@saleem I have to ask, what do you do?

I know @thedon is posting with his tongue very firmly in cheek, but OP give it a go and see how you get on, it should be great fun on the downhills.

As few as possible. There’s nothing noble about killing yourself working, especially for someone else.

@matt good luck getting HD on that old piece of crap, stig

Get some ESI grips

Dropbox is only $49 /month for 500GB. Superb value in my opinion.

have a look at SSH tunneling

@ratswithwings apologies if I offended you, and thanks for the education.

All the builders I know have really nice, massive houses that I could never afford. I assume they do this by either building them themselves or having secret agreements with other tradesmen so they only charge them a reasonable amount and use quality products.

Build your own house out of materials charged to customers / accounted for as business costs = massive house costs peanuts

It’s a shame. Having said that, they don’t (as a group) help themselves.

Oh yes they do – to anything that isn’t nailed down 🙂 Gyppos recently used oxyacetalene torches to steal streetsigns and TRAFFIC LIGHTS from an industrial estate near me.

I fitted hope v2 to both my bouncy toy and my hardtail and I love them. I like a bigger rotor on the front and a smaller one on the rear so I ended up with 205/185 as they don’t make a floating 160 for the v2 otherwise 185/160 would have been fine. I find that the 185 rear is more than enough and have fitted sintered pads in the rear for a little less breaking bite.

This. 203/185 v2 with sintered Hope pads. I run this setup for trail riding, DH days, XC mincing and weeks in the Alps and Whistler. It always works and I don’t have to worry about it, so I enjoy my biking more 🙂

Highly recommend SoloPress. Go for the Spot UV varnish. Don’t cheap out on your business cards. If someone gives me an obviously cheap card the first impression I have of them and their business is that they cut corners and/or don’t pay attention to small details.

Jeremy Kyle, shirley? Jeremy Vine would be a bit highbrow and tedious, no?

Nah, the vine show represents all that is wrong with the concerned curtain twitchers of middle England. Kyle represents everything that is wrong with a diet of cider and turkey twizzlers and smoking heavily through pregnancy 🙂

op you should call the Jeremy vine show!

Just got back from a couple of weeks in the Alps using some ESI grips, and yes the hype is justified. So comfy, and excellent grip even when wet. No slippage problems either. They aren’t very durable though, one has split at the end and there are a few chunks out of both grips. Still, very impressed.

op what the hell is wrong with you

@jota180 Shipping from the Ghangzhou watch markets can take a few weeks 🙂

Ebay seller with extremely cheap goods, low feedback, using stock photos and an Asian-sounding name? Sounds legit man.

French people survive on cigarettes and coffee, the women especially.

Someone I work with is called Karuala Hotwan. Their UNIX login? “HOTWANK”

You’ll be fine on that bike, be aware most STW people are riding gods and probably take singlespeed rigid 29ers on the pleney….. 🙂

BTW anecdotal evidence gathered over the years suggests that quite a few first-timers at Cwmcarn read about it online and turn up underprepared. Don’t underestimate quite how tough a DH track it is.

I always use Mike at Magic Transfers – top bloke – 0033631474335

DHers don’t care what you look like, it’s the XC jeyboys and all-mountain fagmasters who worry about this stuff.

The Whistler section in ROAM is probably my favourite piece of footage ever.

Grey suit? White shirt, red tie, black shoes.

ok guys sorry for questioning the quality of your fake oakleys, enjoy.

Question: How do you know the sample you tested is a fair representation of the quality of lenses overall? I shouldn’t imagine the quality control is that strict at the fake oakley factory.

You’ll get a lot of different opinions here, what works for me is big thick tires and big thick tubes.

This is such a load of crap, we rarely ran DH tubes on my brothers bike at races and nor did many other people. Ever so often we’d put a heavier tube on the rear but not often and not a full-on DH tube!

Pro racers tend to run thin lubes and small brakes too. Racing != spending a week or so doing multiple runs per day. For most amateur riders, especially if they don’t have a lot of experience riding in the Alps, the goal isn’t ultimate speed, it’s keeping your bike working. I’d hazard that most of us are usually trying to slow down rather than looking for that extra few tenths of a second 🙂

I will lose the most beautiful girl in the world (and my dignity) if I buy an estate

Estate cars tell the world you don’t give a **** what people think of you and that you have big virile balls.

x-trails aren’t bad. That x-trail though? Mine eyes!

@OP surely you mean Technician

Try flats, try every flat shoe and pedal combo you can find. Go back to SPDs. Try every SPD and shoe combo you can find. Report back to us your findings. Try the flats again, try the SPDs again. Make your decision.

The pedals were riding you.

Directed by M Night Shyamalan

You’ve not lived until you’ve had a couple of cans of redbull and some cigarettes for breakfast – best hangover cure ever.

They’re not always (often?) the cheapest or quickest at delivering but I can’t fault their returns policy

@PP what did you get in the end?

@zimbo come on I know you’re dying to tell us about your maverick world – spill the beans then 🙂

I don’t know about anyone else but I need to know more about this admittedly maverick office.

@OP, charcoal suit, white shirt, red tie, black shoes.

Brute force attacks are uneconomical and don’t work against popular services like gmail, yahoo, paypal etc.

Most passwords are “hacked” by dumping databases and extrapolating (you don’t use the same login credentials for your paypal account as you do for your obscure bike forum account do you now? 🙂 ) or keyloggers.

Some kind of garmin
Rolex explorer 1
No need for a third

PrinceJohn – Member
I have an idea for an anti smoking campaign that I think would eradicate teenage boys smoking.

My campaign would compare the happy long slow suck on a cigarette to that of a gay man pleasuring another gay man’s winky. Get that message across, then you only need to come up with a similarly controversial one to put off the girls.

How’s the bigoted homophobia working out for you?