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a couple of these…

perhaps followed by one or two of these…

EDIT: Happy Birthday Anto164 🙂

Had a tame deer run alongside the bikes for about a kilometre or so in Glen Tilt a couple of years back.

Quite a surreal experience.

The elusive and captivating Lone Pigeon, spotted live last night at a church hall on Leith Walk. Opened with a 40 minute piano and kazoo composition. Quite spectacular, if slightly shambolic.

yup northwind, really looking forward to Trail of Dead, Rival Schools too.

Through in Glasgow for a gig on sunday night so will probably pop in for a daunder around the show.

seen them twice live too (once by accident in Germany, honest) 😳

would love to, but the acute bronchitis might make it hard to keep up 🙁

have fun in the Pentlands and Liz’s back gairden.

cheers folks, that’s most reassuring.

Apparently Vin Cox [/url]is the current around the world record holder and although it looks like he’s carrying less IPA than me, an around the world trip is a pretty damn good reliability trial for that wheel.

Always liked the detailing on Fasnakyle power station, especially the pictish beasties.

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Grand Dixence dam in Switzerland. 285m tall.

It’s around twenty years since I visited and I still haven’t gotten over how preposterously huge it is.

Ah, it looks like the 11-32 needs a spacer but the 11-34 version doesn’t.

SRAM parts list

yeah, you do need a spacer between the carrier and the loose rings.

There should be a red anodised one that matches the spider that comes with the cassette.

Not sure if a standard spacer would do the trick. I might have a 990 one lurking in the shed if you can’t find an alternative.

CEC website info on cycling in parks

Buried away on the CEC website, this might be relevant in some ways. Although for a lots of places it depends on your definition of a ‘path’.

I find it odd that the Council say this on their website yet continue to renew no cycling signs all over the city.

Love it. Tried a bit in New Zealand and ended up getting a relatively cheap sit-on-top that lived on the roof rack of the van we toured around the country in. Despite not being a proper boat (wouldn’t want to cross too much open water in it) it was perfect for coastal stuff, rock hopping and river trips. Hybrid of the kayak world I suppose.

Have paddled a bit here off the west coast of Scotland in hired kayaks and it looks like there is a lifetimes worth of paddling.

The best thing about sea kayaks are that you can carry loads of gear (comfier camping and cooking gear, more interesting food and more wine 😀 …all the stuff you have to compromise on for bike or back packing)

Also gives a really good sense of exploration as you don’t have to follow a path and can’t see anyone’s tyre tracks or foot prints.

Wildlife also seems to be less fussed about you when you’re on the water than on land. Have met curious seals, hunting otters and huge rays while paddling about.

As soon as I live somewhere with room to store a proper boat I think I’ll be investing in one.

Discovered a lot of good stuff and bought Treats by Sleigh Bells off the back of this thread. I shall now attempt to tenuously link to another one of their tracks from the last…

Too much aggression might lead to a riot.

Riot Rhythm – Sleigh Bells

Here’s something you might find in a maze…

Minotaur – Clutch

EDIT – Liking the John Carpenter-esque sound in that last one

I usually have a lot of respect for this forum, but not one mention of the Rival Schools gig in April, you are all dammed, dammed I tell thee!

Rival Schools did get a mention earlier on toby1.

Double header with And you will know us by the trail of dead at the Garage in Glasgow.

I am very excited indeed.

Go! Team were a riot. Saw them at the Liquid Room in Edibnburgh which is around 800 capacity, not sure if it would work as well in bigger venues.

I didn’t really think they’d be able to cram as much energy into a live show as they manage to do on recordings but they do it pretty effectively.

I like the new album. They’ve broadened the number of musical styles they pinch stuff from but I think it hangs together really well. Nice mix of vocals on the tracks.

so far this year I’ve been to see:
Burns Unit
Go! Team
Mogwai
Goblin

have these planned:
explosions in the sky
and you will know us by the trail of dead / rival schools
clutch / gwar (still can’t really believe these two are playing together 😯 )

off to Wacken Open Air in the summer and looking forward to seeing Motorhead, Airbourne, Kyuss, Skindred, Sepultura, Judas Priest, Suicidal Tendancies, Hayseed Dixie, lots of other random metal and, how can I forget, Excrementory Grindfuckers.

thanks htc 🙂

I think that Citylink buses stop at Ingliston, that would save you having to come all the way into Edinburgh then getting a bus back out again.

From the Mondays to Tuuuueeeessssday

Spoonman – Underworld

Meadowbank Velodrome – Looking a little tired these days, especially compared to the fancy new ones springing up in Manchester, London and Glasgow. (Manchester sprung quite a while back now but it still feels quite new in comparison)

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Since the Mash Out Posse ‘hold down Brownsville like the m_____f_____ Tomahawks‘ here’s something by Tomahawk…

(Love that Sleigh Bells track, what a glorious racket)

EDIT – Glad I clicked through for that bonnie prince billie one too, hadn’t heard that before.

Can’t believe you linked to PJ and Duncan when you could have so easily linked to East 17 through Brian Harvey 🙄

Anyway, linking on through free association and the fact that, mercifully, Ant and Dec don’t rhyme no mo’.

Don’t Rhyme No Mo’ – The Free Association

Church -> Parish

John Parish has frequently collaborated with PJ Harvey including on this track from her (rather splendid) new album.

The Words that Maketh Murder – PJ Harvey

More dental hygiene from the Reverend Horton Heat…

Where in the hell did you go with my toothbrush? – The Reverend Horton Heat

from 808 State to Kid 606 – The Illness

Nice choice tazzy.

I’ll go from High on Fire to a band I’ve seen them share a stage with a couple of times…

Colony of Birchmen – Mastodon

The Rza, from another Jim Jarmusch film

From Clint Mansell to Nigel Mansell and a motor race that he won twice…

Mexican Grand Prix – Mogwai

Gorbals, Glasgow.

As happened elsewhere the tower blocks didn’t quite live up to the architects intended vision…

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No repeats rob and good choices too 🙂

Some more I like…

Weight – Isis

Oblivion – Mastodon

Bleed – Meshuggah

A Banshee is a female character in Celtic folk culture and so is a…

Sheela na gig – Polly Jean Harvey

(there is a video version but the audio is mince)

Carcass – Buried Dreams

(not been in this thread for a while, love the way we end up with such an eclectic mix of tunes 🙂 )

A tale well told. Congratulations on the round sir.

I’ve shambled up a few, dislike heights and have no real intention of climbing them all, but this inspires me to wander up a few more… perhaps without the fizzy wine and camera crew though 🙂

Going in by boat from Mallaig is a really good way to start the ride. We had a pod of porpoise surf our bow wave on the way in and were transfered into a unfeasibly tiny wee boat to get dropped off at Tarbet.

Didn’t take many photos of the path on the way back to Morar as it was so much fun to ride. Quite technical in places and unridable (for me anyway) on a section that’s made up of big boulders built out into the loch.

As for deeper into Knoydart I seem to remember tiggs121 posting a thread of a big circular route a while back. May have been the old forum though.