mini Vs that came on my tricross if you want them. I’m out of the country for the next week though

mrmichaelwright@hotmail.com

sheep? stupid?

never

an experienced tourist baiting sheep can hear a packet of crisps open at half a mile

there are no trails at cannock

move along

cow tse tung :lol: