A 73 degree parallel design is an excellent handling road bike.

+100.

Very few out there, but 73 parallels ride like motorbikes. Stable, nimble, perfect…

The smell of a two-stroke running with castrol-r.

Thanks, mugsys, for the tvreplay link. That’s tonight sorted.

I think we were chez nous in the chalet in Morzine when it was peeing down. That contributed to the ‘we could do better than that’ feeling.

Spekie’s thread is a horror show but I’m hoping to get something that needs little more than redecoration and a stud wall and extra bathroom or two. (As does everyone else I expect).

CdF has difficulty with mudguards if it has a long arm front mach…

Thanks for all that, jambalaya. Setting up a Sawdays type place is the aim, having stayed in a few and seeing what works (and none of them have been perfect).

e.g. we stayed in a old watermill last weekend, the guy was all enthusiastic about the history, I was more interested in the number of acroprops holding it up !

Thanks, jambalaya. Could you point me to ‘Spekie’s thread’ ? Struggling to find it.

Mrs fj has a French degree and has worked in France, and my mum was French so although v rusty we’ve got some language…

Running a b+b is bloody hard work with antisocial hours and keeps you fully occupied in the holiday season

My folks ran a hotel for a few years* so I know how hard that is, I’m hoping something smaller scale might be manageable.

*my mother subsequently maintained that ‘Fawlty Towers’ was a documentary…

Do you have to have been married in France for a livret de famille ?

@jerseychaz

Thanks. We’ll be in your slipstream ! Only want to keep the lights on for 10 years until the pension kicks in. Then keep going until we drop but at least £150 a week better off. That’s assuming that the whole Brexit thing doesn’t mean I’m escorted out at gunpoint…

large club on Berkhemsted if you’re located around there.

The river ride to St Jean is surprisingly entertaining. St Jean to Le Biot over to old road excellent – descent terrifying on narrow tyres, that’s a big drop on the left…

Yep that long arm front mech problem ruins the CdF’s otherwise excellent credentials as a top gravel bike…also makes mudguard fitment (for commuting) impossible without much hacking.

I’m out this week with a gravel bike. There’s loads…

That sounds good. Bog will be replenished tonight :D – storms predicted – and today I’ll only get out for a short one…

I’m sipping hot chocolate about to build the bike back up having arrived last night. Bump…
Thanks

Out of interest, anyone know why the bike week isn’t happening this september ?

Is that T shirt real ? As an ex caulkhead I could be interested…

1994 Mercedes E300TD. 230000 miles. Costs a fortune to keep going but just like it…

Guardian is the paper of the social democrats so will always oppose the democratic socialists.
Got my voting paper today. Owen. You have got to have power otherwise it’s pure masturbation.
And whilst we’re at it, Jeremy surrounding himself with women is as convincing as Charlie Kennedy holding a can of coke. Every left leaning woman I know is horrified by the misogyny of the old left.

I found run to bike transition no problem, bike to run was like the nightmares when you’re running through treacle…

Have EVO and EVO2, not sure if that’s any help…

We had something similar at South Penquite a few years ago. Not sure why folk go to a really rural quiet spot then to make a load of noise…

A summer mountain Olympics, that would be good…

I got the poison ! I got the remedy !

Captain Scarlet (red 1995 Zaskar that just won’t die)
Trans Europe Express (racer that I rode to Rome back in 2010)
The Happy Shopper (Thorn XTC with full pannierage, generally used around town these days)
Dark and Long (dark grey full suspension)
Tweedie (1983 Raleigh Record Ace, Green and Brown)
Parker (1982 Raleigh Road Ace, 5 o’clock shadow blue, goes out with ‘Lady Penelope’ which is mrs flap_jack’s vintage pink 531c mixte)
the Guv’nor (it’s a Guv’nor)
the Batmobile (Black and Orange graveller)

Mrs Plum (wife’s purple shopper)
Esmerelda (wife’s green hardtail)
Tigger (wife’s orange and black FS rig)
Elsie (wife’s 1983 Raleigh Lady Royal)
Belladonna (wife’s black call-the-midwife Pashley)
Lady Penelope (wife’s superlight vintage pink 531c mixte)
Rhubarb (pink Brompton)

The founders arms??! Seriously? It’s a glorified chain

And you recommend Putney ?

Singletrack irony at its best, you nearly had me then.

I’m oldskool. I like a nice stout/porter/mild, ‘proper beer’ as the OP requested, and Youngs do them. None of this ‘challenging’ hipster stuff.

@Ewan

sounds like Morzine was in 1997…

Founders Arms outside the Tate modern. Everything you want plus a great view.

Yep, today in Milton Keynes…All hatches battened down.

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Yes we did that (although back in January) all OK.

Yep, but they’re rich twunts so they’re allowed to p us poor folk off. Of course, Brexit (and the roll back of ‘red-tape’) will make this much worse…

My Guv’nor has got steel rims. And, they’re mahoosive, at 635mm. Don’t think anyone does MTB tyres that size though.

Thanks, macnibbler, that’s the sort of info we need. I feared Wales had voted itself back to the Stone Age, hopefully not.

Mine above has 36mm Clement Xplor. Really quite close.

If Wrightyson gets banned there should be a whole load before him…

Casual racist comment from postie. I say nothing as I want my post delivered. So it starts, I’m a collaborator. Farage will be in No 10 this time next year with blackshirts on the streets soon after. What a mess.

So you told the neighbour you’d do mon to fri then got someone in on a sat ?

Hmmm.

Watching – I suffer the same problem. I tend to cut off the grippers on Endura undershorts then watch as they unravel over the ensuing year :(

Comps not Revs.