dude… symapthies.

wrightyson – where did this happen?

NRATS but where was this OP? wasn’t a northern spa town was it?

I ask as I spoke to someone yesterday on a carerra, with a knackered mech hanger, in a hurry… As it was a carerra a and he needed the specif mech hanger, I errr… might have suggested he go to halfords as they stock the bikes… 😳

94 despite everything he went through…

To come out of prison and forgive still be at all reasonable, never mind positively groovey. What a dude!

I accepted a few years ago that there’s going to be an epic model railway layout in my future. Now it’s just a case of resisting for as long as possible.

Don’t worry, it can just as out of hand as MTBing… the expansino the detail, the nicheness, the n+1… its all there…

but the biddy at the back shouted ‘bike!’ as if she’d just spotted a Stuka dive bomber approaching,

This keeps happening to me this year, they don’t bother to assess what the bike is doing, just panic, clutch their loved ones to their bossom and cry about how the children are too young to die… while i pass them at about twice walking pace and 3 metres across from them, using the special “You people are mental” look I have for just such an occasion.

I **** HATE walking groups, marching two by two up the footpaths with their special sticks, barging all other people into the road, even my elderly Mum. Never smile, be you on a bike, or on foot. I’ve come to assume they walk as some form of penance, rather than out of enjoyment. One day last year I abandonded a ride due to the high number of miserable joyless souless twunts littering the valley I live in, I just knew I was about to loose my rag.

However, last sunny weekend ride I went on 90% of the walkers were awesome, chatting, smiling, one guy complimented my on my descending and then challenged me to climb back up with less dabs than him, which would meaning cleaning it.

So when they are in a group are they syncing their data so as to act like some form of surveillance cloud?

As above, just open the door very slowly, throw-tupperware-in-close-door. Later deny all knowledge.

WoW! Oh its warship, if its tender drive it may well be dirty, need new springs and bushes, if you do open it up, worth replacing 3pole armiture with a 5 pole one, difference is amazing.

Tell me about the railways.

I’d look about the internet for inspiration, there’s a number of things you want to consider, realism vs cramming lots of track in, do you enjoy shunting, shuffling operations or just setting things going round and round. If the former look into Shunting Puzzles, these are very compact forms of layout which are rewarding if you’ve well maintained locos that move slowly with ease, and can be tacked onto a larger layout as well or used as standalone. There are a number of pretty good model rail forums with many pictures of different layouts worth perusing, some get a bit STWish, some are quieter but cosier. If using 80s Hornby stock, a form of which is still available under the brandname ‘RailRoad’ disregard the temptation to get into digital… you can always convert later, but its the equivelnt of going 11sp big cumulative cost, and for a small garage wall layout, not really necassary. Also don’t look at the newer bachmann stuff, the detail will blow your mind and you’ll end up spending loads, I speak from experience!

But it sounds like an end to end, with singletrack weaving nicely along some scenery with a few sidings at the end for shunting could be easily* doable.

*not as easily as you’d probably like to think, it would be a commitment. Also if unused for a long time a strip and clean would be advised to protect against burning the motors out, I’ve seen this happen to mates’ stock.

###strokes chin…

You pass the test. In which case I shall merely reply. No, I don’t think so.

He just gets good legal advice on how to stay within the letter of the law, if not the spirit of it (don’t be a hateful ****).

Can I ask your view Re: Aliens and Pyramids to help me gauge the above?

Running single ring with no Chain device, my findings are as follows.

Magic.

In the rollerbearing bit of my type2 is a pixie, this pixie’s sole purpose is countering chain slap. The Pixie is powered by gnar, so the more gnar I am the better he works. If he is not given enough gnar to keep him alive the pixie will die. You can tell when your pixie is dead because the chain starts to fall off.

Both my main bikes are 1X with 36t rings. I might spin out a little bit on road, but not much, and its not the end of the world as I prefer my bike to be geared towards mtbing. Also I HATE front mechs – the 1×9 has a chain device, the 1×10 with Sram clutch mech hasn’t and its bloody awesome, not dropped a chain once yet.

Even when I was 2X i think I still had a 36 ring, 32 is way too low, but you can still spin up stuff with 36 if you get a high range cassette.

Too Funny For Work warning should be placed on this vid…

Garden, Trailbuilding, Model Railways (inparticular fixing up old locos), buggering about with computers.

