I take unfair slights on my reputation extremely seriously – particularly when made behind the safety of a keyboard and a few hundred miles.

Is eBay trading your living?

Not seen that type of event before. IMO sack off DH racing and put that in its place.

4X?

Mental note: never do wrong by cynic-al. Ever. No matter how small or menial. 😯

This planet does have finite resources.

I guess to someone young, unhappy and troubled online comments could very easily push you into taking your own life but regardless the website owners aren’t responsible.

More than anything it’s the first thing they say that really grinds my gears ” we’re going to a ****** funeral!” Again, it’s the constant **** look at me everybody! We are priority, clear a space, move out of our way, we have children/ a dog/ had cancer in 2003/ have a slight limp/ am tall/ am short/ am wearing heels/ lost my mum 9 years ago/ suffer with depression/ had a heart attack when I was 31 and on and on it goes. We are special, everyone bloody bow to us immediately. We are entitled to special treatment.

Quite honestly, the moment she started bleeting on about her grandad being dead I would have just said good. Idiots.

Nope. I’d hate to think I’d be missed on any website, it would paint a picture of me that I wouldn’t be particularly pleased with i.e someone who spends too much time on the net who has created a level of online forum notoriety. Bit sad really.

But then if anything were to happen to me in real life there would only be a very small handful of people who would miss me. 4 in fact.

6’3″ with an 11 incher, 13 stone of pure muscle, fists like stone and the ability to kill a man with just one punch.

Well, surprisingly almost lived up to expectation. Stayed very honest to the character and the long back story of Partridge. Surprising really as I can’t see it appealing to anyone other than partridge fans.

I ordered some saint cranks from them. Not in stock but available within 10 days. Ordered because it was the best price and I was in no rush. 3 days later they arrived.

is lynne and the geordie guy in it

Yep and not just cameos AFAIK.

I’m seeing it in Dundee.

I’ll be driving there in my bare feet.

Toblerone?

“We plan to talk to the makers of Marmite about how we can work together on animal welfare.”

Interesting relationship.

I’m just struggling with the fact that Alan looks younger than he did 15 yrs ago. Really hope it will be good, but fear it won’t…

Yeah, he is basically Steve Coogan with a side parting in the film. I guess they wanted him to appeal more to the US market in terms of visual appearance.

Well, I haven’t got anything else planned for this Wednesday evening from 8.30 onwards so other than standing outside appreciating the fact it’s the summer I thought I’d go and see a film.

That was the black in the vid. Not done the red so can’t comment but the black is about hard as it gets in the UK. Harder than Fort William WC in my opinion.

Won’t somebody blame the children?!

They are good but they are very tough. They will beat you and your bike up. I personally wouldn’t fancy it on a HT but it’s not beyond the capabilities of a burly HT as long as it’s not beyond your capabilities.

Lunch time near enough.

Had some good deals on stuff recently so have used them a fair bit. Faultless so far.

😆 So, three years is the prediction then. SVR here I come.

More around the 21 second mark on that vid, although those berms are much wider/ faster now.

i was ecstatic, i was even jumping through hoops when i saw the advert on line!

Then that says it all doesn’t it. Onwards and upwards.

Well, base- rate isn’t going to budge until unemployment falls below 7% apparently. Is it something like 7.9% at the minute?

Don’t forget the feeling you had when you made the decision to look for and apply for another job and don’t forget how you felt when you were offered the new job that you wanted.

It’s easy to forget the motivation for the move in the first place but making that decision then applying/attending An interview etc isn’t something that just happens in passing. You have to be very determined that you want a new career/to leave your current employment.

In my head I pronounce the word so for me it doesn’t read correctly but as its the abreviation that is written and not the word, it’s my problem therefore the ‘an’ would be correct.

I would imagine people allow their friendly dogs to run up to you as they presume a dog owner isnt scared of dogs or maybe even likes dogs seems they are wrong. I pity your poor dog thats never let off a lead.

