Hotchy

Stopping at my dads for most of this week, which is awesome, because I don't usually see him apart from Saturday night and a bit of Sunday morning, and I've not actually seen him in about 2 weeks. So should be good spending Sunday night while Thusday at his

Awesome If my backs decided to stop being a b*****d I'll be down! I'll be wearing a black and red checked hoody, and riding a 2010 Onza Zoot with gold pedals, because I've not changed them since I bought it off the previous owner who was apparently snoop dog.

Anyone up for meeting a noob whilst there? Would be awesome to meet some guys to ride with in Sheffield.

Just fell down the stairs because I'm a clumsy tit, and now the back injury I sustained over summer has flared back up, meaning I can't ride. So back on the pain killers and back into a physio routine. Hoping it won't take 6 months to heal this time.

You shall not be disappointed, they're the f**king bomb

Haha, yeah I know, to be honest I'll be stoked if I can get to 13 xD I'm seeing it as an excuse to get out on the bike more. Problem I've got is sticking to meal times, and how much I eat. I eat relatively well, so I'll have healthy shit, but I'll have too much of it :/ I think I'm pretty close to 6ft I'm probably around 5ft10 5ft11 ish. If I can get to 12 I'll be stupidly happy, or even if I can stay at like 13/14 but lose the fat, I wouldn't mind being heavy if I knew it wasn't because of fat :L 10's the goal I've been set, but if I just manage to get my muscle to come through, and lose the fat, then I'm gonna count that as deal met.

that yellow pipework though.

Got a new system for submitting work at college and it works a million times better than printing off essays. We've all had to make a blog, and the teachers just read it, and then leave comments telling us what we need to improve. And I've just managed to bash out a 2000 word essay in 2 hours, so now all I've gotta do is a shot list and some storyboards for a music video I'm shooting sometime in the coming weeks. Pretty stoked. And on top of that, the missus has made a deal with me, I'll go into a little explanation. I'm not the thinnest of lads, I weigh 14 stone, and although I'd love to say that it was all muscle, it's not, a lot of it's fat but a deal has been struck, that if I can get myself down to 10 stone, then she's gonna buy me some bike parts, and what makes it more awesome, is that she's committing to help me with certain "exercises" in order to help me lose said weight. Think I've definitely found myself a keeper.

Holy Rollers! The king of all tyres, I've ridden pretty much everything with them and they've coped with everything. I rode trails with them, I've ridden park, and street with them, and I've never had a problem, other than getting the bastards off to fix a puncture, but thats a fine art, and when you're using spoons it's a finer art still. They're the best for street though, I even used to run them on my BMX before I got my new wheel build and went to KHE.

So I'm riding a basically Stock 2010 Zoot, and I'm coming from BMX and I've having a little bit of a hard time getting my hops as high as they were on my BMX and levelling them out and stuff like that. Basically, controlling the front end seems to be a lot trickier than it should be, so I find it harder to lift the wheel, and when I roll off curbs I can't hold the wheel high enough for long enough for me to drop properly, which is obviously worrying me, because it means I can't progress onto different things. Anyway, my question is, would higher rise bars help? Because obviously on a BMX the rise is pretty huge, and that kinda helps lift the front end, obviously the rest of the geometry is different, I was just thinking that a high rise might make it easier to lift the front and control, and make it similar to a BMX. I was thinking of getting the Inspired Arcade bars as soon as I have the money, but I don't really wanna be spending any money if I'm not going to notice a difference, so some advice/help would be really cool Cheers guys!

Are you a wizard? Because thats genuinely what we're doing...

Toby Lerone

Got the house to myself for the night, and just had a call from the missus saying she's gonna pop down and keep me company, and cheer me up as I haven't been able to go riding today because of rain. Gonna have myself a good night I reckon P:

I'll see what I can do, cheers man

Thorne in Donny?

I'm game for a ride, be sick to meet up with people and maybe learn some stuff. I'd need a lift from Sheffield though, and then back to Sheff again :/ Don't suppose anyones willing to give us a lift?

Just finished watching 12 Years a Slave and it's incredible, best film I've seen in ages, easily the best film I've seen this year, tops Wolf of Wall Street and American Hustle in my opinion. Have tissues at the ready if you watch it though, the last scene brought on the man tears.

