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Wife and kids are somewhere up near Thurso so I have a weekend to myself with the bikes (and the weather looks good!). I win!

Animal Sprocky Balboa's are only £10.99 on CRC: http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/s?q=animal+bikes+sprocky+balboa+sprocket&cat=product though obviously not with a bash. Freeflow are showing the inspired ring/guard as 'in stock with supplier- allow 3-5 days' but I'm not sure if that's true or just a place filler...

Manor F1 make me angry. Apparently they're only going to pay creditors 1.26p in the pound for all outstanding debts (£60M+) and Bernie reckons they had absolutely no chance in hell of ever competing in Oz. Bunch of crooks if you ask me. You can guarantee none of the top brass are going to lose out after making an utter balls up of everything.

. Though I'd rather have bloody Android and than a shitePhone.

Give me a Panda over a Mazda 2 any day...

Test having uninstalled updates in chrome. Well that also works...

Test using Firefox... Oh so it's a chrome issue. As you were.

Glad I'm not the only one. Any thoughts people?

It's really quite annoying! Running 4.4.4 in case anyone's interested...

Noticed this for the past week or so. Running Android on my Motorola MotoG I can read threads, see pics and view vids but if I try to reply to anything it just navigates back to the Forum front page. Any thoughts?

Yeah we've been overpaying the whole time, £1300 for the first couple of years until the 1st kid came along and £1200 since then (and should also point out mine's also a 20 year period so that brings it up a bit compared with a longer term). Should be able to do exactly that though and get the term right down which should be nice a little later in life.

Some of these mortgage numbers must be interest only or whatever? Otherwise I'm doing something seriously wrong!!

£1150 or something close to that a month on a £168k mortgage (£198k house with £30k down). That was a 5 year fixed rate at 5.29% which made sense at the time but the interest rates just haven't moved so we kind of screwed ourselves over a bit. It's up for renewal this October though so will have a look around for something better. Before that we were paying £650 a month rent on a 2 bedroom end of terrace house with a garden and garage.

To be fair I didn't directly call you a twat and I don't think we've ever met so you may well be nice as pie in real life but your internet persona definitely is pretty twatty.

Thanks for that Ross...

And that's why some people think you're a twat. Ali's just made a completely valid point which in no way is a personal attack and you're trying to start an argument. Irrespective of the Northern thing I've been embarrassed to be associated with trials on a ride when people have been making stupid comments to people walking by, nearly getting in fights and generally being tossers. Of course Ali's messed up moves but the point is that he (along with many others, myself included) wouldn't attempt the move if anyone's close by/in danger of being hit if it goes wrong and if anyone asks you to move on (for a completely valid reason) Ali (along with many others) would politely apologies and move on, not be a dickhead. Edit: Oh yeah, the video. Some big ol' moves in there that are very impressive but particularly on the dropgaps it seems a shame you never show any of the set ups for them. You're clearly very capable at the T's and S's to get there and I'm not going to assume that you just carry your bike onto the take off spot each time before hitting the dropgap but where would be the harm in showing you doing the up to back wheel/sidehop or whatever to get you into the position of doing the move? Obviously that's not always going to be possible and some dropgaps will of course require you to carry the bike up but for some of the occasions where it would be perfectly doable to show the 'line' leading to the dropgap I think it would add a lot to the video...

There don't seem to be many BMXers in here but I'm quite please with this so thought I'd stick it up! I got a new BMX recently and even after a couple of quick sessions at the skatepark my rear hub's started to suffer from grinding (icepicks+micro dropouts doesn't really work) so I looked into some hub guards. Most of these seem to be hub specific with others (like the G-Sport) being more spoke protectors rather than hub guards and then I spotted my oil filter tool in the garage... One of these: 10 minutes on the lathe at work and bob's your uncle. Just replaces one spacer on the hub and almost looks like it's designed for the job!

Anyone else hoping the BBC stick to their guns and get rid of Clarkson for good?

Crazy. I didn't realise it was 1897!

So do you actually do anything on a normal shift or are you the manual fall back in case of electronic system failure?

They're not actually a 'thing' though are they? Like the people that ride them are either kids (which doesn't seem to happen often) or BMXers having a piss around. Please tell me it's not becoming a separate discipline?...

What ever happened to Oli's mini?

I never listen to the radio because the buggers keep talking. If they just played music fine but they insist on talking shite all the time. If I'm ever forced to listen to the radio on the way to work due to a flat iPod battery I just end up shouting 'PLAY SOME f**kING MUSIC' at the radio... and that's what grinds my gears.