My only bike but it does OK, in all fairness its more capable than me.

Reading all this I think I may be blessed that my in-laws speak limited English and my Cantonese amounts to asking for food and saying thank you, which is lucky as I like my inlaws and the MiL is a great cook.

Star Wars 1,2 and 3 is what you get when you give George Lucas full creative control (and Howard the Duck), I’m hoping that Disney’s quality control will mean that 7,8 and 9 equal or surpass 4, 5 and 6.

I actually enjoyed the 2nd one (Clones), apart from the last bit in the factory and the coliseum it was an OK film.

Had one for 6 months and loved it, well ventilated and good with goggles when needed.
Gone to an IXS Trail now though as the popper that holds the right hand side of the internal head band (sorry, don’t know the terminology) gave up the ghost and would not secure.I also lost one of the visor bolts withing the first few weeks and could never buy a replacement (5mm bolts did the job), recommend a little loctite on them.
The Trail seems to be doing a fine job though its a little tight on the nose with goggles.

When you say right round, do you mean ‘right round like a record’?

Lever is probably not screwed in tight enough as that is not normal, guess its a warranty issue.

Took the day off today and rode a cheeky trail, meant to be around 10-12 degrees but with the wind felt a lot colder, yes, Hong kong can get chilly to.

+ 1 tpbiker

Ha! It’s a lasting irony that western (mostly US) interference in the far east either directly led to or strongly influenced China, N Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia becoming communist.

I’m a little rusty on recent Asian history but isn’t it mostly French colonialism that resulted in Vietnam (North), Laos and Cambodia going communist, what with most of the leaders being educated in Paris in the 30’s and picking up their Marxist leanings there?
As for China, I think a civil war and the winner being backed by Stalin probably played a bigger part in them going ‘pinko commie’.
North Korea was just because the Russian had covered that ground when WW2 stopped and decided to install someone they trusted to run the shop, ditto the yanks in the South.

The main interference by the US started to happen during the cold war, it had lead isolationist policies up until WW2.

Oops sorry, err diverting from the thread a little, my dad built a wooden bike with 100 wooden gears, what did your’s do?

Just like the fall of Ceausescu, or even the Berlin wall, something will happen out of the blue and the whole rotten edifice will collapse, the question is when?
Maybe a natural disaster, maybe an army regiment will mutiny setting up a chain reaction, I fail to believe in my lifetime that NK will stay the same.
To keep that sort of state in place takes conviction and total commitment by thousands of people, and lets face it, we humans are not good at that, not in the numbers required to keep this show running.

Sounds like the first time I played COD:Black OpsII after a long layoff from playing FPS or any other games.
No longer play but if I can offer advice, keep plugging away, you will eventually end up on a map with players worse than you and this will then raise your confidence!

Used to use it all the time, now very rarely, it just breaks up a ride too much and then you have to edit it all, takes a lot of time.
Made this one during a trip to Japan earlier this year, thinking back I should have filmed more about the area and food etc, again another thing with GoPro’s, there is always something you wish you had added.

Lots of different angles, and some catchy music, thats how to make a good one, unlike my example.

Yeti SB66c owner, get a smile just looking at it, and a big cheesy grin after every ride.

Oops double post

82%
Pity, I really wanted to run around in the dark shouting ‘I can smell your chips’.

Its marmite that’s been stored in a jar of pickled onions, but I do put it on every now and then, its strangely hypnotic.

Saturday spent running around local bike park at Tai Mo Shan, 40kms of various trails, still a little sore on Monday.
Winter in Hong Kong is great, cool (still in late teens/early 20’s) but very dry, perfect riding conditions.

Bubba Ho-Tep?
That’s a great film.

The Final Countdown
I watch this at least once a year, terrible film but I like seeing Tomcats shooting down Zeros.

This one so needs to star Troy McClure….
Moby Dick 2010

“A phobia of symmetry”

Celldar, isn’t that the website where you can meet like minded…..oh

Hi, looks like i will be busy at the weekend.
Currently its a 70/30 split on tarmac but hope to move more to trail running over the next few months. The trails here are hard compacted soil with lots of broken stone steps, basically hard, dry and dusty so I guess I will not need an aggressive shoe, budget is not really an issue.

I find that this is generally true of most mountain bikers, not just in Britain.
Do not think I have been involved in a pursuit where I have received so much help, guidance and encouragement and as a result, I always try to give it back on the trail.

Cheers for the feedback. Going to be running a mix as most trail runs for me involve a few k’s of tarmac, plus tend to run a simple pre-breakfast 5k road run in the mornings.

I used to live down south near the Surrey Hills – tick
Don’t own a car now but have owned some VAG’s in the past – tick
I only have one bike – cross
I have never been to France or Italy mountain biking – cross
I don’t work in IT – cross
I don’t have a coffee machine (is that the same as a kettle?) – cross
My apartment doesn’t have a chimney so no log burner or fireplace even – cross
I don’t like cats – cross

I only really come here to read the BS arguments, you don’t get that kind of quality BS in the pubs here and I miss it.

If your taking the Sean Connery ex-pat position, I’m going for the more English Roger Moore one
No, its bad enough losing Scotland but if Wales goes England would turn into a nation of roadies, it would be like the French were running the shop again.

English living in Hong Kong, if I had a vote on it I would vote Yes.
Goodbye, take your part of the debt and close the door on the way out.

Didn’t the Dexy Midnight Runners do a song about someone called ‘jock’?

Grew up in Aldershot through most of the 80’s and remember more the hassle from constant bomb alerts caused by the IRA than anything Warsaw Pact related.
Mind you, I also spend some time growing up in apartheid South Africa in the 70’s as well.

I would imagine the Chinese may get the N Koreans to do something by proxy, they have lost face from this but basically can do bugger all militarily bar actually try to shoot a plane down.
The feed back I am getting from my HK and Filipino friends is they are enjoying this two finger gesture to the Chinese, I will no doubt be in contact with other friends around the region by the end of the week and find out how this is playing in Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam but I imagine its the same.
This will not play well in China but its probably not being that widely reported, on the MTR this morning the text B52 was very prevalent on the news displays.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20483716 (cough)

Never underestimate the ability of the Chinese to fake something, the eggs are a great example.

Capitalism is fine, it’s when you remove the risk that there is a problem.
By removing the risk I mean bailing out banks, building energy production Facilites for energy providers and cheap train lines & maintenance for train companies to use.
Of course I don’t have a degree in finance but that’s my take, fair play if you get rich providing a service, but make sure there is a level playing field and that failure is not rewarded.

Capitalism is fine, it’s when you remove the risk that there is a problem.
By removing the risk I mean bailing out banks, building energy production Facilites for energy providers and cheap train lines & maintenance for train companies to use.
Of course I don’t have a degree in finance but that’s my take, fair play if you get rich providing a service, but make sure there is a level playing field and that failure is not rewarded.

Probably a Chinese fake

Beautiful women, sex pest looking boyfriend, yep, they are slavs

Possibly because no newspaper wants to be in the position of printing content that may be seized upon by the defense to halt the trial, or maybe even get the defendants off on a technicality?
There may even be a blanket ban on reporting setup by the trial judge, not that familiar with current UK legal laws so that’s just a guess.

The last one, an Action Asia CX race a few weekends ago, not easy against people half my weight on 29ers (thats what I tell myself anyway).