gofasterstripes – Member
Oh – more up to date ones from me:

Whiplash – just, wow.

Animal Kingdom – *whistles*

Take Shelter – damn traumatic.

Selfish Giant – I cried. Quite a lot.

The selfish giant.
The teacher that breaks up the fight was actually my PE teacher from school!! Now he’s one of my drinking buddies.
That got him a listing on IMDB!!

Can’t believe no one has mentioned Million dollar baby.
That really shook me when there was no uplifting happy ending.

Obvious really!!!

Alex, cx pros are amazing on muddy grass, which suprisingly is what they’re designed for. They’re not a commuter tyre.

Try Maxxis mud wrestlers for a good all rounder.

Hope R4, pick them up for £125 or so now. “cheap I said” I hear you say, well look at it this way, they’re a bayonet fitting so it’s easily swapped from head torch to bike in seconds with no tools. Two lights for the price of one. Bargain.

I use the hope R4 for both biking and running.
Get the long lead extension and put the battery in a bumbag or jersey pocket.

Whilst it’s not as light as some of the Petzl type lights it has a decent range so on open moorland you don’t spend any time running in the wrong direction

Thanks guys. I’m sure Og has eyes and ears in the area and god help anyone he finds with it. Was taken from a school he was doing some cycle training at.

Done it a few times, (from Leeds)Early Sunday morning I reckon 2 3/4 hours is a steady time to get there from Sheffield.

It’s a good event, seems a lot longer than it actually is though.I hope you like pedalling uphill!

Now the important bit……where are all the piccys of us looking awesome?

Well I really enjoy it once I got racing.
Our moto was delayed by the crash but that couldn’t really be helped.

Was a tough little course with a bit of everything.
Needed hurdles and a ride through cafe/beer tent though.

Atmosphere was good and relaxed too, whilst there were some big hitters there, they weren’t overly serious.

Parking was an issue, made much better when they stopped the double parking idiots and made it one way.Local plod to the rescue on that one.

That pizza was awesome!!

I actually preferred it to the Rapha supercross. Much more fun atmosphere, reminded me of the Singletrack weekender a little bit.

entered in the seniors! Look for a CROSSTRAX rider shooting out of the blocks then pulling the rip cord!

NSFW!!

Drop me a message and I’d be glad to show you around some time. Know the whole west yorkshire area very well.Based near Shipley by the way.

This is the best winter base layer I have ever used, beats Howies, polaris bamboo and Helly hansen. Also compression wear too so you look dead buff and hench!

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I’d have a look on a famous auction site for a Snugpak softee.
Military issue cold weather gear. very warm. available in black or olive/desert pink.

The start was altered last year so there was virtually no bottle neck. The mad sprint up the fire road was far less critical than in previous years.

Did anyone watch the “Gunsmoke” replays on TCM a few month back?
Had a young BR as the blacksmith, you wonder why he missed his way as a massive Hollywood “star”.

thought you were going to say you can’t hit the side of a barn if you’re stood next to it with the old shotchucker! hence no game birds for him to practise with.

scwahlbe landcruisers, it’s what a lot of 3 peaks racers use for the mixture of puncture inducing rocks/long road sections and muddy moorland.

Or, if it’s just canal towpath with no mud then Michelin jets, pretty quick on the road and capable off road, I’ve used them on the peaks at 70psi when it’s been dry.

Pocoyo!! That’s the one! Thank you labsey, I can sleep now!

Swamp boy Huh?
Beauregard malitia Regiment Louisiana by any chance were you? 😉

Molgrips, the whole south wasn’t pro slavery.
In fact most people fought for their own personal reasons.
There were many fueds and vendettas settled during the war.
For most the political unrest was a catalyst to get some revenge on someone.

I think a lot of you need to go and read some more american history!
especially the build up to the civil war and the aftermath.
Slavery was a tiny part of what the war was about.
The confederate flag as I believe, is a symbol of their struggle against oppression for the people of the south.
They didn’t want to be dictated to by the north who they felt had a different view on life that was far too regimented and constrictive.
This I can only assume is where it receives it’s rebel connotations, this and the fact that Southerners were known by union troops as “Johnny Rebs”.

also, for those believing the north wasn’t racist, find out about a man named Quantrill and “the red legs”.

