nickjb you weren’t on a Whyte were you by any chance? I went down there this morning. Think it’s good for what it is but not worth a huge trip really. The biggest thing to worry about is the amount of inexperienced riders attempting things beyond their abilities. The first time I was down there I had to give first aid to a lad that went OTB on the Olympic ring drop. We had to lift him out on a spinal board and the air ambulance was landing for another casualty further down.

The north shore jump is actually one of the easier features. You just need to hit it at a decent speed and that carries you over.

Just bought my eldest a 16″ pinnacle which is really good and cheaper than Frog/Isla etc

Gorilla tape cut to size, Stans sealant and you can buy tubeless valves or just cut some valves out of an old inner tube. The only tricky bit is the initial seating of the tyre. You might be lucky and get it up with a track pump, co2 can works but the ghetto inflator is the most cost effective method I’ve used.

Sell the scandal frame and sell the soul. Buy an Aeris or any other good 140/150 travel 650b bike and then get a Solaris frame and move the best bits over to that. Then you get two new bikes!

Ignore the zero travel 29er next to it. Does 140/130mm count as a long travel 29er? Either way it’s great going down hill.

In use at BPW. Although perspective makes it look like it has a tiny front wheel.

Managed to track the details down buried deep in their website

I was one of the emergency service responders to the bomb scene between Aldgate and Liverpool St. I remember everything about that day from the moment I heard the first calls coming in over the radio. I will remember it for the rest of my life and I’ll take a moment tomorrow to think about all those who lost a loved one.

Yeah Evans will take a deposit over the phone. I had a look at the Arkose but this was better value, fit me really well and I think it looks great. Although it is very enduro fluro!

Took it for a 30 mile ride on a mixture of road, single track and paths and I really like it.

Only ridden it on the road so far. Really nice looking bike and feels great. Although I have nothing to compare it to as this is my first non mountain bike for about 20 years.

I’m picking one up today so I’ll let you know. Seems a no brainier at the current price on their ride 2 work scheme.

Kona Satori at Rutland £1500 rrp of £2800

I’m really enjoying mine although they’ve put a stupidly tall top cover on the FSA headset so I’m swapping it over to a Hope one off my old bike.

Kona Process 153?
Giant Reign Advanced? (£3.3k but that does get you a carbon frame)
Trek Slash?

Absolutely tons of great bikes around that would fit those requirements at the moment.

Our old Lab (yes another one) ate in no particular order:

Any faecal matter of any origin (especially frozen)
Her own sick
An entire bag of pick n mix including the bag
The feet of a wooden chest of drawers
A full nappy
Her own bed
Moths
A gosling
The bottom stair
Part of a fridge
An entire birthday cake
3 other dogs dinners in under 8 seconds (pathetic slow eating Collies) that weren’t quite quick enough after finishing her own dinner. She just body slammed them out of the way.

She also once accidentally snorted a spider

Is the stock answer not Light Bicycle carbon rims with your choice of spokes/hubs?

I live nearby. Yeomans cafe (decent breakfast) or Linden House hotel (posh/pricey) in Stansted Mountfitchet or Homeandeat.com in Bishops Stortford. Don’t eat at the airport it’s soul destroying.

I’ve just bought a Kona Satori from Rutland. It’s really good fun, just needed a shorter stem and to go tubeless. It’s a sit and spin type of a climber but coming down the hill it’s brilliant. The spec for £1500 is amazing value.

I took mine out for the first time this weekend at Afan and Bikepark Wales. It was great and I chose it on the uplift in preference to my Trek Remedy with 160mm forks it was so good on the downs. The only thing I changed was a single ring up front, my bar/stem combo (standard one is too long) and swapped the Deore cassette as they weigh a ton. The wheels are good not particularly light but the WTB rims were already taped for tubeless and are wide enough and felt pretty stiff.

Whyte M-109?

Better not say what I think about Nine Inch Nails then

Ninfan – not quite sure why you are trying to pick an argument. It’s a criminal offence. You can’t keep something you know doesnt belong to you. It’s not a difficult concept to follow. You’ve misread the legislation because it’s badly written. Please see the post above

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That’s not a prescriptive definition of a wrongful credit. That section was added so that the offence thereafter included the credits listed in addition to what it originally referred to, i.e. money credited by mistake.
That is to say, if you transferred money to my account that you had stolen, and I knew you had stolen it, I commit an offence if I keep it, because money obtained by theft is now, since 2A was inserted, a wrongful credit, despite you giving it to me on purpose rather than by mistake.

Once he knows that the money he has been paid isn’t his and he then either spends it or transfers it then he comits theft as he has dishonestly appropriated the money. The money doesn’t have to be stolen in the first place.

It is a criminal offence so up to you really. S.24 of the Theft Act – Dishonestly retaining a wrongful credit

It’s not your money is it.

This is my personal favourite and I’ve tried LOTS

Marry a Belgian like I did. Stocking up makes visiting the in-laws much easier.

How many social workers does it take to change a light bulb?

11….. 1 to go and buy a new energy efficient low wattage guardian approved Eco bulb and 10 to write a pamphlet called “coping with darkness”

I’m related to a social worker so please don’t hate me.

Trek Remedy?

The Black Dog near Vauxhall does quite nice pub food.

Superstar Kevlars were good in my XTs but the Uberbike race matrix have been even better.

TSO host have been really good for me so far

You’re not an ex rat are you simmy? :-S

Few really nice VF routes in Val d’Isere. Pic of me on the last main face last week :-)

Tignes is riding well at the moment. Was blazing sunshine today.

Lift passes are free and some of the trails are really good. Wonderboises is a really nice natural style trail and the blue and red downhill runs have been great. Loads to do for kids as well. Just off to the indoor climbing wall for a bit to dodge the rain shower.

Parlez vous francais?

Pear Tarte Tatin

Stevo where is the closest and best riding to Tignes then? We are heading over that way in a few weeks but have transport so could head further for better lift assisted enduro xc gnar heroics.

Here you go

I’d love to go but it’s always fully booked. Are there plans to increase the number of uplift vans?

You can always just stick a slackset on the Pyga

Pyga 120 650b?

Carbon bars help take out some of the buzz as well. Have you got your brakes angled correctly? I know this is a bit ‘on trend’ but a shorter stem wider bar makes a big difference to control ime