Thanks Stato.

If the answer is such that these aren’t going to work for me, what else (that is good) is there to look at in that sort of price range? I’d want a 9mm QR dropout btw.

OK, good idea! 🙂

to ensure profitable running of the lumbar/timber industry

So they are going in for physiotherapy then?

to ensure profitable running of the lumber/timber industry

Fixed it for you.

Ordered one…look great to me. Might give it to slowjo jnr for crimble.

What was a “pocket simon”?

Haven’t read all the threads but did anyone do the mission where you ran into a system where the sun was about to go supernova? It just wiped you out.

I played it on my top of the range 286 with 86kb of RAM and a 20MB hard drive with a colout monitor. (I used to sneak back to work at weekends to play – I didn’t have a pc at home).

Starglider, that was the other one. Coloured lines roughly approximating to space ships blatting round the screen! Woo hoo!

I have just had a look at Connect and it does seem much better. I set up an account and it picked up the entire history from my Garmin so nothing lost then. Just a little more room on my HDD when I delete Training Centre.

(I’d never heard of Connect before so thanks for the hint.)

AdiranW – yes it is a Mac. I can’t remember seeing a converting database message. Assuming there was and I missed it, apart from going back via Time Machine, I assume that’s it then.

I’m not sure, it is usually XL in everything for me!

Done it a few times but wish there was an indoor track within a decent driving time from here. The nearest track (Welwyn) is outdoors and almost 2 hours away, I have no idea where the nearest indoor one is.

Great fun and you have to work quite hard too.

Mine will be coming out for the first time this weekend (winter bike that is)

Well at least I listened in the end! 🙂

I had an XL Soul. Didn’t realise they were so rare! I’d have asked for more when I sold it!

Sadly, I never got on with it. I went through a phase of failing to find a bike I really liked, Soul, Wanga, Scandal….none of them really worked for me. In the end I found the Swift and have never looked back. Had I not got a Swift I’d probably have given a Cotic 29er a bash.

cruzer – the lunch time test failed. The battery took the charge ok but I failed to spot that the switch was full of water! I attacked it with my wife’s hair dryer but I think it is due a spell in the airing cupboard now.

IMO the pits should have been closed well before they became that dangerous. If few could ride in and even fewer ride out because of the gloop, it begs the question – why were they kept open? Having said that, I saw so many people fall off apparently at random on fire road and singletrack, you could argue the pits were no worse than anywhere else! 😯 😉

I dropped round to the Singular tent and spoke to Sam. I resisted the temptation to pick up a Pegasus, it would have been hard not to succumb to a new bike. I did however, fall in love with the proto-CX bike they had there. Will it come with disc mounts or is it going to be canti only?

I’m going to start saving my pennies as I feel a new project coming on!

“Elveden Pit” is adjacent to FR8.

cruzer…I had had enough by then. I have dried my lights out and they are on charge now, hopefully I’ll be testing them after lunch.

I think we’d have been better off running the whole thing CX style!

I rode Ralphs for all three (ish) laps.

The third lap on my Swift was better than the 2 preceding on my Superlight.

I had to bale out before I finished the third lap as my lights shorted out and I had managed to leave my back up light behind in the tent :/

Thanks to the guy who shadowed me back to HL, hope your back recovered.

Is that video over? I managed 3 minutes of fire road and fell asleep! Yawn.

This is the proposed solution in East Anglia:
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/interesting-item-on-look-east-last-night-bike-related

bobalong…. I was out with a mate the other night, that combo is exactly what he was riding and intends to ride. Unlike him I’ll be a billy no mates doing solo.

You really don’t believe me do you?

I’ll be riding RRs.

It isn’t muddy here atm, one or two holes are squidgy in the bottom otherwise it seems to be riding quite fast. IMO Jason is spot on. On current conditions, if you come equipped with mud tyres you’ll be on the wrong rubber. Bring them as spares if you must.

Unless we have torrential rain you’ll be in more trouble from sliuppy roots etc than drowning in mud.

It is lovely here at the moment. Dry, blue sky and I’m working with the door and windows open.

I rode on Tuesday in the rain and I will be riding 2.25 Ralphs.

