Seven miles there and back, dodging dog walkers on the boring sustrans bike motorway, or nineish miles of proper trail, guess which I prefer!

Colliers is nice.. lovely calcium lactate crystals!

It’s only a bike?
If that’s your attitude then you’re clearly riding the wrong bike on the wrong trails!
Personally I’ve got a bit of an emotional attachment to mine, we’ve shared some good times…. I’m sure a lot of riders on here have similar bonds with their mounts. That’s what these thieving scroats don’t grasp…
As for punishment? Community service in a chain gang repairing braking bumps at trail centres?

Wonder if they come from the same factory as my 1st gen blue pig, the paint on its scuffed to buggery…

Vans gravel FTW… Had a set of freeriders, awesome grip but as mentioned, all the water proofing aof a sieve, the vans have they’re own take on the sticky rubber sole which is nice and grippy and they’re a lot stiffer than 5:10s which I find better for pedalling.

Brickshelf Technic- Lego image upload site, technic section.
Eurobricks Technic- Lego forum, technic section.
STW- old men’s bickering and bitchin forum.

Chilli. Chipotle, Ancho and a few Skotch Bonnet chili peppers for a bit of heat and smoked paprika.

Vans Gravel.

I’ve always fancied another Ericsson t-28, had one back in the day, lovely little bit of design, flip to answer and TETRIS!

DMR vaults and vans gravel (with vans take on the sticky sole) or 5:10 freeriders, the vans are a bit more hard wearing than the 5:10s but still stick like the proverbial to a blanket.

Does the horse have to be from the country its representing?

Make your own!

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I’ve had a flick at it…

I wondered about that myself as I was filling them, (i work on produce at bury tesco)
Anyone wanna give me a better job? (graduate design engineer suitable)

“so it looks great”
According to who? Stevie wonder?

I once consumed a full watermelon and a bottle of Havana Club at the same time, bad idea, the melon seemed to absorb the rum so I was quite a pleasant chap until I started digesting the melon and was hit by a massive wave of paralytic, speach slurring, debilitating drunkardness… Fun times…

Chain tug?

If only I could find my old D.C.D.

Thought I’d give it a whirl,

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I used a piece of small diameter plumbing pipe and a large keyring as I didn’t have any used lock-ons hanging around and I’m suffering from a black zip-tie drought at the moment.
Only had time for a quick trip round the block, but it seems to reduce slap while airing speed humps…

+1 for the monster truck justice option!

But seriously O.P. get a solicitor to rinse the van driver for everything you can and harrass the police to pursue prosecuting him and getting him banned. The passivist (lazy) approach leaves him thinking he’s perfectly in the right driving like a d ckhead and then assaulting other road users for pointing it out..

Nice bodging, does the rubber grip allow the chain to slide nicely without any unwanted drag, maybe an old lock on grip with a plastic inner or even a bit of scrap polypropylene pipe with a suitable I.D. would improve performance further?

Call me a sceptic but I call shenanigans….

Oh I’d love a Fat Chance… I do own a Pashley TV series 26mhz dirt jump/dual slalom frame, never ever seen another and struggled to get any info on them even, so of anyone could clue me in? snapped chainstay driveside unfortunately….

I’m liking the vaults I’m running, as mentioned big and thin, nice concave foot bed. Make sure you tighten or preferably loc-tite the pins though as they’re not so tight out of the factory….

Apparently the police are looking into several places the stolen toys could have been hidden….

Wow, that red and white whippet’s like a car crash, horrific but I can’t stop looking at it…

Wipperman connex.

Bury Lancs.

Three words, bean to cup.

I ride a 1st gen blue pig with the same vanilla 130 fork, great frame but if anything it could do with another 10-20mm up front, if I were buying now I’d be tempted by a piglet to suit the travel of the fork more…
Anyone wanna offer me a cheap set of 150 floats…

Just had to go have a bacon, egg and BURY black pudding muffin for dinner, awesome stuff.

Cheers Didn’t do the packaging, dreamt up the butchers apron blue and white stripes aesthetic and it works nicely..
I’m not actually a graphic designer, my degree is actually BSc Eng Product Design, but the stainless steel fabrication business I work for has a printing business as a sister company so when things are quiet on the drawing large bits of metal side of things I get to play on illustrator.
Anyone got a job for a skilled engineering design graduate with great SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Illustrator and Photoshop abilities, and a passion for problem solving and black pudding?

Haha! I designed the big bangers company’s business cards and menus for him!
Not tried their pud though..
Being from bury is have to say BURY black pudding, warm from the stall on the market with some vinegar on it, I think my friend’s mum owns the stall, and the muffin one (oven bottom)

Pragmasis look good, give ’em a google…

Is it me or the photo or does the right hand seat stay on that Curtis xc9 look longer than the left? Also seems to bend higher? Not that I can judge, the seat stays on my course built self brazed frame were ever so slightly out…

I run 11-28 as its as big as you can go with the roadie mech I’m running, with a 34 up front, bit narrow ratio wise but I get away with it for local and trail centre stuff…. Wouldnt mind 11-34 with a 36 up front but that’d mean actually spending money of which I have none.

Like dropping a load of old library books out of a suitcase into a canal.

4OD works through an android browser, I assume I player will too….

Unfortunately as part of my demeaning part time job I have to ask people if they have their own bags if they want help packing, if they have a clubcard and if they are collecting whatever daft vouchers we’re giving out (at the moment two lots) its annoying but its part of the job.
The other day I asked a customer if they were collecting the knife vouchers, half listening they replied “oh are they for schools?” I just said yeah and gave them ’em…
I feel sorry for the people in W H Smith’s who have to blag every customer about dairymilk for a quid or whatever.

And yeah I have asked customers out on dates before now, so you’re just not going to the right checkout Project!…..

JPS anyone?