Edric 64 😆

I blame too much MBUK for this “not gnarrcore enough” attitude 😈

Good thing about XC is that you have to have the lungs as well as the skill, and to my mind that makes it more of a sport than DH for example (not a stab at DH just an example).

I find men’s diving the most boring, but hey that’s just my opinion.

edit: don’t think the course is easy if Spitz managed to crash, as well as a few others 😉

Not too bad, looked a smooth dull course, but the techy sections made it interesting. I liked it 🙂 Want to go out and ride my bike now.

29ers the preferred choice. No surprises there, I guess.

And the winner rides on 26″…

and has a SR suntour fork 😯

In other news; domestic violence falls by 70%

The Southern Yeti – Holy shit, there’s someone talking to me through a box on my desk.

Are you one of Charlie’s angles TSY?

You know when your a kid and for some strange reason you decide to eat exactly the same cereal or sandwiches for weeks on end. Then one day your body just says no this is bad for you, you need to eat something else ! Then even the smell of the food you used to really like make you feel sick ?

I have that with greggs cheese and bacon wraps, used to love them. Just thinking about them makes me wince now though.

Not just the bills, but the time it takes for them to do things.

A weeks wait for my LBS to do something that I can do myself in an hour or 2.

You’ll also learn to spot stuff before it goes wrong 🙂

+1 hungry monkey

Just break it down into small pieces and reward yourself (chocolate/cake/wnk/new shiny stuff) for managing to at lease complete that small bit. A bit every day and you’ll get there.

I’d go for neon green, with black finishing kit. Or Metallic silver with red finishing kit – in keeping with my current red/grey theme.

Purple and gold work well too.

Haha, that’s pretty good 🙂

18, although I ride a SS so people think I am 40, have a beard and drink real ale.

Most young people do DH or DJ and read MBUK.

Some music from your mix was used in the Olympics opening ceremony

I think just some rouge hobo from the streets of London.

Just for the look of shear confusion on his face.

– ignores past 2 pages.

Such a nice evening, so I went for a ride – and found something very rare indeed, trail dust and grip!

Love stuff like the Olympics,jubilee whatever.. since all the walkers and other trail divs go home to watch telly. meaning I can go for a fast shred.

I’ll watch the opening ceremony on I-player or something, just to be in the know though (that’s a lie, I just wants to perv on those hot foreign girls) 😛

Very nice – never thought I’d say that about a 29er 🙂

I quite fancy one for MTB’in. Look super cool and the visor will be the bomb for wet commuting and looking cool.

You’re not being serious right?

Ride a single speed, since I started I find sprinting uphill is much easier. I only do the odd sprint with carrying bike mind.

I have yet to snap a chain 🙁

Must try Harder!

Going down this steep rock garden without unlocking my fork, thought there was a bit of kick from the front 😕

Riding in the snow that time in Feb, until it got so dark I couldn’t see where I was going.

I went for a road ride once – so yeah, that.

The cinnamon challenge

For those who don’t know, participants must consume a tablespoon of ground cinnamon, the most tablespoons consumed wins.

Sounds easy, try it, go on really try it 😈

2 hour blasts: a multitool

More than 2 hours: spare inner tube, mini pump, water, first aid kit (about as useful as a chocolate tea pot), multitool, oh and my phone. All located in my Dueter Race X backpack.

If you crash hard enough and knock yourself out, what use is a phone. I wear a bright coloured DH jersey, so increasing my chances of being spotted in the undergrowth/ditch.

I wear a half face helmet and knee pads too.

An Orange 5

I think they look good – yes, I really do.

I like the industrial look of ’em. I think a five (or any bike really)looks best with faded paint, mud, and scuffed worn in parts.