Flush system thoroughly, and watch. If it was the wrong fluid I would have thought that as new fluid came out they would not mix… but don’t know never put mineral and D4 together.

Fairly unique in that will happily offer advice and parts for the aspiring home shock/fork fettler. As such a refreshing and long sighted view from someone in that trade. As such I’ve never used him, but often refer friends to him with enthusiasm.

I don’t get the Johnny Marr thing, though – maybe I’ve just not heard the right track but he never sounds particularly “outstanding” to me…

Think it depends what you like, Marr seems to crop up often in those who, like me, couldn’t give two flying hoots for the diddlydiddlydiddlydiddly type guitaring (there’s probably a more technical less derisive way of describing that), and those who like the more layered integrated less **** type :wink:. Not having a go, the diddly is a tremendous skill and could only dream of being able to do it, but it does nothing for me on a musical level. There seems two very different types of list here with only a few crossovers.

They’ve left mtbing? dispanded?

ah, well I looked forward frustrated in new and different ways…

I want one of those but can never find them as I don’t know what its called…

This is why anything more than low 3 figures I always prefer to meet the buyer, regardless. Encourage them to look the item over, highlight any dings/scratches etc. They get the chance to back out, you get cash and the confidence of less hassle.

Its possible he just really wants it and money isn’t an issue, I’ve skipped a drawn out offer counter offer phase before when I just want it and the price is fair.

This vid from CTC as part of their broader campaign shows a quite stark story of current system/priorities. Some images of nasty [healed] injuries.

Not surprising really, but shows the level of a **** given – pertains more to the need for change more than specific case in OP.

commuting home from work a while back, it’s only 7.5 miles door to door, halfway home it just hit me. Lack of food and drink probably. The day after I went out and did 60 miles not a problem!!

I used to get it riding home from work quite often especially if there had been lots of sweets on the go, similar length commut and mostly down hill coming home.

Went for a hill training session forgetting I gave blood the day before and I wasn’t that fit… Turned round and went home. This was about 6 weeks ago. This caused me to review what classed as a bonk and what didn’t, and what was just not eating enough pre/during a ride.

Anyone else getting annoyed at the difficulty in finding charcal, rather than shitty briquette things? No beating proper charcoal IMO…

Done.

I took that as teenagers were too impatient to wait!

Are more likely to dash a across and risk an accident so the wait is reduced to address that risk, I used to use one near an FE college and that had pretty fast changes now you mention it.

it can vary often through different times of day, and can be linked to surrounding traffic lights to ensure traffic doesn’t back up into a linked junction.

Often at rush hour there a wait to allow more peds to gather, so interupt flow of trafic less, but in quieter times the bias is towards the pedestrian and they will change quicker.

Don’t tell my smug mate who’s mountain morph I’ve borrowed a couple of times, but yeah, one of those…

I and 7 other motivated indivuals built new stuff into the Red at Stainburn… Tonight we take bikes up to play on it.

Are you paid PAYE? If so you’re tax code sounds wrong.

See i you hadn’t told me that there’s a chance I might not have noticed…

Nice! I’ve met Jon a couple of times, lovely bloke, stunning to see live. This went viral after Stephen Fry tweeted a year or so ago, got him loads of success, it really couldn’t have happened to nicer bloke*!

*rare moment of non sarcasm there.

I’m hoping third time lucky having been underwhelmed so far this year by offerings from Daft Punk and Vitalic. Not bad albums, but not the wow I’d hoped for.

Less commercial ambition from the Buttons I reckon. Also a new album in the pipeline from VHS Head which should be nicely mental. 8)

Welcome, you will now be assimilated.

I’ve heard it does with pork, albeit from a pork farmer, who takes the pigs out for a play and a quick game, then promptly… err… well you get the idea. I live in the Dales where it seems to be less of a problem, and we don’t have a lot of farmers with guns in the woods at night, never mind professional marksmen. Though the local deerstalker would likely fall into that category.

End of the day its a pilot scheme, its complicated, it will only reduce the problem not solve it so a better solution is still in everyone’s interest.

I’m sure that swivel eyed frothing at the mouth tory thing will start to infect cattle too, best to strike now before the infestation begins…

They already do

where do you live???

urban pigeons don’t spend much time flying high, which Falcons need in order to hunt, they evolved to hunt cliff pigeons which provided lots of altitude for diving at 200 mph.