2unfit2ride – Member
Oh dear God, Junkyard, that’s entirely the point, just so you don’t have to carry your crap around with you then I have to deal with it on an everyday basis, just to accommodate you, why?

Do you realise how precious that makes you sound? A few locks on a lamp post/bench are something you have to take time to deal with?

I’ll be there, but will be in Hill by the time you start Clubber. Might save you a slice of cake if you’re lucky!

No, but from that even meeting up with you in towns etc would be possibly in breach of the rules.

I think you’re right though, it would definitely be easier not to see people you know on route. Saying that, having someone to pick you up from Antelope Wells seems like a good idea!

molgrips – Member
Racing, I suppose. Although I know I’m not going to win, I want to set as good a time as I can.

and

mrsgrips – Member
And hell, it’s a long vacation for me too if he does it because where Mol goes in this world me and the Lil’s follow…

Are not compatible.

Rule 2

2. To complete the Route a rider may resupply food/equipment, rent a room, launder clothing, even service their bike at shops along the way. The intent is to ride unsupported between towns, and function self-supported when in towns. Any services utilized must always be commercially available to all challengers and not pre-arranged[1]. No private resupply, no private lodging.
Tour Divide strives for ‘equal opportunity’ within the GC. Whether riding an individual time trial or tackling the grand départ, TD requires that every challenger—from those living along the route to those living on other continents—have an equal playing field. Therefore, outside assistance[2] with navigation, lodging or resupply (especially receipt of supplies from a non-commercial shipper) is prohibited. Visitation: Divide racing is not intended to be a spectator sport, however, route-town locals ONLY may visit with, cheer on thru-racers as they pass through their locale. Out-of-town visitation to the GDMBR mid-race from family or friends—even if only a remote possibility for rider rendezvous—is prohibited.

Unless of course you want to follow without seeing him. 😉

I could be a contender!

@disco stu – they seem to do quite well for reliability and their light. I know if I were planning to ride a bike 2700 miles i’d want it to be light as possible.

I’d go with the Matthew Lee school of packing too – “what you’d take on a normal day ride plus sleeping gear”, would be a rough few weeks, but might be a few days less if you take the bare minimum.

No rack or panniers, too heavy. Velcro and straps to attach things to bikes are far lighter. Oh and you’d have to take a sack full of spare pannier bolts, those things rattle loose just looking at them.

Singular Pegasus would be perfect I reckon. Perhaps with a lefty on the front, deffo no fox forx though!

Osborne really does think we’re all idiots

I like the fuel duty stabiliser idea. “Lets lower fuel duty and to pay for that we will raise tax on fuel production.”

Is it me or will the fuel producers just pass that tax rise on to the consumer thus negating the reduction in duty? Osborne really does think we’re all idiots.

Get a bike rack for the back of the van so you can ferry people further afield if that’s what they want to do. Don’t ditch the dauphinoise 😉

just noticed you can buy the other DZR shoes at Always Riding.

I’ve got a pair of these from Mission Workshop. Think they’re only available at 14 bikes in that London, but if you ask nicely they will post them.

another vote for ride the divide here.

Just got the blu ray, it’s great.

makes you wonder why they’re even bothering with downgrading it from magenta to blue to make it all weather 😉

steve-g – Member
I think I’m going to get one of these, as long as its only kids in the back they look great

There’s actually loads of room in the back for adults – because of the sandwich floor the rear floor pan is about 100mm lower than the front so legs are more upright.

I’ve got one, had it for about 3 months. 2001 MY so the 75bhp variant. Seems a pretty solid little car, not heaps of room in the back with the seats down, need to take both wheels off to fit a 29er in there.

Worth checking out the A2 Owners Club website, they’ve got a good list of things to watch out for when buying and should give you an idea of what’s good value.

the avocado stuff is much nicer than the sandlewood and the lemon lime i’ve tried. Has a totally different texture, much more creamy and oily (but in a good way). So much so that i’m tempted if i run out just to brush on a load of mashed avocado…

microplane surely.

ha ha, second pic down is my mate Jamie, editor of Wideopen[/url]

erm, some sort of lisp routine would do it, but you’d prob need to write it yourself.

I’ve got one which will output points to a table, so the reverse of that i suppose.

miketually – Member
Comparing to the PM is pointless. Comparing with the CEO of a private sector company who employ the same number of staff as a council would make more sense

I agree, and I still think that MPs are underpaid for what they do. If they were paid more, they wouldn’t have to swindle expenses and be bought lunches all the time by lobbyists…

one_happy_hippy – Member
Having ridden the one in the whistler photo at the top I can attest its a lot steeper in reality. And near vert further up.

If anything, looking at the sign on the right hand side of the photo it needs rotating anticlockwise a few degrees so must be even shallower…

i don’t see how anyone could believe that this isn’t just a bunch of nutters trying to confuse the judiciary. if there were any basis to any of what they were saying do you not think a serious challenge would have been mounted by this point?

read any of the articles on this website[/url] and tell me their not written by a nutter.

I heard a ridiculous conversation about this on radio 4 at the weekend. It was to do with how claim management companies and the use of replacement cars (through contract hire firms owned by the claim management companies) are now taking up the vast majority of claims, rather than the actual cost of repairs.

