wasn't there some calculation done that shows every year worked past the age of 60 or so reduce your life expectancy by about 5 years? Also, they showed last night on the news that when the 65 age was decided there were 4.5 workers per pensioner, now there is only 3 per pensioner, surely the answer is to get more people working?

No pics of me either 710 😥 got the other 3 in my team though

42 seconds was the fastest pro time and 51 or 53 for the fastest non pro 😯

4-0 if James in goal, cagey 2-1 if Green is between the sticks

Anyone got a vuvuzela I can have? Need one for tonight at MM 😀

2075mm at 36psi for me

I've had a proper just riding along crash, halfway down camber in the wyre on the flat section I eased off ready to give it some on the final off camber bit, speed approx 10mph, nothing on the trail and bang, thought I'd been shot as I went down like a sack of spuds, when I got up front wheel was taco'd due to the rim failing at the join, one of the connecting pins had pulled out of one side which trashed the tyre and tube. Cannot find any reason for this being my fault but hey ho, let's see what the 'experts' think 😀

A Jaguar – no, used to be rebadged Fords, but aren't they owned by tata now?

When were Jags rebadged Fords?

Nice one Mick, it helps exactly as the link posted earlier does 😯

I'll be there, 5th year on the trot as a team of 4, with 3 others obviously, beware all ye of 'The Half Bloods' muahahahahahaha…..

Should have added they need to wick away a few litres of water ib the heat and be quite crash resistant too 😯

Broke 5 beginning of October, didn't ride again until December, off work for 2 weeks on some loopy pain killers, maybe I'm just a wuss though 😳

uplink – now that's a 'proper' engine, that something you own??

stuey
+2 – biggest con going these hybrids, the prius cradle to grave being more environmentally damaging than a LR discovery (facts available if googled)

Have already replaced the ninja throwing star jockey wheels, didn't improve the shifting, will do the wobble test tonight when I get home.

Haven't been for a few weeks but looking forward to riding there tomorrow, expecting it to be a bit slippy due to the rain we are getting at the mo. The drop at the end of the camber has been gone for a couple of years now at least. Still finding new bits here and there (well getting shown new bits) and as you say many of the trails are getting a lot more traffic. Glad you enjoyed it.

I thought this was going to be about the singer in Motley Crue with Flashys penchant for hair metal 😆

You would hope it would be some one good, but if Coldplay are favourites then it won't be 😉

Another Type 1 here, have been for 34 years since age of 7, my eldest son is also Type 1, diagnosed 2 years ago. Everything said above is brilliant, one thing I would add though is, where possible, do NOT inject in your legs when riding or pre ride if you need to inject, the insulin will be absorbed much faster and can result in unexpected hypos etc. I am fortunate that I managed to get funding for an insulin pump a couple of years ago and it has totally transformed my life, my son has just started on one too, would definitely recommend it if he gets the chance to get one. I have done the last 5 mountain mayhems in a team of 4 and am also doing this years, managed to get through ok on injections but with the pump it was even better. Any further questions feel free to e-mail me, also, as above, he is not diabetic, he has diabetes which means he can do everything that everyone else can, just needs to think about it a little more. Just to add, my son is 12 and loves his mtbing too and his swimming, football, rock climbing…

Strato

most of the changes are due to forestry work so some of the usual trails are a bit different in appearance, there is a jump built over a fallen tree on secret garden, there is a ladder bridge halfway down the camber, anklecracker is visually very different but still rideable, the north kinlet side has had a large area felled as you descend to the stream, fun trying to pick your way down over the logs and branches near the fence. when are you over as the fast boys (moss et al) no longer ride from the duke on a weds, think they meet at button oak now. Mick Arms is away for the next 2 weeks too.

Bolt is the pinch bolt on the drive side pivot bearing on an orange 5 🙁

Sod Ton and TJ (with all due respect), get some pics up folks 😀

So after all the advice you still forgot to put it in the big ring for the pics 🙄

First reply and it gets the 2 protagonists mentioned straight away 😆 Forget what they want to do to her and let's get some pics up…

Having watched a rider with an ipod hold up one of the giant team riders for quite a while at MM as he couldn't hear him politely asking if he could pass I can understand people being adverse to them

Does anyone know what the actual sizing is? According to their website (on-one) the small is 44-47cm chest and XXL is 54-57cm 😯

Make sure there is no mention of 'steed' in the thread, it's a bike

nail brush and muc off after every ride keeps mine white enough.

**** me, do you floss your cassette too 😯

zip tie or o-ring on shaft, deflate shock and fully compress, reinflate and measure distance from seal to ziptie/o-ring

Just happened – off to the canteen to get my lunchtime baguette and there is a small flight of stairs on the way, as I approach the door at the top there is a lady walking up the steps, as I stand holding the door for her she falls forward on the steps, puts her hand out that is holding a bag of crisps, bag pops and sprays crisps everywhere 😀 Smiling I ask if she is ok and she replies laughing that didn't go well did it 😆

Hair metal
Spelling and grammar
Texan bars
Austin Maxi's – if made reliable they would be a perfect MTB car, seats down, flat floor – brilliant
Leggy women – they all have short dumpy legs and long backs now 🙁
Home made go-karts made from wood and pram wheels
Summer of 1976
Proper kids games – tracking, ackey 1,2,3, building dens
Porn mags found in hedgerows etc

When I was 13 I went to Toronto and bumped in to my uncle that I'd never met before 😀

I never walked, just couldn't ride it very fast 😀

Cheers, been on there but unable to search by number or anything.

they have a blanking plate on the back of the shifter window.

Not all of them do, my rapidfire shifters didn't when I removed the windows, covered the holes with Park glueless patch, been in place for 3 years now.

That'll t-cut out, wouldn't worry myself 😀

Can remember when I was a kid having a ride in a Scorpion around the test track they had at Catterick, amazing bit of kit considering the terrain and speed we were travelling at, was black and blue from being thrown around in the seat in the turret, my head only just above the opening line.

JCML – Jeycoremincelite 😀

But how many of you have witnessed the seesaw of truth? Long live the wok smuggler 😀

Where is the ayatolla on this thread? Does he get -25 for riding round the campsite, chest out saying 'look at me'?

A new pair of balls 😀

Who are?