lol quality! That Rotty was going to nail that thing from word go, the problem with dogs?

It’s people. To many of them just don’t get it.

It’s a dog eat dog world.. hah I crack myself up.

thisisnotaspoon – Member
But strangely the BMI type things still have me borderline with overweight which at 6’3″ and 85-90kgs I would be inclined to disagree!!
Sailing tends towards heavier people though, eg the ‘ideal’ weight for the Laser is 78-82kg depending on how windy it is where you are, moving up to something like the Fin and people are in the 90’s. Whereas cycling (paricularly XC and roadies) tends towards lighter weights (65kg or so seeming to be about average people who race compettitively).

Does make me wonder though at the number of crews you see with a bloke helming and the wife/kid on the trapeeze.

Five ohs tended to be a weight mix, light person driving, tall meathead on the wire..

There are classes that favour lighter folk and of course conditions, lighter wins in lighter conditions and the reverse is true.

Something I’ve noticed in bikes, heavy meatheads go faster downhill..

Meathead = anyone weighing over 75kgs.

philconsequence – Member

Not sure where I’m going with this thread, but I’d definitely be interested in your experiences or opinions on the subject

I just assumed you were overwhelmed by the news last night that the Miss Universe ‘Beauty Pageant’ was now open to transgender participants….

Most male eating disorders must be in direct ratio to the increasing number of lady boys (and incidental increased lycra use by off roaders on single speed bikes?)

Frankenstein – Member

Best way if you are going to own a dangerous dog:

I’d scratch your eyes out if you try that on me bitch.

mrdestructo – Member

Have you read Tom Sharpe with Kaffir-Killer Els and his incident with a rottweiler? It may get down to that I reckon.

Hah yes a long time ago, seem to remember being reduced to tears. (of laughter)

binners – Member
we’re all too happy to ‘put down’ defenceless animals
If you think a Rotty/pit bull is defenceless, can I watch you punch one?

I have thanks, and had to hold one whilst a couple of dopey useless girl vets who couldn’t lift him and were scared because of drivel like this, had to administer the lethal injection, worse thing I’ve had to do lately.

If you don’t think animals and dogs in particular are ‘defenceless’ against human cruelty then I feel sorry for your lack of ‘nouse’ I think the northern term is..

Hmm, the answer to that is to put the bloody woman down.

Why is that not a consideration these days, we’re all too happy to ‘put down’ defenceless animals for following their natural instincts yet get all hand wringing pinko liberal when it comes to doing the same to the worthless two legged variety.

I frankly prefer dogs to half the Godless Dog haters in this world and would gladly pull the switch that sends em through the trapdoors.

Would your daughter carry on chomping a bad of sweets next to a wolf? No, so why torment its supposedly domesticated cousin. Owners of kids have as much responsibility as owners of dogs to bring them up to be aware that animals are er animals and if you don’t know them, just like humans, they can never be fully trusted.

That could just as easily been some hoody that came up punched her in the face and made off with her sweets, or her mobile phone as happened to my daughter.

We’re surrounded by animals, some with two legs some with four, some are friendly some aint, put them all down if they act up, but don’t discriminate is my firm opinion.

stufield – Member
rotties make great family dogs, and with kind owners are very loyal friendly breeds. dogs will take on personality of the owner, if they’re a tool so the dog will be. don’t descend into daily mail stereotypes about evil dogs.

This is fact.

So it must follow you and the tool that is his owner have some issues between you that you’re maybe not telling us about. I refuse to believe the dog up and randomly had a go at you without some form of provocation.

I understand you have to report it, even if you stood there abusing the bastard and were about to strike him, which I don’t think for one moment you were, but the dog obviously picked up on something, it’s usually fear, since fear is what is present at the start of an attack.

You need to admit you filled you pants and the dog picked up on it so went in for an early victory…

Then report it.

And beg forgiveness of the wildfowl society.

A knob?

What like some folk on here?

Nope he’s not a Knob, he swam the channel ffs, you need nuts to do that.

Junkyard is a knob, David Walliams is O.K., my opinion obviously.

I use it, can’t link or it would give away my secret identity, it replaced trail guru, which has just vanished taking all my previous ride data with it, it was pretty much the same thing without the competitive element Strava brings.
One ride I’m suddenly 2nd fastest up this particular hill, (i’d gotten off to put the dog on the lead so it’s pretty sad, but i’ve created a couple of sections, and bloody nearly killed myself doing this downhill the other night trying to set a pace worthy of being a ‘section’ so I’m not so sure it’s a good thing.

I missed it, but heard about the fracas.

Heard it was to do with a betting syndicate where they bet on the race being interrupted.

Sad outcome, Oxford should have nailed it (I was born in Oxford).

