Try taking a pattern for one to a local blacksmith.

You have to get back up here to ride transmission,accelerator and nitrous. Hooking up with some locals to find the off piste bits is a good idea as well.

It’ll give the barcodes something else to twist about. 😆

I got the Mrs to pick me up from work. There was no way I was riding from Stanley to consett in that.

Ha hA well said gorehound…so if you had a halfords special does that mean you can thrash it down the biggest hill and beat your partner …..hmmm id like to see that :-)….anyway nope i have a better bike than my hubby..orange five pro verses the cube ltd series.. cube is a nice bike tho..

In short. I beat her up and down no matter what I’m riding.

and.

Stunning. Just stunning.

I mean, look at it;

Lovely people, lovely food, lovely beer, lovely countryside. All in all, a truly lovely place.

That was taken on the day it wasn’t raining up here. 😆

It’s not what you ride it’s the way you ride it. 😛

Morning. 😀

Chainsaw chain oil is about the best you can get IME.

Eon are tossers. They wanted £190 a month from us for a £205 quarterly bill.

Although it doesn’t look that bad.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/?tab=fiveDay

Fingers crossed the weather forecast is wrong then.

I,ve got a beard and i,m of out at 4.00am.Hope the sun Gods are smiling today in the NE.I,m sick of rain.

Blue sky and sunny up in mountains of the NE.

CBA to go out on the bike for some reason. 🙁

Hopefully I will get paid on Monday. 🙁

EP140 chainsaw chain oil. £10 a litre instead of £6 for 120ml and it sticks like crap to a blanket.

If he’s happy to kick a three year old kid he’s most likely to run away when he’s confronted by another bloke. You should have hooked the tosser.

David milliband is just as much a tax dodger, but it seems to be ok for him to evade paying tax because he’s a labour MP and we all know they are all demigods( scum is a better description of them TBH).

Tory scum.

Are they like the labour scum who signed our country over to the EU and very nearly bankrupt us in the process causing the financial mess we’re in now?

Not propping the FAILED euro up would be a far better way of saving our country money than cutting services but the EU aren’t going to like that so it isn’t going to happen.

The only time you’ll have problems is when you mix sram and shimano mechs and shifters chains, cassettes and chainrings wont make any difference.

Do you mean the white pushbikes with the little BMW stickers on?

Is there such a thing as a good remake?

Skin so soft works so well because it’s loaded with citronella.

Take brake apart, remove pig, cook and eat pig. Job’s a good un. 😛

Who cares just drink the bugger. 😉

Got to admit I only use my LBS for fitting headsets and wheel servicing.

Avon skin so soft is the best insect repellant you can get according to an ex royal marine I used to work with.

The Indian down the hill from the tourist information was top notch when we were there. I’m going back four years though.

Or will it be the biggest dope user?

This is the absolute point. The 3 week tours are barbaric circus events, not bike races.

Surely the whole point of three week tours is endurance.

To me classic = old and handbuilt by a craftsman. Retro is handbuilt by a craftsman in an old style.

Get wages up and or prices down so we can afford to spend money, problem solved!

Oh bugger the mrs wants one (because it’s green).

Evans = Halfords

So that’s why Helen Gaskell works in the Gateshead branch.

Nope only car drivers do that don’t they. 😉

Only ever had good service from the Gateshead branch, but that’s the only one I have ever used.

Only got MTBs.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aest-Anodised-External-Threadless-Headset-1-1-8-inch-/110852863643?pt=UK_sportsleisure_cycling_bikeparts_SR&var=&hash=item19cf58769b#ht_1274wt_905

The quality of these things is amazing for the price.

If your GXP BB fails in under 12 months simply take it back and get a warranty replacement.

My food is making me fat because I’m a greedy sod and I don’t do enough riding to burn it off these days. 😉