You can park here for free https://maps.app.goo.gl/ejVFyAac3NYgZU7s5?g_st=ic

the car park a few hundred metres east is no overnight parking but drive over in the morning to use the clean toilets. Both are free. Good restaurants in Amble.

as a someone else said, get Searchforsites App. Only £5.99 per year, worth every penny.

Not cheap but good reviews:

Locum Pinion

If you’re on an iPhone just tap the top of the screen where the time is to auto-scroll to the top of the page.

If you go down the Wahoo route, get the Elemnt Roam – bigger screen is much better once you get to an age where reading glasses have become a way of life. Especially when get a quick look over rough ground at speed 😗

@highlandman In the Elemnt App go to tabs at the bottom of the screen, select Workout. Then Routes > Import File. Of course the Wahoo unit needs to be on and connected via Bluetooth first.

I would check your bike manual first. I tried as intheborders says above (seemed foolproof) and the cable kept snagging just before the exit hole in headtube. Downloaded the manual and removal of the fork was essential for this last part. This was for a Specialized Epic Evo.

Thanks all. Some good advice here. I am setting a GP appointment for my return to UK.

@bugjohn
No, didn’t hurt them pulling paracord.

On a bike fit I learned that being hunched up at the shoulders, due to a badly set up bike, can cause numbness and other hand and wrist problems as the ‘hunching’ can trap nerves that start or end in the hand area….perhaps something to consider ?

Bike setup is good and I was not experiencing pain or discomfort up to this point. Agree it could be a reason but not in this case. Thanks.

@timba Thanks, very helpful. This is exactly what it looks like. Given the circumstances and family history it is unlikely to be this but Google has thrown up some more likely things. Will get a GP appointment.

Tailfin with the extender. Bit more expensive but more versatile in the long run. https://www.tailfin.cc/

Speaking as a teacher, it sounds as if the school is fobbing you off. I could access this information for my past students in 2013 without issue. The Exams Officer in our school could probably provide a duplicate without any problem (it’s all electronic and was in 2013 too).
The chances are your son took multiple exam boards over his spread of subjects. Why not ask all of the exam boards for a duplicate and see what you get? Exam boards (the first three are the most likely) to contact are:
AQA, OCR, Edexcel, WJEC and CCEA.
You will probably need the examination centre number and, possibly, candidate number – the school can provide this.

Options (b) then (c). A couple of ideas for her to consider:
If she is more academically minded: Theoretical Physics.
If more practically minded: Astronautical Engineering.
For both of these she really needs to be at A*A*A level and also be focused on progressing to post-graduate level. Either will open many career doors/ alternative post-graduate options beyond the degree title.

Hope Focus 35’s. 3200km with no problems. Is it wrong in this climate to say “buy British”? (I feel a lot of abuse coming…) 🙂

EDIT: I also have Hunt on my road bike – good wheels. Enduro Wide 27.5+ would have been nice if offered with my MTB when bought. Considering as a second set of wheels in 29 form.

I got through a number of saddles on road and MTB (left sitbone is lower than right so lots of discomfort) and finally bit the bullet and bought an Infinity E2 for my road bike. Problem solved. So I then got an Infinity EX1 for MTB and it is soooooo comfortable. No more padded shorts or butt-hole cream needed – just a pair of Dobbies on MTB or triathlon shorts on road bike. Good for all day rides. Very expensive but not so much compared to constantly looking for the right saddle.

Mine took almost 5 months. I would suggest getting the order in so you are in line, details are something they are not interested in for some months. having said that I don’t know what the current production time is.

Just looked at the Shand website. They only have 29 W23 rims. I would be asking them to get in some 29 W30 rims if I was going down the 2.6/2.5 route..

Wheels: I got tubeless 27.5 3.0 for the comfort factor. With carbon seatpost and bars I think this was maybe overkill. Of course, without having a second set of wheels this may be a bit academic. The bike as setup is very comfortable – better than my son’s Beast of the East with tubeless 27.5 2.8’s and 130 front forks. I just having a feeling that 29 with 2.6 front and 2.5 rear would be as comfortable but lighter and better rolling. The 27.5’s take a bit more work to get going but then keep their momentum. I don’t think that the difference is that great that I will change them for the French Divide – just putting on 2.8 tyres instead of 3.0 to reduce weight and improve rolling resistance.

Here’s the photo:

Great bike – order it. This is mine a few hours after picking it – I rode it home from the workshop. Matt sage green, 27.5+ 3.0, Rohloff and gates belt drive. The Rohloff is worth every penny and I cannot understand all of the poor reviews about shifting uphill etc – smooth and quick to shift. Compared to cassette there is far less drag in the real world (mud and gritty/ sandy moors) and my Strava times are faster. I ordered carbon Jones bars and they do such a good job eliminating the chatter I should have gone for 29 wheels with 2.6 front and 2.5 rear. Also with a Hope carbon seatpost. I have changed the saddle for an Infinity – expensive but the best saddle I have ever had, no discomfort on multi-day trips. I did have a problem with my seatpost slipping which caused damage to the carbon and Shand had it replaced under warranty (very good service). I have replaced the clamp with a Salsa Lip Lock which is much better than the Hope clamp.

