Kona Jake the Snake

Advantages: Great handling, climbs like a mountain goat
Disadvantages: Can be a handfull on rough, fast decents

...To date I've owned three Kona Kulas, spanning a perod of nearly ten years. I've ridden 100km marathons on one, ridden the trails of South Wales on one, and commuted on one, so from that you could surmise that I like the bike. Well yes I do, but as technology has moved on is there still a place for the Kona Kula in todays market place? When it comes to riding fast, smooth singletrack, either up hill or down, the Kula is superb. The bike climbs very, very well, and the twistier and tighter the singletrack gets, the more the bike excells. Fireroad climbs are eaten for breakfast, and the geometry of the bike is such that it can be thrown back down with gay abandon. However, once a few rocks start appearing, you'll need to sharpen up. There's no ploughing headlong through rock gardens on this bike. The back end will give you a swift kick... Read review

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Advantages: cheap ,fun
Disadvantages: it breaks easily

...Plastic jointed snake. I was lured into the gift shop at the natural history museum in Tring by my grandchildren. I did not want to spend much money so the children were directed to the cheap toys and my granddaughter aged 3 choose a jointed snake. * cost. Availability. This jointed snake coast me 50p I think . It is available from other novelty shops and on line at http://www.tobar.co.uk Probably at Hawkins sport too. *Well for 50p you don?t expect much do you and we didn?t get much either. What we did get was an orange red jointed hard plastic snake. There were black eyes and on each of 6 of the body segments there is a black, yellow and white circles looks a bit like a target .As well as these 6 jointed segments there is the head and a tail segment too. These segments are all joined together by a couple of pegs this... Read review

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Advantages: educational, fun for children, available at reasonable prices, easy to play
Disadvantages: not so fun for adults!

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Snakes and Ladders ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Snakes and ladders is a very simple board game that has been around for years. The aim of the game is to get to the 'end' first. The game is based on the roll of a dice and therefore is purely down to luck. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How To Play ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The board consists of rows of 10X10 numbered squares. There are pictures of snakes and pictures of ladders which connect one square to another. The players take turns in throwing the dice and move their counter along the number of squares that the dice states. If a player lands on a square where the bottom of a ladder starts, they get to move up to the square where the top of the ladder ends. If they land on the head of a snake then they have to go down the snake to the square where its... Read review

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