Coventry to Crawley Saturday morning for sons football tournament. Then home again in the afternoon.

Then the same again on Sunday morning / afternoon.

Was going to stay the night but hotels are very expensive.

Hopefully roads will be quiet going as it will be early morning.

My parents have just got one similar and they are late 70 and late 80. They have been caravaners all their life and are getting on fine.
My mum is driving it.

They love it.

£175 knife and you stick into soil (lots of small bits of stone)!!

Early Rider only if money no object!

I bought Wild Bikes for my boy. Good value and light.

I used to buy Isla but for the riding boys do the Wild is fine.

Go for an industrial one such as Norbar instead of a bike brand. Ideally it will come with a calibration certificate.

Sitting, standing, scrunching, folding!
So many permutations!

Wonder how many traps they have and if they follow the rule that you can’t use one if someone is next door.

This could take a long time.

POETS day for STW staff and they have forgotten to do it?

Another Brodie pro clip user here on both are cars.
Not cheap but work well.

Another RSF customer here and highly rated.

I spent sometime last night playing around with Google password manager as it seems to be the most popular.

Can it generate passwords to replace existing passwords?
I couldnt see how to do it.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will do some more reading.

How will the Google one built into Chrome cope with apps which I dont access through a browser?

My method of bedding pads on bike and car.

Ensure the disc is clean if using a different make / compound of pad.

A few gentle stops to shape the pad to disc.
Then get the pads hot. I find a big long hill and apply my brake and pedal hard until the pads fade. That means they get hot so they stop retarding. This burns off the binding compound.

Then ride with no brakes to cool everything.

This method is advised by Magura, Mintex and Ferodo.

It can also revive glazed pads.

Key in key safe opens the alarmed garage or very secure workshop.
House key is well hidden in garage or workshop.

Toast and cereal.

Swedish street racing.
Amazing drag cars racing on the roads around Stockholm.

For commuting I went 1×9. Range of gears is fine and it enabled me to keep using my old 9 speed stuff retired from my MTB. See below.

On my MTB I always said I couldn’t see the point of 1 x but converted to 1×10.

Main benefit was a clutch rear mech and getting rid of the front mech on my Maverick which was always awkward to get just right.

Tatra mountains in Slovakia.
Gentle slopes quiet and cheap.

This thread would be much better with some photos so we understand what is actually considered bad.

I am no English expert but are not most of them initialisms not acronyms?

I use optilabs and am happy with them but am always interested in what else is available.

I assume all the above are available with prescription lenses ( as you are short sighted) and the prices quoted are for normal lenses?

Check your loft insulation is of the current required depth.
It has to be for the work to signed off.

We found out the hard way with a boarded loft.

I thought they were all pre recorded before December!

Where is day 3?

I did an ice route called the Undertaker in Sweden once.

Scary as. My feet popped and was hanging on a single axe.

Makes you really feel alive.

The charity shop DVD idea is a good one. I will try that. New thread alert, “Charity shop DVD – what have you bought?”

Amazed nobody has come along and blamed the tories for the problems! 😂

£5.6 million budget for the new trail! How much?
Where will that money be spent? Surely it will not cost that much.

I remember this stuff from over 20 years ago as a coating for exhaust manifolds.

You buy the kit to apply it yourself. Though I never tried it.

Looks good on bikes.

Loved reading the Maverick review.
I still have my ML7.5 as my main full susser and it still makes me smile every time I ride it.
It now has 1 x 11 which was one of the best mods I have done.

I find a lot of the lesser known beers to be too much of a gamble so I stick with
Purity
Abbott
Hook Norton
Theakstons
London Pride

Wild Bikes Go Outdoors.
Light and fine for general riding around.
£200

Damn just bought some Stans.
I didn’t realise Tesa did it. Though I was wondering if there was any industrial tape that would do the job.

There is and now I know. Thanks.

What a great line up to pay respects and celebrate Taylor Hawkins.

Oldest thing on my bike is 53 years old. Me!

Small under saddle storage with Dynaplug racer, multi tool, quick link, spare Dynaplugs and Co2 inflator and co2. Small pump in back pocket and phone.

If it’s a middle of winter ride then also whistle and survival space blanket in back pocket.

If I am that hurt I need survival then I will not be able to get in a bag and will need to wrap the blanket around me.

I am now approaching mid 50’s and I have noticed weight going on much easier.
Probably due to several factors such as a desk job, age, much more available food all around me.

Having two young boys I need to stay fit.

My solution is to eat smaller portions, eat more healthy food, not to snack between meals and cycle to work.

It’s still hard not to put the fat on around my middle.

In my instance it’s purely mental. Resist the temptation of all the food around me.

Cycling to work is the easy bit as I really enjoy that.

The thing is most overweight people didn’t actively choose to be overweight, a mixture of factors can land them in the situation of having a higher than ideal BMI and limited time/resources to address it.

True but these people didn’t wake up overweight one morning. It went on gradually. Eating more than energy expended.

Lack of will power prevented them doing something about it.

Eat less. Exercise more.
There is no secret.
I do say this to people if they need advice.

Silky here too. So much better than the cheap one I used to have.

It’s cleared some pretty big trees on the trails plus done loads in the garden.