Macc forest and buxton / goyt valley are always quite weatherproof.

I going to give it a go everyone else has bailed,
Just been out it 11 degrees in Macc so it will warmish rain if nothing else.

Nick

I wasn’t planning on riding anything cheeky just flowing the route from the wildboar map. So i meant the area in general not footpaths through the woods

I’ll take my scuba gear. Probably the only family free weekend at home this year and it looks like i might spend tommorrow gathering up animals two by two.

Nick

i deleted my wife account and added again and it didn’t work as it doesn’t put the correct mail sever addresses in by default. I did a search and this worked for me. It orginally said .net for the outgoing server but that didn’t work i changed to .com at it was fine.

go into the add account bit in settings and add a pop3 account, in the E-mail Address box, type your e-mail user name, followed by @yahoo.com.
Under Server Information, do the following:
In the Incoming mail server (POP3) box, type pop.mail.yahoo.com
In the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) box, type smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Under Logon Information, do the following:
In the User Name box, type your user name. Do not include @yahoo.com.
In the Password box, type your password.
Select the Remember password check box.

I was on it a few days before and it was fine. Anyhow all this rain should have melted it.

Nick

I’m home alone had great plans for the weekend and I’m stuck in Macc as welll been up since 6am ready to go upto Edale but couldn’t face it. Abused the credit card in Decathlon and on the net all day instead.

Yes Merlin

They’re only £143 as you get 6% discount and if you buy a powerlink for £2 it comes to £142 total as you then get a 8% discount. Get them bought.

Nick

Thats what I’m having for tea tonight.

To get the best from android you’ll need a google account and with that you’ll get gmail. I simply set up all my mail to forward from Yahoo to gmail. Alternatively you can set up default email app to pick up your yahoo mail.

On my desire gmail picks up my mail and the default picks up my wifes yahoo mail. You can install the yahoo app but its slow compared to the default, and this post has reminded me to remove it from my phone.

Nick

Thanks for the link

My new sunglasses contain unobtainium® which I thought was what they were fighting over in avatar. All that space travel and war just so my sunglasses don’t fall off your face.

I can’t believe anyone can read Oakley technical bulls*8tium® and be able to take them seriously. They are just posh sunglasses (PSG®) which cost a lot of cash (loc®) with a saw you coming coating (suckerite®).

you’d all have to have flammkeuche and eidinger for tea like I’ve just had, lovely.

Nick

Last year I built up a rigid inbred 29er and I did not get on with it at all. I replaced with a rigid 26 indeed which I love. I really struggled on steep up hills on the 29er in the granny which I ride in the middle on the 26. But the 29er had on_one wheels with massive blue groove types which weighed a ton and the 26 has much better wheels. I feel the difference in the weight of the wheels and tyres made a bigger difference than the wheel diameter.

i have 4 bikes cannondale prophet, ti 456, steel rigid inbred with both 26″ and 700cc wheel and a kinesis cx. I reckon i could manage with just the 456. I’d keep the carbon fork and 700cc wheels for touring which you could do on the 456 as it got the rack mounts.
But if I was to start commuting again i’d want a second hack bike as it seems a shame to trash an expensive mtb drive train to commute in all the muck thats on our roads. I had a lovely 1991 kona hananaha for that duty until
it got nicked boo.

i’ve just bought this only £2.80:
bike maps

I was going to do it this morning but ended up doing family stuff instead but can’t wait to give it a go.

Nick

usually timothy taylors landlord

My ancient e-trex stopped picking up satellites last week whilst I was out. I also had an HTC desire with an app than lets me use all my MM maps UK 50k and several national parks at 25k with me. I was up on bleaklow at the time in the clouds and snow with 20ft visibility. The phone is good for a quick check of where you are on the OS Map but I was really missing the e-trex for navigation. I did have a map and compass and several other with GPS’s with me so I was OK.

I’m going to get one of these when I can get it passed the wife

etrex legend

Use one of the other shops that use a courier and stay in all day waiting or drive 30 miles to their depot. give me royal mail any day.

about 55 on my road bike in the Pyranees with crap brakes was really hairy. My other half was doing about 60 on her Dr Dew. I was too scared to try and keep up with her.

