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If you're going to go for a V220, isn't a marco polo more suitable?

ta, they said 10 for matting and tangles then a 23 to finish. Upsold the hell out of me

Oh really! I was literally saying yesterday that i wish we had a less fine one for the first pass as the fine one gets clogged too quickly and needs constantly clearing or it pulls too much

Ours says fine 19 blade

Check which one is the right one for your dogs coat, they have a guide. The place that sells them here won’t send you one unless you tell them which dog you have first!

Yeah we really rate the Coat King, we just have the basic one with the non-replaceable blades, i think we have a specific "fine" one or something for the silky type cocker coat.

It just stop the undercoat getting super thick, I find that if we keep her undercoat under control it stops her getting matted (dangly cocker ears are the worst for matting because they're constantly wet)

Surprisingly, her coat is pretty good at staying debris free even though we leave her longer with the more traditional cocker cut. I normally have to pull some spikey bit of undergrowth or those sticky rhododendron leaves out of her most days though.

The beach is probably the worst for her coat, the salt water seems to make her quite greasy, so she gets a full bath after the beach each week.

We also brush her with a Mars Coat King every few weeks which strips out the dead under coat, seems to help quite a lot.

We’re a big fan of going for a 3D walk, the only time we have any issues with behaviour have been when we’ve just gone to a playing field with a toy and she loses interest and bolts after a cat / bird etc.

We pretty much exclusively go trail walking now (she still flushes birds out of the bush, but gun dogs gonna gun dog I guess.

Yeah we have a raised bed at home that's the same height as the window (650mm), even though it has a ramp she will just hoon on and off it to the floor. I decided that was probably bad long term and cut 200mm off the legs

I've seen the fucker jump up and down from 1m and be quite happy running around himself

I think stuff like this is fine, especially on working breed dogs, in small measures.

The reason they don't do it at agility is because the different bits of equipment cause a lot of repetitive impacts on their joints, weaving is super hard on the joints in their front legs for example.

I do want to do more training and agility but at 7 months he's quite bolshy

I think agility is a great thing to do with them, we started at about 1yr old with our spaniel.

Most dog clubs won't let you do agility training before 1yr and they can only do restricted activities until they are 18months old.

Most clubs will have an intro to dog sports class for puppies though which is normally pretty good to give you a head start and trains lots of the underpinnings of agility, would recommend.

I have a massive 2.5km 12% descent at the end of my commute that crosses 2 busy intersections. I think i need to get some

Are they just swisstop BXPs?

@lynx

A new car with a full length webasto sunroof appears (Toyota Aygo X)

My only complaint with the long sleeve core jersey is that in the size i take the arms are much tighter and it's hard to get an LS base layer underneath, especially merino

No worries, I hadn’t taken it that way, wasn’t trying to call you out or anything.

Aluminium AN fittings are industry standard for mil spec lines (AN meaning Army/Navy) and common in most motorsport applications for fuel and oil lines, I have only ever seen stainless or zinc coated mild steel used for brakes though, potentially there is a reason that they don’t use alloy on brake stuff with DOT fluid?

Yeah same on ours, apart from we use EPS

No need to go mad with posting proof, i'm not saying you haven't, But it is worth noting that most applications would only use steel (or stainless) on brake fittings.

All of the anodized ones are for Fuel / Oil / Water only hence @Jung 's picture of a fuel line

I've used the anodised aluminium ones for various motorsport applications for probably the past 20yrs and had no obvious issues.

The majority (if not everything over -3 hose) of AN fittings are anodised aluminium.

I've only really seen steel ones for brake lines specifically (-3 hose)

out of interest, what do you feed your cockers on?

I'm finding mine has a slightly sensitive stomach and I've had to change food recently which is taking time to adjust to

Who was I kidding, I just fitted them now

Got my litepro bars today, look pretty good, nice width and sweep.

planning on fitting them with the 2017> trigger shift setup this weekend.

is 3sp in this context still sturmey hub gear?

EVOC Explorer? If its anything like the Trail is has pockets n sections for days.

I was thinking of going for the 20L trail one as i like the sleeve for your helmet on the outside of the bag, 20L of internal space is prob enough for my day to day (at worst some climbing gear for bouldering after work)

I do like the Ortleib, but A bag with a single 35L void isn’t really what I’m after I don’t think