Presumptions you say? Responsible and considerate dog owner you say? Oh…

The new head of BoE is supposed to be making some big announcement tomorrow according to news, but I thought he’d already hinted there would be no change to current rates for some time?

Certainly lots of numbers have been mentioned recently, but mainly that the base rate won’t rise to 0.75% before 2016.

Impending mortgage interest rate rises? Have I missed something today or are we talking 2025 impending?

Mr CX was 100% in the wrong. This being a DH track, I presume there are also large drops which are blind on the approach and gap jumps – these features have a minimum speed to flow or even survive, a speed which would not allow you to stop if a fool on any kind of bike was pottering along the landing in the wrong direction. I worry that a number of people here have said otherwise…

Yes, absolutely. Drops and gaps that require complete commitment to clear safely.

see this was what I though first and then I thought but what if someone crashes and they or their bike are on the trail? There’s no marshals to wave you down.

Yeah I understand that and indeed that has happened to me at Aston too. Lad went down in almost the same spot as the incident yesterday. I slammed on the brakes and made the decision to ride off the side of the track to avoid hitting him. I feel confident that I could avoid hitting someone who had stopped or crashed on the trails (i know all of the runs at aston very well) but if they were travelling towards me……

Post on the Aston Hill Facebook page about Mr CX bike and see what happens. Maybe someone else has seen the berk.

Yeah. I emailed the guys at the club to see if they wanted to mention it on their website/FB page.

if you want to push enter a race,

So what is an acceptable amount of push for me to ride at? If it’s at a level that means I can stop in time to avoid a CX rider coming up a trail just before the exit to a sweeping berm then I may as well walk down.

*i am a paid up, insured member incidentally. Was too shocked/annoyed/bruised to think to ask whether he was unfortunately.

Since becoming a dog owner ( west highland terrier) I have to say I find walking him an incredibly anxiety fuelled occurrence. I’ve never, as far as I can remember had an issue with dogs but since owning one myself I endlessly come across owners with much much bigger dogs who will happily let their dogs run up to you, without a lead, and start play fighting with my dog, jumping up me. I would never allow my dog off his lead or to jump up someone, not because he is aggressive or likely to run away ( although he probably would do a runner) but because I’m aware that many people are just nervous of dogs and dogs by their very nature can be temperamental so would never want to put myself in that sort of position or make any assumptions.

Why people think its perfectly acceptable to allow their dogs to run up to people and jump up people is beyond me. For me it just seems like an element of the entitlement culture again. I have a dog I am therefore entitled to allow him off his lead and I am entitled to allow him to jump up you….

Anyway, yeah. If you can’t control your dog and your dog does go as far to kill someone then your likely to be the sort of person who’s better off out of the way of other human beings.

JY- he stopped because he was riding at a slow pace uphill on a CX bike. I couldn’t stop as was going downhill as fast as I could. In all my years riding a Aston I have never seen nor expected anyone to ride up very clearly marked downhill trails. The trails all start from one point on then split off at points into different downhill runs but they all run one way – down.

He was travelling the wrong way basically.

Comes with the job surely? Hitting or accidentally cutting into things that you didn’t mean to must be part and parcel of his job and therefore it would be reasonable to expect someone in that field to check for and then minimise the risk of that happening. As someone who doesn’t have a business cutting hedges common sense alone would tell me to check the hedge for anything that I didn’t want to cut into. So an arborist who doesn’t understand the risks of his chosen profession or have base level common sense can pay for his own mistakes AFAIAC.

I open my wife’s mail all the time. Smear test next Tuesday, might mention it.

So – who thinks TV would be better without TG on it?

FTFY 😉

On a similar note, I’m considering taking the self employed option as a result of redundancy. Wife is in full time employment. We are coming to the end of our 5 year fixed rate on our mortgage (sadly we paid well over the odds interest wise as we had a small deposit) and are expecting our interest rate to drop at that point reducing our monthly payments fairly significantly.. Just wondered what, if any, impact my quite drastic change of circumstances would potentially have on our existing mortgage?