the more you ride the faster you recover. Ride MOARRRRR!!!!

kilo – Member
MTB-Idle – Member
(except for the Tooting Tunnel of Death of course but that’s evenings only)
Tooting Bec south bound onwards in the evening is like some bizarre game of frogger, worst drivers and pedestrians in south London!

yup, my experience entirely and hence my comment above.

it was best described to me once as a first person ‘shoot ’em up’ as I think they call it in gaming circles i.e. you are heading down the street and everything is jumping out left, right and centre; front and behind and trying to kill you and you are scanning around the entire 360 trying to defend yourself!

Are you thinking about driving or riding?

either way the A3 is a hellish place. If you are riding then join us on the A24/Cycle Superhighway 7 instead, much nicer (except for the Tooting Tunnel of Death of course but that’s evenings only)

about 12 months for me. I am multi-biked but i do a lot of mileage so that’s plenty long enough for me.

The small round indentations on the tyre are the wear indicators and are a pretty good measure of use

EDIT: Ok, library pic and they look oval rather than round but you get what I mean

staying in a caravan in Chichester with my parents and younger brother and sister.

My mum and sister were both big Elvis fans and were inconsolable.

It was also the first time I was aware of cynicism as my best friend who was a year older than me described it as a ‘career move’.

Fantombiker – Member
I rode from Epsom to Brighton off road on Saturday, mainly on bridleways and simple singletrack
MTB -Idle….I live in Epsom and would love to do that, don’t suppose you’ve got a gpx file for that route??

Hi mate, yeah of course. It’s a great route; can you access this? saved as a ‘course’ on Garmin connect so assuming you have a Garmin device you should be able to download it.

I’m aiming to do it again before the end of Summer with a separate group of mates than those who rode on Saturday. Give me a shout at muddy fox at gmail dot you know the rest

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/16059410

I rode from Epsom to Brighton off road on Saturday, mainly on bridleways and simple singletrack but we crossed Ranmore Common (North Downs) and Leith Hill, Holmbury Hill and Pitch Hill in that order and all were very dry.

Capra AL1 2015 model here. I’m 6’2″ or 1.89m and a large fits fine.

Do it all bike for me; DH’ing in the alps last month and just rode 60 miles/100km L2B offroad on it on Saturday.

Stock bike as per new, only thing I’ve replaced are brake pads and it’s done five alpine trips during that time (three weeks for me, 2015, 2016 & 2017 and my son borrowed it in 2016 & 2017 – different weeks).

I belong to the YT FB page and a lot of people with the carbon models seem to complain about hairline cracks in the paint but that isn’t an issue with alu.

Honfleur is also a must see. Beautiful, picturesque harbour, historic town, great restaurants.

Rouen is a great city again with tons of history. The gros horloge or big clock followed by seeing the spot where those dastardly English burned Joan of Arc at the stake.

Bayeux, again a beautiful town, go and see the tapestry. It really is very impressive

Normandy is one of my favourite places in France. So much history, both modern and medieval.

you know the ‘wall’ was mainly a propaganda exercise tho. Mainly it’s gun emplacements that were connected by barbed wire and trenches backed up by batteries set back from the beach

Hmmm…let’s see. Well just drive along the coast. Arromanches is great to see the remains of the Mulberry harbour still on the beach.

Ouistreham beach has some big observation towers in the main town.

Pegasus Bridge for some quality viewing.

Various gun emplacements just back from the beach in Colleville.

Plenty of cemeteries to get a good perspective on what is important in life and what is not.

And on an entirely unrelated matter go to the harbour in Deauville/Trouville for the best choice of places to eat.

If I’m on the MTB it’s Peaslake stores as already mentioned numerous times.

If I’m on the road bike there are a few ranging from cheap to expensive; depends where I ride really although living and riding in Surrey my definition of cheap is probably different to yours.

If I’m riding with Italians it’s a coffee before we start (strong, short, black w/sugar) at least once during the ride and again at the end of the ride.

I’m literally buzzing when I get home.

do some more focused HIIT training on a turbo trainer. Much more beneficial than aimlessly trying to ‘ride a bit harder/faster/longer’ on your local trails

You don’t use Smartcards? How primative.

You can’t spell? How primitive.

I wasn’t allowed to carry my full face helmet onto my flight as hand luggage at LGW because it ‘could be used as a weapon’ (it wouldn’t fit in my hold luggage and I wasn’t carrying any other hand luggage).

So a mate emptied out his duty free into his hand luggage and I squeezed the lid into the paper thin plastic bag which was straining at the seams and was just a full face helmet with a covering of plastic bag.

Yes sir, carry on. No problem.

Carried same lid back through Alicante airport with no bag. No problem.

Strange.

