ok no pic here. is flickr banned?

I bought one recently from The Bike Chain after riding a range of ultimately quite high-end full sussers for five years. I love it! I don’t know that these characteristics are confined to the Life as much as applying to modern steel (853?) hardtails in general, but I find it amazingly competent and fast on all but the most challenging terrain. I am 5’11” and run my medium with a 120mm Reba and a 70mm stem, double ad bash. I wouldn’t want to go any shorter but it does make it nimble. Riding it with flats (also a first in….ever) I find I am tackling harder obstacles, sessioning tricky sections and staying on the bike longer ,fighting it out, in hard bits rather than bailing out. These are of course due to the pedals not the bike, but well, yeah you get the picture.

Nice understated bike too, I agree with whoever said that.

Having a ball with it :D

Pic here:

That Wired article online at all?!

only if you have an online subscription…

Thanks everyone, that’s great :D

Apparently ‘camel hoof’ (their phrase not mine) is an issue for women climbers. So some loose fitting trousers would be a good idea.

They washed the bodies of the three dead children before the families saw them in the morgue. I don’t care how bad their patter was. That got my respect. Jeeezzzo.

you, my friend, are sill alive. be glad.

Jonathan King kinda has a woman’s mouth eh?

The episode of Dr Who where the standing stones walked about really scared me. I was about 6 or 7 I suppose.

I think people have a misconception of Uni and think you have to be intelligent

that made me smile :D

Yes you could probably get it for £20k if you did a bit yourself. You’ll need about £750 for a

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER

though.

:-)

I know a good one……

There is to be an interchange at Haymarket that will tie it into the rail network – not perfect but I guess having Waverley in a big hole below street level made linking into that too difficult/ expensive.

as I understand it the main focus of rail development in edinburgh over the next decade is driven by the need to cater for the new high speed trains to daaan saaarf and will be focussed at haymarket as there are technical issues with them coming into waverley – can’t electrify waverley because of the headroom in the tunnel to the south or the platforms too short rings a bell.

If people regularly chose to make themselves this ill by any other method they would be certified insane and locked up.

I am of the Papa Lazarou persuasion, just not worth it.

What he says. A ridge beam usually wins. It does depend on the angle of the roof though. If it’s a really steep pitch your diaphragm has better chance, but I probably wouldn’t go for it on less than 50-60 degrees.

The thing about diaphragms is that they have to be continuous. Just sheeting it with 12mm ply might not be enough if the joints slip or open. Our standard spec for roof diaphragms is “2 layers of 9/12mm exterior grade plywood, joints staggered in each layer and lapped between layers. tack bottom layer to supporting structure, glue top layer in place then nail through both layers into the supporting structure 3.75 diam nails at 100crs, all sheet edges to be timber backed.”

There is a longer version!

The second difficulty is that there is a spreading force in the roof that is contained by the diaphragm. This has to be resisted somewhere and it’s usually through fixing the diaphragm panels to each other via the gable. If your gable is insubstantial then you may have a problem.

The third aspect is that you can’t jack-in a diaphragm but it has to sag a bit to generate enough bending moment to work. If this sag is noticeable then the ridge may dip in the middle. If it does then you are stuffed because you can’t just wind up a cable or tie rod to pull it in/push it up again.

Tricky things diaphragms.

is it the jetwash factor?

i must admit i broke one after ten rides despite jetwash care. hope ceramic now. no problems.

Cinnamon Girl wrote :

Well, I did a little experiment namely the same x-c route of approx. 35 miles, undulating naturally, and with the same under-tyre conditions, ie dry with one week apart.

Apart from forks – steel had 120mm Fox’s and Ti had 100mm DT Swiss – everything else was the same. So same Hope Pro 3’s with same tyres, same Hope Mini Pro’s with carbon levers, same carbon bars, same stems, same XT, same pedals, same saddle. Oh, on the steel was fitted a Thomson seat post and on the Ti was a Ti one.

stoppit. you’re turning me on….. :D

It’s difficult to judge situations at the best of times, and nigh on impossible on the internet, but recent threads on here suggest that mental health is as much an issue for forum users as it is for the populace as a whole. Jahwomble’s death and the response to that only supports this.

