Yes, no and don’t worry about it. 

Or learn to toe roll with road cleats.

Roll the pedal over with your toe then slide in to the cleat. 

Yeap.  Thou better today, finished work yesterday.  Generally feel pretty rubbish this time of year, short days, rubbish weather etc. This year not helped by a someone at work forgetting rule one and creating a brown whirl wind that served no purpose, the week before Xmas.

Today I had a late start, walked the dog then had a mega house work day.  Feeling like I’ve achieved something today. The boss was happy when she got home from work.  Walked the dog, caught the sunset, chilli and a beer.

It’s the little things that matter. 

Tidy. 

We were out riding one morning and my friend Stef dropped mid sentence.  We thought he was p1ssing about.

Stef didn’t make it.

There “was” a defib about 300m away. But the batteries had expired and not been replaced.

Would a defib have saved Stef, in his case probably not.  But I would have used it until they stopped me.

Get trained, fund raise, get more defibs.

Are your jockey wheels running free. If they are stiff it cause a similar effect

“stuck in the middle”

I get this but  the bike manufacturers don’t pay money in to the shop. Customers do.

X% of Customers will be dicks ,  most aren’t. 

Repeat sales keep brick and mortar shops open. If megabrandx is not backing up their product, maybe megabrandz will.

Event Horizon,  so it wasn’t just me then. 

Really messed with my dreams for a while.

Another shout out for aWeecog. 

I was shocked………

On the Stiperstones yesterday, pretty bleak, high winds horizontal rain. Met a group of about 15 youngsters walking with a few leaders on a descent. we stopped descending as they hadn’t noticed us. As they passed the one female leader came over to us and said…..

“Have you been blown off yet?”

Anyone else think he was a little too personal with his assistant.

Back to the shedhouse, nowt special. Would go well as a bmw showroom

Torq do a vegan pea protein recovery drink.

Cheers mate… that cost me 80 quid😂😂

Accepting the challenge is victory.  

If you start you’ve passed the point of failure.  

From then on it’s about degrees of success. 

That’s what I try and tell myself. 

Hamberley  side,  I,ll swing by tomorrow,  drop me an email and ill let you know.

do you want me to bag them up and bring them home,  probably an easier local to get to.

I live on the minsterley side of the hill, i can swing by tomorrow.

which car park, the Hamberley the one with the long narrow sh1tty lane. or snailbeech by the village hall.

Cheers Paul

paul.sal AT btinternet.com

I’ve got a pair of size 10 freerider pros in white I’m about to send back if anyone wants them.

This thread is so fun.

How do 5tens size up, im normally a a ten ( in shoe size obvs,  im a 7 at best otherwise:-)

Top day out,  a good laugh and a proper battering.

Never heard of it…. STW used to be a sponsor.

Lots of ebikes.

Too far from that London? Well there’s a round in Minehead.

Normally free camping Friday and Saturday night,

A choice of great routes.  Normally 25, 45 and 70 ish km

What’s not to like

Syd and Macky

The Downville double header is great, how fast on a 120mm xc bike.

How about a sign on the shop door saying no stab vests…..

I guess that’s the issue with “special interest” mags,  you can be the mbr type focusing on the very latest newist thingy/place/style or the STW /Cranked it’s all about just riding bikes/people/places/parties (don’t get me started).

But, in the end the punter gets to the point where they have seen it all before. Quicker with the  mbr type but it still happens with the others.

I was a day 1 subber with cranked, but I found the stories starting to be basically the same.

The tipping point came with basically the same euro written article in both stw and cranked. Followed by some subs issue with cranked and I was out.

Chapeau to Hannah for her good works.

Ask yourself,

what would be the consequence of a sudden catastrophic failure?

And

How much product development has the manufacturer carried out?

“I was 8m away videoing the whole thing, could hear every word they said, the house opposite bar one…”

Rubbernecking is a derogatory term primarily used to refer to bystanders staring at accidents

When we were giving Cpr to my best mate, we had some “star” film us on his phone.

If you can’t help, walk away.

Q1 option 1. It just works

Q2 the forks should cone with a axle

Qotsa doing the business,  can you hear them over Etons set.?

I’ll catch up with young Mr John laters

Rick’s Smiths set was bloody great as well

Currently  mullering Slither…..

(Dead and bloated would have been more apt.)

Axle’s gran is doing a great job of covering for him.

What a shower of sh1t , even Duff looks embarrassed.

Yeap.

Nice.
How did the race go?

Just slice it with a Stanley, you’ll have more control. Sealant remover will soften it up as well.

I think the course has been altered to produce bunch sprints for the ST. Which it did.
Now whether that’s a good thing I don’t know.

Outer cable length if its a full sus, maybe too short?

No one else in the history of humanity as ever done that….honest

My 2p, I’ve got a few pairs of 350 and pr4s in the house hold.
In short there’s not much between them.
I’ve had excellent customer service from hope, p1ss poor service from Dts agent in the UK.
Hope come in pretty colours which is nice,
I’ve had the anno finish lift on Dt making them look scabby.

So, today I’d buy Hope.

Footflaps
https://www.openreach.com/building-developers-and-projects/locating-our-network/national-notice-handling-centre-form
Pop a request in for the OR plant on your property, its free.
If it shows up as a OR pole the you have the evidence.
You can so the same with the power provider.
Power lines will have insulators at the pole and power warning signs.
OR engineers should not be climbing a power pole, without a right pile H&s in place.

If you get stuck give me a shout.
Paul.sal@btinternet.com

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What a waste of f###### money!
We have real health problems in this world and some knob in “big pharma” thinks a male contraceptive pill is a good idea, ffs.
Well maybe it is if you are selling nappies as well.

What a bizzare statement.

1. The work was not funded or conducted by big pharma! It was academics funded by the US government.

2. Unwanted pregnancy is a real problem.

3. An imbalance in contraception methods between men and women means that too many of the downsides are left to women to live with adding to inequality in society.

4. Its likely that some of the fundamental research on how this works probably helps understanding of some male infertility (lack of motility) too – which it a significant problem worth addressing.

5. Spending time or money or contraceptive medicine doesn’t stop other researchers from tackling the issues you perceive as “the real health issues”.

6. Some of the profits from big-pharma do ultimately end up recycled into both philanthropic health research and government taxation which can fund further research as well as supporting your pension etc. Big pharma do a lot of bad shit, but just attaching a “big pharma” label to things as a synonym for “evil” is lazy and demonstrates your lack of real world understanding.kquote>

1, ok fair enough
2, correct,
3, correct, but more/better options for female contraception would surely be a better use of the money/reseach.
4, its a problem, but a very 1st world one, its not up there with a cure for malaria.
5, Er, yes it does. a Research budget a bottomless pit. Money spent on research for say a male pill can not be spent on say a cure for cancer.
6. really, you want to defend big pharma, and in the next breath say i have a lack of real world understanding. Tidy.

Why just the female pill?
Other alternatives are available. Spend the money on a better female pill. Women should be in control of their own bodies.

Happy accidents, yeap great. I didn’t say don’t don’t spend the money or do research. But there are better places to spend the money.

What a waste of f###### money!
We have real health problems in this world and some knob in “big pharma” thinks a male contraceptive pill is a good idea, ffs.
Well maybe it is if you are selling nappies as well.

Precovid the scrum enter broke the BC website….