Ross on Wye – Herefordshire. Local hills with Welsh mountains on the doorstep and the Forest of Dean within 20mins ride – brilliant

Will you please take me around the forest of dean next time I stay at my sisters in ross-on-wye (Peterstow). I went on my own and asked in the bike hire/repair shop in the carpark for a bit of a guide to the best bits only to be given a map of the boring fire trail. I searched for cheaky routes but found nothing. It made the transpennine trail look hard core to the max. I can only assume I completely missed all the good stuff. 😆

Save yourself the hastle, get a refund and move on as geoff says. Leave negative feedback, and find another pair which will probably come quicker than from spain. Returning them if the sellers guilded the description a little is also going to be a problem.

At the top of a gurt big hill 😀

Ive rode the canal as far as lymm from sale and its not perticually muddy unless its rained a lot, then its not so much muddy as a little soft and puddly. Its a nice ride and very scenic. However, You could shave off a few miles by hopping across from the canal to the transpennine trail at the end of Dairy House lane where it runs parallel before the cananl twists off all over the show where as the trans pennine follows a dead straight route to lymm and onto warington. The canal and the trail join again in lymm and again further up nearer warington where you can jump back on to preston brook. Youll see it on google earth. The trail is dryer and faster and wide enough not to get stuck behind walkers and other cyclists. It would make a pretty nice commute! lucky sod.

washing machines really arnt that hard to fix. Unless your the stereo typical pen pusher, then just have a little read up on the net about your perticular model and have a go yourself. Youve nothing to loose and lots to gain, as well as a damn sight more eco freindly then scraping and buying new for what is probably no more than a themal trip issue. What Model Is it btw?

Molgrips got this bob on!

Britain has congested tight urban roads – I’d say more so than most other countries. It’s busier here than most other countries I’d bet – peds and cars – which will automatically lead to more accidents.

I wonder if you take car/ped density into account if we’d still have such dangerous streets?

I don’t think there’s any point in lowering the limit to 20 – what we really is enforcement, but what we really desperately urgently need is a sense of responsibility.

Most of our speeding debates have been centred around motorways and open roads – it’s very hard to argue for speeding in towns and cities I feel.

Just for the record, during my driving test the olny minor error I had recorded was for failing to make due haste, or words to that effect, it was a long time ago and I forget the exact phrase used. I was given it whilst driving past a school in a residential area at 20mph. You cant win. 🙄

If its such a re-occuring theme, perhaps your unaware of something your doing to upset them?

Do you leave a good safe distance behind you before pulling back in?

Do you drive over the loose stone and gravel that tends to build up in the cross hatched area, throwing it up all over the car your overtaking and pebble dashing their windscreen?

Do you drive right up their arse for miles before passing?

Does this happen mostly with shakey old giffers in nissan micra’s? Theres nout you can do about the latter, but they occur everywhere not just scotland? are there more old people driving in scotland? Hmmmmm

Mmmmm Badger. Nice top cap. 😀

I bought some Endura FS260 knee warmers at the start of winter after reading nothing but good reviews. They have been fantastic. They have the silicone gripper strip at the top which I wear under the leg of my shorts and they dont move. They have a slightly microfleasy lining, and are windproof, but are still light and thin, breath well and give my iffy knee more support than you’d think they would. I really am impressed for £20.

Cup of flour, Cup of milk, an egg and whisk. Pinch of salt maybe. Have I missed something? As if we didnt already have enough plastic bottles floating about in the sea. 👿

Nice work! but please, watch your bloody fingers! One lapse of concentration and they’ll be off before you feel it. Swinging an axe may be harder, but In a weird way probably safer as youll not have your fingers anywere neer the bugger.

For a ford KA with the minimal amount of sound deadening they have and their noisy little engines, you’re not going to hear and appreciate any high fidelity an expensive head unit has to offer. Personally I’d pop down to the local Halfords and have a little play with the cheaper end of the scale units to find one with minimal flashy lights and a simple easy to operate user interface. They pretty much all support mp3’s these days.

Nice places to live are rarely near well paid jobs. I’d take 4 hours commuting a day rather than 24 hours a day in a city.

