…or just ride backwards around right hand turns.

For me, it’s the fact it doesn’t patronise the audience. It doesn’t need to dwell on the many many themes running through the series. It just touches on them briefly at various points. It’s the only television series that stimulates conversation between my wife and I after watching an episode.

It’s as good as it gets.

I like the look of both paintings/etchings in terms of style.

Norman Ackroyds stuff just takes me away though. Good purchase CZ.

I love my go pro. I take it with me everywhere pretty much. It’s just a great point and shoot device and if you enjoy the editing process then it’s good fun piecing it all together to make you life look more interesting than it actually is.

I made the below for my parents (who I don’t see very often) so they can see what my wife and i get up to (no bedroom content)

How much notice have they given you?

They’ve actually been very good about it. They have given me six weeks notice but have allowed me to finish work now and will continue to pay me. It sounds like they just wanted me out but they are a small association and by all accounts did all they could to avoid redundancies and stated that they wanted to do all they could to help me find other work and felt Giving me six weeks paid leave would take some pressure off, which it has.

where are you based OP?

Based down in Northants area – Buckingham.

😆 Ahhhh the good old days when I was a kept man. Kerry was rolling in it back then.

Thanks all for the wise and encouraging words. You are absolutely right what you all say. I just need to get back on it and dive straight in and view it as an opportunity. I think right now though I am going to cook me up a decent breakfast, go for a ride and blow away the cobwebs, get some endorphins flowing and start working on my CV.

As a side note how are people finding the job markets at the moment? All I ever hear/read are horror stories about how basically the entire world is on the dole. That bad?

Trying to even think about getting myself back up and running at this moment is hard. I feel utterly shattered by it. My career history has been more than up and down. Always been employed but I spent most of my twenties jumping between jobs trying to find something I liked. I couldn’t honesty say, at 31, I have a strong or specific skill-set that I could take with me to anyone.

I’ve gone from working for local council as a crime and safety partnerships officer to working in housing as a tenancy manager to working for a unversity as an accommodation manager to working as trainee suspension tuner for a small race car support team back to, most recently, a housing officer. I’ve always just managed to scrape by but in terms of a real useful skill-set……. I think I may have wasted some time on that score sadly. My CV would impress nobody.

Thanks poly, useful info. In all honesty I think all he ever wanted was to put a few grand in his bank account to pay to do some training courses and get himself a car.

He had no long term plan to stay self employed or run his own business. The opportunity came up to earn some half decent money over the summer with the proviso that he register as self employed and invoice accordingly. He’s done all that and he feels like its starting to backfire on him. I think ultimately once the work available dried up he simply planned to advise HMRC that he was no longer self employed. Sadly he didn’t stop and ask anyone for advice before he acted.

That’s exactly what I initially said to him to put his mind at rest but then I looked into a little further and discovered information about proving that you have multiple sources of income and all this stuff about him technically being an employee rather than self employed.

It all seems a bit OTT.

My nephew has kept copies of all his invoices and has so far earned approx £6000 since 6th April. He informed HMRC immediately of his self employment status. He has paid no tax/NI yet although has set-up a direct debit to pay his NI (not much more than £12 per month). He isn’t going to earn beyond the threshold for income tax I wouldn’t have thought.

At the minute he’s more worried that he’s going to lose a load of money he has earned rather than the verbal contract going sour.

I don’t run but cycling for me is very similar. It’s an escape and a silencer of all my demons. I’d never preach that to anyone but it works for me.

Gervais favourite subject is god and religion. There are potentially many comments/jokes of his with a similar line.

Amazingly the comments have made me feel better. Even the piss take ones. I realise I have to just get over myself. I think I also have a bit of hair style envy. The last time I had a hair style which I thought was genuinely cool was in 1998, since thn it’s just been about trying to make my hair line look like it wasn’t receding.

Anyway, it is done. Shaved down to a grade 1/2 I think (grade 1 with the little lever flipped forward). Not bad considering. Wife, being kind, said I look a bit like Kelly Slater. I’ll take that.

You don’t need TV anymore. I watch all the major sporting events I’m interested in a day or 2 later on YouTube when some kind soul uploads them.

Motogp, F1, Motocross GP, AMA Supercross. Admittedly the motocross and supercross are a bit niche but at least I don’t have to pay for Sky or a TV licence for that matter.

Local timber merchants.

We used timber, 6 foot, 16″ fence posts. After using the slackline a few times now I’m fairly sure that anything less wouldn’t have been suitable. In fact there is some flex in them even now. Likewise a 4 foot, concrete filled hole is the minimum in my opinion to be sure.

You’re all worrying unnecessarily. With all this new found political fame Farage is bound to be jet setting around the UK in a Light aircraft again.

We did it the hard way. 2 posts sunk 4 foot into concrete. Was a lot of digging.

True but I not sure that was it’s intention.

