ride off into the sunset never to be heard of again

indeed…

smack your housemate one for turning off the pump!

Apparently you can convince everyone on here that your bike has been stolen and you can't possibly afford to replace it. Then loads of people will send you perfectly good bits out of pity and you'll have a great little bike for free!!

got a pair of 180mm’s on my xc bike, performed perfectly stopping my 15 stone down the pyrennees. that’s with deore v levers too, in dry and wet (very!) conditions. no fluid to heat up so no fade, you just have to click the pads in a notch once in a while.

also got a pair of 200mm’s on my downhill/freeride bike with no probs.

I’d recommend them.

At last, here’s Bran the wolfhound!

A big, hairy, 10ish stone teddy bear! The fool thinks he’s a lap dog.

darn, will try again when fotopic is playing the game.

you lot only like small dogs then?

Bran the Irish wolfhound:

FAIL

Great dog, but lots of hair…

We stayed at the White Room for a week’s snowboarding in December. Our honeymoon in fact.

I can back Stevo up that the food and drink is excellent. Stevo and Iona are great hosts too, and the Chalet is really nice. I can’t say much about the riding since everything was well covered in snow on our week. Feel free to email for more comments, they’ll all be positive.

We had such a good time in fact that we’re going back in August for biking. I’m seriously looking forward to it. See you in August Stevo!

Geoff

thanks Ian. Have you got a link to the ugawavtt site? that address won’t work for me…

Sadly Les Angles ony seems to open in July. I’ve mailed Font Romeu, but not hoping for much really.

La Molina and Grand Valira (Andorra) seem to only open in June/July too, so running out of options in the region unfortunately.

Anyone else know of anywhere please?

Did manage to find some maps of trails in Catalonia though, so if anyone would like copies…

Thanks Mackem, that’s the site I found. Useful to know where the official centres are, but there are no actual route maps to be found (as far as I can see).

The nearest centre isn’t far by car, but I have a suspicion that we could join enough routes that pass closer to Empuria without driving, if only I could find maps…

Otherwise I guess we’ll make a trip to one of the centres early in the week.