Piping hot food in a good greasy spoon, it’s like the world takes a break to let you eat. When it brings on the urge for a proper satisfying stool, and this can be laid in crisp clean porcelain; heaven has a rival.

I’m still not sure I’d be spending that on a second hand frame and wheel’s with some 10 speed XT slapped on it. Think he would be better putting some standard finishing kit on and selling the ti bits separately. But hey, gotta love a try’er, and seems he may have read this thread and removed his chainring fib…..

My relationships are mainly transient and situational. I moved away from where I was brought up, so no. I’ve met the odd person I knew at school when they have contacted when visiting where I am now. But this hasn’t led to any prolonged ties. I enjoy seeing them when I have, but it’s not something I pursue.

For £520 I would have wanted someone to chew that chainring into shape.

I like the look of the Ridgeback but a grand for a Sora equipped bike seems steep to me, although it has got some good points, like the full carbon fork. But that might be the price of steel frames I guess, I don’t look at many steel bikes.

I had porridge, followed by some Crunchy Nut clusters, washed down with protein/ carb shake and mugs of tea. Sorted me for a rapid road ton plus. Just heading to whethespoons, now feeling very mellow and wanting burrito and IPA.

Monkeychild – there are those ‘adventure’ bikes, and we’ll my guess is it’s a different customer that would buy this[/url] than those mentioned above.
The above are generating an adventure bike purchaser from cyclists who won’t buy the thorn, so for me those from the Road/ mtb’ers who find the bikes above really appealing, ie those who can see the logic to the design, and if honest think they area bit cool or suit their image as a rider. Kind of reminds me of the moment someone thought ‘let’s make a fiat punto 4×4, that will be shithot!!’

I always ran with the convention that the slightly smaller frame puts you in a better position for sprinting. Similar to the fact my tt bike puts me in a different position than my race bikes. It was just the info I was brought up with, but kinda made sense and I have never needed to challenge it really. But things change….

At least they spared someone else from having an idiot friend for 45 years.

Fat people.

People in sport’s wear that are not doing sport or just watching sport.

It would have been more considerate to have taken himself to a quiet corner of a room or nip behind the sofa like a cat.

My life has clearly been unsheltered,as this type of story isn’t that uncommon. Whilst I have never had a shite related alcohol event, I have had the odd random damp 😳 I have had to lob my crackers in the bin in Hong Kong airport due to eating what I can only describe as rotten bird wing in dirty water with a fish gut dumpling…..

A solid morning routine should involve; having a slash, crimping one off (or laying some dirty spine/ having an Ertha Kitt) and pulling one’s pud (or whipping the weasel, spanking the monkey/ having a knuckle shuffle/ making one’s serpent sick/ slapping one’s sausage/ beating the bishop/ knocking one off/ smacking the salami/ extracting some poison/ playing the skin flute), in no particular order.

If a strong coffee was introduced pre-dump one would also finding themselves crowning and needing to open the bomb bay doors. If the experience was ‘difficult’ one would have left a log of hate in that trap, or it could have stank so bad it required a mid way flush.

I can’t fathom why anyone would look to cause a crash, but if I turned around and saw an mtb on my wheel I would die of shame.

With the addition of a knackered fridge and some worn tyres you could make that a feature lawn.

‘wrongful door’s’….he’s making you look a sap.

I think the late Jimmy Saville fingered my bumhole, I had some midweek boozeand a curry, dreamt about shell suits and had some serious ring discomfort in the morning 😯

although the cassettes will need swapped

Probably less effort than selling the bike?

‘S’up up ****’

As a fiesta of chav’s pulled alongside me and unleashed two supersoakers of piss at me. From the flavour I think one of them had consumed a lot of cider before relieving himself……

I’ll call Specialized on Monday and let them know not to warranty any 10 year old Allez with a cracked head tube…

It’s quite an achievement to elevate ones self above the Olympic class bellendery that exists on here, chapeau!

Lovely thanks pal.

Sorry for going a little off topic, but @ davidtaylforth what are those bars? Cheers

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It would be better on the eye.

