Rocket player

make yourself a coke bottle inflator if you have any trouble getting the tyre seated. They work a treat.

Also they’re really good fun, I spent 30 minutes seating tyres before I got round to putting sealant in and getting on with other stuff.

Second. I have crossmax, do I need any tape

Are your crossmarks the base model or exo? I found base cross marks hard to get to work with flow rims, too slack, even once one they blew off (literally, with a bang) on riding. If they have stronger sidewalls (lust,exo etc.) you should be OK.

BUGGER!

I had some hummvees fall apart and I just binned them… they were only 6/7 months old… stupid stupid stupid!

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MAN’S BELLEND RIPPED CLEAN OFF IN STREET BRAWL

Last time I ordered something out of stock, they gave me an estimate, I decided to source elsewhere, and took my time cancelling the order, in which time they got stock early and sent it to me. I’d treat the August date as a cautious nworst case one tbh.

My noise was rear maxle, clutch mech not to blame. As to why I’m suddenly getting chain drops? Maybe I’ve just ascended to a higher level of Gnar… Fnar maybe?

Bimble about, finding niggling little things to complain about that seem to expect someone to take seriously, complain the shops are closed, misremember things and then get in an argument with people in the TIC because I can’t make there have been a castle here when there was never a bloody castle here oh god i need a new job…

Excellent!

what wood burner for 300 yrs old Scotts Pine?

I also have the 2007 lx, less bulky than th XT ones, I removed the paddles so do it all with the levers, prob wouldn’t like on my aggressive bouncer, but for the XC hardtail I love them.

hmmm… I do have a noise at the moment, I’d been looking accusingly at the BB, after originally thinking it was the back end, its high strain pedalling, climbing… but I only get it when my mind is on other things. I shall pay close attention tonight.

sorry, you’re putting bubbles in a pint glass? really? or was that cider just for the pics?

I struggled to read as the pics were making me cringe. Not the snobbery of it, but champain glasses are their shape for a reason, like other drink specific glasses…

@ Greeble’s Pic

OM-MF-G!

almost certainly them.

Online survey Question of the Year: do you have internet access?

they are a bugger to move by hand, hard to say if I’ve had what you discribe, not as often I don’t think.

I will have a £5 bet to charity the cassette won’t accept a new chain

yup I was thinking that.

For example, some of my commute is down narrow country lanes with high hedges,

This, and a junction near me where I turn right but have really poor visibility is when the earphones come out. Its an automatic reflex to be honest.

At the same junction when driving i drop the windows and silence my music, for the same reason. My primary sense is impaired, so I must rely on my others. Having phones in doesn’t mean you can’t bob them out when its advantageous.

I read it as a technical argument, the DM arugued she used an earpeice to perpetrate a scam, she argues she is a very good cold reader and is perfectly capable of scamming the vulnerable using just her wits.

I can guess the contents of the above so I’ll save myself the irritation that would likely come from responding to some if it…

For myself, yes I do. At a lowish level (such that when going down hill at speed the wind in my ears is louder), and only with cheapish phones of the non canal variety. The sound of a car is quiet different to most music, music is usually middle and higher pitch, noises with a narrow bandwidth, the cound of a casr, apart from from being much louder than most people realise, is a low pitch almost white noise, with a wide bandwidth. As such the two do not interefear with each other. The headphones I use do not block atmospheric noise. If I don’t hear a car, with or with out headphones its usually because of the wind.

Also vision is my primary sense, and I would not ever assume there’s nothing behind me just because I can’t hear it.

Good move on reporting, to retain high ground if they ask for detail admit name calling and appologise for it, heat of the traumatic moment etc.

As all the boys gather in the yard, it dawns on them ‘milkshake’ may have been somekind of euphamism.

If I was a bike shop I’d be weary of stocking Commencal, and other big name CRC brands, and they tend to dump their end of year stock with killer discounts, which you’d be insane to ignore*

*says the owner of a nearly 1yr old Meta AM… 😳

I always pay for the car behind me at the Dartford tunnel mainly because I like looking in the rear view mirror at the looks of abject confusion between driver and toll booth attendant.

That’s brilliant!

Not sure it counts though as your motives are a bit malavolent.

Hob Nobs, but without choc on.

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I’m in the 50/50 camp, admittedly riding the susser a lot right now, but its new, and its dry…

I expected the 50/50 camp to be the winner, its been an interesting poll as its gone on.

^ – ‘ed’*

There is no such thing as too much food.

*ed was added as I lost access to my original account, since regained but fear the rath of the mods if I use it…

The making of the KS Lev

Oh I hate seeing how things are made, it never seems happy, I can’t help but imagine what happens to this woman when she steps outside the hazard tape…

I have access to a trade account for hope, and that not much more at all than I pay. Bargain.

I do wish we could see more of the earlier racers though, not just the last 30, also the way they time delay the womens means you have to stay away from social media to avoid shimano etc. telling you who won

I got my first one with a frame bundle, i was mentally thinking of forking out for a reverb before that offer came up but would it have happened? well maybe, eventually. Having got one though I snapped up a Xfusion HiLo for 130 for my HT. They do change riding.

XC HT isn’t getting one though, saddle stays up on that, its part of the fun.

ditch the front mech, go single ring, hey presto! Spare cable guides, and less faff on your bike*

*probably not.

knowing the guys who are organising it… it while be pretty **** epic.

must

get

back.

I’ll be marshalling.

pretty quick for me in the past.

NO! that way lies corporate sponsorship by car companies and banks, riders becoming over paid hypersensitive fashionistas and before you know it, SKY have bought it.

Better now when no-one else gives a ****.

meanwhile on ITV2… ouch…

Not at all, but its whether one has a higher incidence of pricks than the other. I’m inclined to say it does, but i think they also have different kinds.