Its about 800acres, so it aint going to be cheap.

The right to roam will disappear once the land leaves Shere manor estate ownership. They have sold smaller chunks of land off in the past, and the new landowners have kept it under friends of the hurtwood stewardship, but this time, who knows.

I last used Trailblasters at CYB. Interesting…

I sold the trailrakers and the cinders, Trailrakers were good in the mud, terrifying everywhere else, the cinders were just plain awful.

I had a set of IRC Serac XC 1.9’s, I liked them, they are still on my sisters bike.

I have done 1 dry loamy / sandy ride and it has ripped from the Centre of the carcas down to the sidewall bead.

I ride on the same tyres, very often in the same conditions, and my NN’s have lasted years.

What am I doing wrong so I can be outraged?

I do remember thinking that white Stormtrooper armour on Endor seemed a little redundant

The idea of white armour is because its meant to intimidate their enemies.

Which had absolutely no effect on those furry little f***ers who populate Endor.

Andertons are fairly local to me, took my niece down to try out acoustic guitars, really good sales people, took the time to make sure she got the right guitar.

Had a right old bash on the electronic drums as well.

Mosquito with a 57mm Gun. A U-boat killer:

Most of Winterfold woods is NOT part of the Hurtwood. It is privately owned.

Trails like Evian start on Hurtwood land and then cross the boundary to finish in Winterfold woods.

Surrey Hills only gets ‘knocked’ because of the nine-grand Santa Cruz carbon-riding rich blokes who occasion there sometimes.

Sometimes? With the amount of those bikes now in the neighbourhood, I’m beginning to think they are giving them away in the local lifestyle magazine. 😆

Two possible wrongs here, a Sci fi youtube clip, with a U2 backing track.

Liked the music during the guitar solo, that worked quite nicely. Seems all guitar tutors are metal heads. 😉

Slight hijack, here is my Niece’s singing tutor:

Klein.

Uber expensive, garish but actually built with some smart design features. Bought by Trek and ruined.

Just about to say that. Cue some very definite Trek bashing. 😈

Sample size of 45?

Has it occurred to anyone that the majority of folk who post on this site are actually a minority of mountain bikers overall, and in that minority there is a large majority of freaks? 😉

I’m too thick to watch a Tom Stoppard play.

I had forgotten who he was.

That’s not the way I interpreted what he said. He came across as wanting to write for as wide an audience as possible, but bemoaning the fact the general population isn’t as educated as, say, 30 years ago, and not being willing to drop what he perceives as his standards to appeal to more people.

Perhaps one day he will be intelligent enough to realise that not everyone is not that well educated, even back then, just less people find what he writes as less relevant. He may one day find an intelligent way to write to that wider audience.

He will have to come down off that mountain first of course.

but custom and practice have given them legitimacy.

😆 Blimey, I must remember this the next time when I want to acquire land.

Is there not a local group who can approach the FC and discuss the trails? Working together must be the best option???

It was the local trailbuilders who got caught digging there quite a while back. FE then gave them some land to build on, and that became Summer lightning, the builders were Redlands Trails.

This happens every few years, the last time was when a famous, or infamous trail builder added his touch to the trails.

I love the engineering, and the attention to detail.

Its when they go and take all these well engineered products and stick them on a bike(in the video) that looks like its been welded together out of left over waste metal from the Sheffield steel industry, that really lets it down. 😉

That’s how I do it. Sparkies tell you you need an electrician just to protect their jobs. It’s the same reason lawyers use latin to stop us all being able to do our own legal stuff.

😉

On a more serious note, I have never understood why people like to have a go at doing the electrics. Do you play with the gas?

I suppose the daisy chaining nature of electrics makes people feel they can do it…until it bites you.

I hadn’t visited a dentist for almost twenty years…until ten years ago when I broke a tooth on a hula hoop(the snack, not child’s the toy). There was virtually nothing left of it, so the dentist said he was going to extract it.

Even though it took two hours and increasingly larger pliers being sent for, the roots are still down there. I looked like I’d been in a fight with a boxer, but with the anaesthetic, I didn’t actually feel anything. A wisdom tooth at the back has actually moved forward into the gap left.

And when I broke another tooth(I didn’t even feel it go), I had a crown. Cue the anxiety. The new dentist said I was going to be difficult, so gave me a prescription for a “relaxant”.

He did an x-ray and the roots from the previous extraction are still there, he said they looked OK.

Didn’t feel anything, But I almost jumped out the chair when he removed the temporary crown a few weeks later, I was expecting an injection first or something.

While I don’t like going to the dentist, Its a less anxious experience than it used to be.

Its interesting how my previous dentist and hygienist recommended stuff like mouth wash, this caused staining, the new dentist said he doesn’t recommend it, unless you have gum disease.

At least Cameron appears statesmanlike and has it as a prime minister.

You’re not joking are you?

My neck of the wood has loads of Korean restaurants, plus two huge Korean supermarkets.

But I do live in a town with the largest Korean community outside of Korea.

Got an 03 1.9 swb, had it since 2008, 136k, Good to drive, had the gearbox rebuilt, and one HP pump go in that time, and track rod ends.

I’ll have another one once this one has been driven into the ground.

and the mirrors didnt fold in on the older models.

❓

Then you’re not in a very good position to comment on them are you?

Why not? Why would I comment on them? Think really hard.

As a commercial electrical contractor, we use Osram Parathom, you can get them in Very warm white(2700k) or,

Warm white(3000k)

If you are looking to replicate 50Watt halogens, then choose very warm white.

Another alternative is from Megaman. A bit more expensive, in warm white, but throws out more lumens than the osram’s.

I would never use anything from LedHut.

I forgot why I stopped contributing years ago to forums. Now I remember why.

