Been a subscriber since 2012 and have always been billed in USD for some reason. Just cancelled after seeing my renewal will be at $79.00 pa which is currently £62.00.

Yes, as long as your vaccinations are up to date, you are good to go. We have 2 proud EU rescues (both Romanian but one was re-branded as Bulgarian in order to bypass restrictions for export of dogs from countries bordering Ukraine after the Russian invasion)

I struggle with long sentences but my personal observation is that that this usage of super as an adverb originates from German speakers. I remember noticing that in spoken German, everything was super cool and mega fun when I first moved to Switzerland in 2000. This was then carried over as a direct translation into English, particularly in interviews with sportspeople (skiiers, cyclists etc).

Badgering people into submission with persistent self righteousness is not the same as winning an argument on merit.

Wonderful! I don’t often genuinely laugh out loud but this is one of those times. Thank you MSP.

For ultimate convenience, roll up with grated cheese and throw in the microwave for 20 seconds (in pairs obviously)

Well done @dannybgoode and all above. 10 years 9 months here. Back from the brink. I dread to think where I’d be if I hadn’t finally cracked it.

It gets easier every year. I can honestly say that it hasn’t crossed my mind for the last few years. The negative consequences are deeply engrained in my memory so I only need to think back to reaffirm my conviction!

Bart was busy doing the Dutch commentary

I thought Bart was managing the Dutch team? Claudio Caluori was on the photos with the Swiss XC ladies so I assume he had a role in their setup on the day.

I’ve not been before but am lucky enough to have a ticket for the “McLaren Experience” in the Paddock Club. As far as I understand, the viewing area is above the McLaren pit. Has anyone been in there before? Is it “good”? Is it hopelessly corporate and not a real GP experience, or will it be OK? I’m told that there are complementary ear plugs.

Anyway scrap iron is worthless.

Currently £200/tonne including a skip and collection.

Incidentally, it’s value turned negative for a couple of weeks last April/May.

Some areas have blanket TPOs meaning that whatever was growing at the date when the TPO was enacted is protected. Sometimes there is an inventory but other times it is a matter of opinion. Apparantly, counting the rings is not an acceptable approach. My property is subject to a TPO from 1951 so here a full grown trees which aren’t covered.

All 381 reported deaths occurred in hospitals. There has been no adjustment made.

UPDATE on coronavirus (#COVID19) testing in the UK:

As of 9am 31 March, a total of 143,186 people have been tested of which 25,150 tested positive.

As of 5pm on 30 March, of those hospitalised in the UK, 1,789 have sadly died. pic.twitter.com/ctiAd1ty9p

— Department of Health and Social Care (@DHSCgovuk) March 31, 2020

2 layers of bacon, ketchup inbetween. No soggy bread

A few people above saying they work for banks and feel secure. When 250,000 small businesses default on loans and millions of homeowners with mortgages follow suit, I imagine that they might start to feel a little different. Banks will fall like dominos and government resources won’t come close to bailing them all out.

I hold whatever I’m waxing in front of the woodburner and it melts in seconds. Seeing as this is STW, most should be able to do the same. It saves running the gauntlet of borrowing the wife’s hairdryer or destroying the iron.

Several repeat applications can make a garment pretty repellent (to water – already repellent to women). Give the seams extra attention.

I was watching kids football on a foggy Sunday a couple of weeks back. We were struggling to follow a passage of play at the far goal-mouth and a fellow parent remarked that it was like “gorillas in the mist”. Someone immediately reprimanded him saying that this was a racially charged comment. A quick demographic survey was undertaken, returning the result that all players and spectators were white. I’m not sure if this meant that the comment was OK or not. It’s so confusing. Good film though.

Boomerlives,

I’m guessing that you are paying (handsomely) for BT’s complete WiFi product, whereby they will send you up to 3 mesh transmitters as required.If you buy the discs as standalones, they certainly won’t send you additional units for free.

Northwave Himalaya are excellent. I rode in ski resorts last winter at -20degC. As always, the socks are as important as the boot. For really cold conditions, I wear a standard thin cotton sock inside good wool socks (eg Woolie Boolies). The gaiter hooks on the Himalayas are also an excellent addition and a set of snow gaiters has allowed me to comfortably carry/push the bike through deep snow when necessary.

This is the inside. My only suggestion is that it overheated when the braze-on was added.

It’s buffed up nicely. Can barely see it now.

Fork from a reputable custom frame builder unfortunately. Hoping it will polish out with a bit of muc-off when I get home (on the train…)

Don’t you at least owe INRNG a link to his content that you have “borrowed”?

I’m no help on the main question but I am looking for a place in Cornwall in mid July to sleep 4 (ideally 3 bedrooms). Got a link?

Not to alarm you, but I suffered the same for several years. In my case, my failure to take action may have contributed to my having a stroke.

