Skinhead Symphony to finish I reckon..
Edit: Enjoy Yourself!!

Check out the RatRace bass

Go Sir Gentleman!!

🙂
It’s on. We’re skanking!
Reliving the Birmingham gig the other week.
Why oh why did I not get tickets this year? 🙁

Ho Ho Ho @ sc-xc 😀

http://www.southafrica.info/2010/vuvuzela.htm

Erdinger Weissbier. Oooh yess!
(Though I did just tonight break a proper Muenchen-sourced-glass full of the stuff by kicking it over by accident. I have only one authentic receptacle left now (of four) …. another trip required)

PS. Haven’t touched Newky Brown since University, ooh, 17 years ago now. It always intrigued me, when I was a regular on the stuff, how it, ahem, left the system in the same shape it entered: A bugger to start.. ow…ow.. here’s the neck.. aaand relax..

Was thinking this the other day about both:
Kraftwerk – TdF and, funnily enough,
The Rolling Stones – Street Fighting Man

and of course, The Birdie Song 😉

NW: “..These modern long-range tyres grip better than the best road tyres in the world did a decade ago..”

Absolutely.
These dual compound tyres are “Sports Tourer” – but they’re better than me and my “sports” tyres from years ago, that’s for sure.

No. No, no. No, no.
ITV4, not BBC3.

Always had Dunlops (208s)or Diablos on my Monster and the Z750.
Just gone for dual compound Michelins though because I’m clocking the miles up commuting everyday.

So far, so good.
Much better, in that they’re wearing more evenly – so avoiding that ‘falling off the flat’ feeling while cornering.

[edit] ‘Only’ 5000 miles! I’ve been going through a set every 3500 max 🙁

I’m with you there, Richpenny. Friedrich is much underated.

Having said that, I’ve only recently realised that I can view Friedrich’s work without bias again.
I travelled a bit round Germany in 1987 (or ’86 I think) hunting down his works for a dissertation.
My memories of blowing two hours out of a busload of Hamburg daytrippers’ day, on realising my visa wasn’t valid to enter East Berlin, burn very brightly.
I was only 17 and alone. If looks could kill. 😳

Mine too (Latitude, mailfeed, notepad etc – but the BBC feed and Reader is OK)
But nothing as important as what to do.
Thankfully, I can remember the next few steps: wine, shower, bed 😉

http://www.lakelovers.co.uk/
http://www.heartofthelakes.co.uk/
http://www.cumbrian-cottages.co.uk/

Best: Jaguar XFR (Genuinely, and by a mile … but I do feel it necessary to state a vested interest 😉 )

Worst? So many and so many criteria by which to judge….
Absolute: Some sh*te 198o-something Cavalier I had as a courtesy car once.
Relative: (ie Disappointing, given the expectations) Close-run between Bentley Arnage and a 1999 Porsche 911

Still, no idea.

Only downside of this glorious weather is I now have one of the 30 bikes in the company bikeshed – as opposed to the one of 5 I have had for the last 9 months

HC.. No.
Liverpool? Hmm, maybe.
The others? No. I like to see them win.

Man U, their myopic manager, their glory-hunting followers and their Portugese pre-op primadonna can go swing.
Ho, blooming ho.

(EDIT.. Oh, yeah: 🙂 )

My most viewed by a mile:

Indeed…http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8061031.stm

A bit OT, but this is where it is heading: http://www.monash.edu.au/muarc/reports/papers/visionzero.html

Vision Zero: A campaign with the goal of eradicating road deaths completely.
I remember it being discussed a couple of years ago.

All well and good. Noble, at least, and we all know it is good to aim high and “one death is one death too many” etc etc.
Problem is, the architects of the strategy were reputedly aware that their noble target would be impossible to achieve in a world where bikes coexist with cars.
QED: Ban bikes.

Claes Tingvall, the Swedish guy behind Vision Zero, has said there is “no place for motorcycles” in it. He recently said motorcycles presented a “challenge”.

Apparently, the British Government will discuss whether this concept should be adopted by the UK from 2010, when current road casualty targets expire.