All the transporter and resident evil films.

Nick

above lake garda

Great part of the country been there for the past few years

Go watch the feeding of the Kites at

Don’t have pics but my set up is a new shape galaxy with a dog guard so we can fill the back to the roof. Thule rack on a detachable tow ball. Then a variety of decathlon pop up tents it worked brilliantly for the two trips we did last year but a have yet to use them in really bad weather. Not had to resort to the roof box yet but if I do it will give my an extra 600 litres. Any one used a one the big pop ups in bad weather ?

Macclesfield cyclocross this afternoon Nick Craig was winning as I had to leave due to two cold and wet 3 year olds. Looked blinking difficult in the gloop.

I think there all much of a muchness. They had a 500mb seagate one in Currys Digital today for £45, which is about a cheap as you can get them on the web. I have iomega one which has a nice metallic finish which I been using for the same purpose as you for two years and its been fine.

i’ve got two samsungs and they’re great. The newer ones like the 530 have a built in media player which is great you just load up a memory stick or a portable hard drive with films, music and photos.

theres only an inch in Macc at the moment, the road to the forest upto the pub should be OK would go any of the side roads though.

arrived on Tuesday night

I don’t think an identical rotor will solve it completely. The only way to solve this is to shim out the rotors on each wheel that the rotor is in exactly the same place on each wheel. Then adjust the brakes on each bike so that it works for both wheels. I probably an hour of trial and error but once set up it you shouldn’t have to do it again. There is a shim that can reposition a rotor I can’t remember who makes them.

edit they beat me to it

Nick

Laphroig quater cask £20 in sainsbury’s last night lovely

I’d recommend using pure nitrogen its about 2% lighter than air or if your a real weight wennie you could use hydrogen which is about 15 times lighter but your wheels might explode.

Most of the shots people take on this forum are probably taken on compacts as ‘most’ people don’t take out a DSLR riding, good compacts and bridge cameras perform well in decent light.

I bought a panasonic tz-7 which was one of the top compact cameras at the beginning of the year but I got fed up with the quality of the indoor shots. I have two kids 3 and 1 and most of the photos of them are are taken indoors. The final straw was a centre parcs where the chalets are pretty poorly light and I could not get a decent photo of my daughters 3rd birthday. I wish there was a modern equivalent of the Fuji 30d

I bought a D3100 yesterday and was blown away by the quality of the low light images without a flash. I figured that in the situations I will be using the tz-7 biking, walking with kids etc it will perform really well and I’ll use the mostly DSLR indoors so I’m not so concerned about bulk.

I’m a bit of an early adopter and I have been really tempted by the Panasonic GFs but as they are bit of a compromise on the image quality i decided to go for full size DSLR. If I didn’t already have the tz-7 i may have gone for one of the mirror less large sensor cameras.

A friend has fz38 and really raves about both in terms of image quality and the range of the lens.

heard this on radio 6 for the first time in about 20 years

I’ve changed my entire bike collection in the past 18 months but mostly by changing frames.

My Trance has become a prophet as I fancied a single pivot
My Kona Caldera became a ridged on-one 29er which I sold but now I have a ridged 26 on-one with both 26″ and 700cc wheels
My Voodoo cyclocross became a kinseis as my frame snapped
My 456 became titanium

This activity has been inversely proportional to the amount of riding I was doing. Now I’m riding I have no desire to spend anymore money on bikes

Nick

my prophet

Long mynd is the same height as Mam Tor I don’t hear to many people complaining about the height in Edale. It about as high as you can ride in the peak.

Nick

We did Mayrhofen with a six month old and was great. I reckon that Chamonix would be a good bet. Big town and you can do some nice walking between lift stations on either side of the valley so no lugging toddlers to far up or down mountains. As well as walking / biking up the valley along the river to Argentiere. In fact I might do just that next year.

Nick

Oradour-sur-Vayres

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

Just need to acquire some musical talent

i didn’t like the flying monkeys in the wizard of OZ when I was a kid we could only afford a black and white TV but my gran lent me a colour TV when I was 10 and the first night i watched John Carpenters The Thing