I too have been working on my beds. We now have a monster 3.6M x 1.2M bed running alongside the house:

And the shallow beds are showing first signs of life from the rocket and other salad leaves :D

Excuse the crappy photos but it was pissing down and I was aching leaning over after the Dyfi.

Heh. I’d just been trawling these. I’ve been refreshing a flickr search for ‘dyfi’ most recent all day watching the various shots come in. Nice photos.

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=dyfi&s=rec

Yeh I was really looking forward to a night on the beanbags watching MTB films. What happened with that?

From Dyfi Enduro group on Facebook:

Great day. Thanks to all involved in the organisation in making this the #1 UK MTB Event.

T’was my mate Mark who was stretchered off the section by the Food Station and flown off the mountain. Thankfully he was OK – and discharged later yesterday. He suffered a concussion (hence the spinal precautions) and is very bruised and sore today.

He just asked me to say thanks to all who stopped and / or offered assistance after his fall. He apologises to the riders whose event was held up whilst he was stretchered off the trail. Thanks to all who have enquired how he was.

See you next year eh?

Just got back now. Stopped over the night to enjoy a few cold ones in Cafe Seren last night.

My first Dyfi so nothing to compare it to but had an excellent time even if I was bringing up the rear and had a couple of loops closed on us. We still did 50K to the forest finish though so didn’t miss much.

Mental descents covered in mud after 700 odd riders had been over them in front. LONG yet sustainable climbs (except that bloody technical climb which went on forever. Walk city).

Thanks to all involved. Hopefully fitness will allow me to finish in the bunch next year.

I can’t tell that a flash was used in the Atherton’s gap shot. Maybe that’s a good thing, but I’d imagine a fast prime would have captured the same image.

I’d go for a Wayfarer as a family boat. You can sail it single handed with a jib without problems or pile 4 of you in there with out any real space issues. They’re more stable than an Enterprise too, although there’s nothing wrong with an Enterprise. I used to race one myself but I’d get a Wayfarer if it was me in your shoes.

Ah that makes sense and should not take much space in the camelback. Thanks for the description :)

I’m hoping that my brand new Mountain King Protection 2.2s will do the job.

*ignorance*

What’s a tyre boot?

My Google calendar doesn’t go back that far.

I started this lark in April too. I sat out this weeks to take photographs instead for the local press. If you want to see peoples positions (hugely varied) and what they are wearing take a look at my photos from this weeks sporting 10 miler.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/surfr/sets/72157617396416137/

I acquired 5 4M scaffold planks from a mate who was doing a scaffolding job down the road. These have now been made into 3 sides of a 3.6M x 1.2M bed. I’ve left 1 side open to barrow in the top soil then will close it up. Even managed to offload the stack of paving slabs onto martyntr in exchange for some part-grown plants hopefully. Pictures tonight.

Can’t quote others easilly in a thread

i seem to be doing it ok
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^ I’m not. Nested quoting should be possible. Most forum software would parse

tags and replace with a div with appropriate css styling. I’m guessing thr parser struggles with nested bbcode of any form.

Also quotes are pretty useless without the original author information attached.

If we could do:

blah blah blah singlespeed blah blah
niche!
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And have it render half decently, I’d be happy.

There are 41064 unique URLs in unique_url_list.txt which forms part of a phing buildscript for auto Sitemap.xml generation

5/6. Should have been 6 but I started to doubt myself on oscillating. Also never heard of Pikau but from the spelling it was obvious.

Which way up did you go? It’s a slog from Tal-y-Llyn but I hear there are much shallower paths up from the North outside Dolgellau.

PeterPody I’m Mr Field! However the closest I get to fields is database fields.

Miketually I don’t think that fits the 50% criteria does it?

Do I have to use the bike for work?

You can use the bike however you like; a bike purchased under Cyclescheme should be used for work journeys at least 50% of the time. You don’t have to cycle to work for a specified number of days throughout the year and you don’t have to record your trips or mileage. You may not claim expenses for business trips made using the bike.

Flowmtb that just looks so slow and with a fisheye it’s hard to see anything at all.

I should add that I haven’t tried one myself yet. I just take the wheels off and put them in the boot. Saddle off and that goes in the boot too. Then an old duvet cover covers the back seats and the frame goes in with room to move. Can get a little dirty still but nothing a quick brush and hoover can’t fix.

Saris Bones 2/3 is considered the only real way.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/saris-bones-your-experiences

It’s old, white and a Kona. win win win.

There are not loads of images. I reckon 5 or 6 HDR in the entire photostream.

I once led canoe expeditions in the Rockies with a guy called Rusty Orr.

So Anyway

I can’t personally see much in the way of HDR. There’s a couple of blended exposures (sky and ground) or use of ND grad filters. There’s also plenty of long exposures (one of my fave pastimes) And you can clearly see the progression in their photostream over the past year. Great work and they should be very proud.

I quite like the idea of taking the stone and having it reset into a ring of your (and her’s maybe) choosing. It retains the original sentiment from your Mother and yet also is a new ring. Win Win and cheap :D BINGO

Would you recommend similar pressures for the Mountain King 2.2s? I’m about to put mine on for the Dyfi.

Winning time was something like 2:45 I think. Average looked to be closer to 4 hours. I’ll be happy to finish in 5:30 to be honest.

BLASPHEMY!

http://www.jasonmcroy.com/jmc/index.php

Ended up with a Blackburn Air Stik as the LBS only stocked Blackburn. Looks to do the job and will be usable for the road bike too (Mountain Air only good for 90 PSI as opposed to 160)

Right. well I too am a developer and understand the concept of context which the other devs mention. I typically have 5 – 10 shells on various machines tailing logs, editing files (Vim), running commands, commiting and checking out code etc…, Browser with 10+ tabs, mail, calendar, yammer, twhirl, adium, Word, Excel and then maybe some personal stuff like Spotify.

Turning off would mean probably 20 minutes lost per day but I have not been trying to hibernate so from tonight I’ve set hibernate to 1 hour of idle and will see how my shells react in the morning. Just needed a kick in the right direction so thanks to this thread :)

Cheers guys. Found an old thread which seems to state the same. Lezyne or Topeak Morph something. Lezyne sounds like my kinda thing. mmmm shiny

You would probably have gotten away with it, right up until they realised you had pre-meditated the entire thing and shared your thoughts with the Internet. *doh*

We always used to give our lab a tap across the top of the snout when they did something wrong. I recall my parents telling me that it wasn’t painful and that the sound was irritating to them. It did make quite a hollow knocking sound but god knows if there was any truth in it. They were probably just placating me.

The correct answer was right there on the second link. Feris Beuler found it. Job done.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ashes+to+ashes+advert

martyntr – Member

probably Speed Kings or Mountain Kings.

Dan – definately Mountain Kings. Don’t be tempted with anything less than a 2.3 either as you’ll end up with punctures and it’ll be much less fun

I was thinking Mountain King 2.2 Protections with the Black Chili. Otherwise it’s 2.4s which seems a bit overkill to me.

Todays relatively shallow beds. Probably only 6 inches at the edge but can build the earth up inside.

And where they sit. This triangle of patio is completely useless so planning to fill it with beds. Next plan will be to lift a 2×6 set of slabs to form a bed as seen in marsdenmans garden. There’s still plenty of spare slabs for other beds here and there too.

Cheers Jimster.

I’ve just completed the first bed border. I removed a 2×2 square of 600mm paving slabs to place it on and on seeing marsdenman’s beds I’m wondering how to use them to make more beds :D

Can I just use multi-purpose compost from the garden centre? I’ve got 100L of peat moss too if that’s any use.