Brilliant piece of kit – far superior to Buffalo. Quite close-fitting, but it should be for best effect. No good for riding unless -15!

Anyone up yet over there? Snow?

No. Bring bike things to sell and money for coffee and cake in Mud Dock!

Forecast for some heavy snowfall tonight in that area – I’m that way for a meeting tomorrow so watching it closely.

About £2.40 for all day on a Saturday – something like that.

Not as cheap as FoD, but we have less niche attention-seeking types, we have electricity, people have family trees with branches on them and we certainly don’t abandon visitors on rides in Bristol!

Devon and Cornwall Police:

The all inclusive cost is £1675 per hour, this includes everything including fuel, staff and insurance. The unit has an annual budget of 1,000 hours per year, an average of 2.75 flying hours per day.

If you want results, STW isn’t the way to do it:

http://notesco.wordpress.com/%5B/url%5D

This is going to be very interesting if Tesco do manage to open there. The words ‘target’ and ‘sitting’ come to mind.

Better than shouting ‘elete rider coming through’ and barging them off the trails!

Why be sorry for telling the truth of the matter?

Bless you and your naive view of the world and international politics. I hope it remains pure and clear forever.

The cycle business was never that profitable; the newer business models being employed by CRC, Wiggle, Evans etc are more efficient than the nice happy friendly LBS model.

You are trying to compare apples and oranges and doing it to make a trite point. I get your point, but comparing mail order to LBS isn’t the same for groceries and other fast moving consumer goods. Last time I checked, the biggest threat to the high street butcher wasn’t a mail order butcher. Same goes for the friendly neighbourhood baker.

If you want to make a like for like comparison, talk about chains of stores compared to single businesses – like Evans (except Evans tend not to build on green field sites and don’t own land to prevent rivals setting up shop). Evans still have shop fronts and high street presence but have the buying power of a large chain. They can spank the indies on price every time, but fail on service and knowledge (usually).

If you want to argue the difference between consumable logistics and the rest, please continue. I hate it when you weasely word things and fail to make a cohesive argument.

Flows will see you right – they are a great balance between strength and weight. Rumours of Hope Hoops in 29er are getting boring now – I asked them a long time ago and they said ‘no’ but perhaps they will.

Not really. Punch in your collar size and sleeve length down the LHS and see what they have. Other refinements in their search engine (fit etc) narrow things down a bit. It was worse, but a bit easier now.

I’d have thought you had your clothes made by illegal immigrant artisans who you kept in containers down on the docks!

Funny how, in discussions like this, people choose not to include the likes of Chain Reaction, Wiggle, Evans etc….

Probably because, in the case of the first two businesses, comparing mail order specialists with supermarkets is a bit, well, you know, pointless. As for Evans, I’ve never seen them build their own superstore yet. Mostly town centre locations. So – nothing relevant there. Again.

Nimby versus apathy

Yeah – I equate posting on STW to direct action as well. I bet the planning proposals are withdrawn first thing in the morning.

Ahhhh – a NIMBY. Splendid. See those terrible chaps off with their supermarket proposals!

So what you’re saying is, your locally elected council sells off playing fields to a business. I guess that business bought the land in a business transaction that didn’t involve guns, threats, backhanders or other menaces. You can probably check this.
You don’t personally like that business, so decide to protest by………telling the internet mountain biking community, who don’t live near you, about this terrible state of affairs?

*wrings hands and wails in support*

Did you pad your clothes with some old sofa stuffing? It appears to have tried to escape at the collar!

TJ, are you a cobbler by any chance?

No – but he does talk a lot of cobblers!

IGMC

You don’t need a machine for the coffee you want to drink. Get one of these:

Small filter holder

and some filter papers to fit. You put as much water through as much coffee as you want, directly on top of your cup. Direct, full control and any coffee you desire. You don’t need a machine to experience great coffee – they react differently to different methods anyway.

Silicone sealant your glove finger tips to the levers.

Of course it was, princess. Of course it was.

This is from a man who whines at the cost of studded tyres. 🙄

More like heating oil, Kerosene.

