tbf, shedfire is a better surname than richards

But not quite on a par with Tempest.

Just make 2 trips, it's only a few hours each way

Lol. Good thinking 🙂

Alternatively, you could spend a day/breakfast irritating your wife and kids so much that they *order* you to piss off by yourself for a day. Then you'll just have to hire one bike.

Hopefully big Andy C's done enough to lift me off the bottom of the STW fantasy league

Except it hadn't acceptd my substitutions. So I'm still languishing low down. Bah.

Details of the fantasy league can be found here. Smudge's post has the details.

Hopefully big Andy C's done enough to lift me off the bottom of the STW fantasy league 🙂

There's a lot of dorks with guitars and mings with mics.

You want cool? And the greatest rock'n'roll guitarist since Link Wray? In the most beautiful, beautiful, horrible band to have walked the Earth and its nether regions…?

Conversely, for me and the missus it was the best film of last year by far. A beautiful meditation on the depths of human passions and emotion. With blood.

FC Lokomotiv Psycho.
Theme song

Yep, Selectadisc and Jumbo IRL. eBay or GEMM[/url] online – but I guess it depends what you're after. I've only ever used Gemm for super hard to find stuff – eBay is usually fine for more regular stuff.

Where did you hear about them from?

My guess would be that Singletrack magazine, issue 59. It did looke gorgeous but £900 gorgeous? I'm not that convinced.

Don't listen to 'em, with their city 'rules' and all that. If you want to hug a tree to give the All-Mother thanks for the wonders of Nature mid-ride then do it. It's not a dab, it's worship.

Tenner an end is pretty standard, no?

Tioga Psychos

Heh. Oh yeh. Tioga Psychos. Great film reference. The bike is the shower and you are Janet Leigh.

I agreed a refund for something I knew was working,

Perhaps it got damaged in the post? Who knows?

I just feel I've ended up with raw deal.

I think the buyer has. They received something that didn't work for them. Buyer has returned it via RD and is satisfied that it was signed for upon arrival. It's not his/her fault that RM/Duncan messed up. They never got the part they hoped for and are now out of pocket with nothing to show for it. It might full rough but I'd refund teh buyer and make sure I got compensated by RM if only one parcel had a signature. If both were signed for then I'd havea chat with Duncan.

Heathen: But, ignoring the wait factor, when you do get your print can you really remember what your exposure settings and conditions were?

You're absolutely right – there's very few people who will take the time to log every shot. I never took one note when I was using a SLR but still got the hang of it – wish I could remember *how* lol. But all the lessons I learnt from using it still hold true now. The 35mm Photographer's Handbook certainly helped along the way. For a penny, it can't be bad.

SS inbred – taught me to pedal efficiently and carry my momentum.

Heh. Just judging by my time scales of juggling work, family, bikes, etc – I only tend to grab moments here and there so there's not much 'waiting' involved in teh average week 🙂

But yeah, I can see the other side of teh argument.

So anyway, once everyone's finished waving their RAM and playing whose most like henri cartier bresson…

Justa, I agree with whoever suggested picking up a cheap film slr and getting to know how that works – with only 36 shots to play with and with each one costing money to be developed you'll end up forcing yourself to find 'the right shot'. That done the controls on a dslr will make more sense and you can use them intuitively rather than struggling against them or ignoring them.

That's awesome! Up to seeing that I was always with Sir Henry of Rawlinson End:

"I don't give a toss what you do with me when I have shrugged me mortal coil. Shove a bit of flex up my back passage, stick a light bulb in my mouth, and stand me in the hall. Mind you if you're using electricity you'll have to dry me out first".

Rubbish camera phone picture from this morning:

That was tasty. Creamy chicken curry (thank you Anjum Anand) with aubergine and spinach curry, basmati and nan. Yum.

My boat is floated.

Some great viewing. Now looking after curries so have some time to watch 'em 🙂

Looks like Yorkshire but I could be wrong, too long since I was up there.

Love my P7 – not tried a Pig but would still get another P7 over trying one.

cheers coastkid – and just enjoying the Warner as you typed that duntmatter 🙂

You've bought Fox Forks and are mechanically inept? You have heard that they need licking clean, taking apart and re-lubing with unicorn's tears every other ride to avoid voiding the warranty haven't you?

Heh, a good point, well made.

Very good indeed 🙂

5-27-31

I've got slightly dodgy knees and prefer the Time style cleat engagement because of the float. Beyond that, horses for courses.

I'm one of the minority of old Electric Wizard fans who loved Witchcult Today.
First four Sabbath albums are frigging awesome.
Japanese band Boris are great as are Spanish band Orthodox.
Do High on Fire count as metal? Like them. Sendelica and the Heads too.
Om can do wrong by me either.

I'm 9 out of 40 just now

Hark at Mr Popular.
14/40. Conversation killer.

Complete bollox. In the sixties the mods were part of the inner-city British working class youth culture. Whilst hippies and dirty long haired wannabe Hells Angels greasers, were from the posh leafy suburbs and thought everything American was cool ….. sad losers

Lol. If you want to glorify the most hungrily consumerist subculture 'til the yuppies (verrrry similar) feel free. And I've a feeling the greasers would've liked to have had a word about being lumped in with the hippies – most greasers were from a trad industrial background and the mods were making their money from the expansion of the service industries. And then the long-haired drop-out 'freaks' who started most of the squats in London and were associated with what ended up being called the cultureculture despised the hippies and were pretty much anti-American.

So, I'm guessing the, "Complete bollox," was a warning about what was coming.

Having owned:

On One Inbred
On One Inbred SS
On One Inbred 456
Pastey Howler
Cotic Soul
Dialled Prince Albert
Orange P7

I'd go for a 456 or a P7 for all round fun and adaptability. P7's a bit weightier than most but it's weight is well distributed and not really noticeable when actually riding it – having said that it feels indestructible going down. Love it.

So is sodomising your wife or girlfriend, apparently.

Only in some states of one of our former colon-ies so i wouldn't worry about it too much.

Surely it's one of those intangibles: although not as much of a youthquake as punk it's kind of similar in that there'll be folks out there who'd argue it was over within a couple of years and anyone saying otherwise is clinging to the rubble of clichés then there'll be others who'll say it evolved into something quite different and then there'll be the diehards dreaming of past glories etc.

In the version of music history that i prefer the Who were right in on the start of psychedelia via the freakbeat feedback solo in "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" (inspired by free jazzer Charlie Parker) – for 1965 they were way ahead of the game and stayed there through the evolution of rock into the early 70s. They didn't come up with the first 'rock opera' though, the magnificent Pretty Things did that with S.F.Sorrow. I'll shut up now before I start going on a bit…

Lol at people having a go at the 'oo. They were a great band in the 60s and for half the 70s. A better run than most. Some great songs, some dodgy but better than most.

Tektro Auriga comp

Ah yes. I got some of these as a budget option and they're really good brakes in the dry but in the wet? Oh sweet jesus! They squeal like a stuck pig on a ghost train.

Heh. I had new tyres on this morning and was blaming them – might give 'em another chance.

From a bike:
Derbyshire.

Off a bike:
Northumberland.

the road climb up to Hazelwood is a drag

Heh, it's not fun but I always find it even worse in the oppsite direction – up from Blackbrook, after coming off the Midshires Way down Longwalls Lane – which is worth a look too:

near top:

near bottom:
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okay… flickr isn't playing. fill in your own mental images of an overgrown narrow top section and a rocky lower section

Ambergate is also fun 🙂