This all reminds me of the Book of Dave, a superb piece of writing by Will Self

yup, my main riding buddy (and route planner, Greg) uses this all the time. it’s great e.g. https://www.plotaroute.com/route/299074

…and they even had a founder and CEO in Steve Jobs whose life mirrored his products.

A stellar performer followed by an early demise.

Is this work related?

Tell them there is a dependency on you and ask them to log it on the RAIDs log.

Hey, denial ain’t just a river in Egypt

walked up them when I was 11, 41 years ago 😥

Did it circa 15 years ago too. I wouldn’t bother.

Is it busy? Centre of Paris at the height of the holiday season? You do the math…

We flew to Rome, Fiumicino last June and used Goldcar. Cheapest deal we could find. 5 days cost us about twelve quid. No extras.

No really: we got a beaten up POS, something like the Opel equivalent of a Vauxhall Astra with dents on every panel and a clutch that was close to being totally shot but I was only using it for transport to the holiday destination and back, not a status symbol.

I prefer this version of JHJ

that’s nothing like a foot long. Looks more like 300 mill to me…

We’ve just had a fairly large extension on the rear of our house.

Concrete screed with hot water or ‘wet’ underfloor heating.

We were thinking of karndean or amtico but have decided to go with porcelain tiles in a grey wood effect for the ultimate in hard wearing.

I use these Campri base layers. ~Ok so it says thermal but they are perfect. Very similar to HH type material.

And they certainly meet the ‘budget’ criteria. I’ve got loads in all different colours.

Ok, being a Surrey dweller but working in Canary wharf i had a pretty dim view of that part of the world but I went to the velopark after work t’other night (note I slipped that in to make all t’Northern folk feel included in this discussion) and we rode from CW along Regent’s canal and then through the various parks etc to get to the velopark.

I was frankly amazed at all the really nice green spaces that abound in that area. It’s had beellions of dollars splashed on it since the games were announced as being there and it shows.

EDIT: and returning home along the canal afterwards as you head west there are loads and loads of really cool eating and drinking places along the canal. It looks a very cool part of town

If you can afford it (I have no idea of prices) then go for it.

oh and I had a socialist campervan once. It was the ‘Union’ model.

I paid over the odds, it never worked and you couldn’t fire it.

(why on earth would you use a relatively secure weatherproof structure on the side of your house as storage for something which is relatively secure and weatherproof?)

that’s a whole different thread right there…

will concentrate on our client proposition, his initial task will be to take the outline client vision to the next level and own it on behalf of our team.

Which means they don’t have a clue what to do, expect you to do the detail for them but you will get a shoeing if they don’t like it.

All large companies are the same, that’s why everyone understands Dilbert irrespective of which organisation they work for.

We are all over ‘values’ and looking at everything through a lens as in ‘we need to look at this through a customer lens’.

This is my current favourite Dilbert

cycling; it’s the new golf, innit

jambalaya – Member
MTB the best trails don’t have sign posts.

PinkBike:Samoens Enduro Day 1 Photos

PinkBike:Samoens Enduro Day 2 Photos

absolutely, no argument there. It’s just that it’s 2017. I have a short attention span. I want everything and I want it NOW!

I CBA to plan shoot like that. I just want to go and ride.

not ridden there but the various snippets above about limited lift access, closed trails, closed lifts, building work, lack of signposting etc. don’t particularly tempt me away from PdS.

sorry to hear that. I would still tell them.

I’m assuming they don’t have an alarm?

Seen it but found it quite amusing mainly as I shared it with my middle aged Italian cycling buddy who was super-excited to do Ride London yesterday.

As to the guy who did it, what a sad-ar$ed loser (or looser as I think people spell it now :wink:)

just got back last Sunday. road riding in the alps to follow Le Tour. Self-organised (well actually my riding buddy organised it but same ting).

We stayed in Oz en Oisans (station) and tackled the Col de la Croix de Fer, a 27km, HC climb plus a few others including the iconic Alpe d’Huez (yeah, I know, Le Tour didn’t go up there this year but it’s a great climb).

8/10 in that we missed a days’ riding (we had planned to ride the day we arrived but couldn’t book into the chalet until 5pm that evening for some strange reason).

Also, top tip; don’t book a chalet that’s at 1,300 metres altitude as you have to finish every day’s riding with a 45 minute climb…

mine locks to the towbar too (Thule S3 Eurowhatsamathingy).

If I’m feeling cautious I will remove the ‘arms’ i.e. the easily removable things that clamp around the top tube, and put them in the boot

saw him on Saturday night actually altho it does help that it was my brother

take my gf out to the pub with a crisp blue Lady Godiva in my pocket, have a few drinks each and still have enough change for a bag of chips on the way home