Done it 4 times.

Lessons learnt? Hydration – no matter what you eat, if you don’t drink properly you’ll blow up at about 45 miles

Generall, you can only convert about 4000 cals to energy on the ride, so eating more than that is pointless

Eat pasta tonight about 200 grams, Eat porridge 3-4 hours before the start

Did I mention you should drink?

Good luck

No but you’ll probably crush your nuts if you stall and have to get out of the saddle quick…

Which is why we use mountain bikes

…but you already knew that (unless you’re 14)

Have a look at this and see if there are any bits that help you

http://www.donaldhirsch.com/dieppeparis.html

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Thanks jota180. Done that with his route on the tandem over the Jubilee weekend last year – fancy the off road attempt. Round trip is 260 (ish)

Cheers

South Downs
Brighton
Midnight

Classic STW thread – up there in the top 20

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Can’t be a REAL web developer if he’s prepared to go outside.

I apologise for the following remark…

Don’t drink from the yellow Camelbak

Well done, you’re an inspiration

Without exaggerating, I have spent 1,000’s on coffee paraphernalia – this is the best

AeroPress

Great suggestions from the STW massive – cheers everyone

esselgruntfuttock

Brighton

Which direction

West gets wetter
East gets drier

A regular visit would be all she needs

I could not believe this offer so I went for it.

Bought the 25.00 quid non-DVD version, downloaded it, burnt it onto a DVD and upgraded my (freshly installed W7 Pro 64 bit) install

Seems to work a charm!

My pc is 7 years old – Dell XPS

Daily Mail

Yes it is, however it is VERY low power (hence the short range)

I’m no expert
If they are asking about X-Rays and stuff like that, they are talking higher power outputs – Induction Hobs, CRT (old school) TV sets, big HiFi speakers and so on

I wouldnt worry about BT unless you had it actually strapped to your pumpy thing

Will the bloke who bought my nearly-new Spesh Epic for 180.00 please not post on this thread

Some days, it takes all my skills to keep up with the loosers.

Keep the updates coming – great news

Take him to neutral territory eg a pub and tell him this incident has been bothering you so much you could not let it slide.

The conversation then becomes about letting the incident slide rather than him trying to kill you which will be obviously easier to handle. You can then always get round to the ‘are you trying to kill me’ question which never comes out quite right

Alternatively, chuck a couple of kippers in his engine bay (try and wire them onto the exhaust manifold), the stink will NEVER go away and he’ll NEVER be able to sell the car when the smell permeates his clothes / home / workspace.
(Completely true and a very nasty thing to do which I’d never condone)

Tortoise p*ss is a very good alternative but hard to get hold of. (The tortoise tends to fall through the gaps in the engine bay anyway)

These guys have just blown the 3D printer world to bits. Proper laser printing down to 25micros all for under 2,000 quid

All those RepRap machines should start printing a dustbin for their machines

Jumpy man
Working with a delay

Link down?

Any links to the launch yet anyone

JK: Are you venting?

FB:Yes, just a little.

mmmmm, venting

nickjb – thanks. They are to be used inside a huge hall (think church hall thing) where people have access. One will be in reception. I don’t think security is too much of an issue. If someone is strong enough to pick it up then I don’t think anyone is going to argue with them!!!

I think the ‘professional made boxy’ idea is the way ahead

I’m in Brighton

Once again, thanks for yr input

You’ve got two choices:

Follow your builder’s instructions (who probably is repeating some other builder’s instructions)

or

Go to your professional paint shop and buy a can of Johnstones AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF THE TIN

I paid about 50 quid for 5 litre can, if I remember

British engineering – be proud people, be very proud

bump

any human who breeds

trail_rat – thanks – ordered

If a taxi was stopped in a cycle lane I would assume it highly likely the door would open and react accordingly.

Really! Never thought of that. Obviously that’s where I have been going wrong all my life….

oh no…

Probably the first route you should consider, if only to do the 1st 40K

London To Paris

Where in the country are you.

If you can get yourself to Newhaven, it’s a blast

I always try and avoid giving blood on the roadside

Call me thick but I’m sure I’ve seen loads of “what coffee machine” posts on here but can’t seem to find them using the search function! Anyone got a link to them from their history!?

Cheers!

Spent over a grand on Gaggias over the past 15 years not including servicing (150.00 a pop every 3 years or so) go figure.

Beans to cup is good fun but EXPENSIVE

The answer you will find is AeroPress and at 24.00 it’s a non brainer. Will make the best EVER cup of coffee you will taste. However, in order to appreciate the this, you’ll have to buy every other coffee maker out there before you realise the above statement is correct

Come back to this post in 2 years and read the following out loud;

…I told you so.

Enjoy

+1 Synology
+1 FreeNAS plus a Remanufactured Dell 745 for about 130 squids

@xiphon, if you want to write offensive things about people you don’t know, prehaps think before pressing ‘enter’. If you’d rather take Sandys place then I’ll see you at Glencoe next weekend and you can ride the red DH route like we did this weekend.

An apology is required here….

My heart goes out to you mate. I lost my cat over 4 years ago and cried for a week

I’m 57

Noisy neighbours?

…this is the ONE thing you cannot fix

Be warned.

Homoeopathic jokes rarely work