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Does that also go for people on uplifts (either UK style van to the trailhead then injoy the downs or like the Alps where you can get a cable car up a mountain and then do what you like)? I haven't ridden a proper e-bike yet but I know my time will come, most likely when I can't keep up with my kids anymore (which hopefully will coincide with the batteries becoming smaller and the bikes smaller and lighter so less of a hinderance). I used to think of them as cheating but as they're becoming mainstream and now that the bikes are becoming more refined 'proper bikes', but with a motor, I have no issues with them anymore and to be honest if I could afford one now I probably would have one and use it all the time for normal MTB.

Hehe, yeah all that diffuser body work was done at Southampton and we still have and use that model! I'm also hoping to hook up with Xin and Willem on a bit of consultancy work soon too :).

I know what you mean. I watched the Akrigg 'behind the scenes' vid yesterday and it says a lot that the 'crux' of his part was the fairly nothing pedal gap across the stream. HIs part just seemed like the stuff he does day in, day out without any real bangers.

That reminds me of secret eating and secret smoking. One of my colleagues used to disappear several times a day, would lock himself in a semi-outside area, and have a fag then come back 10 minutes later stinking of smoke mixed with Lynx while chewing chewing gum. He never openly admitted what he was doing and I can only assume he thought we didn't know. There's a small mountain of fag buts hidden in the area now and I assume he hid his fags and lighter out there. Weird.

Yeah I was kind of underwhelmed. Maybe it was because it was a bit slow paced with the arty farty undertones, but nothing stood out for me at all. In fact the best bit I thought was Vincent Tupin's section at the end. And where was Danny?

The Old World currently available on Red Bull but only for 48 hours I think: https://www.redbull.com/int-en/films/the-old-world?autoplay=true&linkId=106301519&fbclid=IwAR23j1BVGTFq7F-JK_9cAxAVmhQHF4clqP6ZKnXhFJeibQ0hoyhCJRfiFwE Nothing that special to be honest in my mind...

George setting the pace! I know it's only first practice but George is still looking good and settling in nicely it seems!

Any game that can last several days and still not end up with a winning side is just mental. There also appears to be pretty much no athleticism required and at least the 'traditional' game seems to think it's still 1920... I have zero time for it!

Sorry to hear that, on all fronts really. Is your mum able to talk about it at all? As a father of two I'm with you in that I can't understand wanting nothing to do with them. I hope things pick up for you soon.

In my mind if anyone was going to try cheating and underhand tactics to win the election it would be the tangerine pussygrabber. In other news: Cricket and conversions in rugby.

Apparently George has got it!

I'm going to guess what that is but on that front not on that line at all: Speed walking. What the...? Who...? Just, just why?

It's something I check once every couple of years but that's my first 999. Life goals.

I know it's basically meaningless and it really shouldn't but this makes me happy...

These, but particularly the 'professional' ones that clearly have like several broadcast quality cameras etc. involved and you get awful canned laughter to boot. Another politicy one to balance out the Trump hate: Joe Biden wanting to be President. Trump's an arse but an arse who has spent his life trying to be as famous as possible and literally sticking his name on anything he can. Him wanting to be president makes sense to me. Joe Biden is a multi millionaire and 77 years old. He must have grandkids and maybe great grandkids but he wants to waste some of that last years of his life (when he should've already retired like 20 years ago on a nice healthy US government pension) stressing about viruses, global financial ruin and warzones. Mental.

So many things I honestly don't know where to start! On the vehicle front wings on drift cars, stretched tyres, anything that makes a car actually impossible to use as a car (stupid camber, stupid stance, stupid low etc.), pimped up cars and sports cars being driven slower than my nan, motorbikes that will refuse to filter through stationary traffic on a dual carriageway (for example)... Cyclocross. The Royle Family. Religion. Flat earthers. People who don't accept Donald Trump is a cunt. Marmite. The SRAM DUB BB standard. Mushrooms. Also most of the things already mentioned including but not limited to dancing, football, poetry, fishing, the a/effect thing... I could go on.

Oooh, look who's gone green, @Luke Rainbird!

[Googles Richie Jackson]. Sweet!

Banksy gone international?

Never even heard of them! Looks fun though!

Soda?

No, afraid not! This is what I mean when I say wheel tabs (though this may be an Aston Martinism...). Having said that I'm pretty sure 'defectors' isn't right!! That's from here: https://www.jvejournals.com/article/19210/pdf which shows a pretty significant drag reduction by just sticking 10mm tabs on.