contact the locals and tag along with gps, go back and explore. If your in Bristol your so close to loads of great stuff – why not FoD its even closer.

Loads gpx tracks to on forums sites

Why mine always goes inside the car

Time for the low paid to close the gap with those at the top. The pay differential between workers and the top is morally unjustifiable. The imbalance is at a historical all time high both here and US

use my Spesh defrosters oh yes warm and dry

dont do it, commute will destroy any time you have with your child and wife. I love my parents and we get along great but I still wouldnt live with them. Id suggest it never works out

http://www.bike-treks.co.uk/content/2016-santa-cruz-colours-released.aspx

I’d ask myself a more important question, how did they know what bikes I had and my location? Whithout these two bits of information they would t have robbed them as it doesn’t seem a random break in. Working out how to break in once they have found you would be pretty simple.

Are you on a mountain bike related Facebook or similar?

I think the reverse is true. Instead of spending money on more security. Spend some on not getting your bike seen. Remove it from facebook, bike, club forums etc. Keep it inside the car when going to trail, ideally covered. The thieves know where to get information from. Dont make it easy for them. More security wont stop them as shown above.

Backed out of job after it was offered, better pay some £10k. Just couldn’t think of a good reason to join the company. They didn’t have the same work ethos or dynamic approach I have, Id call them risk adverse, dull process and driven. When I really thought about it I just didn’t really want to be associated with them. They didn’t give me any sense that I was joining an organisation that was valued within society as a whole or professionally.

load of b*ll*cks, ignore

did you turn speed up again? Sorry asking basic question but mine wont move on slow unless I turn speed up again.

Not yet! Sorry, you can’t get BT Infinity right now

same old and were not the rural!

Your area will be enabled within the next six months and we’ll provide more details nearer the time. At the moment you can’t order Superfast Fibre.

Meh its been years the roll out to more rural locations has been very poor.

Bronson only really coming alive when pressing on

Id agree. At speed it kinda sucks down onto the trail, VPP I guess. Its a bike you can hit in to the rocky stuff fast knowning it will carry you through. I never felt under biked

worries about the expense of carbon

Carbon is tougher, own one and you will find out. Your never going to own a carbon bike? Lifes too short, I’d not go back now.

certainly noticed the low bottom bracket on the rockier stuff

One reason I went Bronson. Both 5010 and Nomad are lower.

Looking forward to whatever they announce next, will demo and make a choice. Been looking at the Solo for sometime. Maybe with the new bike its time to pull the trigger 🙂

Some of this ‘climbs as well as’ is a bit subjective I fear. Nomad, 5010 and Bronson all great bikes. I look forward to their next offering. As always it depends on what how you ride. I don’t think there is a ‘one bike to rule them all’.

XT no brainer

Plenty at every village and petrol stations

Did it in April, 93km, 2032m climb, four hours two mins moving, average 22.7km per hour. Out back via Lluc. So five hours with lunch at the bottom sounds fair.

So if you were called up to fight for your country and didn’t agree you would leave?

It is a tragedy but it should be a local solution. The neighbouring countries in the Arab world should take them in. They can then easily go back once the wars over. It would also focus the neighbouring countries on supporting a solution instead of fueling the war. Moving them half way around the world isn’t a solution. You seem to miss the point that an asylum seeker should seek asylum in the first country they come to. Not the umpteenth.

Hmm new 5010 oh dear, I need a new bike. I think 5010 will handle most stuff well, not just trail. Jacobs ladder? Straight down over a few rocks. Spent more time waiting for a gap between walker groups. Way overated

Soaking, got caught in that down pour

Not short, just their take. It makes the bike very manoeuvrable which is something I was looking for. There isn’t a right or wrong. Bronson here, great alrounder for my riding. As the OP says demo bikes and test them for yourself. I like the VPP suspension as well. Horses for courses though.

Minion DHF & DHR was a real surprise how much better these tyres were, also fan HR2 great tyre. Quite light too.

Enduro singletrack trousers very good

I always use a dry lub

use a good wet lube

This years babies I’d guess. Great photos

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-9fyfc5

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/apr/05/hundreds-wild-boar-cull-forest-of-dean

not to be messed with 🙂

Boar are fine unless provoked. There has been a few instances where dogs have acted aggressively towards the boars and they will defend themselves. This is more likely when they have little ones around. If your close by, your fair game too.

Otherwise if left unmolested they run away or ignore you with little interest. They are just great when you see them.

If you want to lessen the chance of an encounter avoid late afternoon or evening in the forest.

you need to make small changes to diet cut out completely the:

booze
sugar
processed food
take aways
reduce intake

Increase exercise.

To brutely honest 4kg aint much, you dont take breaks for holidays.

Make a life style change. That means your whole life, every day

Good news, so many buy based on cost or reviews or opinion or forum advice. It’s handy but don’t beat actually riding the bike.

Depends if you demo it before hand and tried a few others. If the SI is, as it says, to avoid ‘squat’ I’d say yes. All my recent bikes avoid squat can’t see why I’d need all that extra maint, huge cost and weight for something that’s been banished from bikes for sometime. I ride a SC not adverse to cost. VPP works fine

Great movie quite old now though

Think the issue is between people who believe in coexistence and those who don’t.

Life’s too short to not be riding the bike you enjoy. But try and demo a few bikes.mits money well spent to avoid that nagging feeling theirs a better bike you’d really like to ride

Ah I see the dilemma

There are a load of demos on the UK SC site if your looking to demo. Always good to demo before you buy. Our opinions are just that, opinions. We’re all different sizes and ride differently. You might also try the YT Carpa. Recent experience in Canada with one showed them to be a great bike but let down by the E13 hubs. One thing I noticed on a recent bush replacement was how much better the TF tuned replacement DU bushings were for my Fox. Entirely subjective but it did fell a lot plusher.

?as based on the data on the SC site, rather than local opinion go and look.

Sorry Andy dont agree. When you compare the Nomad and the Bronson geo data they are almost the same within a few mm in most cases and just two degree head angle difference so a slacker HA will improve descending. I would almost say they are the same frame but one has a slightly slacker HA giving it a 30mm increase in wheelbase which would improve stabilty down hill. Bronson has better BB hight clearance. Again lower BB lower centre gravity so more stable but at the loss of clearance. Best for OP to demno before parting with cash 🙂

So changing the law will change people’s behaviour? That’s a non enforceable law of course a we don’t as yet have police patrolling the foot paths.