Pubs: The Malt Cross on St. James’ Street is worth a look, it’s a renovated Victorian music hall, and they have plenty of non-alcoholic options.

Hand and Heart on Derby Road is a great place to eat: a tiny bit pricey compared to most pub food, but *very* good food and the restaurant is in a cave. You’ll probably have to book to get a table at the weekend.

Custom Riders don’t have anything quite down to that budget, but they do usually have decent old stock at a discount.

Oh dear, they’re using 123-reg. No wonder DNS went wrong.

Bugger! I realised today that I can’t ride tonight, because I’ve got a thing in Manchester.

The descent Daz found is one of the best I’ve seen in Calderdale. We spent the last four days caning it :D

Going just by the thread title, I thought you meant Under The Skin.

Cougar – Moderator
The cats up there couldn’t find milk.

In space, no-one can. Here, use cream.

Solid work, Cougar. Reminded me of this recent favourite:

“I wondered what Craig David was up to these days. Turns out he now works for the British Archery Association. He’s the bow selector.”

Link because it’s big in non gifv form:

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One thing I found with using narrower tape is that, probably depending on where the edge sits on the profile, an unlucky bead dismount can lift a section of the tape edge and start a leak. For some rims, the only way I’ve got the right width is by carefully chopping a roll of duct tape down.

Cratoni’s S/M size helmets tend to be a good fit for my tiny noggin.

I went through five pages over three different websites run by SAP before then just googling “SAP business” and finding out what it was from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_Business_One

All the actual SAP sites left me clueless and thinking it’s probably a business cult built around a sales pitch.

Lovely! :)

This blue sky is SO WELCOME.

CharlieMungus – Member
Sneinton?

Sneinton is forever up and coming, and never quite seems to get there, but is a lot less rough than it was in the 90’s/early 00’s. Likewise for Forest Fields, used to be dealers and users, now mainly hippies and students (though never, ever walk over the forest rec alone after dark).

But speaking of Sneinton, I meant to say the woods along Colwick Ridge are a pretty nice run around on a bike. Nothing massively long or techy, but you can get in a 4 – 6Km loop with some steep hills and nice singletrack. A lot of it feels more secluded than it is, and there are several routes rideable each way East and West:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.9529033,-1.1083461,16z/data=!3m1!1e3
(Most entry/exit points are on Greenwood Road, but less obvious ones also go up from near Snienton level crossing, the junction of Sneinton Boulevard and Shrewsbury Road, and the Eastern-most tip of the woods near the lowest point of Greenwood Road. It’s probably all cheeky, I never even checked TBH, but I rode bikes up there from when I was a kid until about four years ago, and the dog walkers I ran into were always friendly).

iain1775 – Member
Anywhere further east of Nottingham is alot worse, from Lincoln across to Norwich to name just one area.

Ah, fair point, and I did find the East Mids pretty good for bike commuting, even from Nottingham to Derby. I think you’re absolutely right about it being more fun for something like a CX bike though. I was on a Hardrock at the time and rarely needed anything more. The rocks around Hedben Bridge took a bit of getting used to in comparison!

Can’t find as an actual gif, but it really IS a very accurate depiction of embodied VR control schemes:

Extremely accurate impression of VR control schemes pic.twitter.com/VcT8QMmzPJ

— Megan Fox (@glassbottommeg) February 22, 2016

I’m originally from Nottingham, and Beeston is one of the best places to live there at the moment. Loads of my friends have moved there; it’s an affordable, nice, well connected neighbourhood. Especially now the tram extension is open.

In terms of living there, it’s a great place if you’re either a student, or want to settle down. You’ll find though that Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, and their residents will get into constant pissing matches with each other, when that fact is they’re all small cities perched on the event horizon of London. Most people hit 25 then either settle down or **** off. It’s not a terrible place to buy a house and have kids. The East Midlands is a shit place to be single in your thirties though. It’s a weird demographic gap that drove me away and is noticeable when I go back to visit Notts. I thought it was just me at first, but after moving away to several other cities, realised people in Nottingham really can be pretty weird and intense about dating/singleness/etc.

