sorry can't make it. Am off work at the mo and will be on the surrey hills but have promised to take my youngest son hiking and then stay overnight in the Holmbury YHA for a bit of father/son bonding.

Am doing the same as you on Saturday tho,train to Dorking arrive 10-39 am and then doing a tour of Ranmore Common and Leith Hill if you/anyone is interested.

Probably be riding most of these trails

That's Entertainment; an MTB Movie

what a top bloke, wish i coulda been there. Hope some of those Lance-haters will think about that a bit.

A great if small photoset ml. This one is great and you could see this anywhere all over the country on a sunday morning i.e. some bloke getting his bike out the back of his hatchback. He just happens to be 7 time TDF winner and surrounded by photographers and fans.

Love the big smile on the face of the bloke on the left with the lid on

thanks rob but don't worry i wasn't even contemplating building my own… :D

watched this last night on vimeo, this is truly quality and a really interesting piano track to back it with.

Looks like you were riding really well, leaving loads of riders in your wake and annoying that it wasn't your error that took you off but another rider trying to go past you (I think i see him taking a couple of looks round your right before he went left and then your crash.)

Did you spend hours studying the footage to try to get his number or did you just think c'est la vie! (which is probably the better approach)

I think the best anwer to this was posted years ago by mrmichaelwright of this manor who said something along the lines of;

"I bought some bananas from Sainsbury's for two quid last week. Turns out they had bought them off some bloke in Africa for tuppence!"

Sorry to hear you aren't riding but you got what you wanted/the best offer for the frame. you could have ebayed it yourself.

it looks crazy as hell but it's not for production, just him amusing himself and that's how innovation happens.

Would love to have the knowledge, skill and contacts myself to be able to start off with a set of columbus tubing (where would you source them for a start) and then design the frame, weld it together, spray it to what looks like a professional level and then go out for a ride on it.

How cool would that be?

don't be scared of change…

I knew that too

why is he constantly touching his penis?

my thoughts too. I know it takes skill and i certainly can't unicycle but if you have to spend the whole time lookin like some bad-assed mofo rap star then I dont think it's for me (my grey hair wouldn't fit the image)

That reminds me. My road is quite bike orientated.

As well as me (holding my own dialled bikes/dialled mike love-in) and Steve Worland's brother (already mentioned) we also have Alice Monger Godfrey who lives there with her parents, or does when she's not in Belgium with her pro-roadie team.

Oh, and some other bloke who orders stuff from chain reaction and CRC always quote his address first rather than mine when i order stuff from them.

djglover wrote: I beat dialled mike in a 4x race, but I don't love him as much as MTB idle

Thanks for the namecheck dj. That's right, and don't you forget it 8)

I went into an Evans outlet once.

nobody spoke to me.

dont buy them then and the price will reduce (or Fox will go out of business eventually).

It's supply and demand innit.

Grrrr…….edits quickly due to stupid double posting….

Steve Worland from MBUK's brother lives down my road and I spoke to him once at our Queen's Diamond Jubilee Street Party in 2002.

He looks a bit like Steve

I've actually been out riding with Hora!

and thus my point is proved.

its Track 40 mikey

cos we are all different?

ooh, ooh, just thought of a better one.

I was riding in the alps (with dialled mike) in 2005 when we bumped into a teenage kid who was riding Steve Peat's personalised 4x bike from the previous season.

Apparently his dad somehow knew Peaty. I have a picture somewhere but can't find it at the moment.

i rode with dialled mike BEFORE he started dialled bikes

You know you’ve been ridin’ too much when:

1. As you drive home you find yourself pulling on the steering wheel over potholes and lumps

2. You rate ladies as groupsets, e.g. she's got an XTR arse, with an LX face.

3. The entire airing cupboard is full of drying riding kit.

4. You take the racing line in supermarkets with the trolley.

5. You throw tantrums when its " shopping day" and its sunny outside.

6. You take racing lines around the corner in the roads

7. You want to fit shifters to the steering wheel of your car

8. When you can't find your trainers because all you've worn for the last week is spud shoes.

9. When you get withdrawal symptoms after 1 day off the bike.

10. When having your bike nicked is like a bereavement

11. When you spend more time riding than sleeping.

12. When you empty your nose of snot forgetting you are in the car

13. Every meal is assessed in terms of how much energy there is in it.

14. A pretty girl rides past on a bike and all you see is the bike.

15. When walking you hold imaginary handlebars and lean into the corners.

16. Every location is rated in how good it would be to ride there

17. You've eaten nothing but powerbars, energy gels and jaffa cakes for over 60 hours.

18. Your friends are talking about football or telly or the news and you have no idea what they are talking about

19. When you hang your missus on the line next to your camelbak and hose her down.

20. When you wear your full face and leg pads in the supermarket crush

they do make you look like you should have leg calipers

they really can't have that much affect on your riding

possibly but those weren't the questions.

red in the morning followed by black and then do the blue on the next day

I guess that the Met parachute is used so that he has a full facer on to fit the DH 'image' but you can still see his face/hear him speak clearly for the purpose of the advert.

as above, no question.