Either way they should shoot the fecker, doctor or no.

ernie_lynch – Member
Yeah – as if, i was ducking him for weeks after that
Really ? He didn’t arrange for the local bobby to come round and give you a good ol’ fashion clip round the ear ? How strange

Tell me more about ‘chucking rocks at coppers’ and how ‘pervs were dealt with’. That sounds fascinating.

So, life was very different back then to the way it is now, as to the bobby or my old man catching me, I had an escape route, up through the loft out onto the rooftops and away, so they very rarely caught me.

Chucking rocks at coppers (to try and knock their helmet off), was a pretty standard activity amongst most street kids where i was dragged up.

Pervs? One incident that brings this to mind was some old perv trying to get us to go with him under the arches to ‘see something’ my sister, who was probably a bit more ‘perv aware’ than me, blew the whistle and a copper got hold of him and literally beat the bastard to the ground and sent him on his way, we never saw him round our way ever again.

ernie_lynch – Member
My old man got a good telling off when I had all the dustbin men cowering behind their cart with my air gun.
Oh but how you must’ve all laughed about it afterwards, eh ?

Yeah – as if, i was ducking him for weeks after that, even i wondered why I was so stupid, but it just seemed a laugh at the time, think what would happen to a kid who did that now, armed response, the kid in care, the old man probably in jail..

Yes, very envious of the terrain you have up there, it’s TopMark country isn’t it?

Rickets, do the kids up North still get them?
Polio, not much of that about now either, nor thalidomide..

Got the cane at school for an uncontrollable fit of giggles in general studies in the library.

Coppers would clout you round the head and send you on your way if they caught you after chucking rocks at them.

Pervs were dealt with a tad more harshly

As Scouts we did have knives and a hand axe on a belt, but felling axes were only handed out at camp.

My old man got a good telling off when I had all the dustbin men cowering behind their cart with my air gun.

Building Soap Box carts and tracks with banked turns (now called berms) was all the rage and required bunking off from afternoon school, noone seemed that bothered

Deciding wether to ride your motorbike with or without a helmet was rightly your choice at 16 as was riding a 1000cc Indian with a sidecar on an L plate.

Beating up moddie ruperts was mostly only frowned on by Coppers since they all rode proper bikes so were ‘greasers’ off duty and mods took purple hearts so were druggies anyway, so it was open season when they came down to the coast at weekends.

Yep there was definitely more freedom in my sixties youth, I wouldn’t want to be young today.

The quickest way to earn my respect is to tell and show me something cool I didn’t know or know how to do, then teach it to me..

The Only person to have done that in the past thirty years is the smiley dude you refer to as Jedi, he (apart from his Guiness consumption and ruination of my birthday bike ride) has my undying respect.

I use it to listen to the radio at work, that’s all now, bored with it.

Personally I’d buy myself a nice yacht and **** off round the world..

My advice to you however given your comment about retiring, I’d sell your current gaff as it is, since everyone wants to knock you down and or they’re looking for property they can do up and get the perceived benefits, you’d just lose what you invested in this current market.

So having sold it, take the money from the sale and your windfall and buy a decent new build which will be very heating efficient, then fill the roof with solar and chuck on a wind machine, or fit heat pumps and water collecting stuff or whatever other green stuff you can lay your hands on to get ‘off the grid’ thereby saving thousands paying to the power & utility companies.

Oh and hookers, though personally my plan is to fill the yacht with hookers that can cook = cookers one for each day of the week ‘cept sunday.

When it’s too hot and dry, like it still is down here in the tropical sythe..

Or when there’s a risk it’s so windy we get knocked off by coconuts falling from the Palms..

It did get a bit warm Friday night, I had to stop and shed a layer ran out of water, (it’s being rationed down here now).

From what I’ve heard, you’d be better with a Five than the unreliable (warranty failures)bike from the land of cheese and white cloth, then again you’d also equally do well to consider the Covert recommended in the other thread.

Internet forums (not as badly moderated) were in place ten years ago, as were

Suspension systems
Lights
Half decent tyres
Wheels & Rims (even fat ones)
Carbon, Titanium, Hydroformed Alloy
Five Grand Bikes
Portable air and puncture resistant stuff
Wide(ish) bars (Including carbon)

Three things have happened of significance in the past ten years.
The Forums have been taken over and are now moderated by wimmen, politically correct ones at that so are more or less fun/useful depending on your pov.

The iPhone or similar device has given us better, cheaper, easier to use GPS style apps

Uppy downey means you don’t have to stop and can thus achieve better trail speeds on your app.

Tell that to your Alien friend, and you can also tell him i aint scared of him lurking in the bushes when I’m night riding.. No really I aint..

