Nothing wrong with turning it around tomhoward and yes I have my opinions but so does everyone else which is why I’m asking. Sometimes it’s good to look at things from the view of someone outside the industry 😉

It’s between the Solaris and a Buzzard for me now…. or possibly the Curtis or the Salsa 😕 😕

Not sure I follow you there weeksy as it’s a straight forward 95% mortgage from the lender not a mortgage and government loan of 20%. If the property price increases by £100k then you get all the benefit of that increase.

Ro5ey – Not that I am aware of!

Binners I think I agree with you and this is why I’m asking as the scheme is only available for the next 3 years so inflating property prices as demand won’t be able to keep up with supply so fueling the housing bubble which will again go pop!

Not after advice for myself cheers somouk as have no intention of buying. As a mortgage advisor I’m interested to find out who on here thinks this scheme is a good idea and why.

Just a bit of a straw poll really.

Cheers

Sell them all and buy a recumbent!!!

You’ll be niche beyond belief 😉

Sent cheers Luke 😉

Some days I wish i didn’t GrahamS 😉

Hadn’t thought of a turbo to be honest but I can see how that would work. Setting up the laptop in the garage with a sufferfest streaming could work I guess. Anyone fancy selling me one in the Sussex/Surrey area? lol.

Another reason for not doing night rides is that the local trails are unfamiliar to me as I’ve only just moved to the area and not had a chance to suss them out plus this explains the lack of local riding buddies 🙄

Last time i did a solo night ride my MP3 was on shuffle and War of the Worlds came on. Freaked my right out i tell thee 😯

Looks fun Lester but I’m not Danny Mac and have no desire to see the inside of my local A&E dept just yet!

GrahamS – Not a poor excuse but a fact, I work in a sales environment in a small office where it is expected that you enter and leave the office in a suit as the public image of the company is very important. Agree with it or not that is what is expected so commuting is just not possible which is a shame as I used to do it and enjoyed it. No car pool as I’m a self employed sole trader and some meetings are 20-30 miles from the office in clients homes and not near public transport.

Already do the family pootles but riding with a 10 and 8 year old isn’t really pushing myself in terms of keeping any form of fitness!

T-M-M. Can’t get in to running to be honest. Have done loads of in a previous life as part of my training but have never enjoyed it if I’m honest. Although i can see I might have to bite the bullet and just pull on the running shoes again as fitness is quickly disappearing!

jwt – Member
‘This is my Church, this is how i heal my hurts…’
To paraphrase Maxi Jazz.

Amen 😛

Yes in some form or another although life seems to be getting in the way at the moment! Guess that’s just because riding isn’t as high a priority to me at the moment as it was 12-18 months ago.

Do I ever see a time when I never own and use a bike? No 🙂

Will do Yunki but this might be built up for the gf as it’ll take a rear mech and is a lot lighter than her Tesco’s special she currently rides!

I’ll be changing the Scandal for something which will take a tapered steerer regardless even if i didn’t slim the 4 in to 1!

Real men ride pink!

Nice Jimbo. How did it fair on last nights microadventure?

I agree with Binners.

Is that grinding noise I can hear the earth stopping spinning?! 😆

Spent the last 13 years in a relationship not wanting kids. That relationship ended and I hooked up with a new girlfriend who’s late 30’s and has 2 boys of 8 and 10. Suddenly I realise what I had missed out on and she’s not wanting more (which i can understand).

Thankfully it’s not the be all and end all for me so am happy with it as it is and wouldn’t be fair on her 2 boys to introduce a new baby in to the mix.

Guess what I’m saying is that if you are with the right person then it’s the natural thing to do. Family int it 😆

Yeah i can see my mistake there!

Was wondering about the small block 8’s ??

Now that is a thing of beauty Farticus 😯

Went there a few years back and was shown round by some locals. My overwhelming impression was that it’s very pedaly so you’ll definitely get some exercise!

Dogs are ace. ‘Lost’ both mine almost a year ago, split with ex, she got custody and I no longer get to see them!

Still miss them both loads and think about them every day 😥

I also know teachers, a lot in fact given my line of work. The 8 weeks I point to are what they get as free time. I also work in my holidays as my line of work demands this but this is from my 4 weeks a year. There are also a lot of other people out there who do this so I’m not moaning.

I just don’t see why, with a bit better planning and organisation, these inset days are needed? They seem to be a fairly new thing and were never about 10 years ago.

Of the teachers I know (50+) most of them seem to feel the inset days are a bit of a waste and serve little purpose!

Right I’m off to class 😆

Cheers guys.

Some lovely looking bikes there. 😀

Keep em coming.

Jumped the the end of this thread to add my views so may have missed a bit.

Some of the parents at our boys school have decided that, if the LEA/Gov/Schools or who are going to fine (in our case) £60 per parent, per child, per day then for every inset day where one of us have to take a days unpaid leave from work we will be sending them a bill for £60.

This seems fair to me as inset days are designed to allow the school to provide training, organise themselves etc but why can’t this be done outside of term time? It’s not like teachers don’t get more holiday than most other occupations. Yes i know they still do work for some of the holidays but I know a lot of teachers who end up with 8+ weeks off each year! The average worker in the UK gets 4-5 weeks off a year so why should we have to use our holiday time off purely because the schools don’t want to cut down their holiday time?

It can work both ways.

Ooops. Didn’t spot that! 😳

Also does anyone know what changes are being made to the Swift for this new batch?

I’m liking that 🙂

Must say though that the Buzzards are top of my list at the moment, unless anyone can convince me otherwise?

What’s that Mister P?

That’s not a bike! It’s a unicycle with a hard on 😆

Yeah just starting to get out a bit and am getting my head around regular riding again, just in time for winter! Will be back down Stanmer for a Thursday night ride when the weather gets really bad. Just to remind me what I’m missing!

@Clubber. You are of course right but I already have my eye on a new mtb build which will take place over the winter so all good on the new bike front 😉

From what I’ve seen of Tilgate (admittedly not much) you could well be right Luke.

CX loop looks promissing from a quick scan of an O/S map 😀

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should!

Found a 2ft glitter ball on the South Downs a few years back. It was in the middle of a field quite a way from any car parks etc so someone must have carried it there. God only knows what they were hoping to do with it?!?!

Once saw an alien in Stanmer woods around 9.30 on a night ride. Well I think it was an alien! There was a massive roar as it appeared but it looked more like a tall thin human like being shrouded in a cloud with a bright light emmiting from it. The light moved away from the cloud fairly quickly before i could get a good look at it and the cloud dissapeared after a few minutes…………….

Only been out on the bike about 6 times in the past year, unless you count bimbles round the local park with the new girlfriends 2 boys?

Main reason is I split from the long term girlfriend a year ago and got in to a new relationship fairly quickly. I no longer look for a reason to get out of the house like i did before 😉

I am slowly getting back in to the mind set of riding though so don’t think it’ll be that long before it becomes a regular thing. 😛

Cheers. It’ll only be a quick blast along the Worth Way but still be good to get out again 😛

I might be interested in the Solaris if you do decide to move it on 😉

Cheers RD. That’s given me the kick up the arse i needed to to get out on my bike again this weekend after almost a year of hardly riding it 😀