Hi, hi, hi there…

Welcome to STW, Viddy well, little brother. Viddy well.

I’ll come, might be a bit late on the 9:30 start (should show up around 9:40) – but then I’m yours for the whole day.

Wellies or AM41s? What time (roughly) do you think we’ll finish?

Cheers

Haha 😆 uselesshippy

🙂

either trolling or dont get out much

I blame the latter, today being one of those inside days.

What annoys me is that people who own 5s tend to treat them like a Jaguar E type i.e. clean, polish, only take it out on that special dry sunday once a month. (I have never seen a five that isn’t sparking clean and shiney)

It’s a bike! Get some mud on it!

But it’s hand built in Halifax 😯 So what, good for you, now ride the damn thing.

I like the bike itself however, I think it looks nice – industrial like.

A different kind of Orange Five Also designed for people with more money than sense 😛

Genesis core 40 singlespeed, coil RS fork so its easy to service. I don’t want more than one bike, I’d always have a favourite anyway.

Need want more hope stuff – avid brakes/shimano hubs are a PITA to service sometimes 🙁

If it’s big enough to make a scratching sound it’s big enough to punch. Punch it to death.

Probably a house spider, they can bite but it isn’t lethal.

Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience – I just remember that quote

If somebody has annoyed me, I just do my best to ignore it and get on with my day. Since if you start getting tied up about it and even more-so swearing and shouting at the div, then you’re spending precious minutes of your life on some eejit.

*childish voice* I wanna go, I wanna go!

I replaced the headset on my Genesis after 2 months (felt the same as you described)

I bought a hope one, since even if I could get it done under warranty, it would end up being like for like replacement. Which I didn’t want since the sealing on the stock headset was piss poor by design.

a 1.2 Vauxhall corsa N reg 106000 miles. Paid £290 for it. Paid about £1300 for my bike. Priorities 😉

Get a snake:

IMO just behind the wings is the safest place. Since over the wings means over the fuel tanks.

Too far at the back and you’re in bother if it crashes arse first, and you’ve got an APU at the back which can catch fire also (although minimal risk). The front isn’t great as shown by C4.

Also window seats are nice but should be avoided to allow yourself faster access to the aisle.

I struggle with long sentences

What rudebwoy is trying to say is that, the OP is saying that the people who smashed in his window are people from a council estate AKA chavs.

When this in fact may not be the case. Since saying that chavs broke my window – without any evidence, is the same as saying pikeys stole my bike and that all **** are drug dealers. – edit maybe not on the same level, but you get the idea.

All of which are prejudice generalisations, which serve only to demonise social groups.

I might get one for the ginger kid next door, so he can prove his point.

Keva – Member
dorset cereals here, the blue packet. 16.8gsugar per 100 so not too bad. half mix it with jumbo porridge oats and add a few mixed nuts, sprinkle with cinnamon. yum.

I have gone for this. Tastes a bit mleh, (I have been known to eat cereal at midnight) I think alpen blue bag stuff is nicer. Might try Oatibix.

All these “healthy good for you” cereals are new to me.

Bacon

Not really cereal unless it’s frazzles and milk you’re talking about…

I’d love to have Crunchy nut for breakfast, but I eat enough sugar throughout the day, so trying to reduce it at breakfast time. As for salt, it’s cereal not porridge – it shouldn’t even be there.

You should do a video and dress like a hipster for a laugh.

You’ll be the most hardcore hipster out there. 😛

The problem with gears for me was that when the chain got covered in mud, the gears would either not shift/ghost shift. And also when I would get home I would have to wash my drive-train – this was in winter 2011-12 so I converted my bike to a SS. People told me I should go back to gears for the summer, well I didn’t since summer was an even bigger mudfest than winter

I find that I enjoy the climbs much more on a SS, because a climb becomes a challenge, an event. Where as with gears you just spin at 70rpm till it’s over.

For me a SS makes me ride better (not so much faster but with better technique) because getting up to speed is harder, choosing a smoother faster line and trying to brake as little as possible is important to keeping the speed you have. You also learn to pump the bike. Furthermore because I don’t have to think about what gear to be in, I can fully concentrate on my riding technique.

Although I do miss gears on long smooth climbs, and on smooth shallow descents since you end up spinning out. Oh and you feel more knackered after a ride with SS.

I bought goggles, since a nice pair of them were cheaper than a nice pair of glasses.

They work well in the winter – keeping your face/eyes warm and mud free.

Not so good in the summer however especially on the climbs, but then just let them hang round your neck.

You’re riding a bike so you look like a tit, regardless what you wear.

You’re weird…

Thanks for telling me – since I wasn’t aware 🙄

bigdean – Member
“aren’t you tall” standard answer is “no i’ve got my heels on”. The amount of people that look down is priceless.

I’m taking that with me 🙂

How much time? *looks forward to doing C* 😈

I grew up around the millennium, the era of pokemon and the PS1.

But because my parents were poor I climbed trees and played with toy cars (the type where it’s just a car and you make your own brum brum noises).

And now I ride a bike in the woods whereas my friends play Call of Duty.

Love the sound of a 20

It’s a bit like music…

As somebody who likes Hardcore Punk music

I listened to a few bands from the genre recently, but I didn’t like them, not sure why they just didn’t sound “right”.

Your trying to apply logic, to an illogical situation.

I would write down my expectations and then with them on paper – decide how unreasonable they are.

As for being single forever because you’re too old…

With that mentality yes you will be.

But if you get out there and meet people, then there is a damn fine chance you’ll find somebody. There are loads of people out there, you just need to think outside the box pub, when it comes to meeting them.

Is she a bit.. erm.. lacking in the facial aesthetic department

The Lambo:

The Aston:

I’d go for the Aston

(although preferred car would be a Noble M600)

Aggressive = not mincing 😐

freeride racer

surely that’s an oxymoron

I have three settings: seat post up when riding along the road and anything else boring and time consuming. Then when I arrive at the “play area” – the woods I usually put my saddle down to a medium height so I can still sit down on it and pedal – not very efficiently, but hey. And finally completely slammed for jumps.

Thing is I ride a SS so the saddle is probably my least used component.

Shoe-d have gone to Specsavers

igmc

Would I still need to get a shorter stem at 720?

A shorter stem will make the steering feel snappier, as will narrower bars. A long stem and wide bars make the steering feel a bit numb.

So wide bars need a short stem to sharpen things up.

If you fancy some 720’s get them and try them, see how they feel with your stock stem in comparison to the 680 bars.

The stem bar thing really is down to personal preference, you have to experiment to find what feels comfortable and works for you, there isn’t a winning formula – unlike MBUK would have you believe.

I personally wouldn’t get a dropper post. I don’t see the point, Dropping the seat is only required when riding gnar DH and besides, just undo the QR whilst you psych yourself up.

For me it’s when my riding is smooth and controlled. No “shit that was lucky” moments.

Also when I know that I rode as fast as I could – this seldom happens, usually, I get to the end of a trail and think “I could have gone much faster, less braking next time and relax more”

bare-legged, flip-flopped, T-shirted and unjacketed people

These people are the optimists of our society, an Indian summer is going to happen in their minds.

Whereas I am sat in a nuclear bunker, wrapped up in layers of sheep skin and blankets.

Freeze it with an upside down can of compressed air.

Fluro pink or green

Bright purple?

DP