There was no route. Just a line of lost mountain bikers fanning out and finger tip searching the moors for a path. With the black mist closing down behind them. And unexpected pools of headset-deep mud ahead.

Love living in Walsden. Just up the valley side so we see daylight, roll downhill onto the train for commuting, trails out of the door.

Tod is fine, a bit more sensible than Hebden Bridge. The market is good and there are a couple of decent bars serving proper beer. There are a few good local breweries too.

Oh, and Tod health centre is one of those with lots of extra services and will do x-rays and stuff which is handy.

Interstellar sheep? Yay! I’m in :-)

Yay! That was proper ace. Thanks for organising it Gaz. Still buzzing. :D

Still in. Aiming for 7.45, but realistically we’re more likely to be there a minute before 8pm.
:D

Missed this twice. V excited I can do it!

What’s happening? I mean, I reserve the right to not listen to the Archers for months, years (if not decades) and for nothing to happen so that I can pick it up exactly where I left off. Half-way through a Sunday dinner at Brookfield with Ruth saying ‘oh noo’.

Good point…. I actually meant post-BMX-week ride. But post-BMX beer needs more urgent consideration :-)

Good point HtS. Have we got a post-BMX plan yet?

We could put our orders in at that pub we rode from last week. Not sure where it was exactly after the magical mystery tour of closed Lancastrian hostelries, but the landlord said he’d do butties if we let him know in advance.

And with Binners in attendance, Brennak wouldn’t need to worry that he was slowing anyone down… ;-)

Glad everyone is ok. Are you coming back for another go?

I swept up the trail of dried mud through the house this morning. Tiled floors are ace.

Cheers Daz, that’s doable. Riding would be a push to get there by 8pm but the mighty Doblo can do it. We have passenger seats if you / anyone would like a lift from Tod.

I am not hardcore. I have attended Monday Night Pub Rides and mainly obeyed the rules. Apart from that time someone had to buy me a beer :oops:

I’m in and paying Monday. Is there a postcode to check that I can get there on time?

Ever wondered whether a dark night in the lashing rain on wet grass is truly the best time to chase that elusive Mason’s KOM with the precipitous drops off the hairpin corners?

Obviously not. We’ll fish you out of the canal… ;-)

I once had to hedge currency when we had an order in euros. I used OandA which was great – however I accidentally made about a grand by closing trades during the financial crisis when things were yo-yoing. I was lucky (the euro also went in the right direction to maintain the value of our order) but haven’t really used it since.

About eight varieties. And pies. They are actually better than the crisps. Really.

The lure of axle deep mud whilst being whipped by howling gale is hard to resist, it seems. Car journey home was filled with animated chat about the general excellence of the ride….

That was ace! Thanks :-)
Quite impressive to see ten people out in all that filth. It’s obviously got to the point in the year when we surrender to the weather and will go out whatever it chucks at us ‘cos if we don’t we won’t ride at all.

We can sort the bike bit but we have a visitor from not-from-round-here to bring too and we’re not sure how bike friendly his hire car is going to be, so space in the mighty Doblo is going to be limited.

So if anyone (Daz ??) can pick Sam up from Tod that would make it work or indeed he could get back on the train having picked up bike and get to Rochdale.

We’ve also got to persuade our guest that what he really wants to do on arrival is ride around in the rain with some people who read have heard of Singletrack magazine. :D

I like stuff from minx-girl.com. Lots of eye-catching tops (I particularly love my cycling dress).

And the fit of Pearl Izumi bottoms is great. Full length tights for me this time of year!

Oh, and in full length bib tights Gore do ones that permit wee stops without completely disrobing. Yey!

Sam – there’s probably a bike at ours you could borrow for MNPR – text me if you can make it :-)

It’s great. Superfast climbing, nothing defeats it on the downs. It’s light so not wearing on really long days out. My usual riding is Hebden tech and moorland, Lee Quarry, Glentress, Coed y Brenin. Been to the Pyranees on it and the Alps doing 30 – 60km days. Huge climbs, every kind of descent from rocky chutes to hairpin forest singletrack. Was ace.

Took it out last night in the full moon with no lights… kept me out of trouble even on crazy rock garden. I started riding on a Mojo and I am sure there’s some kind of gyroscope in Ibis bikes that makes them stay upright. :D

I’ve not had spinal surgery, but I did have a reasonably involved op chopping out a badly infected appendix and surrounding area. I went to work after 6 weeks (at 22 and straight of uni I couldn’t turn down a fantastic job I’d been offered on my sick bed!).

