29er would give you more suitable geometry for the larger frame – you’d have the bars higher off the ground than a smaller bike – look at some of the 29ers out there – some are running with flat bars and almost flat stems to give little people the right height bars – put risers and a better stem on and you’ll give yourself a really comfortable ride.

Trail rat is obviously comfortable riding almost doubled up!

Tynemouth Castle – I grew up near there and it is still a fantastic wonderful place. Some C2C-ers might know it.

If something doesn’t happen to make my ScandAL a collector’s item soon, I’ll send the boys round to torch the place! Bike people taking advantage of us forum-dwelling idiots! GRRRR

JOKE for the numpties around here.

I found a website that tells you stuff – ‘Google’ they call it. Loads about Tim Horton on it. Gets my ‘thumbs up’ for a great site.

You need to get your workplace looked at – a proper assessment of the desk, chair etc. It is all related.

http://www.wtb.com/products/wheels/wheelsets/laserdisctrail/

Well – wtb say they are 27mm

“The wider profile (27-millimeter width) is an ideal match to WTB’s bigger 29er tires, like the 2.55? WeirWolf LT and the 2.3? Stout.”

I should think it would be a bit tough to fit a 40 tyre!

I’ve had it since August. I’ve had a course of physio and I’m unfortunate for that to have had no effect. I’m having 3 weeks of full time physio / rehab therapy in March in an attempt to nail it. You do need to be sure that it is piriformis and if you are lucky, the stretches etc will sort you better than me.

Working on aductor and abductor muscles is suppsed to be very good for it. A ‘spikey ball’ is better than a tennis ball – google and you’ll find them.

My pain centres in the left buttock and radiates up and down, more down, as far as the back of my knee. It can be cripplingly sore. If you have any loss of sensitivity in the groin, pins and needles or numbness, get a doc to look immediately – all ‘red’ indicators of associated issues.

HTH a bit.

As mentioned up there – use another method of connection if you can – scart is a bit pants.

http://www.lasvegascyclery.com/

Nice guys – or were in 2004! They are away from the strip so worth getting a hire car for a couple of days – pretty cheap for a car.

http://www.bootbarn.com/ is good for workwear, Carhartt and that sort of stuff – just South of the Luxor. Keep heading South / out of town on that road and there is a mall on the left – good price for clothing, shoes etc.

The Time Out guide to LV is excellent and one of the best rated ones – well worth a shufty before you go as it explains the casinos etc.

It was really pretty ordered – all dogs leashed, everyone wanting to be there – really good fun. Trust me – all shapes and sizes entered – and that goes for dogs and runners!

I am very tempted to try the bike side of it with our mutt too!

Try your local authority. North Tyneside Council used to have a small equipment store within the education / parks / facilities area for the hire of kit. We used to use it to top up for DofE award exped stuff and I hired some XC skis one year. Some might still have them and the kit was OK.

sanctimonious
adjective pious, smug, hypocritical, pi Brit. (slang) too good to be true, self-righteous, self-satisfied, goody-goody (informal) unctuous, holier-than-thou, priggish, pietistic, canting, pharisaical

Just a definition I somehow felt the urge to Google. No reason.

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Rapha tweed? Pfft.

Dashing Tweeds do the most splendid cycling tweeds known to man. Bespoke, so a bit late for this weekend. Even Mr Fisher agrees with me:

nick – we have to train people – before they fly them somewhere dangerous.

I don’t know anyone who ever thought you could creep up on anyone / anything in a Chinook – why do you think anyone would think that??

*shrugs*

its how you come across on here

*shrugs*

oh

ton

you really eat crap and seem to want to perpetuate being ‘the big bloke who can’. You are not going to last long.

renton

drop me an email at chinecap at h0tma1l d0t c0m – I may have a couple of pointers for you – being taller, nearly as heavy and in a related field of work. Give me a shout.

Other than the adjustable Rebas mentioned, you’ll only find QR 29er forks at the 100mm or less that you quote. They are quite a new thing and, as it is 29er, will take a while to catch on.

Anyone who owns a dog and hasn’t made the effort to train it properly is a wnaker of the highest order. If your dog isn’t under your full control off the leash, then it must stay on the leash. If your dog can’t be controlled on the leash, you should be ashamed of yourself and either make the effort or stop owning a dog.

If you defend yourself against a dog that is coming for you, fair enough – but then do something about it PROPERLY – through the system – use it.

If you tell me that you hate dogs and you’d happily kick any dog, I’ll batter the snot out of you if I catch you doing that.

If you are TJ, you should put more effort into getting more work or being constructive with your time – not baiting people with your verbatim quotes of legal pish. You are really sounding like the loony neighbour we all know.

Don’t bother RudeBoy – almost every other bike pic ever posted on here fits that image.

The stovetop pots need to be ‘broken in’ before you drink the coffee in them. The Italians always do a couple of brews in them and chuck the coffee first to coat the innards – stops that aluminium taste. Never wash them – always just rinse with water. Perfectly good coffee.

