If the rest is still ok why not buy a chain splitter from park? Call me cautious but I prefer having a proper chain tool if I break a chain.

Hmmm. damn. Thanks stu. Was contemplating planning a potential jones build. Need to continue saving I guess.

terry, I would but would need to borrow forks too. And thanks all for the info I guess the ones I linked too would be fine then.

This sounds like the rheinigdeal route and yes it is good fun. not particularly long and there is a very steep hill to climb from the beach. and also a 12% road climb too. If you get a good day though it is beautiful.

Always in the right gear.

Its a nice ride from inverness to glen affric, did it last summer and wrote it up in the mag. The bit of kintail from The glen affric youth hostel to shiel bridge is very nice. Worth having to do a bit of road riding when you get to shiel bridge I reckon. Just my 2p

Oh and not having a map handy not sure how you’d get to torridon from their. Want a picture?
Riding towards shirl bridge.

Been posted before but its a favourite of mine.

If you can read this my owner spends more time polishing than riding.
If you can read this I have been taken out of the shed.

If you can read this through the mud, i’ve not been ridden enough.

Grow a beard, get a singlespeed and Harden the F… up. ( A la Ronnie Johns Chopper impersonation)
Or just HTFU
Toughen up princess.
Actually the last two would be good on a top cap.

I know its wrong but

rOcKeTdOg – Member

if it does break and kill her, new bike, new wife. win win i reckon

LOL 😀

Are you quite tall? I could sell you a nice cotic simple frame?

What is that blue stufff at the top of all your pictures? 🙂

size of simple is large.

I feel better having admitted that. 🙂

the 29er was given to me by my wife and it is the first bike out of the shed come ride day. it is unlikelynot allowed to be sold. I amcoveting a jones diamond. furthermore, shuold I borrow the geometry and get a custom built or go with importing a jones?
this would be after selling my simple. I want a lighter and shorter 29er really.

I have always liked the lotte glob house.
Outside

Inside

I also quite like the longhouse designs on skye.

13floor, Ben lomond wasn’t me but plans are definitely afoot for linking some bits I’ve found out about recently with some wel known routes.

Go to this issue and there is the article i wrote about a bit of touring in the mountains. Kintail is an epic place to ride.

And from last weekend.
See this thread.

found it in a ditch. 🙂

Will let you know after te weekend expedition to the hils, but using one for commuting has been good.

ets do the wind and high pressure war-dance then fella’s

and on fresh snow abouve 400m…

Err, I’d appreciate less of the wind and snow. We’ve a bothy mission planned for this weekend N.E. too. Hmmmm could be interesting up them their hills.

The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear,

😀

Erm bump for the evening shift, also, it neednt start and finish in the same place.

Deeside brewery Macbeth. Very fine indeed. Or their necthan which is lighter is also very nice. Need to source some more fro the weekend.

either something like this. though probably in 631

or a jones steel diamond frame.

Still, need to get saving…..

Mine has been seen before too

Here is mine

Stove went in a camelback as it rubed a hole in the bag on the rack. ended up using an alpkit backpack instead.
Sleepingbag, mat and bivvy o the bars, Clothes and pans in the rear, and wash kit, andfood and waterproofs in the back pack or strapped to the top of the rear bag.
Still need to make a harness for the front bag to stop holes gettting rubed in the dry bag and to attach the map to.

Got in Last saturday in aberdeen, Was bloody freezing but glassy and head to chest. Moon rising in a clear sky and a mist about a foot off the water. Beautiful. 😀
Thin merino socks under your booties are a big help walking through the snow to the beach. and help keep you warm in the water too.

Professor Elemental – “I don’t like your tweed sir!’ 😀
Genius

Four days riding round some cracking scenery and wading across rivers.

Both been posted before

Second Last day – Corrieyairick Pass

Planning next year’s trip already, but don’t tell the wife 😀

Definitely snowing in aberdeen 😀

Corrieyairick pass

End of Glen affric heading to kintail

Ben loyal on the left and ben hope on the right

Nice pics, this year was the year of me discovering travelling by bike, offroad touring. Am definitely keen for more of that next year. 😀

Nice pics, this year was the year of me discovering travelling by bike, offroad touring. Am definitely keen for more of that next year. 😀

What about a laser remover. My Wife has fuzz free legs and doesn’t have to put up with ripping the hairs out by the root?

Thought this one would appeal to some of the I.T. bods on here.

1.Looking over the log book kept by the computer support staff at my office, I noticed several entries stating the problem was PICNIC. I asked one of the technicians what PICNIC meant. He laughed as he told me it meant “Problem In Chair, Not In Computer”
2. Trip down the west coast similar to 13thfloormonk but opposite direction
3. Waking up ext to my wife.
4. Opening a packet of good coffee
5. Tollah Stu and Cheezy (and respective other halves)are nice folks. Thanks for the dinner and generla hospitality.

Ilike this but only because my wife walked down the isle to it.

I like it even more now I’ve seen the video.

Lots of elliot smith also
Waltz #2 and miss misery.

Could I tell the difference? Yes.

If I had a magnet. I’ll get me coat. 🙂

not rigid i’m afraid.

Probably soon to be for sale.

Possibly in slightly bad taste but….
I
asked my missus if we could try the Chilean Miner position the other
night. She asked if it was the one where she goes deep down my shaft and
… stays there until she needs to come up for air? I told her no, its the one where she **** off and I don’t see her for 4 months.

I went to Aberdeen, studied French. ( i use the word studied very loosely) Aberdeen is a good uni and I enjoyed the social life alot, some might say too much and I probably should have done something other than go to uni straight after school. Went Back last year and did a PGCE primary qualification which I wouldn’t have been able to do without m first degree.