Bike’s good but I always find it’s on the thin side compared to UK mags

They seem to get better through the video and ride harder stuff as they go on. I particularly like the guy who stops on the table at 2:02 and gets nailed from behind

It’s a shame with the digital versions of all these mags you can’t rate articles or add comments to give the writers feedback to steer them more towards the kind of articles we collectively like

At least we’ve got it better than the US or French market though. Our mags seem to have a lot better content/ads ratio

Dirt is my favourite. They all get a bit samey after a while though

If you still have the 5 try a back to back test with the same tyres and pressures

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It’s not just you. There’s no way he’ll make the bike £120 more valuable by doing it

I’m more worried about the mental health of the guy who kept knocking her up

If you’re taking a van and camping you could easily try out a few different places – e.g. if you’re in Morzine it’s an hour drive to Chamonix and then only another hour onto Verbier. I’d much rather do that than spend a whole week doing the same trails in one place

The camera crew have the whole journey back to film the car stuck in traffic etc. Shots of trains pulling out of stations can be other trains. I’m sure of the hours of in-car footage they take of Clarkson they happily shuffle the order about to fit the storyline better without worrying about the position of the sun, but none of that means they don’t just travel down there in one straight run. Why would they mess about using more camera crews and days than they need?

Obviously they make the ‘races’ look closer than they are and probably shoot more footage of the car on the drive back but why would they bother spinning it out over several days if they didn’t have to? If it was a non-parallel thing shot over a week continuity errors would inevitably creep in. Isn’t it just easier anyway to have an actual race rather than act one out?

I did mine and had a plate put in and then eventually removed. I think they meant you might be able to see signs of a union as soon as 2 weeks but they won’t do anything about it unless nothing has happened after 6 weeks.

My advice is read up on what you can change in your diet to aid bone growth (calcium tablets, apples, cut out caffeine and soda etc). It won’t necessarily do much but it will make you feel like you’re helping fix it which is beneficial psychologically

Also when you ask your physio when you can start biking again and he says x months don’t just sit around moping about it or worse start biking early and risk falling on it again. Instead ask the physio what activities you can do the soonest. Mine said swimming so I entered a long open water swim and spent 3 months training for that

If there was an easily accessible database of prices and weights for all parts someone could make a bike build optimiser that would show you which parts to pick to get the lightest bike for whatever £ you entered. It would be pretty interesting in a geeky way

Electrically controlled dropper seatpost. It makes more sense to get rid of the cable from a dropper post than gears because so many of them are retrofits, and also for some of the designs you have to deal with a changing distance that the cable has to cover

I haven’t clicked the link but half the RRP and -10% for every year it is old is a good place to start

You might be fine but the bike could suffer. Mate took his hardtail and his rear rim only lasted a day

I don’t ride off road at all in the winter and don’t feel bad about it

Off piste with thin snow cover or through trees, definitely. Cruising around on blue runs on a hot spring day wearing sunglasses, nope

I felt like I was going back 10 years in time using that website. I’ve registered for something, I just hope it’s the Mega

video now removed by the user, at least they finally did something right

Shame, the amount of negative comments on that video was hilarious

For Whistler I second the Flute bowl for whenever everything else is tracked out. It’s really only a 20-25 minute hike up

He can effectively confess by saying “he did things he wasn’t proud of”, “he’s made mistakes”, “he’s ashamed of how he’s treated people in the past” etc. without going into specifics. He’ll have preagreed with Oprah that she won’t push for details so he can confess in a way so vague there’ll be no legal comeback and then spend 90% of the time justifying himself and rebuilding his reputation

A big plastic bag like mattresses come in might be even better

The Fat Duck isn’t the only restaurant with a molecular gastronomy menu so if you’re not sure you’ll appreciate that style you can start with a cheaper one. If someone wanted to get into biking you wouldn’t tell them to start out by buying the best bike in the world

Barrafina in Soho is my favourite restaurant in London. Only good for small groups though as you can’t book in advance

All those bands were a lot better in my head until I listened to them again recently on Spotify!

I love mine. Only downsides the super low BB meant I had to fit 165mm cranks and thinner pedals but the end result is great. Also the top linkage bolts have a habit of working loose and even with loctite I’ve lost a couple. I’ve been living in the Alps for a year and haven’t felt the need to get a proper DH bike yet

This,

What amazes me is that the Republicans can espouse these views and still get 48% of the vote!

And they won the house, so they could even conclude it’s working. Their more right wing congress candidates won, and their more moderate presidential candidate lost

Having a good PA helps too. It’s amazing how much time admin can suck up otherwise

Actually that was exactly my first thought too so glad I’m not the only one. In that scenario I’d have expected bikes to be everywhere

It could happen but the odds on Obama are down to 1/5 and Paddy Power have just paid out early on him winning so it looks like an increasingly long shot for Romney

It’s good but confusing and you pretty much have to use some keyboard shortcuts in a way you don’t with Windows 7 – e.g. difficult to tell what’s running if you have a fullscreen app open without using Alt+Tab. Difficult to close most apps without Alt+F4

Also it’s not clear to me what the difference between an app and a program is. e.g. There’s 2 different versions of Chrome, an app and the conventional program. Which should I install and why? or should I do both?

I really enjoyed it. The only plot hole that I didn’t like was that Bond basically kidnaps M and takes her to Scotland on a suicide mission. You’re not setting much of a trap if you take practically nothing to defend yourself with and deliberately tell the bad guy where you’re going. Once he’s successfully got M killed Fiennes suddenly stops thinking he’s over the hill and becomes his new best mate

If you have access to a car and bike you absolutely have to go to Duthie Hill park which is 30mins outside Seattle. I used to live in Seattle and had as much fun there as I did whenever I went up to Whistler and I still miss it now even though I live in the Alps

You can just clamp it to the stem using the normal handlebar mount and get the same effect. It’s not a great viewpoint unfortunately

Now that was a run

Working for me now. More interesting to watch than the DH world cup rounds I think due to the different lines

Anything committing right at the end of the trail. Will chicken out on stuff if it’s in sight of the car park that I wouldn’t think twice about earlier in the ride. I just think that was a good 2hr ride, not going to injure myself in the last 30 seconds

Comming to a club run near you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRKajY5GlyI

Was the first leg of that race drinking 8 pints? I’ve never seen anything like it

I really like them. How can you not like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsvo5kp-mj0