I'm no expert but this little baby from contour[/url] looks good.

High definition and has two lasers that 'spot' where the shot is to allow you to position the camera correctly on your lid and the lense rotates to ensure you get the shot straight too (not leaning over to one side or the other).

Lots of head-cams reviewed in MBUK this month (including this one).

Looks like you already have the rest of the requirements for a good video i.e. quality riding, decent rider and amazing scenery and lighting. All you need is the above camera or something like it.

I take it you are Mr Basque mtb so if you are a VAT registered you get it VAT free (if you are even in the UK) and can probably write it down as a business expense so go for it.

totally agree with the concept of having good legs (and very often bad legs too) but i don't think even the pro's know the answer hence often in the TDF teams will push hard if their key rider/sprinter has good legs but on other days he will pass the message up the line that he doesn't feel so good and they will let other teams do the work.

It's like sh*t, it just happens…

are you sure, i thought there were showers in the visitor centre when i went there in June (didn't use them so can't be certain)

let him learn the hard way although if he really is just riding round the park the apollo will probably do him ok.

Let's face it, he will use it twice then stick it in the back garden and never touch it again.

getting a cycle computer could be easier in the long run?

both on here: watch it and see what you think

schralp does it for me.

But it's all just marketing b*llox to try and disguise the fact that we are grown men riding around on bicycles.

show your annoyance by throwing some tacks in the road

That's a very funny and clever link to a previous thread Jo. And even more funny is that if you check out that thread you see a certain posting as follows:

aP – Member
I'd have to seriously consider taking part in that event if there's people prepared to do that kind of thing up there. I assume that Paul Bright is quite happy that I'll spend the £500 or more that it would cost somewhere else instead.

So aP would be prepared to spend £500 and travel to Scotland to defend the rights of cyclists/p-off those who don't like cycling but is a bit of a NIMBY when it comes to having to park his car round the next corner for a local event.

As i said earlier, very strange

true, but it hasn't actually been removed yet has it? (unless they are living in a parallel universe where it is actually sunday already).

I think the gist of the OP complaint is that they weren't told about it.

I still think it's strange that a keen cyclist (presumably, as they post on here) has a major cycling event that he/she can participate in passing literally by their front door and their reaction is one of annoyance…

hmmm…so let's get this right.

You are a cyclist on a cycling forum and you are complaining that roads in central London are being closed on the sabbath day for the benefit of cyclists.

And you are actively campaigning against it with your non-cycling (presumably) neighbours.

I have attended the previous two events when they were known as the London Freewheel and they were fantastic days out for tens of thousands of riders from hardened verterns of cycling to those who only cycle one day a year.

It takes all kinds I suppose…

I thought there was only about a dozen actual posters each with about 149 different log-ins?

nice pics there. Here's a quick 'summery' of my summer so far in video format

Here comes the summer!

As ever we have the usual rants about the NHS with smokers, drinkers, the obese and foreigners being blamed for all of its ills.

"according to the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and Environment, which found that while "a person of normal weight costs on average 210,000 pounds over their lifetime", a smoker clocks up just 165,000 pounds and the obese run up an average 187,000 pound bill."

Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/healthy_tax_burden/

Another article showing the same thing can be found here:

http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/misc/saving-the-nhs-money-20080208876/

Obviously the figures will vary from nation to nation yet the underlying trend will remain.

Then when we take into account the amount of extra taxation paid by smokers and drinkers:

According to the National Audit Office figures for 2008 alcohol-related diseases cost the NHS 2.7 billion pounds per year, in the same period receipts from alcohol taxation were more than 8 billion pounds leaving more than 5 billion pounds left over to pay for policing and other costs associated with drinking.

Someone smoking 10 cigarettes a day is paying about 800 pounds tax a year on them, that's 32,000 pounds if they smoke for 40 years.
For someone on 40 a day that goes up to 128,000 pounds over their 40 year smoking lifetime.

The total tax revenue on cigarettes for 2007 was 10 billion pounds.

Source: http://www.the-tma.org.uk/tobacco-tax-revenue.aspx

So smokers, drinkers & the obese are subsidising the NHS for the rest of us while at the same time costing less to treat than a non-smoking, non-drinking person of average build.

I'm not a smoker by the way nor am I obese but I do like a drink or three

drink plenty of water and regularly.

eat regularly. Power bars or just good old fashioned bananas even when you're not hungry. Something like lucozade or any of the many other fizzy energy pop stuff out there on the market

you'll be fine.