What about the woods at studley,just off the Sluff?? had a spin in the past there in the past

Andy – Member
Barbury Castle, south of Swindon. Regularly used to ride up there in the morning before work, on my 1979 Holdsworth Special. Sit on the old hill fort and smoke a fag and then come back down the road at 60 – 65mph.

Ok I hit a recorded 55 down there according to my old cateye computer the run back home to Wroughton was alot quicker than the ride up to Barbury

But on my old Litespeed road bike 64 down Snap Hill very forking scary

Cotic Simple

revs
717 on hope hubs
sensable kit through out

23lbs on my fishing scales which seem quitye accurate (fisherman scales normally over read 😉 )I could spend shed loads on it and loose maybe a pound, but why bother tis ace as it is

I used to use a DMR hub with a WI freewheel for about 6 years with one bearing change to the freewheel

I now use a Hope s/s cassette hub ( I got a deal on the hub but I was looking at the superstar hub)

The old wheels just worked the new wheel is shiney and full of Hope goodness ( and heavier despite the same rims )

just go DMR

great news and to quote Crispy Bacon

Yer 10% thicker 😆 😆

Sorry but Yer wrong

its not what steel is best it is how well the frame is made and designed

ie On-one use Pig Iron to good results

I have a load of homebrew kit left from a failed business venture I did I will sell for trade + 20% to cover my costs Eg barrel and cylender £35 ( retail £50) brew bucket and lid £7if you are interested

Tips are free
1 CLEAN CLEAN AND CLEAN with a proper cleaner realy easy honest

2 Keep an eye on the temperature at arround 20c you will not go wrong brew belts are ace

now that is a tad er frustrating

I like a **** ran out of oil on boxing day and my mrs was er savage to say the least
No chance of deliverys so I got some gerry cans and made a few phone calls
one supplier £35 for 20l in there containers
Western fuel http://www.westernfuel.co.uk/ 74p a ltr in own container

delivered price 65p a ltr (1000 ltr) once ordered additional collections at 65p

Anywhere else in devon is over 72p ltr

Lidl and Aldi have good deals occasionally

buzz-lightyear – Member
But I don’t want another bike

Now there is a perfect example of bad grammer

what buzz meant to say

But I do WANT even though I do not need it 🙂

come on buzz can you realy have too many bikes

They suck 😕

Buy once, buy right (british designed and made in Chard Somerset)

or do as we did and get a dyson piece of Poo

Henry next

BTW my mrs went to the Nuematic factory last year realy impressive set up there esppecially with the R&D, but the thing which topped it for her was everyone she saw was happy to be there, and there was a happy atmosphere to the place.

Happy staff now there is a new one!!!!

come on now Mcmoonter

That is a french work of art surely??????????

yes I am jealous

Alas we started this winter realy well stocked with wood

But december depleted a winters worth

Bugger

as above simple answer

bloody well is

where is my crampons

Hmmmm reminds me of a guy in the early 90’s I met on the Ridgeway who was pushing his bike because of a puncture
I asked
” are you ok”
curt snotty reply
“yes I am I have a mobile phone!!”
In awe of this chap I replied
“arn’t tyre levers and a patch more appropriate”
for some reason he gave no reply

How much is a trail bounced IPHONE4 worth?????

😆 😆 😆

Oh eck phill my eds just fallen off

As above if you want a GPS get a proper GPS

Wellys are waterproof but no use for scuba diving

why do I crash

And why do my brake pads never wear out??

is there a coencedance here

Dibbs – Member
I prefer the slow revving relaxed driving style of diesel engined cars.

hence all the traffic jams in Somerset 😉

there is a invention called a pocket which works well 😉

guess that would tick all the box’s

lexiekay

I did 20 years 😕

thank god for internet dating

To the OP

Get off yer lardy butt and do something good for someone preferably a complete stranger, it is strange the buzz you can get at times

To wallow in your own pit will not help

believe me

TSY

God help yer hope she is not mid 40’s single

She cost me a fortune

HAve a look

http://carboncycles.cc/

I am using there stems and they ain’t arf bad, save yerself a wad and get yer pad sorted

sortir le dimanche sur une randonnée vtt, et pensez à nous qui aimeraient être avec toi mon ami

As above if its an issue walk away

one day you will want to sell remember

BB you are a decent bloke by the sounds of the thread so do the decent thing

Tidy yer flat first

mastiles_fanylion – Member
Take some pictures of your current flat and sell them. They haven’t been in so they need never to know and it’s just about what they deserve.

Sorry PP but the carbon On ones do not look too good in the pictures.

But I have not seen one in the flesh either

Mind you I have had several on-ones and they all ride realy well so please do not think I am knocking them on anything other than asthetics

I may get hung for this but the only good looking carbon h/t I have seen is the Niner

I am 5’8 and ride a 17.5 simple with the seatpost 50mm short of the max line on a 350mm post and a 60mm stem

Fits me a beaut

but in a nod of agreement with Haze I had to go for a 16″ 456 because the 18″ just felt too big

you have to try before you buy if you are a inbetween sizes

gears gears gear gears 🙄

on a s/s you are NEVER in the wrong gear 😀

My preferance is 95% of the time my s/s ok so I walk more but hey if it was a race I would have a number on my bike.

All I can say is try it.

buzz-lightyear – Member
Fun. Hard at times, slow at other times, but always fun nevertheless. It feels like running though the forest with no pants on

well put buzz

Ah that was another excursion 😳

Depends where you live realy

I have a place in the Haute Vienne ( near Limoges) and living in Devon I could drive to Dover bloody awful route 225 miles then do 400 miles the other side which would involve a night stop on route

But I prefer to pay extra and sail Plymouth Roscoff, why because I finnnish work, go home jump in my car drive 70 miles to Plymouth and get on the overnight ferry so my sleep patterns are not interupted, wake up fresh at Roscoff and drive 400 miles. This route saves me 2 days holiday per visit

+2

fantastic song writer

RIP

I know what you mean on my first visit I was not overly impressed with the Q’s

Then I bumped in the Quantocks version of “ming the mercyless” aka Dibbs 😈 and had my eyes and lunges opened

Just put a post up for next time you are up there and hook up with some locals, its the only way

specialized tyres £22 a boot folding tubeless ready

Oh I should of said I sold my Giant Trance and bought the 456 which alot of folk would of called a backward step, but I have no regrets

I is one happy bunny