1-sort my bank accounts out (not that I've millions stashed away, but they're all a mess!)
2-get my little'un riding his balance bike
3-ride the asthma 'beach to beach' in good weather again
4-some uk enduro races
5-sell my excess bike bits and be happy with what i have
6-get my fork and shock on the meta serviced professionally
DrP
Be happier, ultimately, I spose.
Getting bike ready for an urban ride tomorrow
and do some photography
Have fun through out the year
Spend more time riding
Spending more time in our pad in Spain
Be Happy 
Not into new years resolutions but have a couple of goals for this year, since getting married in November to my partner of 18 years we have realised that we want to simplify our lives and get away from the stresses of work, etc. So:
1) buy a van and convert into a camper in the next few weeks,( anybody know of a good vw t5 or similar going)
2) ride more areas, lakes, peaks, quannies, etc
3) get out surfing every week
4) do more sportives
5) and most importantly spend more quality time with my family and friends
Get out on my mtb or roadbike more often
Get off my ass workwise
Lose Xmas poundage
Have some time with the wife away from the kids
Get to the pub more often to see my friends (went once all last year)
Hopefully chip away at this debt I'm in
Be in less pain
Find a car mechanic who can actually fix my car
Ride the SDW in one go (hope to do it both ways but one way will do for starters)
Learn the fingering on my alto recorder
- Enter Gravity enduros
- Enter Fort william enduro
- A decent alps holiday and not just following the usual DH tracks
- Ride my bike much much faster both up and down hill.
Karinofnine - Memberfingering
this is mine too
this reminds me of a paper/article (i can't find the link to) i read about declaring objectives to contemparies/otherS. the gists was stating the objective, "I'm going to ride 10,000 miles this year" etc, was self defeating. In summary those that kept the objective to themselves are much more likely to achive said objective than those that boast/proclaim their objective to others.
LOL at wallop
what Klunk said - for most people saying they intend to do something replaces doing it in their subconscious and the desire to achieve it is reduced. If I do what I'm planning to do I'll be sure and let you all know 
My main priorities are
1)Get the house ready to sell
2)Find a good woman,know any in their 40's not to bitter & twisted / mad?..
3)Alpine holiday,we're looking at Verbier at the momment
4)Do 100 miles on the roadbike & enter at least one sportive
5)Do Manx E2E,not done it since 2006 time for a return
6)Been meaning to do the English C2C,still not done it
7)The other one I've still to do is the Mary Townley Loop
8)Manchester winter ales fest,Liverpool beer fest & Keswick beer fest.Ooh the anticipation,Tickets bought already 
Buy a house
Ride a lot more.
Get really happy on grade 3 whitewater.
Get fitter.
Do some long road rides
See my mates and family more.
Oh and start riding the shore at herts
Oh gods, really? Does this mean my car will NEVER get fixed? 
One or two more than five but here goes::::
1) Decide once and for all whether to retire from work when I reach 65
in March. (cant really afford to to be honest)
2) Pay off my credit card.(its already been cut up and my pension pot
will pay off the balance.)
3) Complete my 'bucket list'
4) Spend more time in the gym
5) Do more than the one sportive I've signed up for.
6) Have a real mountain bike holiday somewhere sunny.
7) Try to listen to my body so that I could possibly stop a third
heart attack. (I think four stents is quite enough).
