Danny@phatworks

New video uploaded featuring Mike Singleton, Nick Manning and Joel Bennett on a night ride in London. The video was shot and edited by David Flamholc from Caravan Film. Music: Mr Scruff - Spandex Man www.phatworks.co.uk Cheers

I am Oxford also, live just past Woodstock. I ride Oxford in the week mostly as I am in London most weekends these days or travelling to ride elsewhere. PM me your number etc as I will be riding next week some evenings. Cheers

Phenomenal video... Had it all to be fair. Big well done to Danny, Dave, Inspired and Red Bull for treating us all to a video we won't forget.

Sweet video that, good to see Mike and Vince ripping Buthiers up too!

Really enjoyed that Ben, nice work!

I used to just run a virtual machine on my macs which then had Windows XP or 7 on - best of both worlds. I don't like the dual boot as it means you have to restart the machine if you want to switch OS. VMware Fusion is a great example of a virtual machine, it just runs like an application thus, you can use 'spaces' to switch between the 2 OS's. Not an immediate fix I know, but Microsoft Office for mac is awful with loads of bugs. I have recently switched back to PC's at work after using Macs for over 3 years... Actually prefer PC now, Windows 7 is fairly decent...

Haha It's quite scary how people can be naive sometimes to what sort of information Facebook and these social networking sites can potentially let out. Common procedures from some employers in office and management sectors use Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Google, Linked In etc as a tool to find information out about there employee. You may think what has personal life got to do with professional life but, I know a few people now who have actually been made redundant from there jobs because they have posted Facebook status's about a co-worker, day time activities, night time activities and thoughts. I know now that after a job interview similar procedures can happen with using social networking sites to try and gain information. Facebook isn't that bad now if you set up your privacy settings properly though. This 'Facebook Places' thing again sounds like something that may have some cool uses, but lets out a lot of private information you may not be aware of or want to share openly.

Cool beans Maxxie. Great day on Saturday thoroughly enjoyed it! Great to see some old and new faces as always and most importantly everyone brought together for Beau! Unfortunately couldn't make Sunday's ride, hope it was a great day for those who went

It can take up to a week or two before it has gone through customs for international shipping and show on the tracking. Ah sorry, well it will be the same for France I imagine.

I have had 2 frames on express delivery from Marino, both arrived within 2/3 weeks. Check the tracking code in a weeks time and it should be in the UK on it's way to you

I tend to ride MK a fair bit during the week in the evenings. As said the 'grid system' (which to be fair is built primarily for Shopping) can get tedious quickly as most of it is exactly the same, there are however some great spots out of the central area but requires riding fair distances between places and are not lit up well/at all..... There is a great bunch of lads in MK though who ride often, get involved

This sounds promising! What times and days will this be accessible for riding? presuming that it is private land of course.

Nice one Maxxie, bloody good to see yer out and about again man!! have to get some rides on the go my son! Rich looks like a complete Bum at the end hahaha

Just got back from Bournemouth to pick up my new motor so all set for tomorrow, just to clarify Victoria Square is before you get to the white walls if you are coming from New Street train station. As Ed said has all the lion thingy statues and steps/fountains, See you all tomorrow!

There, can offer beds in Oxford and lifts for 2 people as well

You know this!! Who?! My god havn't seen him probably since the last time I saw Austin... Be great to see some 'old school' peeps out!

I almost had to bail due to car problems... Luckily I'm picking a new car up Friday afternoon so I shall be there rain or shine

My good old friend Rich Rowden is back from a year of traveling around the world so we are hitting Brum, haven't been for a long time myself so it would be good to see some faces out! We will be meeting at 11.30 in Viccy Square..

haha yer I guess that's my fault for the chips in it... I sold that frame to Stu Yer I'll be riding Sunday with you guys hopefully, spoke to Stu earlier.

Keep it the colour it is Luke, it's different from everything else

There is a good natural spot in Oxford in an industrial estate, also there are a few Quarrys around.... Charlbury, Ardley, Tews etc

(PhatMike here again) Think I'm right in saying I'm the only UK rider to have ran them (for about 18 months in fact). Short verdict: Excellent Very easy to adjust, and stiff as anything. You've got loads more sensitive adjustment than other types, including dishing the wheel to centralise it. They're fairly fiddly to take wheels in/out, but it's worth it.

The 1.2's come really well equipped to get you going, but a bit of upgrading goes a long way! Rear hub: This is a standard shimano unit, and should be changed first, either to a Hope Pro2 or Chris King, or swap cranks and hub to a front freewheel set up. Brake Pads: Again, standard magura blacks - fit some new ones, preferably with metal backings Headset: Plastic components, dies quickly. Fit a decent one Chain tensioner: Comes with a derallieur, swap it for a singlespeed chain tensioner, then ditch the gears Those are the key ones, from there I'd swap the chain to something suitable, tyres (Shwalbe Big Betty rear and Racing Ralph up front are a perfect match), cranks and pedals maybe, and then play with stem stackers and the like to get a feel for changing geometries. Like Nick, I run the standard frame, forks, bars and stem (and rear rim). (Phatmike here)