Luvving the brevity and humour of Rorschach’s reply

You need strong sidewalls for fast aggressive cornering, running standard big volume XCish tyres had me off to many times for me to be happy. One of the group went home earlier and I borrowed their heavier downhill tyres and no more offs.

I can’t prove it but I think the standard XC tyres sidewalls were deforming at anything over 25mph on corners.

Lyme in the UK
How prevalent is Lyme disease in the UK?

The number of cases confirmed by blood testing in the UK has risen from 346 in 2003 to 1578 in 2009. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) acknowledges that confirmed cases do not necessarily reflect all the cases of the disease. HPA official estimates suggest there could be up to 3,000 new cases occurring in the UK every year. The true number of cases is not known, and may be higher still. Since full recovery may not take place in many cases, the total number of people affected is accumulating.

Who gets Lyme disease and Why?

In the United Kingdom, Lyme disease is carried by the sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus. This tick can also feed on deer and other wild mammals and birds. The tick prefers to live in woods, heath and moorland, although it does not occur exclusively in these habitats. People who live or work in the parts of the country where the tick is prevalent are likely to be at greater risk. However, cases of the disease are widespread and it is possible that the full picture of tick distribution is not yet fully understood. Anyone can get Lyme disease if a tick that is carrying the infection has bitten them.

Do other diseases accompany Lyme disease?

Several other infections can sometimes be found in tick secretions. If these are also passed into the bloodstream, they too may establish and complicate the symptoms and outlook.

If they get under your skin you will need to get the buggers out PDQ, and by out, I mean all of it, 100% out. See

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Lyme-disease/Pages/Introduction.aspx

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Hora, its all what ifs and buts, you don’t know, I don’t know so what is the point of your post other than a platform for you to moan ?

Get out on your bike and stop your whinging, your not perfect, I’m not perfect so why do you expect perfection from others ?

Cheers TT,appreciate where your coming from and your comments.

Big thanks Hill Climber 🙂

The 2012 Spesh one is very good but unfortunately only available for fatter tubes

TT I understand your view point and to a degree share it however in my opinion you have to be very naive to expect any competition that uses the internet to gather votes not to be swayed by various interest groups.

So as a father seeking to encourage his daughter in her hobby should I stand aside and see lesser photos storm ahead because they are “using” the internet in a more savvy way or do I roll up my proverbial sleeves and try to do the best by my daughter ?

And you should note that no where in this thread do I make any claim about how good or bad Laura’s photo is, I have left that up to the readers but you can see by the reaction on the thread its a decent photo for a beginer.

Finally my daughter really appreciates the feedback from this thread more than the votes and I am pleased that I took the time out to try and help her and I am even more pleased that so many people on here also took the time to click on the link, vote and pass on words of encouragement. Regards Paul

Karma, rice, nan bread and a dry cider is the way to go, she is now up to second place and closing in on the top slot which is just amazing for her very first comp.

Huge thanks to all the ST voters 😀

Lots and lots of good karma and we all need good karma

The job is a loaded dice, away from the camera Dagleish is a really good bloke but in front of the cameras he became a prickly village idiot, as I said earlier the whole Liverpool thing is an unbalanced mess and whilst you have Liverpool fans thinking they have some sort of divine right to Champions league footy and silverware it will continue to be a mess.

The fact is you have to earn the right every season through every game, you don’t earn the right based on what you did 7 years ago — Liverpool fans you need to wake up and get real !

Cheers Dashed, Andy, Momo and Johnners (btw how do you tell the difference ? ) Keep them coming

ps Andy Im luvving your Brendon Rogers replies 😉

The wheels are light, tough and spin for ever and my tubeless problems orignate from using second hand tyres, I have no doubt if I had bought new tyres I would not have had these problems.

Gloop fixed the Bonty 🙂 the NN is an Evo Snakeskin non ust jobbie and its previously been run with tubes and suffered a couple of thorn punctures, these have been plugged by the gloop but the rim interface whilst a lot better is still not 100% tight. My fear is that with the extra WRT load its going to keep burping and that would effectively ruin the ride (I’m going to take a tube just in case)

Test ride with lots of kerbs to follow but its still a case of “ifs and buts”

Top job guys, I think she is now up from 6th to 3rd Yehh 😀 Big thanks all round

Everything about Liverpool is unbalanced, their history compared to the present day, their ground to their ambitions, the transfer spending compared to their income.

There is a desparate need of a reality check, Liverpool have been “trending” downwards for over a decade and I think most honest impartial observers will recognise they were very lucky to beat Cardiff on pens at Wembley.

Will Rogers stop the downward spiral, who honestly knows ? He will give a go but will he be given the time and money required because make no mistake Liverpool are nowhere close to being a top four prem club right now.

