endura do a bottom of the range jacket for £40 quid which is more than you are suggesting paying but is suitable for general use when you get back

at the end of the day we’re probably all over-biked for what we ride and there is a huge industry telling us we need new stuff in order to ride well but a lot of it is fashion. it wouldn’t surprise me if , after everybody has bought shiny anodised flat pedals that they bring out a new type of clip-in that everyone will need all of a suddenty

I quite like the current dawgs but they are way overpriced. they do have an undestrucable feel and you see a lot of guides using them which must mean they’re reliable. i think a lot of it is fashion and marketing .

if you think its the same language try bumming a fag .or ask them if kids take their own rubbers to school . when i was working at a summercamp there i told the kids to get their costumes ready to go swimming and they all wanted to dress up as cowboys .they are very optimistic and open but after a while you start longing for a bit of irony or sarcy -ness.

camelback blowfish are good and are only forty squids in liesure lakes in sale.nice and compact and well designed and they have the advantage that you can expand them to carry more by undoing a zip for longer trips.

well done tony .it must be frustrating but at least your getting out and doing something .look forward to seeing you back on the trails

mart

their current cover of TRUE GRIT is on at the cinema and is very good indeedio

everytime i have had noises from mine it has seemed to come from all over the bike , and its always been the rear skewer so i’d check that first as its so cheap to sort out compared to the other stuff

the quinoa suggestion is a good one as its also a protein, but there are other grains like bulgar or even cous cous which you could uses

the missus

a warm gun

Is the new pump track in use ? I thought we had been asked to leave it for a while

don’t know I’m only 56.stop worrying

If you approach Cragg from the bridle way at the top of the concreteroad and enter past the bit of a hole where the burned out car used to be thats effectively the start of the new stuff or if you enter from the ding side [ past the wind farm and head towards the berms its past them .
the new stuff at lee is some jumps they’ve put in at the back of the pump tract in order to train the british cross country team .they don’t look like cross country as I recall it !!

it would go in the back of my motor n I live in rammy , when were you thinking of

I’d have thought kids would love running along the walls but I was laways a skinflint with mine som maybe I was looking at free/kinderfriendly delights

start off with a walk around the walls so you get to see where everything is and then wander along the shambles -other people have mentioned the attractions but there are so many lovey old buildings to look and , or the river to walk along that theres a lot for free before you start going in museums etc

just get it bloody well eaten, oh you have .

Worst – how about the maggot farm on moor bottom road, you may get a waft of that tommorrow on your ride.sorry can’t make it by the way I’ll be away in derbyshire.

best – fresh bread .

is this an april fuel joke ?

the good thing is that you can talk about the services you feel that the community needs-you can have anything you want as long as it is made of purple paper.

I use ” seedstacked ” chewybars , used to get them online but they’re selling them off cheap [ 50p ] in asda ,small bars but lots of seedy goodness.

Bonrtager do one of their body geometry saddles in white for £50 , they come in different widths and you can return them if your arse doesn’t get on with them.

Flying ox , where do you get those from ? they look fun.

What’s the p stand for Tim ? pernickerty ? , pedantic ? ………..

where is it mr lowe ?

I’d go fro tevas every time but if you buy some lok around for a good ppricve.I paid £ 80 for a pair and then saw them in winfileds for £ 30 a week later.

JIMMY CLIFF
SUGAR MYNOTT
GREGORY ISAACS

they’re notorious for creaking if the rear qr is even slightly loose

bagpuss if you want company on those night rides we are out most wednesdays at around half six so you’d be welcome. we’ve said the same to binners .

When I had this problem I went to a saddle shop [ horse riding ] and they did it ofr a fiver .

yes its a weekly event barring famine or flood , so maybe see you next week

mart

hya , we ride around rammy most wednesday evenings if you fancy it , ussually set off from coach and horses in edenfield at half six, but I ride up from rammy if you want to join me

went to see the decemberists [ and backing band blind pilot ] awesome gig

look on amazon , they do a trimmer called the groom mate platinum X1 , its £14 but worth it and guarenteed alifetime, no batteries you just twizzle it on the offending outgrowth

arse crunchingly awful as all the songs mentioned are, nothing can match the eyeball squelching awfulness of any cover version perpetrated by the abysmal william shatner .he has shatnered on many a worthy tune including ” common people ” by pulp and indeed he sould be pulped for inflicting himself on the world

does your social worker know you’re out ?

you’re ugly and your mother dresses you funny – car sticker in new york

It didn’t look in any way scripted + he looked very clean

when I was first into biking and like everybody else obsessed with losing weight I went to my local lbs , run by a miserable fecker. I asked him how could I trim a few pounds without costing a fortunate- he said have a good shit and a haircut.