The Flaky Cornflake

. Anyone tried the Jagdbitter “herbal liquer”?

My wife declares it better than Jaegermeister

I was walking past a flash BMW with darkened windows in that London once when the passenger window rolled down and a drinks carton flew out. It was back in again before he could get the window up.

A lady acquaintance once followed a dog owner who’d left his dog eggs on a footpath near her home. When he got to his car she mashed the whole contents of the bag into the air vents on the bonnet. Superb.

I knew that would happen, Jamie, yet I still clicked. What’s wrong with me?

Pan Haggerty from the Knitsley Farm Shop http://www.knitsleyfarmshop.co.uk/shop-deli.html

May I add Cyclo workshop tools to this list? Among a long list of shiteness, I have found:

Bottom bracket facing tool guide with a hole too small to get the shaft of the cutting tool through.
Headset facing/reaming tool with a set of guides too big so you can’t get them into the head tube until after you have reamed it – but you can’t ream it without getting the guide in!
Crown race facer too small so after cutting the crown race was a slack fit
Sloppy bushings on a rear mech hanger straightener and a plastic sliding holder for the ruler that cracked and broke after a handful of uses
Headset press with plates so large that they pressed a dent into the underside of the down tube on a steep-angled steel frame bike.
How I hate them.

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He seemed to stand in the way of anything that hinted at reconciliation and unity. However, he mellowed in his old age, and it may be true to say that without his uncompromising stance the disarmament of the IRA might not have come about.

He just put a match to it and…woof!

Your GPS is not lost. it knows exactly where it is.

Depends whether you need it truing vertically as well as laterally.

Boardman FS Pro is only £1600 and Halfords regularly have 10% off promos.

I kid you not, Muc Off is actually very good at dissolving dog doo.

Local theatre’s listings programme arrived yesterday, with Aladdin on the cover.
Oh no it isn’t!

I hope he doesn’t end up in prison has this would have the annoying side effect of proving that he was right about there being a god.

A spare folding tyre. 3 inner tubes. A couple of spokes. I can’t see the point of taking a spare chain as a couple of quick links and a chain tool should fix most problems.Spare cables are good but you have to have something to cut them with. Water and more water. Sunblock.

Heading up that way ourselves on Sunday, staying at Ard Daraich. I’m taking the road bike though, as I have been banned from solo mtb wilderness rides after a nasty though fortunately not too serious mishap in Wales at easter. Never mind, bery handy for Glencoe, Mull, Ardnamurchan etc.
Not that this is of any help to you.

I’m ashamed to say I bought a T-shirt which had the slogan, “Too many Christians, Not enough lions”. While the sentiment was a good one, I never could wear it in public.

Around about the mid 80s getting wealthier as a nation stopped making us measurably happier.

around about the time the unions lost the power to force these changes on a reluctant political system and we were all told society doesn’t exist, by weird coincidence.
Back in the 18th and 19th century we came within a gnat’s chuff of going down the French route and forcing the Haves to hand it over to the Have Nots. We’d better be sure we are ready for something similar to happen on a global scale, sooner or later.

The polar bear-proof paper clip.it still needs perfecting.

Starting and stopping are the key:
Starting – captain climbs on the bike and stands with feet splayed wide.
Stoker gets on and sits in the saddle.
Stoker sets up the pedals at the “ten past” position.
Captain puts starting foot on top pedal, counts 3-2-1 push! and away you go.

Stopping:
Stop pedalling.
As the captain brings bike to a halt, he stands on the pedals with the RH pedal at the 6 o clock position. When the bike stops, he steps off with the left foot to keep the bike upright.

The stoker does nothing except pedal or sit there like a piece of luggage as required. Do not steer. Do not try to brake. Do not waste time seeking a sound proof shelter.

Communication is good, especially about gear changes. The stoker needs to know, especially when moving up to the big ring. Ease off the power. This avoids broken chain misery.

Tandems are great when moving along but top-heavy when stationary.

Ooh, Rusty Spanner – are they still around? Great band. I once did the disco for one of their gigs!
Also, +1 for Richard Thompson. at least 3 of my top 10 gigs featured him.
Christy Moore
World Party

How do I find out which council a property falls under?

County Council if you have one, other unitary authority or National Park Authority if not.
Just report it to your council, they’ll tell you if it’s not one of theirs.

grahams: not one of the cyclists in that video jumped a red light. Absolutely shocking.

Black absorbs light particles, making them slower.

White reflects light particles. Since during forward motion there must be more light particles reflecting off the front than the back of the fork (like running through raindrops) this must amount to a net backward force on the fork, slowing it down.

How patriotic is it to festoon your Japanese car with Chinese-made flags?

Jam and more jam.
Send me a jar.

The landowning classes are instinctively conservative and assume the worst of any attempt to extend access. Those of us who remember the discussions surrounding CROW Act will know that organisations such as the CLA arguing the collapse of civilisation would follow the introduction of a right to roam. Some of their predictions included:
Widespread environmental damage
A rural crimewave as ne’erdowells used their right to be in the countryside to scope out potential targets for theft and burglary.
People camping in country dwellers’ gardens.
When the maps were being drawn up there was an expensive, extended consultation process with landowners challenging every application. In some cases, landowners ploughed up moorland because they had heard that cultivated land would be excluded. Yes, this really happened.
As thecaptain says, you never see anyone out there. I was riding today over the moors above Weardale, all open access, and saw nobody except on the Waskerley Way, the old railway line which forms part of the C2C. The impact of allowing cycle access to all upland paths and tracks would be similarly negligible.

..or even a nuclear bomb test? :-)

takes minutes with the right tool which they should have.

…and which costs a few hundred pounds, don’t forget.

You’ll understand when you get older.

Hoy da, Rutterkin.

Hello. Have you heard the good news about Jesus?

Who needs ’em?
(…and why we’re going backwards in the world’s economies)

I ploughed my Vauxhall Cavelier GSI into a stag at around 60mph at Rhydymain near dolgellau in the ealy 90s.
It was stood in the road on a blind corner.

Good job it wasn’t a child’s face.

somebody – CTC for example – needs to bring a test case against a highway authority to show negligence in design of cycle lanes.

I like Fergus Fleming. True but incredible adventures. My faves are Barrow’s Boys and 90 Degrees North. Also Killing Dragons- the Conquest of the Alps.

We had a depressingly large collection of fascists and Little Englanders to vote for on our Euro election list – Tories, BNP, Ukip, the lot. BNP had this specimen standing 8O
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=DOROTHY+BROOKE+(BNP)&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=xUp_U7PVFafX0QXa_oGAAQ&ved=0CC0QsAQ&biw=1366&bih=643

“The road to Heaven may not be a road at all…”
That was on a T-shirt I bought in Breckenridge some years ago.

+1 for Louisiana (apart from the cafe).
The Changing of the Guard is quite funny, but don’t try and watch the whole thing.
Eat at Riz Raz, try to get there early for the all you can eat buffet.(It’s 6 years since we were there, mind)
Visit Helsingor, up the coast. Nice town and Hamlet’s castle is there.