On-One Big Dog? I have one and it’s ace.

I don’t know the answer but if you’re on Facebook it might be worth asking on here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1738417039711594

Lot of Big Dog owners on that group. Please post on here if you find a solution as I’ve been wondering if it’s possible too.

Barry – just brilliant.

Also Bojack Horseman… but mainly Barry.

Anything at all by New Fast Automatic Daffodils – criminally underrated band.

We love Contis Plage on the Atlantic coast. Good for surfing and body boarding, some nice bars and restaurants and great for families. Loads of cycle paths along the coast too if you’re taking bikes.

Would recommend the Yelloh Village campsite as a place to stay.

Twice in the last few weeks I’ve seen a guy on a unicycle on the trails of SW Sheffield. First time he was heading over Totley Moor; last week he was on his way down Devil’s Elbow on Blacka Moor, which is a whole other level of challenge! Anybody else spotted him?

If you’re in the city centre, Vero Gusto on Norfolk Row is excellent.

I’ve used Softmall before – I bought Office 2019 from them last year for around £20 and had no problems.

Was anybody else from here at Latitude festival?

Brilliant weekend – felt like being back to normal. My highlights were Dry Cleaning and Working Mens Club on Sunrise stage. Squid were excellent on BBC Sounds stage and my 11 year-old daughter discovered the Chemical Brothers, who she loved. Mind you, she also enjoyed Bastille’s dreary headline set so maybe she isn’t the best judge :)

Oh, and Bill Bailey’s Sunday afternoon set in the sun was awesome.

Works with a Fox Flux.

BT Complete (their mesh setup) is great. Before that, we had endless problems in a very old tall house with thick walls and the router on the ground floor. Now have the main BT router on the ground floor and 3 discs, one in the kitchen that gives us decent coverage in the garden too and one each on 1st and 2nd floors. Never struggled with a Wifi signal since.

On-One Big Dog or Hello Dave steel hardtails.

I have the Big Dog and it’s ace – great climber and an absolute riot on the descents. Apparently the Hello Dave is even crazier going down :)

After tearing our hair out at Epson and HP printers constantly going offline, we got a Brother DCP-J572DW for around £100 from Argos and (touch wood) we’ve had no issues. Not sure if that model is still available, but will definitely stick with Brother from now on.

Edit – just noticed mrmonkfinger’s post above… looks like it’s just pot luck :)

G-Form in a smaller size?

Not trying to be a smartarse BTW – I bought G-Form in the size recommended on their website and they kept slipping. Went a size down and they fit great.

Oh yeah she’ll be fuming at the all-expenses-paid trip to Prague, free meal and all that lovely publicity enhancing her image as the voice of reason in a world of PC-gone-mad. The whole stunt plays right into her hands, she’ll have loved it… what a waste of time.

Thanks for all the advice. I ended up increasing my budget and went for a Magicshine MJ906. Used it the other night and it’s ace – definitely recommended.

The National – Slow Show

Gaz Coombes – The Girl who Fell to Earth

Embrace – Fireworks

Sorted it (I decided it couldn’t wait until the weekend). As suggested by one or two of you, the mech was indeed working loose from the hanger – there was quite a gap opening up. Tightened up the bolt and it’s fixed.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Smokey and the Bandit!

We had a similar problem with a capped off chimney – permanent damp patch that no amount of dehumidifying etc seemed to shift. Our builder reckoned it was condensation caused by lack of venting. We had the chimney breast completely removed almost two years ago and (so far) have had no reoccurence of the problem.

Have fun, and remember there’s nothing in the woods at night that isn’t there during the day. It’s just that at night it’s awake. And hungry.

D’oh! I predicted post 6 for this comment.

Agree with every word OP. The air of entitlement of some dog owners really annoys me.

My 6 year-old daughter got knocked over by a dog on the way to school last year, and the dozy cow who’d let it off the lead seemed most confused by my anger as she explained that it was ‘just being friendly’.

Earlier this year, also on the school grounds, I had a disagreement with another self-entitled idiot who let their dog stand in the middle of the school gate so my kids couldn’t get past. They squeezed past it, and I sarcastically said ‘don’t bother moving your dog then’ to which she genuinely replied ‘Well they were in his way too’…!

Thankfully dogs are now banned from school premises.

ooh, didn’t know Dave Grohl was in a band before the Foos.

Not quite sure if you’re being serious or not, but if you are you should watch some videos of Nirvana live – absolutely awesome drummer long before he became a decent frontman.

