In 2014, 1,174 peope were killed and 22,807 wre seriously injured on UK roads. If this were due to dodgy medicines, poor health care practice, firearms or anything else there would be a public outcry!
Can we ban cars please.
(Also gets rid of air pollution, paving over great swathes of the countryside, turning our urban areas into hostile unfriendly places, the noise, etc etc etc).

And ban ‘Round Britain Quiz’ too – pretentious twaddle of the worst order!

Balanced my Garmin 800 on my saddle whilst tightening the stem bolts to try and aleviate an annoying creak that developed on the ride… now have a garmin with a smashed sceen … and still got the creak.

non-drip penis.

These came standard on my 45650b 14 months ago (SRAM roam 30 wheels) and have been running tubeless ever since, no problems.

I think I read this right here on STW but anyway, I’ve used this a few times since:

“Without data, you’re just some guy with an opinion”

[Edit – google credits this to W. Edwards Deming]

Car zombie …

I’ve got some vintage Hustler, Penthouse, Playboy and Mayfair. 20-quid the lot, won’t separate, I’ve tried but they just won’t….

Its Friday
Its deep fried cod and chips in the canteen
Its the only reason I come in on a Friday
That and the jam sponge pudding and custard
Now its sleep time

Use Sarn Helen to do both Afan and CYB … just a thought!
[oops – sorry, just re-read and see you only have 4 days – good luck, have fun]

Real Housewives of Cheshire ….
[hangs head in shame]

I’m 6-foot – wouldn’t have thought that was excessive??

+1 for Ecky. Last year we did Ings, Dubbs, then down into Troutbeck, up onto highstreet, then across to nanbield down to Kentmere and back over to Ings – it was really good – bit of a push in places. We had no aggro from walkers but were courteous and smiley … as always!

+1 for “Keen”. Tried some in a shop in the lakes at Easter to replace my ageing Scarpas. The Keen’s are wide fit and super comfy. Walked all day in them, in The Lakes, straight out of the box – excellent!

My old commencal meta 5.5 died (150 mm travel 26 inche wheels) and I recently bought a T130 – its the basic one with the RS Rev’s, which I didn’t like. I upgraded the forks to Bos 140 mm and am very pleased with it. It feels really quick and planted and on its first run out at ‘degla I scored 77 PB’s according to strava so definately an improvement over the Meta. Can’t wait to see how it run in the Alps later this year.

Is this the right e-room for an argument?

(competeing interests: I use strava and my wife bought me a rather fectching Rapha jacket for Christmas a few years ago. Oh, and i enjoy going to cafe’s and occasionally I overhear some interesting stuff in the queues or on the next table but mainly people have their noses stuck in their bloomin’ phones… which I really, really hate!)

As crispycross says – listen to your body and you’ll know when to push on. Last year I cracked my scapula, separated my ACJ and did 2 ribs on the 20 Feb after losing the front on ice on the way to work. Got some HD painkillers from A&E and then took a week of complete rest. Then a week or so just on the turbo, then back onto road biking (yes the bumps hurt at first so used my HT on a newish cycle track) and then ramped it up as I felt more and more comfortable. I took part in the Cheshire Cat sportive (80 miler) which was 29th March … pretty sure I didn’t do any off road until end of April.
Hope that helps.
Good luck.

Realised I was getting on when I found myself enthusiatically weighing up the pros and cons of collapsable garden furniture. It’s exciting stuff you know!

A while back me and Mrs Hound were chatting to one of those faux-coppers (PCO?) who, bless him, was trundling around on his police-issue Specialized. He recommended some routes out at the Ashley end of the airport (MAN) and when I pointed out they were all footpaths and not bridleways, he just laughed and said, well no one’s bothered.
Mrs Hound was my witness M’ludd.

… and nice to see the Suzuki running up at the front. Could have been a podium if he hadn’t binned it.

As said previously – it depends on what you want.
I keep my Linked In account strictly professional. I reject friends request and direct them to FB instead.
I’m being made redundant in 2 months so I’m keeping my Linked In account pretty fresh – I get lots of interest from recruiters and also include a link to my account in my CV. Whenever I’ve spoken to a potential employer, I notice that they (the contact and/or HR) go and look at my Linked In account within 24 hours.
Some interesting data here from 2014:

“89% of all recruiters report having hired someone through LinkedIn”

Source:

15 Best Recruiting Statistics for 2014

What tyres for a Sea King?

Clapham South … I’m liking your style sir!

I fitted SKS to my CAADX – no drilling and I went the zip-tie* way. They’ve run all winter without problems.

