a strange way of evaluating evidence?

Is there a test for autologous transfusions? No.

Very interesting.

Trade with people of different nationalities is unnatural and food preservation is the work of Satan

yawn

Cover your plants with netting/fleece so the butterflys can't get in (next year)
And grow sprouting broccoli/kale that grows through Winter and is ready before the pests (and when your garden isn't producing much else veg-wise)

FSA Orbit

Yes, easily, always have. Have never been able to do sit-ups though.

Ambrose, where is "the most central point in Wales" then?

My windfarm bike in its natural habitat

http://www.goginan.com/druid/arfon.html

Good crossbike territory is on the Cefn Groes windfarm roads linking Devils Bridge, Cwmystwyth and Llangurig/Upper Wye. Also cutting north from Pontrhydgaled into Hafren forest. There are too many variants to suggest specific routes.

I sympathise. Sometimes I appreciate the meditative aspect of cycling – physical effort without having to keep ones brain in gear constantly to avoid physical injury. Is that what you mean?

The B+B run by The Druid in Goginan generally gets good reports on here – a mile from NyA. Also Ceredigion real ale pub of the year.

http://www.goginan.com/druid/

plenty others in the area here

http://www.pumlumon.org.uk/map/map.php?page=acc_20&lang=eng

duct tape for strength just wide enough to cover the holes then a wider electrical tape over it to make it airtight

are they "carbon wrap" jobbies?

These are not benchmarks

benchmark:
a standard by which something can be measured or judged; "his painting sets the benchmark of quality"
a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point

I like Magura brakes but IME they are a bugger to bleed.
(I also like Hope and Shimano and would probably like the others if I tried them)

http://www.snopes.com/photos/advertisements/megawoosh.asp

shame

http://www.mach-es-machbar.de/english/das-projekt-megawoosh.php5

This afternoon I was out my cross bike and there was a bit where I had to ride along an old hedge bank – a bumpy narrow track with about a metre and a half drop on either side. Half way along I thought about that video. It made me fall off.

re snake gang attack teenager

I think I'd be more scared of a gang of youths armed with cats.

http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/editorial-080828-1.html
http://springerlink.com/content/30h281g68648h431/fulltext.pdf

Home made wine can be good cheap alcohol that tastes fine, after the first glass or two. Just don't expect it to taste like bought grape wine. It gets considerably better the more grapes/grape concentrate or raisins/sultanas you put in it and the longer you leave it before drinking (difficult).

Seeing as 2mm diameter is just 1mm per spoke, probably not.

Have a look at the spoke ends and see if they could be 1mm longer without poking out from the end of the nipple. If not you could probably switch to 12mm nipples if you have 14mm at the moment.

Mind you, I'd certainly ride them till they're buggered before I paid out nearly £80 for a new pair.

First flickr pic of Aber seafront is listed as between 1890-1900 but the monument on Pen Dinas (1852) isn`t there. It is in the second pic.

Good stuff (just when I was planning to get some work done before home)

I don't see how applying creme brulee to the seatpost could possibly work

I've had bulges recently in two Conti Mountain King protection. The sealant was just latex.

a natural ride passing Trallwm:
http://www.offroadadventures-online.com/rr049.html

also plenty between there and Llanwyrtyd heading south

http://www.eastonbike.com/downloadable_files_unprotected/r&d_files/R&D-05-Carbon.pdf

I've always used a hacksaw with no problems. Use a new blade and perhaps wrap some tape round the inside of the tube.

the cafetiere is actually a Welsh invention
(FACT)

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/route-advice-for-the-black-mountain-western-brecon-beacons

would Jesus use spds or just nail his feet to the pedals?

they did used to put on Laurel and Hardy round about 11

I have been using the head and hose of an old track pump attached to my car tyre as a compressor. I put a few turns of electrical tape round the valve and fit the loose end of the hose over it. The screw fitting for the loose end (reversed) then slides back over this like a compression olive. Then simply fit head end to car tyre.

cheap Merlin steel frame
stxrc 8 sp kit
semi-decent wheels and fast tyres

I think weight loss for someone like Wiggins is a different ball game than it would be for someone like me.

TJ – yes, they snap into place and I take them off and put them on again.

ballsofcottonwool – yes, my thoughts too.

I'm having trouble keeping my lunch down

freeridenick is right – apart from the very top it rideable (although some bits near the top are perhaps borderline. Definately worth both walking and biking.