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  1. Double 0 Soul
    £3k..? you sound like me when i bought 2x pints of Asahi last weekend for £18 This side of brexit / the cost of living crisis .. £7000 - £10,000 is the price bracket of choice for the slightly porky, spilling out of lycra, mid-life crisis Peak District cyclist.. and London folks have much more disposible.
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    Yep.. when i first started riding MTB in the early 90s.. my one bike (GT Zaskar) did absolutely everything from trails to commuting to pump track, to XC.. the only adjustments i made while riding was saddle height.. come the mid 90s DH became a thing and you needed full suspension with lots of travel meaning you couldn't ride any distance on those bikes.. so that was 2 bikes you needed.. maybe 3 if you wanted to ride serious road miles. Some of the trails around me are now so extreme that you need super slack, full sus e-bikes, the jumps are massive.. the only way you can generate enough momentum to clear the gap is electric assist. Modern gravel / adventure is a bit of a marketing fallacy.. it's basically a late 80s - early 90s MTB with drops, larger wheels, disc brakes and a carbon fork with lots of tyre clearance.. alas, trying to convert a cheap early MTB to gravel is a nightmare because all the standards have changed, again, minimal advancement have been made, it's mainly to keep us buying new shit.. this is what a lot of folks find daunting. Anywho.. if i lived in the US and i wanted a fancy gravel bike i'd buy this.. or for a first gravel bike.. you can buy something that looks like this^ with all the same attributes.. single chainring, drop/flared bars, front fork (doesn't need to be carbon) and rear stays with lots of tyre clearance for 2.2 - 2.4 tyres (your tyres will be your cushioning over the rough stuff) disc brakes and brifters so your brake lever is also your gear shifter.. you could get something fantastic for a fraction of the cost of the above (i just desperately, desperately want one) .. just go to your local bike shop and ride some.
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    What type of riding would you be doing @Broark MTB, road bike or split the difference with a modern gravel / adventure bike? Somthing that doesn't require lycra i hope..
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    It was around 30°C but the sun hardly broke through the clouds.. personally, i thought if felt hotter yesterday but it might have been psychological because it was blue skies, beaming sunshine and i was stuck in work.. (thinking fk this i'm having tomorrow off) The heat is ok in the Peaks because it's a lot cooler/ breezier at the top.. you can feel the heat hit you like a hairdryer as you descend.. i think it's just what you get used to.. i see Italians riding Colnago and Bianchi road bikes in 40° heat hardly breaking sweat when we holiday in the summer.. yet for me just being out in the sun in those temps is exhausting..
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    Hotest day of the year so i took the day off work.. Rode past the waterwheel.. the local heron was fishing ..a bit of drystone walling at Ringinglow village for @Dr_Heech Peak District is quiet on Fridays this is where i fell off a couple of weeks ago ..rode to the Intrepid micro brewery at Hope .. up to Mam Tor ..sheep leg ..cows ..outside Speedwell Cavern back through Hope.. and home ..pushing back against the manosphere ..used a Brewdog Elvis Juice rub and cooked some pork medallions on the bbq ..on top of noodles, garlic, spring onions, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, pak choi and waterchestnuts ..hello cat from down the road ..my purchases from Intrepid.. Porter was £5.. Bitter was £3 ..kids off to fancy dress party dressed an Indianna Jones.. wearing my Lone Wolf Mechanics ..i got him a cheap sex whip from ebay.. word to the wise, don't type whip into ebay
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    Doesn't advertising on the forum cost $200/mth? https://supertalk.superfuture.com/store/category/4-advertising/
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    Awesome, if you haven’t already.. buy it! It’s cool af!
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    You lose nothing by trying @Broark Folks traveled across JP to collect the first run of CSF 46s over the counter but I still managed to land a pair using the fanboy method
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    Have you tried emailing the store? I know it sounds futile but even with my terrible grasp of the Japanese language, I wrote to Junky regarding the release of their 100x units of JSP 46s (it wasn’t even in store, it was at an exhibition) I translated my text to Japanese.. I asked very, very nicely and they made it happen.. ordinarily they wouldn’t even like international shipping.. maybe get @Cold Summer to help out with all the culturally acceptable’dear sir or madams’
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    You should all chip-in, buy them and tour them.. i think you'll find it's tradition What the hell is that thing @julian-wolf is it a bottle bag or is it a chalk bag?
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    Yes! .. one of the reasons i loved the Mk1 Honda CRX .. I didn't get the bump on my later 1990 SiR VTEC but i did get something akin to driving a superbike
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    I couldn't get along with JDownloader i had to uninstall it.. A friend suggested this one https://ytmp3.fan/ which is just copy / paste / download It's foolproof
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    The Jimny is a Suzuki over here?
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    Nice! Looks like it's never been worn.. it'll last you a lifetime Do you think the rayon tab used to be red and the oils from the leather have sent it brown or do you think it was always that colour.
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    Offspring was wearing his vintage England shirt when we hit the courts this morning.. with all of David Beckham's magnificent work marketing alchohol to children you'd think the Royal family would thank him somehow?.. Don't get me started on that other wanker Peter Crouch! .. gotta love the ethics of multi-millionaire footballers Having lost 6-4 6-4.. I went for a bike ride.. Burbage Spring Watch was on location here last week.. Chris Packham and Bee'aaave Michaela! ..check this crazy tree out, the branch has grown to the ground creating roots then grown into a conjoined tree. i used to do this with cacti.. using rooting compound to graft I bet it's bleak living here in the winter I've never been up here before.. ..who knows what this is? Found myself on i think.. The Steel Cotton Trail It got rocky ..then narrow ..i went down a hill, not really knowing where i was or where i was going.. and like all hills in Sheffield, the more fun they are to ride down the more painfull they are to ride back up.. I popped out at Strawberry Lee Lane, asked a runner for directions.. then headed back up the hill through Blackamore ..then home
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    Did anyone try Japan Rabbit .. @MJF9 @beautiful_FrEaK ?
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    Took my kid suit shopping today.. due to my.. let's say 'buying habbits' .. i was expecting a £600-800 touch, i was amazed how cheap a reasonable quality suit is.. Calvin Klein silk tie aside, all this came to less than £300 from Next.. Having never owned a suit myself, at 15.. he's allready a more rounded human being I'm just cooking some Piri-Piri chicken on the old Petromax None of these cats are ours.. they're Lenny's new friends from across the road ..all the gang in our living room SC-47s Chucked some clover and a handfull of wildflower seeds down this year
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    I think it’s.. selling off the infrastructure to foreign investors then using bill payers money to pay out shareholders instead of reinvestment… WooHoo! I’m going waterboarding tomorrow!!
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    Hey, I’m only artificially distressed.. in reality I’m doing just fine.
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    Waterboarding is like bodyboarding .. right?
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    Nope.. I’d rather be waterboarded
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    You'd think so wouldn't you..
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    One week I asked for jalapeños (you have to pronounce it with a strong J at Morrisons or they haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about) then she said.. “is this one for you?” “Ooh.. I can tell you like it a bit spicy “ and winked.. Im sorry? what?
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    How old do you think we are? .. my unwanted love interest is probably a Debbie or a Julie
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