was that meant to be a link? it didnt work if it was :lol:

i cant wait to do that route in the dry, anyone up for one in the summer? i think i would prfer dust to snow :lol:

whilst eating a

beyond. the platypus

i dont care how it was served, i needed it, and it tasted nice. bike is grinding and creaking like an old house now though :lol:

just got home, pushed most of the uphill on the way back, im absolutely knackered. felt rubbish on rushups edge but jelly babies saved the day once again. fantastic burger at the pub, thanks to all especially pook for the extra jelly babies and cupcake. :D

looking forward to this now. our train gets into edale at 9.30, so we will be waiting around for a bit. anyone else getting the train from manchester direction?

anyone else getting the train from manchester direction?

my merida comes in at 31lbs, with new saddle and grips, but i dont have the money to upgrade anything and i wouldnt know what to upgrade first.

front brake finally fitted yesterday, after being at the shop since the date of the last pootle, new undershorts came today. im all set, i just need to stop being ill.

even if you were telling the truth will, im no good at downhill anyway

one of these, fast as anything

its snowing gently here (near whaley bridge) but my mum said there appeared to be no snow on kinder, so it could just be local. and im ill! i am determined to come though, if it is anything like the last one, it will be great fun :)

i seem to cope fine with flats, and i think i would hurt myself alot more using spd's. the amount of times i have saved myself by dabbing is too large to count. i use super cheap wellgo pedals and shimano am40 shoes, not slipped yet :D i have never really had a problem with flats on a tech climb either.

erm, to book online they have scott, norco, corratec, raleigh mtrax, diamondback, rose, red bull, lynskey and bionicon. im like a kid in a sweet shop :lol:

damn it. im 5 11" and a bit, that almost big enough? or am i pushing my luck? im going to the betwys y coed bikeradar demo day anyway, so i can try a decent bike there. what bike though? im on a scott genius 2o at the moment :D

slow rider, you could always bring both and i can make use of the one you dont use ;) but only if your a medium :lol:

springer spaniel, then lab, then perhaps border collie. the reason i say perhaps is that we had a very traumatic time with our last collie, she was psychopathic and thought the world was out to get her. she bit everyone in our family at least once apart from me. we contacted the collie rescue centre and, very traumatically, decided to have her put down. we now have a springer spaniel called ben, 6 months old and as mad as a hatter, but we all love him.

we managed to get an old fire escape slide from a hospice when i was about 7, it was the best homemade water slide i have ever been down :D the dog likes it too

i dont get it either. I will make sure i dont break it again before saturday. infact, i wont be riding it between getting the brake back and saturday, even though thats not how i broke it in the first place :/

i got the hammer for my real name, and dh dominator for my forum name. it fits me well, im rubbish at mechanics so i hit stuff with a hammer, but dh dominator?? im more like dh snail

good news! rang the lbs today, and they have had my brake ready to collect for a while and just hadn't told me, which is pretty poor in my book, one of a few things i havn't been impressed with, so im moving. good job i have 3 nearby :)

im the worst descender known to man. i can go uphill quite well though :)

you forgot me hora :( on my alloy merida, so its not even springy :( I STILL DONT HAVE MY FRONT BRAKE EITHER!!! arghhh. and i have sprained my finger, but it should be fine by next saturday.

Sam bob, do you nerd to borrow a rear brake?

thanks for the offer, but i should have it back by then, and i meant from the shop, and its the front one :( my post was unclear though.

EDIT:i will contact if you do have a spare front one next week if its looking unlikely ill get it back before the ride.

i forgot to mention the bike is a perfect size for me at the moment, unfornunately the cx season is coming to a close soon, and im not here for the bsca nationals in bakewell :( not that im anygood at cyclocross i hasten to add.

looking forward to this now :) thanks to the persuasion of bunnyhop, and lending of the bike from will for a short while, fellmarvin collected his scott cx team yesterday, as ridden by Fred Salmon in the 3 peaks last year. and for an absolute bargain considering the spec on it is better than standard. different rims and fsa k force cranks are some of the upgrades on it, but it could be lighter still if te tyres were changed. i still dont have my brake back though :(

i dont work at all, although i would like the money from it. school will have to do for now :?

i hav absolutely no problem with it on bridleways etc but i dont really agree with dogs at trail centres, especially when its busy.

i cope just fine with one, but that doesnt mean i dont want another one. or two. or three for that matter. just buy one :D

it would be me that paid if i wanted some new brakes! so tektro aurigas are just fine, they seem to work fairly well so far. having said that they are either on or off, unless i am very gentle with them, and thats jus not me :D

i WILL have a working front brake by then, it as the lbs at the moment until they get the parts, im going to go faster downhill this time though :)

i have to say i felt the same, even though i did have 4 inches of it. i suppose thats what cheap suntour forks do to you :)

its at the shop at the moment, they had to order the parts in, so im not sure when ill get it back, should be soon though :)

i had one familliar brake, unfortunately it was the rear brake. i didnt go over the bars though :)

definitely up for this, as i think fellmarvin will be. i might bring a working front brake this time though :oops:

they did come in a mesh bag, but i've lost it. ill do them in an old pillow case or something :D

what temperature? i take it a cool wash?

i feel fine today, apart from slight tenderness caused by the saddle :? bike is still grinding a bit but it did that when we set off anyway 8O thanks again to misterP for the brake

my shoes have not arrived yet!! more than a week after i ordered them, and no word from merlin. im not a happy bunny. :(