I want a tool for the job, a damn tough tool, welded by blokes from ‘alifax. Not a carbon fibre jeyboy mobile. 🙂

Hope my neighbours like it too 😈

1 I go down hands first, so they add protection. Hate that burning feeling of scuffed hands.

2 They allow me to grab muddy sticks and other muddy stuff, since without gloves grit from the mud sticks to your sweaty hands and becomes annoying. (makes wresting fallen trees a bit easier too, avoiding splinters)

3 The callus-ometre: When the calluses on my hands start to go away it means I am not riding enough.

Nice thighs like Victoria, yes.

Not keen on massive arms or shoulders though.

mmm Victoria Pendleton mmm…

What type of job?
What level/position?

Heavy vehicle mechanic Apprentice

Thank you all for the advice, it helps me put some bases down on how to act and what to/not to do. 🙂

I give up on rail, no matter how much money gets poured into it, it’s still crap. It’ll all get wasted on “high speed trains” which will cause more problems than they solve and still be unreliably late.

Reliability is key with public transport.

I don’t care how long a journey takes, I’ll plan it out so I arrive on time. However if one train or bus is late or a no show in all that planning is moot.

edit: I say spend it on improved driving test and standards.

+ 1 on the kmc HX610 chain and On one rear sprocket.

Halos SS kit was the best I could find since it gives you plenty of different sized spacers to set up perfect chain line.

I run 36:19 on a 26″ haven’t done MM though. Logic behind a 36t for me is that I’ll have more choice of high ratio’s than I would with a 32t.

I use an OO doofer sprung tensioner, but it hits the frame on really rough terrain. Going to get myself a blackspire stinger bb ISCG mounted thing and see how that goes.

Absolutely love this, can’t stop watching it. Great riding, tackling the tech not jumping it.

edit: what’s with the naked bloke in the ice cave?

21bmi

National
Below average

You have a lower BMI than 89% of males aged 15-29 in your country

I am most like somebody from Namibia

There is no excuses to be chubby in that age group, c’mon.

Although weighing 72 kg ain’t that great as I am between spring rates on my RS fork 😛

paulosoxo – Member
The first pipefitter I worked with told me to “never put you finger where you wouldn’t put your dick”

Haha that’s great, I am taking that one, since my fingers are pretty sliced up.

If the ‘high-visibility ankle strap look’, isn’t the look for you……

Then you’ll love the fluro arse look, complete with ludicrous RRP

Seems like a good idea, I’d even say that I like it but:

I am not charging my bike.

Waking up in the morning and thinking hey I’ll go for a ride, ahh crap bikes not charged 🙁

The Hope ones…

maybe it’s just me 😳

Degreasing a chain is a good idea because the lube holds onto the dirt and grit – if you degrease then the grit can be washed out more easily. The two best ways imo are with a jetwasher or by removing and shaking in a jar with degreaser.

I agree with this.

I had the exact same problem as you when I changed my bike over to a singlespeed – used finish line wet lube, sounded and felt horrid.

I degreased the chain (white spirit worked for me) and applied finish line wax lube (gold top stuff), I now just reapply after every intensive ride, still forms a black gunk but, isn’t as sticky and no more horrid feel.

edit: The stock lube that comes with chains is good for about a month then it starts to wear thin, and also has an amazing ability to pick up every bit of crap of the trail. The way lubricant flows through the links; it coats all the parts pretty effectively.

*skips all the pages* EDF have done a brilliant job of marketing, since we now have a 10 page thread, with them at the centre of it. 😉

I have a 2.35 kenda (damn big) at the rear of my Genesis core 40 and there is still mud clearance. Can’t say the same for the front, a 2.35 kenda fits in my recon fork, not much clearance though.

The question to ask yourself, and do the research to answer, is do you want the job and why do you want the job?

Well that’s a bit of a tough one – not just for this but for other places I have applied, since apart from their websites I can’t get any more information about a placement, what it involves and whether it is for me.

I don’t want a repeat of college where I have done IT and hated it. I now what I don’t like – offices, paper work, excel that sort of thing.

What do I like is taking stuff apart improving it and putting it back together again. I have done mechanical work; car, mtb, but no experience or knowledge about what an electrical engineering job will involve.

Cheers