In one way, yes. However, you can run a diesel engine on AVTUR but not so easily on heating oil. Also, target audience is more likely to be familiar with diesel than kero. 🙄

cynic-al – Member

I don’t ride with females very much.

Quote of the frikkin week right there folks.

dammit clubber – not a lightweight bike there. My Sultan weighs 30lbs all up. Not sure about the ScandAL.

Aircraft fuel is closer to low grade diesel than most people would think.

You keep ignoring the near no cost option of ensuring they are trained correctly to deal with what is essentially British weather.

I also read this:

DofE Green Form

which quite clearly directs you to provide full details of bad weather and emergency routes to higher authority. If the kids haven’t got that or know how to act upon that, their training is lacking. Technology does not substitute for a lack of training to use the information you must provide to take them out.

would you actually say this face to face to someone whose partner may have to leave the country due to recent immigration law changes.

As the OP said – yes I would – we’ve met. Read the rest of my post – I have been through the USA / UK immigration process. I have lived what it takes to get a loved one the right to remain in the UK. I have processed the visa applications, helped revise for the citizenship test, paid the multiple fees and sweated on the outcome of a faceless office making life-changing decisions and wondered whether what we wrote / sent is a strong enough case. I have supported someone who wasn’t allowed to work because of her visa restrictions, couldn’t claim, couldn’t use the NHS – less rights than any scrounger on the take. I earned the t-shirt on this subject and can pointedly advise what will and will not help in this predicament. Hugging him would be useless.

Just to add – these are not recent changes.

the weather forecast was wrong and the weather turned without warning

then they have the escape route to either get them to lower ground or to an easier route to navigate – road etc.

These kids were not properly trained. I did DofE and had similar circumstances several times as a kid – but we were well trained and knew what to do and how to do it. Fog does not stop a compass working – it means you use a different technique and / or go to the escape route. Look at why this situation arose – inability to use map and compass in fog. Can that be mitigated at minimum cost? Yes – training – not buying technology.

Wait until it freezes / early summer and take her around Ashton Court / Leigh Woods. She won’t thank you for the muddy gloop that is there at the moment.

Suck it up cupcake – this is nothing new at all. Americans are high on the ‘least-wanted immigrant’ list and have been for a long time – mostly because we have to accept EU migration. I had to do this all legally so my now wife could come over here and we could get married. I lived immigration regulations. There are long-standing rules and regulations that have to be followed. I’m not saying I agree with them at all, but having a hissy fit, blaming the current government (and ignoring the hospital pass they were presented with by the last government) and shouting ‘IhateyouIhateyouIhateyou’ doesn’t change the price of fish. Go ride your bike, then MTFU and do something about it rather than wailing and grinding your teeth.
Just you try moving to the USA – just as bad.

Halo rims. Oft overlooked but reasonable weight and tough as the old boots. Mine are 4 years old and going very strong.

Attention whore generating more attention than he actually wants?

I’ll mark that down as a first in the diary. Another bike shop I’ll use if I get the chance!

I think it’s the whole P.C. non sweary stuff, it’s a bit too 1984 thought control

More a reflection on your own personal limitations than those of the forum.

If I can’t wear what I want to wear, I don’t go. I **** hate dress codes with a passion. “Smart Casual”, “Morning Suits”(FFS!!), “Black Tie”(WTF!?).

It sounds like you are too low in social status and standing to be invited to any gathering with a prerequisite of any sort. Best you remain outside with your nose pressed against the window along side the other grubby urchins.

I’d have said Schwalbe Snow Stud tyres at £28 each were close enough.

damnit – beaten to the bike uk reference. Quicker searching needed.

OMFG! You are just dicing with death!

si – thats one of the worst-looking 29ers I’ve ever seen. It must be a very small frame size – there is almost no frame at the front! Too much effort to keep the front end and the standover heights as low as possible there. It looks like a chopper!

I had one of the first Genius back in 2005 and it was brilliant. They don’t get the coverage they deserve and anyone who has actually ridden them has really liked them.

Yes – the law is black and white. You are to be insured when driving. He wasn’t. He got off pretty lightly. He WAS committing the offence. What is there to debate?