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Alan Bullock has two pikes, both called Chris, and Marcel Proust had an ‘addock! So if you’re calling the author of ‘A la recherche de temps perdu’ a loony, I shall have to ask you to step outside!

Modaine. Loving mine.
Thanks Mrs. Mugsy.

Captain Flasheart,are all your pets called Eric?

That’s terrible news. My condolences to you and everyone that knew him.

Don’t get the alpine club guide (it was written by d brailsford of british cycling dame’s dad). Get the new Seb Constant guide. Much much better and up to date. Weather here near Grenoble is rubbish. 10 déférés ish low cloud etc.
Much ski touring still being done at medium altitude…..

For an ezsy day hit: La Râteau from the chair lift at La Grave.

Live locally ISH. Know the mountains. Ish.

If you pay postage to from france and promise to return it. I have the mtb guide for the gtj with stage profiles, maps, places to stay etc. In french.

Happy to help with specific questions. We know it quite well from à cross country point of view. Mrs Mugsys Dad has done the gtj in 24hrs on skis. Think I responded to the thread linked above.

Dan.

Yes….but she is French…..albeit heavily anglicised by 15 years in UK…

Yes….but she is French…..albeit heavily anglicised by 15 years in UK…

Loving it singlerackmind. Will pass it all on.

Ça c’est le problème avec France. Il ny’a pas un mot pour niche….

Superb. She has about a 42km lead. All good.

Just pitted for 1/2 hour. The Pastry starting to show signs of distress. But the nearest competition is at least 3 laps of a 7km circuit behind. :D

Pastry ti…. meant Pastey Ti

Started at 2pm. We are 1 hour ahead. Disappointing lack of bling or niche. No 29 ers. No single speeds. No rohloffs, no alfines, not seen Amy steel or ti apart from her howler Pastry ti.

I’m not allowed to give blood as I have lived in the UK.

I really must stop stalking my wife via the wonderful delights of Singletrack World.

Don’t worry. Get lots of rest: I’ll be home in a week.

I’d advise you to go for a British Mountain Guide rather than a French or Italian equivalent. British Guides will place more emphasis on training you, rather than dragging you.

All the members are listed on the British Mountain Guides Website.

I could point you to several friends who are listed there. But won’t in the interests of it getting close to an advert.

Have fun.

Good Point well presented Mr.boblo. Edited.

Thing is, what you need is a high horse. That way you would see the bollard, and the horse would probably naturally steer clear of hitting it anyway. Failing that you could just sell it as glue when said horse impales itself on the bollard.

You want a high horse you say? You should find one easily enough. Plenty of them around here. :roll:

:lol:

It’s good to find out things about my wife from STW whilst I’m working overseas….

Haha recognise some of those names there Tracknicko. I used to ride with Sheffrec before moving to France. Great guys.
Dan

Hmm. Not read everything but having done some in the UK and in France where I now live: There is a huge difference between the two. In the UK people are on the whole confused: some see them as a race, some see them as an expensive audax. In France they are races if you enter the ‘chrono’, audaxes ish if you enter the ‘rando’. Not the same as bunch ‘road’ races but still races with podiums and prizes for the 1st, 2nd 3rd scratch and in Cats.

IIRC about 2 years ago there was a sportive down south which was disowned from the sportive organisation as it presneted a classification of riders: 1st, 2nd , 3rd etc rather than individuals getting a silver meadal etc. I think it was deemed that their insurance was void.

Come to France to do a sportive, expect it to be hot, and get a reward if you win. Do one in UK: expect to see all sorts of confused people.

Free rescue outside ski resort domaines in France. Not italy. Not switz (i think) . Remember you night end up in one of thèse countries unplanned in case of bas weather, epic etc which could lead to further epics needing rescue. Cham is near thèse countries..

As à french res it is wise for us to have civil ins for day to day Life. Some incluse rescue if skiing in a resort. But ours also includes all bells and whistles.

I thought it would be even funnier if dgoab beat molgrips when prégnant. Mrs mugsy dropped one of my Sheffrec club mates when 6 months gone and her on an old mtb and him on his roadbike….

My 6th day of being idave compliant today…just to jeep it slightly on topic.

Molgrips,

Are you sure your 5 miles took you about 24 minutes?
24 minutes is an ok time for a 10 mile TT.

Dirty girl said earlier she was aiming for a 10 mile TT in about that time.

Sooo. My Money is on dirty girl even if her good news is the traditional woman’s good news!

iDIET café pause

DGOAB do you know Andrew Sinclair? I met him in Norway one new year’s. He subsequently took me along on my 1st proper road ride. It was with ERC on the Ed to Glasgow charity thing and then we rode back too.

All the ERC guys and girls on that ride were great. It would have been ermmmm 2005.

Someone posted a bike and packrafting trip around the Shetland Isles. Within a year or so of now.

There was an article in the magazine about a Staff Whisky/ MTB trip to Islay if I remember right. Would have probably been at least 3 years ago.

Nice Tricky!

What bars are those? They seem a very shallow drop.

Been to SG. On a mate’s homemade skip ermm yacht from Patagonia. The 13 days to get there was ok, just. Then we spent about 6 weeks on the island climbing, then the sail back to Uruguay was on the limit of life.

It’s a fantastic place, I have friends who are reguarly on the peninsula and at Rothera. But depending what you are doing you might be massively constrained in terms of what you are allowed to do. I’m talking BAS Risk Assessments.

I loved SG as it was not all glacial and had wild beaches, tussock grass, peat bogs etc bit Scottish.

You really could never consider not going if you’ve been offered to go, and can realistically do it (unless it’s on a cruise: don’t do it)

GUNZ: what were you doing in SG?

Ambrose,

I think I know your sister and Brother in Law: Alice and Adam?

Anyway, my mate has made a really good stand to clamp the front forks.
He got some old hubs and some sheet MDF. The whole thing is cleverly attached to the car by threading through tie down straps which are then threaded through the cargo hooks in the floor of the boot (scenic)

The bikes go infacing out, rear wheel on, front off (obviously). I’m planning to get round to making one.

Let me know if interested and I will try and get some photos off him.

I don’t know what to make of this. On the one hand it saddens me to think that it has come to this when someone feels the need to ask the question.I don’t deny that thefts can/ do occur. Yet on the other side isn’t it just something that doesn’t need worrying about,we go in the great outdoors to forget daily stress.

For what it’s worth, when on a quick bike trip and when we had our berlingo van we would sleep inside and cable lock bikes to towing loop.
When we got rid of van (or on longer trip, in a campsite etc) an would be in a tent and the bikes in the car or left outside, sometimes locked, sometimes not.

I’m riding from Montelimar (home of Nougat). I’ll be doing the Corima Dromoise Provencale sportive.

Last week I spent a week riding in Var on the med near St. Tropez….

I live near Grenoble. Life is sweeeeeeet (at times).

Tried stretching? Specifically hamstring and quad stretches?

and she’s probably concerned about me having been on a Shashlik diet in southern eastern former USSR states for most of the last 5 months….

Bagley’s Bistro would be my choice. Bit eclectic* Round the back of Jarrolds, Back of the inns area. Near what I know as the BelgianMonk, but not really next to the market.

* my choice is based on growing up in in n Norfolk and having left in 1995 with only weekend parent visiting since then.

New Peugeot Expert or Citroen Despatch in Passenger carrier style rather than van style?