Speedo,

Can’t beat them for longevity and classy looks. All ladies love them.

If the woman drives like GeeTee described it could have happened to anyone: a normal cyclist, pedestrian, other car, moped or motorbike.

You cannot blame this on the fact it was a TT, most TT riders I ride with are very conscious of cars and most car drivers are good. But there are by far more idiot drivers than TTers when I race, probably because they know they won’t be injured if the hit a bike.

Banning TTs is a stupid idea; it makes drivers think they own the road and no other form of transport deserves to use it. It will also kill the sport, I have to drive miles to my nearest closed track.

Education of drivers and tougher penalties for people driving like idiots is the only way to make roads safer for cyclists.

Project, why should cyclists get penalised because drivers can’t drive properly?

As a TTer on a fast duel carriageway (A31) I find it very sad that it takes a death before people start to realise the way drivers behave around racing cyclists.

Duel carriageways may be fast roads but are the safest to TT on, the cars get a lane and a half to overtake. Yet people continuously drive like idiots. Shutting the road is not a practical idea, we have 3 TT’s a week on the A31 during the summer months.

Drivers simply need to drive safer around bikes and concentrate on what they are doing. I really feel for this guys family and hope it is the last fatality, but until drivers sort themselves out I feel it won’t be.

What ever you do, don’t teach R.E. You will be in for a world of pain.

Apparently the symptoms of swine flu are; sweating, excessive body odour and laziness. No wonder it went unnoticed for so long in Mexico.

Be prepared to tow the line, if you are someone who voices their oppionion I don’t think it goes down will with many senior staff. School politics see above.

You will have to be very self confident, that you know what you are talking about and can control the class. Maybe look at colleges as you don’t have the idiots that don’t want to be there, except in B-tec. You also need a very long fuse.

Boss do nice ones, something like that:

Just look around.

Sorry about the size, I don’t know how to fix it.

Chuck Norris would ride your mum.

Sorry had to be said.

A fixy cyclocross down fort william and beat Sam Hill.

Part time second chef, I don’t get much a choice and make a mean brownie.

Yes, Scottish power. I don’t have a clue where to stay yet; I was only offered the job today. I will be looking at student accommodation as it is a gap year job and doesn’t pay a huge amount.

I think the MGB is either being garaged in dry storage if I can afford it or sold 🙁 but hopefully the first. I think it would rust to bits in Glasgow and I don’t fancy the 7 hour drive getting it there.

The job is in Cathcart. I plan to commute by bike as in road bike, so under 10-15 miles. Possibly car or motorbike in the wet and cold. Hope that helps.

You must:

Honk, whistle or shout at every ‘fit’ woman walking on the pavement.

Drive as close to cyclists as you can, even get the passenger to slap them on the arse out the window as you go past.

Always answer the phone when driving, if urgent then text a reply.

Speed limits are in fact a minimum speed.

Under no circumstances must you clean the inside or outside of your van.

You must not:

Respect other road uses.

Or drive in the correct lane.

Just wait untill the stagflation later on this/next year.

BD – on the bike do you concentrate more thrashing it down a downhill run or just dawdling along the path? Which one are you more likely to notice conditions and stuff out of the ordinary?

Why would it be hugely different in a car? I don’t speed much; it’s hard when my car was made in the 70’s. It takes total concentration just to drive the thing.

Go second hand, pick up a decent spec hardtrail. Trek, Spech, DMR, Charge, On-One. Just look around on classifieds and evil bay.

Thats 27.77euros a go!

Graham S – clearly you have never ridden a motorbike. The amount of times I’ve had to accelerate when cars decide to turn out of the road or roundabout in front of me is ureal.

I have a Turbo and do it three times a week for about an hour.

Start – Put on some good high pace drum and bass and get 2 litre bottles of juice / water

10 minute warm-up

3 x high cadence 1 minute @ 120 with 30 seconds slow in between

then

6 x 3.30 minutes at 80% followed by 3.30 minutes at 90%

cool down

stretches

This is a very hard set, I use it to train for 25 mile TTs. It will get them fit.

20mph in a urban zone is a good idea.

50mph on a rural A road is utter stupidity. In case anyone hasn’t noticed people don’t drive 60mph on rural A road. So why is changing it down to 50mph going to make any difference? I reckon it will cause more accidents and deaths, people who want to go 70-80mph will still do so and just overtake the people driving at slow speeds. Probably in dangerous areas too.

People are generally good at judging speed. We have a lot of cars on the road and a very low accident rate compared to most other countries.

It’s just another way for the government to waste our money. Governing cars is very silly, most of the time you need to accelerate out of accidents hence why mopeds are so dangerous.

Another thing they need to do is regulate insurance companies, this will cut the amount of uninsured drivers. When you are quoted £1200 at 18 a lot of people will just drive uninsured.

There’s lots of good riding in the S.E you just have to know where to look 😉

Go British and get a Monoc. They are pretty good Aluminium frames and come with a pretty good spec. I love mine and they are great training / all year bikes.

http://monoc.co.uk/bikes.htm

Goldie Lookin Chain. They were playing support for Feeder and we all thought they would be aweful. They had the crowd in fits of laughter and weren’t half bad. Performing classic songs like ‘Your mothers got a penis’ and ‘Gun don’t kill people rappers do!’.

Feeder were very good too.

I’ve just made chocolate brownies 🙂

Nissan Almera!

Mine did 135,000 miles without a mechanical part being replaced. They are cheap to insure and have a high MPG. They easily fit a few bikes in, and I’m sure a few kids too. You can pick them up for £1000 or less.

Mine was a bit dented etc being a first car so I sold it to a mate for £200.

The job is in Cathcart, Glasgow. I take it there is good riding around there.

Wow that was certainly one of the scariest experiences of my life. I’d take a black downhill run over that any day.

Never the less I feel it went very well, I had two giggle Scottish lasses interviewing me. They seemed very nice. Now I just hope I get the job.

The MG is going great, I’ve had a few minor problems: leaky tank, brakes going on fire but nothing serious. Shes so much fun to drive and a bit of a head turner. I’m not sure whether I can take her to Scotland if I get the job 🙁

Thanks for the advise guys I hope it goes well.

Well it is for a job in Glasgow and I’m from Hampshire so I suspect they will find my accent pretty funny anyway.

I could try it naked or even in some ladies underwear, somehow I feel this may not help.

So does anyone have any useful tips?

*cough* Mamma Mia *cough*

A geordie in a job centre.
Prescott in a pie shop.

Jeremy Kyle show?

Possibly the same for me, I’ve got three interviews next week 😀

2 stoke scooter, you have to love the sewing machine sound.

But seriously, my 1972 MGB sounds very nice with the 4 cyclider engine and straight pipes. Or my friends old 5l v12 jag again with straight pipes sounded lovely untill he blew the head gasket.

New Prodigy Album Invaders Must Die. Get her into the rave scene early.

Work 🙁

England entry, I reckon she’s dirty.

Never mind the politics, you know you’d give her a poke.

My dad has a seat leon cupra R, lovely car 240bph or something like that. Drives very well and seem to be really reliable. Engine is lovely and electrics are good. Cheaper than a Golf too. Go for it.