Not dissimilar to the cheapo bag from my Podsacs handlebar harness that now lives on the rack on the back of my bike. Luckily it’s blue.

Can confirm that Fly Agaric is a mushroom. And that one is a big ‘un!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria

https://www.smartfireuk.com/are-bioethanol-fires-expensive-to-run/

https://www.longdom.org/open-access-pdfs/the-pros-and-cons-of-ethanol-as-a-renewable-fuel-source.pdf

Once I have a wheel off I pop it under the wishbone/axle/somewhere similar, laying flat, if anything does slip off it’s less likely to hit the ground/me.

This. I’d been given this tip by a friend before working on our first car outside my Father in Law’s house and he was mocking me for doing it. He then managed to knock the car off the jack and the wheel stopped me being crushed.

I had inexplicable bollocks happen to me once. Working alone in our very old Mill. I was standing next to a beam saw and working out what I needed to do. It switched on. I hadn’t touched it. I couldn’t even reach the button to switch it on from where I was standing.

I guess this thread is something Kayak had to pretend he was posting when he was asked “Why are you taking photos of Stella over the road getting undressed with the curtains open?”

Yeah, I suspect some Stella involvement too…

I have some friends who live just outside there so I know enough to know that you spelled it wrong! ;0)

I have yet to go myself but it looks pretty bloody good so have a great time there. I’m sure you will.

Thanks for that. I’ve been walking on the Occupation Rd and have run around there when reccying the Bay Limestone Way.

https://www.bay-limestone-round.org.uk/route/full-route-description

Can confirm that the Old School Brewery does do decent beer. Also, if you do so happen to have had one or two (possibly more) of their brews, and you just happen to be on a bikepacking bike and needing somewhere to lay your weary head for the night then the afore mentioned bird hides aren’t locked overnight…

A good night’s kip?

Well do something about it.

Litter pick.

Collect all the Macdonalds or KFC crap from the area round their drive through and give it back to them.

Action speaks louder than words, stop complaining from the drivers seat of your range rover.

Get out and improve something.

I’m not sure if that’s aimed at me or not but I do. I litter pick in our local area. Also, I don’t have a car. let alone a Range Rover. I cycle or take the bus.

Maybe I am wrong but I think part of the problem is possibly a sense of loss of community and pride following years of politicking and finger pointing from government. People seemed to be more keen to tidy up in front of their houses and the surrounding area but it now often seems like there’s an attitude of ‘well, it’s not my job, somebody else will do it’. Its seems to be a fairly common attitude that it’s ok to just chuck things on the floor rather than find a bin or take it home. A lot of car drivers, for example, seem to think that it’s ok to just open the window and drop fag ends, empty cans and crap. ‘Why should I give a shit when politicians obviously don’t?’ It’s a downward spiral. And it’s **** depressing.

Looks good. I’d have one.

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/bike-reviews/ktm/125-duke/2017/

Ah, I think it’s the Eric Morecambe hide and the Allen hide. Thanks all!

Thanks for that. I’ll be cycling if I go. Do you know what they are called by any chance? I’m trying to find pics online y’see.

https://postimg.cc/dhPnNBn2

It’s the one marked RSPB Morecambe Bay.

Fail!

Good news on the Brewery front then!

If the RSPB site I mentioned is part of Leighton Moss it seems to be out on it’s own away from the main part in the marshes.

A few years ago I did the Parkrun in Milan when we were over to watch the final of the Giro. There was a guy there who had been paralysed in a climbing accident. He did the event in an exoskeleton. It was pretty impressive, tbh. I did beat him though… ;0)

His own daughter seems to have the measure of the man.

Elon Musk's daughter should write his official biography. pic.twitter.com/fqA543KLaJ

— HappyToast★ (@IamHappyToast) August 6, 2024

What, Elon ‘calls a man who does a dangerous cave rescue a paedophile’ Musk turns out to be a throbber? That Elon Musk?

STOP! before you say “flex stem” I do know about those innovative stems that were about in the late 80s-early 90s and if I had a £ for every time someone mentions them when reading a review or looking at a picture of a modern suspension stem I would have enough cash to buy an original one!

My wife (and the dogs) did it a few years ago with me supporting. We’d reccied it quite a bit beforehand too. It was a nice project for her. She ended up doing  the Carlisle leg before the Caldbeck leg due to bad weather but that worked well. The last leg isn’t the most scenic or exciting by any stretch. I bought her the map and a book about it (we’d already got the relevant OS maps). We had a few incidents with cows on the reccies, from memory these were roughly round the Beacon Tarn area heading for Coniston.

Long haired luncher from Liverpool

https://www.acronymfinder.com/TFPS.html

this is not a lunch song

Lunch is a many splendored thing.

Lunch removal machine

What is lunch anyway?

The power of lunch

As a kid I fired an air rifle at old wooden door. It turned out to be harder than I expected and the pellet bounced straight back at me hitting me on the cheek half an inch below my eye…

The ‘standard’ Phoxx1 is also a good deal,  still not exactly heavy and maybe a bit more robust. I got one from Go Outdoors for £50 about 18 months ago and they are not much more now. Weight is 1.5kg.

A milkshake as a finale would have been the chef’s kiss.

I think the guy in the report went to the same school as me at one point. Same name. Age is about right. Not far away either. ?

Well done @RustySpanner on getting a Guzzi for “a grand, maybe £1500” ;0)

30 years ago it would have been LC’s, narrow power bands and a box of holed pistons under the bed.

My holed LC piston is now a pencil holder on my garage workbench!

Bullshit.

I don’t drink coffee, I drink tea my dear.

@verses Loves an air show, does Nigel.

Fartage

What, even the ones out of ear shot?

I see what you did there.

The game hasn’t even started yet and there’s already been one missed shot that’s upset folk…

— Mr Sparkle (@darwendashers) July 14, 2024

Paging @muddydwarf

£375 here. Not too shabby.