If you don’t have a car how do you get to the trail center?

On the plus side Ton, BBs make you good at golf. Maybe time for a new set of Pings?

Yes, I would love the chance to be a good father to somebody; I don’t think it’s going to happen though. I can be an awesome uncle instead!

Reading that back it seems a little harsh 😳 – @monkey I think OP wants low risk ~12/m so that wouldn’t probably be worth his time 🙂

Premium bonds are a mugs game.Average return just over 1%.My brainy mate Iain suggests.Get a stockbroker(Barclays/Nat West).Invest your money in Rensberg VCT.You could make 10%+.You should perhaps be looking for Capital and income growth.This is the direction i,m tending to move in.I,ve just opened a shares ISA which I view as a 5 to 10 year investment.Have you looked into peer to peer lending online.I,ve invested in Zopa.You could borrow and lend from them helping others and cutting out the banks.Investment monkeys.

This is terrible advice and is wholly unsuitable for short term low risk investment, please don’t listen to it.

My short term investments (where I may need to get the money out quickly) are in premium bonds at the moment – you can hold up to £30k and the odds are 24k/1 on winning a prize. So far it’s working out well, I am getting a better return than with any other short term account, the winnings are tax free and the worst that can happen is I end up with the same amount I invested (which may or may not be eroded by inflation)

Or bung it on short odds football bets, but only if you can afford to lose the money.

Is it not? Oh. Too much choice! Anyway they are on the rims now, used a co2 cartridge to pop them on, no fuss. I’ll deflate them and pour some fluid in when it arrives (I’m guessing put the valve at the top of the wheel when inflating to avoid enormous spillage)

I saw some fellow up at Cwmcarn on one last week, not sure whether it was a prototype or if it was the Gyro, it was bright green and he was going very fast with a big sh*teating grin on his face – looked pretty sweet.

Sorry for the hijack, this is the first time I have tried to fit tubeless tyres – I guess i inflate them until they “pop” onto the rims, then deflate to a suitable pressure? Is Stan’s absolutely necessary or more of a “nice to have”?

Keith

You can pick up a pair of “tubeless ready” hans dampfs from bike-discount for just under £60 delivered. I’ve just picked up a set to put on my new UST rims, I guess a co2 compressor and some stan’s and they should go up ok?

http://www.bike-discount.de/shop/k371/a69863/hans-dampf-evo-snake-skin-pacestar-trailstar-set.html

King Of Kong

I know this doesn’t help you OP, but I only ever buy things online using Paypal funded by a credit card these days (2 factor authentication), and cash for everything else (fuel, groceries etc) – and only ever draw out cash from a machine within my bank (or from the bank teller if there is no queue).

I’m this paranoid after having debit cards hit over the years and having to battle tooth and nail with the bank to get my money back.

Just take the frame to your local metal polishers then buy new stickers

I have 203s on the front of mine, even though it really doesn’t need it. Reason being, it means the brakes can be working incredibly badly yet still stop me

That’s a good idea, pretty much the same reason I run a 203 up front – it never hurts to be “overbraked” and the weight penalty isn’t massive.

I’m really liking some of the builds on here. Do you think there is a trend towards having one do it all bike these days? Certainly for me getting rid of my XC bike and my DH bike was a good move. The XC bike was constantly being repaired and although excellent uphill was a nightmare on rough stuff, and the DH bike was so specific that it was useless outside of an uplift day. All I do now is stick some big tires on and maybe soften up the fork to go on uplift days/Alps holidays, life is sweet.

Amazed people have Saint Cranks on trail bikes

Says the bloke with 200mm brakes 🙂

My do-everything bike is pretty heavy so I have decided to put it on a diet, no idea on current weight.

From:
CCDB steel coil
Saint 2×9 +bash
Mavic 721 on evo2s
2.2 RQs with DH tubes

To:
CCBD Ti coil
Saint 1×9 +chain device
Easton havoc UST
Hans dampf tubeless

Back of a fag packet calculations come in at ~3.7lbs saving, mostly from the wheels. Should make it a bit easier uphill at least! Although I’ll probably stick the 721s back on when Alpsing.

Also new DH trails are opening all the time and now the uplift has 2 vans on the go, and it’s quick (about 8 minutes) – combined with ample parking, a bike wash, cafe and showers/toilets, FOD is really on the up!

That looks great, can’t wait to get up there and have a go

I would just go for the v2s, sure they are a bit heavier but you will never be looking for extra performance. I’ve regularly seen them still provide service while saints, formulas and avids have shat themselves.

