You can stop the clicky noise when moving by removing the rubber feet and replacing them with castors.

This also means that you can scoot along for several yards at a time when the ground is sufficiently even.

HTH :wink:

IME another Dirt Wizard :-)

If your local authority bought plastic bins rather than anthracite ones the binmen could probably manage with a much less burly vehicle and thereby reduce their transport emissions considerably

addy6402 – Member

Krampus here, great for long distance mile munching but also hooning round the woods. The momentum it gathers is quite impressive!

Another Krampus rider here, I agree with everything Addy says (especially the momentum 8O ).

Running mine rigid with tubed Dirt Wizards at both ends and an Alfine 11, not found any terrain that it won’t deal with.

Definitely the most grin inducing bike I’ve ridden.

Loved the line about the two coins being in a straight line, properly laughed at that.

Detectorists is definitely the quickest passing half hour of the week, for the best possible reasons.

That’s rather smart.

Looking at the pic of the drone on your car roof, how do you manage with the control cable being so short?

Do you have some sort of extension for when you want to fly it more than 1ft away from yourself?

:wink:

+1 for the Osprey Talon.

Very comfy and surprisingly capacious. Also nice an secure, doesn’t bounce around at all, even when lightly loaded.

Also, as the straps are quite narrow they sit nicely on the hip bones so don’t dig in when you’re in a riding position

Thanks for the replies.

Saracens Head is a bit smarter than we’re accustomed to, nice though.

Fountains Inn bunkhouse doesn’t take bookings for groups of less than 9 according to the website :?

I had a set of 29+ ones on my Krampus, I’d echo what’s been said above.

I’m currently running Dirt Wizards as the vast majority of my winter riding is on rooty, muddy, slidey stuff so I need all the GR I can get but I’ll be switching back to the Knards in the spring as they’re a great tyre for pretty much everything apart from the sloppy stuff.

bensales – Member

Full leather in the Mazda sounds pretty sweet and should make it easier to wipe out the mud after a race…

I should point out, it’s a cost-option.

Standard on the 165 Sport Nav :wink: 8)

dcjay99 – Member
Mazda 3 hatch.
Comfy, all the kit, good deals, and roomy.

+1 for this.

I have the 165 PS petrol version. Handles well, suitably brisk and have averaged 43 mpg (calculated brim to brim, not on the car display) since the start of last month.

EDIT..

Also, its a N/A 2.0 engine so there’s no turbo or intercooler to go wrong.

Shame there isn’t any footage of what went on before that chap decided to mount the other one.

I’ve got a couple of questions…

Why did the chap who was on the bottom remove his helmet before he went round the other side?

Wouldn’t he have been better protected if he’d been fully helmeted when he went steaming in?

It might be on the limit of your travel radius but I can recommend an excellent Pub Quiz in The New Inn, Thrintoft* which is held on the 1st Thursday of each month

*Yes, that it Thrintoft in North Yorkshire but it is an excellent quiz night…..I know because I’m the quizmaster :wink:

Shatner’s Bassoon.

:lol:

Why ask?

Because if it seems too good…. :wink:

Ha Ha Ha :lol:

petec – Member
iona is a great name, but surnames are important.

Couldn’t be Cox for example..

I used to work with a chap with daughter called Iona.

Their surname was McIntosh…

Thanks CFH :oops:

CaptainFlashheart – Member
How are you spelling that?

Simon Luxury Yacht

Am I too late to suggest Throat-Wobbler Mangrove?

codybrennan – Member
wombat – Member
Last Film by Kissing The Pink
Is a synthesiser, not actual whistling. Great song though.

I didn’t realise that, will have to listen to it again tonight. :-)

Last Film by Kissing The Pink

Bookmarking this for later….

I have a tool bottle thing almost permanently mounted in a cage on my Krampus with tools, CO2 inflator, levers & things in.

Was about £3 at Decathlon, doesn’t leak and doesn’t look too bad imo

Always ready for action 8)

The installation of opening restrictors on hotel windows was largely responsible for the development of the flat screen TV as the result of a court case in (I think) 1983.

IIRC Motley Crue were touring Europe and discovered that they couldn’t launch their in room TVs out of the windows due to the restrictors. They took the hotel chain to court and claimed that it was their right, as rock stars, to be able to defenestrate large electronic devices out of their accommodation.

The hotel chain’s defence was that the need for public safety and preventing children falling out of windows overruled The Crue’s lifestyle “entitlements”.

A compromise was reached that meant that the hotel chain had to fund the development of televisions that could fit out of a window with the approved restrictor fitted.

We now have thin tellys which can fit out off hotel windows and you can thank Nikki Sixx for that

I grew up in BSE, +1 for Greene King.

Not lived there for 20 years or so, would be happy to suggest some quiet parking spots but it’s possible that some of the parking restrictions may have been altered since I was last there…

Kebabs are rubbish, have a Parmo :wink:

Parmos are absolutely brilliant.

They’re the second best discovery I made whilst living on Teesside (1st best was Mrs Wombat) 8)

If you’re in the Teesside/North Yorkshire area I’d happily recommend Courts Homemakers.

They designed and fitted our kitchen (which included removing an internal wall and moving the back door) and the whole process went very smoothly.

Units are good quality and are delivered assembled (not flatpack) and rea very solid. The fitters were punctual, polite, helpful and tidy. They also did a couple of extra jobs (external socket and outside tap installation) while they were on site FOC.

We liked the experience so much we got them back a couple of years ago to do our bathroom.

Edit – Several of the kitchen cupboards had to be non-standard sizes and they were spot on.

I was expecting this to be about a really sub-par hotel on Bridlington

All good, only took 20 mins to get this one one :oops:

Yeah, obvs.

*nips out to the garage to check

Thanks Frood, that’s what I thought.

Hoopy…

Thanks folks, it appears that my existing hubs can’t be converted to take a 15mm through axle, largely due to them only having a 12mm axle hole.

Looks as though a new wheel (or at least hub) is required.

This is turning into a rather more expensive exercise than I anticipated…

@ajantom, I was just thinking the same thing.

My wheels are standard Surly Rabbit Hole rims with Surly Ultra New Disc hubs like this, with the hex bolt fixing Surly Ultra New Disc Hub

Not sure (yet) if they’re convertible into through axle fixing but am Googling…

Thanks for the replies.

I’d a feeling I might be looking for something that didn’t exist :-S

Ah well, time to look into wheel costs I guess.

Any thoughts on a suitable fork with a 15mm axle?

Thanks for the replies.

Well, frustratingly I repaired the tube and then popped the tyre/tube/rim combo all together without any hassle at all.

I think the issue was that 1st time I tried it I seated the 1st bead before trying to get the 2nd one on.

Ah well, every day’s a school day

I tend to whack the Skoda through a £2.99 roller carwash programme 2 or 3 times a year and follow it up with a quick hoover round inside whether it needs it or not.

Nobody has ever told me that it looks shiny (probably because it’s a sort of silvery grey colour that looks the same whatever you do to it…..)

bikebouy – Member
I’m moar offended because it looks like as though it doesn’t line up correctly

FTFY :wink:

I used a Vision 2 as my helmet light last winter.

Worked very well, I used the Hope helmet mount (which came with the light IIRC).

I found d that the best way was to attach the battery to the back of the helmet and then charge it without removing it.