Sandwich wins.

Good work guys. Any ordinary members of the public who just happened to be in the right place at the right time?

How much do you have to pay to do this for a living??

I won’t sleep a wink tonight.

Menendez Granados’s bike has 12cm (4.7 in) wheels

8O

If all religious knowledge were wiped off the face of the Earth and we had to start again, I think we’d probably construct a new set of stories to try to explain ‘difficult’ issues around creation and death. However, they would bear only passing resemblance to the current stories.

If all scientific knowledge were wiped off the face of the Earth and we had to start again, we’d come up with exactly the same set of explanations, eventually, as we have now.

Mike made this point some hours ago and I was planning to make the same point but I had to go and earn a living for a few hours.
Nobody picked up on it but I think it’s absolutely at the heart of the matter.

*substitute religious text of your choice for “the Bible” (above) before somebody goes off on one.

Professional theologians take existence for granted (or just assume that questions about existence can not be proved), and spend their time thinking about hermeneutics, exegesis, history, ethics, systematics, etc.

But always in the context of some religious base texts? I mean, what does the Bible have to say about such and such- how is this to be interpreted? If we start from the basis that the Bible is not divinely inspired then the rest is a waste of time.

Boom tish

Next thing, they’ll be putting newspaper editors in the dock just for listening to people’s phone messages. It’s political correctness gone mad.

^That is the god of the gaps.

We need giant marshmallows attached to all the buffers.

Oh, ok molgrips, but if your deity expects nothing of you, or has not revealed “His” message through divine revelation then what is “He” for?

therefore Sesame Street is evil.

Sesame Street advocated genital mutilation? Must have missed that episode.

Ultimately it’s about believing in God or not.

But if you believe in a fiction then all the “thou shall”s and “thou shalt not”s that are a required for you to measure up to this fictitious deity’s standards are also fiction. In which case they must be either delusional ramblings (highly dangerous basis for moral authority) or deliberate inventions (eg, for the purpose of giving certain people power over others).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1572150/quotes.

Hitchens sometimes gets written off as an atheist tub thumper but this quote demonstrates the depth and nuance of his thinking.

Hi Fergal, the Hamsterley Trailblazers will show you around. There’s a ride tonight at 7pm from the visitor centre.
The DH courses are DH really – not that I ever ride them. No doubt someone will be along in a minute to tell us they’re baby stuff.
If you want to ride the DH you need a permit from Descend Hamsterley’s hut.

Lily cole always reminds me of Stewie Griffin…

you can protect yourself by not riding up the side of large vehicles, or any vehicle for that matter,

“Love Cycling Go Dutch” conference at the Civic Centre.

I was at this conference and had a bit of a chat with a Dutch cycle path designer (now working in the UK) about how some cycle lanes seem designed to put people in dangerous places. The worst are at light controlled junctions with ASL’s where the cycle lane that gives riders access to the junction box go up the inside of the left hand lane – exactly where you shouldn’t be. We agreed that there should be some system of legal redress against authorities that install worse-than-nothing facilities of this kind that lead to accidents and injuries or deaths.

Attenborough sounds like there is a leak in the high pressure air line under his dentures.

R4 listeners will also recognise this in Professor Laurie Taylor.

If your oil is too light your beard will rebound too quickly.

Bring on the Turin hound

Nice frame

Well I can see what’s in it for the Chinese – its the irony of us turning to foreign state-controlled industries to do the jobs that our privatised ones say they can’t afford to – even though the whole reason for privatising them was (supposedly) to give them access to lots of investment capital on the open market.

I don’t get this – the Thatcher and Major govts told us it was essential to privatise the utilities so they could attract investment in the market place. Now, none of the privatised generators want to take on the expense of building the next generation of power stations and the Cameron govt turns to … the state-owned French and Chinese industries because, hey! They have access to lots of low cost state funding!

Ah yes, primal screaming. Ol’ JL did it and then he made it into art….

At some point when I wasn’t looking, it became law for everything in films to be accompanied by a “Foooooom!!” sound like the gates of hell slamming.

I think the moon landings were an amazing achievement. People having the vision of leaving our atmosphere and heading off to a satellite orbiting thousands of miles away. Fair dues to them.

Voyager is up there for me too.

Mapping of the genome.

Dropping implements of war and talking, whenever it happens is a great achievement. We don’t seem to learn how great it is though, as we often forget, stop talking and start fighting again.

Anyone who has freed himself from desire and learned to be happy with little possessions has achieved greatness IMO.
You forgot to mention the cat flap.

“Dunk bucket” :-) what a great insult that would make.
“That Michael Gove, he’s a complete dunk bucket.”

Binners – you and I can never be together on the cheeseboard of life.

My nachos arrived on the cafe table yesterday covered with a formless mass of orange, rubbery, tasteless goo.

I must confess that I ate the lot. I’m sorry. I realise that such behaviour does not help your cause.

Exactly. The form and texture of ear wax but without the flavour. Pernicious stuff.

It’s pink AND it’s a road bike.

It’s got yellow bar tape and cable outers now!

Kok & Tvatt!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kok-Tvatt-Through-Scandinavia-Tandem/dp/0955145414

We cycled 6,000 miles across Europe and my wife sat tucked in right behind me the whole way. We were on a tandem, though.

Get well soon!
Do watch the Vinny Jones vid that clareymorris linked to earlier. Then if this ever happens on a ride you’re on, you’ll know what to do.
Because some people knew what to do, SFB is alive. Well done.
Oh yes…and calling the ambulance is the first and best thing you can do.

Bath
Durham
Whitby
Ambleside
York
Alnwick
St David’s
Conwy
Aberdeen
Ullapool

Hallowe’en? Pah…Our local pub has its Christmas decorations up already.

For years I thought there were two car parks at Durham railway station. One had an entrance at the back of the station and the other was accessed from Milburngate, near the entrance to the DLI museum.
They are two entrances to the same car park….

Cockfosters.

If people thought like that at the DoT there’d be no need for HS2

Thinking of suggesting onesies for this year’s club fancy dress Christmas ride.