Thanks chaps especially kayak23. that’s the sort of info I was looking for.

bump for the evening roadsters

Turbine hall was demolished last year. What you can see in the pictures is the boiler house. it was due for blowing down in the next couple of weeks. They’ve been clearing out the ground level and were, I believe, starting to set the charges. Working next door (B site) we’ve got to know a few of the demolition team, so this has come as a real shock. sadly I fear we’re in for more than the one, so far reported, fatality.

just use 2-4 daylight spectrum bulbs in whatever room you like. Does the same job for pennies!

This had crossed my mind, but wondered if this would raise light levels enough to have any effect.

Industrial scaffolding is a very different business to the stuff oiks chuck up for an extension. Our resident scaffolders have a book of set designs they work from covering most eventualities. Anything beyond that and it’s specially designed.
Doesn’t come cheap mind.

Top job.
Did any of the locals make you a cup of tea or say thank you?

I’m looking forward to the cider 😀

I’m in, but just as a rider, as I live relatively near by.
Not done HOTS before, is it a South Costwolds version of the HONC, or a bit more technical?

Marks a top bloke. Fixed my V2 MXL light in exchange for a donation to the air ambulance.

Anything Jo Whiley likes. The more enraptured she is, the more I suspect it’s shite. I give you “The Darkness” as an example.
There’s lots of great music being made at the moment, always has been I guess. You just don’t hear it on mainstream radio very often. Thank god for the internet.

Mate of mine has been called Gladys since the eighties after another mates dad started calling him it due to his long hair. A lot of people don’t know he has a proper boys name.
One of our plant cleaners is known “Terry the cat” due to the way he used to ineffectually leap around the goal during works football matches.
Credit where credits due though, even after recovering (partially) from a stroke he still plays football and rides his bike to work (hes’s 65).

It’s a large.

Mine arrived yesterday, but due to changes in circumstance and riding habits looks like mine will be going up for sale.
Shame as I love the colour (swift blue) and idea of 29+.

5:12 for me which I was very pleased with until I read the above postings.
The quick (for me)time was a bonus, but the highlight was closed roads, what a joy!

Or match bikes to bodies in the event of a hideously fatal pile up at the bottom of box hill.

Registered yesterday.
How many different places do they want you to stick your number!
Only one missing is the one to shove up your ar*e.

I’m starting to feel a bit more confident having done a few 75 milers over the last few weeks and survived. I’m hoping a combination of adrenaline and drafting will get me the last 25 miles. A mate did it in 2013 and was amazed how quick the last ten miles were, with everyone starting to wind it up. Recons he averaged 25mph once onto the embankment.

I’m in the 8:15 start.
I’m doing it on my Gryphon with slicks fitted and 1×10 (36 x 11-36)!
Not exactly the tool for the job, but it’s what I’m used to.
Anyone else doing it on a suitably inappropriate bike?

You mean the “greatest stage racer of his generation”?
Stop it. You’ll drag Frenchie over from BikeRadar, and we really don’t want that”

One for the “true fans”

Entertaining carnage as usual.
Johnny walker in front again 😀

I liked to think I was a man of good and broad musical taste. Everything from jazz (Starless and Bible Black, coolest record ever) to rap, punk, classical etc.
Reading this thread got me listing all the things I can’t stand, including any modern R n B, lovers rock, poodle rock, most chart shite etc.

I now realize I’m as narrow minded as the next man. 😀

I thought it was just me. Always been like it, when I used to winsurf it was normally just as I finished putting on wetsuit, boots, gloves harness. It’s a standing joke with mates I cycle with.

Sweep it under a large carpet?

I’ve no idea what shape you are Flashy, but how about
http://fatladattheback.com/

🙂

Quiche

12 miles each way, but with longer daylight hours that goes up to about 23 in and 16 home. I found the sweet spot to be three days a week with Tuesday and Thursday off. We finish early on a Friday so I try to stretch the run home out to 30 miles with some hills thrown in.
I feel no guilt going to the pub on Friday evening after walking the dog.

I’d been using WD40 for about four days, dosing every evening to no avail. heat was a definite no no as I’ve got steel frame and ally post.
I trained as a mechanical instrument make originally, so brute force is definitely the last resort.
I was sceptical of the finish line, but it worked. it seems to be a combination of freezing agent and penetrant.

I thought only hip hop artists from the West coast drank it in videos whilst being fondled by hoes. And it most probably tasted like paint stripper.
Obviously I was wrong.

We stayed at the The Jovial Colliers Inn & Bunkhouse at Lydbrook eighteen months ago. Bunkhouse was clean and comfortable, food was good.
http://www.jovialcolliersinn.co.uk/index.php

Price seems to vary a lot around the country. Mine was £95. What was funny was everyone playing “recognize the road” as all the film and stills shown were made locally (Reading area).
Right at the start we were asked how many of us were regular bike riders, turned out to be about 75% of the class (22 of us). Also with one exception we were all over 35 years old. Make of that what you will.

I did one last month and was pleasantly surpised. Good instructors who didn’t lecture, but got everyone involved. The issue of insurance was raised and their suggestion was change insurers.
Interestingly they said in ten years of doing these courses they’d only had two people who were adamant they’d done nothing wrong and there was no issue in speeding. They failed the course, so got the double wammy of course fee then fine and points.

50 here and still get them.
I get them either middle of the nose, or between the eyebrows like a third eye.
Frightens small children and dogs.

My youngest has suffered from this since about nine years old (now 21).
Definately stress related in her case, happier she is, the more hair she has. She has one small patch that refuses to grow back, but she’s an expert at hiding it, so it’s not noticable.

I got involved in a beard growing competition with a mate a few years ago.
i conceded defeat when I was at full blessed and he was able to plate his down to the middle of his chest!
Since then I’ve stuck to a monthly run round with a number 4 clipper.
Mind, the last time my face met with a razor blade was in 1984.

A bit off topic, but I thought as this is the thread for all things Tripster I’bd bung it here.
Kinesis are bringing out the Tripster Ace.
Looks a possible C2W tool.
As it uses the original ally tripster frame it could be converted to drops etc.
http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/core-upgrade-2pure-ison-paligap/017426

“Care homes are horrible places to work and horrible places to live”
Sorry, but got to pull you up on that statement.
Not all care homes are the same.
We were lucky that for the last year of his life my dad was in a lovely home, with brilliant staff, and good owners.
It wasn’t new and shiny, or an ideal building, but the atmosphere was good and homely. It made visiting him a whole lost easier for me and my mum knowing he was being well looked after.

Trouble is I suspect these homes are few and far between.

I’ve had a premium account for a number of years now and think, for me, it’s worth a tenner a month. One of the things I like about it is you can go off piste and listen to stuff you wouldn’t consider buying , if you could even find it.
Mongolian throat singing anyone?

English Pointer here.
Twice a day plus anything he can scrounge.
I’ve never had a dog who’s such a bottomless pit.
He hasn’t got worms and he’s carrying no excess weight, just a greedy guts.

Having not been on the bike for the best part of two months this week’s commute has been a bit of an ordeal by fire.
Not as cold as I expected this morning so was somewhat overdressed.

It’s lovely to be back on the bike again.

I thought you were going to list all the things you’d seen on the trail.
Cuddly toy, teasmade, hoover etc. 😀