Get him a 20 or 21″ frame – 22″ if you can find a decent one. Anyone who suggests a smaller frame with a layback is obviously talking about a bike that is too small for them – utterly stupid to get laybacks in this day and age. There are enough different geometry frames out there to get one to fit rather than making the wrong one fit by using a bendy seatpost.
He will be better off with a 29er and has nothing to do with cycling experience or recent riding or ability. It is just going to give him a more in proportion bike for his size. I have both and the 29er is the way forward – more reason every year they improve them.

It depends whether you want to keep riding bikes / doing stuff when you are older. Rough tough mountaineers / walkers shunned trekking poles when they came out – they save your knees and are far more accepted. If you want your knees to work properly when you are old, keep em warm enough.

Anyone who is ‘shorts are the only thing’ has a very short-sighted view of their own body and it working for longer.

You gave him a great life and that is all we can do for our pets.

Most of your post makes sense – but comparing a dog to your parents is humanising it.

Regardless of it being a pet, it is still a dog. You deal with dogs differently to humans and you have to be consistent with that. I’m not saying you should treat the life with disregard, but you need to apply different rules to those of your parents.

“its not fair, just as you wouldnt put your parents down because they’d gone deaf and have leg problems and dont have the life they did when they were 18”

Don’t humanise the dog. It is a dog. More problems are caused through humanising dogs than most anything.

He has had a great run – you’ve given him quality of life for quite some quantity for a dog. Why is he always barking? If he wasn’t a barky dog before, then something that isn’t good is making him do it now. He is not getting the quality of life he was – not even close. You know what is best and you should feel no guilt – only pride that you’ve seen him right through.

If you live anywhere near Stamford in Lincs you can come and meet my mutt! You’d probably do well to ask around friends and see whether they know any trainers/dog people/vets etc and talk to them. Again – use people you know to walk thir dogs. Look at your lifestyle and see what nature of dog would match you rather than ‘that looks a nice dog/breed’. Nothing worse than seeing a working breed not getting worked and then getting bored/destructive. Oh – seriously – watch The Dog Whisperer and Dog Borstal – if you realise that it is usually the people who have the issues, then you’re halfway to being a good dog person!

Christow – you are right with the ‘used to be’ bit. I’m a foot in each camp – trained PADI and BSAC. I’ve had good and bad with both. BSAC is the original dive org – club based, so you can get a nice group and get progressed. Unfortunately, you also have to rely upon peoples goodwill and it can take forever to get things don at times. PADI – you pay someone – so you get it in a tight package when you want it. BSAC has had a change at the top in the last few years – some say not for the better. I was instructed by a regional coach and it was some of the worst instruction in any topic I’ve ever experienced – I’ve had diligent and superlative instruction from PADI instructors. Do your research and you’ll be fine.

Don’t get a dog. Yet.

If you have never owned a dog, going to a rescue dog is a massive jump that has more pitfalls than successes. ‘Borrow’ a dog from friends – see how you get on with a dog, dog-sit for people. Also – will you be around during the day, or will the dog be home alone?
I’ve got a rottie that my now wife rescued before we met. He took a couple of years to train up from agressive EVERYTHING, but he is now a PAT dog. Rescuee dogs are usually rescue for several reasons. Unfortunately, many of the rescue cross-breeds demonstrate the bad aspects of the 2 dogs over the good aspects – which is very hard to deal with.

I’m really pro-dogs and dog ownership, but please do some practical research for the sake of you and any dog.

Anyone being interviewed for a position of responsibility wouldn’t take the views of the STW collective into account on dress, decorum, tie size, route, underwear, shoes, helmet, lights, grips or facial hair.

Thats just scientific common sense.

Don’t get the cab alwyn got – it took us just over an hour for the same trip!

Pretty much anywhere in the Red Sea will suit you – Sharm is V busy and touristy – Dahab a bit more hippy and less developed – I liked Dahab. You can do a referral course – where you do the theory here and do the dives out there – but def the Red Sea for warmth and cheapness.
Camels are stinky – stay away from Camels!

me – 250lbs, bike over 2 yrs of fair abuse. Brant+scandium=happy tootall.

I’d be happier with a 24″ frame, but he’d sell less of them than some scaffy bar 29er for fat biffers!

you need that, but with tubes that size made of steel, not scandium!

They must be great without a bike! You great bandwagon-jumper you!

In the UK we don’t tend to have the need for them. In Germany, they are law. They drag more, are poor at speed and generally will get trashed on roads.

Well worth getting down to the souk / market area. A great place to wander around and shop in. You could go up Liberation Tower if it is clear. Opposite the tower is a car park – over the car park is a good shop to buy electronics & esp Casio watches in – G-Shocks etc at V cheap prices. The gold souk is good, but very middle eastern gold. The Sharq Centre is very Western if you want that.