It’s great that people are willing to stick their heads over the parapet and offer help, and good for them. This can be demanding and problematic in practice.

I am sure this will meet with criticism, and that’s fine, and I have no desire to turn STW into a mental health support service (I don’t think any of us do), or to sound slightly OTT on the issue (I am a bit tired at the moment! please feel free to adjust my perspective)……but what might be useful to people on here who are having a hard time and give other people on here a sense of being helpful in some way, is a thread giving “name and number” links to support organisations/individuals for different issues in different area of the country. It might be the case that people are more likely to accept a recommendation or advice from something presented through a favourite MTB forum than from their local Yellow Pages. I really don’t know. It’s just an idea.

It would also concentrate all this stuff in one place rather than having all this messy emotional stuff all over the frickin place. Sheesh….. :roll:

:-)

:-) I know! what’s happened to me?

uplink said

How f*ckn sexist!
That’s the whole – tongue in cheek – point of the programme

also I think the point was that there’s loads of really positive stuff about being a man – a manly man if you like – that is really being rubbished these days and that’s wrong. There’s nothing wrong with a positive traditional masculine role model – a man who fixes cars, does DIY, cast a concrete kitchen, but also cuddles his kids, makes simple food…etc etc….

being a man is complicated. on one level you have to be the loving tender protector and fixer of all things, yet you have to also be strong and willing to fight, sometimes literally, for things. Tall order.

I can see this getting a roasting….

There was an uplift on a Innerliethen this weekend, and there may have been some overflow of people with a more “downhill-orientated outlook” from there over the weekend :D

one of the nice things about bikes as a hobby is that it’s quite inclusive. Anyone can ride a bike and you can relate to someone else’s enthusiasm for the pastime regardless of whether you like their bike, or have much in common with the person outside of that. It’s grand.

It’s a bit odd seeing folk dressed in lots of protective gear when you are not, or none at all when you are, but a psychologist would have a field day with this reaction I am sure.

In sport and hobby situations (i.e. non-critical) I often find, in myself at least, that criticism of others comes more from my own insecurities and lack of confidence in my own decisions than anything else. And so I try not to do it :-)

Plenty of room for everyone eh?

Er, what’s fiddling with cars and DIY got to do with being male?

Things like this are generally classed as more masculine activities than feminine.

Isn’t the idea of form following function that in the end you end up with something that does in fact have a sort of beauty to it, examples being say Supermarine Spitfire or BMW GS1100…..? But that 204 is just a dog IMHO.

It looks about as at-peace-with-itself as a mating cat.

It could be that the size of the opening at the end of the pipe – in the ball valve presumably – is causing a flow restriction and inducing something call “water hammer” in the pipes where a stationary pressure wave is set up from the valve back up the pipe (a bit like air vibrating in an organ pipe). This causes the pipe to vibrate. In this case, reducing the inlet pressure is a perfectly good way to control the problem.

argyle – Member
i figured the t-120 was a cheap way to get shot of the outdated linkage design used on it to help clear the decks for the newer version used on the 146…

This statement is deeply flawed on almost every level. I don’t know where to begin – economics, physics or facts – or even if I can be bothered….mmmmehhh.

:wink:

thebikechain – Member
tim – from my chat with the rep it seems they probably won’t make a works version of this.

Thanks mate :-)

Today was a day for it. I was walking to work this morning and some arsey old codge was verbally abusing a father and son out for a quiet ride on Heriot Row. Poor lad had lost concentration and fallen, bumped his knee and was in tears. His dad was livid. Quite upsetting.

Affect/Effect

There are five distinct words here. When “affect” is accented on the final syllable (a-FECT), it is usually a verb meaning “have an influence on”: “The million-dollar donation from the industrialist did not affect my vote against the Clean Air Act.”

