I use Iliumsoft Ewallet. Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac and PC and syncing over wifi between them.

Seems fine. It’s the synching and apps I like, but aware other tools do this too.

http://www.iliumsoft.com/%5B/url%5D

Am tiring of open-world games littered with repetitive ‘busy work’ icons. Would like a good long story in an open world without all the distractions.

Grip when putting power down or grip when braking / cornering.

Both then. ;)

Although I think the front edges out over the rear, as avoiding trees is more useful than getting up a slope.

Thanks for the replies guys. Am cooling to the idea in the face of some cold, hard realism.

Think you’re all right about it being overpriced. Call it over-excitement, could be a really nice house when completed.

I’ve looked at these and to be honest I’m a bit confused by the frame sizing, why is there 2 sizes on the frame?, i.e. 17.5” actual size 18.5” (or the other way round) I don’t get it???

It’s Trek’s way of dealing with the sloping top tube on a mountain bike. Bit less of a big deal these days now that sloping top tubes are pretty common across all ranges. Is a bit of a hangover from ‘back in the day’, when Treks came with VW logos on the seat stays.

http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/support/faq/question/can_you_explain_the_virtual_sizing_on_some_of_your_mountain_bikes/%5B/url%5D

Really like the look of these… N+1 and all that ;)

Most people seem to be picking the rigid fork one – is that just because the price is most competitive, or 29+ doesn’t benefit as much from suspension?

Also – what’s 29+ like in mud? Conventional wisdom is a skinny tire for muddy conditions (Panaracer Trailrakers for me!).

Haha, ok – fair points, although if I have the option of a few months run at it without having to move furniture around, that’s no bad thing.

‘Liveable’ is probably exaggerating! :D

Yeah, I’ve had a mixed bag – particularly as someone who usually goes on their own. Have always come away enjoying the holiday though for one reason or another.

Remember once turning up on the same week as a group of Enduro racers. I am definitely, emphatically not an enduro-er. Sat in my hotel room at the end of the first day unsure whether I wanted to face the next day, I’d crashed so many times trying to keep up with them. Day two, I stopped trying to keep up and had a much better day. One of the guides noticed and would take me down an easier route where that was an option.

I think it must be hard for guides, there’s not a lot of money in guiding so they can’t have a huge number of guides on hand as backup. Confounding this, some people go on holiday with a shopping list of trails they ‘must do’, La Varda in Les Arcs, for example. I think as customers sometimes we should do a better job of communicating our uncomfort to the guide – I’m definitely guilty of ‘sucking it up and having a miserable time because I don’t want to be seen as a whinger’. They’re mountain leaders and guides, not mind-readers.

How was the hot sauce Cougar?

What recipe did you use?

TFTuned is around £80 from memory. Exceptional service when the brass keys wore through the stanchion, they put together a fix from workshop spares that probably saved me around £125.

They’re pretty bomb-proof. Couple of those garden strength bin bags with parcel tape around has worked for me in the past.

Mountain bike and kit in storage for a few weeks… I miss riding my bike there already :'(

Where are the new trails?

What’s is like counter-clockwise?

I did it clockwise and couldn’t decide if I’d done it the right way around. And definitely agree about the boggy thing!

@Kit – Haha! LaTeX :)

I did a presentation once with LaTeX, having had a great experience report writing with it. Think it’s fair to say the benefits aren’t as clear for presentations ;)

I’ve got one of these:
http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/outback-excel-2-burner-gas-bbq-246124

It won’t set the BBQ-ing world alight, but it’s got Lavarocks (which is a plus). The grill is an improvement over a basic wire grill – although not a cast iron one. Mine has lasted four years and will probably do at least one more.

Just switched to an Osprey Zealot. Makes a big difference that the bag is longer (in it’s large size at least) over my old Camelbak Mule. Whole thing sits better. Not sure it’ll last as long as the Mule, but hey… half as long and I’d be happy TBH.

I’ve been using 1×10 (with Hope expander and a 32 tooth chainring) but considering going back to 2×10. It’s probably psychological as much as anything, but I do miss that granny ring.

1998 Serfas pump, can’t remember the model but I bought it because I was 15 and MBUK told me too.

Not small or light, but it’s excellent as a pump. On a trailAddiction trip, even the guide used it because it was better than his!

That bike is enduro green too… don’t tell me people were enduroing back then?! :-o

dhb bibs from wiggle are excellent, in my opinion. And pretty reasonably priced. Not aldi prices, but still good value.

Door looks well made…

Yeah, I like it too. Am in the habit of taking a spare normal seatpost when I take my bike away with me as a backup for the reverb (which has been known to fail…).

This would be a good backup.

I don’t think it’ll work on either of my bikes though – Soul has a front facing slot and my Remedy has two offset slots.

