ok, i’ll pack em before i fit them and see how it goes. going to be a complete **** to fit as they are all doubled up :?

sadly at over £100 more for SKF etc they’d have to fail pretty quickly to be economical (my time is cheap)

one of the issues is that the bearings cannot be serviced in the frame as the seals are not accessible on most of the bearings

personally i’d be shy of buying a carbon frame with unknown warranty support

mind you at that price…….

custom valving (by Mojo) transformed my linkage activated single pivot Rocky Mountain

you can copy and paste the entire contents of the unit onto you hard drive as a backup then do a hard reset if you want (google garmin vulcan death grip)

they are cheap because titus went bust.

on-one now own the brand and have promised to do their best to honour pre buyout warranties but nothing is stone clad. i ordered a mega cheap el-guapo from the states but after adding shock and import duties i decided to go for a S/H uk one instead, my dealings with the titus staff in the US were excellent though

pimp tastic bikes though

yes, deletes all your history

what scruff said*

it’s not that bit that got me last week, the berms on the next section are getting comically loose in this dry weather, tried using my face a s a brake which worked to the extent in that it stopped me quite quickly but the loss of flesh to speed loss ratio makes it a one off manouver

*there’s a first time for everything

lol at big john, it’d be raining fire if someone tried that

Langdale or Wasdale National Trust sites, generally very good facilities but can get very busy so booking is advised.

they’ve recently had to put their prices up after a change in fire regulations (bigger gaps between tents=less bodies on the site) but that’s not really their fault.

yup, mine’s done the same on my last ride. i wonder if it’s an issue with the new firmware. it’s happened to me before as well. lost a few days riding then suddenly after a few months it all re-appeared. very strange.

drop Garmin support an email (make sure you get garmin europe not usa), they are very helpful

decent compact digital cameras have much the same recording quality as most consumer camcorders.

an SLR or bridge camera with HD video would be even better. lots of pro cameramen/film makers shoot with digital SLRs now, only thing they lack is a decent microphone

i’ve seen a girl hit by a car (pedestrian)

it was like watching someone tossing a ragdoll up in the air

not nice

luckily she got away with lower limb injuries. driver didn’t stop.

route link working again now, server migration issues.

awesome stuff

just done a week up there ourselves

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heather comb honey

nom nom nom nom

wifey’s got one on her dawes. done 4 or 5 thousand miles at least including LEJOG where it rained every day and plenty of offroad bits without any problems at all.

on another note, i just had a pair of touring wheels built up on rigida CSS ceramic rims. very pimp and i’ve seen pictures of pan flat braking surfaces after 10000+miles (not cheap mind)

60/40 sounds a bit neat

did only 10 people vote?

rode one of them in my lbs

i can confirm they reach warp speed at an alarming rate and have the ramming power to take out an entire stand of power bars and energy drink.

a tarp and a blanket will do you fine at the field of dreams. Waking up on the trails will help you own them.

:FACT:

sat in a big hall at the Ricoh arena watching lots of people counting, reckon i can guess the result for Coventry from the size of the piles?

a successful trip in terrible Scottish weather. Sunburnt, unbelievable.

no midges

amazing weather

amazing scenery

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thanks fore the route advice, we missed out an offroad section on the last day (it was only in to boost the mileage anyway) as Overscaig to Contin proved to be a real killer.

route here

just back from a week in caithness and sutherland and saw a total of 1 of the little buggers.

locals are saying it’s going to be a bumper year for them as the heavy snowfall prevented the ground freezing hard and killing off the midgies.

just glad we got our trip in before the got going

lost insults are always a good one, the kind of thing your dad said when you were a nipper

twit
plonker
nincompoop
etc

like i said, i have a choice over whether i choose to disclose that, it’s not something that’s been done without my specific knowledge.

and the impression i get is that it is also stored on your PC when you sync.

not an iphone user but for those doubting the privacy implications i’ll give you an example.

when my CC and bank card were cancelled recently (thanks crc) the only way i could get cash was to go to the bank and get it over the counter. two of the security questions (and therefore 33% of what HSBC deems to be suitably secure) were asking where i had travelled abroad recently, both places i had used my phone.

fair enough, as an individual database it’s a fairly harmless block of data to anyone but those with a specific agenda, however, pool data like these with all the other easily available (and not so easy) data stored in all sorts of places and linked to you by various things like CC numbers and social networking etc and you have a growing and worryingly accurate picture of your life available to people, most importantly over which you have no control. it’s not about having nothing to hide, it’s about having the choice over who has access to the information and for what purposes it is used, something we commonly don’t consider. that said, everyone has something to hide.

battle royale

how could i forget that one!

jap/korean horrors:(original versions not hollywood remakes)

Audition
Seance (Korai)
Dark water
the Grudge etc

world/yank:

Secretary
Bombon
Y tu mama tambien
Tears of the black tiger
Dancer in the dark
In bruges
little miss sunshine
the conversation
one hour photo
memento
dogma
all about my mother
Infernal Affairs (1 to 3)
the big blue
the science of sleep
dogville
lives of others
black book
rabbit proof fence

Classics:

anything by Hitchcock
anything by Herzog
anything by Bunuel
faster pussycat KILL! KILL!

plus what people have said above

that should keep you going

mrstwohats – are you looking at pron
twohats – erm………no
mrstwohats – yes you are
twohats – i’m checking all the pron the interweb to make sure no one we know is involved in the adult industry, it’s a life long quest i started age 13 before the internets was even invented behind the bike sheds at school with a copy of razzle that jimmy from next door found under his uncle tom’s wardrobe, i think it’s a noble thing to do

http://www.whycycle.co.uk/buying_your_bike/beware_the_bicycle_shaped_object/

BSO surely

been with 34sp for years, always been reliable and customer service has been excellent.

guess, then add a pound because you feel guilty

then take 2 pounds off because you want to look cool on here

simples

also up for peaks/lakes/wales trips. mid week ideal.

(also road rides but don’t tell anyone :oops: )

south leics here

don’t ride anything regular due to work but often have long periods off and free time during the week

i’ll note the details from this thread. would be riding every hour there is this week if i didn’t have a stinking cold.

I assume phil56 is the phil i’ve been in contact with before, if so then i’ mhoping to ride more in the next few months in which case i’ll be in touch. if i don’t ride my bikes soon i’m going to have to sell them and get fat

there’s a whellan (sp) valley CC ride goes out sunday’s not far from phil56s ride above but at a slightly more sociable hour :wink:

I don’t have kids so tend to shy away from very early weekend rides, maybe something i need to look at (early mornings, not kids)

don’t quite get you.

on the map screen if you move the pointer it brings up a bit at the top giving BNG, distance/bearing from you and map info (road name etc)

don’t think which maps you have matters, I have City Nav europe and outside BNG area it just shows ——-

1 to 7 to 1

or 1 to 5 to 1

with plenty of time for sitting on the beach soaking it all in, Camasunary is lovely

there’s (was?) a good cafe under the ‘3’ on the route from the bible, that was the only thing that made wading our way through the bog worthwhile

out and back

the bit through long myre on the loop is miserable

it’s one of the best bits of singletrack in the uk, no harm in doing it twice

settings > units > position format > British Grid

gives a 10 figure grid on the map

the odd crash here, been running it since beta. repeatedly crashes with flash video which is dull and fire ftp plugin behaves very oddly.