no disrespect, but for a ride looking to be this big, i’ll likely ride elsewhere, as big groups are just chaos in my experience.

Will probably ride the North Downs early, and then go to yoga.

dunno, i don’t really want to drop mine in the bath to find out!

I imagine him as a tired, greying little man with shabby clothes and a huge inferiority complex than manifests in shouty aggressive behaviour. And that he’s been banned from all the local shopping centres for refusing to tread on the cracks in the tiles in case he falls through them.

go to their website – it’s airbike.co.kr or something like that.

I have one, the head unit is about the diameter of one of those jumbo christmas smartie tubes, and about 2″ long. Then there’s about an 8″ cable to a battery pack that’s about the same size as three tubes of polos in a pyramid, but about 3″ long. It’s in a plastic housing with a couple of integral velcro straps.

couldn’t you rob a pair from stock, try them, and then bosh them back if you don’t like them?

maybe, maybe you smell of clams too?

I just find that it holds onto any sweat, and whilst it stays warm, it’s not that comfortable riding in a top that’s soaked through!

ah, my beam shots are all standardised according to the camera settings suggested by Dave on ride.cc

That way any beam shots and distances are comparable. That said, mine do, in my opinion come out pretty dark, and the actual light output (whilst nowhere near as bright as Takasawas one) is perfectly good for off-roading on a single beam.

erm, mine just go in the wash with everything else, I just don’t put them through the tumble dryer.

Been fine doing that for years.

I thought I was skinny! And that’s at 5’10” and 11.5 stone!

Oh, and just figured who rudeboy is…

those who know the trails will show you, but I certainly won’t post locations on the internet.

Ewan – mine have probably done about 40 hours thus far with commuting and general household use (like fixing a fuckning bathroom light when the pull cord pulled straight out the ceiling at midnight!)

Will let you know how the non-protected batteries get on.

Also, had a good ride with Hywel today, so if you fancy meeting for lunch / post work beer somepoint soon, let me know.

165 / 38 is standard certainly on the 06 and 07 ones.

cheers lightman – just gone direct and ordered some unprotected ones to try, so hopefully that’ll solve the problem.

I call myself rumperdumpling. It’s sexy.

another vote for ground effect ones – used them happily this winter, nice and toasty today.

sis ones are good if you don’t want to drink shitloads of water with them.

Powerbar ones are gross.

Mostly i don’t bother with gels, even for tri’s, as I eat well and use an energy drink rather than water.

Here you go Willy, here’s a review I did on them a while ago, with light shots and everything…

http://road.cc/content/forum/905-cheap-chips-lights-test-shots

My understanding is that the Tesco one is on a par with the ultrafire 606A, but to be honest, the reliability horror stories I’ve heard of the tesco one, coupled with the impeccable performance of the 606 thus far means I’m glad I have the 606s – they’re the best helmet torch I’ve used due to the relatively focussed beam.

Will be selling a spare MTE p7 if you’re interested – brand new in the box. Should have a couple of new batteries for it too. I’d say they probably put out around 500 lumen, in a relatively flooded beam, so there’s no real bright spot. I now have one of the On-one sold P7 specific lights, and that’s slightly brighter with a better beam, but for 25% of the price, the MTE is very good.

I’ve got a Global, and it’s very, very nice and fast. Seems to ride like my old chameleon through the singletrack, float on the ups, glide the downs, and is just beautifully balanced. Will probably try a couple of the Gorricks on it this year.

just get him on internet dating, unless he’s a total loser with ideas above his station he’ll get one soon enough.

If not, he’s the problem, and that’s a whole bigger kettle of fish to try and fix.

Take him to Barcelona, get him on stage in the baghdad club. Job done.

stumpi – just thought you might be interested – in my experience, it’s not the torch that’s the problem, it’s the batteries themselves. I’ve had two of my P7 torches “refuse” to work with no warning (having been working fine and then suddenly going off). Popping a new and fully charged battery in there and the torch is fine again…

I should just point out that the only reason I’m selling mine is that I’ve bought myself a spanking new X0’d up carbon FSR, which has a very similar suspension set-up, just with the brain linked shock.

