this may be my favourite thread ever on here! 😀

Ha ha, I never realised STW was so full of synth fans

Now you can guess where my user name comes from

🙂

Ditto here Civil Service (MoD) here.

Also pushing the APM Qualifications

http://www.apm.org.uk/page.asp?categoryID=0

Congrats!

Loads! In fact all of them 😉

Paperboy
Building site labourer (ace summer holiday job) (I was 14 – can you imagine what the HSE would say about that now!)
Scaffolders labourer (ditto)(the initiation rite involves them trying to kill you)
Supermarket trolley boy / shelf stacker / junior manager
Civil Servant (Ministry of War) Clerk / Senior Clerk / Manager / Middle Manager / Senior Manager

grantway – Member
Alison Moyet used to go to my College London College Of Furniture
in Commercial Road and always seem to walk into together and she always
asked what floor i wanted

Alison who? 😉

Yeah, I know shockingly bad pic!

Tap the brakes lightly so he/she will have to respond. They should get the idea soon enough, This works in the car as well, a small tap to bring the brake lights on and people soon drop back..

I can't believe this kind of attitude. How stupid to risk your own safety by trying to show up the idiot behind who's riding or driving too close. You're the bigger idiot.

And the moron (or troll?) who deliberately got rear ended and ended up hurt as a result! Doh, how clever are you?

Do it in a car especially and you are very likely to end up with no compo and facing 'without due care' charges. Contrary to popular belief you are at fault if hit from behind if you've caused it.

Spoke to police and they are not interested

Not good enough. What he's doing is illegal. That's not civil, 'Rights of Way illegal' it's 'criminal' 'police action required' – 'behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace' at very least due to his language.

Who did you speak to? Local plod? PC on the phone? Which force are we talking about? I'd call the switchboard, ask to speak to the Duty Inspector and explain again politely that you'd like them to give him and son 'words of advice' at the very least.

1000 here too, all the kids had a go..

Erm.. not that I normallty enocurage them to go around slapping people you understand

Yes….As long as you don't ride the Bristol Bath Railway path (or any other similar heavily used narrow traffic free path)

I run an Enduro, it's great on the road, the 'strobe' mode actually pulses between 'dim and ultra bright' ran than on and off and is so good I use it during day light.

But.. I often commute on the Bristol Bath Railway path, the spread makes it a great off road light but it's too wide in specific situations like mine when you blind cyclists coming toward you.Even on the lowest setting, pointed down at the path I get complaints from people coming toward me.

I'm going to get a Strada which has a narrower beam and keep the Enduro for off-road use.

Those of you who are happily married or are happy with their long term girl/boyfriend, how close is your other half to your 'ideal'?

'Ideal' is about weighing up what's important to you and her and, if you're in it for the long haul, being prepared to compromise and grow together (not apart) over time.

I met my wife in a night club when we were 18. She says now that she knew from the second she met me that I was the one but for various reasons we had a couple of 'breaks' early in our relationship, I was too young and not ready to commit to anyone, at one point I did indeed go off with a Cameron Diaz look-alike. Great fun to take out but a nightmare to live with!

In the end, after 'playing the field' we both came back to eachother and have been happily married for 16 years now. We are different but have a lot in common. As already said, the same outlook and values.

Thanks for the tip dd, I'll look them up

hi-jack

Unfortunately not Andy but wish I had – apparently she's meant to be incredible live

Saw her supporting Royksopp at Ether and in Bristol
Strange but indeed incredible. No lights at all facing the stage, her and the band in face masks and costumes. Crowd blinded by lazers!
/

I'd done pretty much all I wanted to do other than win HRR and get a top ten at the HORR both of which I narrowly missed and I didn't want to spend any more time chasing them

Ah them were the days. I won our local HORR as a junior and it all went downhill from there! I went back to it for a few years but I've not been out now for 10 years. That was one of the problems with me, all the clubs I associated with were all or nothing (I used to row on the Avon at Saltford, for Saltford then Avon County). It would be nice to find a club that does just 'row for fun'.

Fever Ray, philsimm, good choice, did you catch her live?

Possibly Natasha?

Just picked this up, great advice from clubber. Emphasise the keeping pace bit which'll be even more important when you get out in a boat. Practice going from say 15 up to 22 and then keeping 22.

Presumably they'll start you off in a 4? Probably in 3 so you can follow stroke.

Fantastic sport, nothing beats that surging feeling of a racing 8 at top speed 🙂

Do you race clubber?

LCs for 3 Peaks and Commutin
Mich Muds for.. mud
Conti Twister for 'sticky'
Maxxis Locust for dry

I'd be interested to see OFs route too! Don't have one saved as a jpeg myself but plenty of options – hopefully his 'll include a climb up on to White Sheet Hill / round the Deverills / past the Glider Club?

Here's the map of the routes around the Estate, you're supposed to obtain a permit..

http://www.stourhead.com/map.htm

XC Pro, especially in Microdrive, was a piece of shit. It never stayed in adjustment, and when it did, it didn't shift anyway…

..but the shifters themselves were/are loverly. I'm still running a set (shifting an XTR mech on an XT 8 speed block). 16 Years old and still a nice positive accurate click shift

I can feel a new thread coming along..

