I changed from a 26 HT to a FS purely because of my knackered lower back.

I was worried at first about the “energy sapping” and pedal bob related issues that FS can have but have found that my Turner Flux is excellent and doesn’t suffer from said problems.

I briefly rode an Anthem & Trance before the Turner. For me they didnt even come close to the Turner. In fact I like the Flux that much that im buying the longer travel Turner 5 spot this week for more knarlier stuff

Stu

Like the Hydrapak jogging ones?

My friends young son was getting out of the car when he spotted a couple of ladies wearing burkhas & dressed top to toe in black.

The lad shouted at the top of his voice “Mam look….ninja’s”

sweet

2011
2010
2010
2009

Sorry bud, I’m 260 mile away and there’s a fair few powdercoaters locally so have never needed to look further

I’m going to get the Flux done.

Lad I know does it. He done a hardtail a bit back in disco black metallic which looks well.

I’m fancying Yellow front triangle with metallic snowflake and clear powder coated raw rear end.

White with snowflake or finer blue tint metal flake would look well Renton

Nowt worse than broken ribs.

Learned my lesson the hard way:

Do not take corners at warp speed on wet Northshore

Unless you’re REALLY pissed, have the reading skills of a 8 month old, or speak outer Mongolian, two of those can’t be TLA’s (no matter what the bunch ‘across the pond’ think) because they aren’t acronyms. They’re called initialisms.
The Americanisms:
Power up/down (sorry? Oh, you mean turn on/off!)
Touch base
Rowing in the same direction
Moving forward
Onboard (get onboard, being onboard, etc.)
Telecon
etc. etc.
You want to speak American? Does us all a favour then and eff off over there to do

Correct. Never post with ale on board !

Anyways I’m off back to Mongolia to read my Peter & Jane Ladybird books.

Three quarters all through winter here, needs to be below -5 before I wear longs. I just don’t like having my legs fully covered.

+1

What are these mystical longs you all talk about?

“I need to touch base with blah blah” – means I haven’t got a clue so ill ask someone who knows what he’s doing.

“Rolled throughput yield” – wtf is that?

“We’ll have to wing it” – er no mate, I know what I’M doing. Don’t drag me into it!

“Make hay while it shines” – means I expect you to work & not have a social life

Any three lettered business acronyms:

TPM
TQS
JIT

Any bullshit methodology / practices which are just common sense:

6 sigma
5S
Kaizan

Remind me never to go on a ride with you fussy buggers!

Exactly :D

Too much hassle, too much etiquette.

Group rides invariably lead to hassle. I’m lucky to have three sons who I ride try to keep up with.
Much more enjoyable with the family !

It’s from “2001 – A Space Odyssey”

“Open the pod bay doors Hal” :-)

Good kit.

I got a couple of ex MOD ones off eBay for peanuts.
Can’t remember the sellers name off hand but he had loads of them a bit back

Spent half a day riding at Kielder & Newcastleton today. 1 hour into the ride and I literally rip the arse right off my Humvee’s when moving back over the saddle.

It’s not a good look on the trail, a fellow biker approaching from behind being greeted by a pair of budgie smugglers and a flapping rag that was once a pair of Endura shorts.

This incident alone is justification for a dropper post.

It is completely dead however the hosepipe still works round the back !

Nothing but a couple of portaloo’s I’m afraid. Wouldn’t know about the food van as I only ride Ae midweek

I have 2 sets of rubbers. One for the 591’s (holes cut out for 9 bolts) and 1 set uncut when 591’s aren’t fitted.

Still whistles like a mofo regardless of whether the rubber strips are fitted or not. The bars on their own with uncut rubbers are silent. I’ve had them up to silly speeds with no noise & very little change in mpg

Wingbars on a mk5 golf with three 591’s on.

Anything over 45mph and it whistles badly.

Don’t waste your money

Your wife may be corrupted.

Have you tried a wife sniffer to see what’s entering the house?

Too much crosstalk can corrupt your wife. Do you know the password to gain entry to the wife’s box?

If you do you should be able to change the channel number your wife is transmitting on.

Just received mine today. Got the 20mm rise ones for my Flux.

FFS my wrists hurt with these bars

mice

Pfft,

Still waiting on full 3G in my locality.

What a joke Orange

or maybe not.

4 months before I rode again after my testicle was damaged due to trauma on the operating table.

Never seen what happened, just felt it. Followed by 192 tablets in 10 days and a nutsack the size of a large orange.

The morale of the story is always plan worst case. I’d imagine you’ll be fine, their is probably 50 successful ops to every bad one. Probably

You get what you pay for.

Five Tens are super grippy and reasonably light.

They get that much grip on my platforms that I can’t twist my foot from side to side whilst their planted to the pedal.

Mad Max trike

Happy birthday !

My 40th marked the tragic start of the Wahl hair clipper guard set fully back to blend in the remains of my Eddy Munster hairdo to my shiny forehead :-)

40 is cool. Enjoy it !

Kyoto Jazz Massive
Phones
Richie Havens
Aphex Twin
The Who

Subject to change at any time…..

Hoping to move to Cumbria in the next couple of years.

Don’t bother, anything north of Shap & the weathers shite!

Nice scenery though.

Ae forest last Wednesday

And the new fun bike

Cumbria born & bred

Northerner

Thule Wingbars & x3 proride 591 carriers on my MkV.

Really wish I’d went down the detachable towbar route and kept the Pendle though.

Guinea Pig – The Devils Experiment.

If you like gore this should suffice.

A work colleague loaned me this film which spanned over 4 discs I think.
Got 20 minutes into the first one then knocked it off.

Not my cup of tea. Horrible.

They’ve not gotten worse, someone just figured out that 29″ was betterdifferentlucrative.

Double edit :-)

and they figured that out about 30 years ago, but couldn’t get the tyres.

I find that amazing that “they” whoever they were couldn’t develop or fund the construction a larger carcass building drum and curing mold for a larger bike tyre. Wow

We have had on occasion private individuals with their own molds approaching us to build small production runs. I find it utterly unbelievable that this couldnt have been done 30 years ago. The fundamental construction process is very much the same as it was back then.

:D

They did didn’t they?

I’ll wager he’s regretting his actions this day. Playing the braggard upon our forums and thusly exposing himself as an imbecile. He also owns a selection of motorised cycles of the type favoured by homosexuals. I summise that on several occasions he is likely to have singed his posterior on his bedchamber ceiling light whilst fornicating with his repulsively-countenanced spouse, due to her obvious adiposity.

actual tears :lol:

I’ve read this book many times as a boy. I loved it.

The 007’s are a bit chunky for my skinny wrists.

Agreed. My SKX013 gets more wrist time due to this. In fact its my main watch and is rarely off, especially since moving to an oyster bracelet.

This is next on the radar

I have a thing for military watches too :-)

Harold (yobokies) is a nice guy, hooked me up with solid end links for my SKX diver a bit back.

Nice watch & nice movement. Similar to 7S26 with improved power reserve.

I have the SKX007 & SKX013 with Nato / Zulu / Rubber & W.Jean Super Oyster 2 bracelets. I absolutely love Seiko divers watches !

i’m sure you’ll love your new watch

Stu