The excellent example they used was a premiership footballer who was at no fault in an incident involving his £72k s-class merc. His merc was off the road for about 3 months being repaired, during which time he hired an aston martin (value £105k) as a replacement car. he was then reimbursed for the £600 per day rental cost (a total of over £60k for the period maths fans) while the approx £8k in repairs were done to his merc. The insurance company rejected this claim and ending up settling for 2/3s of these costs. The fact his merc was off the road for 3 months being repaired is ridiculous enough, but then to claim for a car that is of higher value that the one damaged is outrageous. they went on to say that there are now so many companies involved in inflating insurance claims that the industry is going to have to do something about it.
transcript here

my htc desire from carphone warehouse (t-mobile) was unbranded. also means you get the over the air updates sooner as you don’t have to wait for the operators to stick their extra stuff on them.

dicks climbing, that’s it. not helped by the fact old market is full of gay bars.

the only good one is that climbing shop on old market if it’s still there.

no, if you live and work in a rural community then that’s fine. however if you make a choice to live in a rural community and then work in a built up area, then you’ve made an unsustainable living choice.

Also I’m not convinced a supermarket 18 miles away would have a significant impact on local shops.

@sharkbait – no, not at all. they’ve made a personal choice to live somewhere that is 18 miles from a supermarket, has no station, no choices where to work and only has buses twice a week. there are plenty of other places they could live that don’t have these “inconveniences”. either that or they could get a one of the no choice jobs locally and stay there.

niloC – Member
some don’t have a choice, my folks live in a village that doesn’t have a train station!, the bus comes twice a week! Wednesday & Saturday and being in a rural area, no choice where you want to work! they have to drive, the nearest supermarket is 18 miles away! and no they can’t retire just yet, so what do you environmentalists suggest! diesel is already 139.9 where they are!

I suggest they move. The village they live in quite clearly isn’t sustainable. They’ve made the choice to live there. I’d be all for taxing people more the further they live from their main place of work.

MountainMutant – Member
hmm heard about the accident today and that it was a fatal but this says different at the moment

http://www.london24.com/news/old_street_crash_woman_cyclist_critically_ill_1_811375

MM

Funny turn of phrase to that headline:

Old Street crash: woman cyclist critically ill

So she was knocked off her bike and then caught a really bad dose of flu? Surely she’s critically injured.

Oh and more info here:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread60261.html

but then they’ve gone back in with the A1, which technologically is lightyears behind the A2. Apparently Audi never turned a profit on the A2, might have been better off lowering the price to sell more i suppose. It was mainly an engineering exercise to learn mass production techniques for aluminium space frames they now use in the A8, R8 and parts of the A7 and new A6.

my 2001 1.4 tdi audi a2 ticks all the boxes. Lightweight (aluminium moncoque), good economy (over 60mpg for all journeys), cheap (can be picked up for about £3.5k with FSH), Band C, low drag (kamm tail design, when released had the lowest drag coefficient for any car in it’s class), well built etc.

funny how it was so ahead of it’s time, and then audi stopped making them in 2005…

Flaperon – Member
For shock tuning purposes you should be dressed in your normal riding gear, with a Camelbak filled with water… which will certainly get interesting looks in Boots!

but what about the end of the ride when your camelbak is empty? then your shock won’t work properly anymore! (i think what i’m trying to get at is a few kilos difference either way won’t make much difference).

kimbers – Member
im paying to get my shock setup by mrloco so i want to get it right!

Not sure the exact weight will matter, as you don’t put all your weight through your forks and different people will distribute their weight between the front and back wheels differently. Also, your weight distribution between the front and rear will also change depending on terrain.

@ragleyrider – if you snapped an aluminium frame in the same way, would it put you off every buying/riding and aluminium frame again?

basing it on ragley geometry then ade? 😉

C spanner? Also called a lock ring tool.

BIGMAN – Member
All these articles stating content of Clen in the system and plastacisers in his blood are from magazines and papers not from offcal sources!!!

No official body has confirmed any of it!!!

Its press wanting sales unless the whole case is made public.. If the evidence doesn’t exist he cannot be banned..

Yes he has traces of Clen in system but there has been cases across europe of Clen finding its way into food chain.. Even here in the UK…

If you hate road riding and some of the ugly things that go on don’t read the articles or watch it on the box. Simples!

Way to contradict yourself in one post!

I’ve got an even older version of one of these my dad gave me (orange and white, not black), think it’s about 30 years old and still does the trick. Only has one speed setting now, so have to be careful starting off holes. The only advantage modern ones have is that they are mostly drill/drivers so can put screws in too (used one to build my deck, but as I had to put in about 2000 screws it would have been laborious by hand).

http://inrng.com/?p=1059

Hmm, from this it seems that RFEC based their decision on the amount of clenbuterol not being enough to make a difference so therefore it must have been from a contaminated steak – some pretty big assumptions there and not following the rules as they stand.

“The minimal amount detected could not presume an improvement in sporting performance…
…This brings us to the conclusion that with a high degree of probability the positive detected was a consequence of the consumption of contaminated meat, an act which cannot be assumed or considered as negligent conduct.”

The rules state nothing about probability or there being a limit for the amount of clenbuterol in the system.