You could try North Devon, Croyde, Woolacombe, etc for camping, beach, surfing etc, you'd have to travel a bit for riding – Exmoor, Dartmoor etc

The death of marketing departments may be a better thing.

So presumably as 26 are crap they'll all be going cheap ?

Phone em up and negotiate – worked for me.

apologies, was coming but had a sudden minor emergency op yesterday, so off bike for about a month, hope it goes well. Cheers

I can't speak for dx mp66 but I take UK7 in nearly everything and have always got on fine with shimano UK7 (m110, m220, mw055)

I think girls must have been secretly testing in the gents loo in my work building for ages, if not why on earth would the gents loo traps have the seat down with wee splashed all over it ……………………….

sorry should have said rid dohh

http://www.venturejet.co.uk/activities.htm

this looks like what I did but it was the 'bitches' in my day

have a ferret and enjoy, can surf at newgale and whitesands (*take care very noticeable side rips, ) – ie go to Newgale – beach cafe used to hire boards

bitches raft ride out to the islands

People help – true

exhaust split and dragged near Plocton, two blokes on a council estate, borrowed ramps, borrowed some tools, nicked some wire from a fence, and vaguely sorted. Well until we had to drive over a firehose near the hotel, how pleased were the firemen when I had to reverse back and 4 of them had to lift the hose over the car, how embarrasing ………. anyway local garge managed to fix it by 1 pm next day

In case of emergency click the link

http://www.independenthostelguide.co.uk/accommodation-in-northern-scotland-map.php

Applecross to Torridon road (pref on a sunny day) – best views in UK – honest, you can camp on the beach not sure about campers – pub within walking.

Different Accom – http://www.ruareidh.co.uk/

Walk to Sandwood bay and campover at beach (*NO facilities)

There are two good rides on the Isle of Harris (*check ferry fares first) and stunning white beaches ……………

Parking is tight, 3/4 cars, middle of nowehere *depending
but http://www.independenthostelguide.co.uk/selected-accommodation.php?area=16&s=21s

£48 a night

It's basic (couple of small bedroown, lots of mattreses, shoers loo, kitchen, fire circle out back, but we got lucky, blazing sun, could see glasto tor at brekkie, nearby drain river burbling all night, and just down the hill from the Quantocks – village nearby (with pubs but )

lots of other hostels

good luck

like indicators on modern cars, and life savers by cyclists ;+)

to confirm what happened as opposed to anything else …….

ebay

I've got the first 200 or so Bike and Superbike, never look at them but can't sell tem either ……

http://www.365campingcaravanning.com/campsites_pubs_South_West.htm

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/

we're off to the New Forest in a couple of weeks…..

currently contemplating
http://www.anvilarts.org.uk/whats-on/09/oct/classic-legends-rock

tip re taking apart – use a digital camera to snapshot/video everything as you go

stone

Australian (motor)bike movie

bit cheezy but some great bits, it's really about friendship

Hi

is this on and on the 9th ??

email = forumname<aaaa><notcoldmaildotcom>

thanks

One of my mates could have been a mechanic and AA inspector for 20+ years.

He may have used the phrases ' a victory for style over engineering quality' and '….ing useless' relating to a vehicvle

He recommended (for me who wanted low cost, high mpg, high mileage reliability, don't mind small non major function faults) a pug 306 HDI (182,000 and last 3 MOTS at no faults), cd doesn't play,

I have a new (as in tried on and then not used) black Nike Tempest (see fleabay) for similar. tenner.

I did, particularly helful ;+)

Quick (<30secs) hands on check.
Don't laugh, don't cough.
Goodbye

I got given Glasgow Uni and Strathclyde Uni details and a minibus trip to Glasgow. I got VERY lucky, was going to do Accountancy or Physics.
Physics Presentation – very boring people in white lab coats
Accounts Presentation – even more boring people in suits
Accidentally strayed into computing – blokes in jeans running about, game on, a good thing to do in 1977…..

(RTC my gf is a nurse, wanted to be a nurse at 4, tried to repair animals etc etc, now senior paediatric surgical sister, so game on I'd say)

just fyi – gf 4ft10 Spec Myka Pro 13" with down curve tube – one of the few bikes I could find to fit her, it's not full sus, but it's light etc and good kit level (and was in a sale)
(google edignburgh bike sale)

MZ did something with the yam engine – baghira ??

