the chilterns yesterday 🙂

bit of F4 history here.

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cougar

you can get the whole thing on steam for 19 quid. bargain 🙂

falcon4 still lives, falcon4 allied force was released a few years back and is very stable. for fancy graphics but a little less stability try freefalcon

still the same life devouring campaign engine underneath it all. how they managed to programme that over ten years ago to run on something with less grunt than my mobile i do not know, and it has still not been bettered

and x3 terran conflict rocks big time, just be ready to “waste” the equivalent of about a month playing it 🙂

just made the move myself after years of spd’ing

so far so good, loving the feeling of security that i can step off when i want, has made me ride harder.

am being bounced off the pedals a bit but that is just crap technique, must try harder. heels down and seat down a bit has made a huge difference, push from behind rather than from above. not lost any skin yet but sure it won’t be long

wellgo v12s and some airwalk skate shoes

dickyboy

any joy with the respray? if so where did you get it done?

probably worth spending 16 quid on a pair then!

thanks for the tips

🙂

Are shin guards essential?

clicky

these seem a bit OTT for the chilterns

or am i missing the point?

got mine on thursday here in sunny oxfordshire 🙂

maverick species 1

kona caldera and marin rift zone

teeny tiny one about 3″ across from a friends garden

with a dinotte 200L stuck up its arse as a night light was too big 🙂

Trimix, try this. It'll give you OS grid coordinates in Google Maps

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://www.nearby.org.uk/google/gridref_mapplet.xml%5D

Trimix, try Mulitmap

http://www.multimap.com/s/Aw95OrmA%5D

thanks all for the support, we were here near Maidensgrove, just into the woods

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=51.588496,-0.957637&spn=0.001183,0.002789&t=h&z=19

with a convenient field for the heli to land in

rob now shot full of morphine and feeling much better 🙂

spoon, you got a name for the cardiff road lot? sound ideal

pics would be good too 🙂

kenda nevegals, 2.35 on the front, 2.1 on the back. fan blinkin tastic :O)

RL Ti in moo cow on both bikes

had a Nokia 5800, now an E72

more buttons = betterer

27.2 ea50 in mine.

does it have the split h links? if so that's probably where the noise is from.

my mate has the split h link version, mine are one piece. his creaks like a bastard and mine is silent. new bearings and the whyte shock bushing upgrade probably helped too :O)

newish

5 years older but still going strong. now has revs and ti moo saddle but basically unchanged.

5.10 and ride a 17", brilliant frame, would only replace it with another one.

bought frame 2nd / 3rd hand in 2004 for £150, great bike, preferred it to the quad rift zone i have now

swindon to didcot in 4 hours easy, but only in the dry

muddy wheel breaking slop in the winter tho so pick your time of year carefully

chop, where are you based?

have a 17", am 5' 10" with 30" inside leg, good fit, top tube a touch short but i have set it up to really suit me. love it

excellent

here

battleship chains by the georgia satellites

whole song using only two fingers :O)

mmmm wwaswas liking that. GF ferrous?

had one in our LBS and was sorely tempted

how does it ride?

chilterns with a mate who i have not ridden with for two years, so three hours of mud and talking about guitars

:O)

Suede

Source

Shamen

???

ditto

had my frame for five years, my full suss comes out about twice a year now :O)

buy it (and a roll of heli tape)

@scott_mcavennie2

you sir are an artist :O)

had this on some fire xc pros, 4 dead tubes in one ride. are yours kevlar beads? mine went slack after a while and don't grip the rim properly

once it started my only real solution was new tyres

Went for a few rides with rich last year. Back in touch now. Top fella for a young'un ;O)

Nice. What size is the frame?

My red 853 is looking a bit tatty, tempting. Where did you get that done?

thats what i thought. i've got a 17" rock lobster 853 and the TT length is half an inch longer than the core, so probably would be a bit short. nice frame tho

its a good deal so wanted to check i wasn't missing out

thanks all :O)

Lobster at play

darcy, sounds good

email in my profile if you're interested :O)