Bonty SE2,4 or 5

Mate recently ordered ZTTO remote, got an email saying 2 months delivery, arrived after a fortnight.

What SPF to use under a flight path?

Train to Polegate, ride to Jevington, TR at the end of Jevington (Opposite Jiggs cottage/tea rooms) and enter Pentlands car park, go up the bridleway and at the bench at the top is the entrance to the trails.

Stuck on a 12 hr day turn in the Control Room to day, our bloody AIr-Con has FAILED!

No ticket machine, outrageous, where do you get rid of all your 5p and 10p’s?

VTR’s have a cam chain tensioner failure issue, which put me off, so I got a KTM950SMR for commuting on instead, same terrible gas mileage but as made as a box of frogs.

Very windy with a beastly Easterly here on the Sarf Downs, never got above 22C today so resorted to building bike in the conservatory to show solidarity (I did have the vents open, I’m not fully mad).

Friston Forest resembled a Jungle this morning, hot, wet and greasy.  No fun on a bicycle.

My mum had the XR4i which was the Cossie forerunner, 2.8 V6 (I think), it was very quick but bits broke if you let your 18 year old son drive it (engine mounts, clutch, brakes)😁.

I also got to drive a V12 Jag XJS, that was blisteringly quick but had terrifying handling.

Clearly, tilting runways is the answer here.

Extra points if they can also rotate to face into the wind.

That’d be an aircraft carrier.

Err muggy and sweaty here on the sarf coast

An above mentioned organisation spending BILLIONS on a state of the art new Telecoms network that is so out of date BT stopped using to in the 90’s.

The same then spent £3000000 on replacing defective standby batteries because the above project failed to power up the chargers and aircon the rooms they were installed in so the batteries spent 3 yrs baking and freezing in unpowered rooms.

I could go on, but the sums we’ve squandered are nothing compared to the F-35 and its under defended carriers

Pigeons might be stupid but I’ve seen them use the London tube pretty competently 😁

Curtis AM9

Well Mrs M and I are both enjoying it.

I’ve used it on my KTM this winter and it seems to work.  I’ll be getting it again.

I’ve a 2015 Enduro.  It’s a great bike, as people have said, for winch and plummet.  I personally like the higher BB as on natural rocky stuff you’ve more clearance.  It climbs OK, copes with single track well and then it loves rocky descending.  It does eat pivot bearings, I mainly use it for the 6-8 drier months and its a full bearing replacement annually.

My HT is faster on local South Downs stuff.

Castelli, not cheap but VERY comfy

IF you can get hold of one a Michelin Wild Enduro rear.  Tough as old boots sidewalls and very good edge grip.  Excellent grip on wet granite and loam.

I’d be getting another job.

1. They love our Staffies

2. They have a great GF menu

3. They call my mate “Dolescum” after he was briefly unemployed.

It’s in riding distance but its 4 miles away off road and a 1000ft of climbing, rides back from the pub have involved hedges, hypothermia and getting a tow off Mrs M and her E-Bike after I blew up in 30C temps riding over south downs chalk after a few too many.

Damn, I was so getting my hopes up!

Not really an athlete but Ronnie O Sullivan.  He never seems to get beaten by a better player, he’s just playing badly that day.

I’m going to guess at a cascade failure; kit down for maintenance/fault so extended or unusual feeding with loss of diversity, introducing critical points of failure.  I bet it’s an old, tired, poorly maintained network as Argentina has had a very sorry economy for many years and this sort of state capital plant renewal expenditure has probably been put on the back burner.  Then a fault or switching error causes an overload and this cascades through the system causing further damage.

If it has blown a super grid transformer or switch gear, this stuff isn’t readily available in your local electrical distributor (think years to get built) and if you do actually have a spare you can bet the several hundred tonne bit of kit is at the other end of the country from where you need it.

Friston, Bedgebury and the North Downs.

Nice puddle action scuttler!  Typical June weather if you ask me.

Thats a big patio the bike’s on……how many ex-wives did the previous owner have?

Friston MTB on Facebook.

Chorlton and the Wheelies, by Tim Burton.  Now that would be DARK!

Sampford Courtney Cider and maybe a Tarquins Blackberry and Honey G&T later.

Mrs M’s Cube E Stereo has just snapped its drive side main pivot bolt, could be a recurring theme here…….

I’m on Tamsulosin for poor stream, no major side effects noticed here, sometimes see a few stars if I sit up quick after sleep but that’s it.  Though apparently you can reverse ejaculate into your bladder!

Humans know right from wrong and stealing is wrong.  The food thief got their “just desserts” in this case.  No sympathy at all.

Beria had to be very carefully talked out of walking into the first Russian Pile whilst it was running as he was certain the scientists were making up what they were doing.   He was not the sort of man that could be “restrained”/argued with, without serious repercussions.  The KGB/NKVD/secret police also had orders to shoot the lead scientists if the first bomb test did not look the same as the American tests!

Polar chest strap, so far very reliable.

Mrs M used to teach at primary, she loved the job BUT the horrendous workload got too much, 60-70 hour weeks, massive amounts of planning and evidence collection as well as reports.  Oh and don’t get me started on OFSTED Nazi’s.  Change of Head was the final nail in the coffin.  Mrs M had 3 kids with behaviour issues so had to run a tight ship but new head decided that if kids kicked off you had to ask them “if that was the outcome of their actions they wanted?”  Bear in mind kids were 5-6.

I’m glad she’s left as I have my wife back, yes it was a hit to the wages but I don’t have a stressed wife anymore.

Wood burner on where we are staying on Dartmoor, judging by the plumes of smoke from surrounding houses we’re not the only ones.

So far I’ve managed to avoid the worst of the weather so have even ventured out onto open moor land and got away with it, apart from falling over in a bog/stream but we won’t mention that.

The woodland bits have got some proper terrifying wet roots though.  I’m not sure if they a special type of slippery root or I’m used to the Sarf Downs where everything is slippery so transitioning from chalk to roots doesn’t seem too make any difference, whereas on Dartmoor its grippy loam and granite to teflon root so highlights the loss of grip.

Hopefully I’ll get out tomorrow and see how the place is after a deluge.  The moor is tough on bikes, Mrs M’s bike has snapped a suspension pivot bolt.

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