LOL @ flatfish. As far as I know, they're interviewing the main guy about the prevalence of alcohol consumption whilst at work, and he's doing his best to maintain that it's not a problem.

I'm 6'2", 88kg and use a 157cm Santa Cruz Perfect 11 "Get Money" and I love it:

It's a bit garish for some, but holds up really well both off-piste and on the hard packed stuff we get in Aviemore, Glenshee and the like. Quite flexy, so would be easier to get the hang of than a stiffer board.

For the road, I'd go Argon 18 Krypton. I rode a Gallium the other week and it was phenomenal. Having said that, it's about the only road bike I've ridden apart from about a mile on a demo Look 566. The Krypton is just a less fancy-shaped Gallium, and could be built up for around £1200 if you speak nicely to your LBS and maybe re-use some bits from your current bike.
Hardtail, try a Whyte 19.

All these, and more, are available to demo just down the road from you, at Flying Fox.

That sounded wrong. You know what I mean.

Budget option, but what about the RS Sektor U-Turns? My mate runs a Ti 456 with Revelation U-Turns and it's his go-to bike, despite having a veritable hareem in his garage.

Cheers bigyinn :thumbsup:

If you take the maintenance costs out of it, it's roughly the same as driving, and a LOT quicker. The benefits increase the further you fly as well.

For instance, this weekend my mate is flying me and the bro-in-law down to Old Buckenham airfield in Norfolk, from RAF Leuchars, in a home-built Jabiru*. Fuel prices are same as car fuel, conservative flying (90-100mph ground speed) averages somewhere around 16L per hour, and it's about 3 hours each way, so we're looking at around 100L/£120 between the 3 of us to get there and back. Landing fees, sometimes free as my buddy is a nav on the Tornados. If not, it's about £30 at the smaller airfields.

Driving it would be an 860 mile round trip, and in a car averaging 35 mpg (I bloody wish!) that would be about 24.5 gallons = roughly £130 in petrol. Plus about 8 hours drive each way.

Having said that, he reckons maintenance and insurance can be a bugger.

*home-built means home-serviced = mucho cheapness compared to say a Cessna engineer coming out to service.

bigyinn

How did you do the X10 debrand & update thing? I'm stuck on 1.6 with the old firmware, and I'm fed up of needing to charge every 6 hours.

My old car wasn't really set up for bike carrying, but I found a boot-mount carrier with a seperate ratchet-strap wrapped through the boot and around the bikes was more than secure.

Pan's Labyrinth is superb on Blu Ray. In fact, I think I'll stick it on now.

Gorecki by Lamb is pretty deep

I'm sure I read somewhere that they have to lower the wall of death used by the lion. It seems the lion found it rather frightening and used to pee with fright. That rotted the wall so they had to cut a section out

I can't decide if that makes it even more magnificent.

Depending on which ear I use, I get:

or:

which just goes to show how awesome I am.

I suggest all those who have systematically pooh-poohed the CF 456's graphics since day one have a pop at designing how it "should" look. I bet 99.9% of them would look like they were drawn by a foetus.

FWIW I think they look pretty sweet.

I'm currently nursing a level 2 with the added bonus of a snapped collarbone. I'm all slinged up, but should my knackered shoulder be sitting about 3 inches lower than the other one? It feels like it's going to drop off :(

You only put it in the inside of the shoes…

Wash in the shower, then LOADS of bicarbonate of soda. Leave to dry on a radiator, then some more bicarb.

It's possibly my eyesight being a bit loopy through the effects of codeine phosphate, but that looks similar to the "Leica" effect.

Go to the "unsharp mask" filter, and set at 15% amount, 60 pixel radius, threshold at 0 or 1. Play about with the levels until it looks just right.

Or maybe the Lomo effect is closer.

I think all the "red letter day" things tend to be a few laps under controlled (i.e. boringly slow) conditions in whatever previous-generation supercar is to hand. For balls (or tits) out fun, reckon you'd be hard pressed to beat a day's go-karting. Helluva lot cheaper too.

Hang on. She broke her legs in 2005 and died in Feb this year, and her family want to blame her death on the broken legs?

\It's an outrage!

Gary Oldman in Leon. Just the right amount of "unhinged".

Hehe. Unstitched itself, and as we speak there are shards of CF heading for my heart. And my nads got torn open by the top-mount shock. Etc., etc., etc.

Nah, I was trying out a long travel bike and feeling invincible after finally nailing one of my many riding nemeses. Subsequently stacked it on the boring flat bit. 6-8 weeks off. Oh well.

Enjoy yourselves and I'll be back out in a couple of months.

No joy this week. Broken collarbone and AC joint separation on Dumyat this Saturday gone :(

Yup. I'm sure all the oil companies will wander away from many trillions of barrels of oil hidden in deep water reservoirs, with nothing more than a "aw shucks"

:wink:

Heat the cat up to the melting point of the grease, and then it will just drip off.

If I stir lard into low-fat yoghurt…

You kiss your mother with that mouth?

Genius in his day. I could care less for the rest of his 'life'

Sweet Jesus, is that annoying. Where the fun were you educated?

EDIT: glad to see that flying bike on the conveyor belt is still on terra firma as physics dictates.

You had better be shitting me :|

my mate has done it for me, he runs a small graphics buisness, and it is spot on

If your mate wants his graphic business to progress, maybe you should suggest he learns to use the 'pen' tool rather than the 'magic wand' tool.

\I love Photoshop threads!

Bar ends

Looks like that Elbry chap was right.

Hehe. The Pronghorn is getting treated to a shower this morning. When the wife has gone to work and can't shout at me, obviously.

See you at the next one if I'm in Edinburgh.
Andy

classic car all the way. £2k will get you a tasty mk4 Triumph Spitfire and classic car insurance is mega cheap

I'm there then. I can take the car if needs be, but would be more open to cadging a lift if that's OK. Anyone willing to put up with me in return for petrol/car park/beer tokens?

Where is the meeting place for this, and what time?
I reckon I could squeeze 1 + bike if needs be, as long as you're not bothered about having your bike lashed to the back of a 17-year old MX5…

In related news, Ryanair to increase airfares by 24%.

Wii doesn't do HDMI, so it won't make a difference either way. It just has SCART/composite out.

To use it as a media centre, download TVersity and install it on your PC. There are instructions on the TVersity website for setting it up for Wii. You can then stream all your music & films to the Wii, assuming you have wireless t'internet.

I wouldn't mind a ride out, see what the Pentlands have to offer, but I'm out if it's away from Edinburgh as my car is currently dying a death.