Black Country museum being in Dudley, not wolvo, so well worth a visit.

Short answer, yes. I would rather have a km of barbed wire pulled out of my arse than go there of my own free will.

Cheers Crashtest!!

One turbo trainer ordered.

Cheers James much appreciated.

I did mine on Friday night while Taetwondo sparring . Feckity **** ****.. I feel the OP’s pain. Couple of cracked ribs, on co codamal and diclafenic.
Remember that nurse said the painkillers would make me constipated.
Understatement of the year. now feels like I’m splitting in two from my stomach now. So today’s treat is no pain relief while I attempt to give birth to an anoconda. While trying not to strain!!!
If anyone needs me, I’ll be in the corner crying..

Manastic,
Have a netbook I can throw into the garage.
Stu, please matey. Won’t be able to pick it up till Tuesday at the earliest though.

Old squadron (TCW) motto is “Ubique Loquimur” which translates to “We Speak Everywhere”.
So applying that to sad track would come out as “Veho undique”, ride everywhere.

IGMC.

You’re a long time dead.

Just accepted you Kev.

There was an STW group set up on endo. I have re edited this so people need to ask to join first.
The link to the group is HERE. So that should cut down on the trophy hunters.

Renton,
I have a spare light you can borrow for a few weeks if you want it.

Elredso,
I’m based in bromsgrove, me, with Votchy and Mr tall from this forum ride a couple of times a week. PM me if you want to tag along.. normally do mon, wed and thursday nigths if free. Plus do shift work myself so quite often around in the day for rides too.

I’d also send this info onwards to private eye magazine. Good story for them to rip into.

I have a few GPS tracks saved, but you’re prob best being guided round.

Do not feed the niche whores.

if its only 4 miles you could run in?

any old MTB will do , rigid forks and off you go..

Monkeychild,
If its any use I have a spare washing machine you can have. In Bromsgrove , Worcs area though..

last year just managed to clip the 6K mark with 6004 miles..889 miles mtb, and 5116 miles on the road.
I blame the weatherthough for the MTBing, as 2011 did 2076miles mtb and 4308miles on the road.

proof here.. but only if you’re on my friends list.

Mantastic, I dont have mates..just riding biatches.

OK, to clarify..
None of my runs were recorded on Strava, I used it a few times butprefer endomondo to log my rides.
All of my rides logged in endo were public but not of them were saved as routes.
In endo a route is easily visible, seen by zooming into an area on the map and you see them but a saved workout , even if public, is not visible on the map of the area. So some one has to look up my profile , then go into my workouts, and trawl through the MTB ones to see where I have been riding. Thats with all my workouts being public, and I have now since marked them private so only endo ‘friends’ can see them.
So I hardly think i have been shouting my riding routes from the rooftops. The paths were cheeky, as in footpaths, but no digging, vandalism etc carried out, also , rode them in anti social hours, night rides when no ‘sane’ person would be out on the paths.

During the last 12 years of riding in this area, have never encountered a estate rep when out on the bike, or had a walker moan at me when I was out on the cheeky stuff.

So either someone has gone to sort though my endo workouts, or searched for mtb forums for riders who frequent Clent and done a ‘scattergun’ letter to easily identifiable user names using the electoral role.

Just for public record, I have had a long hard think about this.
Have decided to sell the mountain bike and just use the road bike from now on.

The cunning use of endomondo name and directory inquiries?

Treacle, nope…
Ton, the moral is upload your workouts as private..

Just ordered a replacement set of Z freeride ( the cheaper version) from Evans , after my last pair where a bit hammered after 6 odd years of abuse. ( could have serviced them , but had some spare cash in the paypal account needing to be spent.)

Did the order and collect, when I pick them up, I find that the distributor RJ chicken had sent out the dearer Z strongs ( as an upgrade) with a sticker to that effect on the box.

The Strongs are a bit more cut away , and have a little screw to allow 3 cleat tensions too..Happy days!!
I have time on all my MTBs , they do last forever.. got some 11 year Aliums on the commuter still going strong.

Boom, the ban hammer falls again…

Over braked there then…
Doing wyre wed night if you’re interested.

Is that a 140mm rotor on the back there?

did a selective cull over the last few days..

1st Andrew Wilson, 887.64miles.
2nd David Toulson, 821.86miles
3rd Will Beresford, 720.44miles

bit of an epic/ pointless scrap between me and Steve ( Mr Tall) for 12/ 13th place last night… ending up with a 20 mile extended commute in the rain, then Steve countered with a 2.5 mile ride at 10PM, and I dragged my arse back out for 1.7 miles at 10:45PM to pip him by .69miles FTW.

New challenge added for November..

feel free to make your own if you just want an MTB only , road only etc.

Cheers.. mick

Lol at flashy!

And another one bites the dust..

Trail rat. Yep, bit of a delay on uploading gpx before they are added to challenges.

And boom, they’re gone..

Commute, problem solved.

*rubs thighs*

Am free next monday to Wednesday if that’s any good for you? (edit, apart from Tuesday night, that’s reserved for having the shite kicked out of me.)

My son Jordan has asphergers. Can only go by my experince. ( also typing briefly as at work)
daigonsed early on at age of 4, when he started nursery.. that was absolute nightmare, way too noisy , he would freak out etc etc..

The school that the nursery was attached too refused to accept Jordan, but as he had a statement of special needs we were trying to getting him intoa nearby school with an austism base attached. Only 1 place free and he didnot get it. we then went to a special needs school ( for severe physical/ mental special needs) and got Jordan duely placed. he spent 1 year there and transformation was fanastic, the school was quiet, staff understanding etc etc.. after one year another place can up at the near by school .. So jordan went there. but went in at a year level behind his peers.

excelled in the austism base area, so much they placed him in mainstream class, but with fall back support in the base should he need it. he did 3 years in mainstream at junior. Then because of boundaries ( we live in worcs with 3 tiers, junior / middle/ high shool) school in Birmingham catchment (primary / secondary school)

Jordan then moved to a new school 1 mile away with a able autistic support..again in main stream, has done 2 years there and he is going to high school next week. again with able autistic support..

all the time in main stream he has 1-2-1 support for about 20 hours ( 1/2 the week) to help keep him on focus etc..

Cant comment on your case, but assuming your son is statmented..school wise , inclusion is the big thing, and touch wood, Jordan has not been picked on for being austistic. But has had a few issues with general bullying. However this was resolved after taking him to tae won doe, because after year of taking the bullying issue, with out telling the teachers, other kids etc, he had enough and pummelled the shite out af the main ring leader ( my proudest day!!)

I know wnat you mean when you say about your fears for social inclusion, ( Jorsdan has only 2 friends that he sees out of school) but 2 is better than none. Jordan himself says he would like more friends but finds it hard , esp when we are over the park and i can see other kids pointing/ taking the pee etc at Jordan and giving him a wide beath.
Just comes dfown to trying to help him master the confisuing social skills that other kids, you and i take for granted. The school should have some form of support , to assist.. not much help at the mo, but the kids are tougher then we give them credit for. Let him go to school and find his feet..

wil be free tomorrow to update , but got to bog off now as well busy..

Best of luck, took it up 4 months ago and first comp next month. Last 3 sparring sessions (semi contact) has resulted in 3 black eyes, scrotal bruising( even with a cup) and a thumb that still doesn’t grip properly. I is hooked!!