domtastic : I’m interested in names of PT if you have anyone to recommend.

I live abroad so I need someone who can do that without seeing me (I can send stats from my rides).

I hope I’m not wrong in assuming that you can get coached by someone over the phone or email ? I have my main event next July and I think I need to find someone to help me get a training program which gets me to my goal taking into account time constraint.

I could just do ‘what I can’ but i’m sure my time training could be more effective with professional help.

Anyone knows someone ?

JUST LISTEN TO COUGAR

end of

yes you should care.

she’s using your past misbehaving as an excuse to misbehave herself.

being your wife doesn’t give her any rights on you.

if she can’t trust you then there are problems in your relashionship which haven’t been sorted.

in my opinion she gives herself the right to do something which is completely unacceptable.

I’d never do that to my husband even if I know his password.

I live abroad and rent my house in sheffield. We used Blundells to find the tennant, do the credit check, the contract and hold the deposit. we manage the rest ourselves.
if anything goes wrong, blundells will just call a tradesman. Something you can do just as easily from Sweden.
It would help though if one of your mates has the keys to the house. just in case.

If you’re concerned go to the GP, but breast feels lumpy, just like you described. Especially near period time.

don’t worry. but i’m no doctor so no arm in going to the GP.

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try this. Otherwise i don’t know how to do it

You mean in the last few months ?

I think about 6 this year. My best year yet, last year was only a couple 😉

15 years driving in the uk : not a fine.

4 years in France and I keep collecting them. husband’s getting bored.

I keep getting caught at 115 in a 110 zone or 135 in a 130. I’m good in towns though.

on the plus side it’s a company car so I only get to pay 45 euros each time. It’s getting expensive though and it really is money down the drain.

Berlingo

Husband was touring with a singlespeed (and towing our daughter in her trailer).

I’m not that brave.

straight bars.

I know everybody raves by the SLH but not in my budget I think.

Stoner, I like your touring style but unfortunately we tour with 2 small kids (one in nappies), in a tent with cooking stuff. Lightweight touring is a thing of the future…

[/quote]No wonder nobody likes the French.

No, you and your chavvy ignorant friends probably don’t like the French for some probably very interesting reasons.

Normal people aren’t stupidly prejudiced

Haven’t had a little Gregory in years…

can I have a link to teh doc that works from abroad. I player doesn’t work outside the uk

cheers all

(i’m a girl but I still want to perv)

they’ve just gone past my office. Millard was in front looking a bit tired and Wiggins was in the main group looking like he was having a little sunday ride with his mates.

didn’t see Cav or Evans. the whole thing is over too quickly.

well now i’ll be able to do some work. been excited all day about it .-)

Well, neninja lent me his light for my first 24h solo event and I must say I was very impressed. I recommend this light to everyone (and I swapped batteries once in the night and frankly it’s no bother)

My first impression upon opening the parcel was how tiny and ‘cute’ this light is. It’s a very neat design with a simple looking little light and battery and it’s nicely presented in a box.

It’s got a button which you can attach to where you want near the bar by sticking a little square of Velcro on your bike and the button has a Velcro backing. This is pretty cool, although I don’t know how durable the Velcro backing on the button would be in dirt and mud.
The battery is small, stylish and fits neatly between the top tube and the down tube. It’s got 4 charge indicators which is very useful.
There’s a extension lead which means that when you run the light near the battery (as when the light is on the bars and the battery on the frame), you don’t have length of cable to accommodate ; but you can also have length when the light is on your helmet and the battery in your pack.

The light itself is a strong looking metal case with two lenses, a flood and a spot which can be easily changed/replaced. I particularly liked the attachment system to the bars (with an oring – very simple and effective) and the fact that the lights sits above the stem so it’s totally central to the bars. The helmet mount is also provided and looks just as simple and neat although haven’t tried it.
The light is very bright and gives a very even wide light with no noticeable bright spot in the middle which is a good thing. It feels like you see ‘everywhere’. Twisty narrow singletracks in the woods with rapid changes of direction and with the light on the bar wasn’t a problem.
I did the race on 700 lumens to save battery life and that was plenty for a very demanding twisty narrow course. Marshalls commented on several occasions on ‘that blinding light’.
I found the light to be very white but not arsh like early LED models from around 2005.

The light has four different modes (trail, commuter, bush, adventure) and each has 3 settings with a special mode. I found it fiddly. The navigation through the different mode is simple enough with the button and different style of ‘click’, ‘press’ and ‘hold’. The navigation within each mode is also simple. However, choosing which mode to use is a bit of a faff and you’ll need the instructions to work out which different level of lights you get in each mode. It’s not something you’ll do on the go, unless you’ve worked out through previous uses that you need such mode for such activity, etc…

The bar mount works best with constant diameter bars. With o/s bars, you’d probably need to fiddle something so that the light sits well on the bar and points ahead.