Unknown to me, I had a quite common defect in my heart called a PFO whereby blood could pass within the heart from the un-oxygenated side to the oxygenated side. The leak was at it’s greatest when the heart was working hardest. My heart enlarged to compensate and this led to an even greater rate of leakage. I was starving my brain of oxygen and the area of my brain which was affected first was the area which processes information from the eyes. After very hard exercise (100% effort) I would have blurred vision and blind spots for several hours, often accompanied by a head ache.

One time after a mountain bike race, it was particularly bad – I was tripping over things due to a blind spot. The vision never recovered. The oxygen starvation had caused permanent damage.

I went to an optician who saw quickly that the blind spot was in both eyes (I had thought just one eye) and hence it was a brain injury. I had other symptoms and spent a lot of time in hospital and recovery. The PFO was closed with an implant inserted through an artery and other than the vision damage (which my brain does a decent job in compensating) I am back to normal.

Worth getting checked out.

8,800 kWh electric but roughly 2,800 of that is a car so 6,000 kWh in the house

59,000 kWh gas…. And that is with a wood burning stove that’s lit 300 days a year,

Octopus.

What’s happened to STW? 28 replies and no mention of singlespeed or Rohloff. This place isn’t what it used to be…

Invalidation of the structural warranty for the building seems to be the most obvious/likely consequence.

The fences really annoy me, when you have to lift a bike over a fence to ride a section of trail it really does spoil things, a lot. If a good section of trail gets a fence put through it, that alone puts me off riding it.

I have an unwritten rule I set myself when I plan a route: 3 Gates/Styles to lift the bike over is the MAX on any ride in a day.

This was most apparent on my last ride, I had already reached my maximum of 3 and was getting near the end, the shortest route back involved 2 styles, but I choose the longer route with more climbing (even tho I didn’t feel like it) because I’d already done my 3 maximum carries…

Would anyone say the number of decent trails is on the rise or the decline these days ??

Are Mountain Bike routes in decline ? Are the top routes getting worse ? There seems to be more sanitisation than ever before, and the number of Gates and Styles being implemented into Trails which used to flow well throughout, has been on the up, during the 4 years I’ve been doing it.

Thank God we’ve got trail centres to fall back on, but really don’t like restricting myself to just these. There are so many good rides that aren’t at Trail Centres and they don’t all involve as much Driving to get there.

Not sure if serious….

Ton, which trousers do you wear? I have a 34” waist but massive thunderous thighs that won’t even fit in most trousers. I did try some Fjallraven in a shop once but they weren’t very roomy. Hearing that you squeeze into them makes me think that there might be hope.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/backspace-to-go-back/nlffgllnjjkheddehpolbanogdeaogbc?hl=en

Chrome plug-in to satisfy one-handed browsers the world over. What are you doing with your other hand or do you have only one?

Catch up tonight on the woman’s race. No spoilers please

Perhaps don’t read threads about xc racing the day after the event if you don’t want to know the result?

Anyone have a good explanation for the extreme fluctuations in form that we’ve seen in the women’s for the last couple of years?

Neff is the most extreme example, but Langvad is another (possibly related to her studies), Dahle and of course Annie Last as well. It’s not uncommon to go from winning, to outside the top10 in adjacent races separated only by a couple of weeks.

Contrast that to the men’s, where there’s a lot more consistancy, not just from El Nino, but also further down the field.

Bud and Lou, year round. I’m on my 3rd Lou and 2nd Bud after 3 years.

Tried knards and also thought I’d broken my frame like the poster above. Horrible horrible tyres.

Just to add an alternative experience, I quit my job at the end of February and am currently enjoying 6 months paid leave. If you don’t ask….

(Company was thinking about reducing headcount so I went to them with a mutually beneficial proposition)

My kids have walked 1km to school and back since they were 4. Quiet residential roads, no pavements.

Not sure about skate park though. Risk of injury would worry me, but would depend on how sensible and experienced he was on a board, plus if there were friends or older kids around.

What a finish in the women’s. Almost better without commentary.

Fanastic thread. Thanks for all the posts newrobdob. Keep it up – you’re doing a great job.

Be a friend in real life. Talk about real issues. Experience real emotions and feelings together.

People retreat into this kind of online pseudo-existence to compensate for a void in their real lives.

Mmmmmnn, maxi. Happy memories of 3 children fighting in the backseat during long journeys. (not actual car)

5.25″ floppy

Let me guess, you took it off in a cold garage.

I did the same in minus temperatures this weekend. One side of the bars has all the adhesive and huge chunks of the old tape left behind.

I used a hair dryer on the other side before removal and it came off completely clean.

If you heat up the remaining lumps then they come off easier but there’s still some work to do with isopropyl to get the adhesive off.

I expected a 30 minute job to switch the tapes, but it ended up taking a couple of hours…