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Now it's you throwing spanners.
Not sure how that would work out. Saturday is my free day as her indoors is at work, Sunday is our day off together, I'd need a day pass from her for Sunday.
Is anyone else planning on riding this weekend? What are your votes?

Object: This weekend?

Can not yet confirm. I want to, but i'm currently in the process of fending off spanners from the works. Pointless spanners mind.

What kind of hour do you get back from one of these jaunts?

I'm rubbish at keeping a diary or making plans too far in advance. That said:

Next weekend 2009-01-30 looks doable
the following two are out (the wife can plan ahead for me)
Weekends from 2009-02-21 onwards would, from this distance, appear to be clear.

Is anyone interested in offroading tomorrow or has the tweed run stolen everyone this week?

Is there scope in the article for mentioning CC and more importantly BCC as a means to send mail to multiple persons without distributing your contacts to all and sundry?

Just went to the alps by train, eurostar and tgv, over christmas, traveling out boxing day. St-pancras > paris > bourg saint maurice approx £90 per person per direction. Tickets booked 90 days in advance. I'm fairly sure you could do the train bits without need of a bag so you could then cycle your transfer in paris rather than fight the metro system. Second class was pretty nice.

Cheaky ;)

miro_o - look at on-one. Although brant seems to be fixated with 29" and is possibly letting the 26" side of stock slip.

alex - looks quite damn nice, the price sounds good. But I'm not in the market so it's irrelevant. And a minor detail , looks like an integrated headset so that would probably stop me buying it, thats not in your power to change though.

Suck ass +imMe, Can you get it on for next week?

That's the plan, I know not of any impediment for that weekend yet.

Bit late to the game on this news, been working for a change.
Ditto the well wishing and what not mr object.
Hey where has 'that shit is fucked up' gone.

Tommy 'Practice make perfect', i laughed.

Looks like i'm out this weekend too, the cold appears to be going nowhere and i've gone and got sucked into flat hunting so I have a day of viewing crappy flats to look forward to instead. Woo.

prototype folks

Hippy
lucky
dt

social amnesia - daddy mack
broker - ninja
+imMe - never made my mind up on size
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999999999999999999 hassanr - flpower straps (keeping the grobag theme :) )

I contacted you via e-mail prior to giving in to forum membership. Still not decided on theo or archie, still need to get my hands on one to see which i prefer. Don't know if I actually made it on the list, you said something about needing a new notebook for the list at the time. If I did object will be able to match forum name to real name for you.

Hope so. Looks like you had a great one there.
I woke up feeling like shit on saturday, hopefully my cold will have run it's course by the weeks end.
And it'll be fun you having to relay and comments to me via someone else :)

take it to lbs and get it chased and faced.

I can pretend my endorsment of hillbilly's sentiment is a real vote even though I won't be there. Is that kind of corruption ok?

If it's not slobbering over the equipment or tattoo then you'll be fine.

That Xed's work? Angle looks like from his (ex)spot. Or french Thomas?

Duncan X (of sheep on drugs fame) and I think Jason's dog, in the bg.

Hey cheers, for the advice. Well I'll have to see how it'll go when I get them (and a bike) :)
How do you find them in term of woarm, confort, dryness, etc....?

Hey sorry I've not bothered to reply until now, i'm lazy.

They have been pretty good. I can feel the wind proof trigger finger cover bit working. They aren't a full on winter glove so this recent freezing snap has seen me with sore cold fingers even when combined with a silk liner glove. And I think they are fine for shower proof but not torrential downpore.

I wore an old pair of snowboarding gloves this morning because my hands hurt so much last night. Perhaps I should check weather reports before I set off, I was fucking roasting when I got to work.

8:84?

Late (08:54)

TheBrick
hillbilly (its the fucking weekend!!)

With that sentiment hb. 8:84 = 9:24 even better.
But I can't get out of the house before 9 when I'm supposed to be at work by then.
Not that I think i'm even likely for this week.

If her indoors sticks to cycling to work this weekend, I might continue on after dropping her off, to try a few hours at epping.

Is the freehub body different material or is the non trials just dulled through age? I'll just go look it up actually.

I believe it also has a higher ratchet count to provide more positive engagement.

And a steel body as apposed to alu in the normal hubs.

Basically its a standard hope pro II rear hub with a shorter cassette body (room for up to 6 rings).

looks like the 'normal' hub has been run ss. Are they yours? Is the freehub body different material or is the non trials just dulled through age? I'll just go look it up actually.

What's this 6 speed hope rear hub? Have they done that so you get a dishless wheel or something. Seems like a good idea I'd sacrifice some gears for increased wheel strength.

It was explained to me that MTB trials rules required a geared mountain bike, otherwise i'm sure they'd all be fixed, and a six gear minimum was set, probably that 18 gears was the norm.
This annoyed me a little because i'd quite like hope to make an ss hub with their lovely freehub tech but with only space for 1 cog, i'd settle for space to cram in 3 if you weren't using spacers to get best alignment of your 1 cog.

Yep.
Right, head down for some work now so I can get out early.
Enjoy your ride tomorrow, See you in the new year.

Cheers for the offer. It's going to be mono geared though.
It really shouldn't take much effort. The hold ups for doing it properly are my laziness and a stubborn BB that I'm going to have to take to matt to get removed.

brakes + grips at a bare minimum. i'm going to replace a few more bits though because it went unchanged/loved/serviced/cleaned for 10 years and it just felt/handled really odd.

I'm going to add a few nice new bits to the on-one once it's retired from commuter duty too.

They are bloody nice to look at, tis true

As are these...

Wow, those syncros are loverly.
I love tubular cranks. I think the dmrs i mentioned earlier are tubular too. I always wanted some bullseyes.