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Do something else for a bit? Do some running, swimming, circuit training indoors.

Maybe having a goal might provide some motivation. Enter an event, doesn’t have to be a race. Set a date to go to a trail center.

Have you considered that your lack of entusiasm for biking MIGHT be a symptom of a more general problem?

Triple S did good work on my Kaffenback. Not cheap though.

Tom84

YGM

Thanks for that.

The PBW really is in a shocking state, across Harden Moor too. The material I saw was on the woodland edge, just to the south of the new trail. at the top of an apparently little used forestry track which runs parallel to the PBW. It was vehicle tracks lower down which prompted me to follow it.

Was just curious about how the bog was going to be dealt with. Looks bottomless!

I hope to see you on the 30th.

Had a look at the weekend.

The permissive bridleway which follows the wall from Harden Moor carpark to the Harden “Lodge/Road Entrance” is in a right state. I saw vehicle tracks and dumped surfacing material. Any plans to maintain this bit of trail?

Also the new trail now ends in a very wet area. What solutions are being considered here? Raised woodwork?

Last question. Is there a dig day scheduled over the Christmas break?

Thanks

I might even be able to lend your girlfriend a bike.

It sounds like your girlfriend hasn’t done much biking. It might be a good idea to show her some festive kindness and keep things mellow. Biking from Saltaire is then probably the better option as the hills are generally not as steep or technical and the locals are nicer ;-)

Saltaire is one stop on the train from Leeds.

I’d be happy to show you round if I’m about when you visit.

Lots of train accessible riding in either Benji Haworth’s or Nick Dutton Taylor’s guidebooks.

Both Hebden Bridge or Saltaire would be good places to start where you could link a number of shorter routes together to get a day’s pedalling in. Both places are also nicely scenic with good cafes.

Not sure about bike hire but Blazing Saddles in Hebden or All Terrain Cycles in Saltaire would be the ones to ask.

I’ve got an old blue dragon Kaffenback (small). Clearance between the tyre and seat-tube is very tight which necessitates some faffing to fit mudguards. I did manage to get some cross-tyres on it (making it good for towpaths etc. and some racing). I’ve now got road tyres on it and mudguards and it serves me well as a winter road commuter/light tourer.

the chap on the Ti456

That’s me!

Had a look yesterday at what had been done after I left. Great progress. Will be along next time if at all possible.

I’m a long way from a “we ain’t nothing but mammals/neanderthals in suits/shaven apes” position, but in many cultures around the world, and not too long ago in the UK, older men taking (and “taking” is probably right) very much younger brides is/was closer to the norm.

I can see that in our history/evolution early-age sex was probably, again, more usual and that consent may have had a lesser role to play.

There appear to be imperatives at play that some men find very difficult to resist despite the fact that they offend so mightily.

Factor in the context in which Savile committed his crimes (one where “edgy” behaviour, sexual and otherwise, was celebrated) and, to me, it is easier to see how he, and others, were able to justify them as not being too far beyond the pale.

I think, in preventing crime it is useful to try to understand the conditions that lead to their being committed. This isn’t necessarily to excuse the crimes or to demean the suffering of victims. Just, I think, a sensible way of thinking about things.

rudebwoy – Member

To what extent are fans complicit in the bad behaviour of their idols?

yeah right- they were leading the weak willed crone on were they, among consenting adults you do as you like, but leave the kids and animals out of it.

Not sure you get me, perhaps not clear. Wasn’t talking specifically of the Savile case, or of his victims, but generally. Do we, in some way, get the stars and media we deserve by celebrating illegal behaviours?

A very, very slight mitigation. By the context of the times and the environment Savile inhabited his actions may not have seemed so beyond the pale. Rock ‘n’ roll thrived, to a large extent, on it’s aura lawlessness. Even now many music fans celebrate the “edginess” of their idols.

Sex ‘n’ drugs ‘n’ rock ‘n’ roll.

To what extent are fans complicit in the bad behaviour of their idols?

I may well join you. Took a shufty a couple of weeks back. Some interesting sections of trail emerging.

If it was a bike lane on the inside then surely it is not really filtering as it is a ‘lane’.

I’d have thought that should strengthen the OP’s position. Even when bike lanes are provided I often don’t use them, especially in slow/queuing traffic, because of drivers “flashing” others to make turns or making unsignalled left turns.

S’funny that these “filtering lanes” are often most useful to use when they’re also the most dangerous to use. Often due to the poor road positioning of drivers that won’t permit overtaking, in lane, down the outside.

Oh, @robdob. Hope it all works out, whatever happens.

As a motorcyclist I filter up the outside, and do you know what happens when someone turns into you then? It becomes a 50/50 accident as you are overtaking, in some cases

Still 50/50 if you are overtaking but still on “your” side of the road and driver hits you by turning right into you? Would’ve thought this is entirely fault of turning driver.

