Mechanical watches are a thing of beauty, sure they aren’t as accurate as a solar powered radio controlled g-shock but that’s not what they are about; some people just don’t get it. Unless you’re in the SAS a few seconds a month inaccuracy doesn’t matter in the slightest. In my opinion a nice watch is the only acceptable piece of jewellery a man can wear 🙂

Actually it seems the Monster specialized chaps are running renthal lockons this season – hurry up renthal!

Renthal grip glue. I wish Renthal would make kevlar lockons though, their kevlar non-lockon grips are the best by a mile.

Bimbler are you mad?

Why do people still buy French cars? They are all, without exception, steaming piles of turd. If you want something cheap and anodyne get something Korean or a Skoda, no?

No, don’t do that unless you really are a creep. Generic Sir/Madam will suffice.

All cars became instantly boring after I first experienced throwing myself down a muddy hill on a pushbike. I occasionally get invited to Palmersport days and although they are great, I don’t get the buzz any more.

Just give them the stuff with a smile and an open heart, you might be surprised at how good this makes you feel, and it will be good karma.

So you’re saying you’re not into cars? 😉 Sorry I was being an even bigger prick than usual – I like that Bora.

Currently rocking a VW Fox, Merc S65 and a RRS.

Welcome and prepare for a lot of willy-waving by middle aged IT consultants (like every other thread)

Like many things French, there is no rhyme or reason to it. See also pooing in holes and Priorité a Droite

the mudman ones are good as the mud can’t foul the buttons

I always use DH tubes in the alps, weigh a ton but only one puncture in the last 9 years or so….

at least it’s not BikeRadar

DH bikes are a great blast, and although you *can* ride DH trails on pretty much anything, to get the most out of them a proper DH bike is worth it. Saying that, I recently ditched my 224 (and my XC bike), bought a 5. With a decent shock and forks and proper wheels it’s great for DH and I’m taking it to the alps – and it is also ok for mincing around the woods and trail centres. Not a great climber but that’s the fault of the engine, not the bike.

Not as good as a proper DH bike in the big stuff but then I’m not as young as I used to be; as much as I like to think I’ll be nailing the chatel gap and setting records on les crozets, I’m old and fat and have lost my balls and it hurts when I fall off, so a DH bike is wasted on me 🙂

Depends on your distribution channel, are you selling wholesale to retailers or distributors or to the public? IMO there’s not really any excuse for not having a web presence these days, it’s 2011

Oh god I didn’t know they extended to rentals too. As if dealing with the bottom feeding scumbag twunts that comprise the solicitors and estate agents wasn’t stressful enough!

I wouldn’t bother, riding uphill in the Alps seems crazy 🙂

I wear one of those under-armour rugby base layers all year round and it’s fine, seems to do the job.

Each to their own I say, if you don’t eat meat fair enough. I love it though, a rare steak with some peppercorn sauce is a joy to eat.

I’ve hit a tree and gone over the bars wearing one of these. The tree smashed the jaw of the helmet right off, but my face only had a small nick on it where the jaw of the helmet caught it as it disintegrated. Replaced with a new parachute, went OTB and slid along on the jaw piece – again I had a few nicks and cuts but less than if I had been wearing a normal helmet. So yeah they work, and PSA, all helmets look stupid.

Make the brake blocks out of carbon and the rims from rubber, problem solved

Why do people complain that “everything is rideable”? What do these people want, stuff that *isn’t* rideable? What would be the point of that? It’s akin to going on a track day and complaining that you could drive the whole track.

I did a couple of years at Accenture, never again. The client staff universally feared and hated MCs in equal measures, and for good reason. Money is good but you sell your soul.

Edit: just saw you’re already a lawyer, you have no soul so you’d probably fit right in 🙂

binners you’re crazy mountain biking is very serious business you know.

TCs are great. They’re snorted at with derision by the type of twunt who rides a 29er-funny-stickers-singlespeed-hybrid-cross-fatbike-$niche_bike but that’s fine, it means the rest of us don’t need to cross paths with them as they are inevitably off somewhere doing “real” mountainbiking 🙂

Only idiots don’t insure themselves. Also TP car insurance? You must be very poor with a rubbish car in order for that to make sense.

What’s the point? You will get wet after a while no matter how expensive your waterproofs are. Or sweat to death. When it’s raining you only get wet once anyway, mtfu etc 🙂

Just get an ipad – sure some of the other ones have more rams or whatever and the processor is some boring number better or whatever and has some ports or something that some nerds might care about but if you want something that’s great to use and you can just pick up and play with, get the ipad.

Yeah it works, I spray the whole bike with it, seems to stop the crap sticking too badly. There are probably other sprays out there that do the same but I can’t be bothered to waste my time researching them or seeking them out to potentially save literally a couple of quid. Others who don’t value their time might disagree 🙂

I had salt and sauce once when I was in Scotland, it was pretty good I have to admit. I must have put on half a stone in two weeks when I was there, the Scottish diet seems do be deep fried cholestorol washed down with fizzy pop and fags. I had a couple of “munchy boxes” and they were pretty awesome but no wonder everyone dies at 40 🙂

I tried the salt-first-then-vinegar method tonight and I was instantly sick and had explosive diarrhea, thus my point is proved, vinegar first, salt second!

MBUK is written by retarded manchildren for retarded actual children

WMB is something I would flick through in smiths but they don’t seem to review anything other than XC gear – is this still the case?

MBR is ok, one of the better ones although I’m not interested in their route guides

Singletrack is pretty good, a bit too much niche 29ers and single speed rigid nonsense though 🙂

Dirt has great photos and features but I do wonder what drugs the designers are on.

I wondered if I would ever find a more tedious thread than that one about trail mapping or World of TrailQuests or whatever it was, and now I have my answer. Thanks I guess

Hadge that’s a very cool pet. Pity all snake owners are weirdos 😛

Firemen are some of the most selfless and brave people and they do a fantastic job; bruneep thanks for giving service for 20 years.

Miele dear

Looks fantastic, enjoy.

That bit in lord of the rings where the elf man swings himself up onto the horse, it defies physics.

This is something all the banks will be rolling out within the next 24 months – some will require a token just to log in, others will require one for certain transactions, and some will let you use your phone as the token receiver as part of the login process; an SMS will be sent to a preregistered device with a keycode attached that you use as authentication).

buy a decent full suspension (160 – 180 travel) for around £2000. happy to help