And not a total sales pitch – I’m a complete convert to them, as one of the best bikes I’ve ever had. If I could afford to keep one of the trances to really smash around on, I would, but space is at a premium in my flat right now.

Righto, well the magic is that if you buy one of my ones for sale here you could probably keep the soul too! And they’re both the shorter travel 4.2″ ones.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic.php?id=561

Clearance wise at the back you can happily run a 2.3 tyre and still have plenty of mud clearance, and there’s acres of it with 2.0s. The mud does tend to collect on top of the front mech and the bit directly behind there, but never enough to foul the function of the wheel or mech.

Riding wise, they’re very efficient in my opinion – happily done all day rides on both the ones I’m selling (the bonus of the 2007 one I’ve got is that I upgraded the shock to one with lockout) so it’s a hardtail when you want it to be as well. It’s brilliant for attacking singletrack, and tracks, accelerates and is balanced beautifully. Weight wise there’s probably a 3lb difference between a hardtail frame and one of these so you do notice it a bit, but it never feels like you’re riding a heavy bike uphill, but really does come into its own on the downs where it feels like it has way more travel than it does.

My personal preference on them is a longer travel fork, but that’s as I had mine set up as more of a fun bike – if I was doing some racing on it a lighter, shorter travel fork would have been on there, and rebas would have been my choice. I generally run the pikes at 130mm, so there wouldn’t be a huge difference. Also, the complete bike comes specced new with 100mm forks, so you’d be fine in my opinion.

Any specifics, feel free to ask

cheers,
pk

shteve, I only wear lycra on the road bike, but stm is right, I’ll be there on either a ti or carbon CK’d up bling thing.

But it’ll have gears as I’m not a complete pervert.

My ex-girlfriends dad had an original Panard in mint condition. like the one below.

It’s an idea on a par with cleaning your willy with concentrated nitric acid.

They don’t have any in my local Halfords.

If someone goes in and manages to find one, could I trouble you to buy 2 if they have them, and I’ll reimburse plus postage and a bit of beer money too?

Cheers,
ant

FC – mine did that – the only way I could get it to work was cutting and pasting the password out of the email it was sent from (making sure that any selected spaces were deleted).

Then I made sure I clicked “remember me” as there’s no way I can remember some computer generated nonsense!

i think your cat is ill

sorry WCA, that weekend I’m going to DigDykeDash to watch some lesbians run around with spades.

Aleigh, CG, you’ll be able to take the piss out of me back too, so plenty of time for you to think up some appropriate insults.

why cg, you say the nicest things…

gorgeous girlies? Who else is coming then?! 😯

pk-ripper

It’s the name every boy dreams of.

did you buy it on sale? was it on sale for a reason i.e. incomplete etc?

If you’ve just changed your mind and want a different one, it’s at the stores discretion whether they allow you to return it at all, or offer you either a credit note or full refund.

Your rights are generally you can have a refund if it’s faulty, or miss-sold (e.g. as new when it’s damaged / secondhand stock). Other than that it’s discretionary, and the store is likely to want to hold as much cash as they can right now…

ah, cheers, but it’s not going to be big enough for me as I eat a lot! Best see if Jeffrey Dahmer’s got one he’s not using.

what sort of fridge is it? mines old and shitty, so want a better one!

hora won’t come down for it. he’s too busy licking windows

cg, no need for that, I’ll try and behave, i’ll try and beehive, i’ll try and dance the tango. And i’ll sing you a nice little tune about rabbits, fairy tale castles and nuclear weapons.

Righto, off to get bollocksed. HNY.

i know it’s probably a bit late, and the guys at st-towers have done a sterling job, but I use vbulletin on my forum, and it’s very, very good. And very customiseable so you can put in / take out what features you do and don’t want.

As it is, it works currently, but the volume of posts makes the current view not really that useful.

you turn into a rodent and are forced to watch Michael Barrymore’s “Strike it Lucky”.

Whoah, hotspot!

the girl i haven’t yet met.