we have flash cars, nice buildings and palaces here and there's still people living in poverty or even homeless

Oooooopsss

http://twitter.com/singletrackmark

😆 somebody seems a bit upset.

Its a special weight weenie edition 🙂

thats a great idea stuartie_c

£700 … ?!

So, it's like a Macbook, but not as good and almost the same price.

except the article linked above showed it starting at 499 but potentially lower.

is that the verified by visa type pish!

I think it would be wrong not to 🙂

if your just sitting around the house, you're fecked cause its too easy to just fall asleep, you need a few days of being out or being down the pub or something to keep you awake until its normal bed time.

When we moved to vancouver, the international moving firm used a local removals firm to pick up our stuff, I can't for the life of me remember how much it was as the company paid for it, I'm sure I still have all the details at home though.

We shipped our bed, drawers, half our clothes, kitchen stuff, computer, 2 bikes, snowboards, think thats was about it, it was quite a lot to ship it but still cheaper than replacing it, things like the 2 bikes, 2 snowboards and computer would be in the region of $10k to replace so it wasn't an issue. We still had an extra room and living room to refurnish which cost quite a bit and had to buy some kitchen stuff as our stuff took a few weeks longer than planned to arrive. It left us at the start of October and arrived at the start of February. Will be quicker to Toronto I guess.

you motivated me to do the same last night, my v12's are also click free now, hopefully for another 4 years!

I'll take it off your hands if you give me 10 pounds for my trouble and you pay the postage!

haven't read all this but makes note never to live in england, it's all a bit pathetic 🙄

just to confuse you further 🙂

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/rockshox-sektor-2010.html

can i ask why?

mine does this but i'm pretty sure its the pedals, about 4 year old V12's that have never had a service.

or laid off, feeling pretty pissed off and wanting a quiet exit.

cranberry – Member
Tiger – go out and but a copy of Berlin – The Downfall – it won't make your day any better, but you will realise that that you have an easy life with little to worry about.

You didn't read the disclaimer did you 😉

at least tomorrow might be better 😀

That full suss looks terrible! straighten out a few tubes and it would have been fine! What were they thinking ?

Do you shoulder your bike a lot?

6/10

I would say just a regular milkshake, probably has a bit more sugar than just milk which is quite good for restoring some energy in your muscles after some exercise. Last time i checked a regular choc milkshake still had 16g of protein so must do you some good.

the welds held up nicely.

Shes coming home after a few days. I cant beleive hes mine and I am being entrusted with something utterly priceless (thats how it feels).

And remember, they're not like bikes, you can't swap them for a new one when you get bored with it or it shits and pisses all over you 🙂

There's a list of what the courses contain.

BASE Downhill 1

This course has been designed to give Downhill Racers the opportunity to develop their competitive Downhill performance at the same time work towards a BTEC nationally recognized award at Level 3 (120 UCAS points).
Candidates will improve their Strength & Conditioning, relate Psychology to all aspect of Downhill racing and develop Downhill skills and techniques. Qualified Downhill Coaches will be used and currently we are negotiating to use the World Class Downhill facility at Glentress Peebles

Course units include:
Health and Safety in Sport
The Body in Action
Training and Fitness for Sport
Psychology for Sports Performance
Technical and Tactical Skills in Sport
The Athletes Lifestyle

Individual Sporting Performance : Downhill Racing
Analysis & Evaluation of Performance : Downhill Racing
Code of Conduct health & safety: Downhill Racing

BASE Downhill 2

This course has been designed to give Downhill Racers the opportunity to develop their competitive Downhill performance at the same time work towards a BTEC nationally recognized certificate at Level 3 (240 UCAS points).
Candidates will continue to improve their Strength & Conditioning, relate Psychology to all aspect of Downhill racing and develop Downhill skills and techniques. Qualified Downhill Coaches will be used and currently we are negotiating to use the World Class Downhill facility at Glentress Peebles
Course units include:
Sports Nutrition
Fitness testing for Sport
Analysis of Sports Performance
Sport and Society
Sports Coaching
Work based experience in Sport

Individual Sporting Performance : Downhill Racing
Analysis & Evaluation of Performance : Downhill Racing
Code of Conduct, Health & Safety:Downhill Racing
Location: Scottish Borders Campus

congratulations, someone to carry on your STW legacy 🙂

Ummm….the trail you were asking about on another site is I think called Red Baron

haha sneaky! I never actually read the article just watched the video, to be honest looked like a lot of uk type flowy singletrack which I kinda miss.

Cheers.

bugger, you must have posted that just as I was watching it, sorry for the repost up there ^^^^

Wish I could have done that when i left school!

does look a bit like a big cat type foot print

exept fort william isn't the middle of nowhere, it's a fairly major tourist destination being a start point for journeys into the middle of nowhere – the west highlands, climbing the highest mountain in britain, the world mountain bike chmapionship, the caledonian canal and loch ness, the road to the isles, one of the major ski-ing venues, and on and on..
unless i'm mistaken are we not trying to encourage tourism?

Ok, middle of nowhere might be an exaggeration but its not the middle of glasgow or edinburgh either, trains are far from perfect as has been discussed every other day on here it seems. Tourism trips are not the focus of anybody's green polices. The fact that the OP's trip can seemingly be made for around $35 seems quite reasonable to me. Green policy while ideally wanting all trips to be made by sustainable modes will always focus on the commuter trips. Now if you complain about the price of those trips I'm with you all the way.

Green policy while obviously has the aim of shifting as many people as possible out of the car and onto sustainable modes of travel, it is focussed on the commuter trips. I would argue that $35-$40 isn't a bad price for a return train ticket into the middle of nowhere! Maybe your car is too cheap.

Also a bit lame to complain about the cost of public transport to some obscure little station in the highlands, fair enough if its a commute into a big city but seriously, if you want to bleat on about saving the environment stay home and watch it on the tv/internet!

facebook fan page with regular updates on progress before opening and info about services, deals after opening, keep it regular.

and apparently my suggestions of LA leisure amusements and a Lap-dancing bar are going to happen in my dreams

might as well go for a sleep then 🙂

😯 can a bike be too colour coordinated? Its nice but you might have taken it too far 😀

Recently, I hate getting wet on my commute, so if you can redesign the weather that would be great. When I waited for the bus up the hill it had the old shit bike rack that won't hold 2.5" tyres, I had to wait nearly 4 minutes for the next one with the new style rack that'll take my 2.5" commuter tyres! My pedals need servicing cause the creak a little and I can't be arsed! I spent my working day today in my socks cause 5-10's are like giant sponges!

ps. whats a transport design student? I'm a transport planner which covers a whole load of stuff, are you just doing design of transport facilities? Genuinely interested.

because everyone should have 20mm forks, they're ace!

my goodness, not sure i should be watching that at work, will review in full later 🙂

Those mudguards, especially the Moto style front one really don't do the bike any favours in the looks department Can you even see your front wheel when riding?

Nope! Not really essential on the commute though, they'll come off for proper riding

sorry that would ruin the bikes finely tuned centre of gravity and affect my backflips!