Personally if I was doing anything other than cross cutting small dia lengths I’d get a huskie 550 and ignore the toy saws. Also trousers, boots, gloves, helmet + ear defenders + visor and some one to teach you how not to die. By already fallen do you mean cut down by someone or blown down by the wind? Cos the later may well result in you requiring a new pelvis if you don’t know what your doing.

You’re quite right every site is different, isn’t that the point? Or would you rather have 20 exact copies of the exact same trail spread across the country. You should read the information that each site gives you (taking responsibility for your own safety), so that you understand the risks involved – it is essentially a people friendly version of a site specific risk assessment. If you turn up and ignore the safety information you can’t hold the site responsible.

They’ve assessed what equipment you should bring for these trails. If a novice rider turns up on a hybrid or a 140mm trail bike which one do you think is less likely to result in an accident? The geometry, suspension, tyre’s, dropped post (possibly) on the trail bike all aid in making the experience safer. The equipment is just one part of a bigger picture when it comes to visitor safety, you need to look at it as a whole not just focus on one bit.

Managing off-Road cycling is a risky business – or is it?[/url]

Essentially the management of risk relates to the land owners (or lease holders) obligations under Occupiers Liability; and providing information so that users are aware of the risks, and make an informed choice about what you are undertaking.

A quick look on BPW website gives this: BPW Trail Gradings

It’s all pretty standardized across the industry these days, but due to the “bike park” classification they do seem to push the boundaries of what would be acceptable on any other site; I guess that’s both a good and bad thing depending on how your trip to Merthyr A+E goes. Personally I think the “plus” trail grading is ummm….questionable, and there does seem to be a few bits sneaking into trails that can catch people out IMO.

Worth noting that they recommend 140mm+ bikes for blues, and that you can expect rocks, roots, fast sections on them in the information they provide.

There is another term in risk management – “reasonably practicable” – it’s often the bit that gets forgotten, and why H+S gets a bad rep due to people who are incapable of critical thinking or pragmatism.
It would never be seen as practicable to search a forest every night, or GPS track everyone who enters given the porous nature of the site. It would be seen as the responsibility of the individual, who has come to a potentially challenging environment, to undertake a potentially dangerous activity, having been informed of the risks present to take steps to ensure their own safety – ride in a group, tell some one where your going and when you will be back, come properly equipped, ride within their ability – basics of outdoor recreation.

At the end of the day the staff aren’t paramedics, or mountain rescue there really is a limited amount they can do with a first aid at work qualification for someone with broken bits. If you’re breaking things in remote outdoor areas (on an exposed hillside like BPW) you need proper help ASAP (dial 999 then go for help), not a plaster and a wet wipe.

Also conveniently forgets that the entire reason for the shit state we’re in isn’t labours management of public money but rather the financial sector taking a dump on the entire global economy, can’t for a minute think why that would be.

The ridiculous 10% and any above civil service 1% cap pay increases. 6 million (in wages alone) a year for what?

None of them have any idea how to sort this shit show out – 0 policies from either side.

I would expect that in a large organisation the reference would come from the HR department, and that is who you’d list on job apps.

Personally I would of handed in written notice, then ignored the requests to work shifts, just to tick the right boxes. They may not of even bothered offering shifts if the role involved handling money / mail.

Some 0 hours contracts have availability requirements that if you don’t meet you can be dismissed, so it could be that they are waiting for your wife to hit the threshold before dismissing her? So get the written notice in before then.

Things like breaks should be inline with your employers policy, which should all be available to employees (staff handbook) it shouldn’t matter if you have a 0 or 70 hour contract the company policy needs to be applied across the board. Agency workers / contractors are a different story.

There’s little to no loyalty within large companies, know your rights and be **** militant if they get infringed upon, if you dont you’ll be trampled on by arseholes.

Oh great, another excuse for every bellend in the world to set off fireworks.

Or it’s just easier to write off 150 quid than go through the courts to prove courier companies are largely useless and get loads of bad press.

They’re little stickers that have been painted over if memory serves me correctly. Just peel ’em off.

At least I’m competitive at one part of it, I knew years of button mashing on console games would eventually pay off!

3 of us in for the main enduro, missed out on everything last year so pretty happy.

Photographic evidence of del going for a bike ride on a beach please.

Not at my centre. The waste in manpower and materials is huge.Nowhere do i see ” value for money ” decisions being made.
Somebody fly tipped an old vacuum cleaner.We couldn’t remove it,volunteers and the Forestry worker,but were told that a specialist hazardous waste ” team ” had to be brought in.Only one example but i could probably fill a page.

But the part you don’t see is that anything to do with waste be it litter picking, emptying bins, fly tips has probably been outsourced. And in doing so there has been a corresponding reduction in staffing hours / funding somewhere in the district. So why would you want limited staff time being taken up doing something that is already paid for?

Yeah its possible. Around £50 last time one of our group had it done (same as your lockout not working). Took cartridge out, posted it off, they services it as they would do a full fork just without doing the whole dismantle / lowers / seals / rebuild part.

Rockshox include bladders in the full kit as they’re a wear part, sure fox would be the same.

Have used the wildlife cameras to catch scrotes doing scrotey stuff before. From my conversations with the police if it captures images of public places (open access land, public highways, bridleways etc) you need signage.

If it’s a clutch mech it might be worth checking the grease between the metal band and drum. It dries out / gets forced out the mech can get really notchy.

You have no responsibilities with regard to HSE and CDM. As a domestic client your contractor assumes these for you. You aren’t ’employing’ anyone so you have no obligations as an employer. It’s a contract for services between yourself and the principal contractor.

