Anyone REALLY like crisps?

slainte :lol: rob

Oldie but goodie one-off XC frame (had it since 1998) plus some ‘just laying around’ and eBay/bargain bucket parts.

slainte :-) rob

Quite a nice track of my employment status & salaries over the 23 years I’ve been driving.

Low paid jobs and mature student years (1988-1996)
Austin Allegro 1.5 2dr (Maroon)
Austin Allegro 1.3 4dr (Puke Green)
Talbot Solara 1.5 (Royal Blue)
Austin Mini 1000 (Brown)
Austin Mini Clubman (Beige)
Austin Mini 850 (Mustard Yellow)
Austin Mini Clubman Estate (Brown)
Ford Escort mk3 1.3 (Navy)
Citroen 2CV (Maroon & Black)

First Teaching jobs years (1998-1999)
Fiat Panda (Black)
Lancia Y10 1.0 turbo (Red)

(Few years carless when the Y10 died)

Settling down and getting promoted years (2001-now)
Peugeot 206 GTi 135 (Black)
Renault Laguna 2.0 turbo (Silver)
Renaultsport Megane 225 with Cup chassis (Black)

slainte :D rob

As an art teacher I must surely be allowed more than one favourite artist?

John Virtue

Paul Klee

John Piper

Samuel Palmer

JMW Turner

Andy Goldsworthy

And two more votes for Rothko and Blake

slainte 8) rob

Used Firefox until version 3.something when it started to feel a little slow and bloated (version 4 is meant to be a bit quicker but not tried it yet).

Use Chrome across Windows and Linux now. Does the job well enough.

slainte :D rob

Not a huge BB fan, but liking this.

Make Some Noise
Too Many Rappers…
Lee Majors Come Again

Stand out on first listen, but can’t hear anything too weak. Reminds me of both Spearhead and UNKLE (original incarnation) in places without really sounding anything like either – this is a good thing.

Still don’t think they’ll ever do anything quite as good as Sabotage though.

slainte 8) rob

stumpy01 – Member
March to Thetford (Brandon Car Park) is probably about 1hr 20 mins, maybe a bit less.

Should be a fair bit less – from Peterborough it takes me about an hour and a quarter, so I would think March is about 1/2 hour closer.

slainte :D rob

Plenty of singletrack in Thetford, just not that much gradient (couple of good if short blasts that run down a slope – The Beast and Double Shocker). Quite a lot of fun ‘off-piste’ stuff that I don’t yet know about too I think.

Hit these guys up for info – http://timbermtb.org/website/

If you’re going to be based in March that’s about your lot (apart from flat bridleway XC) unless you have a car and are prepared to drive a fairly long way to ride.

slainte :arrow: rob

Because it doesn’t break.

(Am however thinking about going back to steel (had a Trailstar for years before this) – same build (although maybe longer forks too), just on a BFe frame).

slainte :arrow: rob

Asking here might be a better bet.

http://timbermtb.org/forum/

Could probably also link up with one of the club rides for some ‘off-piste’ fun.

slainte :wink: rob

Switch to Linux (current Ubuntu builds are dead easy to install and use).

Failing that, a Windows based combo of –

Hardware firwall on your router.
AVG free.
Zonealarm free.
Spybot S&D.

– has always served me well when I’m forced to use Windoze.

slainte :D rob

Looks very like a ‘metalled’ version of the orange/blue at Laggan.

slainte :D rob

Identiti AKA
Cotic BFe

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Tim was my pick from early on. In previous series that usually meant finalist but never winning. Great to see John and Pudding Boy making the right decision for once.

If Tim ever opens a restaurant anywhere easily reachable from here I’d be really keen to try his food.

slainte 8) rob

Velodrome
Athletics
BMX
Archery
Triathlon
Diving

Hoping we might get 1/2 of what we applied for, but no real idea of the odds involved?

slainte :?: rob

Dark City (pre-Matrix altered reality story co-written by the co-writer of Inception).

Dogma.

The Big Blue (or Subway, or Nikita, or Leon – basically any of Luc Besson’s earlier films).

Jarhead.

The City of Lost Children.

slainte :D rob

Prefer SportyPal or Endomondo myself now. For some reason MyTracks loses the GPS signal a fair bit on my HTC DesireHD. Worked perfectly on my old HTC Hero though. Go figure.

slainte :?: rob

Ragley Cheeky.

Good with or without padded shortage.

slainte 8) rob

The closest to what you want that I know of is Viewranger.

Viewranger

slainte :-) rob