I had a dr350 – which I rate above the others but my aim was trail use with roads between.

ccm now have suzi engine I believe
FMX honda go quite low (but are supermotos)

being a short arse I loved serow ……

bic are fine, see also nsp and I personally like (and my been a few times friends love southpoint 8ft6)

I get my boards of ebay and http://www.a1surf.com/Classifieds/ShowAllClassifieds.aspx

My experience is that board size is a weight/fitness/skill/wave size balancing act – and being middle aged, medium (????) fit, 13st, and getting very few weekends on the water I got an 8ft 6 mctavish (surftech, very light, it was in a sale) and it will go in even minimal conditions and carry my weight

Also check buying info on britsurf, understand delamination and discolouration, you get repair kits on ebay etc

Hi

based Burghfield Common,

have done Warren Loop (Caversamish)
I do a cheeky Mortimerish route

and then within about 1 car hour of Reading

a few of us ride from near Basingstoke Station on Weds about 5.30

mtbfix – what sort of distance/speed …

fyi email is forum name a t <notcoldmail.com>
Cheers

ebay might give you an idea

sadly my mother had enough of my 10 year old collection of Bike, Superbike, What Bike, Motor Cycle Mechanics, Auto Car, Motor, MotorSport etc etc that I'd left behind 30 or so years ago when flying the nest, and neatly restructured it for me (plus issued an ultimatium about them being relocated to my house) – how happy she looked when she showed me the neatly stacked and organised piles and the 'oh, I found these in amongst your bike and car magazines' … ho hum…..

if you don't know how useful a digging bar can be now would be a good time to find out ……

Trendy people need not apply, mind you if you fancy a bargain have a nose http://www.mandmdirect.com/

tooth removal via twine and a door handle ….

"We're moving further and faster, driven by a 2050 80% target set into law and strong commitment on climate change in Cabinet. Jonathan Porrit last week praised our Low Carbon Transition Plan."

"As he leaves office, Sir Jonathon accuses ministers and civil servants of failing to create a new economy fit for the 21st Century…"

So did he just spot it in his last week then ?

Doing some camping investigation myself, looks like nearish Salisbury in a couple of weeks.

Using this for campsites
http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/articles/view.asp?id=117

Can recommend Dorset, just Nish of Corfe Castle, 2 of days riding (*at our level), nice pubs and camping.

Have also stayed here: http://www.yha.org.uk/find-accommodation/south-west-england/campingbarns/northcombe/general.aspx
Couple of pubs don road, various good local routes

Cheers

Sadly, I think Drac may be right in this one.

I'm pretty sure I heard the following on local Radio, which I sadly suspect is nearer the truth. All Bracknell cab drivers are required to carry first aid kits in their cabs. All cab drivers are not allowed to us them as they are not medically qualified…………………..

grr, what sorry links are rubbish, can I find out how to get it to show the page I want ….

1 – follow red rd N from tarbet till left < indent at water/jetty/Bagh Bhiogadal and dot track W then cart track S

2 – find tarbet and scroll E /N- which is nobeer loop,

sorry for

Get OS 50,000
track W then S on cart track
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/idld.srf?x=115403&y=900398&z=120&sv=115403,900398&st=4&mapp=idld.srf&searchp=s.srf&dn=701&ax=115403&ay=900398&lm=0

loop on this and further E, Tarbert as start
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/idld.srf?x=115403&y=900398&z=120&sv=115403,900398&st=4&mapp=idld.srf&searchp=s.srf&dn=701&ax=115403&ay=900398&lm=0
I could find the loop to Molingeananis / shieling (this is the nobeer one)

Best I've done in uk (ride, scenery, feel etc), the pub up the road from the Hariis Hotel was better thabn the hotel.

you're lucky I got pulled up for using STW at work …..

we **think** that it pushes adds, so as I used to leave it open the work counter clicked away….

anyway turned into a fiasco
1 – I asked if it was a time issue or a cost issue, they went awfully silent when I said what about people who take 10 fags breaks a day ….
2 – even better I got pulled up again, and really laid into, I then pointed out since the last dicussion that I'd used only work sites, so they thrust the stats into my face, I calmly pointed out that the web adresss was indeed singletrackwork however thet the login that was using it wasn't me, you could have heard an insulated feather drop … then they apologised….

my mum used to mountain bike on one of them to go fishing, forest tracks, sheep paths, riversides, the lot.

friends wife bought my old bike – saddle was on a return basis, not seen it for 2 years, WTB lazer

nearly, canteen takeaway – baguette, double bacon, two bits of fried bread (hangs head in shame – whilst licking lips)