Have the organisers responded at all, anywhere? All I’m seeing is pictures of people razzing down dusty trails. Seems a bit deaf to the reality of people’s experiences.

I could do Pleney blue into lower black (joining at 10%) all day, mixing it up with some off piste bits (including the ones off the blue) on the way down. In fact, I think I have done that all day before… For maximal terror, follow the fireroad down past the top of 10 percent and carry on into the trees instead of following it round to the left. Be warned though, there’s no pushing back up…

Hopefully the event keeps running, i heard there have been issues with the landowner(s).

We had a very strange interaction riding through the village on sat – single file, very much behaving ‘said good morning’ to a lady walking her dog and she smiled and said ‘It’s not, we don’t want you here’. I guess some people like their little Boltby bubble.

He was on a red Trek, right? That was properly VitalRaw worthy!!!

Didn’t see the bike! I was stood at the chute/corner just before so only saw from the back. Impressive save. 10.21 here, 45″ up on last year which I pleased with, particularly with the mistakes.

Was it anyone here that managed to go through the entire off camber rooty/rocky bit at the top of stage 2 on their front wheel, in front of the baying crowds? This was early afternoon on the Sat.

Great weekend. Nice to be on the same tracks as last year and in similar (awesome) weather to see how times had changed. Felt like the upper limits of numbers were pushed, but didn’t really get held up much with an early start. Practice was hairy with people stopped on track on stage 2. Stage 3 and 5 were my weakest – soft berm after the rock thing and lost the front on 5, stalled in another soft bit on 3… there’s a theme here…

Get a range of his similarly sized but differently biked mate together and do a weekend of bike swaps/set up faff on a timed run? They’ll all learn, and you’ll end up with a V10

ETA, but this was a pre-season problem surely… could put a right dent in things starting from zero now.

Can’t wait. That ramp thing on stage 3 was great. I went a really really long way and landed on a pheasant.

Loving mine. Amazing how much ground can be covered on the right bike. Commuted a couple of times and chucked an extra 7 miles on the local xc loop, just because.

6′ 2″ and the L seems to work for me. Lots of very careful faff with set up as I was half expecting to send back for the XL, but it all looks good. It’s very different to my 165mm enduro bike. Looking forward to just going for a ride.

Bump… I WANT ONE! If anyone has an L they want to shift, frame or bike, please shout 🙂

Yep, had loss adjusters out when burglar bill smashed his/their way through our garage roof.

Brilliant ride there this am – thanks for all the tips

It’s lovely up there at the moment. I don’t enjoy the trail centre side, trail forks paints a good picture of the other side of the road. It if it rains heavily it will get boggy though. There are a couple of 1.30 – 2 min downs, a ton of 20-30 second ones and some singletrack xc type stuff to have a snoop around. All quite condensed. If you get to the mast, you can’t go wrong.

Employer here. I get it… challenges to work through though:

What about holiday allowance and accrual, and parity for those that already work part time?
Continuity of service for a 24/7 business
What about those already working 4 day/wk contracts (matter of fairness)
What will this do to the flexible culture we’ve nurtured – we’ll actually be putting in place more structure/need more from less time
A lot of work is still going on on Mondays and Fridays that we can’t control – events, conferences etc
I have seen instances of people working second jobs (in other businesses) when they went down to 4 days – and then become burnt out
What about those who want to work 5 (or more!) days
And to echo Hels’s point how do we support each other on live work and keep the pace up on days of absence.

None of this is insurmountable, but a lot to work through for a small org before making the leap.

Long wait, great product. Great comms. I ordered mine during one of the England games in the world cup. It arrived last Monday. Worth the wait. Just got to keep some bikes by my desk for a bit longer. Arrived in an Asgard van. Self-assembly in no time with an electric screwdriver. Picked up some OSB from Wickes same day and made a floor – would recommend this as I don’t think Asgard can supply floors anymore.

It sounds like either trust has broken down, and/or you don’t want to work with this person.

ETA:

Ah, it’s been said…

Probations are to determine if an employee and an employer are a good match. It sounds like that is not the case here regardless of the current issue (which you will never prove without over-reaching massively). You have an employee that, for whatever reasons, you do not trust. Time to end the relationship before the end of probation.

First winter on all-seasons (cross climates), first drive with snow on the roads today. The difference in wet, cold and snow has been night and day. Coming from decent brand tyres too.

Sounds good to me. We’ve gone WB via boxt 3 yrs ago – fitted next day. We’ve needed to use the warranty but couldn’t fault the service, other than that the boxt engineer wasn’t able to tackle the warranty repair so had to triage and refer onto WB. Both were out within 24 hours, but that added up to 48 hours of swapping buckets beneath a 3 y/o boiler. Simply raising this as others have had issues and ours has been a reasonably positive experience.

