FWIW I find target shooting with air rifle really boring, it doesn’t have the buzz of clays. You should try both and see which you prefer.

Field Target or Hunter Field Target certainly isn’t boring. That said, a lot of HFT types really ought to be in the Bayou back-scuttling their sisters… 8O

that photograph was lifted from the highway code appendix john – they have updated their stance on it.

OK, I stand corrected said the man in the orthopaedic shoes (© Alan Partridge), but I’ve been using that approach for the last 25 years and not had any issues…

johnellison – Member

In a motor vehicle, the right-hand lane. On a push-bike, the left hand lane.

Why the right hand lane John?

Because that’s what I was taught.

The Highway Code is actually quite vague about it – rule 186 says –

“When taking any intermediate exit, unless signs or markings indicate otherwise –

– select the appropriate lane on approach to and on the roundabout
– you should not normally need to signal on approach
– stay in this lane until you need to alter course to exit the roundabout
– signal left after you have passed the exit before the one you want.”

In a motor vehicle, the right-hand lane. On a push-bike, the left hand lane.

Ok, sounds more hopeful – I’d rather pay for a decent job.

You very much get what you pay for!

Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Are they cheap/expensive/reliable/not worth bothering with?

Sealskins = reason most folks feet are cold. Stupid invention- like a sticky plaster for a crack in a dam

Utter crap. Never had an issue with Sealskinz, best twenty quid I ever spent on a pair of socks. Warm, dry feet all through the winter every time.

Visit the websites of BASC (The British Association for Shooting and Conservation) and also the CPA (Clay Pigeon Association) – loads of information there.

Find your nearest club and join – the rest will come from there.

I mean, if they’ve nothing to hide, what’s the problem?

^This.

Snowden and Assange should be strung up. Traitors to their nations, the pair of them.

@trail_rat – TBH, I just wouldn’t be out in those conditions, winter tyres or no winter tyres.

For those that need them, fine. I don’t need winter tyres because a) I know my limits, and b) I can’t justify spending 600-odd quid on something that’s only really going to get used for 10 hours or less out of 365 days.

JMTP.

I’m confused.

Can we call you Brian?

You must winter in the Southern Hemisphere, lucky you. Here in Blighty (Leeds) the last 4 winters have proven the need for winter tyres. I can think of at least a dozen occasions in the last few years when I simply wouldn’t have gotten home if I didn’t have winter tyres.

I live in Burnley (top of the Championship, got a cricked neck yet looking up?). Been driving for 25 years, never once had an issue where I thought “I need winter tyres”.

But then I know how to drive.

Send it to the glue factory and make it a “sticky”…

IGMC

Alpine + manual = does not compute. Or it could just be me that’s crap at manualling.

I’ve never ridden a Five, but I suspect that it’s a far better all-rounder. The Alpine is more what somebody once described as a “winch and plummet” machine – it will go uphill but it’s hard work, but point it downhill and as has already been pointed out you can plough through just about anything other than a full-on World Cup DH rock garden without much trouble.

Less playful, more enthusiastic. In retrospect, I’m glad I went for an Alpine over the Five but I am definitely “over-biked” for most of the riding that I do. That said, I’ve never had an issue with it – you can just get on with the riding and admire the scenery.

As above, ditch the Clio.

He needs an absolute banger with the smallest engine possible, and the older the better.

Something along the lines of a Cinquecento a la Inbetweenwers. And insure it in his name, then he can start building NDC.

Meh…

30 years ago when I started we were treated like scum at most clubs, now I see the complete opposite with juniors and non-members being encouraged at the majority of courses. Snobs can still find homes (both north and south of the border) but there are plenty of options for us that like to drink in a bar without wearing a tie!

This is the problem with golf – many clubs still have an air of superiority about them which some people find distasteful, and as a result have struggled to attract new members.

My own club narrowly missed going out of business a couple of years ago precisely because of their stiff-backed, curled-lip attitude, but since the committee have adopted a much more relaxed dress code and reduced membership fees to the bare minimum (along with introducing different levels of memebrship) the club is enjoying a bit of a renaissance.

Mind you, it’s the same with any sport – non-football types tend to assume that ALL football fans are brainless idiots. Until you actually swallow your pride and give it a try, it’s unlikely that those prejudices will be removed.

I fail the Audi test, don’t even drive a German car to get in on a technicality.

So, it’s either Spanish or Czech, then?

Or Swedish… 8O

i found them pretty good with formula r1s, maybe clean your rotors.

All well and good, but I’m talking road bike here…

In any case, I did clean my rims with IPA.

Yes you do. You can’t generate high enough pressures with an ordinary tyre pump.

What was the question again?

