Toptastic.

Now get up into those hills and celebrate!

Park tools website has a good article on doing handlebar tape.

alexx,

Are you a profession libéral? Or ‘unofficial’ in terms of paying French cotisations?

I work for UK clients from here near Grenoble, but am fully within the french system. Was a worrying few months when I was under the radar esp as we have a family here.

Yep. Well you know that already anyway!

Used to live for it. Did 2 trips to the Lemon Mountains in Greenland doing new peaks upto around D+ in 1999 and 2000 then got very much into the Scotland scene.Used to do a summer alpine trip. Mrs Mugsys 1st winter route was Tower Ridge in perfect conditions. Went on a trying to climb mountains trip to South Georgia in 2005 Then got into ski mountaineering a bit.

Now we live in France I do very little, depsite being 2 and a bit hours from Chamonix, and about the same from Ailefroide with smaller peaks from about an hour by car. Do mostly ski mountaineering in day hits form home, not really by choice, but that’s what works best with the family.

Alps have been here for a long time, they’ll last a bit longer yet.

+1 as alfa bus and Blazin-Saddles.

We did a 1 week tour from Perros Guirec to Aberwrach along the N coast of Brittany. We=Mrs Mugsy, Mini Mugsy (3 1/2yo),Micro Mugsy (1y2months) and myself.

Due to our stunning planning and suspected slyness from the side of Mrs Mugsy, she could not carry panniers as we could not get a front rack in time and she could not carry rear panniers due to the childseat. Sooooo that left me with rear panniers and termarests on the bike and towing the cougar chariot with (not so) mini mugsy, a 35l dry bag, the tent, bucket and spade.

This was camping. I leapfrogged the car ever 3 days or so, so we could do an A to B rather than a loop.

use weldmesh baskets rather than the twisted ‘chicken wire’ ones. They are architecurally nicer and don’t bulge etc as they are more rigid. Use dressed stone for the fronts, tilt them back slightly etc etc.

We use the twisted style lots on railway embankments/cuttings etc and also for roads etc. But they are designed properly as a geotechnical retaining wall design rather than just Bill Bish Bash Bosh Bloggs Landscping.

RING A DING DING RING A DING DING RING A DING RING RING RING RING DING.
Thanks for raisng this. I will listen to it on the iplayer, will be a bit atmospheric as I’m in former USSR at present, not quite gmbh but similar.

I love MZ’s. Got a ETZ251 from 95 ish tucked up in my parents garage. Must get it out sometime.

I can confirm that the BBC iplayer works for RADIO in France, Azerbaijan, Georgia (ex USSR one, not the state in USA) and Mauritania.

The TV does not officially work but there are ways around this that I looked into but never used.

Dan

Mrs Mugsy got me a similar Mondaine as Capt John above, mine does not have the day on it though, but still has the date.

Very happy with it. Nice and simple and suits my skinny wrists.

Salut Juan.

N’inquet pas mon ami.
La merde comme ca est toujours pour un bon raison dans la chemin de ta vie.Utilise le chance, et utilise le force!

Bon chance.

Dan

weloome to what it’s like in France.
Mrs Mugsy needed a med cert to do yoga classes…and pre natal swimming classes.

However I do think the med certs are worded such as ‘No obvious reason why Mugsys_M8 should not participate’ rather than stating ‘Mugsys_m8 will not drop down and die’

Our gp in france (oldish female) seems particuarly sadistic when it comes to my annual medical for bike racing licence, she gets me to do all sorts of exercises to get me out of breath…

mmmmmmm Comté direct de la fromagerie………

Of course there is the MTB version of the GTJ…….. :D

GTJ

To les rousses ski station, along to Lajoux, Mijoux, Lelex etc.

Think about doing sections of the road bike version of the GTJ. Look at the GTJ association website here:

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Great area, I know it better in winter for ski de fond. Coldest area of France.

Across in the Bugey, i.e. south of the main bulk of the Jura, south of Bellegarde, there is Grand Colombier which is fearsomely steep. More so than the classic alpine cols.

Seems fair to pay for what you use really……..

hope hoops. DT rims on Hope Pro III.
semi factory/ semi custom

We could (re)start a debate on whether it’s a good idea to take your baby/toddler on a ski trip…. I remember an epic thread along those lines a fair while ago.

Tbilisi, Baku and to a lesser extent Istanbul have all been Baltic (well not literally)in the last 5 days.

3 pages and no one has noted that the newspaper article states that the mother siad she had her helmet on because it was an automatic action for her, but with all the coverage etc says she regrets having a helmet on in the photo.

I don’t think I would do it, depsite being a climber with an acceptance and well informed knowledge of the minimal risks in top roping situations. But that doesn’t mean she souldn’t have done it.

Who are we to judge? There’s been threads on here asking about cycling with backpacks before the baby is big enough to go in a child seat. I can’t see a helmet being effective with a baby being strapped into a backpack due to space andangle of neck issues.

+1 for copper pipe

It’s like a cat amongst the pigeons…

I bet they call them (at least the ‘cool’ people) “Twenty Niners”

105 LH shifter controlling front derailleur any chance?

LH 105 units were/ are renowned for it

danj DOT heywood AT gmail DOT com

Thanks

+1 please Mudshark….! :lol:

I always thought these looked good:

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Seem to be about £50-60….HOW MUCH?

Sure something similar could be constructed….aren’t you a chippie?

Clean my tools after use and look after them.

You need me!

What has she got stuffed up the bottom of her t shirt?
Is is a top secret cotic bmx frame in duraliminum or something?

Seriously though she’s got something up there right?

This wine’s rather nice..

i’d go for somewhere between 1 and 2. As someone who rents a house in Sheffield due to circumstances (We moved to France and couldn’t sell in time).

Maybe ask them if there is anything they would like doing to the flat with a relatively low cost to you. New front door? New Shower? something like that, for a moderate increase in rent that would cover the cost of the above, plus increase in cost that you are covering at present.

Then when new people move in consider a higher rent increase.

Ranolien campsite websiteEurocamp Ranolien

Stayed at Ranolien 2 years running, near Perros Guirec in Brittany via Haven and Keycamp when I was younger with my parents. Must’ve been around 1992 and 1993.

Mrs Mugsy, Micro and Mini Mugsy and I styed there for about 4 nghts this August as well on our cycle tour trips and cylce day of N Brittany. (Perros Guirec to Aber’Wrach with bits of car, and bits of car relaying).

Much to recommend the Pink Granite Coast near Perros Guirec. The camp site is pretty fantastic too.

Also, not of consideration at present for you. But I specifically buy harnesses with leg loop buckles that can allow the leg loops to be undone completely whilst remaining tied in. Useful for a no.2 when on some face somewhere or other.

Abbeydale’s Moonshine

Kelham Island’s Pale Rider

Bradfield’s Blonde

All Sheffield ‘centric.

Cyclefit do them.

Sounds like an xxx episode of the Britas Empire….

Sounds like a lot. But maybe the cost of living has gone up a lot and I have rose tinted specs on…

My parents, funded me pretty much unquestioningly through uni 1995-1999. I was lucky. In the first year I think I got a bit of a grant from my LEA ( it was the era of the end of grants and the start of loans. Student fees were unknown though…)

My rent would be paid, and I had a further £400 (rising to £500 in my later years) per term (i.e late Sept to Christmas, Jan to Easter, Easter to June). This was to cover food, books, anything and everything really.
I didn’t feel or have the need to work, and managed to fund climbing trips and climbing gear from that. I ran a car, but apart from the initial purpose my Dad funded its running costs, and I guess I must have been given Petrol money to blackmail me to go home!

I got a loan in my last year to fund a 6 week climbing trip to an unclimbed area in Greenland…. Seemed a reasonable reason to wrack up some debt. But my Parents didn’t. That’s when I decided we were different and I decided it was time to really stand on my own feet and make decisions for me.

I would work for most, well ok at least 1/2 of the summers.

Hmmm £400 seemed like a lot at the time and I felt very lucky….but it doesn’tseem like a lot now…… gee I’m getting old!!!

Forget your shouty shouty “look at me, look at me” explorer types like Scott* and Sir Ranulph Fiennes* and bring me Shackleton.

Shackleton was the MAN.

PS: TazzyMTB: Not sure Mr. Crowley was a great rep for Britain….as mad as a box of frogs maybe….

*Other opinions may exist. This is my opinion only.

WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP :lol: