quite a fan 🙂

humm loose rocky techniques, im sure jedi would do this better but:

MOST IMPORTANT: stay relaxed on the bike, it should be free to move underneath you, that means no death grip on the bars or clamping the saddle between your legs

if you expect the bike to move, start to lean into corners before you think you need to, that way when the bike takes time to settle in the turn you are still on target

Really important to look through corners where you want to go

Speed really is your friend, you will be amazed at the stuff a modern MTB will go straight over at speed

outside foot down through corners (flat pedals might build confidence)

in terms of tight switch backs ideal is a rolling endo thing as mentioned but you can get round 99% by slowing right down, drop the outside foot, swing out wide, turn in tight, use the rear brake to help the back round if required, look up and pedal out

bike setup ideas include: wide bars, heavier wheels/tyres/tubes

hope that gives some help and ideas

theres hope, we are a small IT company in surrey who take on undergrads for year long placements without much fuss. Summer placements are a bit harder due to the short time involved but working for free/ very little would probly negate that.
Id search for IT companies locally or even local offices of big companies and either direct email or even walk into the office with a CV and ask.

bar and helmet is good with two mid power lights but a lumen lib is easily powerfull enough that you dont need a helmet light, infact most helmet lights would get washed out by a LL
stick with troutie you wont be dissapointed

p.s. its less hassle to just have one light to sort out/ charge/ remember etc

I might be in if its 32gb and a fair price

not got any opinion on your big companies idea.

however… the reason for the ideosyncracy of not considering combined incomes is it would have required a full means testing of child benefits which would cost nearly as much as it would have saved. the system proposed has been ‘hacked in’ to the tax system so that it will actually save some money, unfortunatly this leaves the disparity between multiple earner and single earner households. George osborne was very open about this and i am with him that it has been done to provide the maximum saving and miniumum expenditure that the country needs

2001 specialized fsr xc (blue and yellow)
v brakes and sooo flexy, inspired no confidence at all
Not saying i didnt have some good times on it though

Ive gotten really close, ibis mojo sl
26lbs, 140mm tf tuned fox sus, chris king hubs, magura marta sl brakes,fox 36 van and a bolt thru rear wheel in the parts bin for big days 🙂

however two problems, i would like to try a coil on it, ideally ccdb which i cant have beacuse of the shock size and sus design

secondly there is just a little touch too much rear end flex, although i think its mostly in the wheels.

startling, i never knew…

ahhh but we wernt watching football

i point you to shure e420’s, hideously expensive but they have genuinely transformed the way i listen to music. Sound isolating to a brilliant degree and sound quality that still amazes me.

I take your point but it definatly works for me, and the range of available coffees is very good

this might be sacrilige but the nespressos are actually very good and far far less hassle and mess than a traditional

bath, riding straight out your door as well as the accessibility

hummm yes i would really like it if my mojo sl came with an sd slot and a battery…….

they seem a safe bet, id be supprised if you couldnt get a better deal this time of year though. we have just had a giant defy 2 worth £800 for £660. Defy 3 was in your budget if there are any left

its about time for this thread again…..

pulls up a chair….

anyone for a biscuit?

Ive had a kona dew for a few years and they are pretty quick and might fit your requirement. might be worth taping kona logos or giving it a sloppy paintjob if it lives outside in town though.

i would echo the above, i have a panasonic bridge camera (all be it smaller than that) and i can never be assed taking it out. I would really suggest you go for either compact (flat fronted) or DSLR. my experiance of the middle ground is it really is the worst of both

I think they are generally stiffer but that is not nessecarily a good thing, i find os aluminium bars uncomfortable because they feed back more vibrations.

ive always done two word documents, you dont know what their email program will do with your formatting if u include it in the mail

try the trail centres in surrey thread from a few days ago for some more ideas, box hill / reigate hill are a little less techy and easier to get around withough local knowledge

genesis?

I'm very proud of you all, this was actually a faily mature coheasive discussion 🙂

Asking my Christian sister this question I got the answer that 'there was archaeological evidence for Jesus'

Which to my eyes dodges the question, I won't even debate that Jesus (and Moses etc) lived but that does not prove the existence of a god. Personally I feel that religion get onto very dodgy ground when it tries to provide evidence.
To me religion does require a massive leap of 'faith' which is obviously what it's all about.

Although that makes sense, it's not for me and it still leaves my question, Christians see it as part of their duty to spread the word but how can they tell someone Jewish, Muslim, Hindu etc they have got it wrong when no religion can offer any more proof of it's truth than any other

also you can confidendly put all your power througha decent ss setup. a bodged 9spd setup might not take your full leg power without giving up in a rapid and painful SNAP

a bit marginal for back pocket but the gorebike wear alpx in packlite is fantastic

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local sharepoint development environment
and wessex raceway karting

Thanks for all the advice here, just to post a conclusion we have ended up ordering a giant defy 2 mens small as the womens were too short for her. We wanted to take the advice of getting the miles in first but it was too much of a bargin to let slip.
We are now riding twice a week on the mtbs on cycletrracks and road and will probly leave the switch to riding road bikes for a few weeks.
Thx to all esp spokecycles

steer clear of ea30's i lost 'alot' of weight upgrading from them, Id go for 70's but then im a gear pimp 🙂

sorry to the op but ill continue the general off topicness of this tread!

Ive just been sad to see my 1.6 twinspark 147 go after 72,000 fault free miles (well nothing out of the ordinary)

Just replaced it with a mito multiair 135. Multiair has to be driven to be believed, its got a super human amount of torque for a 1.4 turbo. I do miss the higher redline on the Tspark though.

I'm from an 'alfa family', as sad as it is that the new spider is really a GM the 3.2 sounds bloody fantastic!!

these arnt some 29er rebas with lots of scratches on the steerer too is it ??
😉

If you want different to peaslake i suggest you try box hill, micklham downs, norbury park, ranmore, polsdenlacey. join all those up with the long dashes 😛

ummmmm …. no

why the hell would you want a 'trail centre' when you are on the doorstep of some of the best 'natural/cheeky' single track in the country

Go to leith hill, box hill, ranmore common, pitch hill and hombury hill and then tell us if you still want a trail center 🙂

Any more detailed route advice do some searching on here for those hills and go see nirvana cycles in westcott or pedal and spoke in peaslake

I appreciate marzocchi needed to make the effort but its too little too late for me. I had some 2007 xc700 and they were flexy, unreliable, hard to set up and a nightmare. Stuck with fox ever since

rkk I wish my budget had stretched !

oh and btw you can get a bike in the back of a mito much more easily than a mini

for all you cat lovers, watch the vids on here, v funny
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I thought this would be about agile project management, I need help

for god sake be interesting, alfa mito multiair 135
people will chat to you at dinner parties then :p

Hi guys just found this thread and wanted to ask a quick question about peoples hebredies trips. Im looking at two weeks 'very' vaugly along these lines this

How did you find ferry costs up there? how much are the ferry crossings going to add to our costs?
cheers