When we were in Norway we saw a lot of bikes of the Haddock brand
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Pre-arranged
Pre-planned
and (God help us) pre-prepared.

What’s wrong with arranged, planned, prepared?

Oh, if we’re doing unfortunate product names now, there’s always this wheelchair.

8O

You said “flaps”. Snukk snukk!

Some proper pedantic bell end’s of the highest order

That’s “bell ends”. No apostrophe.

it’s not exactly war and peace is it?

As Snoopy once said, “I’ve had the war, now I need the peace!”
On the subject of reviews, have you had much joy in getting mags, papers etc to review? I sent loads of copies out but zero response AFAIK. Even the CTC mag didn’t bother, despite repeated prompts. I would have thought K&T would have been right up their street.
Sorry, this is sounding like pathetic bleating now.

I just “liked” you on Facebook btw. Not sure what this achieves!?

Cheapskate pricing seems to help

Interesting. I started off at 99p to get things started but putting up the price didn’t seem to harm numbers – plus of course you get to keep more of the royalty! Any advertising outside this hub of good taste?

Ps. Remember I gave you a nice review

This will not be forgotten, when I can grab the Kindle back off the missus!
650pm? Wow! How’s it done?

Kok and Tvatt is ace I thoroughly recommend it

Thanks! Some kind soul wrote a review this week saying it was the “best cycle touring book ever”. Who am I to argue? :D
Kok & Tvatt

Very best of luck with your own volume. It deserves to do well.
Out of interest, what’s an average month’s sales looking like?

People who are talkers and not listeners. I know one of those..

‘So how was your weekend’

(Me) fine thank you… you?

Then flows an hour by hour description……….
You’ve met my mother, then. :?

Ignore it.ditto all subsequent threats from debt collectors and they will go away.

The trails around Blanchland Common were in pretty good shape 2 weeks ago – should be even better now. I hope the good weather holds because we’re due to ride from Alwinton and Rothbury.
Mmmm…

RichPenny – well, likewise which is why I was surprised they didn’t show any interest this time.

Could be a too-short chain?

@ binners That’s uncanny. Have we met?

Kinda tempted to pay them a visit myself. I’d be interested to see what kind of person drives 15 miles to dump a load of plastic toys.

Think of politics as a circle, not a spectrum.
But I disagree with your comparison – communism maybe, socialism nah

Well, booger me with chocolate bacon on a stick :D

Tenerife has great weather, good roads, a blooming great volcano to ride up and loads of bargain flights. Resorts are vile though.

It seems Bristol has more than its fair share of bike-hating psychos…
Another maniac

Just a slug with a mortgage.

Hi Crispy, some maps of the proposed Byway upgrades are in this document:
BOAT application
Some might be quite useful; others rubbish.
Don’t know of any other outstanding reclassification applications in the county at the mo.

Would be great to get it reclassified though

There are some BOAT applications going through at the moment, mostly on Hamsterley Common. So far it’s taken 15 years and it’s still grinding through the courts. Since these roads were actually created by Act of Parliament sometime in the early 19th Century, you could argue it’s taken about two centuries to get this far. I hope you live long enough to see the day that footpath is reclassified.

Hamsterley Common is a great trail, although V cheeky

I talked to a RoW officer who will remain anonymous and pointed out it should be a bridleway (it is Bridleway all through the forest until it meets the Parish boundary at thre forest edge). I said I wanted to make a claim to get it reclassified.
The RoW officer said, “Don’t bother, just ride it anyway.”

Should’ve gone for Bol and Aersol

Dammit!
But then, this book isn’t about Scandinavia.
Maybe someone’s got some good Italian words that look like something rude in English??

Couple of guys I rude with use liners

Bit cold for dogging isn’t it? But I’m pleased to see you’re taking responsibility

Mushroom Man – when we were first building trails at Hamsterley, and were finishing work on the Grove Link, somebody kept sabotaging the trails, using a crowbar to destroy stone features and so on. Eventually some of the Trailblazers organised a stake-out and caught the guy red-handed. When the police questioned him he said the trails were damaging his mushroom picking areas. (This wasn’t true). Anyway, this was a few years ahgo. Maybe he’s come back. :-(
I agree comments by the likes of Matthew Parris and J. Clarkson are not helpful. Of course they’re being tongue in cheek and post-modern and aren’t they outrageous ha ha ha. Unfortunately there are people who are not bright enough to understand and they take them at face value. Then you get this kind of stuff happening.

I wonder if it’s Mushroom Man?

Mike, we discussed this possibility at HTB meeting on Monday night and urged Neil at FC to look up the files on that incident. Mushrooom Man would certainly be getting a visit if I was the investigating officer.
We’ve also been told about a sustained campaign of sabotage at Chopwell Woods – including trees being cut almost through so as to fall on passing riders.
Please, everyone be vigilant and take care.

Try Inky Little Fingers. Ideal for short runs.

My wife really did go bonkers. On the anti-psychotics now :(

much better to let them be wrong and inform the RoW officer of the incident as this will have a much better effect than arguing mid ride

…which is pretty much what we did. I asked her to clarify the situation, told her I’d heard of no such changes (and I’m on the LAF)and she went back to the house.
I also asked the RoW officer in my email whether they would ever write to a landowner telling them to tell cyclists not to use a RoW if it was downgraded from BW footpath. Whether or not cyclists are allowed on a FP is entirely at the landowner’s discretion, surely? AND I wonder how many landowners are aware of this?

All the above is right. If there’s not enough space to get the pads in, the pistons aren’t pushed in far enough. Attaching a syringe with brake fluid in and opening the bleed nipple is an excellent idea as it releases the pressure and allows you to push the pistons that all-important bit further.

Standard as far as I remember – 13mm for the cone and 17mm for the locknut.

Bu-hut…ewh…those su-hummer…..

Na-HAAATZ!!

Quark, Strangeness and Charm…

The Rolling Stones The Last Time
not bad, not bad.

Midwives will be over stretched

That’s not all that’ll be over stretched by the close of play. Ha Ha!

Hamsterley got a nomination in MBR Trail of the Year awards for that last section :D Nice to see some good height on those berms on Section 13

There are many self published books that are well worth a look too, I have read Kok and Tvatt

Author takes a bow… :-)