What an eye opening thread! I think I'll sell my road bikes! What bikers fail to realise is how completely selfish their behaviour is.

I went on a cycle tour with my son (on a tag-a-long) this weekend and the road we were planning to use was closed. The only alternative was to do few miles on an A road race track! Bikes (and cars) were travelling way in excess of the speed limit. I genuinely feared for our lives!

Also the parallels drawn to MTB earlier in this thread are meaningless; if I go beyond my limits on the MTB the only person that gets hurt is ME!

that is crazy- just got a CX bike and really impressed!

now that would never have crossed my mind

cheers paul – may well be in touch nearer the time :-)

cheers all – nothing too flat (wife kicks me in ribs)

may depend if you want to use OS maps for biking. I use an HTC HD with Memory Map and it works well. iPhone app not as good, not sure what Android offers in terms of maps.

another rec for the FZ38 – by far the best balance between size / quality and features.

Nick – aye we headed over the hilly route – with out that it wouldn't have been nearly as good. probably best day of the hols.

aye the folk in the cottage next to our went to the Alternative Technology Centre last year with their kids who weren't too impressed :cry:

Maybe to Mawddach again as it was ace!

bump…….:wink:

silk sleeping bag liner – weighs nowt and will add approx 1 season to the rating of the bag. oh and a hip flask ………….

TandemJeremy – another vote for Carn ban Mor…..

Also – Beinn a Bhuird which is mostly single track

DaveM – was it the path along Louch Hourn that you walked / cycled in and out?

did it yesterday and regretting it today!!

Have you seen Avatar? Sounds like the beasties from there ……….

on the 1st pick will that blokes head not get knocked off when the turret rotates?

main difference is the screen resolution and HD video

another vote for big sands – also findhorn near Inverness is a favourite. good sites down Knapdale – Kintyre way too…..

door bell for "the hatch" (aka lost series 1?)

ha – my wife had a call yesterday from a company selling "identity theft protection"; allegedly on behalf of debenhams. They refused to give her any details until she gave them a load of details (which she didn't). How stupid do these companies think us consumers are!

second grum – buy some gears! never understood the point of SS on a "moutain bike"; almost seems a contradiction.

nothing works, camp somewhere very windy or get a big fan!!

maybe this

was up carn fearg and the fungle on Saturday. not the best conditions, done it several times over the years but probably won't head back for a while. mostly dry but just a bit eroded now.

cheers but think I'll be on a hiding to no where with that one!! :wink:

mrmichaelwright – thanks for the advice and – wow – great snaps! very inspiring!

steviegil – wow great stuff thanks! looks as if a week might not be long enough!

stucol- yeah been itching to head to this area for ages. A fair distance from home (aberdeen) but looks like a paradise of cycles, walks, beaches and bays.

Anyone take the bikes over to Islay? Half thinking about going from Port Ellen to Pork Askaig if seas calm so sprogs don't get sea sick! 2 hours each way I think.

Well have installed the free app Memorymap and it seems ok. Anyone know if the £20 app allows you to load the maps directly onto the device rather than downloading from the memorymap website?

Cheers all

£7 per beer in Dubia airpor yesterday…..

this happened to a mate of mine; got car back valeted and all and having been gone over by forensics; he found syringes under the passenger seat!

It all depends on the application – wider means more contact with ground and more weight; both factors which in increase the effort required to rotate the wheel. Tread pattern and compound also play significant part as does the fact that there is no standard accepted way of measuring tyre width. A 2.1 from one manufacturer may be a 2.3 from another.

Just ordered a Genesis Coix de Fer[/url] for winter road use and touring.

Liked the steel 735 frame (24lbs), discs (rims won't get worn out!), comfortable geomtery and decent spec. Only modifications for touring will be a bigger cassette (12-32) to make the climbs more accetpable and different tyres. Fact it can go off-road is a bonus and will open up some interesting new routes mixing on and off road.

Co pilot limo, love the way it can be easily taken off and sat of the ground or reclined with out the child waking ip

hi got a mag one recently; works great. Probably depends on budget, couldn't quite stretch to a fluid one but happy with mag.

Yeah tricross sport looks ok but not sure about brakes; seems to be some reports of bad judder here.

ok cheers looks as it may fit then. Just had a thought, will the shifter work if I go from double to triple?

Planning; let people build what they want where they want. Would certainly make our town more interesting!