Many slaves found themselves worse off after the war too as landowners struggled to make things pay without the slave workforce.

how about Graham Obree? we could forget about minimum bike weights and frame configurations for a start!

all go as space men carrying balloons.

1 minute 56 seconds in.
Crosstrax Robbie Young demonstrates the cool way to “Thumbs up” after a crash.

Still using the Kores, noticed a few on the peaks on Sunday too.
Once you’ve got the angles of leverage right between cables and canti contact angle, the only thing inhibiting your braking is the pad compound/rim contact friction (or sticking togetherness as we’ll call it).
Not forgetting that you also need your tyres to grip to aid stopping. It’s no use having your brakes lock your wheels at the drop of a hat if you’re tyres are sliding through the mud at the same time!

For 200 notes I’ll have a set too!

I’ve had various bits spread between the cross bike and the road bike. Rear mech is still going strong, shifters lasted 2 years on the cross bike until one of them (the rear) stopped working, took it apart but couldn’t cure it.
friend has them on his road bike and is coming upto 3 years now.

Halo mercurys? I’m on my 3rd pair (spread over 2 bikes).
Been fantastic wheels, light, fast, stiff to ride but feel quite flexy when stood still. With a decent set of high pressure tyres, dare I say they have the same feel as a set of carbons.

All this talk of JTL and no one has mentioned “The new Jens Voigt”….. Josh Edmondson!!
How good a ride did he have in the hills of the last couple of days? Breaking away from the small chase group and the day before putting Basso into difficulty. His pedigree in the european mountains is good too, already won some races out there and rides on a european team. Expect big things from him in the future, as his family racing pedigree is none too shabby either.

I rode Aksiums on the peaks for four years using the same pair, never needed truing up and never let me down, retired them when the side walls became concave.

I’d always go for something slightly stronger on the peaks and pay a small weight penalty, but then descending is my strong point.

and if you need to see what the road looks like………..

60 point something on the road bike on the way to Hawes from Fleet Moss,(so happy to have past 60 I forgot what the decimal place was) done it more than once but first time was on the Etape du Dales two years ago.
If I had the bottle to pedal it could be faster, just sprinting off the top and tucking in achieved this, bigger ring and massive cajones could well see 70+ but certainly not by me and not without a set of leathers and a full face lid.

following your logic Mr Knife, then why not have a Richard in the sink too?

OOOh, my brother installs waterjet cutting machines.
Check out WARDJET’s, web site.

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And if you want a very long and laborious manufacturing process, then check out the production of a bespoke suit from fleece to finished product. Makes you realise why handmade bespoke suits cost a small countries national debt.

good suit buying advice!

I find Thomas’ site offers some very informative articles.
I’m in the business and would agree with most of what he says.

Also the M&S suits everyone’s mentioned. I strongly suspect are made by Browns of Bramley near Leeds.
More than likely using 52/2 all wool supplied by MBA yarns based in Bradford. Finished out in Huddersfield. No idea where they’re actually made up but, that’s about as traditional Yorkshire as a suit can get these days.

Can’t recommend highly enough. from the mountains of ‘Ganners to the sandy wastelands.

Quote: “They serviced my bike and then on my next ride the gear changed crunched and then sheared my rear mech, breaking 2 spokes and resulting in me having to buy new chain, cassette, rear mech and mech hanger and fix the rear wheel.”

A service, no matter how poor is unlikely to cause that. Poor shifting or riding is more likely.

Lowa combats.
I have a pair I use all year round. They’re the boot of choice for the Royal marines. High ankle, stiff sole, very quiet, very grippy, plus they can be repaired and resoled. Almost a boot for life.
I cant rate them highly enough, they also look just like a black walking boot too, so you won’t look like some “walt” marine wannabe.

I’m thinking Kingkongs finger is either a time triallist or really poor bunch racer.

So who would Nico vouilloz turn to for coaching? bearing in mind he’s the best bike handler I’ve ever seen!