Frame USA $2249.99
Frame UK £1,999.00
$2249.99 in £ = £1412.76
Plus 20% vat = £1694.40
Plus import duty 6.5% = £1804.536
Plus flight in aircraft and insurance?

If you buy it online from a retailer in a different state you won’t pay any sales tax, and a lot of people less honest than you or I will then bring it straight through the green channel on the way home and save £600

How fast would an up escalator have to be going before you could ride down it indefinitely?

Exactly, it might seem like a great idea to put it all in a spreadsheet with one row per person and different columns for all the different pieces of information about them, but if you do someone will without fail randomly delete a cell and shift all the data below it up one row so everyone has the wrong email address against their name.

Every time someone eats it on that canyon gap a lone guy in a T shirt with Fire written on it jogs over as if someone crashing there was completely unpredictable.

Does anyone know how big the canyon gap is? I was hoping the commentators would have mentioned it…

Seven to nine feet. I thought it looked at least fifteen but it must look bigger on TV

Anyone want it for a bargain price?

Ok, I’ll bite, how much?

My hardtail (Chameleon). I love it both the times I ride it each year so could never sell it.

What’s most astounding is that the footage actually looks properly fast even though it’s a headcam, which must mean it’s in fact super duper mega insanely fast.

What’s amazing is how much drive he gets out of the berms. I don’t think he’s pedalling so he must be giving it a huge pump but he seems to magically gain massive speed out of the corners.

I would not do Java in your position, too much competition. Find out what well paid programming jobs are available in your area. Good SQL Development/Report writing jobs would give you what you are after and is a relatively simple logical language than anyone with an engineering background and the correct working attitude could become proficient inside a year.

SQL jobs seem to be in demand at the moment as it’s not seen as a ‘cool’ language and generally requires good people skills to deal with management as well the technical aptitude. These are things that an older, non-graduate will do well at as you’ll have well developed people skills. Also you can generally get a job with any background as it’s skills tested at interview but you will need to start with a ~£25k job.

I’d second this. SQL is massively easier to learn than ‘proper’ programming and there is widespread demand. Also look at reporting tools like Tableau or Qlikview. Again they’re very easy to learn, in demand, and because they’re relatively new nobody can claim 10 years experience with them.

If you’re very mathematically inclined take a look at R. ‘Data scientists’ (like statisticians, but different) are in incredible demand right now, and there’s an easy way in if you’re talented and willing to work at it – enter some competitions on Kaggle. If you do well consistently you’ll build a reputation and start to get job offers. If you actually win one (impossibly difficult) you’d be looking at over £100k.

Download French movies or TV shows and watch them with the French subtitles on. I watched the first two series of Game of Thrones dubbed In French with French subs. It helps if you watch on a laptop so you can easily skip back 30 secs

Mine arrived this morning. Love PSAs like this.

Can you fit a bike in the back of an S4/RS4 Avant or 3 Series Touring without taking a wheel off, and still be able to use both front seats?

http://velonews.competitor.com/2014/08/mtb/first-ride-giant-reign-advanced-1_339514

“That extra 4mm of rake cuts down on the Reign’s trail and has a drastic effect on how the bike handles. It is not for the faint of heart. On anything but wide open trails pointed directly downhill, the Reign feels like a overgrown beast, requiring serious muscle to throw into corners.”

“On my local Fort Collins, Colorado trails, full of tight, twisty singletrack with few segments to really let a bike fly downhill, the Reign was a caged lion, only giving me brief glimpses of its power.”

I guess it depends where you live but that doesn’t sound great to me.

The Capra has an amazing vfm spec but given the waiting list it’d be quicker and you’d probably end up with a better bike if you hunt around for a lightly used frame and fork, get some Light Bicycle Chinese carbon wheels, and a discount groupset from bike-discount.de or whoever’s cheapest these days.

Yes we can all ask silly questions.

Ok, you might be good at it, but there’s no need to show off.

What if the company I work for loses money? Does that somehow make me better off than if the company has a great year and makes loads of money? As long as I still have a job it’s irrelevant to me how much money my employer makes, but the tax I pay is an unavoidable fixed % of my salary

It find it completely mind-boggling anybody could think he’s clean given the fact the Jamaicans effectively don’t do any out-of-competition drug testing and so many of their other athletes have been caught, and like Armstrong he’s the fastest of the lot. You have to be staggeringly naive to believe he’s the one clean miracle that can somehow beat all the cheats, past and present. Do people honestly thing the drugs are that ineffective?

I went with a discounted pair of deemax I found in the end. If they can hack it at 25psi I might look at carbon down the road but if not then it’s a better way to find out I need to run higher pressures.

