GBDuro isn’t a race, it’s as a scrappy rolling picnic through Britain’s ever changing landscapes.

LOL

The ride consists of 4 timed stages (~500km each); lowest aggregate time over the 4 stages ‘wins’… nothing.

It’s a timed ride with published results, aka a race. Which is how the participants describe it on various YouTube videos.

You can cleverly claim it’s a ” reliability ride” but it’s not. No-one “wins” an Audax in the UK

. I can’t say I believed him on that…

They couldn’t do it for the Manchester Commonwealth Games, why do they think they can get it to work?

It only takes one stakeholder nevermind a landowner to object. The rambling and horse riding groups will go mad if they think their priority will be impacted.

But as ive said(many pages back) Russia isnt going to invade anyone. The only people clamouring for war is the US and their lapdogs.

As to NATO as a whole, the Europeans. Nato isnt going to do anything as it will be a fricken cold winter with Russia holding their fuel supplies in a vice like grip.

I don’t think anyone is clamouring for war, I believe we have been noisy on the PR front to keep ahead of the usual Russian precursor activities. The whole point is to head off a war.

The Ukrainians don’t want one, none of the NATO or non aligned European states want one, the US don’t want one.

As always ask “cui bono” I can only see two countries benefiting from a conflict

But you know, keep going on about US/ NATO/ EU/ UK aggression.

The Cash equivalent value of the NHS pension will be a lot higher than £250k, probably closer to £450k. The scheme gives a lower value for the in scheme “value” of the pot

British Cycling for the legality of the stuation. I’m ex Powys Highways BTW.

British Cycling sanction a regular race that goes over bridleways, they may be trying to circumvent with landowners permission but its not in line with the law as understood.

Not sure how gbduro got away with it either.

We could organise some kind of West Berlin style airbridge.

would the plane get off the ground encumbered with the weight of your moral superiority?

Meanwhile in Manchester labour are losing votes (a lot of them!)..

I doubt the labour administration is panicking about their majority

Rachel Reeves has had a strong coffee today and sounds up for this, as it’s an open goal

The “discount” needs to be outed as fake news

Do you know, I think some folk could do with re-reading “1984”.

I think they could do with reading a lot of the other writings of Mr Orwell

The govt would still have to buy at market rates, but the price to the end consumer could be lower.

You are not nationalising UK production?

The point is that the govt could subsidise prices more effectively if it owned the supply and was negotiating the price with external markets.

Really?

Sell wholesale gas at less than market rates?

Have enough production to influence the market rate?

No, you tell me. You tell me how energy companies going to the wall is good for consumers.

Generators aren’t going to the wall, it’s retailers. It’s evidence that the sector suffered from weak regulation. Sort that out and there will be new entrants.

But we were told that the markets operate so perfectly? Deliver the lowest prices, fantastic efficiency- great service to consumers.

The price rises will drive decarbonisation of heat faster than anything else will.

As for the markets, which one? The call centre and wholesale price hedging one or the international global gas prices?

There are three groups you can split people into

Those who are self centered and just take and screw everyone else or some group they have othered

Those who moan about the first group and stay in their little bubble

Those who try and make their community a better place and help people regardless of whether they are in one of the first two groups or not

It will be every man for himself where the majority will happily screw over anyone to step up another rung on the ladder or even just to knock others down a rung so your position seems comparatively better, people will happily intimidate you, swerve at you and run you off the road just to get to work five seconds earlier. Oh wait that’s now isn’t it? Welcome to Tory Britain.

Are you joining in or trying to make a difference?

*Worth remembering there were have and have nots, poverty and class superiority in England way before today.

There have always been the less well off in society, there has never been a period with anything else in some form or other

Is the guy on the right your dad? There is an uncanny resemblance….

This country is so awful that people flee France in small boats to cross the channel in mid winter

The country is very diverse and England the most diverse part of the UK. It’s not a monopopulation of Nigel Farages

I see selfishness, greed, pride in ignorance and a disdain for others everywhere.

You can change the people who you hang out with, there are plenty of people who are positively contributing the their community, who care, who go out of their way to help others.

Be one of them.

I also work in a factory in the Workington constituency

Uppie or downie?

There’s a reason why these threads always end up being about binners, it’s because that’s exactly the way he wants it and he’s very good at trolling

I thought it was because he is a paid up active member of the Labour Party who actively supports the local campaigning?

Arguably a stronger position to argue from even if they end up going full circle over time

I’m in the FB Group for the town (small Northern English ex-industrial) I was born in and lived until I left school.

It’s grim reading, and what is especially grim is the appalling grammar, spelling and shoddily written English – and pretty much all they ever do is complain about foreigners, gypsies and kids.

It probably says more about the members of that Facebook group than anything

I don’t suppose the decline in social attitudes you identify is in anyway due to the beneficiaries of the previously decent schools leaving the area?

‘You silly moo’ makes you laugh does it?

In the context of Mrs Brown’s Boys it’s a neo classical artform

Nadine Dorris is Secretary of State for Culture. Nadine Dorris!

A successful author who has sold more books than everyone on this forum combined. A former NHS nurse as well.

Jumps the shark at every opportunity. Resembling a cult member when interviewed about Boris

For me, I’ve been struggling lately to see the direction the culture and society in the UK is going. I feel more than ever before that there’s barely any sense of community in a lot of places, hardly any real leisure time for most people and not a great deal of hope for things to improve in the future. Despite earning the most I ever have and having the least commitments I’ll ever have (no kids, parents are still fairly independent) I feel poorer than ever and as if I have no quality fulfilling time to enjoy life after work is said and done.

