+ 1, also at adults using ‘LOL’

+1 @ adults using +1 and @ and LOL and Facebook. LOL

It’s the fanfare of these charity ‘challenges’ which drives me nuts. As said, just dish out a bit of cash via direct debit or post a cheque if you really care about your charity of choice. People who do these bloody pointless marathons, or walks in the name of charity are full of it. It’s not about the charity, it’s about them conquering something, achieving something or wanting something to focus on. I’m very happy for them, great, well done but don’t insult my intelligence by telling me you’re doing it for charity. Do something for charity quietly without a fuss.

We got married in the Highlands. Just the two of us by Loch Maree. For us it was perfect.

They had the ‘STW look’ about them.

So you saw an ugly fat bloke having a Korma?

I don’t see how learning issues is an outdated term or in anyway similar to ‘puff, **** or spastic’.

I’ve yet to experience the Mynd in the dry but it’s on my wish list. Looks like today would have been ideal.

Love my climbing but it would be a cold day in hell before I attempted that. No thanks.

But incredible perspective none the less.

its a ‘joke comment’ using outdated terms that have long become associated with ignorance and discrimination, like Gervais’ using “mong”. I’ve never been accused of being PC or a hand wringer but I think certain terms (puff, ****, special needs, spastic, mong etc) just have too much historic baggage to be flippantly used by people who aren’t part of that group.

Hora used none of those terms.

What was the indicator?

A HT is something I don’t own but would certainly like to. I haven’t ridden a HT since I was 17 (about 12 years ago) and although I’d like one in my shed I don’t feel I’m missing out particularly. I almost exclusively ride DH and most of that is in competition, the rest of the time I try and find as rough, rocky trails as I can find for which I use my Spesh Camber (120mm FS).

I just like FS, I enjoy the technology in them and the advances they are making plus when a rear shock is really set-up well, the grip you can get the rear end to produce is unbelievable, which then only leaves my skill as a rider to see just how much I can push it. I enjoy that, but then I am always in awe of the very quick downhill HT guys.

…. I wouldn’t go for anything smaller than 3 though, not if you want to move onto traction sports with it. To be honest over time you will end up with 2 or 3 kites anyway to cover you for all conditions.

Well my wife had a 3m hornet too. Still great fun, plenty of power and would very easily get me airborne in a decent wind. The 4m just gives you a little more scope if the wind is low but quite honestly both will do you fine. If the wind is really up a 4m could be intimidating I suppose but common sense will kick in for those days.

A quick phone call to the chap should suffice

“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. but I can tell you I won’t except that offer or that sort of insult. but i can tell you what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you apologise now that will be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you”

Peter Lynn Hornet is a very good beginners kite but will see you right as you advance. Very predictable and easy manage.

It was the first I bought (a 4m with handles and killers) and I still use it now more than anything else. It’s taken an absolute beating too (as a novice you will undoubtably slam it into the ground a few times) but other than grass stains is perfect.

£199 though for a 4m with handles, kite killers etc.
http://www.powerkiteshop.com/peter_lynn_hornet_kite.htm

Might be more than you want to spend to get started?

I’m yet to find an online bike shop that does stock all the items it advertises tbh. CRC not included.

Banker paid for the biscuits. What’s the problem?

Expenses.

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They are useful no doubt. Pay it off when you want within that interest free period, just make sure each month you at least pay the minimum to keep the interest free ‘alive’.

Yeah, about £8 a month then.

Your minimum payment won’t be any more than a tenner but its not calculated to ensure you pay it off over the interest free period. You will need to pay more than that at some point during your 18 month period to clear the debt.

How come so many Daily Wail haters click on the website anyway

It’s a good point. The only time I have ever found myself on the DM site is via a link on this forum. I have never even stumbled on it from a google search. So how are all those who regularly go on about how awful it is, which of course it is, finding themselves on there so often?

I’ve picked up many a lamb and put them back into the field when they’ve escaped onto a road but not sure I’d fancy trying to drag a ram around.

It’s not complex at all really. I have this book http://www.powerkiteshop.com/accessories/bookflexifoilpowerkiting.htm
Which ill be happy to part with for a fiver. It tells you everything you need to know about firstly mastering kite flying and then going on to land boards and buggys.

I also have this DVD http://www.powerkiteshop.com/accessories/videodvdpowerkitinghowtoguide.htm which you can have for a tenner or both of the above for 13 quid.

