references to stone fruits/ cherries or chocolate/sweet/caramel

IME this is all bullshit, coffee should taste like coffee.

The beans from Hasbean are seriously overrated on here and, whilst they make a decent cup of coffee, are crap for espresso. I get the darkest oiliest beans from http://www.stmartinscoffee.co.uk/ and can’t half tell the difference.

Currently awaiting the arrival of this year’s crop of nom-tastic elephant beans…

Go Ton!

EDIT: for anyone into Excel, this is a must read

Not anyone! Not many people get close to the level where they’d need to open that book.

Anyone want to buy my pristene copy?

What’s green and goes red at the flick of a switch?
A frog in a blender.

What do you get if you add milk?
Frog nog!

What happens if you drink frog nog?
You Croak!

You can’t use a spice grinder to turn the knobbles someone’s cut from a wetscream into granules to mix in with your tubeless goop to give it more binding texture, no matter how good an idea you I might think it is.

It’ll ruin the blades and you’ll discover from the sparking that there more to these tyres than just a bit o’ rubber 😳

But I’m yet to try it with a food processor…

They sent me four pairs of the wrong pads last time I ordered some!
Maybe I should have ordered the right ones?

Tangfastics made it all better.

Anyone need some brake pads*^?

*Warning: They may, or may not, be the wrong ones**.

**Dependant on which brakes you have.

^Tangfastics not included – sorry.

We think its some odd Polish spelling of Casper?

If you’ve only got 1 chainring won’t it be in the middle position, so inner bolt mangling irrelevant?

Edit: I’m surprised you’re not dead already

Similar to the OP, a few weeks ago a father was shouting to his son in my village – the name? Saxon.

I pissed myself laughing Got quite a dirty look from the father, who I’d like to think was a stalwart of NWOBHM, but probly wasn’t cos he was wearing a superb pair of **** red trousers 🙂

No eyelets and depth of channel maybe but…

second hand value

Ride them til you kill them.

have you been watching me?

A boy’s gotta have a hobby

So with that in mind your description of Ed sounds ideal

Poss. will be covering the same things?

I’d be interested in a comparison; I’ve been to Tony 3 times (so far) and have come a long way. One of my mates wants to go to dirtschool as part of a road trip but I’m a bit iffy, mostly cos I know he’d benefit masses from time with Tony cos I can really see the gaps in his technique and I know they’ll be covered nicely by him (he won’t listen to me )

Also, I know where I’d like to take my riding and I know Tony has got what I need 🙂

Edit:

skills to clear a 10ft gap jump

It’s all in the mind 😉

Or there used to be a DH track in Ribbesford woods.

There’s more than one now – and by george it’s a fun day out 🙂

Rob votes lessons first.

In Rob’s experience you may find yourself “upping your game” and doing things that the full sus gives a wider margin of error should you make a wee error 🙂

In before the schism!

I also hate prestas and have drilled out rims in the past – I did not die.

Currently pondering whether it’s wise to do this to some Stans rims as I have some very fetching dust caps sitting around I’d like to use.

Just renember to file any burrs off…

That’s commitment!

What’s occuring with the saddle?

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Adjective
Bad-tempered and unfriendly

You may prefer http://www.amiablebikes.com

Still not bad, I’ve seen a lot duller on here.

You forgot your gloves though 🙂

“whinge” is not a word

Is bell-end a word? You know, cos it’s hyphenated, or is it two?

Currently considering opening a hotel or service station…

The best? The absolute best?
There’s no such thing 🙂

Unless you go to Lasan in the city centre. Contemporary Indian food isn’t what I usually go for, preferring traditional home-cooked type stuff but… OMG Lasan is goooooood!!

Frikkity expensive though and probly not VFM, but I’m saving my pennies to go again soon.

Otherwise 2nd Sparkbrook, used to go there a lot until my fav. place shut down. Anywhere can be good or a bit hit and miss. Jyoti in Hall Green is pretty good for Souther Indian style veggie food (and one of the fews places in Brum you can get a masala dosa).

should be called the dyfi big loop by rights shouldnt it?

Not the: “Lets have a nice fun pootle in the forest while a load of noobs hold their brakes on and skid around all over the place on the descents making you do the same cos there’s no way through and making it a bit of a terrifing experience – athon*”?

*Also includes some climbing.

In.

Self mod – am fool.

Spinning classes or hire?

I’ve had a spinning bike from Karl before @
http://www.inandoutfitness.co.uk/hire-rent-gym-fitness-exercise-equipment-midlands.html

Nice guy and good service.

Clean it with Milton, you’ll soon miss the taste of plastic.

I use these:

Find it quite relaxing, so do it fairly regularly (more enjoyable than building a wheel for me). Get a decent life out of them, but I did crack one of the plastic covers the other day 😕

I only ever break black spokes. So they must be weaker.

Strengthen them up with some silver paint?

Comment in the link:

…surely the claimants would only have a case if they can prove that “It’s Not About The Bike” was actually about a bike?

i don’t even want black spokes

Easily remedied

Rob likes helping

There’s a big thread on homebrew goop on mtbr…

Paint them yourself?

manly van

Berlingo

You’re doing it wrong 🙂

Now that’s what I’m talking about!

Home

Tends to book up very far in advance, but you might get lucky.

Edit: If you’re a Vegan animal lover type, it’s probly best to give it a wide berth due to the show chicken/fighting cock breeding thing they’ve got going on.

That’s nothing – look at the tits on this!
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Too slow…