If it gets a bit cacky I’ll let some pressure out otherwise that’s it. IMO RRs are fine all year round at Thetford… it is all I’ve used for years anyway.

As a concession to the rain gods I’ll be taking some old IRC Mythos down but I don’t expect to use them. The most pessimistic locals seem to be riding RR/Nic combos or just Nics.

I’ll see if I can swing by but I’m going to be late cos I have to go to an 80th birthday lunch before I leave for the forest. It is only in Lavenham but will put me back a bit.

No fiver JonT but I was beginning to worry! Referring to an earlier thread though, I have a pair of Tesco value jeans and they have deformed the least.

ive got a few pairs of next jeans and the last pair have ripped open at the groin within a month (denim seemed to just fail and shred in a big way) and the fit wasnt great either.

Interesting. The fit on my Next jeans was initially pretty good (I didn’t buy these ones too small to let them grow) but they just expanded like mad. Within a month or two the fabric just started to disintegrate on one pair and the legs are now full of holes where the material has just “evaporated”.

Never again as far as Next are concerned.

It must be me then. I have tried cheapies and expensive ones but they all end up the same. They get washed regularly Ewok 🙂 The days of being a smelly student are decades behind me.

I’ll have a go with Alpkit and Diesel next then and see if it happens again.

I like the way they are still advertising Setanta Sports!

Squirt seemed to be a brilliant option but I did exactly what it said on the bottle and one ride in the chain was rusty.

Not sure what £60 would get you..

Not enough light and not for very long either.

Cambridge Corn ExchangeI think – not very small but not huge either. Saw the Dirty Pretty Things there a while ago and could see the band ok. It had changed a lot from when I went to see the Jam, Undertones etc in the late 70’s!

They have got them at Thetford Forest now. Doesn’t look that extreme to me.. there again (before anyone else says it) not much at Thetford looks that extreme anyway.

I have always avoided them as the false bonhomie required of people who are effectively a bunch of strangers (it has been almost 30 years since I’ve seen any of them) makes me puke. As said elsewhere, I’m still friends with the ones I got on with.

Loved team sports… rugby to a decent level, footy to a reasonable level, cricket to a good level but injury stopped all of that when I was at uni which let me get on with the more hedonistic side of student life, and I have never looked back! 🙂

Fill Your Heart – Bowie ATM.

Magic Roundabout is quite common though, the Muppets +1 and something called Ramblin’ Rose – I remember it from car journeys when I was a kid. For some reason it was always on, along with something called “Sing Something Simple” a particularly terrible show that my folks liked.

Why do the decent tracks never get stuck?

…wanders off to get fire extinguisher. Puts coffee on, opens packet of biscuits.

Surely you have been here long enough to know this is like a red rag to a bull? Maybe that’s the point….

I’ve had some 29er wheels on Superleggera hubs. The bearings on the front hub worse out in next to no time but I replaced them with some decent ones for very little money (less than a tenner) so no real ussues. Nothing has gone wrong with the rear hub yet and anyway, they have a 2 year warranty. What’s not to like?

The problem is finding a Trek dealer who has one in and lives within an hours drive. Trek won't allow dealers to post bikes, they have to be set up and ready to ride (apparently) otherwise they lose their licence.

The Trek website is pants, I rang up all the "dealers" in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and none of them were Trek dealers any more or failing that they only carried a limited range and wouldn't get a bike in for me.

There is one just south of Cambridge but they can't get any until the end of October whereas Chevin seem to have them in stock. I'm not driving 3 to 4 hours each way for a £450 bike though.

Pants… I'll have to wait.

I'm quite prepared for the forks to be pants but they'll see me through the winter and then I can get some carbons, maybe putting the bouncy ones back on for the winter. I have got some old XTR cranks, loads of light stems, various sizes and shape of bars and seatposts and pedals just sitting in a box so I can upgrade it without costing me too much. When I get nicer wheels for my Swift I can swap them over and I may end up with a nice light bike. I just have to get my hands on one first though.

Ah… my problem exactly! 🙂

Wow that is a long thread… I'll read that tonight then! 🙂