Stephen Morris

Ok, good to know - thanks. Does it feel a bit quicker 2nd time round? It’s supposed to be a gritty cowboy game yet I find myself picking oregano, collecting cigarette cards and cleaning my horse.

I wish I had Bernard’s Watch (and the Queen’s Nose for that matter!) Life flies by so quickly and there’s just not enough hours in the day when you’ve got children, a job, you’re searching for a better job, you’re piling all your time and money into renovating the house and garden. I suppose it gets easier as the house gets finished and the kids grow up (resenting you for spending every waking hour plastering, caulking, painting and moving plug sockets.) I was thinking of getting a PS5, but know deep down that I won’t be able to properly play it and to top it all off, I just completed RDR2 (SPOILER) found out that Arthur and my horse die and I don’t have a save file for when they were both alive and well - I just kept overwriting. I certainly don’t have a spare 70 hours to play through the story again. I have an obsessive nature that means I really need to get platinum trophies on all the games I play. It really is an illness! First world problems all round.

The earlier they do it, the more I hate them.

From memory, rather than putting something between the tyre and tube, he actually cut the tube open and put something inside the tube then sealed the tube back up? Seems crazy to me.

I must have been about 16 when I started watching Tricks & Stunts. Having ridden the locations and met Ashton & Hawyes a few times, I guess it just resonates with me. As for bike bits and maintenance, my bike doesn’t need either. I do fix my own punctures and pump the tyres up all by myself.

Great topic and agree with most of the above. Dance - no amount of alcohol has made me want to gyrate to music and I really can’t see how dancing the cha cha cha has become primetime entertainment. Star Wars - never watched it and don’t see the appeal. Religion - Destroy all records and wipe people’s minds and all scientific discovery will eventually be rediscovered. Religion wouldn’t. Swimming - I’ve never been able to swim and I’d love to be able to. I obsess about it. I’ve had loads of lessons, I just find it impossibly difficult. The Kardashians - I genuinely don’t know anything about them, but I suspect I’m better off that way. Radio/Podcasts - no interest. Social media - Your mum’s on Facebook now and Twitter seems like such an angry, horrible place. Let’s get controversial Bike maintenance - I take no enjoyment in fixing and maintaining my bike and I don’t understand why people do. To me it’s about as much fun as taking your Sky box apart to service it on a monthly basis. Bike bits - 4 bolt pot discs, wheelbases, snail cams, sweep angles. I have no idea what these things are.

Agreed.

I can’t think of two videos of watched more often than these. Do the Goon by Matt Berridge and Trial Nior are my runners up.

Similarly, I’m always amazed by the quality of the trials outside police stations, in graveyards and at war memorials.

I’m forever spotting lines and working out how I’d ride, film and edit them together. I even work out lines for other people. For example, last week I saw a great line across a load of front gardens with walls, gates, a rail and a chain. Rowan doesn’t know this, but I’ve assigned that line to him.

I spent a significant part of my day (being paid, admittedly) searching for a PlayStation 5.

It’s about the only good news of 2020. Did you see they booked a landscaping company called ‘Four Seasons’ rather than the hotel of the same name in order to address the nation?

Leon’s first video was made on one of those Zoetrope things from Victorian times. Obscure reference for the historians out there. Our first videos were made in around 2000/2001 with a webcam that could only film one 10-second clip at a time. We’d cycle for three or four miles, get one clip and then cycle home to upload it. I think we eventually upgraded to a point and click camera with a modest video function. This was all before YouTube, so they were saved on CD which has since been lost.

I remember riding with you and Lloyd in Basildon YEARS AGO and just being amazed at the stuff you were riding. When was this ‘03/‘04 something like that?! So good.

I’ve always felt as though turning the bars left (with right foot forward) gave more clearance and allowed for a more controlled X-up. I’ve not done a great deal of research though. Perhaps you should do some more of them. If you don’t, I will.

This is the earliest one that made YouTube. Also featuring an obligatory X-up. Ali, are you turning your bars towards your front foot?! Madness.

I don’t understand what you’ve done and why you’ve done it... and I’ve now watched it three times. You seem to have cut a tube apart and stuck patches inside it. How, I don’t understand?!?

I’ve watched it twice and don’t understand what you’ve done.

Stating the obvious here, but now’s the time to go through those possessions and assess whether they’re enhancing your life or becoming a burden. I moved house four years ago and still have a few boxes of stuff in the loft that should never have moved with us. Good luck with it all.

Could use this to put skirting boards on my chainstays... tell me more.

Thanks for the advice everybody.

The thing is, the 3/4 of the nail that DID go into the wall, seemed to grip pretty well. If anything I might try a shorter nail. I think the size of the gun determines the width of the nail. My brother-in-law’s walls must be made of plasterboard. Oh well, it’ll get done one way or another.

It’s quite fun. Cha-doom... cha-doom... cha-doom. You must have lovely square walls!

Fine... I’ll try the screw fix forum :o)

I’ve borrowed a Ryobi 16G 18v battery powered nail gun from my Brother-in-Law to fit a skirting board in my kitchen. I am therefore nailing through wood, plaster and into masonry. The box shows a brick on it, so the gun and nails should be up to the job. Unfortunately the nails are bending and aren’t going all the way into the wall. I suppose a slightly shorter nail could solve this problem. If I was doing this the old fashioned way with a hammer, I’d assume that maybe I need masonry nails, but when I’ve searched online all the nail gun nails look the same - there’s nothing particularly heavy duty. Does anybody have any experience here; are there heavier duty nails gun nails, or are they all much of a muchness?