Im 5 foot 7 possibly just under, with a 29 inch inside leg, trouser wise, 29ers are a no no for me as if i need to ditch the bike and step of the back i get a tingling sensation on my nuts.

just remember its up hill there and down hill back.

good luck

A nice Old gentalmand thatlives on the side of our local WT site was unhappy when they pulled his nice wooden fence down and put up a 6 foot high metal fence. (This happened to be on his land. so he kindly pulled it down thretened court action and allows MTb to pass through his garden into the woods, He even gave me a cup of tee this morning.

Happy new year

Fortunatly for me its just that the person who had them before me cut them to fit the frame and now i want them on a different frame they are way to short.

I Have run several forks on my Origanal inbred. I currently have 130mm revs U turn to 100 mm never take them off 130mm, now.

I am in the prosses of changing them for pikes, and the revs getting put on something lighter.

I think it rides fine but i have 5mm rise bars and only 2mm spacer to lower the front end. Possibly going flat.

I once over ran by 3 months (they wanted to back date me and fine me £60 I was super poor at the time<and the lady at the PO said go home sorn your car come back next week and we will sort it with out back dating or the fine. In the end i payed up asi needed the car but its always an option.

I don’t eat cheese or butter but use goats milk and i’m fine i very rarely have milk though,just in coffee etc.

I don’t miss out but now have fun with it, if people laugh and arn’t tolerent of it i will eat the food they give me then leave them to deal with the consequent. which are generically me winging that y stomach hurts followed by projectile vomiting on there carpet. Then its over. They’ll only say your being fussy once thats for sure.

My brother just payed for survay to be done on the house he bought, but then payed extra for an in depth one,they checked all this stuff, and so far hasn’t had any surprises.

Mildred I’m not bother so much about that as that’s a whole different matter. (sorry to bring that in and confuse things)

It just really annoys me when people put ONO,but then don’t reply,not even a no thanks. Most people accept there is some haggling to be done in there adds and everyone is after a bargain. but haggling goes both ways not just the seller coming down,but the buyer coming up.

For example you wouldn’t go to a used car sales man and give him list price, you know what you want to pay and you know what they want you to pay. so you start low and move up to your max.

I always thought that the price was what you wanted but your open to sensible offers or are willing to negotiate something to suit you and the potential buyer.

If I advertised something at £400ono and someone offered me £350 I’d come back and say £380. I’d always advertise at the highest i think i could possibly get, unless as said above i am no longer using then i’m happy for a fellow cyclist to have a mega bargain.

I genraly advertise slightly high expecting the old haggle war on some stuff i will sell it for peanuts if its sat doing nothing I sold a set of brakes for £28 posted. because I’drather see them used.

But if some ones advertising a frame at Say £400ono and i offer them £300 thats my lowest offer its only going to go up and i make it clear i know its a cheeky offer, in these cases i’d probably be looking at a counter offer of maybe £20 knocked of which might just sell it to me.

i was looking at a frame yesterday and would literary have picked it up in cash with in 30 mins of contacting. But the seller not only contacted me but then said actually i don’t want to sell it for the advertised price and upped the price. by around £150

bad etiquette in my oppinion

each to there own hill climber, but the same result happens when you put your crampon through your waterproofs, which if wearing gatares under them will all owsnow and water inside the trousers defeating causing more issues as well as the snow balling up and being a general pain.

my gaiters are tight fitting to keep loose trousers (being very short) from bagging at the bottom, i also when out in winter have my water proofs on constantly

A solution to the building management and building on floodplains would be to build houses on stilts, Such as in the ski resorts and have boats.

Or start building noah’s ark.

In all, a few years ago we were flooded twice in 3 weeks,this year the water hasn’t been anywhere near what it was.

I have a set but only ever get used when the crampons come out nothing wrose than puting a hole though a set of good waterproof trousers

Took mine towork this morning and was left to look for new bike stuff.

really want a full sus but cant affored to buy a frame and forks due to e only having old rev’sand wanting something like a 5, but i think it would be od having 130mm forks on a 5, Tell me im wrong?

spent yesterday morning in A and E with a broken nuckle, phone call today asking me to go back in as they suspect it my be fractured further down and need casting up.

Was going to but bust my hand up yesterday evening

I am looking at doing the same,Never been before but a few friends from around that area are going so im gona head up apparently its damp to wet depending where you are on the trail. but that could mean anything from slightly moist to flooded knowing these guys.

You get good and bad dentists every where.

But hungary is very cheep for dental work, but they will pull teath out that dentist here would fix.

(have been going to Hungary for dental for 4 years now due to my other half being from Hungary.

For example 2 fillings and a crown cost me £23.

wood wind is all very similar

Grade 8 sax (classical, 7 Jazzthen i stopped taking assesments as i started getting proper gigs)
6 claranet(dont play anymore)
7 flute (dont play any more)

playedfor19 years,for big bands jazz band solo, played at festivals and in bars and do a bit of buscking for some extra pennies. Don’t doas much as i used to which is a mega shame.