It was its intention, Eastwood regularly explained what he wanted the film to tackle, American racial tension being one of them. It failed on that front clearly but that aside like all Eastwood directed films it was horribly childish and naive. Clunky and contrived. Bloody rubbish basically.

Good article IanW.

In my head, although I completely realise that he in his car would almost certainly not have interpreted it that way, I was just trying to indicate it was all clear for him rather than hurry up and pass me. I wasn’t bothered by him being behind, he gave me plenty of space so I was quite happy. But I was, maybe wrongly, thinking of him being frustrated/nervous whilst stuck behind so my gesture was just ‘you’re all clear if you want to overtake’ rather than an ‘overtake now’. Personally if I was in his shoes I wouldn’t overtake purely because a cyclist gestured me to do so but I’d be grateful that an attempt was made to pass on some, albeit minimal, information.

Regardless, I think his reaction was unnecessary and unpleasant but such is life.

I hope it didn’t spoil your ride completely OP. It really was a beautiful morning for it (30 miles on the road incident free).

No, thankfully the sun and blue sky quickly took my mind off it.

Next time, perhaps tell him that you’re erect and you like his shoes?

Both of those things were true so wouldn’t have been a stretch.

Is there a way to actually _delete_ an FB account? So that it completely forgets about you?

Not that I’m aware of and I really really looked

Have you run it through a 90 degree wash to clear out the gunge?

No, haven’t tried that. I just assumed the electrical burn smell meant exactly that, something electrical (motor, brushes) were on the way out.

But I’ll give the dispenser a clean and try the hot wash too.

You never really delete your facebook account. You just put it on hold for a while. It’s basically just sitting there waiting for you to log back in whereby it will just say ‘welcome back, don’t worry all your stuff’s still here, we’ve looked after it all for you. As you were’.

I deleted mine but I deleted all my photos, cleared my ‘wall’, messages etc and ‘unfriended’ everyone. Then I changed my password for some utterly random code that I would never ever remember and then proceeded to close my account using this password to verify so I wont be able to accidentally log back in.

it’s worked this time. Have touched facebook since December.

Don’t you just miss the days of going to shop, seeing something and then buying it? The Internet has just created unending anxiety over every purchase. Reading reviews, owner reviews, videos, photographs, forums, long term reviews, comparing similar products, price comparisons, store reviews, store users customer feedback, available discount codes, further forums and on and on it goes.

By this point I have often changed my mind and found a new fad.

That to me reads that you cannot live without the internet for more than a week – full stop.

Then you’re an idiot and simply looking for a moot point to pick on. It was plainly bloody obvious what he meant – that not being able to gain access to some form of Internet connection somewhere, somehow within a week long period is near impossible.

very much that way sadly, however I have now been able to spot when the idea of buying/owning the kit takes over the desire to actually ‘do’ the sport/hobby. If that is the case then I tend to just abandon it altogether.

I learnt my lesson from my Motocross days. During my peak (early 20’s) I’d spent £33,000 in a year on bikes, kit etc. It was out of control, never again.

I got stung when I sold a bike for 750 quid. They took £75 off me plus £20 odd PayPal fees plus the listing fee of about 7 quid.

I didn’t fee like I’d got much left after all that.

Cheers folks, great advice as always. The search begins. I’ll update when I get something.

£2000 gets you a lot of bike tbh. How old was your R6? Do you want something similiar again, or not?

Well if I could get well below that budget more the better. Will keep the wife off my back!

My R6 was new when I had it. A 2005. I’m not that fussy really, I just want some fun on the road again. I’m certainly open to a supermoto style bike. I loved my R6 but also enjoy the upright positioning on a supermoto style bike. I guess it comes down to ‘bang for your buck’.

Never really considered a supermoto. I suppose coming from a motocross background a supermoto would make sense. Good for mucky country roads too.

Now the ‘how will you face up to imminent planetary destruction?’ thread would make the Thatcher and Overtaking ones look like insignificant weenies.

There would still be the obligatory ‘ I’ve found a smartphone, what should I do with it?’ Thread.

I have absolutely no sense of cycling etiquette whatsoever. I Think it’s all utterly arbitrary so I would annoy every single one of you, and I’d be glad of it.

Drunk and looting

Looting for what purpose?

Just my knees really. 25 years of motocross has destroyed them. They grind, crunch and crack with every step. I don’t want to find out what the actual problem is.

Hi All
This is a message for anybody that has purchased any of the items i am sell through here or UKC premier post.
I have had both my Icloud account and Internet banking fraudulently accessed and i have as a result been lock out of both.
If you have or know somebody that has bought any of my stuff over the last week or so please pass on this message to them and ask them to get in contact via my phone, can you please forward me your Name, Address and what you purchased so i can ensure you all get the correct items.
Many thanks
Drew

What was the priciest thing you sold? I bought that.

which 29er hardtail manufacturer seems to suit most tall blokes?

im convinced its specialised but they cant be just the one firm out there?

What are you going on about? How many threads on this now? Go to a bike shop, try a few, have a think, choose one.