I’ve got a gopro video I put on youtube which got 45k hits and because I ticked the box to play ads it’s halfway paid for the camera now. Fast non-technical trails in bright sunlight with lots of other riders work best. Otherwise they come out looking like you filmed yourself drunk walking home alone through the woods with a dead leg.

the safety stats i found were
motorbikes; 28 deaths per 100,000.
paragliding; 40 deaths per 100,000.
horseriding; 57 deaths per 100,000.

Per 100,000 what though? trips? participants? miles covered?

How dangerous is it statistically? I keep hearing about people killing themselves doing it, and getting travel insurance for it sems more expensive than mtb

Competitive Cyclist list weights for everything they sell, or certainly did.

It would be great if CRC started doing that. I know there are more important things than weight but I still want to know.

Is anyone using these in the Alps? I’m thinking of getting some in the DH flavour as I’m continually denting my DT Ex5.1s to the point I’m about to give up on tubeless as I keep getting leaks at the rim that won’t seal, or would I be better off with a beefier metal rim? I’m looking for something I can run through rock gardens at 25psi without worry rather than low weight

It’s not £995 though is it when you include shipping and taxes.

If you live in a different US state to backcountry.com you don’t have to pay sales tax though right?

OP ask for a bike from them that’s £2500 at cost. They won’t be out of pocket so can’t complain but you’ll get a bike worth ~£3,500 RRP and so will likely be XT throughout and a much better frame than your old one.

Through familiarity. If you can’t do a 4ft drop find a 2 or 3ft one that you can do and force yourself to do it until you get bored. Say I’m going to take an hour and do this drop 20 times. Even if you’re bored of it after half an hour make yourself complete the full 20 and don’t even think about the 4 footer until you’ve finished. If the 4ft drop still looks intimidating come back another day and do the small one another 20 times.

If you have a car you could do a day trip to Geneva, Annecy or Gruyere

They definitely demo’d CDs as being virtually indestructible. Somehow they ended up softer than butter

Try 8.1 set to boot to desktop and with the start button turned on before you go through the hassle of going back to 7. I actually prefer it to 7 set up like that

If you only get grads that have done zero research on your job/company then something is clearly putting off the ones that have taken the time to look at it more carefully. Do you honestly think every graduate out there is lazy and badly dressed? Do you think they have the same problem at Goldman Sachs?

That doesn’t sound like a very desirable job so you’re not going to get very desirable grads. Try and sell it a bit better

650b got big so quickly because of 29ers. If there hadn’t been years and years of people banging the drum about the advantages of big wheels there’s no way anyone would bother changing from 26 to 27.5″

What does the washing machine do to the tyres? Is this about cleaning the dog poo off?

Is that as chunky as it looks? Looks like it would catch on stuff

If I could give one bit of advice to London cyclists it would be cars will hurt you but HGVs will kill you

1 mile. It’s nice to walk to work but I miss sitting in the car and listening to the radio to be honest

CFH I’m not advocating those things I’m just saying whether you do them is relatively unimportant when it comes to your safety

It’s like saying if you smoke the biggest thing you can do to protect your health is give up. Don’t worry about the gym or your diet, just focus all your efforts on quitting because smoking is so much more dangerous than anything else you can do. That’s not the same as advocating pizza every night

If you give cyclists a long list of things they should and shouldn’t do you’ll get the situation where people are filtering up the inside of HGVs and thinking they’re safe because they never run a red or listen to their walkman

12 deaths so far this year in London, 8 by HGVs. Concentrate on what matters

What a pile of utter, steaming bullshit!
Safe for the pedestrians crossing the road as you run a red? Safe for the car/bus/truck/other cyclist who is legally going through a green as you run a red?
Pavements? Oh do grow up. Or would you ride a motorbike on the pavement as well? Perhaps a car, too. Pavements are for pedestrians. Bike lanes are for bikes. Roads are for all road users (Buses, taxis, cars, trucks, motorbikes and, yes, bikes)
FFS.

People are overwhelmingly getting killed by HGVs. Any training or advice for cyclists in London has to focus on that fact and all the scaremongering about RLJing and headphone wearing is dangerous because it distracts people from the real risks. The recipe to drastically reduce your chances of being killed commuting in central London is simple:

1. Stay away from HGVs
2. Do whatever else you like, just remember the HGVs

Regardless of any changes to the law we need to make sure everyone we know who commutes in a city knows that HGVs are what’s going to kill you. They’re the sharks swimming amongst all the other harmless fish and if you take that view and stay well clear you massively reduce your chances of being killed

The reality for commuting in central London is running red lights is safe. Riding on the pavement is safe. Filtering at speed between lines of stationary or slow moving cars is safe. Proximity to HGVs = Death

It just seems so obvious in a few years 26″ bikes are going to be brought back in a big way for their ‘flickability’, agility, how they’re like a jump bike for the trail, how they’re so easy to manual, how they accelerate so well, lighter, lower centre of gravity etc. etc.