Occasionally a pretentious person is said to affect an artificial air of sophistication. Speaking with a borrowed French accent or ostentatiously wearing a large diamond ear stud might be an affectation. In this sort of context, “affect” means “to make a display of or deliberately cultivate.”

Another unusual meaning is indicated when the word is accented on the first syllable (AFF-ect), meaning “emotion.” In this case the word is used mostly by psychiatrists and social scientists—people who normally know how to spell it.

The real problem arises when people confuse the first spelling with the second: “effect.” This too can be two different words. The more common one is a noun: “When I left the stove on, the effect was that the house filled with smoke.” When you affect a situation, you have an effect on it.

Less common is a verb meaning “to create”: “I’m trying to effect a change in the way we purchase widgets.” No wonder people are confused. Note especially that the proper expression is not “take affect” but “take effect”—become effective. Hey, nobody ever said English was logical: just memorize it and get on with your life.

The stuff in your purse? Your personal effects.

The stuff in movies? Sound effects and special effects.

“Affective” is a technical term having to do with emotions; the vast majority of the time the spelling you want is “effective.”

[copied off the net]

The Dogs or David Bann. Enjoy :-)

That’s interesting – I put neoprene on the seat stay of my asr as well.

I’d suggest a Yeti or similar.,…oh…you want to keep the bike…sorry….are you sure?

it’s a transgender 80’s-mobile.

spending a freekin’ mountain o money is what you’re doing. wow.hope it’s as fab as :-)

trailertrash – Member
to OP: Have you seen a clinical psychiatrist yet?

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Surrounded By Zulus – Member
Nope. Never.

I would really suggest getting a formal diagnosis. It is helpful to get a professional opinion. If you are diagnosed with depression then you can get onto a proper treatment programme for clinical depression.

If, instead, it turns out you are actually having a really shit time and experiencing difficult feelings that are in fact a logical response to that (rather than an illogically severe response to circumstances, or some kind of spontaneous depression due to chemical imbalance within your brain, for example) then you can get some direct talking-style therapy which wil really help.

If you do this (the talking therapy – counselling) you might choose the most expensive and highest ranking psychiatrist as a counsellor that you can find. This will both give you the best chance of the best help and also the appreciable outlay will motivate you to get better quickly. Yes, I am serious. Choosing a cheap counsellor is more likely to lead to a long and less satisfactory experience, what some people would call a ‘hand holding’ exercise, rather than steady progression to a happier state. This is not to say all cheap counsellors are less good, that’s not true, but there is a trend as with any profession.

Best

Tim

I couldn’t get a 29.8 on my Sanderson but a 30 fitted fine. Seatpost 27.2. Go figure.

to OP: Have you seen a clinical psychiatrist yet?

This was the article

There was a really funny piece in one of the papers recently where Myleene was (still) trying to break America and was really upset that no-one knew who she was. Poor Myleene. Stuck, being annoying, on Classic FM. Not quite talented enough in the areas she wants to be great at.

I find Myleene Klass very annoying on the radio.

Going back to the OP. I think it’s a pretty open field for ‘most glamorous icon’ and also for ‘femme fatale of our age’. It’s such a question of taste and preferences and what media you are exposed to and indeed where and what culture you live in, there’s no agreed list to go by.

For myself I certainly would not have picked Kate Moss as a femme fatale. She is glamorous and an icon, but then so is Posh in her own different way, for example, ditto maybe Jemima Khan or Cheryl Crowe or …or… – if that floats your boat.

What I will say is that Kate Moss (and Posh for what it’s worth) are very skilled at manipulating the media. It’s not long ago that Kate’s career was on the rocks after she was filmed snorting coke, and now she’s right back where she was, a somewhat iconic, sometimes glamorous person in the fashion industry. But then, if you are anyone in the fashion industry you have to be somewhat ‘iconic’ and glamorous at least part of the time – that’s what it’s about!

I think it would be interesting to meet her and find out what she’s really like as a person and perhaps get her views on the question being posed here.

How’s that for taking the question seriously Cinnamon? :-)