best to just ride back up it.

about 8 desks away! amazing

Scott – wednesday would be perfect!! you not at Fluor are you?

Cheers, was thinking something more like a tempest or a banshee but like the look of that Beta!! – reckon you could park a bike in that porch space?

talking about repair fees – my current deal is about to end so they sent their inspection fella round to check it out the other day with the agreement i can get any defects fixed at my own expense before it goes back! was pretty happy with that! especially with a few mates in the trade…

or it allows normal respectable people to drive a nice £30k car without having to hand over £30K.

instead you hand over about £7k spread out over two years which is roughly the amount the £30k car will have depreciated in that time anyway.

pieces of roundabouts and stringy swings but thats how i look at it.

They the new Lyriks on the 153?

Love the colourway on the 134 supreme!

ive literally taken delivery of a copy today!

i got my 4yr old daughter an old ipod touch off ebay. told her its her own phone. (kids dont realise the concept of these devices is to make telephone calls) but she can have all her kids apps on there so they dont clog mine or the mrs’ phones. she can take pictures and she receives emails from us and her grandparents.

tbf, she did drop it by accident and caused a small crack in the screen – she was inconsolable!

she’s nearly six now, think ill let her have my ipad when i upgrade..

making use of mine during the summer months…

loved my trailboss on the rear until i ripped in open last week. had the light & fast one tho, gone for the tough and fast as a replacement. cant wait to try it out!

Top of Mont Chery last week…

Mondrakers make my eyes vomit.

34 feel like a spring chicken compared you owd bastards

its a joy to watch!

Thought it was Stiniog, convinced even but dont recognise that bit at the end along the river?

haha not seen that since cup lolly days!

was always more than happy with a cup lolly made from vimto.

we were in Morzine last week, one lad was a stand in for a cry off and is a total noob, went for clipless… suffice to say him in full face and body armour, on his back with his bike in the air still clipped in like an up-turned tortoise outside the Pleney lift office on the first morning was one of the highlights of the trip! even the girls behind the counter and the lift operators and every single person in the vicinity was pissing themselves laughing!

he lasted half a day.

You wanna try the Sky Garden in 20 Fenchurch (the new walkie talkie)
2 restaurants and a bar up there, and an experience to behold! be pretty cool anniversary surprise that would be if you can get in!

failing that, you can get similar vista’s at the Duck & Waffle on the top of the Heron Tower which has Sushi Samba next door. always a good night.

another option is Madison on top of that shopping centre opposite St Pauls. has a nice roof terrace with stunning views. bit wankerish tho. more of a bar really.

you probably wont get too many replies to this as its a well flogged subject with new threads most days. do a search and fill yer boots…

heres one from the other day http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/alps-itinerary

dont discount the blues and green because they’re blue or green as ive always done before, because some of them turned out to be mega!

loads here. ive still to meet one i like. strange bunch. one thing i noticed very quickly is that they do not feel the need to say thanks when you hold a door open for them, they dont even acknowledge that fact that you are being courteous. .. Yet they get fabulously offended when you let it slam in their face as i do now…!

Yeah they’re just fobbing you off because they’re formulas and they dont wanna see them again 2 weeks later! i had some on a new bike once, got rid but put them on a hack bike. whenever my LBS saw me roll in with that bike he would just say before anything else ‘Brakes is it?’ and he’d be correct.

how do you get 50% off Sweet Protection?

office bound. Weather was like this all last week in Morzine so doesnt feel too bad. if it wasnt my second day back id be taking today off no question! days like this are too few and far between. get yourself off home lads…

Well that was a bloody great sodding marvellous trip. After last year’s biblical rain and boiler suits 25 degree wall to wall blue skies every day was an absolute dream!

PPDS was a cracking event too. Ride it Friday which was the quietest day so hardly any queues to deal with but the terrain was just so much better than I expected. Maybe a bit flat and tarmaccy on the Swiss side but had fun on those tearing down as fast as we dared! All the other descending was great and raced them all like enduro stages! All the DH options were good but my fave was the long dusty singletrack from Crosets back to Lindarets! Loved it

we have had a couple of the HQ symphony beach kites. the recommended age is older but my 5 year old can fly the smallest one. so much fun to fly and dead simple to set-up/use.

forests are not the best kite flying arena’s tho tbh…

next time i see someone using an extendable lead im going to garrote them to death with it, then use it to tie them to a tree and set them on fire. ffs

what is the suggested route?

new and improved bike facilities at the H&H now too!

edge lane going into the city centre was always a nightmare when i drove to Liverpool, M62 fine all the way, get to Edge lane then standstill…

i did the manchester to Liverpool ride once years ago, pretty sure that just followed the ship canal in a straight line all the way. maybes pick that up in Warrington or something?

and if you buy mirror you get a free clear anyway…

KAMI is a quality little puzzler. bit different to Limbo like…

bike and kit is being driven down, meeting them there. the dilemma is because ill be there a day earlier than them! so need to take bare essentials for 1 days riding a hire bike (carbon V10 8) ) so maybes ill just ditch the offensive items with the rest of my stuff and chance it…

oh shit! maybe ill try and think of alternatives….

just a tiny topeak thing, no scissors or blades but one small phillips head.

youve put my mind at rest anyway, reckon ill be reet…

i just took the plunge and got one without testing. got a Genesis Caribou. changed the tyres to on-ones, fitted a hi-lo dropper, zee brakes and some ‘normal’ bars so its not too alien… so much fun in the snow and on the dunes, but i dont enjoy taking it on a normal trail ride. i do get use out of it during the year tho – like taking the dog out in the woods and over boggy fields, and it also get used on family rides and i always do the school run on it on a friday with the tag-a-long attached. my little girls loves all the attention it gets!

My first thought was that Jon Snow will wake up as a White Walker!?

whenever im trying cut cut back on lovely treats, i just substitute everything with weetabix!

see if theres owt on at Udderbelly? always a good craic.