i was looking forward to it before, even more so now! that video looks pretty **** good as well! can’t wait :)

similarly, if you put beer bottles in your pockets to enable you to carry a larger round from the bar, don’t then forget and sit down.

excellent – keep the good vibes coming, can’t wait already!

cheers for suggestions, as well – just checked on the holey trail site and looks like might be an option. we’ll be getting there a couple of days before the others so might be able to travel a bit to pick up if necessary.

any other suggestions welcome!

the velibs of paris

a dedication to going out tomorrow instead:
fockin’ have it

tinman, where is that pipe crossing? i want a go!

this has reminded me of my pressing need for a tripod :x

is it venus sitting visible just above the moon? my eye was caught by it on the ride home, didn’t realise that’s what i was seeing

call orinoko and see if he knows anything about it…

where are the pics?

i’ve got to get me one of those headset caps! nice work, absolute stunner :o

haha, ignore me then!

I’m with you tails!

going out on a bit of a referential limb here, but is that a reference to nathaniel the grublet?

they have a reputation for “doing things their own way”, but from my personal experience of buying a bike and a few other bits in separate transaction, that way always equated to very quick turnarounds, near immediate responses to email and telephone queries and generally commendable stuff.

i’d try to get them on the phone, if you can. i imagine you’ll get a pretty informative response.

yo edd, you fancy making a few of those and selling them? sounds like you’d get a good few shifted on here…

i’m so nervous about putting my bike on them and that sort are lower and look more secure to me, with the locked QR mount for the fork. seems to work pretty well, and doesn’t stick up so much!

in fact, this one:

my bike and our old car!

i went for the roof option as we need access to the boot, got a thule outride 561. it’s awesome, for a rack! works a treat, easy to use. what else can you say?!

this one:

(not my bike or car!)

if you do it neatly and carefully and file it round afterwards, i would have thought you’d be fine.

cue a stream of horror stories!

i’ve got an athlon. get a hex.

ah right – i didn’t realise the xt had it, it’s on the xtr set i just got and saw the adjustment, though it’s a bit pointless for me as they’re already at the limit of the only direction i’d want them to go!

already available:

I am always surprised that the gear shifters aren’t designed to sit more outboard of their clamp. I try to set my brake levers up for 1-finger braking and it pushes my gear shifters too far inboard for comfortable shifting. But setting the shifters outboard of the brake lever is no good because they are then too close to my hand and I constantly bang my fingers against the shift paddles. Bloody annoying really.

the xtr shifters have movable pods on the clamps, so you could set them gripside of the brake mounts, and then put them as far inwards as they’d go, sounds like it get em where you want.

put it where it feels right. both my bikes have brake nearest grip.

they’ve probably been spending too much time with the PDF files :lol:

mybike, is that your wedding pic, armoured up and at the top of a mountain?!

if so, good work and let’s see some more!

a lot of nokia’s = easy. a lot of sony ericssons = hard. others = somewhere in between.

because you test yourself in lots of different ways, improve loads of different parts of your ability from endurance to reactions, all while getting fresh air and travelling bigger distances than most other outdoor pursuits, so seeing the world!

that might be the worst “better” picture i’ve ever seen :lol:

rouchneck, that’s a great colour. nice one, particularly now brown-spooned!

you are clearly neither anglosaxon, nor male

looking my best :lol:

aspirevelotech sportingly listed my chris king headsets as “bicycle bearings” with values of $15, so no duty to pay, which was nice. though presumably this would have some sort of impact on any claim if they were lost/damaged. either way, it all worked out nicely.

they’re stretchy, i’d go on height. i’m a bit over 6′ and get large.

Can I just be the first to say:

The alternative is simply to allow society to implode.

Furthermore, motorcycles shouldn’t really be allowed on motorways. They’re both unstable and dangerous and if they can’t be effectively policed by average speed cameras, they should simply be banned until such time as they are.

first and last, with a bit of luck :lol:

i’ve got juicy ultimates and the SRP on them is now £250 a wheel! outrageous.

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5% isn’t ‘miles out’ though is it. If you stated ‘fact’ in your first post which was backed up by some evidence it would have made more sense.

is one of your relatives a car speedometer? miles out/up to 10% out (which i understand is the permitted variation), who gives a shit?

oh no, i did a riddle like that zahada one a while back. addictive :(

exactly. apparently my initial claim that they are allowed to be slightly inaccurate either way is wrong, i’ve just found out that they’re allowed to read too high a speed but not too low, so if anything you’re going slower than you thought, rather than the opposite. makes sense.

how do you know that you are a real person, rather than a character in a simluation being controlled by a being you could never imagine, let alone understand?