For what you want I would say PEOPLE CARRIER!!!

something deep in my soul just won’t let me do it it.

Cheers T1000. Sounds perfect.

Feel free to call me shallow but I’m desperately trying to fight the onslaught of middle age here (35 year old in skinny jeans, high tops and an asymmetrical haircut) and even though I know the Berlingo is the perfect bike carrying tool I just can’t bring myself to accept that I need a car with sliding doors.

I’ll have a quiet word with myself.

Thanks all, I’m back from the pub now and full of doombar. :-)

The reason for not taking the back wheels off is a combination of maxles, perfectly set up singlespeeds that I’m scared to touch in case I never get it working again and pure laziness. I don’t like spending valuable riding/sofa time fiddling around having to pack stuff perfectly, I’d rather just be able to throw things in without too much effort. And racks are out, most of the ones I’ve seen aren’t rated to take 3/4 very heavy bikes and I’m limited on storage when it’s not on the car. Not bothered about getting the car dirty either it’ll be a tool and nothing else. I’ll clean it when I need to sell it.

Will estates pack bikes vertically without removing the seatpost? Gravity droppers are a bit of a bugger to remove what with all the cabling. Also will 160mm+ forks be an issue.

X-trail is looking to be the front runner at the moment. Anyone got any photos of one packed with stuff?

+1 for nant yr arian.

Also while we’re in this lovely part of the world, anyone have any knowledge of the road conditions between Carmarthen, Lampeter and Aberystwyth (specifically Llanilar). Is the route from Lampeter to Aberaeron and then along the coast a better choice than straight past Tregaron?

What they said about the Cock. Cheap and grubby but wholesome

another option cold be The Clachan on Kingley Street. It’s been cleaned up since its heyday but the last time I was there it was OK, it fills up with girls from Liberty’s in the evening too which is a bonus.

high calorie/sugar/fat processed food

Their fruit and nut flapjack is nice though

snap

How do they treat the farmers who produce the food for them? I would assume like the majority of supermarkets the squeeze them for every penny.

My parents used to have a hobby that would take small birds from the bird table.

I didn’t get to see it. :(

If the closing roof on Wimbledon’s Centre Court was to continue at the same speed it would take 12 hours to reach Buckingham palace.

Do I win a prize for the oldest one?

Afraid not. I’ve got one of those too.

shield your eyes 8)

use the advance stop line or if there is not one, position yourself in front of the traffic.

But that’s where the busses, lorries, cars and motorbikes are stopped.

Luckily ‘magically’ went on without any hassles at the perfect tension. There was some stretch in the chain from previous use though.

I assume the FA will be able to reserve me a space in their carpark

They certainly can, but you do need to be booked in.

the new dh stuff up by the reservoir is amaaaazing

Ooh, new stuff and DH orientated. Exciting.

Where abouts exactly?

Actually I’ve just re-read it and I’d originally miss-read the you as an I.

Must concentrate more.

Either I’ve got the wrong end of the stick or thats a troll/moronic thing to say. Cyclists are part of traffic, they are not “in the way” and should be treated as such, i.e. if cars want to overtake cyclists they should do so safely and in the same way they would overtake a car. Thinking cyclists are “in the way” depressingly seems to be prevelant with car drivers, the same thought shouldn’t be held by a cyclist.

By saying cyclist should be “in the way” I assume Ourkidsam is inferring that cyclists should take control of the road through their position. If you leave just enough room, a car will try to squeeze past no matter if it’s safe or not. if you are slightly further out the driver has to think about what he’s doing and make a decision about when it’s safe to overtake.

The way you cycle on the road doesn’t remove the blame from a driver that hits you because he didn’t see you, but it can reduce the likelihood of it happening in the first place.

i know its probably bad form to recommend another forum but if i were you id’ check out the mtb britain forum, there’s a few guys on there who ride swinley about 3 times a week. the weekend ride is at a much nicer pace, lots of stops and chatting. they always make sure someone rides at the back to keep everyone together and nobody gets left behind.

Waves from the other place.

I think there’s a ride this weekend, early stage planning at the moment though. All welcome.

Bit of lube on the chain and she’ll be ready to go.

Hmmmm. Thought it might be a bit of a closed shop.

The (possibly relevant) degree is in contemporary furniture design. Designing for large scale manufacture, none of that chiselling beautiful dove tails rubbish. Lots of design theory, proportional systems, design/art/architecture history, structural and manufacturing techniques. Just very small buildings really.

After that I spent a few years working at a couple of small practices learning the trade and doing a bit of everything. I’m now coming up to 8 years at my current practice, spent most of the first 4 years designing and running some big packages for a very large project, and have since worked on a bunch of competitions, fanciful projects in the middle east up to stage D and now about to embark on construction of another huge project. Basically everything from feasibility studies, very early concept design and all the way through construction. Pretty much the same work that the fully qualified architects at our place do.

I doubt having part 2 will further my career too much, I’m already an associate, but I’m really aware of lacking the contract knowledge you get from the part 3. And if I want to start running jobs this is something I will need to know.

London fixed gear and single speed collects quite a lot of information about accidents. have a browse around.

here

crushed garlic + butter.

I do wonder if drivers give less space to cyclist that look as if they know what they are doing (waring high-vis, cycle gear etc) than casual cyclist?

I assume that anyone wearing high-vis gear doesn’t have a clue what they’re doing.

ps. not been knocked off, yet.

Unfortunately not. Mostly been pushing up at Aston Hill, although I did take it to cwmcarn for the uplift but that ended in 4 months off the bike with a broken shoulder.

Before I bought it I had a go round whites level on the skyline demo bike and that eventually got up the climb. That one was quite a bit lighter though.

any excuse

160mm Van R's for me.

And i agree it's awesome fun going downwards. I've not tried riding up a hill yet. I can't imagine it's going to be swift.

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All frames are custom made so you should be able to add gears and such like without too much hassle.

do I win?

That's the sort of irresponsible attitude I was hoping for.

Woo Hoo. Bike time again.

Ahhh gaffa tape, so many uses.

Isn't it thursday?

Please excuse the poor quality picture and half built state of the bike.

Coil pikes (run at 120mm), short stem, wide bars and fat sticky tyres. It's a little bit portly but it really is awesome fun.

orange

purple

Someone should point out to him before he gets killed that even though there's a cycle lane never ever go down the inside of a lorry. Especially when there’s a left turn ahead. He needs to go back and redo his cycling proficiency test.

In Wales.
Red Kites back in the early 80's when it was really exciting
Polecat
Kingfisher
Buzzards
still yet to see the local Otters, unfortunately missed the Hobby that used my mum’s bird table as a bird bird table and the little egret that took up residence in the river one summer.

In Berkshire.
Muntjac
Badgers
and most of the other standard woodland creatures

In London.
Sparrow hawk sat on a branch outside my office window getting mobbed by crows
Red deer
Fallow deer
brave little town foxes
ring necked parakeets, freakin' millions of the noisy blighters

In Cornwall on holiday.
spent a week camping with this little fella hopping around outside every morning

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7825467/Wallaby-colony-living-in-Cornwall.html

It's just gone back to the original spec after a spell as a much lighter (ish) shorter travel trail bike. Great bike and it's been faultless.

Yep. Almost exactly 2 years ago to the day.

I assume these qualify

This thread appears to have attracted some really unpleasant people.

no, they will mock you for refering to your 'steed' though!

everyone knows it's called a whip.