shout at my wife not to pick up the phone cos I was on the internet.

I am lucky enough to have underground secure parking.

I hang my wet (winter) or sweaty (summer) kit over my bike that I park next to the massive fans/vents that circulate fresh air into the car park.

It’s like being in a cold air tumble dryer all day. They are bone dry come the evening.

your alternative option is to have two sets of kit, one in the morning and then a fresh set in the evening.

Huawei P9 lite from Carphone Warehouse does it for me. sure beats the iphone 4S i had before.

Great to see so many locals. I’m up for a ride although as I work in Canary Wharf I may struggle with meeting times.

it certainly is possible to peak at a specific time.

Even at my level I am aware of peaks and troughs in my riding ability and can take action to either get out of a trough or maintain a peak.

With the level of assistance available to the pro’s you just go into the tour slightly undercooked as mentioned above i.e. coming out of the trough and on the way up instead of being at your peak at the start of the tour and trying to maintain it for three weeks.

I’ve ridden Morzine/Les Gets/the PDS area, Les Arcs & Beaufort/Albertville/Destination X and enjoyed them all.

A good riding buddy has just come back from Valberg and the Maritime Alps. I only have his report and pictures to go on but it looks ace although a little more searching out of trails is required.

I live in Ewell which is half way between Cheam and Epsom and have ridden with Zippykona many times.

Track 40 on Belmont/Banstead Downs is my recommendation for a quick spin. Avoid it if it’s too damp tho, chalk based and sketchy as **** or claggy.

Other than that then it’s Epsom Downs and over to Ashtead and Box hill

I was crazy about it for circa 20 years, went out every weekend come rain or shine, thought about it, wrote about it, built the website, created content, bought the bikes, had the holidays, spent all my money.

Then I just got bored, I dunno, same old same old routes in the Surrey Hills, same old routine etc. Stopped about two years ago.

So I started road riding and have just as big a buzz about it and now do all the things I listed up there but related to road riding instead.

I still have my DH week in Morzine at the start of July but I only rode my MTB three times this year by way of practicing for the trip.

I also now have a road trip to follow Le Tour so winner winner chicken dinner for me (two alpine holidays every year with different disciplines).

yeah great vid mate, c’mon, dig, DIG!

Great riding too. It’s a race/qualifying; your trail etiquette was fine even with the adrenaline flowing.

Good work, did something similar about 18 months ago but not on a fixie!

Does anyone bother with headlamp (what a quaint word) converters anymore?

I either go ghetto with some duck tape on the lenses or as most modern cars allow you to change the angle of the beam just point them a bit lower than usual

tomhoward – Member
It’s not an automated out of office is it? Just a note to her team explaining why she’s off?

Correct, which begs the question who is the dirty grass who forwarded it to the CEO hoping to get her into trouble?

It seems to have been sorted for the moment but System of a Down for the win

Top of Mossettes, loop round, hang a left, past the lake and a remote mountain hut, and follow the way back down in to the Lindarets valley is one of my favourites. Not massively technical (I did it on hardtail).

That is the route we took on my link above

I have loads (of Strava files) but I tend to follow the standard routes, I don’t go off-piste much apart from travelling from bike park to bike park so not really that much point in sharing.

Heading over into Swizzerland and doing something around GR8 is good fun though

I did appreiate this whole thread was humorous and hopefully my replies have been in similar vein.

Looks like you are free to carry on speeding on French plates[/url] though

However, a quirk of the European law will create a “one-way” system in which Europeans caught speeding in the UK cannot be pursued by British police.

Don’t forget the Sh!t’Air certificate for your smoky diesel

chakaping – Member

…snip… people will still be joking about “taking the Joe Cocker line”.

I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news…

we drive on the right side of the road over here

wear a cap beneath it and clean that separately, much easier

Sonor – Member
Everyone I used to ride with on the Surrey Hills now rides a road bike, me included.
Not everyone you used to ride with has “gone soft” Muddy. 😉

Last time I saw you on your MTB you were riding the Tamsin trail in Richmond Park, now that’s what I call soft! 😉 😉

cheers PP

There are three screws, one at the back as described and two on the BB mount as per the pic above. All three screws are secure.