Things like that give mountain bikes an uncool image, nobody cool wears Animal, it’s clothing for crime watch. Who the hell are those three anyway some sort of display team?

Fat blokes with beards riding single speed and gibbering on about bivi-ing in mags aint cool for Mountain bike image either.

Nor is this place, I’ve made a list, of who’s cool and who aint, one day I’ll publish it in full.

I’d agree lights, but 10 yrs? That’s 2002 we had lights back then, I’m fairly sure I’ve had my Mi-newts since 2002, trying to think when I first started Night riding, I had a Whyte Prest1 I recall how long ago did they come out?

Edit found my ebay pics, I sold that in 2005 and I’d had it three or four years maybe more, so lights don’t qualify for ten years, I don’t reckon.

So it’s defo uppy downy, we had internet in 2002 and there were bike forums…

Uppy Downy wins.

End of thread

+1 for Transition Covert and these people[/url] do them, they had a thread on here a while back.

Yep you have my sympathy everyone hates us dereks.

I’ve no idea why. 😕

Then I’ve never found that cock Gervais particularly funny.

+1 Reverb uppy downy.

Nothing else has so enhanced the riding experience, oh and the now defunct Trail guru replaced by Strava App, they’re a fun accessory, oh and finding this place, at times it can provide lots of useful hints and tips, but it can be a bit Muller Rice..

Well, like the OP, it finally helped me, I’ve managed more than a month off and can get through the day without posting quite often, wouldn’t say I was cured, but well on the way, all thanks to enlightening a pseudo big hitter as to his low self esteem. I deserve and have awarded myself a medal..

+1 on the bragging on twitter, it is also a fair indicator of a persons character flaws…

Then we are all human and not without issues or we wouldn’t be here flag waving…

Banning yourself however does bring back a sense of self control and depowers those who you would consider lessor beings..

We chopped a Range Rover Diesel Sport for the Countryman, I say we, the bread knife did and now we go to the garage half as often, it costs half as much to fill, goes twice as far on a tank and still goes off road as often as we need. (And deals with the rutted pot holed lane to our gaff.)
Can highly recommend them.

He should find this commercial motivating (er cos they say so.)

+1 Transition Covert.

Well you couldn’t really miss him could you and that Tandem Jeremy, did I read he got the chop as well?

That was all going on just before I baled for a bit.

I wouldn’t expect to be missed, I only joined on September 23rd and didn’t quite last the 6 months with a ban every month, but got close, five bans in five months wasn’t bad I thought, but the last one was so inconsequential, for just setting some knob end straight i thought it was time to quit for a bit and glad I did, so I think I can just take it or leave it now, which is a more healthy state of affairs.

The more you hang around, the more you empower the knobs imv.

Anyway, it’s just a thought and I’m bloody back so not completely out of the woods.

Hmm, not as green as it once was, now i come to notice it, and is it a new logo at the top?

No, honest, i hadn’t noticed, but it is a bit different, when did that happen then?

It’s changed? What’s changed about it?

I’ve always quite liked the mag, although I agree it has a tendency to be introspective of late, as to the forum I find it rather like a modern school class, highly PC, very left leaning and nasty boring teachers ruining any fun that might break out.

Actually weaned myself off for five or six weeks of which I’m really proud of myself, so i won’t be on night after night as i was, it’s so addictive, when everyone’s wrong in a particular place on the internet.

But eventually it does get very samey and not controversial enough for my taste, it is successful however because of the two channel approach, that works well.

Hora bring him down here for the day let him have a go on the Romney Hythe & dymchurch light railway, 15inch gauge public railway and you can organise drive the train days.

Er boys like trains, men like trains, it’s just in the genes.

Worse days work was Beeching and electrification.

+1 for La Tour had some good riding there, I’d avoid Argentierre and Mont Blanc on a snowboard, it used to be very mogulled up by the extreme skier types, what’s the name of the first resort you come to in the valley Les Eaux or something like that there were a few nice runs through the trees as I recall.

Chamonix itself is or was a big party town back in the day, then it was an area that accepted snowboards early on when the rest of the Alps were still refusing or trying to ban us, but sadly once the rest opened up there is better riding elsewhere, but like the other dude said, give La Tour a look, we had some excellent fresh track days up there and it’s wide open, nice easy riding..

I’m not going to get another ban explaining why people ride flats, or what they think about other people who ride SPD’s, just accept SPD’s are wrong and be done with it.

Looking forward to March 14th myself

It’s Steak & BJ day.

Derek has left the building

Well that’s that back to reality ‘hello Mr (name obscured to protect the innocent) I’m Marissa’s friend ( no 3 daughter) “I thought it was you, good to see people of your age still active…
I’m wondering where to bury the body.