I confess I am intrigued. What pressure do you put in the tyres?

Fingers crossed, sounds rough. :|

STOP MAKING ME ALL STATISTICAL ON A FRIDAY!!!!

Mean is synonymous with Average. Median and Mode are entirely different measures.

yes sir, sorry sir, won’t do it again sir.

I think what the OP is after is the following:-

Do you watch Jeremy Kyle?
Do you buy scratch cards?
Do you live on benefits and believe that is your career?
Have you ever eaten fruit?
Does five-a-day mean number of times you shoot up?

If you answer yes to any of the above you may not vote and you must be sterilised.

Simple.

thing is, the above goes against many things I beleive in, it is contrary to the values I hold and the society I want to live in…

…but I can’t help but pretty much agree with it wholeheartedly.

I think you’ll find that depends on how you define average

ah beaten to it. Yes, Median value or Mean value…

Not an IQ test, but a general knowledge current affairs test, not a complicated one, and say a 50% pass rate. But I listened to Jeremy Vine once, and I was very frightened, very…

Some of the discussions I heard around AV, about what AV actually was, were terrifying…

Assange, have we done him again yet?

no, but by all accounts if you fall asleep he might do you again 8O

Too soon?

Well the balloons were for the publicity for last year, but were only delivered on the sunday :roll: So I rolled them over to this year. Actually in yorkshire for once I’ve had the literature since last month! which is the best yet. But there are fewer events, a common story this year. Only really the church and Hackfall woods, the other things are stuff that would be on/open anyway but now its free.

Fountains Abbey is free on Saturday BTW.

For people local to Nidderdale the tower of the Old Church in Pateley bridge is open 10-4 Sat and Sunday.

I even have balloons…

OK, the massive perspex dong has placed half chewed banana on the monitor… :?

I thought he was bemoaning the lack of organised clubs with an official membership who are ‘engaging with local stakeholders’ to get MTB riding on the radar when considering countryside access and issues

PMBA, Singletraction, Bristol Trails Group, trogmtb… to name but a few*

*not read the article either, waiting for my prem access to begin…

But I don’t much want to ride in club. Clubs involve a lot of admin, paper work and other stuff which is not riding a bike. I agree it maybe necassary to bring about change. But its a shame. I just wanna ride my bike…

I’d heard they’d all died from the cat aids (the bad type) and had all gone to live in a big trail centre in welsh Wales.

No no no, that wasn’t what I was told, I was told they’d all been eaten by an enormous mutant stargoat.

FWIW Meehaja +1

awww, that’s made me sad today.

@binners

Interstingly a little map study reveals that Gisburn is in fact mostly access land. Now I’m not sure how the introduction of trails on access land effects the ‘right to roam responsibly’ but I suspect the responsible bit could be called into question for the events you describe.

I ALWAYS thank the polite ones.

This, is not only a great habit as it is the decent thing to do, but also the most perfectly targeted weapon against the diehard anti mtb rambler types.

I’m always incredibly nice, polite, slightly chatty and generally lovely when I sense a grumbly red socker in a group. And they HATE it. They want a mtber who complies to the stereotype of rude and dangerous, so they can bitch on about them for the rest of the walk, tell people in the pub afterwards about how he was damn nearly killed etc.

But if you’re really nice, give way, or give them a polite warning, give a comment about the weather, bob off the track to pass them etc, you deny them that and contradict their opinion.

And to anyone not of that mindset, it just seems like your being nice. No collateral damage unlike getting into an arguement.

Watch their faces, you can see it work, its wonderful :D

You think that was bad, I was delayed getting my tea the other week after I got caught up one HELL of a disagreement as I met a youch couple, you know the type late twenties, on a short break. As coincidence would have it I was taking in a short section of river side cheekiness. It went on for a while before in the end, just to get on, I gave in and went first. But I still maintain it would have made more sense for them to go first. But they were adamant, stepped right off the footpath, and INSISTED i should go first. Some people are so stubborn it defies reason… :roll:

I’ve never had anyone actually hear a bell.

Its just people IMO. I’ve given up getting cross with dozy walkers who’s reaction to “Good Morning” is to turn round and fan out across a track.

Always amuses me if there walkers only on the left side of the path, and I call out “hello can I pass you on the right please” they all step to the right. Often considered calling out the opposite, all Darren Brown etc…

#giggles# terminal hiccups

[please Irony God don’t smite me for that]

should the fine not equal the value of the goods? That would seem proportional…

In seriousness, I hope you have some form of redress. Did you get pics of the frame, did he hide the cracks in them?

I hope you have some form of redress.

As a seller I always try to arrange face to face for anything in 3 figures, and I don’t sell cracked frames…

A quick google of his email address shows he uses it liberally. try conventional methods first, but I’m sure the STW Vengeance Machine could make his life hell, indefinitely… just say the word :twisted:

It wasn’t me, I didn’t do nothing, I was dead at the oh no wait it actually wasn’t me, suitcases down, passport back in drawer, act like nothing happened….

mt – If they look like him I have no intention of doing so…

@McBoo

He looks like the inside of my pork pie!

I’ve gone off my pork pie now…

Hang on, this Richmond and my Richmond are different aren’t they. Richmond to me is the Castle and Market town on the River Swale… where’s his Richmond?

I await his reflection on the paralympics with a deeply uncomfortable sense of dread….

She was big and used to nick most of the bed, ever tried to get a sleeping Dobermann to budge up

Angus hogs the bed, Goldie, but usually he sleeps with his head on my feet which makes it ok… somehow.

It does creep up on you, after my Jasper died I caught myself staring when ever I dropped food and just stayed there. I also hated it when other people started leaving doors open that used to have to stay closed or our socks would be distributed about the house. All the best.

I’ll have a bit of that, with the wet celery and the flying helmet…

I wouldn’t bother with Win8 for anything without a touch screen personally. Suppose you could by it and not install it. Then if MS stop supporting 7 (not likely, no way business takes to 8 quickly if at all), you have a fallback.

edit: I’m being massively simplistic here re 8 before anyone jumps in saying I’ve missed the point etc…

I found the voice over interview cut too much from the riding, but its a balance thing, some nice linked up bits around the water features. Youtube would suggest the VS is part of a series…

Given the sponsor choice i thought they’d have got him to tidy up his face fuzz. :D

Dude! fingers crossed for ya. sounds right to get it checked out…

I saw a fair few dogs on chairlifts in the Alps this summer. Most were really well behaved but one or two were really squirming around and keen to jump off. One in particular would have landed on one of the Pre la Joux runs at Chatel. Imagine that- you are all set for the tabletop and get hit in the head by a pooch.

guy who ran the chalet we stayed at took his dog up on the lifts, he was an ace dog, sexually confused, but an ace dog. DDid one of the guy have a green Transition?

slow and steady downhill

you might be greatful of that :D

For a freehub (sounds like that’s the prob), bearings and labour that sounds OK to me.

But I’m afraid you will almost certainly have started an arguement ;)

Oh I do love Steve Bell…

slides? really?

this thread is going to make me jealous!

Oh Christ. The new Minister for Health… apparently… believes in Homeopathy[/url].

I’m frequently nearly hit by a twonk in a big blue lexus 4×4 who drives with his dogs head out of the driver window along the local narrow windy roads.’..

Some of it is very very rocky, depends which ones they take you down. Careful saying cross country, they take that as you saying you want to cycle up mountains… :lol:

Having been and ridden with RB, double ply, wouldn’t consider anything else, except maybe a reliable tubeless set up with massix UST (~1.5 ply).

Yunki, you make a convincing arguement, I’m off to pinch some bikes!