I’m a big fan of RW’s commentary during THAT run by Danny Hart, thought it added to the occasion. However, finishing with “How does Danny Hart sit down – with balls THAT big” has to go down as one of the stupidest but best commentary lines I’ve ever heard.

Then there’s the usual assortment from football commentators such as:

“In the end, Rosicky initially did well”

Having said that i wouldn’t fancy the job of commentating, it would just be a series of awkward pauses followed by some irrelevant mumbling :)

Think I’ve found the one. Just got home and the misses has just presented me with it. Says she’s gonna be revising and it’ll keep me out of her way. :D

Diesels ‘krooley’ are my best fitting jeans. due to my rugby I have developed rather generously in the backside and thighs. But even at 38″ they are fairly well fitted, whereas a lot of other brands at that waist tend to be either very baggy or appear as though I have mistakenly tried on jeggings.

I dread jeans shopping it’s so depressing walking into the fashionable stores and having them suppress a giggle when you ask if they have certain styles in a 38 :(

I had a clash with an absolute clown in a jag the other week, he was sat in the middle lane cruising along a smidgeon slower than me, i was cruising at (an indicated) 80. I pulled out to overtake him and noticed i’d stopped gaining ground on him as i got within about 10m of him in the outside lane. I commented to my gf at the time saying i don’t think this guy wants the shame of being overtaken by my fiesta. Anyway i just nudged my speed up a little bit to just get past him and then drop back into the middle lane and 80 again. Sure enough the guy in the jag also speeds up and then just gives it a bootful and accelerates off (must have been doing about 100). I started laughing and just dropped back down into the middle lane (inside lane had lorries etc. better add that before the MLH police get onto me). Anyway about 2 minutes later i start to come up behind him again as he’d obviously just slowed down to the speed he was doing originally. This time as I pull out to overtake him he does the same thing, only this time he has nowhere to go as a small VW Up! was pootling along in his lane. I thought he would have just slowed down and waited for me to pass before also overtaking the VW but no. He keeps accelerating the VW has to swerve into the inside lane the Jag then comes half into my lane to get round – forcing me to swerve towards the barrier. He then just puts his foot down an disappears into the distance.

Unfortunately i’d seen red at this point because his ego had nearly caused a pretty major accident and set off after him, just to see where he got off. Only the missus begging me to leave it stopped me from following him. I know i’m gonna get stick for driving too quick or stooping to his level but i just couldn’t believe how dangerous this guy was!

Cheers,

Danny B

I had them as standard on my Norco earlier this year. Very much a summer tyre but they’ve coped with Dalbeattie, kirroughtree and gisburn with no trouble in the dry on hard packed dirt and stone. However on slightly skittish stuff such as gravel and slate I lost a lot of confidence in them and have since replaced the front with a chunky monkey. Tbh I didn’t find them anywhere near as bad as the reviews had made out but then I’m not riding anywhere near as fast as the people testing them! Wouldn’t consider buying them now though as summer seems to have passed :( and the mud clearance doesn’t seem too good.

Edit – I’ve not run mine tubeless

My missus’ dads boss is best mates the man who has just married Harry Styles’ mum. (It’s a long shot I know but apparently some band he’s in are big hitters in the music scene)

Yeah i’ve had since i was about 8. Used to go to a lot of Motorsports etc, in particular Tractor Pulling. 3 Allison Engines with no silencers on get pretty noisy!

Its one of those things i’ve just got used to now, although if you’re lying in bed and notice it, it becomes bloody annoying!

Yeah its all pretty well signposted tbh. The hope line is at the top of a long fireroad climb, theres a couple of picnic benches etc so quite hard to miss – theres like a couple of jumps etc in the open by the benches and then it dives into the wood for the rest. ONce you’ve done it you can go back up the fireroad to the top again to get to the slab and hully gully, you just follow the red 8 signposts.

(Edit – Damn, beaten to it)

6’4″
107kgs last time i checked, i appear to have slimmed down a fair bit since then though.

According to Clarkson the races are real, but with regards to the footage used they are actually filmed on return journeys etc. when they have more time/its easier to shoot them. And all the people slating them for speeding in France need to remember that there have been instances where police cars have pulled alongside them urging them to go quicker. People who like fast cars want to see them being driven fast. its only when it becomes dangerous that it needs intervention. Speed isn’t a killer. Its speed mixed with incompetency or another factor that makes it a killer.

One of my mates was in a similar position to you albeit much younger, he found doing exercises with his own body weight the perfect way to tone up. Just simple stuff such as press ups, chin ups, sit ups, dips etc. he never bulked up as such but the shape of his body changed dramatically. Might be worth a try?

Just the other week i was clearing our house out and threw a crap old subwoofer that had been cluttering the garage up (only cost about £30 new). Last week i went to look for it to try and salvage an aux cable for my stereo and someboady had helped themselves to it. The thing is we live on a quiet cul-de-sac with an average of 80, so god knows who took it! probs the same people who also claimed my knackered old hybrid!

Na i’ve been looking at these with the FIL and even the 8-9 year old ones are only just dropping below the £30k mark. Hell of a lot of car for that money though! Did see one with a parrot handsfree kit fitted on the dash… Did take the shine off somewhat!

I’m a particular fan of the episode where Bear parachutes into some tropical rainforest and then proclaims that he was probably the first human ever to have been where he was… depsite the fact a film crew had filmed him from the ground landing.