Id go with yes its going to die, if it goes with you on it its going to hurt!

Get it back to where it came from

front end lift while climbing and clearance issues

if your in Scotland/ like getting into the hills in winter a rear wheel drive BMW is a very silly idea.

Golf is the pick of those, maybe passat sport but tbh all company cars these days are pretty tedious and dull

the knog rear light i had was awful.

As everyone has said they are barely even water resistant and mine packed up within about 3 months

WANT!! 🙂

Hang on had that got clown wheels? please be a 26er

Actually feeling a bit meh now, what i want really is a 953 soul not a 951 Solaris

Cheers everyone, thats great.

Dave that property is indeed in my saved list 🙂
Shame its central terrace though

Not looking at rentals Mega im afraid

So are we saying North of the A3 is a bit less desirable overall (why most of the properties in my price range seam to be up there!)

and its going to be a trade off for location VS house for heading south to town/ burpham/merrow

Cheers Ned, Lido sounds cool, i didnt know about that!

Unfortunalty looks like the area you lived is just a touch too central for us in terms of price. Ill see how i feel about that statement once ive been to look at the areas in our current price range!

Cant wait to get back to having decent MTB out my door. I used to live between Reigate and Dorking and it was perfect. Chippenham MTBing is barren in comparison

Thanks all esp skaifan. Its probably worth adding that at 24 we are both keen to be near ‘young professionals’ and bars and going out potential and as such had chosen guildford over Godalming deliberatly.

Correct choice i presume?

Also farnham commute is likely to be road bike (avoiding hogs back) is the A323 the best alternative?

ohhh my favorite gloves, time to stock up 🙂 thx

no white anymore 🙁

ahh well ill have to stop my micheal jackson white gloves routine 🙂

Just spotted cyan is white 🙂 back to my trademark look!

Love it, cant imagine stiffness will be anything other than ‘wet fish’ though

reminds me of trailaddiction 🙂

i just put the goggles on the helmet for climbing

M&S tuna and sweetcorn
acompanied by some ‘healthy’ crips, an apple and some natural yoghurt with oats

very happy with the whole ensemble, esp the yoghurt 8.5/10

Yeah doesn’t take very long to get used to and addicted to!

I had a couple of bits of neck pain but a flipped stem and getting my visor out the way sorted that.

The handling is pretty enjoyable to be honest, U can be so subtle with your movements its almost like U think it through the corners 🙂

oops I’ve killed it again 🙁

I had a ride in one of those army Gazelles when i was in cadets. Was great, the pilot was some 20 something AAC guy. Came and landed on our playing fields and then took us up in batches and did some ‘turning and burning’ round the sky. Never forget looking out the side window pretty much straight down at one of the rugby pitches because we had so much bank on! After about 10 mins he says ‘this is what we do if the engine fails’ drops the throttle and we do a practice autorotate landing while dropping like a stone!!

fond memories..

got a ‘relationship’ with an LBS you can steal a new forks maxle off?

Google and a phone for you while bike shops are still open!

just had our first valuations and you generally get a feel for how much effort they have put into preparing etc

Also get a feel for communication with how they have arranged the appointment and calling to say they will be 5 mins late etc

on a slight hijack note we are trying to decide between two agents:
A) slightly better impression of work ethic and communication + ‘free’ rightmove premier listing. Have no matching properties to ours but some above and bellow the ‘range’

B)Slightly less impressive pitch + no premier listing but 3 other flats on at our price including one on the same estate that could be viewed together

What do people think do you want to be the agents ‘only’ property at that price or do you want to try and catch more people by the agent having a group of similar properties at your price?

Oh and will you be hit by the 125000 FTB stamp duty lift?

Your username does not lie 🙂

Im quite a fan of a good Gavi 🙂

ended up falling sideways into a massive bank of nettles in shorts and t-shirt. nettles have never really bothered me since!

Any story behind why you were out that long?

A) Masive mechanical at the furthest point in the ride
B) got carried away with the ride and just kept going
C) Got stuck in the pub with mates after the ride

Odds anyone?

heya nice bike, i really should gt my simple running again.

on a more pesimistic note dont expect that mech to last long 🙂

had two of them and both snapped at least one of the carbon plates and ive gone back to xt

From our own correspondent and archive on 4 are always good too

(is now the time to admit I also enjoy womens hour….)

todays media show had quite a powerful few mins about war journalism (as well it might)

A set of nasa released space pics interspersed with a few alpine roads from velominati cycling through using win 7

Nightwish deffo have a scandinavian cheezyness to to them but i love it 🙂

Dragonforce 🙂

(and Nightwish)

I occasionally go for a ride on the roady at night, no choice for company though so tend to just put two rear lights on and my troutie LL up front and get on with it.

Dont particularly ride any differently to in the light tbh

Id go c# and a smattering of SQL for DB

‘C# for sharp kids’ is actually a great learning resource and how i learned (when aged 22!)

very relevant to a contracting/ consulting point of view for recommendations

road bike to the Jura mountains getting in some serious hills 🙂

Saw one near marlbourgh at the weekend, very low and nicly lit by the sun 🙂

Try Buckland for rentals, i grew up there and the Estate manages a large number of rental propeties.

Riding is really good from anywhere round there, i cant wait to move back in the summer 🙂

Alfabus, not RGS alumni are you?

+1 for my local LBS giving me a couple of wheel boxes today to send some stuff. very handy 🙂

hehe the full sus already has the choice between 2009 fox float 32 140mm QR15 RLC and 2008 36 van R (with a different front wheel)
and the rear shock has been PUSH’ed

I think we need to get away from upgrading it, its pimped 🙂

Yeah they come in at 1583g for the pair on my kitchen scales so that will do 🙂 Crest and 355 rims Dt revs and alloy nipples on the front

just looked it up crossmax ST are 1590 grams so im a v happy bunny 🙂

Already running Stans on Chris Kings 🙂

the SS could have some nice kit but thats not as fun as something new!

im too short (5’7) so not for me