Would you challenge someone if you saw them scrape a trolley down the side of an X6 that some w&nker had just parked across a P&C and HC space?

There's loads of Deepish Mood ones but here's my fave:

People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully

Makes Martin Gore cringe when he hears it!

Ok, Andy – out on a wing on this – Iraqi M1974 variant of a Sau 122?

No idea I'm afraid but it might well be.

It's at Shrivenham.

Analogue Andy – ten times round the block, shouting 'that is not a tank', GO!

Tracks, big gun..they all look the same to me 😉

Ah, the bikes and tanks thread, can I join in?

A sandy one:

1986 – At the back, recognise anyone else?

Hey Mark, not on your scale but a good mate of mine (hi stuart) had to have a heart transplant after contracting a virus that attacked his heart muscles, as already said any heart surgery is a massive op that takes time to heal..

Years later he is as quick as the rest of us and now competes at the Transplant Games, like Lance, just remember however bleak it gets you can come back stronger

Eye's peeled here (North Bristol) too, I'll put the word out on the UWE and MoD BUGs

Whereabouts are you? I've fitted two, different sizes, bought the liner cut to size and all the bits I needed from these guys:

Yes, as you seem to be aware you need to comply with the Regs, again they've got a really handy guide to follow:

http://www.knight-stoves.co.uk/partj_regulations.pdf

I was also told by someone that there's a website where stolen bikes in Bristol end up, and that the Singletrack Forum users were likely to know wher I could find thsi.

Mr Agreeable 'll be along in a minute.. in the meantime here's his aforementioned site:

http://www.stolenbristolbikes.com/

Gloves:

Just bought a pair of these.

Jacket:
I've various, Altura Night Vision is good,Endura used to do a nice snug fit one in hi-viz too.

Will be thinking of you both over the next few days.
ditto

hey mark, go steady mate, the lows will be real low, keep thinking of the highs on the other side.

there's plenty of survivors stories out there, this guy is a flickr contact of mine from the states (who happens to build amazing frames), he's documented his highs and lows over the last year: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fastboy/sets/72157607075926461/

Check out the You Tube Vid

Really sorry to have missed it 🙁

Next year!

Great pics Chas.

Frome was widely reported as being the best Depart this Tour. Was great to be there.

Geraint Thomas and Ben Swift (who went on to win Stage 7 – his first pro win)

The full set on flickr[/url]

Hi Chas, I was hoping to (And was planning to bring the rest of the Weds Night gang out from Bath) but something has come up 🙁

Still desperately hoping to be able to make it on Thurs though

The grovelling c0ck has issued an apology:

• 4.45pm Update:
Regarding the The Tesla Roadster Article…
May I take this opportunity to apologize [sic] for any offence I have caused through the article in last weekend's Mail on Sunday. It was never my intention to offend the many cyclists who share our roads across the country. What was intended to be a humorous piece was clearly misjudged. Further more I do not condone any form of reckless driving.

Once again, I am sincerely sorry for any upset caused in relation to this article.

James Martin

Too late chum, damage done

…apparently it was an 'On One' 😆

Has he got a restaurant I wonder?

(I'm looking to book a table for 8 )

<i>Complete non-story. Amazing that they'd print such sh1te on page 1 of the paper. </i>

Agree.

But the worrying this is people will read it and believe it and you know what that will lead.. some MP will jump on the idea and raise it as a private members bill with 'massive public support'!

<i>Meant to be. </i>

Nice!

Not a crosser but my Colnago came to me in similar circumstances.

Proper bikes 🙂

I agree with Zulu-Eleven,

on the subject of casualty numbers and lack of bodies. Yes, surprisingly the Taleban take care removing their dead.

Another interesting report from Sean Smith

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/aug/17/black-watch-afghanistan-british-soldiers

The Taliban don't leave their bodies. Occasionally there will be a news report that 30 insurgents were killed in this place, 20 Taliban defeated in that place, but this is a surreal conflict, a narrative without clear beginnings and endings, without substantiation. High explosive is zooming back and forwards, so the enemy is certainly there, but go to the position from where they have been firing and there is usually nothing to be seen. Once, we arrived at a compound from where there had been firing and found four glasses and a teapot set out on a tray; the tea in the pot was still hot enough to drink. But you don't see anything, not a thing. I never even saw a blood trail. It's like a ghost war.

..all the civilians had fled this part of Helmand; the walled compounds were silent and locked, the lush irrigated fields, now largely empty since the opium crop had finished, seemingly abandoned. There was no question that the people who were in the building were fighters. A missile was launched, either with programmed co-ordinates, from nearby Camp Bastion, or dropped from an aerial assault; I didn't see. But a few days later as we came back from a patrol I noticed a head in one of the fields. As soon as we got close to it we could see it had a pigtail.

It was a girl, a young girl of perhaps 14 whose body had been flung out of the building by the force of the bombing. But why was she there? Had the fighters kept her there to do their cooking? Why had no one come looking for her? I don't suppose anyone will ever know

<i>
you could probably fill half hour on the common, the kids did have some small dirt jumps there. </i>

Ahh, the common, when on knobblies they form part of the commute (down to the Railway Path) cue shouts of "nice bike mister, can we nick it"

So are you 'current' / working at Scabby Wood then?

A few of us here run the odd 'afternoon meeting' down at Cwm Carn / Afan