Will pop over and have a look ty!

Ah, cheers for the info.

Some proper googling has found too many forum threads about carbon rails snapping though… Maybe ti is the way to go, I did like that sale white one though!

If it’s a pub bike you want something old and a bit knackered – if your in Scotland check the various BikeStations for reconditioned things – and it’s all for charidee mate!

http://www.thebikestation.org.uk/bike-station-glasgow-shop/ this sort of thing. There is possibly some sort of english version!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Mungo_and_Midge

Rogerthecat – what are those lovely/appalling green tyres??

Someone has put it up on googley maps
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&t=p&msa=0&msid=107940235217519047812.0004757ec1a60d18c68b7&dg=feature

Has the bothies marked on too!

I was going ‘oh he’s familiar’ for ages before someone pointed out it’s Tyres from Spaced! Oi oi, be lucky!

Looks pretty good!

And BBC means iPlayer 🙂
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b041m5f5/Michael_Smiley_Something_to_Ride_Home_About_Episode_1/

I see the Dreadnoughts on the Superstar site are down from 90 squids to £45…

http://superstar.tibolts.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=505

Surely the trails coming alive helped then? 😈

While we’re picking nits, doesn’t he mean ’empirical’? 🙂

Good news about the nightmare pad use though!

Yes I got bitten on the bum about Cdf/Croix de fer a while back 😆 For the 2014 Croix de fer, they look amazing especially the 931 version. However they now have the read disc brake inboard of the rack now, which sounds great but I heard that rain can collect inside the works because of the angle?

There’s a nice cheap Cdf in the edin bikes sale right now, think the sizes are a bit limited so better check. The Shand bikes look dead nice, iirc you can choose the colour and components etc as they build them up.

Heard a lot of good things about Singular as well… think the guy is busy making the Puffin fat bikes atm (could be wrong)…

Maccruiskeen – great, dead useful info!

Martinxyz – you are probably right! I just remember years back when he was being filmed jumping on and off the roof of Macdonald Cycles… I was walking past at the time so I guess I’m FAMOUS! 😉

Ho, a quick google says he was working there at the time
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/danny-macaskill-bike-shop-macdonald-cycles-closes-1-3228404

😆 Okay I may have walked into that one! I got confused by the ‘ten minute rule’ stuff at the top. 😳

Oh yeah, you had to prize the lads away from watching youtube videos to buy anything!

Hmm if I got a 5-bike floor rack, that would be some sort of justification to get 3 more bikes…

How does it work btw? If I bid up to the reserve, do I win it now, or in 5 days etc time?

That seems to be Macdonald Cycles just off Lothian Road – didn’t they help get Danny MacAskill get started?

Of course, a huge Evans Cycles opened up just along the road from them a year or so back… 👿

Ride along the flat?

Thanks again guys – just ordered one, with a plastic brick substitute.

Oh and an Irn Bru bike bottle, they seem to have stopped doing the Marmite ones 🙁

Oh and I remembered I needed a slick, so turns out schwalbe City Jets are half price, which was nice.

Well that would do the job! 8)

Ah great thanks guys – wasn’t expecting an amazing bit of kit at that price, good to know it seems to do the job.

Rocco – do you use a ‘riser’ thing to keep the front wheel up to the same level?

Minor PSA – Salsa Anything Cages (the new 2014) version available just now… not sure how many he has.

http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/new-2014-salsa-anything-cages-fargo-enabler-3762-p.asp

Got mine, they seem pretty strong, 146g for the cage, 177g altogether, which is a fair bit more than what the packaging says, guess it’s the old packaging though. Seems like a decent bit of kit. If it breaks off I will report back! 😮

Thanks Houns – I hate it when Dr Who copies my topics back in time!

I did use the search function on ‘antarctic’ ‘south pole’ and ‘snow’ in my defence! 😀

Edit to add – and I didn’t call the topic ‘What tyres for south pole’ either 😮

This IS a fun game! 😈

This is the last post.

So I am the Bell-End.

Edit – sadly I give up my title to someone backing that bell kickstarter… 😆

While this is back to life – do many people use rucsacs/camelbak Mules etc for bike-packing? Or do I want to have no weight at all on me back?

http://www.lookwhatwefound.co.uk/

These guys are in most big supermarkets. Or get the Uncle Ben vegetably rice, and pack lots of soy sauce!

Also, I may have misread, but you’ve been in the Scouts for 15 years? 😯

http://www.catsforgold.com/

Nobeerinthefridge – Member
Ask him what he wants? Better that than giving him something he doesn’t, or even worse, giving him cash. He’s a student – cash = lash.

We have dropped heavy hints, he’s a typical 21 year old though! The last few years he’s been really quite introverted but he got a job at this years edinburgh festival and had a great time apparently, and is starting to open up properly as an adult* and doing proper social stuff, which is great… VanMan, your idea of the watch is a pretty good one (I hate wearing one myself but I can see the point! He can always pawn it if things get hard 😆 )

When *I* was 21 I was given 50 quid and told not to come home sober!

*also he has some amazing new girlfriend. He goes beetroot!

You could load it up and dump it in the garden of the address? 😈

Unless they have paid someone else to take it away ofc…

ADDS – yes I am seriously suggesting we eat puffins for health. There are loads of them!

Nae Danger ftw 🙂

People don’t seem to realise that the human metabolism is specialised to build vitamins out of most food, if you at least take a stab at eating healthy!

People in the hebrides lived to 90 eating porridge and puffins ffs! 😈

You mean you became crap from lack of milk? 😯

Ah, very practical. 🙂

What’s that you’re pulling out the stem? ❓

Of course it’s worth asking!

Just start the email “I’m not gay but…”

😆

Also get CC Cleaner – it will take a fair while to run the first time but will remove LOADS of crappy cookies and temp files that have been slowing down you PC – I found things noticably faster after running it the first time.

Bookmarked – lovely work!

Does she want to date a boy with a 29 incher?

How lovely!

Our (very old) female, neutered dog will attempt to hump legs when she is very excited.

It’s the dog version of high-fiving. (possibly)

Alan Moore knows the score.