Hugs luke, Oli & Tom. He was such a lovely person. Always fun to be with and kind to me and the kids at all the races ans events we were at together. Very very sad. Xx

Twice round the altura trails including some linking road/fire road. Fun event. Nice riding, I wasn’t accustomed to rocks without grip so some of the short, sharp slatey rises were an education in spinning out pretty rapidly, over all I enjoyed it :)

Two spring to mind. The damp slatey surface at Whinlatter through the woods. Kept thinking my rear axle/bearings were gone the back end was so squirmy, but not completely all over the place.

Second, the Grey Earth section of the Trans Provence. Looks like it should be loose and drifty, but its super grippy and great fun to hammer natural bermy, jumpy, gullies and bankings without worrying about washing out.

Taller guy? I’m a female. I happen to ride mountain bikes. Now who’s being prejudiced?…

I don’t care about your height, or your bank balance. You sound like a berk, the rhyming slang origin of which I’m sure someone of your purported intellect will be aware…

Oh my word. I’ve just read some of the blog by the little “homunculus” :roll: Apparently he likes to liberally sprinkle what he thinks are ‘big’ words around. Small man syndrome indeed. Almost every entry refers to his height at some point and the vapid content smacks of a modern day ‘American Psycho’ for London in the ‘tweens’. I can just see him creaming his pants over whatever the Hoxton version of a fancy business card is…

YAWN.

Impressive tone there, jojoA1.

Thanks, When I saw the pic I shrieked “Oh my god look how ripped I look!!” I’ve never seen myself riding with bare arms and shoulders, so had no idea.

Oh god they’re all going to think for me, aren’t they? I hate it when they do that.

Thanks. Which other one would be betterererererer?

Yep, a dress agency! Couldn’t remember the name :) thanks BH.

I did an adam ant outfit for my OH with an xxl black ladies blouse from the tesco sale £7, an existing pair of tight black jeans, a feather clip-on earring from Claire’s accessories for a couple of quid and a tricorn hat from ebay for a fiver. makeup was a touch of lip gloss, a black and a white eyeliner for the white stripe and round eyes and the drawn on sideburn/kiss curl things he had.

The convention was for one ‘bikey’ and one ‘posh’, so here’s one that combines both :)

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:D
Hooray, another resurrection!!!
Ok, in the spirit of Christmas, I’m off to find an up to date pic…

Isn’t it time to bring out “mugshots” again?… Wonder if it’s been closed for being too old?

Any of those nearly new boutiques near you? places that sell quality second hand fashion and take a cut?
I tend to keep everything unusual or high quality as it often comes around again or can be altered to bring it up to date. Cheap basics go to the charideee shop.
I too was surprised by how little clothes and footwear go for on ebay. I got £10 for a pair of quality leather boots that were £100 new and almost unworn. It stuck in my craw so I’ve never tried with anything else.

Oh, and one of my colleagues was given a Vajazzle!!

She thought it was ace, but complained that her hubby would probably say something like. “You’ve got something stuck on you…”

The secret santa gift I received today is going to make a lovely pressie for the childminder…

Not often prompted to post on ‘serious’ threads, but the misunderstanding of the roles and procedures of social work in child protection is astounding so, as a social worker (not working in the field of children and familes, but trained to do so) I feel I need to correct some of the extreme myths being propogated here.

Having a social worker look into your circumstances relating to your parenting does not automatically put you on a “watch” list. There is no such thing. A child can be put on a concern register, but only after lengthy investigation and agreement from a child protection panel.

A contact from a social worker would not affect your CRB records, they are “Criminal” records, onto which you are only placed if you are convicted of a criminal offence.

A report of this nature would prompt a visit from a social worker to discuss the circumstances and probably some education on what is and isn’t appropriate/risky at different ages and stages of a child’s development.

Social work with children and families has a focus on trying to keep families together where possible.

“Dont understand non- clip in comments. No sense to me in riding spd’s unclipped? Probably going back to normal spds soon.”

If you’re trying to get going again on a techie/steep bit, you can ‘mis-clip’. With a cage around the clip, you have more support for getting down the next bit not clipped in. I only use caged clip pedals for on the bigger bike, for bigger stuff, but really value that extra bit of surface area if I cock up a re-launch on a sketchy section.

