Mountain Biking

HTH

So you’ve spent years training for this line of work, are about to graduate, are offered the ideal job and you decide riding is more important!

Priorities in correct order*. I could get paid great rates in that London, but I actively avoid it.

*I struggle with doing sensible adult-type things.

Think this is very good advice, though:

You will be more employable if you have a job. Use it as a stop gap till you find something else.

6 hr solo SS – I may regret…

Another recent thread recommended out of Whistler bike park as fantastic for the kind of riding you’re describing…

Cyclists probly caused all wars and evil in the world too. Or at least prevented Superman getting there in time to stop them.

Sounds like you’ve been pushing up stuff you could have just been riding up and down on on a “normal” bike?

Some “proper” DH tracks really don’t need a “proper” DH bike, but can be more forgiving doing repeated runs. Some tracks I’ve ridden on a 160mm & felt a bit out of my depth on, some I really wouldn’t fancy without the get out of jailness of 8 inches of travel

There’s a good chance you ride a lot more smoothly than others without the BMX background so don’t *need* the bigger bike as much?

when you pinch puncture tubeless it’s worse because then in 99% of cases the tyre becomes impossible to run tubeless again because the cuts are right on the bead line of the sidewall which means they don’t seal and are a bugger to patch

Sticky worms

Troll Hunter – divides opinion greatly

Otto Preminger made some fine films; Laura’s my favourite.

Delicatessen

Holy Motors if you like properly weird (& a bit of Kylie)

Hentai Kamen – weird, funny pervy – it’s go it all 🙂

Me, her, 4 dogs – Sunday.
Walk, eat, drink, chat – be a gentleman.
I ride bikes, she rides horses AND a real bike – with an engine & everything…

Piggy? Don’t say they do awesome belly pork?
I can’t go on a date with a veggie and consume mammals in front of her – it wouldn’t be right!

Cheers for the suggestions guys, of not this weekend then I’ll defnly give some of these a try-out.

You don’t know how many cats I’ve got mate

She claims not to have changed anything, but I’ve learnt never to believe people when they say things like that 🙂 She is one of the ones who’s got a clue, though.

I’ll pass that on to her BB – ta.

Interesting suggestion Cougs – guess she would have notice the “shouting” with everything she typed if that was the case?

In a way you’ve hit the nail on the head. However, we’ve got to live with it for now.

Cool cat! Nice to see them doing something selfless.

an·thro·po·mor·phism (?n?thr?-p?-môr?f?z??m)
n.
Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.

“And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.”

Someone I work with told me her ex-husband used to get through a 4 pack of Tennents Super (!) on his drive home after work every Friday evening 😯

Apparently you could tell he’d had a drink by the time he got home – I would have passed out by then in a car seat covered in vomit.

Cheers for the responses guys.

Will give the No 1 a go in the morning.

@CZ If you see a tall dark handsome stranger with an affectation of bravado in there on Saturday afternoon, wearing a white carnation and carrying a sword-cane embellished with a serpent’s head, it’s not me.

His spoken word tours are ace! Seriously engaging guy.

There’s no vikings any more.

Not in the Midlands ™

neilsonwheels – Member
If it don’t fit in your jersey pockets its not worth carrying.

Buttplug?

Could both be available 2nd hand? Or do you have to buy new (insurance payout)? If so get both, swap the bits you like, flog the least desirable and piss off riding 🙂

BTW once you’ve got used to either after a while it won’t matter at all.

Until you get the new bike itch…

For the Midlands I think as never seen one in the North.

What do you mean by North? Are you a Viking?

Booths are frikkin ace BTW! Awesome booze aisle.

Surely the Nurburgring would be a more dangerous road? Especially on a bicycle 🙂

Tried Munro’s last week (no point going again) and Caffemi this morning which was ok – Segafredo, not what I’m after. Google has just turned up Number One Coffee Shop, which I’ll give a go.

It’s not that I’m a raging coffee snob (maybe), but I limit myself to max 2 a week so want them to be v. nice if at all poss. I’m working away from home and think bringing my grinder along with all the other stuff I’ve brought down is getting a bit silly

Can I count on you zero?

FFS – Even I don’t find that amusing…

Have Galaxy, works nicely. Seems huge, but isn’t *that* much bigger than other MPV type things. Easy to drive & even I can (usually) parallel park it 🙂

Unnecessary use of semi-colon semicolon.

Un-necessary; not in-correct, however.

Rob IS injoying this

FWIW I also work in an building..

You did it on porpoise, didn’t you?

I did.

Anyway; why’s the OP gone so quiet?

You should patiently wait until the end of the editing time to lapse before hitting the send button, like I do.

For seriously?

BTW I’m a building worker winner

FTFY

poor grammer is expected of me

How about speeling?

FWIW I also work in an building…

If your shoes are stiff enough there’s no contact with the platform.

Am thinking of dremmeling the “wings” off mine as they do naff-all and weigh something. I’ve certainly found the silvery plate bit round the clippy part give a bit of support (came from egg-beaters so maybe no surprise??).

No likes a PM who doesn’t know their grammar.

Nice pedantry

I’m gonna go with troll for this

Personally I would let him rot in jail being beaten on a daily basis but apparently you can’t do that

Apparently that would lower us to his level of scumness?

and it’s in the fastest colour

That bike isn’t red ❓

Very nice riding!

It used to be easy keeping up, heavy metal, thrash metal, speed metal, black metal, death metal, industrial metal, heavy goth, goth and now loligoth and i suspect more sub divisions

From Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey[/url] – great film whether you’re a metalerist or not.

The 1st time I rode into a parked car on a climb the owner (in the car, just about to set-off) could hardly believe I was sprawled across his bonnet 😳

The 2nd time, I had to interrupt a kendo lesson to find the owner to apologise for the minor damage; far from hitting me with his stick he looked at me like I was a loon and questioned how I’d managed to do that going up a hill

Not too keen on sanitised?

Try Blaengarw – nice & rocky. Short, but tough. Ends in nice bermy swoopiness, but is a good mix.

No.

Entries sell out damn quick. Unless you’re a lady, then you get a bit more time.

Go tubeless.

All seems pretty sensible to me.

This:

If the Guardia Civil observe a motoring offence and note the vehicle registration number, this provides sufficient evidence to prosecute- no need for them to stop vehicles.

stands out as being a bit worrying & open to abuse, especially in a country where corruption (not just within the police) is said to be rife.

whoever ran the Stanford Prison experiment

I know this one! It was Zimbardo – do I win a prize?

It was on a prog on R4 about an hour ago 🙂