JamieD
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Reged: 16/04/2008
Posts: 126
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Hi All,
I was rummaging through the mbr files this morning, having a look at the ideas and photos people have sent through for the Reader Tip in the Ride Guide section of the mag. I'm sorry to say they're getting pretty thin on the ground - the best this month looks like being a cling film helmet (please don't do this, use a real one)!
Perhaps it's not obvious enough that the winner gets him- or herself the fabulous prize of £100 of Chain Reaction Cycles vouchers, I thought.
If you've got any cunning tips, please post em here.
cheers
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Jamie Darlow
staff writer, mbr
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Sir_Queuesalot
Pooh-Bah
Reged: 05/12/2007
Posts: 2094
Loc: Congleton 2x as posh as Staffs
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Yeah I've got one...
Extend your day, get up early and have an early morning ride. That way you get to be in the pub for a quick pint at 11.30, breakfast by 12.00, home by 1.00.
Lawn cut and hedges trimmed by 4.00 and enough brownie points for the next ride safely stashed away before it's time to watch deal or no deal!! 
But seriously, if I do think of something new and original like my patented Jacobs Cracker knee pads, to go with your cling film helmet, I'll post it here!
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Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!!
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gorehound
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Reged: 01/03/2008
Posts: 1330
Loc: co durham
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Get the other half out on the bike with you.
No excuses needed then, This tip must be worth £100. 
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I was a teenage werewolf!
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tricks
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Reged: 17/05/2008
Posts: 350
Loc: Consett
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Gore I would pay you £100 to leave me at home!!!! 
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HIT LIST!! 
*Tango
*Sir_Queuesalot (Due to spitting his dummy out for not being on the hit list)
*VT1_DOC
*TF90 (weaker sex HA)
*Gorehound
*Greeneye - Consett birds arnt like Mackems you know!!!
*The bird in off beat bikes (Fort Bill)
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JamieD
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Reged: 16/04/2008
Posts: 126
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Quote:
Get the other half out on the bike with you.
No excuses needed then, This tip must be worth £100.
It's worth more than £100 IMHO, the trouble is detailing the clever tip in picture format...
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Jamie Darlow
staff writer, mbr
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gorehound
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Reged: 01/03/2008
Posts: 1330
Loc: co durham
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Will a cartoon do????????
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I was a teenage werewolf!
andifalloffwithstyle!!!!!!
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JamieD
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Reged: 16/04/2008
Posts: 126
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Depends. Are you offering to pen one? Post it here and we'll all judge
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Jamie Darlow
staff writer, mbr
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MTBLeague
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Reged: 23/05/2007
Posts: 223
Loc: nr the big Falkirk Wheel.
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Heres one:- Do not bother using tie wraps to true your wheels, this is obvously a waste of a good tiewrap that could be used for hoding cables on etc..
Use a bit of chalk, remember blackboards and the things that we use to be made to use on them.
This will then let you "feel" and mark the bulges for correction in the one operation.
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The path of least resistance is easier to follow.............If you are in contact with.....gravity..:)
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themossman
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Reged: 26/05/2008
Posts: 2
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I use a garden pressure pump (the kind of one you pump up in pressure to spray flowers) as a portable, take anywhere bike wash. This, combined with some muck off or similar gets all the muck from the nooks and crannys of any rig and costs about £5 (mine did!!). It saves all post ride arguements regarding mud in the house/garden
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themossman
stranger
Reged: 26/05/2008
Posts: 2
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Heres another one! Y'know those thin wooden sticks you get in coffee shops for stirring a cuppa. They are fab for getting mud and grim out of sprockets and other small areas. Plus....they are free!!!!
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MTBLeague
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Reged: 23/05/2007
Posts: 223
Loc: nr the big Falkirk Wheel.
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1. Cable ties not doing their job? Cables moving and slapping on tubes marking everything, tried new ones and they aren't holding the cable as expected, before putting new ones on wrap the cable outer with something like insulating tape(preferably black thereby making it invisible) several times, now when the tie goes on it has something to bite into and now holds the cable firmly in place and now will not move.
2. Put a cheap plastic bar end plug (you must have one spare somewhere!) at the bottom of the steerer tube to plug another mud collection point.
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The path of least resistance is easier to follow.............If you are in contact with.....gravity..:)
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