Cup and cone bearings
front mech fettling

works of the devil!

From my time in Scotland, Peebles goes without saying.

Penicuik (spend 2years there) is very well situated. Including the very local penicuik house loop 😉

From my upbringing in deepest Kent- New Romney? really?

Southern fried chicken bits from the hot food counter.
Oh, and those cheese squares for burgers..add to that frozen burgers..

Cheers guys, will be on the look out for a second hand BOB! must admit the RRP scared me

Are you sure they weren’t just after your forks? really cause havoc with the drag hunts round our way do those Vans..

Cats are generally less amenable to teeth cleaning than dogs. If she will chew/gum dried kibble thats your best bet. to have any real benefit toothpaste needs to be done once daily, every other day negligible benefit, less frequently and you might as well piss in its left ear…

I occasionally save some animals, sadly a lot of owners/farmers think we are money grabbing toerags out to benefit only ourselves. Oh to have and animal NHS..

And the thread promised so much… 😉

I’d echo mboy,

5’10 here and on a small. Bit cramped and not my bike of choice for pedaling. But who said it was designed for that! need long seat post to claw back some climbing finesse (still get laughed at by passersby)

Retrospectively I still wouldn’t have tried to size it properly, fortunately I have another bike for general riding duties, and if it was my only bike I probably would have got a soul.

It is soo much fun though! smalls the new 29…

I think the general convention is to wave your left arm around pointing the pot hole.. I hop too 🙂

Cheers,
Marathons I think it will be!

I just miss the muddy sofas full of mice!

Where abouts on the A170? I’m based at the western end and Thurs is usually one of the only days I can get out after work (usually on my ownsome too!)

Islay, the moving trail obstacle

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Another poor soul on call here too!
paulosoxo, Ive been busy:-(

I go for this filthy version of fridge cake (I know its not really baking)

Some butter
Some golden syrup,
some Digestive biscuits, broken into crumbs with rolling pin)
approx. 6-8 bars of milk choc (cheap tesco basic ones)
1-2 packets of marshmallows.
An armful of on offer sweeties (choc drops, eggs, jelly beans, mars bars etc)

1. melt a dollop said butter in a pan
2. pour in an “amount” of syrup
3. melt most of the choc bars, add to pan
4. add in some crumbled biscuits to make the mixture thick and paste like,
5. quickly add in marshmallows and sweeties, stir rapidly to stop then melting into nothing
6. ladle into tray+decorate with more sweeties on top
7. allow to cool+put in fridge

Its not big or clever, a 5year old could make better, but it can taste very nice and induce diabetes

+2 for carbon, and I was scared of carbon until I tried them!

Mine was rubbish, worked the whole of it! even on call over the nights:-(

I brought one of the £30 bib/jersey combos to satisfy a curiosity. They are as you would expect, reasonable quality knockoffs. no rubber gripper on the jersey and the short pad is a bit ill fitting and tends to be somewhat er flattering…

Perfectly useable for short little rides not wanting to get your sunday bests mucky.
Think mine took 2wks to arrive

^ what momentum said, I don’t own one but know a friend with one. Belting little dog-but a true terrier!

If you’ve done inners, technical wise the GT black will be fine. pack some flapjack and do it!

It does rattle you on the hardtail:-)

That Sir, was ace!

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Its all about the homebrew here..

POD POD!

Thanks everyone.
Popping along to the bikescene was on my to do list, now its top of the list! Tis going to be a couple of weeks before I move but I saw this thread and couldn't resist finding out more now.
Night rides sound like music to my ears, and such choice!

Pippalarge- have just signed up to the website, will get exploring.

Looking forward to moving now:-)

Apologies for the slight hijack/jump on the band wagon.

Another lurker here with a similar position to Tom, in that I am soon to be moving up to Guisborough. Anyone on here located nearby or know of local group rides? I guess Darlo isn't too far away!

Many thanks , Steve

you called!

😉

rootes1, love the L plates!

They are just hanging half mast for style points..

Some top examples of rad skillz guys!

steve_b77 Respect to your mate having the cheek to pull an endo on that woodwork!

I give you my first try on a bmx the other year. It felt gnarly, but actually looks tiny and like I'm trying to lay an egg 🙁

And a mate who not liking the look of either the lines in front of him thought it would be sick to grind the tree..

Amazon just paid for my copy 🙂

YGM, top stuff 😀

Afraid I didn’t 🙁
After a bit more riding than planned and an impromptu gig on sat I felt a bit battered come sunday morning! Next time no such excuses…

Still at the thinking about it stage..
Will have decided by 7 though

Is there going to be much of a ss turn out?

Keep thinking similar things. Used to do a lot of fishing, not so much in recent years but still getting some in here and there. Have managed to lure little brownies out of some hill streams on the spinner whilst camping so believe it possible. Lets face it they are unlikely to police hill waters, and if they do you have a bike!

Seconded, Pentlands were ace today!

Had a butchers in the LBSs and as i suspected there were no tiny bikes to try out. Might pop over to glentress tomorrow to see how the ex-hire 14″ konas size up.

bikey; sadly I think that frame may be too big, guess I could try popping some baby-bio in her tea and see if she grows…

Thanks for all the ideas guys

no stoat please