Actually I think I’m getting confused between ‘Catcher in the Rye’ and ‘Of Mice and Men’. What’s the outline of Catcher in the Rye?

Also I’ve read the Time Travellers Wife, can anyone remind me of that was about? I remember it being trashy easy reading, but not tooooo bad, but nothing to write home about.

I read it, and it didn’t do anything for my spelling……

I can’t grasp why Cathcer in the Rye is best read at a stage in a persons life. Cna anyone explian? I’m genuinely interested.

Cheers

I stripped one on Mrs Mugsys bike (XT hub). I carried out an internal risk assessment and deemd it to be ok, if not the finest piece of mechanical competence and kept quiet…

3 years later still ok.

Mrs Mugsy wasn’t enamoured at all at first, and that’s putting it very mildly, but she seems to have got used to it now.

My hand is in the air here.
I loooked into it when I turned to the darkside, concluded there was no real reason for weekend warriors to do it, other than a thing to do to be ‘in the gang’.

So I did it. When I left it over the winter, my physio asked me to shave my legs to make the sports massage easier with creams etc. WHich made a lot of sense.

I still do shave to this day, more to be ‘in the gang’ than anything. I am quite honest about this. It’s a bit sad maybe, but it’s also a tradition. So I’ve concluded why not. Each to their own.

I found a flash phone at the top of Burbage. I went through most recent call list. phoned the most recent number and within an hour it was back to the rightful owner who was happy. I got a smug sense of having done the right thing.

I know TIME and LOOK ones do.

Sorry. You’re weird.
You can’t come.

Re the high road in Austria. I’ve been up A high road in Austria, you had to pay to drive up it, the road ended in a car park, next to a glacier. We used the glacier for training crevasse rescue.

It was in the Oztal alps area.

If you end up near Cremieu, to the east of Lyon. Then give us a shout, and we’ll get you lost in the tight twisty rocky singletrack up on the limestone plateau above our house for an evening/ 1/2 day or whatever. We’ll be with you..but there’s so many little trails that we get lost!

We might even be able to put you up for a night to break your journey. Assuming you’re not weirdos who ill attack our family in the middle of the night….!

Juan, hits the nail on the head with the southern alps. Better weather than the northern alps. I’d like to explore Barcelonette area by MTB having only road bike round there. Looks like there’s a great descent form the col de onette- Restfond. Highest road col in Europe…

Also the Vercors,just next to Grenoble has got to be worth 3 days or so.

But if I’m feeling lazy I’d go about 1km from the garage door!

It’s Chamonix. It’s not called Little Britain for no reason. Of Course it’s expensive. House proces comparable to London and Paris.

N’ah we went to pppick pick up a penguin and we went to get a real one rather than a chocolate biscuit. Is that abstract enough?

SOuthern Ocean. Off South Georgia Island. Force 12. Homemade Yacht/ Skip. No liferaft to speak of. Sails in tatters. Icebergs all around.
HUGE EYES all round staring at each other..saying a thousand words without any mouths being opened.

I think this is the same company, but designed for les filty anglais:
http://www.francebikerentals.com/

I saw something in a french mag the other day. A website hiring roadbikes over France. Sounds just your thing. <stop press> after a google.fr search, it seems they are based in Bedouin! Perfect. et voila: http://www.velofrancelocations.fr/

grumm:is it not taken from near Striding Edge looking over towards Swirral Edge?

Two stroke refers to the fact that it takes 2 strokes of the piston to complete one full ‘cycle’. It has no valves but relies on ports which are effectively slots cut in the side of cylinder, which get opened and sealed off as the piston passes

A 4 stroke takes 4 strokes of the piston. Suck. Squeeze. Bang. Blow. They have valves which control the inlet of fuel and removal of fumes. The valves are opearted by the engine by a camshaft, camchain or pushrod etc etc. Most (if not all) 4 strokes are now overhead valves (OHV) but in the old days were side valves.

…sorry wnet off on one. I like little engines me!