I saw them Reading ’92 as well. They were ace despite the crap weather affecting the sound quality. The whole crowd were bouncing.

I really like my Boardman Hybrid Team.

I played football on Bridlington beach with the Stone Roses.

I asked Johnny Dean from Menswear for directions to his band’s gig in Cologne.

In 1995, I asked Lee Mavers where he’d been for the last 5 years – his reply was ‘in bed’.

Muzzle, have a word with Armstrong, he’s got a Thule one, same car too!

You know I already know that, right? :-)

Thanks for advice so far – any other specific recommendations would be appreciated.

brassneck, I’m in Sheffield so not really handy to pick up. Thanks anyway.

roverpig is correct – I just found the email from Cy at Cotic. Copied and pasted the appropriate bit below:

Question:
iv) Can you educate me on Bottom Bracket height (there are no doubt myths around this). I’ve see a lot of emphasis placed on the benefits of low BBs lately.

Me:
This is getting to be one of my hobby-horses because we are now being accused of having BB’s that are high when 3 years ago the original Rocket was consider ‘slammed’ and pretty extreme. Yes, there are bikes that are going lower on the BB, and by quite some margin, but it’s a matter of what and where they’re being used, and how their suspension works. On groomed bike parks or even steep, rough ground where gravity keeps you going, a low BB is fine. Generally a lower BB makes cornering easier so it’s worth aiming as low as you can. However, I (and I suspect most people) like to pedal across rough ground, and particularly around here there are rocky, knobbly climbs which need some ground clearance to enable you to climb them. And I don’t buy the whole ‘you could walk faster’ crap. I never have, but especially around here and also on flatter, rootier terrain where you need to pedal to keep your speed up, walking is definitely not faster, it’s much slower. And I don’t like walking, I like riding! I have a prototype at the moment which is 5mm lower on the BB than the current MAX bikes and I can REALLY tell the difference. On my benchmark climb I catch my pedals more and often get stopped by a mis-timed pedal stroke. I tried it with the team lads and they immediately noticed as well, as they like to pedal and keep speed across really quite rough terrain. Low BB isn’t the be all and end all. Like anything with MTB, there’s a huge variety of terrain and rider out there and we pitch our frame layouts according to what we want to ride and what works for us. We hope in striking that compromise there will be other people who see the same as we do. The other thing to consider is that static BB heights are only half the story. Our bikes are quite progressive so they’re designed to run with 30% sag without feeling too soft or blowing through their travel. And because of the progressive nature of the spring curve that means they sit down a fair way from the static height with rider on board. Some of these super low BB bikes might need 20 or 25% sag dialed in to give them support if they have a more linear spring rate. For example, although it’s 140mm travel, the RocketMAX sags 50mm at the rear wheel when setup correctly. At 25% sag it would only sag 39mm at the rear wheel (the frame rate being progressive means it’s not a directly proportional relationship), which would lift the BB about 7mm for the same fork sag. It’s not recent experience, bit I know from riding Orange and Specialized bikes in the past that I have needed to run them stiffer with less sag than I can get away with on the droplink setup.

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I think you need to post their responses, redacted if necessary.

It’s pretty obvious what brands and trail you’re referring to; having implicitly criticised them in your post, it’s only fair you give them right of reply here if they’ve responded to you.

Have you considered the Airdrop Edit?

I’m going to be looking at replacing my Yeti ASR-5 very soon too. Top of my demo list will be Cotic Flare/Rocket and Airdrop Edit (I live in Sheffield and want to support a local firm if I possibly can).

It’s the eve of the eve of Christmas Eve [/pedant]

Edit: Oh yeah that’s what you said :oops:

Oh God, how did I forget The Fifth Element and There Will Be Blood…?

The Thin Red Line and anything by Wes Anderson except The Grand Budapest Hotel (which is ace).

I’m halfway through ‘Nothing to Envy’ – various personal accounts of life in North Korea with a fair bit of Korean history thrown in to put it all into context. It’s absolutely fascinating.

Definitely Gomorrah – thanks all. Clip here (warning – it’s a bit violent).

Aahh! Could be it – I’ve seen all of Gomorrah so that’s probably it – doesn’t Genny spend some time in Honduras at the start of series 2…? Cheers all.

He does look bloody awful for nearly 70 though

You’d look bloody awful if you’d driven your car over your own head.

went to bed early last night to avoid it

You know you could have just not turned the telly on don’t you…?