If your talking about very highly paid jobs in the capital then your probably right, I wouldnt want to live there either. Thankfully, theres plenty of other citys in the uk that have good Jobs and are close to some great trails and loverly places to live.

4hrs a day, 20hrs a week commuting. Id have to seriously consider moving closer or activly seeking alternative employment if that was to be a permenent arangment. Theres way more to life surely. I understand you may just have no option but thats a lot of commuting.

Stayhigh, I saw a topic on the dhb shorts a while back..Ive found it here: – http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/bib-tights-roubaix-or-normal

Funnily Enough I asked about the PITA of having a pee in bibs, and got the usual sarcastic resonce. But the thread may add value to this one.

I’m sure its only the minority of truckers who act in such a selfish way. The opp is clearly not having a pop at a slow overtake that speed restricted trucks are capable of. Its the stalemate that arrives when they are alongside completely blocking a dual carridgeway for mile after mile virtually matched in speed with neither driver willing to yeild.

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The Length has to be an exact multiple of the the size of your screen too, otherwise you get voltage standing wave ratio issues and a bad impedance match.

Or some other complete rubbish…. 😛

I bodged a wheel truing stand up quickly at work with a few old machine parts and a bit of steel stock. Works a bloody treat with the DTI which realy helps pinpoint the highpoints. Although I had to make a pair of little adaptors for maxle hubs..didnt think about them when I first made it. lol

From what I briefly read on the HTC forums, app killer messes up the operating system, and the way android works, there is no need to force close apps. Then I found androids oun setting screen for closing apps if you absolutely must already built in. Don’t use it and my battery lasts days. It was poor when I first got it, but it seems to get better over the first couple of weeks use.

There’s a pre installed widget for controlling wireless, Bluetooth, brightness etc too, so again, no need to use third party stuff.

Grimy – are you taking Singulair regularly each day or just to prevent Exercise Induced Asthma? If the later how long before starting exercise do you take it. I thought it needed to be a couple of hours? I assume you are also taking inhaled steroids?

The reason I ask is my GP suggested I try it last winter after a few back to back Asthma episodes. His view is for about a 1/3 of people it works wonders and for others it does nothing and for a tiny few can make things are awful lot worse. I was reluctant at the time but thinking now that I ought to give it a go this winter.

Hi GJP, sorry for the slow reply. I take one singulair tablet a night before bed, and I usually excersize early in the morning. I just had a read of the possible side effects and it looks like the standard list you get with just about any drugs these days. I do also take the Beclometasone inhalour, once in the moring and once a night when I remember.

whilst on topic, I went to a spin class the other night at the gym 😳 and the instructor tried to kill me. My hart rate averaged 185bpm for the whole session, and obviously peaked a lot higher on several occasions, which is more than I’m used too. Since then, my breathing has been Awesome! lol, the last three days have been pretty much Asthma free. No weezing in my sleep, and no chest tightness. Might just be coincidance, but I’m deffinatly seeing a pattern of hard excersize reducing my symptoms.

Only one bike here! I use my Mount Vision for everything including commuting. I’d love a second bike, (a carbon hardtail) but without a garage, I dont really have the space and I aint leaving a bike in a shed in Manchester. That said, I really dont feel comprimised with my one bike, it does everything I want just fine.

My Asthma has been bad for a few months now too, but I think its down to the weather and a little xmas weight gain. What ever the reason, MTFUing and getting out on my bike helps. Slightly oxegen starved and light headed for the first 10 minutes but after hocking up all the stuff in the bottom of my lungs, things get better. Normaly see’s me right for a couple of days.

The quack put me on some tablets called singulair about 18months ago and they really work for me. Stops my chest tightening with the shock of cold air, or the start of hard excersize, but it sounds like you trigger points are different.

B – Because I belive that such threads generally remain far more tastefull on STW than any other place on the internet. I also trust the mass majority of STW readers know where to draw the line of decency.

Hard to tell if those Aiston racks will work with a swan neck removable type towball. The pictures are unclear and look like you neet to pick up of the ball flange of a fixed type.