1, continue to improve my fitness
2, expand my living and working caravn tripsto new areas, possibly into Europe
3, Make better investment plans, not just the usual stashing cash
4, spend more time wih friends
5, get over the first half of 2011 and fall in love with a woman who wont mess me around (and is capable of lovng me back)
1) go for a ride with WCA
2) see what happens after said ride
3) ditto
4) ditto
5) ditto
- Climb at least one 4000m peak in the alps
- Cycle across France from the channel to the med
- Get better at bouldering and go to Font to shred my fingertips to pieces
- Do my first audax and sportive
- Invite more people round for dinner (I love the cooking / eating / drinking / talking combo)
- Volunteer more to encourage more people to start cycling and mountaineering
- Meet a great guy - know any in their 40's who aren't too bitter or twisted / mad?
oh, one other thing. brew beer from scratch, starting today:
http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=47085&p=495429#p495429
18 litres of something peculiar, if you know what I mean
move to Vancouver would be nice but knowing my luck the Cascadia fault would unzip a week after I got there
Quiet you! This is a little too close to the bone. Was in a relationship this time last year which bit the dust, in part due to (and via a slightly convoluted set of circumstances) the NZ CHristchurch earthquake. This time round my love interest has moved to Vancouver. No sooner had she arrived than they experienced a mild tremor, sufficient to shake their building slightly and scare the bejesus out of her... In short, I don't wish 'girls moving to other countries' and 'earthquakes' to become any more a feature of my relationships than they already have! 
All this talk of announcing intentions then not achieving them is also slightly close to the bone, I hope I've not jinxed myself! 
Sue W, I'm in my mid 40's, not to bitter, not at all twisted, but perhaps a touch mad
Ahem ... sorry to mislead, but my final point was a gentle piss-take of Bustaspoke's comment above about wanting to find a single woman who wasn't bitter or mad ... I'm afraid it wasn't a serious resolution for 2012!
Sue W, no need to let me down gently, 2011 taught me all I need to know about being dumped
supertramp - see it more as a lucky escape
1] make baby number 2
2] get a kid trailer for baby number 1
3] loose the beer belly
4] tbh honest not arsed about much else maybe finish decorating the house, just kitchen bathroom to go, id like to do a youth club/scouts thing but hard making that work with the wee man around!
5] oh yeah get another tattoo
1 Get better at actually sticking to the lists I write.
Ride more (ride further afield regularly, ride more natural trails).
Eat & drink less.
Lose a bit of weight (the above two might be related).
Get back into 'serious' painting/photography.
(slightly further off the radar) Both me and Zoe find teaching jobs in a more 'bike (MTB) friendly' part of the country.
slainte 
rob
Sue W , I had one of those in may 2011, hence my lisy LOL
Sue the original comment was meant in jest,so I was expecting (and got) a non to serious reply.
I'm afraid I can't help with what you're looking for.I'm not bitter/ twisted or mad.However,boo hoo I am 50..
i will try to resurrect this thread in November/December to see who has achieved it and who has succumbed to the realization/achievement/demotivation thingy
Sit down in front of a computer more. Become a big hitter. Submit to peer pressure and become a representative member of the STW community:
Ride my bikes less, pollute more, drink too much, get fat, become a lousy lover and get ditched by Madame, remove the insulation from my house and install central heating, stop doing anything with junior, buy an impractical but flashy car... .
1> Ride more
2> Drink less
3> Eat less
4> Get rid of any toys not used in last year
5> Spend less time on STW
* 5 not likely to happen
My aim is to ride less.. cos I spent 2011 taking one step forward and two steps back by overworking a knee injury..
This horrendous task will be made infinitely easier as we'll be welcoming baby number 2 to the world in Feb.. and Mrs Yunki now has a half decent bike.. so I imagine that I will be spending some pleasant days bimbling around the countryside with my happy family..
Less is definitely going to be more for me this year
1. Try to beat the 4,000 miles of cycling done this year
2. Try to get slimmer - lost 1.5 stone this year
3. Try to find room to put all my clutter away in a very small flat
4. Try to stop smoking - again!
5. Try not to sound too desperate about finding a man - after all I've managed without one for many years.
Note all the above begin with "try" - I don't expect success in everything or indeed anything.
La Marmotte for the second time
Ride the Ridgeway in one day
Torq Rough Ride
Hampshire Hilly Hundred sportive
One other sportive
Might join a local road club and try some time trialling
Experiment with medication.
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