Have you looked at just renting out there? Xscape doesn't exactly give you the quantity or quality of snow you'd find in Canada so you'd barely get a board going in there before having to stop anyway. I'm taller and heavier than you and liked a stiff snowboard – the width depends on your feet size as well as you don't want overhang.
I'm not up to speed on modern boards any more – but you'd not get enough out of a board for Canada in the snowdome to warrant buying it here. IMHO of course.

go to the Stans No Tubes website – it is a goldmine of instructional videos and other helpful stuff regarding tubeless.

Get most any headset with a built in mic and one that has some in line controls are best. I had good results with Logitech ones for comfort and durability. I prefer a headset as it cuts out background noise and gives better audio for both ends.

I'm afraid of rational things that might kill me rather than irrational things that are just things. I say afraid – more managing their presence near me.

Skype – but Microsoft Messenger is perfectly good if you are used to that software. People seem to forget it has much of the same core functions as Skype and is more widely installed. I find that easier for baby-camming with my parents as I can 'take control' from my end and fix their problems instead of talking them through.

It does have a big aerse for a lightweight bike – and that looks more seatpost than I have showing! If the seat was (could be) dropped it would look like a jump bike.

That seat tube angle looks so wrong – certainly a lot of weight over the back axle there.

Riding SS until the next niche comes along

Who said SS were fascists?

scrappy – why are you bringing dead threads back from beyond the grave? This 6 months – the other a year dead!

Get the 25mm tape and you'll be fine. When you install it, put the tyre on with an inner tube, inflate and leave overnight to properly seat the tape (as per the Stans video). I did that with my Bonty tubeless ready and they inflated easily with a track pump – didn't even need to soap the rims.

Look in your local yellow pages and see which servicing agent is closest. They tend to have pools of polularity and they very much reflect the local dealers. My brother uses Husqvarna without exception and has used most all other professional options before.

Think back to when you both first met – when there wasn't the reality of underwear drying on the radiator and babysitting to sort before going out. Think back to how you saw each other. She was looking at this bloke through the rose-tinted eyes of fiction and fantasy and not sharing a bathroom, looking after kids and worrying about money. He was an escapist fantasy to focus upon.
Do things as adults, without kids, just for you two. Some people forget that when they take each other for granted.

Get training

Get protective equipment

Use both. Anything less is really very silly indeed. My brother is a tree surgeon of some 20 years experience. He won't work without his safety kit and it has saved him from some potentially lethal injuries.

I know High Wycombe is just outside London, but Cycle Care have built me wheels that are still true after years of my lardcore riding style.

Ikea do the oil if you have one near.

They appear to have an ebay shop that has good feedback.

Stans on Chris King (my bling)

However – I'd probably put Halo Freedom on Hope if I wanted great wheels that made too much noise for my liking but were tough.

Terry Wrights or Rutland. There is a pub on the way to Rutland Water – The White Horse in Empingham – great beer and food.

Peterborough – get in and out as quickly as you can. Go to Stamford – much nicer and if you could get in to Jims Yard for lunch you'd be a very happy bear indeed.

1200 midday set up. Earlier for cakies and talking rubbish upstairs.

Nope – I'd take Surfer-Mat on before camping in Kielder again!

*squeals like a girly*

I will never ever camp in Kielder again. I did it once. The sheer terror of watching the swarms of midges throwing themselves at the pub window only built the anticipation of getting back to the tent.

Picking midges out of your teeth because you inhaled a cloud of them isn't nice.

I tend to force the poor on their badly maintained bicycles into the gutter where they belong. They are dangerous and need to be taught a proper lesson.

Why wait? To ensure your little un isn't damaged by your over-enthusiasm to put them in a trailer without proper head and neck support.

http://swinny.net/Cycling/Child_Trailers/-2768-Buying-a-Child-Trailer-for-your-bicycle

Why ask if you don't like the advice given and will do your own thing anyway? Not convincing enough?

