Yes it is and thank God, all the poors can stick to their football and what have you, and leave us nice middle and upper-middle class people to enjoy the countryside. Mountain biking is perfect for getting away from the be-tracksuited plebians we all have to encounter in daily life. If anything I want it to get even more expensive, the higher the barriers to entry the better.

5-10 impacts. Not cheap but they are good.

Those new Urge helmets look decent, although they only seem to make them for people with heads the size of peas. I wish manufacturers would make helmets to fit those of us with enormous swell heads, after all we have more brains to protect than the pea heads.

Sell them both and get something made this century

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anagallis_arvensis – Member

Firstly dogs are not pack animals and secondly they sleep all day anyway. Ours is quite happy being left from 8-4 in the back yard with a few chews and a kennel. Doesnt happen every day but she has had a few weeks at a time of it. She honestly behaves no different if I’m at home. Lot of crap spouted about dogs and this is a highlight. Having said that I wouldnt like to leave her in the house as she would need to pee.

You know how someone has to be on the left hand side of the bell curve? I present to you anagallis_arvensis.

what do you expect for the £5.99 or whatever it is a month you’re paying?

Yes well there we go nobody can agree, what a surprise 🙂 Use what works for you.

Pinch flats are the biggest issue if you’re running lowish pressure, so dual ply tires with cheap tesco tubes is pointless, the dual ply tires don’t stop pinch flats.

I’ve been running single ply (well RQ, dunno what ply they are) and DH tubes and not had a puncture for over 2 years.

Dual ply thick tires and DH tubes would be very heavy but meh, no punctures.

ymmv of course there are lots of different opinions.

Used to use the 2.4s but now use the BC 2.2s with DH tubes in them for everything – trail riding, uplift days, whatever. Very impressed with the tires, last ages, roll well, no problems with flatting.

anto164 – I’m taking these to the Alps for a couple of weeks of DH and trail riding, they will be fine. Also packing a set of swampys in case it gets really sharty.

Oh god as little as possible, I loathe it. I outsource my housework, washing and ironing to some lovely eastern European woman, I eat out or order in almost every day. My fridge has hardly got anything in it but I figure the supermarket is always open. Some blokes from the council mow my lawns. Some blokes come and detail the cars. I am a complete class traitor and a lazy b*stard too, works for me 🙂

flow or mavic 721 if you want extra beef

bung some DH tubes in, no more flats even if you have skinny tires. Yes they are heavy and you might be slower uphill, but you aren’t a pro racer racing a race uphill so who cares?

Oh god no I had to make do without a car for a few months once and it was dreadful. Public transport is a joke and if you think I’m riding to work you have another think coming. I ended up getting taxis everywhere. I missed the freedom a car gave me.

Born in New York USA, moved to London when I was 12, moved back to the USA when I was 24, decided the USA wasn’t for me any more and moved back to the UK aged 29, studied again at Cambridge but now live in a valley in South Wales hence the biking 🙂 You guys don’t know how good you have it!

use your usual tyres but get the thick DH tubes, or get dual ply tyres if you’re really paranoid. Other than that, just enjoy it, the alps is a great place to be in the summer.

I the summer no but if it’s wet and cold then yes

I’m single because I’m very selfish and a bit of a pompous asshole. I have very high standards and I just can’t seem to find a partner that fulfills them, I’m usually bored after a few dates. They all seem to be super camp or flaky and want to fit in with a label, whereas I’m “straight acting”, I don’t have time for all that, being gay is a sexual preference, not some lifestyle mantra. Maybe it’s me age! I’m not lonely though, I have plenty of mates and a great family, and spend nearly all of my time doing things I enjoy.

I don’t get the fuss about the divide between rich and poor. There always has and always will be this divide. Why should the gap be closed? If people don’t like being poor, why don’t they do something about it and become rich?

Sentimental horeshit

There’s nothing quite like a couple of pints with mates, a few smokes and a good old chinwag. Wouldn’t be the same with soft drinks 🙂

nickf that’s particularly sociopathic behaviour even for STW, and it’s only Monday 🙂

Took my (new to me) 5 out for the first time this morning and now I get why they’re so popular – it felt just right, for the first time in ages I just rode and enjoyed every minute without worrying about fiddling with the propedal, the fork lockout etc. Brilliant piece of kit.

It feels like a tool designed for a job. Kind of reminds me of the first time I drove a BMW after owning a Golf, I immediately got what the fuss was about after spending years pouring scorn on the **** in their repwagons. Live and learn I guess.

If only it looked half as good as my Lapierre it would be a perfect bike; it does look like it was made in a shed by a blind ape 🙂

CountZero – Member

Had cavity insulation done with the gas supplier at the time, who cocked up the invoicing and we ended up not paying anything for it. Result, I think.

Best username / post combo ever 🙂

molgrips you’re doing it wrong

Sure millions of people do it. If you get a VPN from These Guys then there is no chance of being caught either.

Yeah they’re pretty cool, cheap too.

I’ve just bought a 5 today – second hand 2008 model with lots of top spec kit, can’t wait to stick some devilles and a ccdb on it and head out for the Alps in the summer!

Ah no I didn’t say that Northwind – both campaigns were full of shit, that’s what campaigns are – aimed squarely at those who are too thick or lazy to research the subject at hand themselves. I found the Yes campaign to be particularly abhorrent though.

Alfabus – you’re assuming people want electoral reform – some might, but most don’t. Christ most people are too apathetic to vote at all!

Edit: “Whoreshit”, brilliant, I will definitely use that 🙂

richc please explain the implications. Do you mean the implications of everything staying the same as it was before, which I am happy with? Whoa, big implications. It’s a pity you’re too stupid to understand the futility of a Yes vote. It’s a good job ~70% of the population weren’t that stupid.

Thank god it’s all over, the nation has spoken, we don’t want AV. Perhaps Dan Snow will **** off with his beer and coffee bollocks now. I’m amused by the responses of the “yes” evangelists; “oh the plebs obviously don’t understand AV” and other such condescending horseshit. You lost, go cry into your hummus.

I voted NO like most sensible people did

Labour and NO

I hope your friend makes a full recovery. I always drive into London and use a taxi to get around when I’m there. I would mention I usually drive it in a 6 litre V12 but I would probably be lynched

1986 metro
1992 metro
1998 golf gti
2001 golf gti
2003 E46 M3
2004 E46 M3 CSL (crashed)
2004 E46 M3 CSL
2005 E60 M5
2007 Range rover sport (crashed)
2008 Range rover sport
{currently}
2010 Range rover sport
2011 Merc S65
2011 e91 335d touring
2010 VW Fox

Some old modem bollocks from the 90’s, yes remove it but it doesn’t do anything if you just leave it.

I would be careful, you might end up getting a load more work and stress without any extra pay. Could you find something to do (possibly outside of work) to interest you until the rut clears?

Mountainman weren’t you crying like a big girl the other day because Ibis had released a new bike that had a better colour than yours or some other ridiculously vacuous reason? No wonder you don’t “get” the Orange 5. PS do you wish you were on the MBUK WReCKINGZ CREWZ?

If it wasn’t you I apologize profusely for my ire.

It took me 4 years to finally have the balls to do the Chatel road gap. Great buzz once done, but don’t really fancy doing it again, I’m too old and fragile 🙂

The design is a culmination of 10 years of evolution isn’t it? Meh who cares, it’s just a bike that does what a bike should do. If people can’t afford it they should buy something else and quit worrying.