Wooooo!!!! Wigggoooooooo :D

How long did it take him to get to there from Run Spot run, See Spot run?

Beckham had significant learning difficulties at school, which makes your comment not dissimilar to saying Ellie Simmons should have eaten more greens as a kid.

OOps, I did not know that… I apologise.

Quick, sick bucket!!!

Aw bless David Beckham, isn’t his reading-out good?

Yaaaaas, Brailsford :D

To be honest, this is the music that got me all a flutter in the 80s… I was a lefty wee teen girl.

God Stuart! I’m having flashbacks to the Golf Club discos with all the 6th yr boys jumping about in a circle with their arms over each other’s shoulders to Fields of Fire and Loch Lomond (the one that ends with the Gaelic bit).
I’m amazed no one was mown down walking back to town along that road…

I’m well old enough to remember,.. just wondered what others would put.

I’d have had The Smiths (actually very dancy even though everyone thinks they’re miserable), The Cure, The Eurythmics, even some Bananarama and Dexy’s for more mainstream. No Come on Eileen FFS, what kind of 80s party is that?!! No Adam Ant, No Cyndi Lauper.

I’d have had the 12″ of Blue Monday just to wind people up… :)

Female perspective, from an actual woman here. I’ve been to one male strip show and a ‘normal’ lap dance club. The male stripper was not erotic in the least. It was funny and silly, all a bit Benny hill. Absolutely a chance to point, laugh and squeal a bit and get drunk with mates. The lap dance club was much more ‘sexy’.

C’mon O.P. I don’t watch soaps so lurking on here is my vicarious living. I need to know how this turned out!!!

touch ups :O

A girl’s got to get her kicks somehow.. ;)

Just simple cropping, resizing and touch ups.

Some schools are just rubbish aren’t they Stuartie? ;)

Ah, I thought Druidh was being abusive… :)

GIMP???

Thanks guys.

It really depends on the ride. A remote hill ride, even in summer could be dangerous if you were wet and had a mechanical. The body loses heat significantly more quickly wet than dry. Big remote rides I take a waterproof jkt & shorts and put on and off as often as needed. A faff, but safety first. I also take a spare base layer, socks and gloves if I think its going to be wet all day.
Showery rides, I’ll wear a showerproof gilet armwarmers and just lycra legs as said above, dries faster and doesn’t chafe.
Sometimes use altura semi-dry 3/4s if lots of ground water. They have a waterproof bum.

Of course this advice is just for men. I get well fecked off with having to strip to the waist to go for a pee.

I did the ‘holiday’ guided version in May as Rickos says. It’s totally full on. Serious ‘hikey bikey’ (TM Christophe). I was pretty broken after day two, but then there are a few shorter days to recover… a bit. The final climb before you descend to Monaco had me in bits at the top after such a draining week. If you’ve ridden any of the classic Scottish routes like The Torridon Loop or Devil’s staircase/ciaran path, then imagine doing those 7 days in a row, in the heat, with more hike a bike and more road/fire road climbing…
The descents are phenomenal.

Bloody stupid to ride it when it’s so busy. Too close to too many walkers. Early morn/late eve only on The Ben IMO.
BUT,….

awesome water bar hopping skilz!

Flesh coloured lycra shorts in that one Parksie!

Furnished with cuppa, my plan is now to get up and do dishes (there’s lots… I’m not a dishes kind of a gal) whilst listening to radio 4 to ease the pain of domesticity. Then do circuits for my Trans Provence training, then do ironing (there’s lots… I’m not an ironing kind of a gal… theme developing?) whilst watching tellybox.

That will be domesticity and activity covered and should resolve any remnants of guilt at my sloth.

I don’t have the excuse of having been up all night though…
Al, not procrastinating on anything super urgent. Just that weekends so precious so I feel a bit guilty, but still enjoying the indulgence.

‘nother cuppa then up properly…

Edit: Toby1, sorry :(

Howz about we have a special tag agreed to make it easier to search womens’ kit?

Al, you’d suit the subliminal birdy one :)