It’s the float or play at the BB area that has no obvious way of being reduced that I’m struggling with.

Maybe it had a spacer or a washer that was on there and has broken is what I’m thinking

Everyone I used to ride with on the Surrey Hills now rides a road bike, me included.

🙂 😉

I’m 6’2″ and ride a large (Canyon Ultimate). It’s perfect.

Have you completed all the measurements on the site and then entered them into the PPS tool[/url]? They are quite comprehensive.

Medium sounds about right for a short ar$e.

as per above, don’t skimp and just get snowcard or my personal favourite Dogtag and extreme level cover.

You really don’t want to be quibbling about whether the circa £15k it will cost for a chopper to airlift you back to the hospital is covered by your policy if you are lying at the side of a trail halfway down a mountain.

Aren’t we all missing the irony here?

Bloke buys new build on what was previously open green space and now complains that his view isn’t open green space?

It’s just another French tax innit and a way of extracting funds from foreign drivers (see all the previous things you were supposed to carry with you like breath test kits, warning triangles, spare bulbs, fluoro jackets etc. the list is endless).

But hey, it’s cheap and if it means you are less likely to get stopped by ‘les rozzeurs’ (pronounced in an ‘allo ‘allo stylie) then it’s gotta be worth it.

we got the bus (coach) from the airport to Sorrento and as we were heading south all the scooters were coming back from a day at the beach and heading north.

They were flying along on the wrong side of the road and then ducking in as the coach approached and as mentioned above finding space you wouldn’t believe existed.

Until one of them was a bit slow, there was a bang and a grinding sound and all the Brits on board went ‘WHOA!’.

I was sitting near the front and the driver without even lifting his foot off the pedal gave a casual glance in his side view mirror, the Italian equivalent of a Gallic shrug and carried on to our destination.

I did Vesuvius and Pompeii and both were spectacular but Herculaneum is supposedly better. I don’t know, I didn’t go, i was happy with the former.

Sorrento and the old town restaurants and sunken side streets are beautiful and very reasonable.

Italian drivers are an experience not to be missed. My best piece of driving/riding was a guy going around a hairpin bend on a scooter in shorts and flip flops being overtaken by another guy on a scooter on the same haripin bend in shorts and flip flops with his girlfriend on the back and BOTH of them being overtaken on the same hairpin bend by a bloke on a scooter in shorts and flip flops and texting at the same time.

None of them wore helmets.

It’s very hilly around there.

If the big pointy thing starts to blow then start running/swimming

porter_jamie – Member
linky no worky

it worky for me

although it is usually seen as full on DH nirvana Morzine has plenty for all the family to do as well as an awesome lift system and plenty of green trails or off-piste to tackle as well as numerous road climbs.

It’s quite a strange place in that as well as loads of mainly British DH riders you have young couples, young families, old couples, hikers and bikers etc all holidaying in perfect harmony. Never seen any trouble as everyone gets their adrenaline rush on the trails during the day.

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/law-change-for-uk-drivers-in-french-cities/

I don’t know but I’ve got mine. Leaving Friday evening…

#feelingsmug

I would definitely go and see a Doctor if I were you.

I went to see mine and he told me I had an enlarged liver. I said that’s great cos I drink fricken loads.

Put my mind right at rest.

yeah he went from being reviled as a politician to loved as a media presenter.

Why would he choose to go back into politics?

Deefer

EDIT: I was gonna say oh no, don’t get a lab; so many of their owners seem to go blind but then thought better of it…

I’ve driven there many years and used cash. The rate on card transactions isn’t very competitive.

However last year I used the SANEF tag. It’s soooooo easy, you just sail through the barriers waving at all the mugs digging around for change and beat all the queues.

In fact the only time there is a queue for the tag lane is when a dozy Brit has driven into that lane by mistake and is struggling to reverse out of it while all the tag users are honking at them.

Pay by DDR a month or so later.

You only pay the tag rental for the month you use the tag.

you end up ‘gaming’ the barriers and seeing how fast you can go and how close you can get before they open…