I’d report him as he seems like a piece of shit. Who’s to say he doesn’t start throwing bricks at you at the weekend?

96 victims, 100s of witnesses, 1000s of documents and potentially a cover up that extends to the most senior of police officers and levels of government…thats probably why.

Build cost wise £25-35 per metre is pretty standard depending on grade and quality of finish.

A maintenance free MTB trail is the stuff of myth. They always need maintaining – act off god instances like windblown roots plates, standard maintenance like deberming, resurfacing eventually if only due to 30000 sets of tyres going over it a year, springs that appear after heavy rain etc. 10% of build cost per year is the standard figure that we worked to and gets banded around.

So a 20km red trail at £25 per metre is 500k to build and over its initial life of 10 years will cost about £1 million. Hopefully that gives people a bit of an idea as to the costs involved and why you don’t get new trails every year.

These are baseline figures, building big rock features, tabletops etc prepare for the price to double and more.

You have to actively manage the forests for various reasons, you cant just put bike trails in and totally ignore it. If they did this you wouldn’t be able to ride anything eventually. I’m not typing an essay about it on my phone but it does need to be done. Should be information on various FC sites as to why if you really want to know.

And you can’t work around people on a harvesting site as people tend to be dumb, hence the closures.

Though I will happily whine about the layout of the Peel development.

Go for it. Just remember that the local guys get the short end of the stick just like the private businesses on site and have to make the most of it with limited resources.

Yup that’s correct. FCS still get the 5 quid from the PCN which goes in the pot with the other money generated via parking (paying to use facilities) charges. The other 20 quid pays for the admin of the system. The money that people put in goes back to the sites, those who dont pay cover the cost of checking and enforcing themselves.

If you turn up to an FC car park and put your money in the machine it doesn’t get siphoned off to some 3rd party private business.

Standard poorly informed opinions passed of by whiney middle aged cockbags as fact strikes again.

That somewhat goes back to my first point about how they are managed. You’d be amazed how blinkered creative types can be they literally see nothing beyond the car park and shiney buildings and they really need project leaders to reign them in and make sure they provide what is required. You end up with different agendas (even within the FC at local, district, national team and board level) and false promises being made and a general disappointment at the end.

I totally agree that doing swish centre and using that as justification to bump up prices is bollocks. You’ve got to provide something other than swanky toilets and from what I’ve seen that is recognised at certain levels within the FC. But if your project goes so horribly over budget trails are an easy option to cut unfortunately.

With the big developments they are usually outsourced to project management companies who then get overly excited architects and engineers involved who see it as a chance to do a landmark building, which invariably leads to a gold plated mess. The people within the organisation who liaise invariably have they’re own agendas. The guys on the ground give input that will largely be ignored. In the end it all goes horribly wrong, I know first hand some of the ridiculous ideas that come out in the design stage of this kind of redevelopment and it takes a strong project leader to listen to the local staff and be clear with the designers and management company about what is required.

With regard to trails northwind hits the nail on the head, just because volunteers build it doesn’t mean it has no cost to the FC. I’d be interested to know if anyone actually knows the rough cost of a mtb trail per metre and what you generally have to put aside each year to maintain it as is? If you know that you might understand why you don’t get 20km of new trail every year..(especially if you’re a selfish cheapskate who thinks others should pay for the facilities you use).

You’ll find tarmac is considerably more than ‘pence’ per tonne. Lets not make up imaginary numbers to validate your arguments, that’s what politicians do to get people believing their bull. The use of already ugly and largely redundant space is a pretty good concept and becomes increasingly cost effective with a widespread application.

Just let France iron out all the issues and steal the idea if it has merit in the end.

Decent amount of snow at the top of Dalby apparently. I’m not going to have a look as the fire is on.

“15mm Norglide linkage bushings”

Never…again….

It’s probably of more value than the poor quality hardwoods that are grown in the UK. Certainly easier to market and sell, and of significantly more value to the UK populus (think about it when your wiping your arse tomorrow) than a stack of firewood.

It’s the guys trying to earn a living that lose out directly when people start messing with the kit and hacking up the trees not the FC.

And the without the “lucrative” car park (the income generated that gets reinvested into the FC’s woodlands for people to enjoy) there wouldn’t be cafe side as you know it.

When I did my knee my upper thigh to ankle was purple.

Stick a folded blanket under your mattress at the foot of your bed, easy way to keep your foot elevated at night.

Pay for a physio if your going to have to wait for an nhs one.

It’s the shops issue not cubes. Warranty or not your contract of sale is with the shop not cube. If the shop believe it is faulty then they can seek compensation from cube once they’ve fixed your bike.

Sale of goods act – if your product develops a fault in the first 6 months the shop must prove that it wasn’t defective or of unsatisfactory quality at the time of sale. I would suggest they can’t so should fix it.

My bet is the pedal was cross-threaded at some point, hence the thread on the crank breaking off, so aslong as only the shop have put pedals off and on then they should shoulder the blame.

Also £140 for a crankset? Whats on there now and what are they replacing it with. Apart from the high end carbon cubes I cant see anything that has a crankset worth more than £90 on it.

Had a 2012 575 (all alloy version), really nice bike to ride. Downside for me was having to make use of Silverfish and Yeti’s excellent warranty more often than I felt comfortable with.

They have substantially beefed up and redesigned the problem area for a 650b version tho.

And they used some obscure bearing sizes which were hideously expensive to buy.

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I never knew that

Probably because its a load of rubbish.

Personally I tighten the cone as desired. Then when tightening the lock nut, use a cone spanner to hold the cone in place. Tighten the lock nut against it whilst using said cone spanner on the cone to stop it moving anywhere.