In part it’s what you make it, if you aren’t pulling your finger out and trying to make your local area a nicer place or finding something worthwhile to do then the solution is close to home.

The country has always been full of people who help and also those who take. You choose who you hang out with.

LLBUD website will provide free utility prints as a guide. You need to register.

The likelihood a individual lead service is shown is diminishingly small

The likelihood is that both services could run in parallel and split close to the houses. Trenches are a pita to dig so the builders used to make their lives easy.

Cat and Genny from HSS or similar will tell you. Not hard to use, instructions are on the outside, just make sure you get a good earth.

You may be able to insure against the risk?

metal detector might help as a starter i.e. If it picks up their pipe but nothing else

At 0.75m deep you’d be lucky

It’s the gable end of a huge warehouse wall. If it were a 4ft high brick wall I wouldn’t be querying it.

Run away……

I think you can contact the water supplier and ask for a map showing supply and various drains.

It’s best seen as a guide rather than accurate, if it’s even on the plans

Without a picture it’s hard to advise

You can hire a cat and Genny to trace your pipe

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The question is whether 69 has the same covenant, if it doesn’t they are off the hook for walk B

When asked to repeat the actual accusation that Johnson made herself, she did the Nadine Dorries defence “well I don’t know all the facts…”.

So there you have it. It looks like this nonsense is now a clear party tactic, probably briefed directly from central office, being repeated by Tory MPs to smear Starmer.

Thats the level to which they’ve now sunk to. It’s not even gutter level. Its way, way below that. The depressing thing is that I suspect it’ll work with his thick-as-mince Brexity base, which is exactly why they’re doing it

Conservative MPs have jumped the shark, well some have, I don’t think it will help them. They are looking stupid. The media need to do their job now and make them look really stupid

Starmer needs to take the Savile stuff head on and use the just released CSE report to highlight the scale of a important issue that the government has failed to tackle. The leveling up joke funding, the lack of pandemic preparedness, the blatant treatment of the population as fools in Downing St. Take the piss about Boris needing to wait for a police report before he can confirm he was in his own home etc etc

Every time they

Easy choice! Point me to one shadow cabinet member who isn’t head and shoulders above the current person supposedly handing the brief in government. Just one.

Easy, name the portfolio, no search engines allowed

Bridget Phillipson
Nick Thomas-Symonds
John Healey
Jonathan Reynolds
Steve Reed
Louise Haigh

All big portfolios, all seen their opposite number on the telly lots, all have been nearly invisible

The majority of the Parliamentary Labour Party is more than happy with the job he is doing/not doing.

The majority of the PLP are completely anonymous, most of the rest just virtue signal on social media, then you have Richard Burgon.

OK might be unfair here but most of his frontbench are non entities, his pool of talent in the PLP woeful. In the conservatives there are clearly more in numbers ignoring the Desmond Dwayne’s more that are capable of putting a coherent view persuasively forward.

The virtue signalling of things like the Bloody Sunday tweet (undoubtedly a awful event) is playing to the converted, one wonders if he’s going to tweet on the Warrington bomb anniversary?

The recent report looking at action on CSE is also awful, many labour led local authorities still are playing the three monkeys. He needs to come out swinging on this

Has anyone had any luck pinning shin splints on a weakness elsewhere in the kinetic chain and sorted them by strengthening there?

My fix was to run off road, when I restarted with c25k I did it round the local park on the grass, now run mainly off road.

Two parts to the theory, softer ground gives more, uneven ground makes your stride uneven and you think about placement more, it also makes you run more with the forefoot.

Could be absolute tosh

My shoulder took ages to heal properly. I’ve often wondered if it would have taken less time with proper advice from the hospital. It was still painful when I slept on it about 3 years later.

To be honest based on a sample size of 1 you would be given a sling for a few weeks and if you are lucky some physio, the surgeon who assessed mine said on the final assessment, work it hard, if it hurts I’ll think about operating. It settled down after a while and doesn’t have a noticeable impact on me at all now.

but the Alliance of British Drivers, FairFuelUK and Motorcycle Action Group,

It’s essentially the same small group of idiots who find gullible idiots to send them money, it would be far more useful if there was an active campaign of complaints to the broadcasting regulator every time they are on pointing out they don’t represent the group’s they claim to speak for and are essentially fake news organisations

We’re holding an event at Lee Quarry in March, please follow the link if you’re interested 🙂 https://www.bmbo.org.uk/calendar/details.php?event_id=1322

I might go, someone has to be last, I’m assuming the controls are going to be half way down the black sections

You may want to change your closing date for entries to a date before the event……

If we venture over that way, normally park at Watergrove reservoir car (kerr perrrk if youre local) and head over the bridleways to rooley moor road, up RMR to Cragg Quarry do the loop down the long path to LQ down to the office park, turn right, there is a cycle trail that will then take you down to Shawforth where you can rejoin the PBW back to Watergrove.

I’d go through Ding Quarry near the top of RMR to break up the climb, that connects to Cragg Quarry

not particularly conducive to meeting up with other riders but thanks for the offer.

Not a problem, I don’t ride with me either ;-)

A few of the classic bits have been sanitised over the last few years, there’s lots of cheeky trails that you’ll spot on strava heat maps

From the valley I’d recommend the climb out through Balladen, behind the quarry and the secret DH up Sand Beds Lane then Cowpe Lowe, you can extend it then depending on your available time,

The descent off Cribden is fun but can be busy