Tiger balm. Cures all.

Stuck inside of mobile with the memphis blues again. Longest song title I know, off my favourite album. Blonde on blonde.

I knew I’d get some motivation from here. Coolhands link topped it off. Poor guy. MTFU. Ride more. Beware of the Russians. Got it!!

Aviemore/keswick. If you want surf go Newquay.

Can’t find fault with flows. Dont know if they make these for 29er. Ive got them on my xc hardtail and roll so quick I pass my mates on 29ers.

For an aggressive hardtail you cant look further than a blue pig. Had a soul and loved it. Built up a blue pig with a single front ring 9 speed affair. Flys up and down everything and mega accurate.

I wouldnt look further than a blue pig with a nice set of 150mm forks.

Dave Allen. Best comedian bar Billy Connelly. Never on tv.

Vettel’s a top driver. Cant deny it. Still a nob.

You’ve got their address. Post them a turd in a jiffy bag!

Also. “hows your belly for spots?!”
Meaning how’s tricks.

Twoddle even!

Technical middle class. What the hell does that mean? A load of bollo#*$ questions leading to an answer that doesnt make any sense! Twiddle!

Don’t think there’s much better than casino. The Michael Mann take on Miami Vice has a cracking one too.

It’s on Dave from 8-9 on Wednesdays. Redneck reality tv. Shouldn’t be any good, but I’m afraid its rather addictive.

Instinctive dislikes have got to be
Dylan Hartley
James Haskell
Paul McCartney
Nicki #%&*ing Minaj

The ones with that added bit of danger often are!

Stress relief from chocolate? Think your barking up the wrong tree mate. Even if you ate 5 bars of lindt 99%, I reckon you’d be better off talking to Jim Beam!

rascal. Not trying to scare you. Like Iain1775 says give antur a call. Theyre locals and will guide you in the right direction.

Do be wary of thieves though mate.

All the best mate. Like others have said previously, get counselling. Post traumatic stress is a very real danger and can lead to your own depression.

You seem a really sensible and gathered lad, but don’t go it alone.

Nowt wrong with lard. Margarine is the killer!

Hey, like anywhere, you can find trouble if your not careful.

Since Antur will probably be shut, you can get your adventure by having a right old knees up in Ffestiniog!

If your after a quiet boozer, where you won’t get stabbed for your Gore-tex coat, then Penmachno ain’t far. Nice country pub there, where my uncle drinks called the Eagles. The trails round there might be rideable too.

I’m from near the area. Most of the family are from round there, and they don’t drink in Ffestiniog!

I ask because, if your English, I wouldn’t recommend it. But since your Welsh, I still wouldn’t recommend it!

Not a nice place. Lot of crime, and you won’t get a warm welcome.

Go to Porthmadog instead. Not far, and much nicer.

You English?

Mikey74, my sentiments exactly.

And besides when did we all become calorie counting robots? If ur gonna eat some junk, then unless your arteries are already full of chip fat, enjoy it! The OP says he’s off swimming later to burn it off. Good for you mate, but don’t feel guilty man. You sound like a chick!

No the skiddaw hotel itself. Been a few years since we stayed there but it was good grub. There’s another place opposite Rohan that does good sandwiches that has an upstairs seated bit. Dunno if they do breakfasts though.

😀

Skiddaw hotel in Keswick.

I can go with that. I just think that in a time when the margins between the teams is so fine. For that team to stand above many seasoned teams, that man is the deciding factor.

Id like to see what he could do at a Marussia or a Caterham!

Colin Chapmans a damn fine call. Although his innovations were revolutionary, a lot of legendary drivers lost their lives in his radical cars.

“Adrians car at Leyton House was a shocker, one of the McLarens never made it to a race track it was so bad………..”

Mashiehood. Leyton house! This was in the 80’s! 30 years ago! The poor sod can only have been in his 20’s! How good were you at your job in your early career? And March were hardly a disaster. For a low budget team, their results were decent, in a time when there were 15 plus teams on the grid.

As for his time at McLaren, that was hardly awful either. World title in 98? Mika Hakkinen had success in Neweys cars, and they even made Coulthard competitive!

I think you’ve totally missed the point. Look at the Williams years alone. The fw14-19 were unbelievable. Watch any race from the 1993 season, the advances which were later made illegal were embarrassingly awesome.

Then we come onto Red Bull. A team of nobody’s. Two average drivers. (Coulthard was at red bull before he retired remember!!, and he was always shite!) Then a couple of years later, 3 consecutive world titles.

No one guy has had a bigger influence on f1 car design. Credit where its due.

So there!

Didn’t go all out. I will now though!

It’s not that they are shit. It’s more that they are impossible to like. Soulless, gutless, charachterless whinging tossers.

Iv always been a McLaren fan. Probably due to the Senna era, but more recently Hamilton. They have class and style, and you don’t get this bollocks squabbling. And I don’t count the Prost/Senna era as squabbling, as both had balls and openly hated each other. Rather than “oooh sorry I passed Mark by mistake” or “Sebastian wasn’t supposed to pass me, oooh” (both said in Kenneth Williams stylee!)

Red Bull is a team made good by one man’s design. Adrian Newey has had succes everywhere he’s gone. So Red Bulls success is his amazing feat, not two tit average drivers, or a weak ass team leader.

Can’t wait til Newey goes elsewhere, or Hamilton starts sticking to them. Then listen to them piss and moan.

Get yesen an Audi estate.

Red bull is a team of tits with Adrian Newey designing their car. I don’t think either Vettel or Webber would contend in another car, both average drivers. Christian Horner is a weak gaffer too. They are the team that nobody supports. Ask anyone who their favorite f1 team is, and any that say red bull are soulless weirdos!

Been snowed in since Friday. Can’t get up our estate road in either direction. Not far from the sign on jd’s post. Dunno if Bradford council have got any excavators handy. It’s what its gonna take to dig through the 5ft high x 40ft long snow drifts blocking our access to the main road!

Vettel is a weasel, I agree. Never liked him. In fact every race he leads for more than 15 laps I tend to get pissed off and lose interest. But! Today I found myself thinking, for a second, good lad! Dunno if its just me, but my heroes were Senna and Schumacher. Both of which were born winners. Team orders meant shit to these guys, and theyre two of the biggest legends in f1. Their prickly characters made them great viewing in interviews too.

If Vettel would MTFU and say, “I passed Webber because he’s a pussy and I’m faster”. Then he’d be heading towards greatness. His actions would be totally justified and Id become a Vettel fan.

But at present his status is still weasel!

67s a good innings for a Russian. By that age the alcohol level in their blood reaches 100%! Natural. Or as natural as pickling oneself may be.

Any full leather boots by zamberlan mate. Have owned meindl, scarpa, asolo and brasher and none come close to zambers on comfort. Mine are a year old, well used and are the comfiest place my feet have ever been! Regularly do 15+ mile walks and these boots are the business.

In this order

1) Jimi Hendrix
2) Led zep
3) black sabbath
4) metallica
5) slayer

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Good call. Bit of a late one for anyone travelling from further afield and doing an overnight, but the organisers arnt responsible for the weather. The sheer volume of cars trying to jockey up and down the hill to Whinlatter would have been the biggest problem. A snow covered trail is not the issue, snow covered roads are. Looking forward to doing it in better weather next month.

Just took the dog round the block and was met by 6ft snow drifts blocking the road outside my estate in both directions. Maybe its worse here in Bradford than int lakes, but with the walls of snow in my way in the words of Duncan Banatyne……….