Liverpool are quite simply a top ten prem club trading on past glory and thats proven by the appointment of Rodgers.

Brilliant thank you all so much and because the goodwill is flowing there is even a thank you to cynic-Al.

All I will say Al is you saw her you would vote for photo

Bloody hell Xanboy, you actually have more tyres than me, clearly the rubber fetish is not confined to Cheshire.

Hi Paul, the Bontys are second hand so not me on this occasion

Sounds good – do they come up as a normal/skinny/fat 2.1″ ?

Hi Steve, hows tricks ?

IA my bath and wheels/tyres are very well aquinted since you ask 😉

Values are air tight, the Nobby Nic is responding slowly to more gloop, leaks on that one were lots of tiny champagne bubbles from numerous areas of the rim interface. The Bonty has a nick in the sidewall I’m going to fix and a single largish rim leak.

Jameso, Ardent up front I’m guessing ?

Xanboy, whats your fave front back combo ?

Cheers guys, I’m going for more gloop this evening whilst I research the weight and tread profile of the tyres detailed above. In the morning its make your mind up time.

Chance it, risk ruining the WRT and pissing my mates off or dash off to Wistanleys or Royles or some other localish bike monger ????

Swung them about that much I nearly sliced my finger off in the disc rotor 🙄

I have just bought the two way Campy Shamals, they are wonderful in every way

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/campagnolo/shamal-ultra-2-way-clincher-wheelset-ec030985

Im in with Mark and the go faster enduro whippet known as Daz — major faffing going on with brand new 29″ UST wheels, two different tyres, two different sealing problems, not happy or relaxed. 😥

clwyds tonight for us – should be fun but I would have prefered less cloud cover so I could star gaze.

John, its not even close to being cold, MTFU or get a better sleeping bag 😀

I think I might have had one of the first GD units in the UK, I bought in America years before there was a GD UK agent and its still working ok. I also have a second GD Turbo, again its fine, neither are bomb proof, both need some TLC from time to time. A mate bought a new Reverb last year, it lasted 5 months, seals failed and could not be repaired under warranty (seems odd but hey ho) and he was given a full refund and he is going to get the latest version later this month.

Did it a few years back it but would not rush back to do it again, it was ok no more no less. There’s so much good riding around there it seems daft to pay good money to wait in line to ride average trials.

After making your offer you are thrown out or worse still thumped then its reasonable to assume your offer was not only too low but insulting but joking aside, there is only central London where prices are rising, everywhere else is static or falling and as the other posters said, do your research, its the biggest transaction most people will ever do and the more research you do the better the deal you should get.

Stu, hows your rig going ? Mine is going to be the same 32/22 Stinger set up, the Canfield guys suggested I shim out the BB on the opposite side to the Stinger to balance things up but I’m not totally sure if thats really required.

What ratio cassette are you running, I’m going with a standard 11/34 jobbie, atb Paul

The guy from Renthal replied as follows —– Hi Paul,
We are in the process of developing a range of stems. We don’t have a release date yet, but the current schedule is for the first half of 2012.

ok its not as trashy looking as I feared (thnx 2w1g) I still prefer black but I’m going to buy a pair however (there is always a gotcha lurking) I would like one of their stems and I can only find 50mm size but probably need a slightly longer stem. Is the 70mm version shipping any where ? Stop press just found out they are down the road in Stockport so I have emailed them for an answer.

Cheers guys given my fear is not having enough power to get up long climbs and my thinking was a 36 ring out the back would overcome that problem so is the alternative to change the crank chain ring rings to achieve roughly the same result because that would be easier all round for me.

What do you reckon to this ? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/36-Tooth-Cog-Mountain-Bike-Cassette-36t-Sprocket-/250796770828?pt=Cycling_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3a64a7060c

The Italian 36 tooth ring certainly looks like a classy bit of engineering but 56 euros is a bit steep. I might be better off just buying a brand new cassette with the 36 tooth ring. I presume if I buy a buy a 10 speed cassette I would have to buy new crank chain rings to accommodate the new 10 speed chain ?

Does anyone know where I can get a 36 tooth ring to fit either a Shimano or Sram standard 9 ring cassette ?

Any ideas where I can get a 36 tooth ring to go on either a Sram or Shimano standard nine ring cassette ?

Stock is low and getting lower all the time, next delivery is scheduled for May some don’t hang around!

CTBM and I got lucky with the very last large semi polished frame, hopefully it will arrive in good shape some time in Jan and then I can start fretting about what to build it up with. First time I have had any dealing with CTBM and the Canfield guys and they were both a joy to work with. Happy Christmas indeed 😀