Samuri, that’s off topic. It’s a 4 stroke!

Well you’ve got a dirty duvet now! Tsk Students!

It is now under new ownership, and I think his name is Alex, Brant.

I need to raise the seawall to 11.95mAOD so that the ballast from the railway is retained and that there is sufficient ‘freeboard’.

Go up Strath Halladale and camp wild somewhere up there. Amazing valley. Golden Eagles, Gold in the river, Jeremy Paxman…

Cock!!

Just realised it’s our aniversary too..

I think the splines have stayed the same….

See I’m neither in one camp or the other

well, hostels I guess! Or maybe a cheap serviced chalet share etc? or Gites d’etape

The only hostels I have experience of in the alps are in Chamonix, Zermatt and Saas Fee, oh and down below Val d’isere I’m afraid, as I, up to now, have only hostelled it when climbing or ski touring and not riding.

There are all types of hostels.

Not sure where/ how soon you’re thinking of, but the ski season has not yet fully finished, and lifts will be closed in most resorts for the ‘inbetween period’. However I’m sure you can sort something out!

Have fun!

Stratobiker: Where are you based?

We:Mrs Mugsy (of yesterdays Saddle Boil Fame), Mini Mugsy and myself live to the eat of Lyon in Nord Isere. Some good biking on our doorstep if anyone over that way ever: woodsy singletrack up on the plateau with steepish limestone descents off the front of the plateau.

OMG. My wife is asking an internet forum about her new ‘friend’….
Where will it all stop?

It really is quite impressive… I’ve had boils like it, but not quite as big, and it was black. And I was scared. And I’ve ran away to England for the week away from it.

I think it is on a mission to take over the world…….

ok, ok I didn’t see the latest Battyism…

Emily Batty looks like an annoying American Poodle on crack. Liz Hatch on the other hand…

Mrs Mugsy got me a great training DVD for my Bday. We have a dvd projector so it works really well. I was suprised at how motivating it is to ride wih the others on the screen who talk you through the intervals etc.

Allows you to use it with a power meter, cadence etc, as all the figures from the riders on the DVD are presented and you should try and match a %age of these. As I don’t have a power meter or even cadence sensors I was sceptical whether I’d get anyhting from it, but it also is designed to work on a percieved effrot scale, i.e you feeling that you are giving 4/10 during rests, 9/10 during the intervals, 10/10 for the balls out sections etc. I do use a HRM as well, and no my lactate threshold HR etc 8 different levels allowing you to porgress and vary the sesssions etc.

err let me go and see what it is…
right. I’m back. It’s Vision Quest Coaching, real ries presents POWER with Robbie Ventura (related to pet detective maybe?). Think it came from Wiggle.

Are you buying as house together or not? Are you a couple or not?

Seats folded up in a berlingo are about 30cm thick. At least. I took the single back seat out. And left the double seat in. Used to have the berlingo van before we got the car version due to Mini Mugsy arriving. With the van, 4 bikes in, with wheels on no problems.

One thing to note, is with the car version, if it has the modutop, ie. the windows in roof and overhead lockers, the large locker over the boot restricts headroom. But it’s a fantastic place to leave all pots and pans et in all the time. And the tailgate rocks for sheletering under.

SV650 was more than enough for me…..!!!!

Now thinking about my dad’s old TRX850, and 350LC. Damm , can’t stop thinking about motorbikes now!

Peak.

Definitely not the Peaks.

Grr.

People mentioning SV650’s remind me of the night I was relieved of mine 5 years ago. Thieving scum.

Great bike though.

Congrats PP.
Enjoy.
Like someone else said, take the time to go for a wee walk away form it all with Mrs PP.

As for printing: considered setting printer to print double sided but head to toe rather than head to head? If your printer has such a feature.

Get in touch with Sheffrec who are based near there. http://www.sheffrec-cc.org.uk

Matt,

That female estate agent…

A famous one in the Sheffield area?
A bit of a cough crappy blunder cough?

and look at mappy.com to work out the price of the peages