(* I am a fully certified zip-tie engineer)

Mrs Hound is from Yorkshire.
’nuff said!

98 0.88 C
99 67
00 59
01 46
02 76
03 54
04 69
05 58
06 71
07 69
08 35
09 53
10 78
11 51
12 49
13 56
14 50
15 87
16 135

Shoreditch (too easy!)

Smoke me a kipper, I’ll be back for breakfast. (often said to Mrs Hound when leaving for an early ride)

And not a quote as such, but the bit where Kriten asks spare hand 2 for his opinion….

On a skills course
getting it lofted nicely
looped out
couldn’t walk for a couple of weeks
At 55 I’m going to pass on this

Binners – you are confusing Poynton with Prestbury… Evoque and champagne capital of the Cheshire Golden Triangle.

Adjustable mountain bike wheels (say, 24 to 30 inches) so that one can be in-line with the current standard without the outlay, or even start your own standard on a whim!

A neat algorithm for STW that assesses each thread and automatically determines a winner based on accepted standards of relevance, whit, wisdom, grammar and punctuation (rather than any of the arbitrary nonsense currently used).

I ordered parts from CRC on Sunday evening. Text yesterday (monday)said they were despatched and text this morning (tuesay) from Royal Mail say’s they are now delivered. Great service that.

I’m booked to do the British Cycling Mountain Leader Course at Whinlatter in April. When I did the core skills a few months ago (which was good) they suggested I may want to do the leadership course. I guess I’m sort of average skills wise but I ride a lot, am reasonably fit and enthusiastic. I’ll let you know how I get on!

40 is the old-age of youth
50 is the youth of old-age.
(not sure about the bit in between)
Happy birthday

Sorry guys, I only replaced the one that had gone. I
Measured with a ruler anyway. It was straightforward enough and only accuracy yo the nearest MM was needed… Didn’t keep the paperwork!

Best thing on the Sunday 9-00 pm slot since Downton finished. There I’ve said it!

(and yes Hugh’s GF is very easy on the eye!)

I have Roam 30’s and used the SRAM manual instructions to pop out the rear one that had gone (instructions were very good). But as you say the code stamped on the cheap chinese OE (and in the manual) was wrong but I only found out when it arrived and it was too narrow. To remedy, I measured the OE bearing (width, int and ext diameter) and ordered on that basis (pretty standard stuff and all in the Wych bearings on line catalogue). I used Wych bearings and they were very helpful – ring and talk to the customer support/tech department and they’ll advise based on your measurements, they exchanged the wrong coded bearing no fuss and delivery was speedy… couldn’t recommend them enough. Link: http://www.wychbearings.co.uk

Good luck

… and although it was copy and pasted (darn it I’ve been rumbled), I did actually write it based on all my own work… so yah boo!

Heparan sulphate and heparin are chemically related alpha beta-linked glycosaminoglycans composed of alternating sequences of glucosamine and uronic acid. The amino sugars may be N-acetylated or N-sulphated, and the latter substituent is unique to these two polysaccharides. Although there is general agreement that heparan sulphate is usually less sulphated than heparin, reproducible differences in their molecular structure have been difficult to identify. We suggest that this is because most of the analytical data have been obtained with degraded materials that are not necessarily representative of complete polysaccharide chains. In the present study intact heparan sulphates, labelled biosynthetically with [3H]glucosamine and Na2(35)SO4, were isolated from the surface membranes of several types of cells in culture. The polysaccharide structure was analysed by complete HNO2 hydrolysis followed by fractionation of the products by gel filtration and high-voltage electrophoresis. Results showed that in all heparan sulphates there were approximately equal numbers of N-sulpho and N-acetyl substituents, arranged in a similar, predominantly segregated, manner along the polysaccharide chain. O-Sulphate groups were in close proximity to the N-sulphate groups but, unlike the latter, the number of O-sulphate groups could vary considerably in heparan sulphates of different cellular origins ranging from 20 to 75 O-sulphate groups per 100 disaccharide units. Inspection of the published data on heparin showed that the N-sulphate frequency was very high (greater than 80% of the glucosamine residues are N-sulphated) and the concentration of O-sulphate groups exceeded that of the N-sulphate groups. We conclude from these and other observations that heparan sulphate and heparin are separate families of N-sulphated glycosaminoglycans.

As a point of clarification, please can someone knowledgeable confirm that we are using the ’75 winter rules (i.e. 1975) and not the ’75 wynter rules (i.e 1875) which don’t make exceptional allowances for traversing treated or untreated routes in the case of snow deposits less than or equal to 1.5 inches. Many thanks.