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Love the fact his dad was wearing his tartan troos in Switzerland, it's a shame Danny hasn't continued the trend through his riding!

Am I the only one who didn't think the high rope thing was in the least bit risky? The dodgiest bit I imagine is setting up the abseil to set the thing up in the first place! Any kind of free climbing or tightrope/high rope without a harness and rope has risk associated with it but with the safety gear it's 99.9% safe surely? Would liked to have seen more of Guy Martin. Quite interesting though, with fairly obvious outcomes.

Have you had a look to see if there are any overly large mould joins that could be causing poor sealing?

I've been really happy with mine- bought new in 2006 done about 30k miles on it and this is the first problem I've had. What year have you gone for?

Probly not I'd say. The markup on trials stuff really isn't that big, and certainly nowhere near double. It's not arse licking, it's showing a bit of sense, not being a complete f**king dick and generally defending and supporting one of the most successful trials retailers in the world who have done an absolute ton of good to help promote and support the trials world.

It's different though because in a pub you're paying for a service with food being quite subjective. It's not a product you'd like to return but your opinion that the meal doesn't meet your expectations. This is kind of like complaining about a meal because your yorkshire pudding is dribbling gravy from it's base.

Similar principal, but in the end pretty much irrelevant. Don't know about you but I'm yet to have a pub meal delivered by Royal Mail and I know for sure I've never asked a restaurant to warranty a pie. The water bottle is £4.60 but costs £3 to post. So ignoring the fact he probably got it along with other things, to return it will cost him £3 so that £4.60 water bottle has cost £10.60 to then return it for Tarty to 'warranty'. In order to do this Tarty would then most likely have to send the bottle back to Hope (who would most likely just laugh at them) which would cost Tarty £3 in postage and another ~£5 in time for whoever it is who has to deal with it. I hope you can see where this is going. If the bottle had been delivered with a hole in it or missing the lid or something then there would be a case to answer but a slightly drippy cheap as chips water bottle is life to be fair. If it were me I'd be breaking out the stanley knife and modifying the mating surfaces to get a better seal. And Dave33... Issues much?

Out of interest (never been on a track day) how does that work? Do they have fuel pumps on site running standard sort of rates or what?

So, at your house in New Road, Newhaven, do you keep your bike in a well locked garage or just a shed?...

What about sprints/hillclimbs- relatively cheap compared to most motorsports and certainly looks like fun provided you're ok playing with yourself while only lasting 45 seconds...

So long as it's running on a Hope hub it's all good.

Go on, you only live once!!

I've never seen that in my life and very much doubt it happens without alcohol involved...

He could have at least got a reasonably good looking underpowered Honda 650 and got an FMX...

Helicoils only repair the thread in the frame, they don't effect braking at all.

I'd say there is quite a lot to do with general development and motor skills/coordination of girls. They tend not to be pushed towards sports or even hobbies when young and so don't develop the skills which boys do by jumping around, playing sports and stuff. Whereas mountainbiking generally doesn't require any of that, trials does and takes longer to learn the basics than the majority of other hobbies, bar maybe skateboarding (but then how many girl skateboarders are there?). I'd say combine that with the fact that there are virtually no female riders already and it's less attractive to anyone who might want to try. With the intrinsic start up costs as well it's far easier to do something else. Like My Little Pony or giggle while painting nails.

I'd say it's probably worth getting the motorcycle theory test book as it is reasonably different to the car one and has some slightly unusual and specific questions in it.

Must've been the wrong type of wire then. If you used something like bike gear or brake cable you'd probably be laughing.

Pretty much the latter. The trick is not to click too early I think. When I did it for my bike test I'd pick up on a woman pushing a pram down the pavement so clicked to show that I'd noticed it and was aware of the potential danger but there's a time window when it actually accepts the click which is when she turns to look for traffic as she thinks about crossing (or something like that). In theory only idiots fail but it probably is possible to fail for being too aware and conscientious for the dumb computer system to cope with!

This is pretty much how it looks at the moment (well, at the moment it's in about 50 bits in the garage but you get my meaning!): The cause of the crack is a bit of an unknown. The first ER6n's (of which this is one) did have an issue with frames cracking at the engine mounts due to bad tolerancing at the factory, putting stresses into the frame when the engine was clamped up, but I added spacers to try and reduce/remove that issue. I have however thrown the bike down the road once, leading to a near writeoff so although the bike was professionally repaired and checked, it's not beyond comprehension that the frame may have been knocked or twisted just enough to result in a crack growing over the following years. Weirdly enough, the bike hasn't been wheelied or jumped hardly at all, thrashed in general sure but usually with both wheels on the deck!

Then tighten them, dear boy. In other potential win solutions, attach a length of wire or rope to corner C and, by means of an over complicated series of weights and pulleys, counter balance the sag. If done right this could also probably be used to create a self-close feature. Extra win points for using titanium fixings.

About English hooligans? Send them to Siberia and let the Russian Mafia have their way. On the whole President Salmond thing, f**k that. I really don't know why they'd want to go the whole way (seem to have the best of both at the moment) an II think it's far too much of a risk to go ahead. I also think that the decision shouldn't be just down to the Scots. Surely England, Wales and Northern Ireland ought to have a say as to whether the UK is split up, not just them/us.

2006 Kwak ER6n. It's currently in quite a lot of bits awaiting some new bits and pieces and the attention of a welder... Doing valve clearances, plugs and found a cracked coil while I was at it so it's getting a bit of TLC while apart.

The thing is Scotland are there for a laugh, if they'd qualified the Scots may well have got a day off work and when they played it would be light hearted with lots of Tartan, ginger wigs and a friendly atmosphere. English football hooligans fans seem to always expect to win and take it as a personal insult if anyone dares speak ill of their squad/game/match or whatever. It's not about being bitter or England being better, it's about English fans being generally c@nts.

How can professional footballers make such a hash of penalties? A goal mouth is the size of a small house FFS! Oh how I laughed...