What are these like compared to more standard cyclocross bikes offroad? Are they still as harsh on your wrists for people who are used to suspension forks?

My shock (DRCV RP2) made more noise after I’d had it PUSHed. Even if it’s the nitrogen is cavitating, I don’t think it’s going to do any damage.

Assuming you’ve got enough damping, I’d ride it for the few weeks you have until your new one arrives.

Out of interest, how tough are some of these routes compared to (for example) the natural trails in Les Arcs? Which are about as tough as I can cope with for a days riding.

Edit: Just to clarify, I mean trails that you could do on a 150-160mm ‘trail’ bike, rather than massive drops and gaps!

Interested in BC as a riding destination, but have to be realistic for someone that lives in the southern part of the UK!

Yeah, almost a year back I spoke to TFTuned and they recommended their lower leg lube. I guess that’s what they use if they do a service.

I’ve used it a couple of times since and everything has been fine.

The forum hive-mind will remember this myopic, and months, maybe years in the future allegations of you stalking Northwind will surface again. Hopefully in a thread about Sektors.

OP – yes, send them back! Could see how plenty of people wouldn’t on some gear though, particularly if bought just before a holiday (which is when most of my purchases seem to be made!).

Yup, send them back. If they’re tight, they’ll stop you wearing thicker socks like Sealskins too.

This book had completely passed my by until yesterday when on a whim I bought the audiobook to listen to on the journey down from Scotland.

Great book (so far!), movie sounds good.

I have dodgy knees. Compared to (Shimano) road SPDs, mountain bike SPDs have a lot more float. It’s pretty hard to set them up badly to be honest, so not sure of the value of a shop adjustment.

I ride with my heels kicked in, so angle mine slightly towards my big toe, but with the amount of float available it’s a pretty crude adjustment.

I did find Egg Beaters offered so much uncontrolled float, it actually made my knees worse. It’s also worth checking your saddle position (and height). You should be able to drop a plumb line from your kneecap to the ball of your foot. Knee too far forwards or backwards will put extra strain on parts of your body.

@Scienceofficer – where is that ride? Lovely scenery.

It’s not bargain basement, but I still have a pair of Endura Humvee shorts that must be getting on for ten years old now. Really rate Endura, most of their kit (excluding gloves) lasts forever and is well designed.

As long as you’re not going for the latest Freeride, All-mountain, Enduro dayglo gear you don’t pay such a premium.

Am giving 780 a go, but as with others will probably drop it to 740 – 760.

Thought about getting the Fatbar lite, but to me the weight difference will be un-noticable (compared to Maxxis Highrollers and a Reverb).

Anyone built up / ridden one of these yet?

Thinking of replacing my 26inch Remedy frame with one of these. Usual scenario, wish I’d bought the larger (read longer) size with hind-sight.

Any hints on the sizing for 6ft person? Size guide looks like a large frame will be suitable, but sometimes bikes ride larger or smaller than their guide.

Yup, vmware-vmx occupying around 3% of my CPU (at a terminal). With Unity running that hops up another 1%.

Good question… I’ve never particularly noticed it, but then if I’m just browsing the web or editing text I’ll use OS X. Building / running software tends to be more resource intensive anyway and obviously drains the battery more.

Will do a very unscientific test and get back to you!

I’ve got a 13inch i5 Macbook Pro (SSD and 16GB RAM) that I use for development.

Having a Unix based OS means I’m happy not developing inside a VM (ssh, scp and bash), so that cuts down on the resource utilisation and will just run a single VM to deploy / run code in.

It’s ok running the latest Cloudera Hadoop quickstart VM in Fusion, although struggles a bit if you have too many services running. Anything bigger and I move it to an AWS EC2 instance, which is infinitely preferable to lugging around a bigger laptop and probably cheaper for the few occasions I need to do it.

Worth getting VMWare Fusion as I think this:
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11606
is still an issue on VirtualBox / retina display combinations.

Agree with the point about 24 / 30 frames not making a difference these days.

Of more (likely) important is where you plan to upload your video. Vimeo only supports 30fps maximum, Youtube now supports 60. If you down convert 60 to 30 you don’t get the same motion blur you’d get if you’d recorded natively at 30. That can play havoc with various compression algorithms and gives the film a more juddery look than you’d expect.

I don’t think it’s an older gentleman problem – I have this problem too. Although I’m not 12 either.

I tell myself it’s my muscly thighs from cycling.

Also, don’t be too dissuaded by people criticising your choice of C++.

I think it’s a great language to learn two of the most fundamental aspects of programming; the object-oriented approach and managing your own memory.

If you made a career of programming, you’d almost certainly switch to a higher level (memory managed) language. In my experience, the people who started with C/C++ are the ones that immediately understand pass-by-value / pass-by-reference and can explain how garbage collection with reference counting works and how to break it!