i was thinking yesterday, as my hands were getting wet and cold as my wind proof Endura gloves were letting the rain in, if I had some large rubber doctors type gloves I could carry a pair in my pocket and pull them over my normal gloves in the event of wet weather, one time use, lightweight

Hahaha, that brings back a memory. We totally smoked the road out when my brother got a bit giddy doing this to an XR2 I owned many many moons ago

I remember smoking out the town after following the instructions to put a cap full of redex down each plug hole, it said you just needed to rev the engine and all the crap would dissappear, maybe it did but the town was shrouded in smog

White spirit should shift it, but as above wax it afterwards

Planet X are bringing out a bike called the Bish-Bash-Bosh looked fantastic in the showroom, think it CF though so probably way out of budget, no prices as yet

Ice Techs on both of my bikes with XT 785 brakes, did try Aztec floating type rotors on my hardtail but didn’t like the feedback, we have Hope floating rotors on my lads full sus with SLX brakes and they work well just a bit fiddly to setup to avoid the rivets catching the caliper

I drive a company car so adding extra lights is no no (although I did in the 90’s), my last car was a Toyota Avensis which had standard headlights which were pretty good, my new car a Astra are cr@p I fitted Osram night breakers and they made a hell of a difference, only problem the dipped beam bulbs failed after a year, high beam still fine though

YHM

Just tried all the codes and none work for me

There’s a berghaus outlet shop near us and a lot of the jackets have some sort of iron on logo, rather than the embroided logos of the stuff I own.
It’s all legit, just made cheaper.

Seems to be the new Berghaus way, I have a 10 year old Mera Peak that has fantastic build quality but I’ve just bought the latest version from go outdoors and it is made from much lighter weight material and the logos are “iron on”

Nano techs for £27.74. Don’t need any but rude not to at that price surely

Well I thought so, all my bikes have SPD’s but my lad keep telling me I need flats for the trails so I’ll give em a go. I bought Planet X’s version last night for £20 as well for the Orange Clockwork hack

I assumed they were anodized, I might stick with my M540’s and save £47

Merino is my favourite, must have at 10 base layers but would choose one of the 3 merino ones everytime. Craghopper one my favourite and was about £25

Cheers, it’s got to look right while it’s hanging in the garage though, it’s a road bike after all bling bling.

How do you get on with them being just single sided? I’ve used the 324 single sided a few times but they look naff and are heavy, all my others have been dual.

8 years ago I had a Vectra that I had specced out apart from leather seats, regretted it and after a year got a set of sports seats from an SRi and had them custom trimmed at Classic Car Services in Leicester, cost about £1200 but that was roughly the factory cost anyway, but you can choose from 50+ colours 2 tone etc and they were full leather not just the facings, normal production cars have pleather on the sides and back. The leather was amazing quality too from Scotland, kept it clean and nourished with proper leather cleaner. I had accompany car after that and test drove a Passat with leather and thought it was hard and uncomfortable, went for an Avensis in the end with Leather and kept it clean with baby wipes even after the dog had been in it would look new after 2 mins and 1/2 dozen baby wipes. Got cloth now and they are awful.

I’m working in an airport in wales this week and staying locally in the caravan, as I bought a road bike on Tuesday I’m cycling to work, it’s only 5 mins and saves £40 a day car parking!

I’m at Cardiff airport looking after IT kit for the NATO arrivals, thought it was just me tried my laptop, iphone and windows phone on 3G and wifi

Something I know a little about, I’ve been a keen target recurve archer for the past 10 years shooting for my county over the last 5 and my son is on the GB junior compound squad and has had a few trips in the last 2 years including China and Moscow even winning medals on his last two trips. We are both target but my son is looking at field for his next challenge, my club is mainly field but we do have members that have represented GB in field archery. From what I understand field archery is shot over varying distances at 3 different size target faces, certainly at a competitive level,other forms shoot at animal shaped targets.

Costs, GNAS fees around £50 a year (to join Archery GB for insurance purposes and compete) and club fees vary club to club from £50 upto coiuple of hundred depending. Usually clubs are run by and for their members so not for a profit.

Kit can start from £100 but as everyone will tell you, seek a local club, do a beginer course and take it from there. Many clubs will have a eBay nut who will help sourcing 2nd hand kit. I built my kit up over 5 or 6 years and was somewhat shocked when someone said my kit would cost around £2K to buy new as I’d bought it over such a long time, I dare not add up how much kit my son has.

I’d suggest trying it out a target club, once you are proficient enough to hit the target at a good range of distances then have a go at field, you may soon get put off if you went straight to field and constantly loose arrows in the undergrowth.

I’ve been carrying bikes on the roof of my cars for the last 25 years, using all sorts of cheap carriers, I even tried a rear mounted carrier ONCE, never again. The cheap carriers have always done the job but are fiddly to use, especially with the oversized tubes on the FS bikes.

However recently I’ve picked up some 2nd hand Thule wing bars and three 591’s and I won’t be going back, they look and work great.

You shouldn’t get charged I bought a camera lens from Hong Kong via e-bay & the seller marked it as warranty replacement and I wasn’t charged.