Good Morning Freaks!
El Capitano
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And welcome to Monday... 8)
Aching a bit today and there was a stupidly strong headwind on the commute in this morning.
I'm thinking fry-up for 2nd breakfast, so might have to call a "team meeting" shortly.
How's everyone else this dammed fine morning?
Aching a bit today and there was a stupidly strong headwind on the commute in this morning.
I'm thinking fry-up for 2nd breakfast, so might have to call a "team meeting" shortly.
How's everyone else this dammed fine morning?
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Morning! Slept like a log last night, which was nice. My shoulders ache this morning. Breakfast for me involved none of the Great Animal, but consisted of Shreddies and too much milk because I'm uncoordinated.
My bottom hurts and I need to hunt down one of them little screw in pins from a shimano brake caliper. Mine went missing somewhere in the chase and my brake pads are now just held in by hope and wishful thinking. Probably some physics too.0 -
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Morning all,
Good weekend rode cwm on sat and Afan on Sunday. nothing long as i was solo, but some nice riding with some ok pace on them.
Though annoying group of people decided they ddn't want to pull over on Windy point... So i waited half way up and then shot down, and they tried to get in front of me again on the energy section.. i just lost my patience hlaf barged past, mumbling 'mind if i go in front' didn't see uhm again so all was good with the average manners i had to display to convince them i should be in front
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Morning.
Oh carp! I should be sleeping, finished nightshifts and am still wide awake. I can catch up later as I am not back til next monday night
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Tartanyak, you can never have too much milk with Shreddies. In fact you have given me the sheddie munchies. Which isn't a bad thing.
So for me today it will probably be a kip, a trip to the shops followed by a snooze followed by paying some bills and then i pick up The Boy at 3:15. no doubt it will be big fat juicy sausages for tea and an early night. Due in many parts by me probably not going to get much of a kip and snooze.fly like a mouse, run like a cushion be the small bookcase!0 -
Yah morning all not much happened over the weekend just the usual riding round Cannock. BTW big thanks to all those Evans peeps who selflessly rode round the trails and smoothed them out for me :twisted:
Nothing like a few hundred tyres for taking the edge off the braking bumps etc.0 -
Yesterday was filled with concentrated amusement.
And no-one died, which was nice.0 -
Ooo and bumped into Mrs Notax and her hubby. Very nice they were too, helping to sort a minor mechanical ont he climb :P0
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-1 this Morning. 3 day this month i have had to de-ice the car.
here comes Winter."Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
Parktools :?:SheldonBrown0 -
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nicklouse wrote:-1 this Morning. 3 day this month i have had to de-ice the car.
here comes Winter.
it's always winter in sweden, right? just like all the women are blonde and beautiful and everyone ends the day with a sauna, beats each other with beech branches and then jumps in the snow?
thats my impression of sweden anyway.0 -
Sun is out down here - no clouds at all - I have all day for just me, the bike and the Quantocks, will try to find any bits that i may have neglected when out on the hardtail. Going old school though on my bullet decked out with late 90's kit, with no proper gear apart from a lid and gloves, not even a camel back as it all got nicked at the same time..... quite looking forward to a chilled out, no pressure 'retro' biking day !Falcon Sierra - 80's
Muddy Fox Courier - 80's
GT Palomar 90's
GT Zaskar LE - 90's
Cannondale k v 900 90's
Santa Cruz Bullit - now
Orange Evo 8 STOLEN 26/09/10
Orange P7 Pro
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El Capitano wrote:Alex wrote:Yesterday was filled with concentrated amusement.
And no-one died, which was nice.
+potato. Need more of this. Much more...
Twas good fun. I slammed myself into a tree once, but thankfully I'm quite well padded so it wasn't bad
Stu, I don't know if it's the same. Seems to be a pin with a short thread on the end with about a 2.5mm allen key sockety thing on the end. If it is the same, it'd be rather good! Can't find it on any website 0 -
Tartanyak wrote:El Capitano wrote:Alex wrote:Yesterday was filled with concentrated amusement.
And no-one died, which was nice.
+potato. Need more of this. Much more...
Twas good fun. I slammed myself into a tree once, but thankfully I'm quite well padded so it wasn't bad
Stu, I don't know if it's the same. Seems to be a pin with a short thread on the end with about a 2.5mm allen key sockety thing on the end. If it is the same, it'd be rather good! Can't find it on any website
I'll raid the spares bin later and see what I can find.0 -
Tartanyak wrote:Stu, I don't know if it's the same. Seems to be a pin with a short thread on the end with about a 2.5mm allen key sockety thing on the end. If it is the same, it'd be rather good! Can't find it on any website
No 20 on here?
http://www.shimanoservicecentre.co.uk/S ... M485-F.pdf
It seems to show that the cable ones use a split pin, but I'm sure one of the sets I have has the bolts as in the diagram above.0 -
It is indeed #20. It's meant to be held on by an R-clip, but that fell off too! :O0
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Not at work, gahhhh my damn neck!Visit Clacton during the School holidays - it's like a never ending freak show.
Who are you calling inbred?0 -
El Capitano wrote:Alex wrote:Yesterday was filled with concentrated amusement.
And no-one died, which was nice.
+potato. Need more of this. Much more...
+big Hombres shaped potato in a big fecking Sombrero. What was nice was that many of you guys have been riding for years, and I speak personally having only been riding the last 12-18 months and I don't see myself as particularly competant or fit, especially in an uphill direction, but it pushes me a bit more, especially on downhills, it gave me something to follow, and learn from, which is great for me. I know the others were grateful of that too
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Afternoon. Monday, what a pain. Beautiful day out and all I have to look forward to is the gym this evening. Bleurgh.
Had two rides this weekend - the first I had to come back after 100 yards with no pad left on rear brake, swapped it out and set off only to realise about 4 miles in I was missing the retaining pin so rode the rest of the route with only a front brake - no bad thing, no serious downs and no harm done.
Sunday ride, quarter hour before I leave I remember problem (contemplation time on the throne), forget in rush to gather stuff, head out, remember as I start ride, studiously dont use rear much again (shame on this route), check at top of last climb, all intact, check as I put bike in car, only got one brake pad - shook one brand new virtually un used pad out in about .5km of trail. Dammit! £12 wasted.
I want to go home now. At least I have an afternoon coffee.Closet jockey wheel pimp whore.0 -
did a local ride on saturday, first non trail centre one in ages, and by god it sucked.
i think trail centres have ruined/spoiled me.
i had to stop every 200 meters of off road as my rear wheel would no longer turn due to the amount of, in a word, clunge jammed in there.
further into the woods, past the rambler traps, it was full on rim deep mud. despite it not having rained in over a week.
no decent downhill sections.
and it was one of those days where no matter my direction it was a head wind.
so ended up sessioning some abandoned dirt jumps, which was ok.0