Thought we were allowed 1 hour only?

Gove fake news.

Buzzrack buzzwing 4 – works well just have to think about the order of loading for the 4 bikes. Use it with a truck, may be a bit much for a car’s rear shocks if the boot is loaded and 4/5 adults in the car?

Yeah, the search engine is crap. Use site:singletrackworld.com after your key words in Google and you have an STW search engine that works.

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Here you go: 30 second search 🙂

I only publish within my expertise (not clinical practice, nor political). I will do my best to translate technical findings into plain English, and I won’t publish alarming informatino without context. I’ll also answer any question within my expertise as best I can.

Daren Austin PhD, Senior Fellow, Clinical Pharmacology, GlaxoSmithKline and formerly Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Mathematical Epidemiology at Oxford and later Imperial College.

Use ERG mode and the smaller chainring – much, much quieter. I use 4 or 5 but this is mostly because of indexing.

+1 Needs to be said.

and I could be wrong here (and please do correct me if you are talking from a position of expertise) but are we (the 50’s crowd) not in danger of losing/ reducing our, supposedly, “better than average” immune systems if we stop exercising regularly for the next 3 months? Is not maintaining our level of fitness actually to the benefit of the the NHS if there is a higher probability of staying out of hospital?

Dr Jenny Harries asked us to do so, here:
Mental health impact of social distancing
Jenny Harries was asked about the impact on people’s health from being asked to stay at home. She said this is something they are concerned about and those being told to isolate for 12 weeks are given mental health advice in the letters they are receiving. She encouraged everyone to make the most of the extra time not commuting to exercise.

I know there is a lot of fake news out there but you have to be living with your head in the sans not to have been aware that we are being encouraged to exercise.

Haven’t the NHS stated that they want people to get exercise as it strengthens the immune system and helps to fight the virus? A quick “stretch your legs” from the front door is not going to help significantly with this – more for mental health. This is going to go on to, most likely, June and stopping your exercise for this length of time is going to be counter-productive.

Also found this article which I found interesting – debunks the still common belief that endurance training suppresses the immune system (and I’m NOT saying we should all be training at max – this is not a good idea at the moment for many other reasons including injury/ heart attacks etc). Just interesting.

Haven’t the NHS stated that they want people to get exercise as it strengthens the immune system and helps to fight the virus? A quick “stretch your legs” from the front door is not going to help significantly with this – more for mental health. This is going to go on to, most likely, June and stopping your exercise for this length of time is going to be counter-productive.

Also found this article which I found interesting – debunks the still common belief that endurance training suppresses the immune system (and I’m NOT saying we should all be training at max – this is not a good idea at the moment for many other reasons including injury/ heart attacks etc). Just interesting.

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“I’m rapidly losing my sanity over people arguing about this – so you’re a lucky person with the privilege to have access to acres of deserted space from your door and you think you won’t do any harm by playing out in it just as normal because technically you’re within the law? Lucky for you. How dare you put at risk the tiny bit of daily outdoor time for a family living in a flat with no outdoor space?

Yours, very grumpily, Hannah.” – don’t know how to do the quote thing.

I think you need to rein it in. Working for STW doesn’t give you the right to preach to people this way, especially when you haven’t thought it through. Those of us who are “lucky” enough to live in rural areas have often had to make many sacrifices to do so. We don’t whine about the distance to supermarkets, lack of restaurants, social life etc that is found in urban areas. We also often continue to work jobs we hate to live where we are. It is not luck, it is by design and, often, sacrifice.

If I go out my front door I have the choice of riding on the road (traffic has barely reduced and an increasing number of drivers seen to think there is now no speed limit) or I can ride on safe gravel tracks. What’s wrong with that? I am riding alone and am totally isolated from other people. If Boris changes the rules I will comply but in the meantime I am being safe (more likely to have an accident doing DIY), I am staying away from other people and I am not driving anywhere.

We (those of us “lucky” enough to live in the outdoors) are not putting at risk you daily outdoor time – it is your neighbours who are getting in their cars and driving out to where we live.

Think it through. I am very grumpy too about this.

@Shackleton
I’m a teacher too and I have been using Teams for live teaching – very quick to set up. If you want me to walk you through, email me and I will send you my phone number. I can also show you how to have an audio only conversation with them while sharing your iPad screen (which means you can use any Apps you want and they can follow along). My students finished lessons yesterday (independent school) so I am pretty much free today barring bike ride.

There seem to be many here who support a lockdown. Petition here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301397

Sign it!