Stephen Plowden, advisor to influential road safety group the Slower Speeds Initiative, has written to the governmental committee stating bikes over 600cc should be banned

Personally, I’m not sure, but there is a school of thought that believes that ‘they’ are making motorcycle training more complicated and costly in a bid to put potential riders off … while hiding behind the ‘improve rider standards’ card.

Boys’ Bank Hol away.YHA Edale followed by Kinder Edge.

Crikey!
Just been and checked
My bottom step is lower than the rest too!

It gets worse: The eleventh is lower than the twelfth, the tenth lower than the eleventh, the ninth lower than the tenth…………..

Loosen it up:

..pop it out.

Though I do have lugs to rival Radoggair

Was reminiscing about this just today:

Was 22 years ago on Saturday just gone. I was there.
That means that 22 years ago today I had a mock A-Level exam and I did miserably because I’d been at the open-top bus homecoming the day before 🙂

..Twenty-Two years…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/8054762.stm

I’ve a Dell (Inspiron, not Studio, but much of a muchness).
Very happy over the past 12 months – apart from the sound.

Yes it is pish, and it is a known ‘feature’: A background ‘crackling’. Is that the same as you?
I can only hear it when using ‘phones and the volume is low.
There are a number of forums which talk about earthing/suppression and the like but
TBH, I find it OK once the sound is cranked up.

Another sound-related Dell fact: Dell take the moral high ground regarding DRM and, as such, won’t support any ‘direct-from-soundcard’ recording.
I get round this (only when it is legal, of course) by running a cable from the line-out to the line-in.

Hector: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGUG1aCUY2o ?
Please send your puss round to my place 😉

Sure I read recently that a Honda S2000 has about the most BHP/l for a current N/A car.

Owned many many many cars, and driven some supercars through work, but, of all of them, this is the one I wish I had now.

🙂

…Shame I lived in London. It did 18MPG. I blew the engine. Knocked someone over on the way back from the engine being replaced.
Ahh. Happy days.

Thanks.

I still don’t understand why those tilt-shift movies look like model train sets ….. but I know what I like. Nice!

Been taking my lad since he turned 5. He’s nearly 8 now.
Funnily enough, haven’t been for a couple of weeks as now just entering Cubs and they’re both on the same evening.
Climbing is available on other nights too, so we’re going to have to shift.

He’s always loved it… though it’s never been super-pushy.
To be honest, it has been a nice place for him to socialise outside of the more formal extremes of School and Beavers.

I’ve never been a climber – though would like to – and he showed me up scrambling over Stanage the other week 🙂

According to FMVSS104:
A minimum of 94% of zone B needs to be cleared by the wipers on every vehicle sold.
The top extents of Zone B are derived by projecting the planes described in SAE J942 onto the vehicle windscreen. The side extents are 25.4mm (1″) from the Apost blackout.

Don’t have the company address book to hand but some do stick in the memory.

Dozens of Fuchs
Definitely at least one Wayne Kerr and a Richard Head.
My personal favourite has long been Pierrot Tietz. Genuinely.

Last week I had the pleasure of asking a supplier team if they knew Jack Schitt (oh how we laughed 😕 )

A friend of mine dabbles significantly with eBay.
He has a completely unscientific, but pretty reliable, ratio of 6:1 (watchers/potential buyers.)

Therefore, 40 watchers means that 6 or 7 are likely to be interested and get involved in bidding.

I finished work 2 hours ago.
I’ve already had an Abbot ale.
It’s sunny, and, best of all…
..we’re off to see The Specials tomorrow night!

Bernie Rhodes knows don’t argue! oi oi 😀

I love the crest on the Gap route, near Talybont on Usk/Brecon.
It is all downhill from there, you’ve earned it and it is still not a formality.

To cap it all, it was part of my first ever ‘proper’ ride – comprising blizzard, ill-fitting jogging bottoms, running shoes and hastily bought lid an’ all. 🙂

MisterGnar, she’s unique, granted, but not worth hairy palms.
Like I say: Each to their own 😉

I am old.
I quite liked it.

About time Pop got a bit edgier.
Each to their own 🙂