I have a Thule G5 that takes 3 bikes. Its a nice towball carrier that clamps to the ball itself so compatable with most tow hitches. The other week I had my Marin MV, a Meta 6 and an on-one ti on there. The funky frame designes are not a problem, but honestly they were a tight fit next to each other. A few small pieces of pipe insulation were needed to protect them from rubbing against each other just incase.

The extra light board keeps you on the right side of the law too.

What is so wrong in appreciating a beautifully body? Sure depending on your sexual presuasion a woman’s figure may bring a little lust, that’s human nature, its not evil. Most girls I know like to look sexy and attractive, it makes some happy and confident. Its in your own opinion tj that this is somehow wrong and Pervy. Amplify your views a little and where does it stop, the burker? You’ve taken one of lifes natural pleasures and tried to turn it into something gruby.

I was gutted to see my last car go. I had cherished it from new for 7 years. Really looked after it and serviced regually. It didnt have a scratch on it, and had been bomb proof, but bikes and lifestyle ment a coupe was no longer practical.

I soon forgot it when the new estate came. Practical, but not tooo practical 😈 2.8 V6 petrol with VVT and a Twin scroll Turbo. Still ride to work though! 😀

I Choose the Xen purely because it was the helmet that least looked like a mushroom top on my Head. Thankfully its also comfortable. Win win. lol

Whyte or the cheaper Marin. Job done.

What He said! 😀

Ive had tv, internet and phone line with them for 6 years in my current house and years before that. My broadband is near as damn it as fast as they advertise, and until a couple of weeks ago when my phone went dead, Ive never had a fault.

Called their free phone number from my parents house, answered almost straight away and didnt have to wait in a que. Came out the next day and fixed my phone line which was a problem in an exchange box at the top of the road that I’d seen a BT engineer in the day before.

I’m not saying they’re perfect, but sometimes they get it right.

I got 5 littres of holts screen wash from costco which is apparently good for -36 neat for about £4.50. mixed in about a littre of water as the bottle on my car takes 6 littres in total. Its been around -8 for the last few days, and -11 at worst, and its not frozen…..yet

I would be interested in your home brew recipes though! 🙂

Would a Suzuki Jimny not fit the bill better? plenty of those around in good condition.

2.5% for us this year. Im quite happy about it considering the company is not making a profit. We didnt expect to be offered anything and decided at the union chapel not to push for much either.

Many of my family are members of a 4×4 club, and if you look at the trials results for the last god knows hom many years its the light weight, nimble Suzuki SJ410’s (samuri’s) and the newer Suzuki Jimnys that are winning the trials. They’re not perticually fashonable or butch, nor do they have the same pulling capacity, but if your just interested in all out ability to cross terain, they’re winning the competitions. Jimnys are a lot cheaper to fuel and tax too.

Its fair to say, you probably shouldnt mess with a russian hampster, they’re brave little buggers! 😆 Just in case you shold follow this survival guide:-

http://www.whenhamstersattack.com/avoid.php

Zero! and getting fater. I considered a ride the other day when the sun came out but I decided to stay sat on my but watching a dvd box set and drinking beer. Sometimes youve just got to chill out! 😛

Whilst Ive seen that video before, even sat watching it again my palms have gone sweaty and I’m feeling a little nauseous. Not for 35k and day, would I go up there, I’d be shaking like a pooing dog. 😯

Ive got cable and would recomend it if its an option. Had the tv, badband and phone package with them personaly for 6 years, and probably 5 years before that at my parents house. Whilst I’ve heard horror stories about customer services, (like any other provider), I personally have never had a problem and the service has been very reliable.

Vigin seem to have the fastest broadband service getting much closer to the advertised speed than most other providers if you read the reviews, and having checked mine a few times, its spot on.

Another plus point is the tv signal remains good regardless of very bad weather, where as some sat dishes seem to strugle.

Customer support number is free phone. Just dial 150 from your vigin line and usually* answered within the first few minutes.

C 😈

And btw, if you had spent more time actually looking at the blackboard, instead of out of the window, your spelling might be a tad better today

Why worry about racists with that sort of nastiness?