The nightlife is less aggressive and macho than it once was, but it still has a drunk, loud, pukey square mile at the centre after 20:00 or so. Much, much less fighting than there used to be though.

“- Is there any decent mountainbiking which is ride-able from the University Park Campus?”

Not really. Iain has it right about getting a CX bike. We all rode hardtails, and the few who went full suss said it made local riding, including Pines, quite boring. Nottingham is probably one of the worst places in the country to live with a mountain bike but not a car. Mostly, you’re in a wide, very flat valley.

There’s a load of guys who dig over at Hemlock stone (about three miles from the University Park Campus), a couple of DH runs with a line of dirtjumps at the bottom, but you’ll be down in thirty seconds and pushing back up. Likewise, some digging in the woods at the northern tip of Bestwood Park, but short lines (with some very big jumps) that were decaying last time I went. That park does also have the best natural riding I found close to the city, you just won’t get an all day ride out of it.

Oh, fantastic! Many thanks.

Ah, right. Thanks. Yes, I found x-ring listings too, but all abroad. I’ll ring South Coast Suspension tomorrow, and if they can’t send me any, Slovenia it is.

We rode them on Saturday. Didn’t see any signs of closure…

I did the same once, and my first thought was “shit, I hope he’s not a graffiti artist or something”. Luckily he was a car thief.

Euphrynichus amanica!

edit: Here are some photos.

edit 2: even more nope when it has an egg sac!

… the face-whipping grass fragments were a memorable stand in for it though!

Those were some fun lean angles in 50mph crosswinds; I only got picked up and blown into a fence once.

https://vine.co/v/iJzabOZO1I0

On my way.

I’ll be there. Looks like we’ll only have to deal with gusts of 50mph, average wind is a piffling 30mph.

Weird, showing up here in browsers that haven’t loaded them before. Some ISPs seem to have massive caching issues with imgur though. Links:

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A basic bearing press, partly just because I wanted to learn how to use a Bridgeport, partly because I’d already been turning delrin bits to hold bearings on the bits of wood and threaded rod I was using before. I’d make it more neatly a second time…

The acme threaded rod and nuts came from a 3D printer parts supplier, but have just enough play in them I’ll probably buy a tap and redo it with my own parts.

Ooh, nice work stavromuller. Dual lines seem to do a nice job of correcting the initial acceleration wobble.

I made an RC camera dolly once, and it worked, but would need a lot of revisions and tuning to get unpleasant vibrations out of the single line design:
http://www.instructables.com/id/RC-Cable-Dolly-for-Small-Format-Cameras-and-Phones/

If I ever get the time, I’ll make a V2 with a rock crawler motor or a small gearbox.

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I was setting up an small electronics bench for myself, almost bought one of these horrible things, then remembered I loathe them and looked for something better.

The base had sawn edges, but came up really nicely once I got it on a linisher then a polishing wheel. The 12v fan does a really nice job of carrying solder fumes away from my face, and the power lead goes down the leg it’s mounted on then out the back of the base.

While I had the facilities, after fiddling with designs and paper models to check the shape, I made myself some lampshades too:

Their words: Blown out trails and STDs. I think what they were actually complaining about was that it’s busy, noisy; they’re getting older and find they want somewhere quieter to be. They absolutely loved Les Arcs :)

Les Arcs is really great, especially for lesser known trails with a guide company. I would definitely go back.

If your daughter wants a bigger bike park though, Les Deux Alpes might suit. Pretty extensive graded trail network with uplift, all the way from a glacier down to 3000ft below the town (The Diable – 666 – Venosc Red run down is great fun, though challenging on your arms if you do it without stopping). Alp d’Huez and all sorts of good road riding within reach. Self catering cabins or camping in Venosc, which is really peaceful.

(I’ve not been to Morzine, but heard a lot of people slagging it off this year. Sounds great if you want something exactly like a busy ski resort though)

On Saturday I almost skipped riding to advance on sausages and mash immediately, but went out and did 12k of wet, windy, dark riding around Todmorden first. One trail that’s slippery cobbles by the end of winter was still quite grassy and had way more grip than I expected.

R.I.P. Uncle Owen Mountain Cycle: