Into The Wild. Eddie Vedder soundtrack.

It should be a great afternoon viewing….followed by quiet roads from 1945 to 2145 for a bike ride. Happy days

I was on warfarin many years ago (prior to a cardioversion and then for a few months afterwards) and then in 2016 and 2019 I was on Rivaroxaban for 6 mths a time. I still rode but was as careful as I could be and carried a sachet of these as a ‘if the shit hits the fan’
https://www.medisave.co.uk/15g-celox-haemostatic-granules-each.html?gclid=CjwKCAjww-CGBhALEiwAQzWxOmewVo2rDf4aJjzsISITbsAv5-vvhE1GfhpcjILMDJ1QU8qTa6AgHxoCYYEQAvD_BwE

Many thanks all, TFT it is then…..in mid July according to their website…busy busy busy

BMW F800 GT
Economical parallel twin engine. Belt drive, so no messing with chain lube. Well under your £10k price tag. Excellent dealer back up.

So sorry for your loss.

What a great post Spekkie.

I’ve had a bad lower back for 31 yrs. Saw GP for starters, no good. Referred to specialist, no good. NHS Bad Back course, very little benefit. Eventually went to see an osteopath who spent 10 minutes have me stretch left right, back and forth and then diagnosed a disc issue between L4 and L5. 4 sessions with him and the difference was staggering. A relapse about 2 yrs later and I went back, keen to confirm his diagnosis I paid for a private MRI scan and my issue was exactly as he had diagnosed (If you have a private MRI, the physical scan images are yours, do not let your GP or A.N Other to keep them)
I now manage it with some exercises and occasionally ibuprofen. For me, seeing the osteopath changed my life.

Knackered a disc in my lower back in summer 1990. Osteopath has been a godsend…back specialist utterly useless. Ibuprofen helps.

Have you written to the Police, individually rather than as a small group of villagers, and if so, what was their response.

Yup, Lexus 400

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202105072322704?model=LS%20400&radius=1500&advertising-location=at_cars&make=Lexus&sort=relevance&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&postcode=bd229ql&price-from=500&page=1&modal=photos

How does the clamping position work with motorbikes having a dual clamp set up ?
I’m a lifelong motorcyclist, it isn’t something I’d consider.

Not done a DNA test but have done some family history stuff. For a real laugh you should see some of the guff that American family history buffs out on their trees. Links to William the conquerer, 1300s royalty and Robin Hood (same person), family who discovered the US before it is officially recorded, family (female) born in the 1700s in Newfoundland, sail to Brixham in Devon; marry and have a baby and then promtly leave both hubby and baby to sail back alone to Newfoundland and die. The ancestry website makes billions for the Church of Latter Day Saints…many seem to accept whatever hint it chucks their way.

One of the issues of sorting out an afternoon in works time (If the SLT went with this) is that some, many or all the team will then be a further afternoon behind with their work and are quite likely to say WTF was that all about…it’s made things worse.

Thanks folks, that’s filled some gaps. I do recall the burger van being turned back…and then shortly afterwards the organisers flogging tins of beer at a quid a time…’self sufficient’
OMM Bike in Grasmere is cancelled for next weekend

We did the Snowdonia one on a tandem. May well have been 1997, I had it in my head that it was based at a secondary school? May be wrong.

Cheers Benji, used to do many of those when they were called Trailquests…work/kids got in the way eventually

I would definitely get in touch with Bradford Council about this.

This wouldn’t be a wise thing to do
‘I was cycling along a moorland footpath when….’

ElShamino
It is between Keighley and Halifax but comes under Bradford Council.

Wills Wheels, Stockport. He built me a pair of traditional rim braked Open Pros onto Ultegra hubs about 4 years ago. They’ve done c 5k miles and still run true.
http://www.willswheelsshop.co.uk/

I use Alpine. Really impressed with them

https://www.alpinehearingprotection.co.uk/earplugs/motosafe-race/?utm_campaign=organic_shopping&utm_content=&utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=&gclid=CjwKCAjw6qqDBhB-EiwACBs6xxMqOtNZd2CrAoScuTnLa5FVD_fBP49EnXwLDhLLtNMsIeWVv5aefRoC8Z4QAvD_BwE

H

Thought I’d worked it out just now:

H in Morse code is ….

4 pips

What police rank wears four pips?

Pah! None of them

3 pips is a Chief Inspector. The rank above that is Superintendent…so if they hadn’t adopted a crown, feasibly they may have adopted….4 pips….

…and what a great clocking in machine they have there.

We have a few sets of stuff including a pair of (not waterproof but we use exped dry bags)

https://upsobags.co.uk/recycled-bike-bags/panniers

‘Worried about money…’

Up until just over 12 months ago, I wasn’t worried as such, just knew that there is a finite amount month by month…enough to do pretty much what I want to do, the odd long haul holiday etc. The last 12 months has really shown me how little I need for a comfortable enough life and that whilst a nice thing to do, there are far better things for me and my mrs to do in the years to come than save for months to have a £6 or £7k fortnight somewhere exotic.

Re £700k from a house sale at 55…..on this I’d say it would be fairly straightforward to live nicely until you receive state pension. £250k to buy a new home mortgage free. Let us say £50k to buy a new vehicle (if needed) and bits and pieces for the new house. You then have £400k to live off and if you forget totally about any interest it is £2770 a month for 12 years…..or £1500 a month for over 22 years. You’ll have no mortgage. No car payments. Just day to day living costs that may well be c£1000 or less pcm.

I retired 6 years ago, at 49. My wife retired 5 years ago also at 49. We had both been on a 30 year fixed contract with final salary pension. We both feel a mixture of good fortune but also good decision making when we were 18/19 and immediately started paying a decent chunk into a pension. We’ve not moved house repeatedly, not chased flash cars/holidays etc lived a pretty normal life. We now have the ongoing choice as to whether to remain fully retired and enjoy our time or to go back to either part of full time working as we are bored. So far we have not been bored. Up until Covid, we did interesting stuff midweek and stayed at home on weekends to avoid the crowds who only get weekends to do what their social stuff. What covid has shown us is how little we actually need to live without a mortgage, the need to both run a car (we are down to one and quite fancy trying without) travel to work expenses etc etc.
With our kids, we have chosen to give them chunks of money now rather than the lottery of them waiting for us to die and inherits half a house and a bit of cash each. We figured they’d do better with £25k apiece now rather than £125k in perhaps 30 odd years when they’re in the mid to late 50s (Or next to nothing if care home life awaits one or both of us)
I’m quite happy to talk ‘proper’ numbers but with a newish car paid for and no mortgage, we live very nicely (in our terraced house) on less than £1k a month. In 12 yrs we will/should get an extra £970 pcm with state pension…we’ll feel like millionaires

Hilarious that such a flagship programme can’t even get vehicle continuity correct…..the 2 lead BMWs change repeatedly in the opening few minutes. Couldn’t manage any more than 15 minutes. Utter drivel

We went thru this about 10 years ago. We’d figured (in our old fashioned working class way) that debt was bad so daughter 1 would get help from us as well as working while studying. My wife went to one Uni open day with her and a young, new lecturer there advised my wife pretty much what most on here say. Needless to say she took max tuition loan student loan and got on with Uni.
Last year she used the money we’d put aside for her share on the deposit on her house. (It was £25k) The reduction in mortgage payment (lower interest rate) due to having a good deposit more than repays the monthly amount of the student loan.

Wise words there, Tim. Just ride

I’ve just got a steel framed HT to go with a FS Cannondale Trigger. I figured that in my mid 50s I’d be fine doing long days on it.
I did a decent 3 hour ride on Sunday on the Trigger, 25 miles and 3500ft. Felt fine when I got back. Just done a 2 hr, 20 miles and 1800ft on the HT and feel battered. Age and aching bones catching up but it has made me think I’d be better off doing 50 mile days on the FS than HT. Just a thought

Titanium, Ultegra, Mavic Ksirium wheels. She’ll take a punt on ebay and see what happens

If I am solo M/C camping, I use panniers and sling a roll top bag across the seat with all the camping kit in. Space isn’t an issue so I take a ME Glacier
https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/mountain-equipment-glacier-5-0-sleeping-mat-D2424155.html?colour=105

Very comfy and doesn’t make any noise when I roll at night like many others do.

(If we are two up….she insists we have a proper roof so Hotel, B and B or decent hostel)

My wife had a Cooper S a couple of years ago. The newer 2.0 turbo version. Lovely car. Reliable, economical, nice to drive. She’d have another in a heartbeat (But we’re now a one car house so it wouldn’t work for us)

I’ve just bought one of these Moon ones. Compact, cheap @ £19 and the battery lasts for ages on pulse.
https://www.merlincycles.com/moon-meteor-c2-titanium-rechargeable-front-bike-light-2019-157557.html

Bren…..check that she has a full 31 years contributions. If she was in certain organisations she is likely to have been contracted out of full NI and her 31 yrs may be worth say 27’full time’ years.
I went thru this a few years ago and found that ringing up and speaking to someone got me the answers I needed….they were very helpful.

With that I’d just do the floor and the ceiling. 40 or 50mm celotex/kingspan.

I can’t see where you’re coming from saying you need to earn 60-70% as much in retirement.

You wouldn’t need to earn that percentage IMHO
My wife and I are both retired. We are on 50% of our final salary but take home c 65% of our ‘last working months take home’. In real terms we are better off. We now have no mortgage, no longer pay a huge chunk into the pension, no longer pay NI and have chosen to drop to 1 car from 2, so lower monthly there. Lockdown has shown us what we could live on with no extras.
Planned properly, 6 weeks in Spain or Portugal in February/March can be done very cheaply so getting away from dull and dreary UK is easy enough.
Posh holidays? Not really my thing but easily do-able every couple of years if you really planned for it…same with a new bike etc.

Most people drive to work in the same place and park there for the same amount of time five days a week every week. Your house isn’t the only place where you might charge your car regularly.

But the issue here is that the owners of the cars would expect to be able to charge during the peak times for electricity usage…it needs a system where the load is spread more evenly.

Nail on head HH.

I’m not saying he’s wrong but it’s really surprising that all the vehicles in the UK switching to electric would only add 10% to the total electricity used.

He does appear to be wrong with my schoolboy maths.
32 million cars each needing around 2 megawatt per year…or 40kw per week. (1kw to 4 miles give or take and an average of 8k miles a year) equals 64 terawatt per year…or around 20% of current total use. (320 terawatt in 2019)
Sort of OK if it is spread over the full 24/7, but it wouldn’t be.
Couple this with the push for ASHP or similar to heat new homes….all use electricity. Also add in the fact that several (around half) of our nuclear power plants due to retire within 5 years and by 2030…we will have 2 operating…….
Today…as in now, would be great if we had 4 x the wind energy production as that alone would give us all we need, but when they spout off about how x% of annual energy is renewable they fail to tell the full story, that on a cold miserable winters day, demand is up and quite often renewables wouldn’t give us 50% of what we need….without more power hungry heating systems and EVs.

https://gridwatch.co.uk/

We took a washer, without the transit bolts, 750 miles in the back of our car….no issues at all. Just drive carefully and avoid speed bumps/potholes

I’d just try a bumbag, like a bladder one from camelbak or perhaps one with a pair of bottles like…
https://www.e-outdoor.co.uk/p/montane_featherlite_6l_waist_pack/?utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=directory&utm_content=GBR&currency=GBP&country=GBR&SelectedBundle=196241&SelectedItem=820974&gclid=Cj0KCQiA3smABhCjARIsAKtrg6JNgu52uBIaMdtQQXoiGqCyp51IWZlE_Pr1N8SlENF2A5aOeSZmqlYaAvudEALw_wcB