90kg apparently!

Runs off to look at sidewall of beaver 🙁

Forget about the oil on the drive- get those doors treated man!
Oh nice bike by the way 😉

Loads of pubs in the square

My lynskey- 23.5lbs with boing- at the moment 20.5with carbon rigids up front

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Tazzy- struggling on tuesday but if anyone was our wednesday I would be up for it- failing that it will be next weekend.

Anyway- everyone as they were- bring on the 29er haters!

By the way I hated my first 29er – a rig but have since had a swift and lynskey and fink theyre ace- no small wheels in the shed anymore!!

stop being an old grumpy knickers tazzy!!

Picto has one that he keeps half attempting to sell- if its an 18 inch youre after worth giving him a nudge

As i nearly sliced a block in half i got my missus to shave me..how kinky are we then!!

Just be careful if considering putting a bike rack on the back- bloke at work did it (after consulting Halfords etc when buying the rack) it totally wrote the rear off because of the weight of 3 bikes

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My wagonwheeler with white forks- although now got black rigid carbons for winter

is giving grannies a pearl necklace wrong?? 😳

Anyway i have gears on the road bike- nice and dry this morning around the lanes of staffordshire 😉 Tazzy how was the slopfest??

tk- be interested in how you get on as Im supposed to be doing the trans -pennine route in the summer and I reckon ss may be a tall order

picto- thai boys you say- Im in!!

tazzy- sorry matey the boys at the back will have to do without my wheezing as ive just finished shaving my legs for a road sesh 😉

on the road bike tomorrow because as tazzy says im a poof and dont fancy a muddy bottom

Are there colours??

Those cabins are blummin expensive £600 for 3 nights in april!!!

Woodseats is pretty good value- close to the posher bits such as ecclesall, dore etc but on a great route into town.

Cycle through ecclesall woods and youre in the peak- 15 mins

Wouldnt recommend rr’s all year round in the sloppy mud- i must admit i never go on ftd or the monkey so my tyre choice is all for the more natural trails

The nobby on the front is 2.25 and the beaver is 2.0- as postierich says mud x’s are very good too- and that is my usual choice but I have been very impressed with the beaver for the money and it is quite a bit lighter

For winter on the Chase Im running a maxxis beaver on the back and a nobby nic on the front- then in summer the beaver will replaced by a ralph

Chinese carbon- look good in stealth matt with a niner fork-imho!!

Tazzy has a very nice Salsa Selma- still a few around

I got my Lynskey pro29 for about your budget second hand

After saturdays ride Im going back to contacts when its wet- I just find i steam up on technical/slower section with glasses and its a mare

Still wimping out of the brocton slide I hear mr Picto- tut tut

Sold your obed yet 😉

fun and roadbike arent happy bedfellows at the moment- punctured about a mile from home!!
But was quite nice to ride from home and not have to scrape loads of slop from every orofice on my return!!

Oldgit- I know what you mean ( I think)- the tyres are in fairly good nick and I had them pumped up pretty hard so I just thought whether the tyres marketted as puncture resistant helped

uponthedowns- cheers for that will have a look at them- do they roll the same as ‘standard’ tyres- I dont need any more resistance beleive me!!

Bit muddy this morning mr tazz??

Hi fellas
Just started this roadie lark and second ride in got a puncture as the farmer had cut his hedges-grrrr
What tyres would you recommend to reduce the chances as it spoilt a nice ride- typically 1 mile from home!!

Sorry but your situation is different than the original situation then- unless Ive read it wrong you are describing that they are paid members of staff- this is different than being a sub contractor.

Is the use of ‘closet conservative’ an insult?? Im sure the world/eurozone would be much better under labour/lib dems/grenpeace etc (haha)

My suggestion wasnt to settle for half pay but to have half the money now and the rest once the cashflow improved. I wasnt suggesting they wrote it off.

Anyway I will leave this thread now on the basis that if you tell your mates to kick up an all mighty stink their bosses will suddenly find some more cash under the magic tree and be able to pay them 😉

Paddy the mad as 2 boxes of frogs springer
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Project- then you are not comparing similar issues- the OP relates to staff members of small companies. If they have ‘bought’ your services as a supplier then as you say you are not a plonker- if you are shouting for a water at a well that is dry then that is the action of a plonker (in my opinion)- as I said my advice would be to talk to the boss to see what could be done- even half pay would allow the main bills to be paid etc etc

Some really interesting views here- I have worked for big companies and can see how that engenders the ‘ I have a right to be paid on time’ etc view but for the last year I have been working alongside a small company.

I know for a fact that the owner hasnt paid his mortgage for the last 2 months, has had to reduce his food bills massively etc and has the bank or other creditors on the phone EVERY day- I have seen the stress this has put him and his family under first hand. Howevver I know he tries to pay the staff first but what if there isnt enough money to physically pay- how do you think it will go down if some plonker sits in reception shouting his mouth off??

There are advantages of working for smaller companies- such as flexibility of time etc etc but the current financial meltdown does put you more at risk because of cashflow so I would suggest they speak to the boss and see what the issues are and see what can be done- it may be that they can buy into the business if the timing is right and see what its like on the other side of the fence 😉

Its called the real world and cashflow is the killer for any business.
The bosses may have had a contingency a few years ago but …just in case none of you guys have noticed the last 2 years have been a bit tough and that has probably been and gone months ago.
I suppose the boss could instead make half the staff redundant- that would help cash flow

……or perhaps I should just stop thinking ad ride more!!!!

Bol
Ive got some pace rigids already which I used for the first time today and they were great- I just have a weight weenie desire to get half a pound off the bike to get under 20lbs- a bit sad really when Im a stone and a half overweight!!

Thread resurrection- has anyone tried the carbon forks- will I die if I tried one??

Mrs Slapp
I only want him for the morning so you will have to get rid of the milkman about 12.30 ish
Pop xx

The one closest to the camera is ‘ the lesser spotted chainslapp’s bike out on the chase’- it is so rare an occurrence Davey boy Attenborough is being cajoled into producing a series tracking it down!!

Are you out early saturday you big gaylord??

tazzy – its some scaffold tubed niche attention seeking common bike!!

And a collection of wagon wheelers

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Just swapped to a rigid front- hope I wont die!!