…they never say “the Belgian-born Briton” when talking about Wiggins. I don’t get it.

It’s the accent, init?

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Jamie

Strava on my Samsung Galaxy Ace updated this evening, if that’s any use!

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Jamie

We honeymooned in Limone two years ago and will definitely head back to Malcesine with the bikes. The riding around Mt Baldo looked awesome.

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Jamie

Imabigkidnow

Yey, we have a winner 😀

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Jamie

The road fund licence at £170 might make me think, our Cee’d is only £30. But you’d be saving over £8k!

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Jamie

You’d think there would be a market for really well done, simple fayre in a good setting like Lucys (Lucy4s) in Ambleside. Perhaps that’s not what the hords of jordies that nip along the A66 are after!

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Jamie

Nice eats

what a horrible phrase!

Anyways, we’ve never found a really good place to eat in Keswick worthy of such an occasion. Far too much poor pub grub and iffy restaurants. We rearly eat out whilst there for a week now.

And why does everyone go on about the Keswickian- it’s an average chippy at best. Oh, now you’ve got me craving a pint of Old P and a bowl of goolash in the Dog n Gun!

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Jamie

If you can time it so you can fill up in Luxembourg you’ll save a few quid- the fuel is the same low-tax price across all forecourts in the country.

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Jamie

I’ve lived 15 miles away for years and have never been round one of the colleges! Punting along the backs as mentioned is good fun tho’.

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Jamie

I’ve heard of a lot of people using Bikeroutetoaster but found it a right pain in the arse to use compared to Mapmyride- is there something I’m doing wrong?!?

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Jamie

As soon as he has overtaken there is a freakin’ great big stretch of clear road ahead to accelerate into.

Not so convenient if you’re stuck behind two jousting juggernauts for all of the three junctions you’re on the dual carriageway on the way home!

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Jamie

Ahh, I’m on that stretch later on in the evening usually when going away for the weekend!

The problem with the A14 is it was done on the cheap. If it was built like the A1M upto Peterborough (that was built around the same time) there would be plenty of room for the lorries to crawl past each other and others to bomb past them.

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Jamie

stuck behind yet another +1mph overtaking truck on the A14

A14 has to be the worst road for this

There is a ban on trucks in the outside lane on the ‘hilly’ stretch between Kelmarsh and Catthorpe, which is nice!

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Jamie

Top tip- make a small funky looking cake for kids and tasty cupcakes for the adults!

I’d also advise against making 50 odd Danish pastries and croissants for a morning party. Half-past-bloody-four I was up on Saturday and only just got them done for 9:30 (tho’ I did go back to bed whilst they were rising)!

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Jamie

We’ve got a Silver Cross Surf which is OK but lacks stowage space. TBH for the first few months we only really used it with a Maxi Cosy car seat with adaptors and rearly as a pushchair, as well as a BabyBorne. Now the little one is one it’s used as a pushchair more but as she’s at grandmas or nursery during the week now she’s mostly in a McClarian pushchair which the outlaws brought and we borrow when we’re going away.

The ideal for us would have been a chasies only with a car seat with a baby carrier / rucksack in the hills.

The two days I tow her to nursery behind the ss comuter build up fitness no end!

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Jamie

A lot of breweries will sell pins (small casks, around 36 pints) in ‘bright condition’, that is it’s been fined and all the yeast has been removed. Ring round a few local breweries and see what they say. You’ll also need a tap and a big hammer.

Edit- expect to pay around £80 plus any deposit for the cask.

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Jamie

😯 Bloody hell, I’ve been leg-naked since late March! AND I had to put suncream on before yesterdays road ride!

You’re in that there north, aren’t you! 😀

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Jamie

A Topeak Mini 9 and a propper Park chain tool and tyre leavers does it for me.

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Jamie

If you’re into yogurt soy & tofu knitting and steeping lentils then there’s always The Lakeland Pedler[/url].

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Jamie

Surely if one was to use a key of the size as indicated, there wouldn’t be a problem?!?

