until fairly recently, most cows were closer to the size of Jon1973’s pet there

i’d beware of EMO cows

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TJ – that’s a coo not a cow

different kettle of fish

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volatile cows (bullocks etc) are rarely allowed to form horns as they tend to gore each other. If it’s got horns then it’s PROBABLY passive……probably

mrsmw is the same. i’m often sent ahead to clear the path. it’s good to have a certain respect for the danger they can present but i’m certainly not scared of them. ride at them shouting and whistling and they’ll soon move

or they’ll think you are giving them food and approach……

http://www.mountainbikecomponents.co.uk/result.asp?CategoryID=19&Name=BEARINGS+%28Pairs%29

BETD Goldtech enduro bearings, pressed into the FSA shells if they’ll fit. BETD will press them in for you if you send them the cups. Pretty sure i asked if they’d fit FSA cups and the answer was yes.

heated mirrors are brilliant especially on external walls. cost all of £20 and simply wire into the lighting circuit

Beauty and the Beast

Sram Issues Technical Bulletin Regarding Elixir Disc brake Issues

it’s a known issue

Avid’s ‘fix’ was the solid rotors.

I’ve just bought a pair cheap off’ve merlin and only found out about the issues after i’d got them :(

Apparently Avid have done a fair bit of research and have failed to make the issue replicate itself consistently, it happens on some bikes but not on others. it happens on some frames of the same type but not other identical ones 8O

real people see so few of the tickets it’s laughable.

they mostly go to sponsors.

That’s where I’m banking on getting mine from and is where mine for the Beijing track cycling and athletics came from.

It’s a real shame if you ask me but then like simon_g say someone has to pay for it.

slack head angle = more lean into corners = hooliganish fun

a little research has indicated that steinberg (makers of wavelab) are pretty poor at multithread implementation, it’s possibly using one core per audio channel (so two for stereo) which is at least better than audacity.

readyboost worked well on vista on my old machine with a 2GB SD card

I was expecting it to work on W7 with my 16GB PCcard but it don’t

bikechain – several people across the country have just done a sex wee in their pants.

I believe Mike has pondered this before

i should say that i have 150mm air forks which have the small bump sensitivity of a brick, this slightly slacker head angle and lack of fork preload will make it completely different to those with 140mm coil forks.

we have it in the hallway and kitchen (slate tiles)

it’s great, we have it on a few hours a day 7/365 at a warm to touch temperature to keep our tootsies warm whilst making our morning coffee. If we are feeling really indulgent then we bump it up a bit.

Bare in mind if you are tiling then you need to use far more expensive screed (silicon based i believe). It’s a synch to istall the electric stuff we have, just comes rolled up.

slight hijack but does windows 7 limit the amount one program can use processors?

I’ve just moved to this laptop from a Vista machine (single core) and when rendering some mp3 files yesterday i noticed processor usage (across all four cores) never got above 20%.

Can i boost the usage, I’d rather the files got done quicker at the loss of other processes, when rendering on macs all four cores zoom up to 100% and sit there.

Interestingly enough audacity used all four cores equally whereas wavelab (a more professional tool) used 2 processors a lot more. I won’t pretend to understand kernels etc so i might be talking gibberish

Didn’t know that SamB, useful to know thanks

Even 2GB might be a bit short

Sat here with just outlook ’10, firefox and a few background programs running I’m using 1.85GB

varies vastly on conditions, type of pads, riding style, what brakes etc.

They are worn beyond use when you suspect you won’t get one more ride out of them without losing all the braking material. OR when you hear the sound of metal on metal…..

don’t you need an awful lot of water/height to generate a meaningful amount of electricity?

I’d be interested to see how you get on, plenty of scope for small scale Hydro in places like the Peak District. I suspect if it was practical there’d be a bit more noise about it already?

There are also plenty of rules about disrupting the flow of an open water course.

don’t do cheeky in the Peaks

on W7 now from Vista and it’s an improvement. Seems stable although I do have a few issues woth it being slow to come out of ‘sleep’

some of the more direct lines down Cut Gate and the Beast mostly. You can cut out some of the Cut Gate hairpins with ‘Alpine’ style roll downs, nads on the nobbles kinda thing.

you can’t beat arguing with a wannabe copper in a security booth.

Alpine will be excellently suited to epic highland passes, the rocky ones that look like you could never ride down them, it is after all designed for riding steep rocky trails in the Alps. I’ve ridden a few things in the Peaks on the alpine that i’ve balked at on other bikes

I’ve never really hung about after the ride on a Thursday, if it involves BigJohn measuring other peoples tubes then I’m pretty glad of it.

if you are lucky they might turn up in time for next year’s race season

Didn’t think there’d be a lot of call for computer programmers there though

Telford is a big tech centre

do not, i repeat DO NOT live IN Telford though

I have a relatively short stem on mine, the shorter headtube on the MKII will help. I’ve got used to climbing on it, it’s not the easiest but travel adjust forks would help a lot (i don’t have them). On the other hand, once you are used to the slightly skittish steering on climbs and have masterd popping the front wheel up and over stuff it becomes a lot of fun. Now my bike of choice for riding in the peaks and lakes on rocky stuff

point it downhill however and everything just becomes a blur of speed and smiles

Kelly Brook in 3D you say…..books tickets…..

what too tall said

if you are going to use an axe and chainsaw like every real man should then you should be doing it semi naked and have hands like the very trees you are butchering

don’t encourage people to move to scotland, i want it pretty much empty when we get round to it

i didn’t clean the sprayer but picked it up over a year later and it still worked. It was so cheap i didn’t really think about it at the time.

We used Ronseal clear, it was only to prevent a reed panel fence rotting rather than to cover proper fence panels but it worked very well

we used a homebase own brand sprayer to do our fences, best to power wash the fences first to get the gunk/mould off

sheffield is cracking

one of the few cities you can live somewhere that you can ride from your front door and be in some of the country’s best riding in minutes

as far as I can tell

That, dear boy, speaks volumes of you

i just seem to shred overshoes off road, fine if you are a racing snake and never unclip/dab on rocks/walk around the cafe

105mm

original model, not sure if Mike change it on later frames, i remember talk of shortening head tubes when i rode the proto in the Alps