So your son in law is spending time at leisure while some chump does a load of hard graft for him, for free. Sounds like a pretty clued up fellow to me

It’s tied up with broadcast rights for a lot of the backing music.
The BBC had rights to broadcast it as part of the shows. But that’s not the same as including it as part of a paid for distribution. They would have to renegotiate rights to sell the “music”, or as is often the case with shows from the 2000s – digitaly alter the recording to use different backing music they do have the right to sell. 15 stories high is a good example, I think. It’s DVD release had different music to the broadcast.
I guess the effort required to either renegotiate rights or alter the musical score keeps a lot of slightly older shows from being economically viable for release to buy.

This sums up the idiocy prevalent in the entertainment industry perfectly. In the quest to extract as much money from as many people as they possibly can, they end up with nothing, and people pirate the material instead.

Floats? Devilles?

yes quite

I think we all know the ‘point’ of runflats.

You don’t seem to

The majority of people (men or women) can learn how to plug a Compressor into a ciggy lighter & attached to a flat tyre valve.

I guess the tire is flat. Because. It. Has. A. Hole. In. It.

The fact its scrap once you get home if truly flat & then more expensive than a conventional to replace

That’s not the point of runflats though; the point is if you have a puncture you don’t have to be stranded, and you don’t have to stop at the side of the road and fix anything, you can just drive to a garage or home or wherever, and then make arrangements for a replacement.

Basically they play on the “if my lady wife and precious children were in the car and they had a puncture, would I rather they are stranded until the AA turn up and risk being ploughed into by a lorry on the hard shoulder / stuck in the middle of nowhere in the rain, or would I rather that a light comes on in the dashboard and they all drive home safely?” aspect, which is powerful.

Edit: yes yes I know all the STW wives can change lorry tyres with their eyes closed, I’m on about the normal people.

Early RF tyres were a bit harsh but modern ones are brilliant. You can drive with a flat tyre, what’s not to love.

I used to be ambitious but 15 years of corporate life taught me that it isn’t necessarily the brightest or cleverest or even hardest working that get the rewards – in fact it appears to be a disadvantage, as no one can afford to not have you in your job. I’ve been a lot happier since I made peace with that, and realised I’d be happy stacking shelves if I could cover the bills as all my real ‘wants’ lie outside of work.

This guy speaks the truth

Repeat fees are part of my GF’s income that allow her to continue making films so if her work was being torrented to the extent that a channel saw no commercial reason to screen them anymore then that income would vanish. (she would send someone round with sticks incidentally)

I always thought it worked the other way around – if your material is being heavily pirated it’s because it is already a commercial success. If 100,000 people are torrenting it then millions have legitimately bought it.

If 100,000 people are torrenting it and there is no way of commercially purchasing the material, then that’s just bad business practice. If 100,000 people are willing to make the effort of pirating the material there will be millions of people willing to pay for it.

I don’t condone piracy, but times are tough and people are looking to save money where they can; if downloading the latest action flick costs nothing on TPB then many people will do that rather than pay £15 for a DVD. I don’t think many people care if Tom Cruise can’t buy another $50 million yacht.

If “the industry” were to offer high quality digital copies of movies etc that people could actually own, for a reasonable price, then piracy would diminish considerably.

I’m gay enough thanks

Yeah I like these Kias, they look like Fords now anyway and have a 7 year warranty.

I doubt there’s much harm in sticking a set of “ditch finders” on a runabout or motorway drudgemobile, but you’ll probably want to stick with the big brands if you have a a performance-oriented car. Or not, I don’t know, I guess all tires have to pass a minimum CE standard?

deflate tires, fill with tireweld, job done.

I’m a massive orange homo but if I was to be tempted away I think it would be a nicolai. Saw a fellow up cwmcarn on a cow print nicolai once, riding with a guy on a pimped up orange of some kind, they were absolutely flying.

Stupid EU ruling by people who don’t understand business or the web > Even stupider ICO interpretation by people who again don’t understand business or the web = hassle and cost for a lot of firms who are trying to do business on the web.

My company’s approach was to completely ignore the ICO huffing and puffing in the hope they would eventually go away, and that’s what happened. Cost to us? £0.

I think it’s a bit on the steep side yes, it’s irrelevant though, the best gloves on the market are oakley factory pilots or mechanix originals as any fule kno

Sounds like you have some malware that’s proxying all your internet requests, probably sniffing passwords etc. The reason images are failing is because the proxy server / zombie you’re connected to is overloaded. As above make sure the machine is thoroughly disinfected.

@llamaknob don’t feel so bad about not being able to afford POC gear, there is cheaper gear on the market.

@rocketdog I was going to ask whether all that crap strapped to the frame ruined the handling, but I can see it is a rigid 29er singlespeed beardmobile, so there’s no handling to ruin 😉

Get a five with a CCDB on it instead 🙂 Ah hang on

I haven’t stacked the dishwasher in any logical order.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.