Looks like something Mert Lawill would have come up with!
His leading link forks were a great concept just flawed in execution.
I have a couple of pairs of Girvin / Noleens and they are great for removing trail buzz and smaller direct hits because of the J curve described by the axle – if only they could be fitted with disc brakes.

Young Adjustable in 15 years time!!

adjustablewench – Member
I couldn’t be doing with the things, they get everywhere! – so i have persuaded my 9 year old he wants to knit instead as its far more useful….and he’s cracked garter stitch in his first evening. so proud

He’s growing up in Yorkshire, oh the shame!!! 😯

Blimey, reading some of the replies, I think I will stick to offroad riding. 😯

There’s a faint whiff of snobbery and testosterone in the air!

@wanmankylung – the hills are pretty steep – Winnats Pass was one.

EDIT: they were The 7 hills were 1. Bole Hill, 2. Burbage, 3. Sir William Hill, 4. Stoney, 5.Cressbrook, 6. Smalldale Hill, 7. Winnatts Pass

Just checked the website – it’s a respectable and above board sportive 😀

Good question, what’s the difference?

Wonder if the STW stationery king is behind this, rubber band sales must have rocketed!

Such sad news.
Thoughts are with his family.

Porsche’s new flying car aims to upstage the Red Arrows with a low level flypast with smoke ‘on’!

Yep just started to need them in the last 3 months.
I would suggest getting the very best lenses you can afford with the widest field of view – a good optician should be able to show you the difference.
It took a few weeks to get the hang of them but once you do they are really good.
IIRC I spent about £300 on lenses and frames

Me too. Just back and having breakfast outside listening to the sound of teenagers snoring.
Reckon I have a good 3 hours more of P&Q.
Evening rides around here are ace, on a W/E all the visitors are off the hills by 5pm.

AFAIK that work was done by the NT on a route across their land. There’s a thread about it on here somewhere.

It would be great if those who complain on here could bring sufficient weight to bear on the landowners/authorities to allow some specific mtb trails in the state “we” want them, if we could ever agree on that, but until then, we live and ride with what we have.

Or at the very least join either Ride Sheff or PeakDistrictMTB, we are trying very hard to do just that – actually sign up not just like on Facebook, better still join both the more people we have signed up the better, or attend the meetings being held.

A good example of an opportunity lost was the meeting held by the Peak Park about what happens to the North Lees Estate – Stanage Causeway is bang in the middle so it was raised. Unfortunately, the number of visible MTB riders was 3 – Henry and John from RS and me from PDMTB, we made comments and suggestions but where were the hoards of concerned riders? Oh yes, it was sunny so probably riding, or on here moaning about trail sanitisation!!

There was lot’s of soothing noises made by PDNPA, lot’s of nice touchy feely stuff about gathering thoughts and concerns, writing things on big sheets of paper and plans to ‘share’. But guess who was not invited? Yup, DCC, the ones who have a legal obligation to maintain the causeway and who can, it seems, act with impunity. Surely, it would have been better to have them involved?

Additionally, at our meeting with DCC some months ago (there’s a long piece on the PDMTB website recounting the meeting) the view was clearly stated that they look to restore the routes to a standard that allows it to be used for its original purpose – Stanage Causeway, according to DCC, was a packhorse route and therefore should be maintained as such. They also believed that the lack of horse traffic was due to the state of the trail, so they have a Field of Dreams view of the route.

The horse riders are extremely well connected, they have influence. They are very clever at applying the pressure where it needs to be applied and in a way that ensures they are seen as responsible and reasonable – it’s a good plan and it seems top be working.

PDMTB is meeting with Peak Horsepower to try and understand what their ultimate aims are and if we share any common goals. We will post the outcome of the meeting on the PDMTB website. We are also meeting the NFU to do likewise and to try and understand what we need to do to get the landowners and tenant farmers to engage with us.

But in the meantime, join RS and PDMTB, the bigger the membership, the stronger the voice.

The ‘Bono’ is the standard unit of smugness, Sting registers 23KB on the scale.

@slowoldman that’s just disgusting, they are all riding road bikes!!

was expecting kinky am dissapoint. 🙁

Noooo, the scale of data collected and stored today is unimaginably greater than it was in 1948, It is also captured in greater depth and far more easily analysed to provide a profile of you.

it is prophetic in the sense that it is the principle of control of the population by secret methods.

What’s really disappointing is the naivety, the amount of data held by various organisations about so much of your behaviour is huge.

The reason 1984 is relevant is not that it specifically referred to the Eastern Block, but that it showed a principle that the state has no conscience in achieving its aims, even at the expense of the people it purports to serve.

Lego, my two played with it endlessly.
Don’t get stuff that’s too complicated, the age guidance on the box is pretty good.
Just make sure he plays with it on a blanket.
Stepping on Lego pieces barefoot is excruciatingly painful.

Next time I call off I’m going after the Peak Park Authority for not grooming the bridleways.

Digial age, everyone’s a potential news reporter. Whether it’s in good taste to film certain aspects of an accident is an individual’s choice so don’t get your hopes up.

@vinneyeh to quote – I booked my ticket to hell a long time ago. Big Abba fan eh?

If it ever bites anyone don’t post the news on here!!

1. Soft Cell – Tainted Love
2. ABBA – any or all
3. Eagles – Hotel California
4. Smiths – This Whining Man
5. Wings – any or all
6. Europe – The Final Countdown
7. Neil Young – any or all
8. Spandau Ballet – True
9. Pink Floyd – The Wall
10. Any artist / band – God Save the Queen (not the Sex Pistols version)

Book – Wilkie Collins – Woman in White

Tikrit also fallen today.

1984’s a novel, bugger, I thought it was the Haynes manual for government!

It’s superb, as is the film. Agree with comments on Fahrenheit 451, Road to Wigan Pier, Animal Farm – depressingly prophetic accurate writing.

It amazes me how he has lasted so long.

I suspect that those who could bring him down or remove him are as mired in his corruption as he, the risk to themselves and their own lifestyles/power would be too great. Money is power and the control of the money is absolute power.

I have a predilection for Popinjay.

My 91 old dad and I are being taken for tea by my two boys (15 & 17). 😀

Only 56, eek.
Comedian I grew up with from “Kevin Turvey’s ear” to later Blackadder.
Sad loss to British comedy.
Bye Rik, you utter, utter bastard!

Can’t help thinking of this image and CFH!

Few rumbles of thunder and a couple of quick heavy downpours in the Hope Valley earlier. Stopped now so off out to play.

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Carry On Up The D-Day

Sid James as Ike
Charles Hawtrey as Monty
Kenneth Williams as Rommel
Hattie Jaques as the Mulberry Harbour.

Blimey Woppit, that’s brought a lump and some dust into the office.

Awesome, in the true sense of the word.

tsk! does no one clean the windows in you house?

Oh aye, we also have this as our company event van (this it’s old livery):