if you want to keep it engaged (i presume so the floodgate decides when to activate the suspension).

If you want to try it, the easiest way would be to remove the lever from the bars, remove the cable, rout the cable through the ferrule on the fork crown, pulling the metal bit at the end of the cable tight up to it, then clamp the cable in the knob on the top of the crown with the lockout operated.

catlike whisper plus init.

i prefer to use the LHM oil for rolls royce suspension, comes in the same bottle though…

a 15mm box spanner isn't very heavy. or you could get one of these

avdave2 – exactly what I was thinking! I was merely asking for opinions!

http://www.tartybikes.co.uk/product.php?product_id=10410&category_id=28

I like these.

i've got a north face one, seems to be holding up pretty well so far. very good at keeping the rain/spray out too.

i think the headbutt incident dean got what was coming for him, throughout the whole incident renshaw was being forced to move left by dean.

I'm not entirely convinced that he saw farrar when he looked back, farrar was very close to him when he did so he would have had to turn his head further to see him. Saying that Renshaw shouldn't have moved off his line whatever, and he must know that by now. Not sure it should have resulted in him being kicked off the tour though, a hefty fine and move him to the back of the bunch in that finish would be fair. It does strike me that the commissars respond a little too quickly to events like this – they could have reviewed it a few more times and announced at 8pm or whatever. Also given what happened to Cav in the incident with Hushovd last year (in which both of them are clearly moving towards each other, along with some poorly laid out barriers which become narrower in the last 200m) it does seem his is unpopular with the commisars.

i think grum has hit the nail on the head it's people (both in government and the private sector) who are using the recession as an excuse to carry out things that would be unquestionable if the economy were in a better state. Private companies have been far too quick to turn to redundancies imho. a place i used to work for lost a third of their workforce by december 2008, it wasn't even clear what was going on by that point and the company certainly wasn't in any financial difficulty.

the problem with the way the parliamentary system works currently is it creates a very short term mentality amongst leaders, they want to do what's best in the next 4 years and not what's best over longer periods. Not sure how to fix this though!

shimano spd m520.

good point well made. Mustn't forget the mountains start tomorrow. Although, to be honest I think I've almost had enough of sitting in front of the TV doing nothing…

i've got to go to the hospital in the morning and the prognosis from there will dictate my attendance (or lack thereof).

i've been watching the full coverage all week (off work injured atm). has all been really good so far apart from yesterday, which was a bit boring and more reminiscent of typical week 1 stages.

The big question i have at the moment is why was wiggo wearing a skin suit yesterday? Surely he would need to take on some food at some point other than the feed station, seems a bit wrong for him to rely on his domestiques to carry gels etc for him.

Getting close to a Darwin award: Dont stand with your face in the recoil path of a bungy when you are stretching it away from you over a roofrack.

I can top that, don't put your eye in the way. Spent a night on hospital a week ago for that and am in the middle of an enforced period of rest so I don't dislodge the clots in my left eye making the situation worse.

my fixie has forward facing dropouts like the second top row here (from sheldon brown):

And i've never had the wheel come out, sure you'll be fine.

what's more sexist is that the womens wimbledon winner gets the same money as the mens, yet they only have to win 2 sets rather than 3. on a per hour/set/point basis the men get paid less… 😉

You probably got lucky foxyrider. I only said that as I've had the same thing happen to me before…

you'll get an email/phone call off them in a few hours/days saying discount cannot be used on sale items and asking if you want a refund or to pay the difference. guaranteed.

I learnt not to hit yourself in the eye with a bungee strap. If you do it ends up in partial blindness, severe shock, a night on a ward, at least 4 subsequent trips to the eye hospital and a week of enforced bed rest. Ouch.

First of all I would like to see all human rights and benefits taken away from all prisoners. Why should we reward the criminals?

J.Miller, Washington, Tyne & Wear

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Love it.

it's a load of rubbish. the quote i heard on the radio this morning was cleg saying that there's still a law on the statute books about being compelled to kill grey squirrels on your land, he went on to add that this was the kind of thing he wanted to get rid of. what a waste of public money.

surf-mat – there were a few incidents about a year ago (or more now), but the council have put street lighting up on most of the urban sections and added cctv where they think necessary and the poor behaviour has pretty much disappeared. think there's also more police presence on there than there was.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/foreign-currency-exchange-rates

Check out my advice here, it still stands.

i've been riding there for years and i'm still not sure of the best way to get to the start of any of them! i tend to just ride around for a bit until i find something…

tragically1969 – Member

If its a charity organised event then poor form IMO, if it was an Audax then why not….

I'd argue that the other way round. An audax is only going to cost about £6 to enter and will have been put on by volunteers from a local club and ay proceeds will go to hiring the village hall it starts from. A charity sportive will be about £30 to enter and a large portion of that will go to the events company that have organised it on the charities behalf. I was talking to a friend last night who has been involved in organising "charity" rides and he gave me an example of a sponsored ride from london to paris which had approx 2,000 riders enter. After all the costs were taken off the charity raised £10,000. It would have been far easier to just ask each person to give a fiver.

24h de Finale[/url] – best 24hr race in europe!

Anyone actually been cycling in Costa Rica? I'm off there in November for a general holiday but would be good to fit in a couple of days when i'm over there – anyone got any recommendations?

Clubber, iirc i was following someone on a full sus up the climb and round the hairpin so was struggling to keep the wheels turning at the time. either that or posing for the photo.

The only way i know it was a trap photo was the reflector!

Not all trap photos have to be rubbish though:

the photographers they had a 24h de finale in finale ligure, italy, this year were the best i've ever encountered. no put any of the pics i bought online yet but you can see the samples here (you might need to stick 410d in the search box though to see mine). the pricing was about right too, €20 for about 50 very high res, very good quality digital images with no watermark etc.

damn rain! i will be packing some replacement tyres then.

Piaggio Ape

KINGTUT – Member
Eh? I rode it with semi slicks on Monday, it was as dry as, we must have had some serious rain overnight.

It poured down all day Tuesday!

hmm, i was considering taking my small block 8s off after last nights ride round the course and leigh woods! i'm sure it will dry out well by the weekend though.

i was going to do it, but now have to be in london that weekend so won't be able to make it anymore.

infact, just bought a load of euros from travelex, emailed them to say that i could have got them cheaper at one of the sites he links to (which would have involved going to London) and they've already replied saying they have posted me a refund!

i was just looking into this. This guys advice seems pretty good to me. http://www.budgetflyer.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/travelex.html

similar happened to a guy i know. He plays the trombone in the orchestra for west end musicals, was riding home from work one night when a pissed up bloke stepped off the kerb right in front of him, he fell off and broke his arm. meant he was unable to work for 3 months (was quite a nasty break iirc) and he was self employed so no sick pay, ended up suing the bloke successfully for loss of earnings as well as fixing his bike etc.

Ayatollahofniche – Member

Anything with IF on went to loosers that ride IF's

so you kept it then sheldon?

i'd ask martinxyz, he clearly is an expert in the field judging by his comment here.

to be fair, if a company makes them, i'm sure they will be just as strong/good as an equivalent alu frame. these people are out there to make money and by making fragile frames that break all the time they won't do that.