Used to work as a topographic surveyor – surprising the errors you find in OS mapping. Roads that turn into streams, roads that turn into buildings (may have found the bat cave with that last one))

I've heard something similar – grease blocking airways?

he doesn't understand french 🙂

Wheels last 2-3 years of average off road use before the rim becomes so out of shape no ammount of trueing will save it and spokes begin to snap.

sorry, thats not true at all – poorly built/looked after wheels maybe!

you need to check spoke tension occasionally, but theres no reason for a wheel to have that short a lifespan unless you are using wheels that are understrength (e.g. xc wheels for hard hits/ridden by someone 'heavily-built')

I still dont know how the jeans stay up 🙂

its also very gey 🙂

Mythbusters answered the toilet->toothbrush issue

couldnt find any increase in bacteria on the toothbrush due to flushing 🙂

I thought it was ace. Science on prime time Beeb…nowt wrong with that!

Cox has an awesome job !

Had a sheep bolt across the trail in front of me. Whole field full of the buggers, and ONE of them panics and runs across the trail.

Swerved round it, went up the bank on the left and stacked, much to the amusement of the people following 🙂

At least nettles relly only cause problems where they brush up on you!

Try looking up Poison Ivy or it's cousin Poison Oak, they have a nasty, clear coloured oil on their leaves (urushiol) that if you are allergic to creates quite the rash. Bonus to that is that you may have it on your hands and transfer it to other parts of the body unless you wash it off with something that will remove the oil (hardly likely while you are out riding). Mate was not happy to find out later it was on his hands when peeing on a ride! Finding out you had it on you and are getting a rash can be 2-3 days later. Sometimes I wish I'd not moved to the US!

STL

Nice almost as much fun as the following:
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[*]Make Chilli
[*]Eat Chilli
[*]Decide to go out
[*]Put Contact Lenses in
[*]Cry…
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Had a few near misses but never hit anyone. I tend to try and stare down people as best as i can so they KNOW that you know they are there.

Its the people that use pushchairs to create gaps in the traffic that get me.

Supposedly the most important thing in their world…unless they want to cross the road. Then the poor little bugger in the puchchair gets used as a stop sign! Insane

I've always used short/medium cage mechs wehere I can to limit the amount of flappy chain

just dont ride in dopey crossed gears! 🙂

Mark Datz – Member

Farari is a haredresses car corvet is way cheeper dude and still wikid awsum

yes

indeed

knott4me – Member

in your defence the rq 2.4 are bigger than any other 2.4 on the market.fact

Possibly a true 2.4" tyre then 🙂

don't see how that is unrepairable. Seen worse damage repaired on other alu frames – gary fisher joshua with a headtube that was making a bid for freedom and shock mounts that were attempting a similar feat

I had a kula repaired that had a cracked headtube.

Wrap around gusset, TIG…sorted 🙂

better than binning it anyway – and its not under too much stress if you run a long seatpost.

mastiles_fanylion – Member

If he had played for another club he would have been banned for life.

Do you honestly think that?

But it was a nasty challenge and he only did it after hurting himself in a challenge with the player a few years before (the very short clip at the beginning of that link shows the original tackle, but it isn't clear that he actually fell and hurt himself)

Well ok, maybe not any other club…but if it wasnt a top 4 club i think the FA would have looked on it fairly differently

I can see the point with carbon and lightweight alloy stuff. But for normal bike use i have never bothered. Just don't hang on every bolt, and do them up gradually where there is more than 1

I cant believe Keane was ever allowed anywhere near a football field after that. If he had played for another club he would have been banned for life.

Theres no way Shawcross was in any way responsible. It possibly deserved a booking for an ill timed tackle but in no way a red card. From what i've seen its hard to tell if he even caused the initial injury.

Ref lost his head.

Its unfortunate…but its a awful, awful injury and i hope that Ramsey can make a full recovery and that it doesnt affect Shawcross's career.

Wenger can just sod off. He's happily ruin someones career for no real reason.

and yes, its rather telling how none of Arsenal players came to help him…they'd rather shout at the ref than help a colleague.

I'd be tempted to use an o-ring through the cable stop to make a larger, stretchy one!

I'm intrigued by the full sus cx bike with rigid pompino forks 🙂

Quite like that wrist one.. good mixture of the raised fist and biking 🙂

leccy tape and swap back for the summer 🙂

In my experience, Hope stuff is either brilliant…or frustrating.

I'm assuming its down to attempting tight tolerances…however if it goes a bit wrong then it shows…other times the QC seems off

I've had a set of mini's that were impossible to setup without them rubbing, and when they were setup ok the pistons would stick out at the slightest provocation

However I also had a mini that was absolutely perfect

My front Pro 2 ate 2 sets of bearings in a year

The rear one has been brilliant

Ride in jeans sometimes…good when its cold and the trails are full of gorse or your liable to bin it!

Or when there is a pub stop

dual control is admittedly ****

but octalink BB's are great – however, the weak link was still the crank/bb interface – the tapers can wear and start to click/creak. HT2 doesnt appear to have the bearing life but doesn't seem to have the creaking issue

I didn't think they did, but then remembered guys at uni talking about going in to look at kit, and then buying it over the phone??*

*this may have been bunkum!

Tennyson trail is a good ride – not really technical but nice bridleways and anywhere over the downs from alum bay to ventnor is good really. Stick to the south wight though as 40mpg says.

Depends on what sort of stuff you are looking for really

If its a big ride – the 7 hills killer route is good

If its more techy stuff – a lot of the good stuff is not official and can be difficult to link up if you don't know the routes and also changes a lot

I'm not on the isle anymore, so a bit out of touch (although usually over once a month). If you want any info, emails in profile.

Cheers

Tim

If you dont have to get the longest post you can,…then your frames too big for you 🙂

The atomic bomb was never justified, nor was the use of those dastardly Sinclair C5's in the Falkland Islands (taken from A.Beevor – Leopoldo Galtieri,My Part in his Downfall fiber&fiber 1989), something that Sir.Clive Sinclair is still being hunted for by the War Crimes Commission in the Hague!

The use of the bomb was a show of power (especially the 2nd one)

however, the japenese were not going to surrender, and with the other options being starving or invading them, was probably the method that caused the least casualties (sadly). The invasion method would have probably been supported by nuclear strikes anyway.

The expected casualty rates for Operation Downfall are terrifying, and this only deals with Allied (mainly American) fatalities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall

from wiki (yes I know) –

'Nearly 500,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured in anticipation of the casualties resulting from the invasion of Japan. To the present date, all the American military casualties of the sixty years following the end of World War II—including the Korean and Vietnam Wars—have not exceeded that number.'

Dropping the atomic bombs on a beaten and ready to surrender Japan was more about curtailing Russian territorial ambitions in Manchuria and Northern Japan (and also French and British desires to regain SE Asian territories)

Sort of…however Japan wasnt ready to surrender, and the russian manchurian offensive was requested by the Allies and began AFTER the first bomb had been dropped.

ok cool thanks

Either way, it looks like the stroke woukld be too short anyway – i need 51mm, and an MV is likely to be less than this.

Thats a tara bike though (although admittedly its probably fairly similar)

That seems to show a 200mm eye to eye!

cant find anything on the marin site Trailseeker (unless i'm being blind)

thanks zippy – so basically its quite short then 🙂

no-one?

how the hell did i forget beer!

Well fair enough you might WANT to travel first class, but why should WE have to pay for it?

I think they should get rid of first class anyway

oooh that fiat is nice!

Datsun 180B !

yeah, i'll add

comedy

music

news

armed forces

to my list 🙂