Don't listen to ADH – he is so fresh-faced I doubt he gets served anywhere!

I was in the Hatchett last night – was OK but only had 1 real ale on.

Look at the Bath Ales website – they have a couple of pubs down there. Welsh Back is where Apple is moored – Mud Dock upstairs is a lovely place to have a snack and a nice view from the deck for a beer. I tend to stay in the burbs for alcohol-related fun.

Far too young. Mine is nearly 6 months and we just strap her car seat into the trailer. Your little un's neck would not take the bouncing about the trailer will give even on tarmac. Seriously – not advised by anyone for the under 6 months.

I'm a jeycore all-mountain mincer and love my 29ers – they aren't bmx's so don't handle like them. If you want a capable bike that does most things as good if not better than a 26 and takes a tiny bit more work to get around really tight corners, get a 29er. If you obsess with hairpin bends, don't.

trolling or the ultimate middle class dilemma. Not sure yet.

You've all missed the point….

Get the best steak you can. If you're cooking thin pish from Asda Basics range none of the above will help.

Get your butcher to cut a thick steak – proper thick steak. Dry aged if possible. You need to start with the best for it to be good after cooking.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/cdg/pdf/diesel.pdf

That help?

It isn't new – I remember my mate's 6 year old kid sister singing along to 'Girlfriend in a Coma' and shocking his parents.

You'll not get that sort of shenannigans on CBBC you know. Re-set the TV so that channel isn't available.

Any good reason why I should about from being boring?

You are just putting off paying them or the subsequent court case. I'm no legal expert but the 'STW said so' defence has yet to be tested in legal proceedings. OK then – I'll retract my request – post about it hourly and see if that reduces the cost you'll have to pay anyway.

Don't you align your valves to the optimum position when storing? Kids today – I dunno.

Seriously – I guess that if they were at the bottom of the wheel when left it wouldn't happen – or nip up the core a bit tighter when you put it back in.

Please please please:

Stop posting about it on here

Refuse to pay and take it to court

Post the result on here for our education

In the long term?

They have been doing this since 1914!

It was a test case that appears to still be relevant. It states that 'workpeople are an audience' and appears to cover a workplace.

If a letter drafted in 1988 is still accurate, refers to extant regulations and doesn't need updating, does it need a new date?

Fight the power all you like – but they have been doing what they do for a long time. Get legal advice if you disagree.

Surf-Mat – Member
Working a door also results in aggro a fair bit.

Not if you do it properly it doesn't.

Can anyone else not see the PRS website and the plethora of information it contains?

As with any licensing requirement, it is the responsibility of the music user to understand and meet their legal obligations.

Within the UK, everyone is required to comply with copyright law (as defined in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988).

If music is in used in your premises, it is your responsibility to ensure that the correct licences are in place so that you and/or any person working on your premises can perform copyright music in public lawfully.

PRS for Music has been licensing music use in offices and factories for decades, since after its formation in 1914.

A test case in 1943 upheld PRS’s right to license public performance in the workplace. In the Court of Appeal cases in 1943, Ernest Turner Electrical Instruments Ltd v PRS and PRS v Gillette Industries Ltd, the court concluded that “workpeople are an audience”. It was held that in both cases the performance of PRS music was in public and the employer’s appeals were dismissed.

So – ignorance is no defence and it has been going on for a very long time.

Berm – he was doing what was the norm at the time. A bit like when smoking wasn't seen to be damaging to your health. I certainly don't condone any form of drug taking, especially in sport, but applying your 2010 morals to something that was normal in 1967 isn't reasonable.

OK – I'll say it.

Did you see the skanky helmet he wore at the end? £4k of bike, Rapha shorts and the nastiest old helmet I've seen in years on his head. It looked odd as well – steel frame, carbon front end and the Brooks saddle that'll take him a year to break in.

Still – it made him happy – but the helmet was rubbish.