The issue we had (apparently not uncommon) with our previous WB is that the plastic parts fail, typically in yrs 9-13 (according to heavily gold-benecklaced, baxi jacket wearing and tanned indy gas engineer just back from Dubai and with a new mercedes) and you get into a repetitive cycle of £200 repairs – none in isolation equate to new boiler… I am anticipating the same with this one in a few years, prob should have gone Baxi… but v young kids, urgent need, busy job meant we just went with what we knew.

Based on very recent experience… will they be fitting a shock arrester as part of the install, and please can you check water pressure is within tolerances of the boiler. Thankfully repairs covered under Worcester Bosch warranty, but a faff/wet mess all the same.

Effectively any new job is a temp contract until a) your probationary period has passed and b) you have 2 yrs under your belt. A formal Short term arrangement should work in your favour though, this sounds a bit cheeky.

Thanks for the PSA. Set up 2 tyres on my eldest’s bike tubeless and they popped straight onto the rim. Tons better than frantic pumping with a track pump. Felt like I was cheating though.

I like mine, but have found that pedal pins have caused a good few little rips – easily patched up, but not had this with other trousers using same pedals.

I have noticed this recently, but am going a bit faster. I think I may have a bent right pedal. It cost me a podium in category at a recent race so actively looking for things I can do short of going clipless. Don’t really want to run the bike any softer – it’s feeling good and going fast – was wondering if slower rebound may help. Will try and be more mindful of heels etc through the lumpy stuff. @deanfbm – similar riding history, going to try and recreate the issue on a short bit of trail and start fiddling I guess…

“I’ll be chucking this bike down the usual lakes/Scottish rocky trails as fast as I dare so would rather not have to worry about slamming a carbon rim into a rock at speed!”

Ah! Insurance – yes, would be doing the same, particularly with the lower pressures you can run with more supportive tyres.

Great summer on a magic mary SG (rear) without insert, including racing and 2 wks in the Alps. 95kg and 19 psi on a Hunt rim and no dings, flats or rolled tyres. Was impressed, but the tread didn’t last very long – understandable… Just changed to Michelins, with insert back in on the rear.

I like all of this.

Looks like he swapped forks half way down as well.

Oh and not my story to tell, but I know someone who loaded a cash machine wrong, to the benefit of the public of Bristol.

Big national bank. Got mortgage rate wrong on an ad. ££.

I was just looking at photos from our afternoon out and clocked this on the dash. Couple of hours off road…

… 6.6mpg.

You could always go and demo one at a LR experience centre. We had a great afternoon somewhere near Skipton in the pouring rain with the kids terrified in the back, and I was blown away by how capable the car was, and on road tyres.

I’d be interested to understand peoples’ expectations re. wages in current circumstances, alongside what’s happening with uplifts or lack thereof. Or perhaps that’s too broad a brush, with each business/sector experiencing different things – so perhaps some background there too. Genuinely interested in a broader picture as an employer feeling squeezed in every direction!

I went from 5010 v2 to Revel Rail. Probably should have gone Rascal, but having a lot of fun with this little big bike. The CBF set up is amazing for the ups as well as the downs. It was nice to step over to another brand who make expensive plastic bikes.

I think @funkydunc has it here… you could stick with that (legit) xc loop and follow your nose. It was lovely up there at 6pm on Sunday.

Hi – hoping for someone to shed some light here too – went up for the first time in a while last night, had a good ride, but can’t help but feel I could have avoided some of the walky bits – there are lots of new tracks too, and would love a loop that takes in as many as poss with a pedal up. Current loop, for some fun stuff but with an xc slant – park at cow and calf, take the track at the corner of the car park closest to Ilkley (bottom right as you look at the rocks). Head to pond, keep going to white wells car park, pick up road, take a left at fork and up towards Keighley ‘road’ turn right off the road after the steep bit and pick up path down the back of the houses, past reservoir on right, past, view point/rocks, then left up wall, through gate and back along the top for a couple of miles before picking up any of the downhills back to the pond/white wells or cow and calf. Fairly ‘common’ loop, but can’t help but feel it misses out a lot of the fun stuff, which I’m guessing is laps from white wells (ish) car park, with a pedal up past the white house, and/or Keighley Road.

I work for a small charity in Leeds with tired office furniture that could do with an upgrade. I fear the logistics may be a challenge, but happy to explore if you got an ad you can share with photos/specs etc?

We’ve just reviewed this and 45p more than adequate. It was a figure set when cars needed more maintenance and were less reliable. Fuel up, maintenance down is the simplistic outcome. Also public transport use up hugely so this is less of a concern to our team than it may have been previously.

I have no advice to give, or experience here… but an idle questions… Surely the value of any ‘asset’ is only realised when it is sold? And does the value take into account cost of selling etc? So the maths is hypothetical?

Salt and aluminium is a nightmare. Give bike a quick rinse with fresh water after winter drives. Have seen unlucky stone chip on stanchion too – if bike on roof, put on with back wheel at front of car