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anyone know a decent twin bolt seatpost that comes in 30.0? Can only find Kalloy/System EX or a Thomson, not much middle ground!

anyone know a decent twin bolt seatpost that comes in 30.0? Can only find Kalloy

Kalloy

^ That.

Or I can find one in my collection to sell you ;-)

Just managed a short notice (daughter bribed to go to school despite not 100%) trip to Cannock (apologies Howard - no notice)

Surprisingly busy car park with some serious kit on show. Navigational idiocy meant I did a weird 8mile part hybrid of 'follow the dog' and 'monkey trail' three times. Messing it up the third time was a blessing in disguise given driving sleet and tiredness.

It was a step up in difficulty for me - luckily the redundancy funded Turner helped me out a lot. The journey back in the car saw me raiding the emergency Ibuprofen store - I am wrecked!

Flux Cannock by adshools, on Flickr

Hot damn diggity that is pron... so much want.

^ That.

Or I can find one in my collection to sell you ;-)

meh, just ordered a shim from CRC, dayum

only got to fill and fit the rear brake and my new bike is ready to go :)

What was the bike again? I don't recall.

Alpitude

Nice.

Anyone fancy a ride up Snowdon?

I read a nice piece about it on the Guardian website, now I fancy having a go. Two thoughts so far: either rent a van and drive down, or get the train to Bangor, ride 11 miles to the bottom, up-and-down, then back to the station.

Basically there's a voluntary ban on riding it in summer, and during peak times in winter, so it'd have to be very early in the morning, so there's probably an overnight stay involved - either in the back of the van or a bivvy bag. Anyone game?

I'll cross post in 29er/offroad threads...

There was a great article in singletrack a few months about doing this. They rode it early in the morning, I think in August/September. Looks pretty great.

I'm more tempted to do the Black Mountains Classic loop from Talgarth, as it's less restrictive, and still pretty massive scenery.

There was a great article in singletrack a few months about doing this. They rode it early in the morning, I think in August/September. Looks pretty great.

I'm more tempted to do the Black Mountains Classic loop from Talgarth, as it's less restrictive, and still pretty massive scenery.

Do them both.

:)

Explored Peaslake and Hurtwood yesterday - trails in quite good nick generally. Impressed. Now I know where BKB, Yoghurt Pots and Telegraph are. Requires a whole lot of climbing though.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/273974929

Isn't that cheating a little, to leave the Garmin on while driving/getting the train home?

;)

I'm pretty anal with my GPS logs so I'd never be able to leave anything that untidy.

Actually....the garmin was stopped - it just draws a line between where you were 'teleported' to/from.

But if you know a good way of trimming the files without hacking the raw gpx data let me know :)

You just do it as two different journeys - there's no way to make a teleport jump appear as anything but ridden miles.

Explored Peaslake and Hurtwood yesterday - trails in quite good nick generally. Impressed. Now I know where BKB, Yoghurt Pots and Telegraph are. Requires a whole lot of climbing though.

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/273974929

I was riding at Peaslake yesterday. Although the weather was good I'm pretty sure it wasn't 39°!!!

That's what I thought. You can quite easily hack a GPX export though to remove the stuff you don't want:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/274511841

Guess I should have done that in the first place :)

Ha. Even hotter.

Showing nine degrees for me - sounds about right? Ah well.

Guess I should have done that in the first place :)

No bother. I find it a nuisance sometimes; I ride from home to the station, then get the train to Norfolk, and ride from the station to my girlfriend's place - I'd like that to show as one ride with two separate red traces, but it can't do it. Meh.

This is for everyone except gabes as he disapproves of any social posting i've been making to the internet recently.

Zoot Track - YouTube

This track makes up a small potion of the Queenstown segment in Follow Me.

^ nice

Nice. It's kinda weird listening to your heartbeat though

yeah, i wouldn't bother with the sound

Got an on-one 456 and some pikes upstairs, soon I shall MTB again!