Yeah and no, 34 front 42 rear feels like the old granny 32 ratio so climbing felt like normal, buuuuuuuut…. I’d skipped dinner after I’d met you, so I dunno if I was near bonking by 4pm,and also a god awful southerly wind arrived that was strong enough to stop me dead in my tracks in 42 tooth! I turned back off Rooley moor Road at that point and went back down to Lee, where the wind got me again on the southern cliff face.. Much down gears back to 42 tooth and still stopped dead in my tracks to the point where I had to Flintstone the bike by sitting on the saddle and using my feet to “walk” the bike in to a more sheltered point!
All in all results were good but I think in retrospect I would have been better off using the chain ring you gave me for the first time out experiments, especially on such unforgiving terrain.
Never dropped a chain though!

So yeah I’m gonna stick with 1x and experiment with chainrings, and try and build up the quads a bit more to get me through where I’d usually have dropped to granny ring

I’d be slow on the ups even on a motorcycle 😳

Yup, vans and E7 taxis are same floorpan and front panels upto the rear of the sliding side doors, a higher roof and barn doors, cars are tailgated

Dispatch, so there’s no car version like, say Citroen Synergie, Pug 806, fiat ulysse.. 😉

Just ordered a 32 tooth oval in the superstar sales, the chainsuck from claggy frozen mud the last few nights is threatening to chop off my chainstay

It’s not the inevitable problems that you face, but how you go about sorting them out thats either the making or breaking of you

Yeah just googled but apperently the new owner is running it along the Same lines with the same staff, who certainly knew their stuff, so well worth a visit.
I miss Marks daily experiment with custom coffee grinds and blends that were tried out on folk like me and the staff at the crack of dawn every morning

Is Mark at The Farm Dairy still going, in Knaresbourgh? He was a bit of a cheese god if I recall and was at the time the sole importer of a Dutch 10 year matured cheddar called Northern Gold that Had to be experienced

GMBN, Love it, love martin Ashton, him Donny and Scotty are the next best thing to MTB presenting, after Rob Warner

You da man!
Tough call in that situation and we can second guess and shoulda coulda woulda after the event.

Even happier memories of Rossy and Brands phone call, I never laughed so hard!

RIP Manuel

Why ain’t Wyman doing time for child pestering?

My blocked bidders list is nigh on 2 pages… Strangely some of the earliest ones are NRU’d

Done it with a rechargeable LED work light we desperately needed for a job and couldn’t place its dedicated charger, just kept a serious eye on it as it charged ,with constant regular back of the hand temperature checks to make sure it wasn’t getting hot. Back of your hand is more sensitive to heat than the palm or fingers

IPreadtor here, but it gets a bit interesting having to convert bike parts prices from Swedish to GBP

I snapped the chain on mine in summer, no kmc quicklink in my bag and no amount of cajolery with the chain tool was satisfactory. I pumped the bike all the way back to the car park and drove to halfords ,covered in mud.
I semi piss takingly asked if it was under warranty as I was about to buy joiners both to fix and one for my backpack.
Fixed, free of charges, no Hassel and a good banter with the mechanics and a free spare quick link from the mechanics own stocks

On motorbikes I used to just tie wrap the lever shut over night, a technique I’ve used on mtb and troublesome car or van clutches obviously using wood offcuts to keep the pedal down on cars or vans

Oh, i know how comparatively lucky I am, fella.

Shaving Ryan’s Privates, anyone?

If they are privilidged and don’t realise it, and its brought to their attention, and they carry on regardless
That’s when I cut the toxity out of my life.
We can’t control much in life,but that’s one area where we can

And the brother in law got told in no uncertain terms over his plans to vote Ukip

Yep.

I Wonder If Victoria Beckham was born a total t**t , or is a carefully nurtured skill

Yep, often bought back the salvage for a pittance here< you just have to form V62 it for the logbook as the insurance destroy the current one, this is now
free of charge, no VIC check needed these days so completely hassle free

did you take another look?

I’m really fighting here, 30 odd years of education and real world experience, versus the prejudice of being dragged up in a working class shithole.

I’m biting my tongue /typing fingers but the prejudice is very nearly winning out…

I actually enjoyed the Chris Evans /Mat LeBlanc pair up

That aint coke, that’s ephedrine and some kind of novocaine based anesthetic with a hefty price tag 😉

The advertising industry. Chalk 2 to blame capitalism

So are we saying that the food industry is responsible for malnutrition AND obesity in the poorer spectrum of society?
Chalk up another one to blame on capitalism, eh THM

Just because you’re eating enough cheap sugar and carbohydrate laden shit to suffer obesity, it doesn’t follow you getting the correct nutrients in your diet.

The architects of welfare reform.
Who’d have thought if you dismantle welfare safety nets and sanction benefits income for up to 3 years, folk might not, y’know, not be able to eat nutritiously

Blame? Frank Field, David Freud, Ian Duncan Smith would be a good starting point for that one.

So the growing admissions to hospitals of malnutrition, and diseases associated with poverty are nothing to be concerned about, 5thelephant

I stole episode 1 off of t’Internet.
I won’t be stealing episode 2.

Do we really want to return to the condions that Robert Tressel waxed so lyrically about in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist?
Because for some sections of society it’s certainly looking that way

Thm, the NHS firesale, royal mail sold under market value to crony mates and best men at weddings, outsourcing of government bodies to pic’s,-atos, Capita and so forth, Pfi, selling of public bought and owned royal bank of Scotland but only the profitable part of the bank, and again sold below market value, selling of profitable public owned railway infrastructure…

All of the advances in society Thm mentions, were all won at the risk of offending him AGAIN, after the War.
Up until 1979 where we have seen reversal of these advances via Chicago School of Economics ideology. This ideology was used by the big 3 parties as rightly pointed out previously, even New Labour. But what we have seen since 2010 appears to be a last hurrah of dying Neoliberalists, raiding the piggybank as much as humanly possible in the limited time available. I don’t think in 2015 that Conservative couldn’t believe their luck in Labour being so unelectable after constantly climbing in to bed with Tory policy, attacks on unemployed or disabled, or just as bad, abstention. Rachel Reeves, Frank Field, Liam Byrne and above all, David Freud make me vomitous.

So can we be clear, up until Corbyn, the political establishment were different cheeks of the same arse.
Weather Corbyn can change this, and offer a real form of opposition remains to be seen

Ohhh, i’m bloody angry, the naked unashamed inequality in this country, tax breaks for the rich at the expense of the low waged and unwaged.
The crass ignorance of the “i’m ok, pull the ladder up” set
The “been there, but it doesn’t effect me now” complacency
The constant attacks and demonisation of the poor and unwaged by the UK mainstream media and political classes
The cronyism in politics
The wholesale destruction of rights, housing, welfare and healthcare hard won by our grand parents after the horrors of WW2.

I’m angry, but i dont let it consume my life 24/7 – until ignorance or complacency is displayed in regards to the state that this country is in, despite being the 5th or 6th strongest economy in the world
That tends to spark me up a bit

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