I guess it’s a very individual thing, everyone deals with it (or not) in their own way.

My Dad died 3 and a half years ago. I had an unusual relationship with him as we saw each other regularly, at least a couple of times a week, but he had strong opinions on many things and never shied away from expressing them so we’d often end up arguing.

I think about him most days but when I picture him it’s usually as he was in hospital, and sometimes in dreams (we’re often arguing then too). My Mum has remarked that I never mention him but just feel uncomfortable talking about him, especially with her. I suppose I’m still angry with him that the illness that eventually got him was partly self-inflicted.

And it’s made me constantly worry about how much time I’ve got left with Mum. Not a nice way to be thinking.

To the OP, no advice really just thought I’d add my experience (sorry, a bit rambling).

They hurt like hell. I had a kidney stone 2 years while on a driving holiday to the alps. The pain came on really quickly. Managed to pull off the mway and found a small hospital in Faido near the Gotthard tunnel then was transferred by ambulance to a larger hospital in Bellinzona, with some lovely morphine along the way. Swiss hospitals are nice :-)

Twice in almost 30 years of riding/driving. 92 in a 70 and 86 in a 60.

Motorbikes not pushbikes … 1997 CBR600, only bike I ever owned from new, it’s done over 100k including about 25k touring europe so lots of happy memories. But it’s just lying untouched for the last 3 years since the camchain failed.
Also have my Dad’s old TY175 that he bought new in 1977. I rode my first trial on it age 13 in ’79. Again, lying unused and in need of restoring, which is beyond me.

No. Do not use the brakes. I need a slight hill to roll up against, so I can roll slightly backwards, but I can stand there until I’m bored, mostly.

This. Sitting down, no-hands :-)
Rolling back and forwards makes it easier, tricky doing it completely stationary.

I did C25K at the start of last year. Started as a total non runner but sticking with the schedule did get me there, my first full 5k was 28 mins in week 8. I was also dieting at the same time and went from 14st to 12st 4. Unfortunately I started having problems with my knees and eventually had to quit.

Edit; it was the NHS one with podcasts, easy to follow.

:wink:

Was up Lucklaw hill

Another pic from Leuchars yesterday

e, big bar of dairy milk
d, coffee
l, sweeney film on the telly but I’m not paying attention

Thinking of getting a road bike on the Cycle Scheme but would probably want to do something similar to the OP. Just for clarification if it had a 50/34 chainset and I fit an 11-34 cassette, would it need a long or med cage mtb derailleur? Cheers.

I did the east side of the Stelvio from Prato in 2005 (it was the west side from Bormio on the prog).
Tried again this year but had to give up after 12 miles and 4200ft of climbing :(
Not nearly fit enough and too overweight. :oops:

Alps shootings: Bomb squad arrive at Saad al-Hilli home 8O

Surrey Police have evacuated neighbours and closed the road around the home of Saad al-Hilli, amid concerns over items found at the house in Claygate.

I got a bit hooked on bagging alpine passes to the point of keeping a list that I updated after each trip :oops:
Haven’t done that many in France, it’s somewhere I always meant to go back to …

Really don’t want to spend over a grand for a complete bike.

http://www.paulscycles.co.uk/products.php?plid=m1b4s1p3493

15k in 1998 is approx 21.5k now

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-1633409/Historic-inflation-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html

Pears soap and Tesco’s version of Head & Shoulders

To be fair going quick over a short distance is hardly Mark Beaumont’s forte

Overly cautious and getting more so as each year passes. I can’t to jumps or drops. Quite like climbing even though I don’t really have the fitness for it. Tend to avoid trail centres.

Someone told me that too much laser pointer can send cats mental.

How would you be able to tell? :-)

There was also a bit about Lizzie Armistead in MoS Live magazine

Sat, road ride from Aboyne to Braemar and back
Sun, short mtb ride up the Sidlaws
Fab weather :-)

Will take a nosey, cheers

Nice detour on the way up (or back) is the road over Bealach Ratagan to the wee turntable ferry at Glenelg.

Grace Jones, Warm Leatherette and Nightclubbing albums. There, I’ve said it :oops:

Oops!

or some unsavoury activity involving a wet lumpy type of cheese

Well I guess that depends on the personal hygiene of those involved

Go by motorbike. You can filter by the traffic queues and park on the base for free 8)

Lorne and brown sauce roll this am (skipped the ‘and black pudding’ bit cos I’m watching what I eat :wink: )

Some nutter had this S1000RR at the BMW show at Garmisch last month 8O

36.25 hours, 8:45-5:00 Mon-Fri.
Commute 15-20 mins each way by car.
There’s never any overtime or weekend working.

meh!

WOW

Take a gun out with you. You can lamp a few rabbits and the mutt can retrieve them for you.

Not sure he’d need a gun … the rabbit would be cooked by the time the dog got to it :?

1994 Marin Indian Fire Trail

Was it about which way up a bike should be when removing the wheels?

Looking north from Stac Pollaidh

As above …

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/07/2011_tour_de_france_part_1.html
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/07/2011_tour_de_france_part_2.html