The whining here really is quite something. You could say, I’ll ride before I pass judgement, but no, you have to say something NOW. Anyway, give it a winter and it’ll roughen up, and line will appear through it.

What I find annoying is these poxy mountain bike lifestyle videos we are treated to every time you watch someone just riding a bike.

Where have you lot been for the last 30 Years? 😉

It is on Forestry Commission land………………they require us to have our own insurance for trail building/public liability.

I always thought FC self-insured, simply because due to their size they can’t get this type of insurance.

We have a similar situation, we are going to be building and maintaining trails on Private land, So we are getting insured during trail building and public liability for the trails once we have finished. For this reason, we are only insuring three trails as this keeps the cost down. The landowner is paying for the insurance.

The insurer is Tennyson, it used to be offered through Zurich, but they referred us to Tennyson.

Things to think about:

1:Is this insurance for trail building only(will liability revert to the landowner once a trail has been built)

2: Tennyson as far as I know will not insure Events, such as races.

Point one is important to clarify before speaking to Tennyson. If you are only insuring for trail building only, I’d imagine it would just be a public liability insurance like the professional trail building companies have when building trails, if you are to insure the trails for public liability after you have built them, insuring only a few “official” trails will keep the costs down.

I have looked at your website, Direct them to your website and point out you method statements/risk assessments, any “professional” pictures of you building or maintaining trails, they look at our website and it put them more at ease with us.

I can presume your trail building org is “formalised” with a bank account/secretary/treasurer etc? If not, Tennyson may ask you to do this, but what they need to see is some “recognised expertise” when it comes to trail building.

Is it because they make it clear that decisions are made by local and national government with little input from the people they affect and everyone feels so disengaged from politics that there’s no point wasting time on trying to influence them?

I think the thread detailing what Derbyshire county council are doing to some trail, and the negativity here demonstrates the disparate nature of cyclists in general.

Nobody listens to us because we don’t have an organisation like the ramblers. In the mountain bikers case, we still think we are shredding the gnarr wherever we like, giving the finger to authority, rebels on our many thousands of pounds bikes made by corporations, riding trail centres built with funds from Governments.

You lack self importance that is all, become part of a self appointed need to belong group,

In the absence of an organisation such as IMBA, its these “self-appointed groups” who are engaging with landowners of various kinds in an effort to gain or keep access.

Do you find you sign a lot of online petitions too? The ones people post on Facebook? You know… the really really important stuff? Petitions make a massive difference to stuff. Governments live in fear of them. And of dissertations

😆

I wouldn’t buy one. If its anything like its full size counterparts, its bound to crash.

(a) mountain bikers are generally self-interested and are not willing to put in the consistent effort required to get things done.

This. In spades.

In the UK, you are spoilt for access and availability of trails,

We also have Trail centres. IMBA UK had it stacked against them, because access was already granted, so I don’t think anyone saw a need for them. Add to that the “individualistic” nature that still persists in mountain biking in the UK, belonging to an organisation or club isn’t cool in some peoples eyes.

Of course we could do with an organisation when the sh*t hits the fan. Metaphorically speaking.

Could be interested for the 15th, Have to get over the plague I’ve had for the last few weeks and get fit again.

I’ve been riding out from the New Malden area through Epsom, Oxshott and Cobham to Effingham, and then onto the North downs/Boxhill and back via stane street for years.

ELECSA or NAPIT. The only reason the NICEIC get quoted the most is because they are very good at advertising their wares to the point that people believe that the NICEIC are the only Organisation that does PartP and they make the regs up.

IEE is now IET, and they don’t do PartP schemes, they actually make the electrical regulations(BS7671).

Your mortgage company sounds like they are well out of date.

For those who don’t have a hatred for some musician, the album is not bad.

I have an old trace (100mm travel, 2008)

Thats not old. 😉

I have a 2005 Trance, it still does pretty much everything its modern counterparts do, The rear suspension is essentially the same as the trance’s sold today, so I’ll keep riding it.

I’ve seen 2005-2006 frames go for £150, but that was on ebay.

Not surprised. I really have no idea how many times I’ve seen them sitting on stands or in racks on stage, and being played by top musicians.

I wish to be, but really am never going to be one of those. 😥

My Niece has one of those Ed Sherrin Martin LX acoustic guitars, really playable, and really loud for a small bodied guitar.

Also a Takamine, which may not be familiar name to many,

Looks over my shoulder to my Takamine on its stand in the corner…I’m still in love.

I had big hopes for Charlie Austin this season – how’s he looking? Not scoring me many points in the fantasy team, but is that him or QPR not supplying the chances? (I’ve not had chance to see them play yet)

He doesn’t get the service in away games. While we have played two teams in Spuds and Manure who are going to be in the top six come the end of the season, two 4-0 defeats points to the tactics redknapp is employing away from home.

it was only QPR but we actually played football and did so well

We weren’t expecting much going up against a two hundred million pound strike force, I expected more of a fight, but we simply rolled over and died.

Harry the twitch and his negative waves again. 👿

Been using the NN/RR combo on both hardtail and full sus for about 8 years with no issues, I do occasionally go NN front and rear as well, There doesn’t appear to be much rolling resistance between NN/RR imho.

As for the clumsy oafs who slag these tyres off, go get a fat bike with their tyres for your more appropriate riding style then. 😉

Started off learning guitar in my teens, got frustrated, sold the guitar to help finance a drum kit. Been playing for 25 years.

Will it be a stressful experience?

Not with drums, because YOU CAN HIT THEM.

It can be frustrating learning instruments, I’ve recently taken up guitar again, and I’m now making solid, if unspectacular progress. As said before, lots of stuff online like Justin guitar, But I do think tuition is a good way to go, particularly one to one tuition.

I only wish I had taken up the offer of free Cello lessons when I was at school. 😥