As a Swaledale resident I can honestly say I’m hoping to be away! I think most of the locals are genuinely dreading the total gridlock and closed dale it will bring for the day!
Not being grumpy or trolling but it’s already hard going trying to get up and down dale to farm at weekend due to huge groups of roadies and it’s only gonna get worse for us….

Other people using your personal road. And lycra louts too. Whatever next.

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That’ll be a “no” to the OP then

You raise a good point though. Perhaps Londoners should cut their cloth according to their…their, oh, whatever the phrase is.

There is plenty of cycle sport going on in London, and plenty of interesting places to ride. Just none of it is gnarly MTB riding. If I still lived there, I’d be out on a cross bike or hardtail exploring riverside paths, canals, bits of dockland, reservoirs, parks etc*

*yes I have a beard and listen to Radio 4

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hebdencyclist »
Having trouble with the rubbish riding concept. No time on a bike is rubbish to me. Time off the bike however…..

Absolutely, absolutely this.
1. Step out of your front door.
2. Ride in any direction for (maximum) a few miles.
3. You are in the countryside.
4. Explore.
I lived in London for a while. Time spent getting out of town on a motorbike was frustrating enough.

I knew someone would play the London card 🙂

I’ll add to my list:

5. If countryside/wilderness/adventure sports are that important to you, don’t live in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the world.

😉

Having trouble with the rubbish riding concept. No time on a bike is rubbish to me. Time off the bike however…..

Absolutely, absolutely this.

1. Step out of your front door.
2. Ride in any direction for (maximum) a few miles.
3. You are in the countryside.
4. Explore.

Good friends (especially blokes) would be able to have a straightforward conversation about this, without needing to be “polite” or to ask advice on a forum.

Just tell him to slow down.

Otherwise, find somebody else to ride with, or ride on your own.

It depends on why you ride and what type of riding you do I guess.

I was brought up in West Lancs (flat as a pancake) but I was always out on my bike as a kid exploring paths, lanes, canals, farms, river banks, etc. I still love this type of riding now.

Every town is surrounded by countryside. You can have fresh air and solitude wherever you live. Yes you may have to drive somewhere to get an adrenaline fix though…

…but now I have some of the best riding in the country on my doorstep 🙂

Ormskirk!

Arran brewery make a cider I believe.

As mentioned on another thread and not being a troll/grumpy

I shall be riding my MTB on some hopefully deserted trails somewhere, more than likely Wales (weather dependent)

I cannot see the attraction to join thousands of people queuing up next to a road for hours/days on end to see some roadies/drug users (ok that was trollish) sweep past for 20 seconds.

Yorkshire will become a penis magnet for every penis in the cycling world for a few days (yeah I know, it hasn’t attracted *this* penis) I think the epicentre will be where rapha are holding their camp.

I hope you have a good time, but I’ll be having a better one

I don’t think you’re being grumpy or a troll. You’re entitled not to give a stuff about the TdF, just like I don’t give a stuff about the PGA Tour, Wimbledon or the Badminton Horse Trials 🙂

Personally I’m cycling mad and absolutely over the moon that the greatest sporting event in the world (in my opinion) will be rolling past my house, tyhrough my town and on the same roads I ride of a weekend.

Being part of the occasion and cheering on Froomie, Cav and hopefully Wiggo is something me and my lads [wife’s not all that bothered] will treasure for ever. Vive le Tour!

Tips for getting a newborn to settle at night?

We usually use the A65, as he’s a newborn you’ll probably have to drive him

😀

<Indeed Controversial>
Mrs b, midwife is shouting at you now

Well it didn’t do my two any harm.

Congratulations.

1. If he/she won’t go down, turn the telly off, put some music on (it’s for you, not them) and pace the floor. It might take time but they love the movement and they’ll go off. One night I got through the whole of Led Zeppelin IV before my youngest dropped off 🙂

2. <Controversial> If baby wakes up hungry, don’t be too dismissive of just making them up a bottle rather than breast feeding. Bottles are easier for the baby so they’ll be satisfied quicker, plus Dad can do it.

3. If you have a baby who drops off in the pram, take them out for a walk. If you have a baby who drops off in the car, take them for a drive. Just don’t leave them to sleep in a car seat longer than an hour or so.

Mate, because my testicles have actually descended, I try not to get sucked into arguing with silly people on the internet. Run along now.

Hire a Boris bike

Up to you dude but my touring bike is a converted MTB (rigid forks and slicks) and it’s capable of putting the tarmac miles in.

sometimes takes a little while for rides to show up in challenges (few hours sometimes at the weekend).

Thanks Andy you were right. It’s there now.

