You’ll certainly notice the difference if you try and put tapered forks in a straight head tube frame…

I had 6 in a 2 bed flat, just kept them all in one of the bedrooms. Cleaned them with a mobi, although I still tended to end up getting mud everywhere…

On-one Codeine? Single ring only and not available yet, but it sounded like it would be a good deal for the frame only.

Just gives perspective on it all, doesn’t it?

Not really. The OP was asking if biking is too expensive now, vs back in the day. You get a more capable bike for less money these days, hence the answer is no.

So you have bought one brake and nothing else in the last 5 years? How can that be too expensive?

I will buy whatever is ridiculously cheap small

I use 24’s, but I suspect 26 would work as well.

every year my car headlights (which have a beam pattern suited to UK roads)are checked to see they are pointing down and to the left

I find roughly every tenth car has badly adjusted headlights, far more of a problem than a few bike lights.

anyone know of any other quality covers?

Low’s cover of Transmission and Galaxie 500’s of Ceremony are both great.

I like Joy Division but love New Order. Ceremony IMO is the most haunting song I have ever heard.

Ceremony is a Joy Division song!

No.

Buy cheaper stuff.

Hope that helps.

£22 per day for bike hire at glentress, that’s pretty accessible- less per hour than hiring a tennis court.

Ok good point, I think you’d be better off getting a cheap/2nd hand bike (especially as you could ride from home), but yes, either way not that expensive.

It’s only accessible if you have £350 going buckshee to spend on a bike

Well yes, a bike is pretty much an essential component of mountain biking. I’m not sure how you could make it accessible to people that don’t possess bikes.

Fibre flares are good for visibility, I have had two die from water damage though. A bit pricy for something so fragile.

If you ignore the stats you can not calculate risk.

That’s not true at all.

no contradictions, cycling is safe by any relevant comparative measure.

You are back to confusing personal opinion with objective reality. Safe is a matter of opinion. I cycle to work every day on the roads for what it’s worth.

Life is about judgements but to say that cycling is dangerous is wrong

You keep contradicting yourself within the same post!

Safe isn’t a statistical measure, what you mean is safe enough for you (which is obviously a personal opinion), or a comparative term like less safe than flying but safer than motorcycling.

The real point is that you have to divorce personal opinion from reality.

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Cycling is safe

That’s a personal opinion right there.

I’ll be there, likewise would prefer a bit less rain though!

Presumably people aren’t allowed to pay other people to build wheels, service suspension, bleed brakes or any of the other myriad of mechanical jobs that might be required on a bike? After all, it’s not complicated. Might put a few bike shops out of business though…

meal, some Ospreys

No wonder they are endangered!

will be doing mary townley loop instead.

Two laps?

And the “danger of death steps” which are very exposed running down the lhs of a waterfall at the head of a valley.

You really wouldn’t want to get those steps wrong!

I made it round both loops! Was tempted to jack it in as my hands and feet were freezing by the half way point but I thought I might as well carry on. 2nd half much easier, mostly hard surfaced and the weather improved a bit, plus a big tailwind back up from Settle.

The reality, in the real world is quite different, meanwhile every single rider I know has a 26″ with absolutely no plans to change.

I must inhabit some strange fantasy world then! Getting defensive about your chosen wheel size is all well and good, but you are deluding yourself if you think that no-one is buying 29ers. You wouldn’t see pretty much every manufacturer jumping on the bandwagon if they weren’t selling.

Sweat gutr! They do work, although a certain level of abuse is pretty much inevitable unless you only ride on your own…

Waa waa waa, I hate change!

greater than my poultry few quid

Sounds like fowl play to me.

“crossing a bridleway” is not the same as “on a brdileway”?

You’d have to bunny-hop over it…

its funny when he does the mong face lol

Disappointing, I thought this was going to be about old Tony Blairs being dismembered.

Satantango

I’ve had no end of problems with my new slx brakes and will probably be getting rid soon and going back to avid

I’m sorry citizen, you must be imagining things, everyone knows that shimano brakes are “fit and forget”. Please report for re-education immediately.

does it really make sense to credit one with influencing the other?

Yes, of course it does! Why wouldn’t it?

A scientist engine-of-death, though, which didn’t really make any sense.

Yes it was ridiculous, having a tedious intro sequence that you are forced to play through doesn’t make the character a scientist when after that he behaves in exactly the same way as any other generic FPS protagonist. It’s not even a slightly original set up either, being largely just a rip off of Another World.

It’s a slightly new genre of game and one which I quite like

It’s a stretch to call a linear FPS even a slightly new genre. In any case the thread is about the most important computer game in history, not games molgrips quite likes.

propelled Bungie to fame, before going on to make Half Life, Portal etc.

I think you might be a bit confused…

Quite. Having slightly more story than Doom is hardly innovative!

It was just another FPS, nothing particularly innovative about it.