I hate it when something I've said gets taken the wrong way. Just been talking to the missus on Skype, and her sisters just lost her job, so we're talking about how her sisters going to get really upset, and I know when her sister gets upset, it really pisses her off, because she has to deal with it, so I go "If her being upset starts to annoy you, ignore her, because you can't have someone else getting you into a bad mood" she replies "That was harsh" - Call ended. I'm quite obviously not just telling her to ignore her sister, am I? And I'm assuming that's how she's taken it, because now she's not talking to me. It's just annoyed me, because I had good intentions, and she's taken it completely the wrong way.

So I've just come back from a trip to Whitby with college, and the trip was awesome, we got all our filming done, everything was great, got pissed, y'know the usual good stuff. But that's not what this is about. Let me elaborate. (I'm aware this is a long thread, if you don't want to read my story, then skip to the bottom paragraph) The food at the place we stayed was awful. I'm going to try my best to describe the meal from the first night. Imagine if you will, a roast chicken breast, now imagine that chicken breast with a jacket potato, and some ratatouille, initially it didn't look bad, which I imagine is what you're all thinking. But let me tell you the tale that I have named "The steel breast" It was half past 6, dinner was ready, we all went down to the hall to eat, we were the first there "Excellent" we thought "We get to eat first, and there's no scrounging for places to sit" So we line up, and we collect our food, chicken, jacket potato and ratatouille, "Mmm this actually looks pretty good" we all mumble to each other, as we sit down with our food, I am the first to pick up my knife and fork, and being as hungry as I was, I went straight for the chicken as aposed to cutting my potato in half and spreading butter across it. My fork decended towards the chicken, sweat dripping off my forheard, it had been a long day and since I was acting I had makeup on and I'd been working hard, so I was ready for this meal. My fork moved ever closer towards the chicken, my mouth now watering with anticaptation, I could almost taste the juicy delicious bird. My fork makes contanct with the meat, but something is wrong, something is oh so very wrong, instead of the fork stabbing through the soft meat, I'm met with some resistance, a lot of resistance, I push harder, put my plate tips, this is the point at which everyone is staring I could almost hear them saying "Get down!" I apply more force to the fork, and instead of it stabbing into the hard armoured shell of what was my food, it slips, and so does my hand. My hand crashes down onto the side of the plate, catapulting my food through the air and across the table. The End. So you're probably wondering why this is in the happy thread, and it's because although that was annoying and I only ate bread and mini cheddars that night, it was hilarious. There's another reason as well, if you can be arsed to read this far. The food on the second night was dreadful as well, it looked like what can only be described as shit from many different animals mixed together to create some form of brown and green mush with pastry, so I didn't even bother eating any, once again, I had bread and mini cheddars The reason this is on the happy thread is because I've just arrived home, and the frist thing I did when I got home, was turn on the oven, open the fridge, and withdraw sasuages, bacon and eggs, after everything was cooked, I ventured towards the bread bin, and I can quite happily tell you, that it was the best bacon, sausage and egg sandwich I've ever made in my entire life. Words can't describe how happy I am now I have actually eaten proper food, I don't even care that I haven't eaten properly for days, now that I've had that sandwich that's how good it was. I am happy.

Nah pal can't afford it, I'm skint until I can get a job, and that's not proving easy, gonna take a look at it tomorrow, and then if there's nothing I can do, might chuck it to a shop or my mate, see if they can do anything about it. I didn't actually think about dust being an issue, I'll try clearing it all out before I start messing with the wires or anything, cheers man

I'll check through the wiring tomorrow I think, my mate who gave it a service last time said it could be some soldering that he bodged, really hoping I don't have to replace anything too expensive It's a Solid State, I'm too poor to afford a decent Valve amp

Hey, so I'm a guitarist, been playing 7 years and had the same amp for all of those 7 years, its never had a problem before now, but now the problem it has is probably the most annoying of problems. Whenever I'm playing to a decent volume (decent volume being how loud you'd play your music in your room) it just goes "nah m8 not gonna play that loud, gonna go really quiet" and I've no idea why it's doing, sometimes a kick to the side or the top will sort it out for a bit, but after a while it'll start doing the same thing again, and sometimes it just cuts out completely. It's not the lead, because I've got about 4 and checked all of them, it's not my guitar because I'm having the same problem no matter which guitar I use, it's definitely the amp. It's a 40 watt Marshal, no idea what model though. Any help would be awesome Cheers guys! Will

Having no sleep last night and turning up to college 4 hours earlier than I needed to paid off! All my radio work is finally done, so can crack on with planning for this film I'm doing in Whitby, absolutely stoked