Mate, they’re both high spec bikes, many times better than what the pros were riding just 10 years ago.

Either one of them will delight you, and unless you are an elite level rider, your own limitations will slow you down before the bike’s limitations do.

They’re all the same. Just get the one you fancy the most 🙂

Inception. Marketed as an “intelligent and thoughtful” thriller but actually nothing more than a bog standard fight & flight action movie with a bit of VI Form cod philosophy thrown in. Almost as bad as The Matrix on that score.

Or £20 for a piece of crap, with dodgy seals and a shonky battery that could pack up at any time.

Sigh. Not every cheap Chinese torch is as you describe. I have several and they are perfectly reliable and have been serving me well for years.

You can make wild and emotive assertions if you want to but they don’t give your point any more legitimacy.

Rather than buy cheap Chinese rubbish, which all seem to have really crap unreliable batteries,

Not true

how about spending a little bit more

£115 vs £20? That’s not “a little bit more”. That is “Almost six times more”.

I have added a ride to Endomondo but in the challenge next to my name it says “no applicable workouts”. The ride was uploaded from my Garmin and I have classed it as “Cycling sport”.

Anyone?

Thanks

Been an absolute nightmare this last summer getting the ski boat up the Dales, all the bloody cyclists on the narrow roads riding tdf route sportives, it’s only going to get worse this spring. We’ll be waterskiing at our Lake nr Hawes as per usual on the day. We’ve already been told by tdf people what time they want us skiing on the lake for their heli camera fly over. watch on telly for my bare arse.

It must be hell for you. Hell, I say.

Surely Pecket Well is on the long downhill and they will be going through there at 80KmPH+!

Ride 3 miles up to the weather station and watch them coming *up* the hill. And don’t call me Shirley.

There are 2 Robin Hoods and they are both on the route. You want the one in Peckett Well (small village above Hebden)

“it looks like a council house at Christmas” (JC was talking about Audi headlights)

<snort> That’s brightened up my evening 😀

Hebdencyclist, I have been trying all day to book somewhere to stay in Hebden ( well west Yorshire really) on the 4th and 5th…A long shot but do you know of any worth trying ?

There’s b&b at the White Lion, The Crown Inn and the Robin Hood. If no joy at these, try the camp site at The New Delight. It’s out of the way but you’ll have both road and MTB options for getting to the Tour route from there. And it has the advantage of being next to a pub 🙂

Im going to run alongside the riders naked with my cock slapping hars against my thighs and arms held aloft

Join the queue 🙂

I live at the bottom of Keighley Road in Hebden so it makes sense to ride up to the weather station on Cock Hill and watch them come up from Oxenhope. But I’m juggling the needs of my crew. I’ll have cycling mates who’ll want to ride up, my Dad who’s not a cyclist but would be happy making the 6 mile walk, and then a 6 year-old who wouldn’t be able to do the walk or the ride. Plus a wife and a two year-old who I think will be staying at home and watching them come past our house.

They go past my house 🙂

No experience of Xperias but surely Google Play is in the Gapps zip you flash. I’veused CM10 and 11 on a Nexus aand no probs with any of the gapps.

This.

I’ve used CM10 but currently I run Paranoid Android 3 on my Galaxy Note. It’s clean and I like it.

Here’s how I did it (usual disclaimers apply):

1. Find the ROM you want to install and put it on an external SD card.
2. Back up everything
3. Install ClockworkMod recovery
4. Boot your phone into Recovery mode.
5. Point your phone at the ROM on the SD card and boot it up.

Commiserations, OP. Regrettably I think it will be very difficult to identify the driver, even if the police find the car. “My cousin was driving innit” etc

Brazil should fit the bill nicely

Stop resisting – you may damage your credit rating.

Monsters

Yes!

rollerball .original james caan
thx 1138
brilliant thought provoking….
Solent Green

Brilliant recommendations. I would add Silent Running, The Andromeda Strain, Fahrenheit 451, Logan’s Run, The Day The Earth Stood Still, War of the Worlds and When Worlds Collide to this list of classic, thoughtful dystopian/existential sci fi. Ignore remakes and go for originals.

Some ideas:

Mary Towneley Loop
Bikepark Wales
Gisburn Forest
Dalby Forest
Hebden Bridge and Calderdale trails

Wire wool dude

I give buyers 5 days before sending a reminder, then another 5 days, then open a case in the resolution centre. And Paypal is instantaneous and 24/7 – unaffected by bank hols.

I’m in. Good idea

Hebdencyclist how much of a discount did you get if you don’t mind me asking?

I think I ended up getting 12%.

textbook cycle tourist

I have a beard too