The joy of a new grot mag.

My winter bike is used all year round when the weather is foul. Equally I love a blast out on a dry chilly sunny morning on one of my nice bikes. Equally I have a wet race bike and use it for not chucking it down winter days. They all just get looked after as we go along. Would seem a bit odd putting ‘winter bike day’ in my diary and just hop onto one bike.

Next time one decides to open up to me about how their parents abused them, they were passed around between uncles for sexual pleasure

I think we shop at the same ASDA? 😯

But on a slightly more serious note, in my experience not all addicts (of any variety) have suffered the above, but lots have and worse. But, the same can be said about people who significantly over or under eat, or for people who seem ‘normal’. I just take folk on their own merits, the labels just make it easier for ignorant twits to treat people as lesser beings.

If the op was competent to fit them, he would know what ‘failed’, and probably even know what brake they are 😆 but heck, where there’s blame there’s a claim!! These are fine times we are living in……

She’s incessantly messaging me at all hours

Defo DTF 🙂

Establish early on if it’s a proper date, or two friends/ work colleagues having a drink. Then all good, act accordingly. You must know in your own mind if you asked her out because you fancied her or because you wanted to be a nice friend. Tbh, whilst I accept I make most drink spillages look deep, if you are just meeting up to offer a shoulder and talk about the deceased and how she has adapted, kill me now!! But being blunt, someone’s going to get there first if you don’t, and if you fancy her fortune favours the brave in my book. But if you just want to be a mate, steady on the booze and knock one off before you go. Just don’t be a prick.

Without sounding all mystical the answer may not just be in wheel size/ bike type. If you really enjoyed riding ‘your’ trails on a 26′, and now don’t on different size wheel’s or different types of bikes, then buy a 26′ bike again. And preferably the same one you really enjoyed, as not all 26′ bikes are the same either. Why keep trying to make something you don’t think works, work? Particularly when you think a 26′ bike will work for you. I would rather ride what I like, rather than not enjoy riding what I think/ or am told I should.

Surly manly trails require a grrrrrrravel bike 😉

I’ll get my coat…..

Nope my gravel bike feels different to my 26′ hardtail……..perhaps the jokes on me!! 😯

Any other suggestions?

Whiney middle aged cockbags.

I have bike’s I race with rim brakes, a winter/ commuter bike with trp spyres and a pimp ass Sunday training bike with hydro disc brakes because I lucky and can. I certainly wouldn’t go back to rim brakes on the winter bike, but I don’t have any desperate desire to upgrade it to hydro’s. I don’t have an issue with rim brakes and like the performance of the hydro’s, and probably feel overall these offer the best performance across a range of conditions. I won’t have any issues letting rim brakes go when I can race on hydro’s but equally I don’t have any great desire for this to happen. I can’t really get much more excited about the issue.

I think the guy from Surly is in a far better position to say than most STW’ers.

But I would think context is needed, in terms of growing or expanding sales the bubble may have burst, plus size wheel’s offer a lot of choices in competition with fatbikes. But I doubt the bubble has burst for those owning and enjoying riding their fatbikes! And I’m sure more will be sold, and for some it might always be the right bike.

I guess, I wouldn’t be looking to set up a company solely selling fatbikes in light of the comments if I wanted to make my millions. But to be fair, if a tyre gets wider than 25mm, I’m out 🙂

bit off the norm but I usually stay here just a lovely calm place.

I just teach them now!

1/10 dealing with thick and irrational people is an essential skill of life, and when you do it badly you just end up looking like one of them. Not sure I would have shared.

Was up there midweek and they did me a pretty decent fried egg cob, tidy scone and a mug of tea. They were friendly enough and there was a few in. Was nowt special but did the job. Overall I would give it a whiney middle aged cockbag rating of 6/10.

Nay.

The staff toilet in one of the a&e’s I used to work from had a handy laminated a4 sign that had a picture of a poo (with eye’s, of course) with an arrow pointing from the poo to a picture of a toilet. It used to make me think ‘c’mon we are staff, surly we can do better than this’. 🙂