As for where and when you should/shouldn’t filter, the only answer there is experience. I’ll filter inside/outside/up the middle (dual lane of traffic) depending on the circumstances.

That.

On the inside often very much the worst option. Visibility, if not space (often due to bad road positioning by motorists), usually much better on the outside and also this is where motorists, usually, expect to be overtaken.

Got a Macpac Possum. Bought 2nd hand. Pricey new. Very rugged.

Not beech or elm. That’s for sure.

When druidh mentioned willow it chimed straight away.

Look like some variety of willow as druidh suggests.

Does the tree have black buds and the branches a slightly upswept appearance? Are the leaves compound leaves (your leaves are actually leaflets – part of a bigger multi-leafed leaf)? Yes to those would suggest Ash.

Around Leeds/Bradford? Shipley, Baildon, Saltaire, Bingley area?
Rawdon, Guiseley, Yeadon area?

3 panel Walz cap, herringbone wool. Lovely.

Had an ’03 naturally aspirated diesel Expert. Put a sleeping platform in, which doubled as “out of sight” storage space and bench. Got bikes and even a kayak inside without trouble. Was sluggish but that wasn’t something that bothered me. Used a cam strap to tie side doors together for motorway driving, otherwise noisy and draughty (side doors slightly sprung, I suspect). Driver and main passenger seat was comfy but middle seat a little cramped.

Proved reliable and robust. Except the glove box.

Loved it but had to get something more sensible when child born. I’d have something similar again in the right circumstances.

Ti 456 is a lovely frame.

I’ve got a Witter one. Just the job.

I got a Yuba Mundo. Great bit of kit.

Yep. My Orange 5, stolen a few months ago in Shipley, was on Gumtree in Leeds days later. Police informed but didn’t act. Hope you get the bikes back and the Jeremys nicked.

The Bingley to Shipley stretch of the Aire Valley is a great place to live. Salatire is pricy but cheaper housing abounds around Shipley with Bingley, being a little closer to the Dales/further from Bradford, more expensive. Good riding (road and off-road) from the door. Rail travel into Leeds is a doddle and Bradford is a bike commute away. Driving not too bad either to Leeds or Bradford.

Brant may well tell you that Bingley is the birthplace of British mountainbiking. Or he may not.

The cyclist may have been less inclined to “just appear” at 0520 if the bus driver hadn’t just overtaken at a narrow part of the road and then cut him up.

Enjoying reading your blog. It’s “bridleway” though. :-)

Thanks 2POC. It won’t fit me. I’d be after a 16.5″. Don’t you like it?

Thanks, everyone, for your input and offers to throw a leg over. Unfortunately I’d be after a small size and southern UK is a bit of a schlep. Lots of Soul love it seems. I think it’s going to come down to a Cotic Soul or a Pipedream Scion. Anyone here ridden both?

Also attracted by Pipedream’s “bundles” arrangement that sounds like they may be able to put together a good value component package too.

I have an old (mid 90s, pre long travel geometry) P7 with Pace RC36s and still love it. Looking for something with a more modern geometry and disk compatible. A bit more ragable.

Miss my Five but it was probably too much bike for most of my riding and I was forever wondering whether the shock was too firm/soft etc. Now, with a small child, I need something I can throw a leg over without fuss.

OK looks like the insurance may give either “like for like” replacement or offer cash.

So…

What to replace it with?

Still attracted by simplicity, reliability and serviceability of single pivot designs. Anything changed in seven years to make me not go for another Orange 5?

Some good points and food for thought here. Thanks also for expressions of sympathy and promises to keep eyes open. On the issue of insurance, I’m with ginger. Hate paying for it. Neccesary evil. My bike had a Fox Kashima RP23 recently fitted, Hope headset and Hope rear hub service within the last 6 months, it ran perfectly. That’d cover the £450 the thief was asking for the complete bike. To replace the bike with a similar model will likely cost a grand more than the insurance will pay out and I can write off the cost of the new shock etc. and have to swallow the increased premiums/loss of no claims. I’m still keen to recover my bike and see the thief apprehended.

m2cyclone1, you’re right and I get you. Initial posts perhaps a bit scathing, as I’ve said. I really don’t think that the person who bought my bike is necessarily an idiot or a ne’er do well. Though given what the police have told me this seems by far the strongest possibility. From the outset, perhaps, I thought that getting my bike back from the purchaser was an extremely long shot. Thanks for keeping your eyes open.

Thanks also to Stif Cycles who, when I didn’t know if I could recover a 6 year old receipt for my insurance company, offered to search their database for proof of purchase.

Thanks Michael. Worth the candle, I think.