There is a lot to learn but once you put it all into practice it clicks quite quickly. It’s not complicated but it can go wrong quickly if you don’t know the basics. Personally I would say get a 3m 4 line kite with control handles first and learn the basics with that. Most come as standard with kite killers so essentially if you get into to trouble you just let go of the handles and the kite will fall to the ground.

Also, as cougar says learn to master the kite first. I wouldn’t advise against buying yourself a 3 or 4m 4 line kite though, learning the basics of flying isn’t difficult really but the power they generate is initially surprising, even in low winds.

(Grasp the wind window concept before anything else)

I use a 4m kite, 4 line with a control bar and harness. Many happily use control handles without a harness but using a bar means I can take one or both hands off and more comfortably control the board and manoeuvre myself.
Get yourself a helmet of some sort, you will fall on your face at some point.

The decathlon stuff is a bit cheap and cheerful, best look at something like powerkiteshop.co.uk

Hmmmm, not sure I need to know what STW stance is on The Daily Mail to be honest nor do I need protecting from it. As an adult I can make my own mind up.

He’s great entertainment and I love listening to his commentary but he was a bit of an animal to say the least, when he was a bit younger. I remember in the late 90s, early 2000’s at various motocross GP’s in the UK Warner was one of biggest instigators of a lot of trouble. All alcohol fuelled of course but he was an absolute nightmare.

20k on a car?!! and so on and so forth….

The careless driving, I can partly understand her contesting, but seeing as she did leave the scene and not report, which she appears to have admitted already in tweets and media spiels, I don’t see how she can hope to get away with

Oh didn’t you hear? There was no accident therefore no scene of an accident to leave.

I positively despise my mountain bikes now. I look at them and feel nothing but hatred towards them, with their inferior wheels and overly simple geometry. Make me sick. I’d give them away but who in their right mind would want something with just 26″ wheels in this day and age.

Ahhh well, may as well keep ’em.

LMS did nothing for me either, watched the first half hour or so then deleted the rest

You have no soul.

Any bloke will find the quickest and most productive way of doing the job, like shopping. I can do our food shopping in less than half an hour but it takes the wife about 4 and she buys exactly the same things that I do.

My wife writes a shopping list every week and every week I ask her why she’s writing a shopping list. We buy the same things for the same meals each and every week without fail.

Little Miss Sunshine without the poignancy. Looks funny though. Very brave kid.

Slow in fast out always. I’ve always been guilty of going in fast, braking late and (trying) to power out. I used to apply that approach for years in motocross with little success and it was hard to break the habit. If your behind someone and they start braking for a corner you can immediately see the gain you can make so naturally think late braking is the key to making gains.

It works for overtakes sometimes, but for fast consistent lap times it is a hopeless technique. Braking earlier and riding through the corner at a speed you can hold on the preferred line and then carrying that speed out of the corner is the way to do it. The real skill of course is maximising the speed you can carry through the corner.

Very much mood dependent these days – sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t1

Apply that mentality to household chores and you’ll be fine…. Or divorced. One of the two.

I thought you’d abandoned the signature?

Cheers,

FI

A friend of a friend (honest) was trimming his sack with a pair of hair clippers without an attachment (grade 0 essentially) and managed to just clip the base of his member thus splitting open the skin and causing an alarming amount of blood to flow.

If you mean it should be mandatory, (which the pass-plus is not), then I agree.

Yes, exactly that. Also, i know it’s not legal as a learner to drive on the motorway with an insured driver etc, but is it even legal to drive on the motorway as a learner with a qualified instructor? For example if you asked your instructor to allow you to drive on the motorway for experience/confdence would he legally be able to?

All I see every day on the motorway though is speeding, undertaking and general poor behaviour and it’s fairly rare to see people getting pulled.

This new law feels a wee bit like pissing in the wind. The people who it’s designed to target won’t even be aware what they are doing is wrong, so how will it change behaviour?

Indeed. Plus the motorway has just become ( was it ever different?) a free for all. I find motorway driving quite unpleasant as it seems that you are relying on others people’s own sense of self preservation, rather than an understanding of the law/rules/etiquette, to drive safely.

I still find it ludicrous that motorway driving doesn’t form part of driving lessons/test.

Competent F1 driver, rock climber, stunt driver and base jumper as well. Still mad as a kettle though.