We are off there in the first week of september as well. Some lovely quiet roads crossing the centre of the peninsula and the beautiful beaches should be deserted by then as the Wafids (wind assisted f##cking idiots) have all gone back to cheshire

Is it on alloy? My wife’s car was doing this but going fully down. Nothing wrong with the tyre just got it re sealed at a local garage for 20 quid and it is fine now

I have been out on the fells around clitheroe on my mtb with my black lab running somewhere nearby and managed to piss a fell runner off because dog ran up and said hello. 😀
If some miserable git has a pre disposed prejudice to something they will find a reason to grump, as most of the above posters have

Northwind, not deriding the concept of awareness, but a lot of what Armstrong did was self serving as a way to make himself untouchable in the press; he charged I believe £200,000 per motivational speech, and if you read the investigative books there is pretty strong evidence that this money and other funds raised didn’t leave the LA camp. Surely he could have donated these funds to research as he could have done the awareness side of things if he so wished without raising money which would appear in a large part to have gone to himself.

For all you folks that keep repeating the old mantra about all the good he did for cancer, and La was the best rider of his era because everyone doped and it was a level playing field for all; please, this is absolute utter nonsense.
Take time to read the books by Walsh, Kimmage, etc. for the truth on how he got far more of a ‘boost’ from epo because of his naturally low hematocrit (not normally good in cycling terms, so he would have been relatively ordinary without epo), and his cancer ‘awareness’ fundraising (note, not cancer research or rehab or treatment).
Everything else he did on top of the cheating and misuse of public funds really does make him beyond the pale.

Not digging the soundtrack

I did my ac joint in march. It bloody hurt and i was in a sling for a week, no bike for 2 months. Mine was a grade 3 tear, if Cav’s is a 1 then maybe he will carry on, but it don’t look good

Seem to remember quite a few whingings of a similar style on here a couple of years ago about another fairly prominent sporting event.

I came off in march and thought i’d broken my shoulder, turned out i had damaged the a.c. ligaments and I am not completely pain free yet but have been riding for about a month.
I would see a physio just to make sure it isn’t your rotator cuff that is damaged as this is a long lay off, but it doesn’t sound like it with the description of where the pain is

which james you listening to kilo, my favourite live band?

Oooh, liking Jondoh’s Floyd choice but I would take Wish You Were here from that album.
Sultans of Swing, just love the tightness of that record.
Billy Bragg, many of his but Between the Wars is the song I will have played at my funeral, makes me cry and will piss my inlaws off. 🙂

Whilst i am not quite her target demographic and i’m not overly familiar with her work, the stuff I have heard seems to send out a really good message to young females about not having to look or behave in a way that a pretty misogynistic american music industry says they should.
A message that has clearly been missed by a few previous posters 🙄

Only live down the road in Clitheroe but we would have to catch the train to Bradford then on to Skipton. Thinking if taking the bikes up but will have to book the train in advance for that

Seen James 4 or 5 times in the past 25 years, still truly wonderful.
Saw Springsteen in 87 and I regularly tell my kids that the concert was considerably better than witnessing their births (almost as long at 5 hours as well)

Ninfan, just as a matter of interest
what would you suggest happens? BBC2 documentary is depressing.

Interesting use of eye wash by the police 8O.

York technically isn’t a cathedral but is wonderful. Think Lincoln is my favourite although i have heard Ely takes some beating.
When i retire i plan to visit all the cathedrals of the uk.

Not surprisingly it will be very, very wet. Mud isn’t too much of a problem but expect a lot of puddles.
If you haven’t been before you shouldn’t really need any cheeky stuff as there is plenty to go at and you will probably want to session the Hope line a few times, and a lot of the good ‘unofficial’ routes have gone in the past year with logging.

Bugger I have that book and have been planning to try one of its routes for the past 15 years

Sometimes freeze, but when i forget, which is most of the time, i swish boiling water around the bladder. First time i did it i was expecting problems but it is still ok

“We’re here to bring you back to the one true faith: the Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism.” Rev Lovejoy

Oh yes Yossi i’d forgotten about the Willard price Adventures, was it the Hardy twins or am I confusing that with something else?

James and the Giant Peach was my first proper book that I loved, around the same time as a couple of Alan Garner books, The Weirdstone of Brisingaman and Elidor. Books seemed to be so wonderful back then

teasal, we weren’t quite raving about the lidl steak, just saying it is very passable and bloody good value. Let us know what yours was like.

Had fantastic in Switzerland a few years ago but it cost nearly as much as the ski weekend. Just saying if you don’t want to spend a small fortune, Lidl is worth a try.
I had to cook the bloody thing myself in Switzerland as well.

Drac, don’t know if the quality of Lidl meat varies around the country, but i have had a sirloin and a fillet from the clitheroe store and both were very passable. Far superior to the Tesco dogmeat my wife has bought in the past.

That young lady has an impressive amount of pork in her mouth there.

Proof reading my eldest’s dissertation whilst quaffing Lidl Graffenwalder, one way or another i shall soon be asleep.

Lidl also do a steak comparable with one from a good butcher, surprisingly.

Was it a northern 50k or a southern one? 🙂

Probably bit of a bug. If not and it is age related, try a bit of L glutamine, takes the edge off being utterly knackered

Don’t dis placebos the mind is a powerful thing. Real life experiment; tickle yourself under your armpit, nothing. Let your wife do the same thing, bloody ticklish. 😀

And you guys wonder why the rest of the world hates cyclists.

Stevie Wonder, Superstition.

Undertones, My Perfect Cousin,

The The, Uncertain Smile (Jools Holland outro isn’t half bad either).

Good call with The Stones, just getting my kids into them and they like that song

Why did the baker have brown fingers?
He kneeded a poo

Bought a dog from a blacksmith. Soon as i got him home he made a bolt for the door

I had a bike fit by a chap a couple of years ago, Nick Dinsdale (much respected in these parts as a cycling physio guru), and i’m fairly sure he set me up as on the drops you can see the hub, hoods you can’t, bar you can see it again (sorry Nick if I’ve remembered this wrong but would seem to make sense).
Whatever he did it stopped my tendonitis 🙂

Don’t get hangovers, just feel a bit less enthusiastic about life when i have had a few. I find not mixing spirits with an evenings red wine is the key, single malts are for sipping on their own in small quantities.

toppers3933 » People who say pants when they mean trousers.

Toppers. What do you wear under your trousers? Under trousers? 🙂

I always fall back on haitch on these threads but it seems to have been put to bed earlier.

Bet he reads the daily fail. Fascist scum.

Mytton Fold hotel at Langho. Oh, sorry that’s a Best Western 😀
Gets coat on way out.

Magnificent Seven? Loved it as a kid