I managed but only by sleeping through the lunch hours under my desk, going to bed early every night and living on superfood smoothies. I wouldn’t do it like that again (particularly with a few more years on the clock). I don’t think I was fully fit for at least six months.

Sorry we didn’t make it. Realised too late that they have forgotten to build the superhighway to Bolton and it takes a whole hour to get over that way from Tod. :-(

Interesting article nedrapier

Moleskine diaries for many years now. Oscillating between week to view with notes page, combined with a cahier for additional notes and the rather chunkier day to page.

I’ve just bought myself the Moleskine bag organiser – 13″ laptop size with flap and pockets – so that I can switch my core work items from bag to bag in one (protected) chunk. Slightly concerned as I am rarely a total fangirl but Moleskine has gotted me! :oops:

Watch out for an incoming cold! That constantly hungry feeling is always a sure fire sign, for me, that I’m under attack and there’s an almost inevitable sore throat and snot fest a few days later. :cry:

Manchester Victoria is 28 minutes from Walsden station, one stop in from Todmorden (just cuts an extra few minutes off the commute). Love living here – trails, transport and Todmorden is a nice small town with a great market.

Speaking as a lady who buys the odd ladies top, I’d say that the differently sized stars are an AnaNichoola design style. Much classier than the examples of stars above (without wishing to cast nasturtiums on boys’ taste).

The ‘we’d like to work with you’ then bringing out ‘coincidentally’ similar designs happens all too often to small independent designers. It’s rubbish when a big successful company that could give a hand up without it knocking any skin off their nose instead gives a great big shove down.

:-( sorry to hear this… that’s quite a lot of ‘local knowledge’.

We’re in!
See you shortly :-)

We were hoping for a Terrahawk win too! But it said over on FB that he had early mechanicals. When we went to bed last night he was at 16th. Then this morning he was 6th. He must have ridden like a machine all night.

Congrats all. I am still marvelling at how many mountainous miles (some) people can ride in 24 hours. :-)

Keep trying different saddle positions.

The only time I’ve had too much pressure on – and therefore very sore – bits was borrowing a bike which didn’t fit me particularly well. And then carrying a heavy bag on my back for 3 hours which maximised the pressure in all the wrong places. Not something I would like to repeat – took a few days to recover. Your gf has my sympathy.

Was listening to Radio 4 at lunchtime… apparently there’s another way to scam via Ebay without actually hacking accounts.

Student/unemployed person sees job ad on totaljobs or other (even the government site) legit job site. Looks very like legit employment agency (borrows logos, just very slight variant on email address) and offers woefully naive victim a job as an ‘ebay sales account assistant’ or some such. Must have paypal account and good ebay feedback.

You can probably guess the rest… but it ends with sale of goods based on nice photo uploaded by woeful victim, woeful victim transferring the funds to their account manager thinking that goods will then be posted, the buyer not getting the bargainous camera and the account manager vanishing off the face of the earth.

Right knee pain? If you drive a lot look at that too. I get right knee pain if I am driving a lot (not necessarily when driving) and not now I am getting the train to work.

I used to just like riding my bike. Then I did a cyclocross race. It’s not been pretty since…

Get yourself over to grit.cx… we need your enthusiasm. Oh and I need some advice about Hope bling :wink:

I sell stuff on the internet. Jumpers in fact. I’m quite surprised that they’ve asked for it back. Good regular customers are hard to come by and I can’t imagine they’d be coming back if I started changing prices *after* they’d received them!

The internet is so full of offers that I can see why she might think that it was one of those. I can’t see why she’d buy anything from them again – not in a fit of pique but just because you can’t trust their website to display the correct prices and then all the hassle from them making a mistake.

If they’d contacted her before receipt and explained that there was an issue that would be different – however they didn’t.

That didn’t look right.

Paste in the text you want to quote. Then highlight it and click the button that says “quote” just above the box. It’s the fourth one along.

Add a nice smiley whilst you’re at it – top right hand corner of the text input box. :D There.

Make yourselves at home. We’ll get some nice scatter cushions for you next. :wink:

Butter with a spoon? Why did I not think of that?
Nom nom nom

Worked ok for me!