Hope

Hope that helps. 🙂

I think sometimes, the shops can get a better deal on the components, but not always.
Supposedly get peace of mind from the shop.
I know the shop in question will look after me, but I don’t think to the degree that the extra cost is going to be viable.
Ho hum.

Mad Dog McRae. Really looking forward to seeing them at Beautiful Days this year.

…must resist….must resist…. dammit….

Yes, I always shower after a ride

Where does it go?
Beer. I love it, and can’t get enough of the stuff.

meh
43 but 17 in my head. I still don’t understand the world.
Apparently I have a responsible job and teenage children. Where did that come from?

at the bottom of the hill, and running straight up it not warmed up never feels right. I almost always warn up for 5-10 mins on the flat

hehe. Not really much of an option where I am – that way lies town, and roads…

And I’d never have time to get to the nicer bits of the moor if I did that. It’s not just about the exercise, it’s the pleasure of being on the hills and surveying my domain…

Running in the morning sets you up for the day*. I always feel much better for it.
Sadly, the straight up the ilkley moor side from the house at 6am has not been good to my calf muscles as I get older.

I’ll always be a runner before a cyclist. Just so much simpler. Shoes on, off we go. No mechanicals, no cleaning the bike, no expensive kit, better exercise in a shorter period of time.

*unless I’ve done the foolish 15 miles to work, in which case I am asleep by 11

The hardest bit about running is getting out of the door.
Once you’ve done that, it’s easy.

Good choice for staying off roads. It’s all about countryside, hills, mud, rain, wind, sleet, snow and occasionally a nice sunrise/sunset.

https://www.sportsshoes.com/products/z/z/running/shoes/?$terrain=light-trail&l=20

Just enjoy it. Don’t fret about speed and distance. They come after you’ve mastered “getting out of the door”

Religion has no place in the general education system.
If you want religion, go to church/mosque/synagogue/gurdwara/other place of religious choice as is your choice.
In a religious school, you have no choice but to be part of some mumbo jumbo about the great pudding in the sky.

Just my tuppence.

edit: spelling

Just eyeballing the difference between the OPs picture and those pictures, you can see that the overall disc diameter looks pretty much the same, and the position of the caliper is the same.

The difference, however, is in the wear line on the OPs disc – it’s much further out.

So, this implies either the pad contact material is not fully formed on the pads (i.e. doesn’t cover the fully pad surface), or you have the wrong pads in there…?

Gah. The suspense is killing me…

http://roweroweporady.pl/pobierz/shimano-compatibility.pdf page 25?

BR-M615 is not listed as compatible with the RT54, if that is what you are using. (But that might just be the pad material)

Has just come back to the car to find our dog and sicked up a partially digested rabbit.

Your wife sicked up a partially digested rabbit? Ewww.

@thestabiliser FTW

Yeah, go for the canal and Esholt, baildon moor if you can manage that.
the woods on the south side of the canal/river are good for a potter.
E.g, buck wood, calverley

Good biking round those parts as well.

Oh, ignore that, just looked where it is.
Sorry, you’re screwed, nothing nice down there.

You could go through town and head for the Meanwood Valley, from there, you can make it as far as you like into the hills.

I think that the vole should have been wearing hi-vis and would probably have benefited from some more advanced trail training.

It’s not your fault, you can’t be held to account for not seeing the dangerous little bugger. I mean, what right did it even have to be there – it’s not as if it pays for the upkeep of the trail or anything.

Ilkley Brewery Mary Jane.
A proven* isotonic sports drink with magical restorative properties.

* in limited tests, involving mostly me and the blokes I cycle with. No animals were harmed in the testing of this product. Your consumer rights are not affected.

Thanks for your replies (couldn’t get on t’forum earlier)

I’m higher rate so I think that the benefits almost stack up for me, despite the £100 and the extra 3 yr deposit thingy @7%

Choices, choices.

Not even any abuse or comments about “oh no, not this one again”?

You disappoint me.

🙂

http://www.pavingexpert.com/ is the place to look.

reminds me of:

I wouldn’t trust anything DT swiss made after the hubs that I had on the wheels that came with the Spark.
Pile of crap and useless for British weather and riding.
Hope every time.

Does it really need anti-Bs? We are too dependent on them for relatively minor things.

Ooooooh. Purdy: http://www.chargebikes.com/cooker-5/

Someone stole 9 yorkstone paving slabs from our side path in the summer. Wife and kids were only out for an hour.

There’s been so much work on the street, no-one batted an eyelid when a van and trailer turned up.

It’s annoying and stuff, but the worst thing is the massive knock to my 13 yr old daughter’s confidence.

She now suffers from anxiety attacks, is paranoid about someone breaking into the house and won’t be anywhere without an adult now. Including in her own home. Even when we’re there, she is still scared to go upstairs by herself and wants the doors and windows all checking.

I’m hoping that she will get some perspective about the probabilities and grow out of it / learn to cope with it.

The money/cost of replacement is insignificant compared to the psychological impacts.

🙁

Them shareholders need their dividends…

VM good for consolidating costs. Preferred Sky Box to Tivo though.
VM Customer services in Scotland are very nice (and much better than Sky CS), and try to help, but are in essence completely powerless to do anything other than apologise for their incompetent colleagues on the technical side. Their hands are tied.
VM engineers are a bunch of lazy, untidy, incompetent, ignorant fskwits who wouldn’t know a complete job if they had their noses rubbed in it.

Willard – I used to think that sherry was just for grandparents – then I discovered the joys of really really rich sweet sherries
e.g. El Candado Pedro Ximinez stuff.
Like drinking liquid christmas pudding.

vvvv nice.

When you do it, DrP, could you video it.

Just for posterity, like…

It’ll be fun when you hit the rebar…

What could possibly go wrong?

Get a bigger drill.

Otley / Wharfedale in general.

Oh, actually, no. We’re full. No room at the Inn.

🙂

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moar

Oh. Managed halfway up the last steep bit before the farmer in the truck coming down gave me a chance to wuss out. Dave nearly made it up.
And that was after 5 hours and 40 odd miles.

Bloody good day out. Was a bit tired afterwards.

I did 50 miles/2500m in the lakes the other day on a 26er with 1×10 36->11-40 and didn’t really miss the lowest or the highest.

That included Honister pass, Whinlatter, Altura North and South and back o’skiddaw (which is almost unrideable anyway near the falls)

Mind you, mate did nearly all the ride on his big ring as the small one had few teeth left. 29er 38 -> 11-36 He was quick round whinlatter… 😀

It’s a bike forum?

I thought the singletrack part was a reference to the mind…

Adam Hills.

If you haven’t watched the Last Leg, you should see his rants. 🙂