If you are looking at tenors and you have a budget that fits a yamaha you wont go wrong. I own a yamaha tenor and a Boozy and hawk alto((not in buisness any more)name used by a rubbish company) but themain thing to understand is that the mouth pieces and types of reeds can alter the sound of a saxophone a lot, i use a metal mouth piece that was almost as much as my saxophone and it sounds fantastic but put on the cheep plastic one it comes with and its sounds tinny and horrid which is perfect for busking in the street. If you really want quality go for a yanagaisawa but they are quite high maintance when it comes to pads.

Stay away from the likes of jupiters and the cheeper modles as they are just utter tat with a poor resale value if you decide its not for you.

Boss went home pukeing in a taxi after buying everyone lots of drinks, restraunt we went to kicked us out and told us not to come back next year.one lad got arrested for punching a girl,as she jumped on him and started punching and scratching him for spilling his drink on her.

and the rest of us were out till around 9 the next morining.

If the word compulsory was taken out i would whole heatedly agree with the quote.

I believe everyone should have a choice. Weather that is to die and have some one close help you, or to have a featus that you may love removed that you couldn’t give a quality life to.

Ps, profit is profit,in this day an age with shops going bust all over the place can you risk not selling that bike to some one who may or may not come back.

I know That my wage doesn’t stretch enough to shop in my LBS,and i understand they cant reduce as much as the likes of chain reaction cycles. So i will use them when I can, but haveing worked and been a mike mechanic for local bike shops other than upto date things such as shocks i genraly need no service from them.

My relationshipwith my lbs is,

walk in
say Hi
ask for specific part.
either they have or haven’t got it.
Thanks
walkout with part or with out part.

For some stuff i cant justify paying the extra cost, And i know people have other relationships with there bike shops but i have no need for it as i know what i want and howto fit it.

An exception i posted about a rear shock I will be going to them to get hold of the right shock and fitting kit.

Caterham 7, said 155 and wouldn’t go any faster when i lost control and ended up skidding accros the track into a gravel pit,the thing rattled like hell for the rest of the day

is there an official high way code traffic sign or is it just a made up one.

Im only mid twenties, but since i was 18 there has only been around £30to £50 differance in full comp and third party fire and theft and the TPFT was the more expensive.

everyone i know who has been in a non fault accident have suffered a boost in premiums, working in a supermarket every accident we have seen and had reported in the car park has been 50/50.

And if you don’t report it to your insurer,and they say your insurance is void,in another accident because of this,how do they get round that you may have bought the car and not know of past repairs?

Underwear is over rated and socks seem to appear in my washing other peoples seem to dissapear coincadance, Most certainly

Depends on your 4×4,

I used to run a L200 and the Geolanders were awesome but on my fathers jeep they are utter tosh.

FuzzyWuzzy its more to do with manners. the same people who talk on there phones are the same ones who complain when the cashiers don’t thank them.what i was getting at is manners dont cost anythingand the older people know this the younger people dont seem to grasp this concept.

I went to wales and road marin in the evening we arrived spent a day at code y brenin,did the beast then the MBR then the flying fox,and the next day headed to penmachno for a quick blast, the quick blast took us alot longer than it was ment to,mainly because of the pain we were in from the day before but we all wished we had gone there first, wet challanging but some of the best decents and single track a trail centre has to offer. IMO

I used hayes rotors on shimano’s with out an issue, but i belive there are some rotors with a different thickness.

Hate to break it to you ^ but that’s a range rover not a defender.

currently working for a supermarket chain and i can happily say the pesinors are the least of your worries, yes they are slow and sometimes smell and loose there money. But they are polite and understand that we have a job to do which is why they are nice when you ask them politly to move. They don’t talk on there phones at the checkout they say good morning and are always willing to have a quick chat which occasionaly makes your day, hearing about there earler life.

Younger customers however are rude always in a rush pushing and shoveing, running staffs fingers over who are stacking shelfs. talking on there phone at the check out, not saying thank you, No good mornings or hello’s as they come in the shop, and genraly think because you work in a super market they are better than you. I know which generation i’d rather have in my shop.

If your looking for something for actual off roading, remember that dif locks and sealed axels with breather pipes may come into there own. With out dif lock you can end up in real trouble if even 1 wheel starts to spin.

If its more for the fact you like the big cars a 4×4 then go for it with the kind of age and price your looking at if you run it for a year and decide its not your thing or it is costing to much you wont loose much when it comes to selling it.

but as has been said look into the foresters/allroads/volvo xc’s if its just for road use.

hadn’t thought of that Andy as needed them today, couple of seconds search and a phone call reveals local halfords have a set of barrels with the same code. meaning i can match up my roof bars and bike rack.

Hayes nines

My dad got my mum a car that she didn’t want but he did and that she couldn’t be insured on due to her past history (1 crash),ande to rub it in he used hers as part ex

I told mine to get out my f***ing way and start doing her job as i’m not payed to, I told her i frequently thought she was a usless bint and should either stay out my way or better yet go **** herself aomewhere she might be needed.

Fallout was me getting a bolloking from the Area manager, who ended up laughing and saying he knows exactly what i mean but to try and keep it to my self next time

By the way i’m not against the idea, i’m just not sold on the idea.