Overall, apart for the fiddly different settings, the system is simple, effective and good looking. I raced through the night without feeling any strain, it actually made the night riding really enjoyable even sleep deprived. Well, it must have been good, I won the race!
For me a good piece of kit is one that just performs and that you forget about. This light satisfies that criteria.
In short, I’m buying it.

Talking of Vango inner tents, ours is also falling appart at the seams near a zip and I’d like to repair it. I’m quite handy with a sewing machine but don’t know where to find similar fabric to buy. Any idea?

cheers (and sorry for the hijack)

we’ve got a vango tigris which is great by the way (2 grown ups and 2 midgets)

Mrs Mugsy here. the race was awesome. I did 30 laps and won by a long shot (2nd did 18 laps)<
the course was technical relentless singletrack. very fun and demanding. but as least i wasn’t bored and some sections made me go ‘yeah’ 30 times!

I had a set of Gloworm by Danny from here which he lent me to test. Brilliant lights which allowed me to race through the night safe and without getting too tired.

I slept for 10 mins so i’m slightly tired now.
Goodnight and thank you for your encouragements which husband passed on. I particularly like Singletrackmind comment which is well suited to my way of thinking!

I definitely will enjoy the weekend cos’ in France for most of us it’s a FOUR DAYS WEEKEND !!!!!

thanks for the understanding.

it’s just a passing negative moment. I’m quite good at spinning things around to see a positive side. there’s always one. but sometimes it feels like nothing is genuinely positive but rather has to be looked at that way.
anyway.

crap engineer was employed 7 weeks ago and she’s leaving next week because SHE’S RUBBISH !! and I don’t have time for training. Oh hang on, yes i do at weekends cos’ if you don’t have time to do your job during the week you should do it in the evenings and at weekends (dixit my technical reviewer. old fart)

Well, I hang on like everyone. most of the time. and sometimes there’s a bit of a woobly moment. like everyone.
it’s life

Yes I’ve got a job and I very rarelly complain about it for that very reason. Because I’ve got a job, I earn money and it’s not the most rubbish job either.

However,

sometimes I feel completely depressed and inadequate and I’ve even considered going to the doc for it until I thought that it wasn’t the way to face difficulties. I’ve also scarylly understood why it drove my predecessor to death 😯

So again, no thanks for the ‘suck it up’ comments. that’s not supportive and everyone needs support at times.

Thanks for the kind support

Simon, I’m interested if it’s 90mm… let me know.

cheers

Thanks for all the offers. I need a 90mm with some rise (about 10deg).

I’ll get an FSA from crc. wanted a nice thomson one but nevermind…. i guess it does the same job.

PAM = (PAS + 2 x PAD) / 3

This is the equation that relates the high number (PAS)and the low number (PAD) to the mean pressure (PAM)

mf : I thought that exactly. High while you’re exercising or after and generally low when you’re at rest.

It was blood pressure. In france it’s stated like that. 10 is rather low, 12 is normal and above is high. there must be different scales.

I did ask the question and he said something like ‘is it normally like that?’ as if I know.

I’m not worried, just curious. I thought low pressure is good as long as you don’t get headrush when you get up (i used to until I went on the i-you-know-what,must have been a sugar issue).

We’ll get used to the boring grey. but the TNR is just a crime.

at first I thought the page hadn’t loaded properly. Now it just looks unfinished and amateurish (just because of an innocent font…) and there are too many different font too. stick to one type.

Waouh, i rarely post on here but now I see why.
sorry guys, i’ll say nothing more

I struggle with the idea of being called a fatty since I’m about 55 kg for 1.6m.
I’m far from fat, just intrigued by the diet and want to try it more because i’m a bit weird like that and like to control things.
Plus, I’m starting to train again after having a very long recovery after an ultra distance race this winter and I want to see if it gives me more energy

What about soja ? like soya milk, soya shakes, tofu?

Hello idave, after seeing regular thread about the idiet, I’m thinkin of giving it a go. Could you send me copy of the paper where it’s kind of described? just to get the main idea.

cheers

bene

well, to all of you loving to bleed brakes, a question :

How come after bleeding my hope mono minis the other night, they still feel like there isn’t enough fluid in them ? i.e the lever has to be pressed almost as far as the handlebar.

I just feel bad cos’ I bought these forks in 2005 and i’m only just worrying about their first service 😳

Off course I need you. but not to service my forks….

how do the olympic compare with the mavic 717 or 719 ?

I can’t find the olympics on the notube website.

I looked at crest (i guess my riding is XC and maybe a bit AM, although my bike is definitely an XC bike – titanium hardtail). the only thing is that the crest are 78 euros on wiggle and mavics are more like 52 euros.

mmmmh hadn’t considered ust…

Good thing he’s getting a bike for christmas. I’m so proud too!!!

Why don’t you invite your wife over to join us on the thread?

you and her can read all the suggestions and maybe you can agree on something?

My contribution is Pia which is my daughters’ name and Robyn which I really like (my friend daughter). I like Faustine but it’s french and maybe it doesn’t work in english.

Travis, you should be in bed rather than working at 5:50 in the morning like me 😉