These are all really great things to be proud of people. Funny isn’t it how the normal grind gets you down, but when you stop and think, you can say ” I did that” or “I contributed to that”.

Slaps to backs and high fives all round.

uh-oh….hope I haven’t killed the thread…

Isn’t the aluminum frame of the 2ndary glazing a complete frame held in by not that many screws?

The glazed units of the 2ndary units can usaully be lifted straight out, wothout having to undo anything, by lifting them up and then tilting out, leaving you just the aluminum frame to remove.

* or so screw certainly easier than chisselinng the sash window unit, and certainly easier than filing/ hacksawing the 2ndary unit frame…

Fantastic!

Great to know you enjoyed life on the 14th. The 14th being my birthday,not celebrated as I’m working away in Azerbaijan, away from my wife/ fun partner and the kids, the 14th also being the date of celebration of the life of a climbing friend of mine who died after taking a fall in Colorado in Dec.Not that close a friend really though, but still very sad.

But enough of such nonsense. How good is the outdoors, how good is it sharing it with someone special, and how good is Scotland (mind you Scotland can bea nightmare too, but that’s what makes it so special.)

If you’ve got the access….

JCB with a concrete pecker?

What’s JCB hire? 8 hour minimum for £150? plus pecker? lot cheaper than diamond drilling crew and having to pay for all the bit wear….

Don’t think you’ll end up with a very neat hole whatever you do.

You could pour sulphate on it and wait a wee while for the concrete to be attacked by the aggressivity….

Watch out for the Ribble winter frame geometry/ sizing issues. i.e. they size up a bit strangely.

Been done recently. But Bob Heath

Alpkit Gamma always seems to get good words when mentioned.

Personally I can’t stand Buffs. After some attempts at trying to be one of them I’ve decided Adventure Racers are Buff Wearing Buffon’s. However Mrs Mugsy has several and still does the odd adventure race and it doesn’t cause us any issues.

Since when has John Steinbeck been English literature?

Choptastic.

Well done that Man!

TJ +1

Great Stuff.

Feels great eh!

I’m in Baku having seen Mrs Mugsy put the kids to bed near Grenoble. Ain’t t’internet great?!

and my spelling is shocking! Sorry.

Slight hijack. Has anyone experience of the Cambridge NP30? and how does that compare to the likes of squeezebox? I’m keen for smething that plugs into an amp/ receiver and speakers rather than something standalone.

Don’t have a telly so cannot use that as an interface, although do have a simple projector with built in dvd player and optical out, and a separtes style cd player which is the reason for wanting to keep an amp/ receiver based system. i.e audio system with a wee bit of audio.

Hearing about Bacton Woods on an MTB forum is bizarre for me. I gerw up in North Walsham, about 3 miles away and always used to play in Bacton Woods, wide games, den building etc.

Good to see it’s being used for biking.

Is the hollow tree by the car park still there? We used to climb inside it.

Fantastic.

Big up to the Bullhearts.

Welcome Seren!

Mugsys_M8, Mrs Mugsy, Mini Mugsy and Micro Mugsy!

Stoner brings up a good point: Using heat from the stove pipe as a heat source. IMO this is a huge inefficiency of older uk housing stock using stoves as a lot of the heat is soaked up by a brick built chimney at the edge of a house which radiates very little heat into the house.

In France most stoves will have an exposed stove pipe which gives out a considerable amount of heat as it passes through the house. Ours is boxed in slightly but it rises through the centre of the open plan part of the house. The section downstairs immediatley above the stove is a huge box but it has the pipe runinng inside it, and there are vents in the box to set up convection currents which work REALLY well

jours fériés 2012

No.

And boxing day is not a public holiday. And even if the 25th Dec falls on a Sunday, the Monday is still not a public holiday!

Not much these days as far as I am aware.

Patrick Berhault fell off, I think the ridge between the Taschhorn and the Dom in 2004 as part of trying to do all 4000m’s in one trip.

There is the Mischabeljoch bivouac.

Although the individual routes on these peaks aren’t hard, they are very remote and a long enchainment adds sufficiently to that.

Done several trips around there.

One of the best was the NE face of the Lenspitze and then the traverse over to the Nadelhorn.

Also done 2 trips around there ski mountaineering based from the Brittania and Tasch Huts.

First comments sounds like the freewheel on the rear hub is slipping.
Hwever the fact that you can wobble cranks sounds more related to your bottom bracket.

Sounds like you’re having an adventure. Enjoy!!!

Old photos but shows our very efficient central stove with central chimmney going up through the mezzanine. The stove is not the prettiest thing, 3 sides are glass and the boxed in chimney immediately above the stove have vents to set up some really efficient convection currents.

Warms the house up a treat, esp upstairs which becomes sauna like.

check out my former colleagues music: mooger

Ha ha Kimbers, at some point you’ll regret* he’s talking.

*in the nicest possible way!

this room is very dusty! SO much so that one might describe my eyes as sopping wet!

Nacho: I imagibe to was happy but scared at the same time?

Bikes rock people. Do not lose your focus on this issue!

Is it possible to wear out an online video?

I can’t stop watching it! :lol:

I’m sure he’s on his way to getting a trackstand wired at 22s!

Baldysquirt: Great news. You’ll both love it. Hope all good and business is good.

jhw:I am sad that I was not there. I am happy that my son is enjoying being on a bike.

Yossarian: Absolutely. That is a very good point I had not realised.

BIKES ROCK!!!

Mini Mugsy ROCKS

Sailed across the Southern Ocean form Patagonia to South Georgia and onto Uruguay.

Betwen SG and Uruguay we encountered a storm that recorded the lowest ever pressure on South Georgia. That is an island that sees low pressure!

Full on force 12 in a homemade 46′ steel yacht/ skip. All sails blown out. No toilet. No functioning HF radio. Lifeboat didn’t look like I’d like to risk it. I know what it is to look at good friends and know we are up against it and thuis could be it.

Would I do it again? You bet.

Micro mugsy is called Pia.

We love it. Obviously, as we chose to name her it!

I don’t get Loddrik, Stanfree OR Kevevs’s jokes. :oops:

GS125 or GN125 Matt?

If so they’re usually in similar condition to CG’s. CG125 fully enclosed chain is handy though.

Suzuki’s can suffer from cycle parts and paint being not as good quality as honda etc and more obviously built to a price. However as TJ correctly states, Honda switched CG prodution to Brazil. The GS has been built for a long time. The GN is a slightly newer model.

The GN is potentially smaller with lower saddle height etc. That is certainly the case with the GN250 which is a bit tiddly.

Out of the gloom a voice said unto me
Smile and be happy things could be worse
So I smiled and was happy and behold
Things did get worse.

Sounds a bit of a nightmare at work. But sounds like you are being positive, realistic and proactive. What more can you do!

I’m trying to stay upbeat myself as I am stuck in a strange land, exposed to expats with a lack of cultural awareness and away from my family.

Some days are better than others, and sometime we just have to go through the motions.

Hope things get better. Got anything to look forward to?

Calais- Reims- Dijon is the way we have always done it.

When we lived in UK we always took 8 hours excluding lunch and other long stops from Calais to Lyon.

Not done it in the last 3 years as we live near Grenoble now.

Thanks for finding that. I got thinking about it the other day, having seen it before.

<breaking the chain>

Incorrect I do know Mugsy. But maybe I don’t know everything about him.

<Trying in desperation to fix the chain with a chain tool made of cheese and realising it’s a Shimano chain>

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