Ridden solo for the past two years in less than ideal conditions, last year was especially bad. Cannot do this year and the forecast is fantastic! Enjoy

This.

Trek 1.2 £700. Got mine with 15% off so £595, just collected it today, so far very good.

My mate has his mtb borrowed when he was climbing that very mountain (Suilven). Someone took the bike and left a note saying ‘sorry they were running late’ and that they would leave it at the start of the stalkers path. It was there but a bit **** cheeky as it then made my mate very late.

In the lease we give our tenants it is their responsibility to look after it, just the same as the house itself.

Practice was due to start at 10am this morning but the rain will probably stop things http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/northern-ireland/18006106

as an aside vw/audi group also bought lambourghini and they have turned out pretty good, still mad cars but reliable.

Fair enjoyed that, respect to the chap who finished with what looked like a broken left collar bone 😯

more please….

Oh and to top it all the local bike shop was doing 15% off everything, including the new bike I purchased 😀

I’m not in any way an expert on it all I can say is that for us it was cheaper to install than gas central heating and our all electric house costs less to run than an identical propertys gas bill alone. At some stage we will hook it up for solar panels as well. Biomass not a practical option for us. Monthly electric cost is sub £50 per month.

http://www.easy-heat.co.uk/

Was meant to be on until 2:30pm, ho hum. It’s back on Thursday from 9:30am.

I’ll be there, not too far from me so heading down after work.

I find almost everything connected with office work to be utterly tedious.

Good posting! 🙂

True, but people shouldn’t have to suffer just because they are gullible.

I think you do a lot of people a disservice. Also there are plenty cases out there where ‘quackers’ techniques have fixed medical issues that modern medicine hasn’t. Whether that is psychosomatic or as a genuine intervention, the result has been positive. My own back being a case in point.

It does when that person starts telling other people to throw away their nasty pills and instead use crystals and happy thoughts to treat their potentially-fatal-but-treatable disease.

I hear you but it’s an individual choice, it’s their body. But at a less extreme level e.g. back pain, migraines I don’t see the problem. If you are in pain / ill health surely it is worth trying all options for relief a try whether backed up by science or not. Science doesn’t know / cure everything.

Have a look at Bad Science by Dr Ben Goldacre, there’s bugger all proper scientific evidence for accupuncture, osteopathy, homeopathy, crystals and their ilk.

Does that matter as long as the person feels better i.e. it works for them?

Back on topic I thought Charles forecast effort was really good and fair play to him and Camilla for doing it.

Muke – where did you hear that about Ellison? Surely he’s as good as Shakey (and he’s a Northerner)

was announced tuesday, only for the next motogp round, to get some more feedback on the bike and in Paul Birds words to get Ellison to ‘”pull his finger out”

Antony Gobert – the Go Show – a classic example of why electronic aids should be removed from wsb. Also a sad waste of a great talent.

cheers.

Cool. Where on the hill is it?

Ridden it many times on the motorbike and driven it a lot in various vehicles and I wouldn’t go near it on a bicycle.

In scotland we have the single transferable vote so we get to rank them in our order of preference (least dislike I call it) if we want to.

I went to a launch lecture by Hastings, very informative and a different take to the usual WWII books.

Excel, have used it for years, works for me, whack all the standing orders in and then each transaction and you know what is left, I keep that amount on a note in my wallet next to cash card and update each time I spend 🙂

Blues skies and sunshine near perth, lovely cycle in to work, skylarks singing away.

I got the code and haven’t ordered in months.

both 🙂 don’t want a lot of money tied up in an mtb though, have just found some last years models online that night do the job. Had a clearout and reappraisal of riding priorities.

You could go for vertical dropouts with an ebb. Selling my complete bike at the moment (not because of the ebb) and prefer the ebb to the other two options.

Like that. Hope they tour here soon!

To see if my items on ebay sell so I can order a road bike 😉

I feel for you havibng been ther before. We now have 2 lurchers. The one that is very much my dog is 12 and now slowing down. I keep saying he is immortal and my wife keeps reminding me he isn’t! You know yourself when the time is right, doesn’t make it any easier though. Try and concentrate on what he added to your lives.

no, it isn’t mine 🙁

I echo cynci-al on the length. I had race blades on a commuter and I might as well have not bothered.

35c to wide for road racers but as other have said bog standard sks etc can be fitted with a bit of careful bendiong round the caliper, worked a treat on my croix de fer.

Must be the season for it as my last mtb is currently on ebay. I do have the mtb that I got for my 21st birthday but that is kept for sentimental reasons. I haven’t put a leg over an mtb since september but have done loads of commuting and road miles (for me). I still have a cx bike for mixed riding but mtbing involves driving somehwere which is riding time used up.

Hopefully it is my bike you’re bidding on 🙂 yes I’d hold for a buyer but it is nice to know either in advance or very soon after the auction ends.

To answer the original question, yes, 3 times!

don’t forget that they are really good diggers as well!

I’ll be there, flying over and have got hire bicycle and motorbike lined up (long story), cannae wait.

With all this ‘security’ you would think there might be cctv?

Dundee – regularly voted one of the best and cheapest student cities in the UK and also 20 miles from SSE headquarters in Perth. Small yes, has it’s dubious areas but so do all the others. Ignore TJ.