trail addiction 🙂
riviera bike supposed to be worth a look for more xc type stuff

Scottish western isles road tour with the GF (june)
Week mtbing somewhere, probably uk based unless i get a better offer
Unlikely to do any racing, just not my sceen
Would like to get a forest of dean or cwncarn uplift day in too

What bikes have your group got? if you are all riding sub 120mm hardtails morzine unguided will be hard work. as mentioned most of the trails get lots of braking bumps and are really hard work on the arms. Also most of the marked out stuff is mostly DH runs. both times ive done morzine ive either hired a DH bike or bought one off ebay and sold later. Big volumne tyres and bigger rotors are a must if you do take your own bike pretty much whereever in the alps you choose

Places like les arcs, verbier, chamonix etc are probably a bit more suited to the average uk bike (but then often need guiding)

Running SQL sever agent jobs to test SSIS (a database ETL tool)

isnt there something with genisis written on the side that fits the bill?

Ive got a howies 10% code in my mail this morn if that would help soften the blow (you missed out on 20% the other week :))

meh…. lived in the south east/south all my life and have pretty much no idea what your talking about, you a pansy or something? :p

Buy some skills?

(not indended as a diss!!)

Sorry to drag this up again but had a play with mine now and its sweet. hopefully gonna be used in anger tomorrow 🙂
I am finding the velcro strap far too long though anyone else? I know the bike radar review said the strap was too short, have you got any of those left?!

Lapierre zesty takes a chain device and pedals well for a 140mm. Dirt mag love it (take that to mean whatever you want – i see it as positive!)

Going up for work from wiltshire it was a bit of a shock but it didnt seem tooooo terrible just a bit grim.. I bet theres plenty of good riding though

Ross noble in reading (alright not really a ‘gig’)

I think i filed the screw head sides down so i had two flat surfaces and got the molegrips working 🙂

I have a simple where the screw bent slightly and i was really tough to get out, just had to use brute force to get it out.
Look up chain tugs and get some, they should stop you needing the screws

Anything by shure, pick your price point (play usually have good deals on them)

anything that says fox or BOS on the side (damping is everything)
(so long as you are happy to have something that you maintain religiosly and have pretty much no warranty on!)

Saying that I have 3 pairs of fox forks and the only attention they get is a regular clean and a service about every 18 months and they are bloody brilliant so dont believe all you read

and also both Fox and BOS make some duff models too (BOS less so but the IDLE Rare has extra adjustment you just dont need and fox TALAS damping has been iffy some years)

those little round stones they surface with are blooming lethal (only been there once but that was my impression)

Second hand parts route deffo makes upgrading more paletable, you have all the right parts in mind.
Other ideas:
taking saddle and seatpost combo to the kitchen scales might provide scarily heavy results and check you dont have a steel handlebar.

Not meaning to be awkward but id be supprised if it wasnt more economical to get a new bike and sell the GT. Something like a boardman/cube or similar would be much lighter and no more than reba+ light wheelset+ tyres + sale value

Damn too slow!
e.g. http://www.paulscycles.co.uk/products.php?plid=m1b4s2p1686

You get your man badge from james may 🙂

I must say im in the camp that we should not be normalising being obese. there is an oversized clothing advert by jhonny vagas that really annoys me becasue it tries to normalise obeasity.
It should be made clear by our society that obeasity neither normal nor desirable. if it takes the embarasment of not fitting in a chair/medical machine/ door to make that clear to someone thats fine by me.
I know its not very PC but thats how i feel about it
p.s. just coz i cant be assed to spell doesnt make my point any less valid 😛

is the chain guide BB mounted or ISCG?

Cleaning a climb everyone thinks is impossible, such sattisfaction 🙂

ploughing through rock gardens at high speed

properly railing a corner

moto whiping the back wheel out every time i get even slightly airbourne

Views, countryside, wildlife etc

+ 1 for the black background being too stark on a larger monitor

hummm i hope i got a puple one by accident if trouties gone color blind, i keep thinking i was too boring ordering black !

Happy for my personal finances, against it because of the burden it places on companies/ entreprenurs (sp)

Think of France, germany etc where pension contributions are a large extra cost to consider when taking on employees

Mines due today but im at work 🙁 might be outside my door, might be at the PO.

Muppet..

Oracle is the devils own work, Microsoft SQL Server databases are where its at 🙂

Oh and i second BI and data warehousing, its a booming sector (well we are doing well..)

Ibis mojo SL
Cannondale six carbon 105 road bike
Cotic simple (in hibernation)
Kona Dew commuter

WCA – you cant explain the hillarious prank your going to play and then try it…

nickc you owe me for a tea covered keyboard…

spec bighit

some nice fun trails around 4-5 mins. however, its in no way extreme

Another happy marta owner here. one thing to say that i only found out by accident. Magura will get a but huffy with your warranty if you dont use magura brand pads. understandable to a degree but not something you would think about.

I would confirm that theirs a market, im running fox f120’s with a QR15 on a cotic soul and they are bloody fantastic 🙂

Yield to those climbing, if its technical i get really hacked off if im trying to clean a climb and get obstructed

go out with a knitter and they will be happy to make you one 🙂

Ive got a baby alpaca one in the works

Another shout for cotic soul and genesis as a slightly budget alternative

well your clearly not gonna notice but people might think you have a bigger wil*y