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Jamie

Behave yourself.

No you behave and treat our wonderful language with respect. The Americanisation of the English language really pisses me off- I bet you refer to any medication as ‘meds’ too, don’t you?

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Jamie

Creamy salmon & spaghetti
Some bottle of white the missus picked up and a cheeky taster of the latest keg of homebrew
T’telly

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Jamie

You mean MATHS and you’ll be needing learn SolidWorks & Math(s!)cad.

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Jamie

Lemonia is great if you like Greek. Just over the bridge in Primrose Hill.

EDIT- bugger, just checked and they open at 6 for evening service.

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Jamie

But surely if you enjoy food and cooking, why not take real food out on a ride? If you can make good tasting food that’s easy to eat on the bike why would you stuff your pockets with expensive, rank tasting slime?!?

OP, cheers for the heads up- maybe my next ride will be fuelled by bacon rice cakes as well as homemade flapjack!

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Jamie

I used my SS RR with the original wheels for two years with no problems. Since being knocked off I I’ve been using a pair of Rigida Snyper rims, with PG Sapim spokes on Deore hubs I built myself and they’ve been fine too.

Thinking about it I’ve never had a spoke snap on me- not putting too fine a point on it- are you a chubster at all ❓ 🙂

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Jamie

Meantime make some lovely ‘propper’ lagers. Had a bottle of Budvar Bud last night which had some flavour to it.

On the light bitter front JHB from Oakham is a firm favorite. Cairngorm’s Triadwinds is also really worth seeking out.

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Jamie

Junkyard
Spelling and punctuation.

FTFY 😉

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Jamie

I’ve watched a little of the Giro coverage on Eurosport and the Sky highlights package via the Cricfree.tv stream and I can’t beleive the amount of bloody adverts! I thought paying £hundreds a year would mean you see hardly any, hey ho- I’ll be even less inclined to pay for satellite or cable tv from now on!

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Jamie

There are some lovely beers from Scotland…

A couple of days into a winter week just outside Aviemore.

I really love Cairngorm’s Tradewinds.

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Jamie

toby1 – Member
Which bit Jamie? I’ll make sure I avoid it

Just north of Cambridge. It’s certainly seems that way anyhoo- there must be 12 pubs in town, one Elgoods managed pub with a shitty paved beer garden, one free-hold with a good range of beers but just a smoking patio another free-hold with no garden and the rest are GK ties. Oh and a horrible Marston’s ‘foodie’ place.

Not a fan of Milton beers TbH, don’t know what it is- maybe their (lack of?) water treatment for the rock hard water round these parts.

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Jamie

Unfortunately on the way home it’ll probably be one of these:

by the river.

or one of these:

or if things are really desperate:

Oh the joys of living in East Anglia where 90% of pubs are bloody Greene King ties 👿 And the only keg of homebrew I’ve got needs another week or two conditioning. Ah well, at least it’s beer garden weather!

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Jamie

Wild Camping Wales

you pay a Sony Tax for them

The Sony tax was somewhat negated on ours as they had a upgrade deal a few weeks ago, I saved £70 on upgrading the processor to an i7 and a 500Gb HDD, which is what I was after anyway. Well I would have gone for a 1Tb HDD but they weren’t in the offer!

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Jamie

Oh, and I get bonus points for getting it home 😀

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Jamie

Has it happens I took delivery of a 17″ Vario yesterday. So far so good, http://www.classicshell.net/ seems to do a good job of making Windows 8 less of a dick. Oh, and all the Vairo pre-installed has ben given the boot too.

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Jamie

Stop being a pushy parent maybe?

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Jamie

Having recently examined a little paper circle purchased from the Post Office whilst changing one, they are called Tax Discs- true fact!

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Jamie

UKClimbing[/url] has a very clean forum and threads aren’t chopped up into pages! Quite an active place with loads of topics, even if they are spread across a few different sections.

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Jamie

Not if you’re in Yorkshire

Afternoon tea is dainty sandwiches, cakes and of course tea, anywhere 🙂

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Jamie