Great. :roll: £20 wasted on some Swiss cheese…

Restrict entry to only riders of 29ers. Everyone knows that 29 inch wheels have the ability to smooth out the biggest bumps. But you can only go in straight lines.

hurtling towards me like a hairy meteorite.

Sounds like Ladies Night at my local… 8O

Piece of thick carpet?

I normally ride natural trails in the Peaks but fancy a bit of a change this weekend so thinking of heading to a trail centre.

Why waste your time going to a trail centre? Especially one in this neck of the woods?

You’ve got Calderdale (Todmorden/Hebden Bridge/Halifax area) and the South Pennines within 30 minutes; Southern Yorkshire Dales within and hour and a half; and the Lakes within 2 hours. So much more variety, no groms to deal with, and miles and miles of some of the best trails in the country. And it’s free too.

+1 for council dog warden. Sod discussing it.

Nope. But then I don’t use winter tyres. Never felt the need as the weather in the UK is rarely THAT bad (unless you live somewhere extreme like Glencoe) and the winter doesn’t last long enough.

I do however have a set of winter wheels with narrower, higher profile all-round tyres fitted. These will be going on at the end of the month and will stop on until about the end of March

Cloned number plate?

^This.

I ride bikes and I play golf (but not at the same time. Although that’s given me an idea…).

Golf is not easy. It’s like any individual sports where you need to have consistent form (e.g. shooting, archery, that sort of thing). Once you’ve got the basics, it’s about improving and maintaining form above all else, if you’re serious about it.

I am a member of a club. I would say that of the members of that club, only 10 – 12% are actually serious about it. The rest just play for the social side and the hell of it. I fall into the latter category.

Golf is often summed up as just about the only sport where absolute rank amateurs can compete alongside the professionals (in theory if not in actual practice) due to the handicapping system.

Nothing. MTFU. Or WTFU if your user name is anything to go off ;-)

If you’re going to do it out of rattle cans (unless you favour Plasticote) get custom-filled ones from your local auto-paints supplier. It will be water based and takes an age to dry so if you can do it inside the house in a warm room with a dehumidifier, so much the better. Finish it off with a two-pack clear lacquer which can also be purchased in aerosol form.

But as has been said, preparation is the key. If you can get the frame chemically stripped so much the better, but if the frame is aluminium, make sure that the process that the strippers use ISN’T caustic or it will eat the frame.

If you have it blast cleaned, get it done with fine glass bead or ground walnut shell, then use high-build self-etch primer.

Under the Violent Crimes Reduction Act of 2004 (or it might be 2005, I can’t remember) it is an offence for anyone to be in possession of a firearm or imitation firearm in a public place, without good reason unless said firearm is in a condition which prevents it from being fired (i.e. unloaded and in a case or slip). Breaching this regulation carries the possibility of a mandatory 5 years imprisonment.

The VCRA includes air guns and airsoft (“BB”) guns in it’s definition of firearms.

Also, if IIRC it is illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to be in possession of any air-powered firearm at any time unless on private land.

It is an offence to discharge an air rifle within 50 feet of a public right of way, if in so doing you cause a nuisance or danger to members of the public.

Under the terms of the VCRA, what happened to you was a firearms offence. The police should have been far more proactive in responding to it, and should have sent a firearms response team to investigate.

The other thing is, what Halfords are advertising is probably a “web only” price. I’ll bet if you walked into the store and ordered them, they’d be a hell of a lot more than Hope’s RRP…

Don’t forget, this is the same company that’s offering a 5-litre drum of Muc-Off for £13 online – the in-store price is £26.99, more or less Muc-Off’s RRP of £27.00 (Wiggle’s price is £21.99 by comparison).

I have the same opinion of every road or footpath user – whether they’re on foot on a bike with or without an engine or in a vehicle.

This. Expect people to do the most moronic things no matter what they are riding, driving or walking along and you won’t go far wrong. It’s the key to survival.

If it is who I think it is, I’m sure she’d be happy to know you were admiring her. However, not sure her husband and kids would be!

No harm in looking :wink: !!

Indeed. Should be Troy Lee XCs, as any fule kno

This +1. Only Fotherington-Thomas would wear Rajis. He are wet and a weed, he go skipping weedily by.

Hmm, prob not who I thought it was then. I know someone from Halifax with a small pink Planet X, but she’s in her 40’s not 20’s :0)

Well, it was a conservative estimate, and when it comes to the laydeez, I find it’s best to err on the side of caution when guestimating ages…

I live in Calderdale and own a Planet X bike. WIll I do?

Oh, go on then…;-)

Locks windows, puts chastity belt on the cat.

Spoken like a true Clivigerite! :lol: