Mainsgill by a long shot (I live about 3 miles away from it). Decent playground and grub and a 100 yard detour off the a66

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What Onzadog said re exercises.

I used to have big problems, turned out it was my feet. Now use custom insoles and see a podiatrist every couple of years to get checked. That, along with regular stretching and some activation exercises (glutes being the usual culprit) have solved it.

From my experience Tight ITB was a symptom so you need to review what’s causing it as well as work to relax the ITB. I’d suggest first stop is to get your feet checked!

Orange rx9 here. 13 miles each way. Been commuting on it now for a year and a half it’s brilliant.

There’s only so many words you can read about someone else’s ride.

TTG was great and a part of a rounded magazine. 500 words is plenty if you talk about what’s important.

Long time magazine subscriber but I don’t look forward to it coming through the door anymore. Thinking time. Check out ‘cyclist’. Good roadie example of a balance between rides and gear.

Thanks H1ghland3r, it’s a good shout and something I had wondered about!

Truly scary. Have you considered sending this to your MP etc? Newspapers?

Agree with the petition.

Another angle to consider is the other main user of the bridleway – horses.  I’ve ridden that many times over the last 25 years on horse and bicycle and I would consider the stone work to be not desperately suitable for horses/ponies either.

As in the Yorkshire Dales there seems to be a complete lack of accountability or genuine consultation before making widespread and expensive changes

Former 500 user. Elemnt Bolt for over a year and it’s brilliant.  Wouldn’t go back

Just buy buy some more mounts!

Mudguards plus one.

I got an orange rx9 for the commute. Perfect – big mudguards, 40mm tyres for comfort and bombproof!

Gourdon 25 here. Perfect. Can fit clothes, shoes, towel and toiletries and all my food in. If need be laptop also.

Alpkit gourdon here too. Superb. Bright orange one also very visible

Thanks. Brilliant input.

Thanks Chaka! Really appreciate that. I do a bit of everything in truth. Couple of enduros a year, swaledale and the lakes are my locals so can be big days round the dale or pass storming in the lakes.

Awesome. Thank you both. Thinking about it to upgrade my Jeffsy’s Monarch. CCDB reliability just doesn’t seem to be worth the risk!

Cool, thanks. Kind of what I suspected unfortunately.

Cheers!

Also interested. Looking at going for a consultation with Optegra in Leeds and this Smile relex method

Stayed Here and it was tremendous. Great village.

Thanks for this thread team! Just upgraded my mid-2010 MBP to 8GB of RAM and what a huge difference already. Will see how this settles and consider the SSD upgrade, but not so sure i can do that myself!

Merci.

Lots of stereotypes and political aspersions here which reflect personal attack’s on the individuals with views as opposed to data or evidence.

If wanting a serious debate with actual evidence, read the Burns report Here for some facts.

It is an emotive subject and as someone has rightly said a moral one, therefore imo it’s down to individuals moral compass.

That’s awesome thank you! I’ve got the i7 2.66 but as you say it’s onky 4gb of ram so I think it’ll be a combo of the two. It seems too good a laptop to get rid of, even if they do go on eBay for 5-600 so 2/300 spent upgrading it worthwhile I think?

Proper useful thread this thanks all!

If this isn’t something you’re comfy doing yourself, who can do it for you? Will a Mac store? Early 2011 MacBook Pro here and it’s getting slower and slower. Now I suspect I know why!

Always feels a bit wrong stuffing it. Elbow deep.

Mk 7 Golf with the swivelly bi-xenons here. They’re very good. Wife has a Leon with LED and they’re excellent. Either would be fine I think.

Deuter kid comfort 3 here. Amazing. Done up to 5-6 hour walks with everyone comfortable. The rain cover when the weather does turn is also brilliant.

Good review here. Echoes my experiences

https://www.ukclimbing.com/gear/review.php?id=4322

Mine went after about 150 miles. Hope ones in as described and jobs a good un

+1 get it checked.

Took one of my toes off the shoe rack last year, dropped like a sack of manure.

Turned out I’d spiral fractured it and it was very worthwhile getting it checked. If it has been unstable or done the joint would have been knifey time.

Got an Orange RX9S on mine. Had to pay a touch over to bridge the gap but very happy. Can do some gravel etc in the summer, it’s now fully mudguarded up and doing a sterling job. Just need to put some smaller tyres on. The 38mm’s come up big and they feel pretty draggy.

Ps I looked at v60 polestar. Rare, fast and pretty but I found expensive versus golf r to buy (as rare), rather thirsty and tiny boots. Good 200+ litres down on the golf from memory.

Golf R estate here. Mk 7 and it’s fantastic. Bikes go in boot or on roof. Big enough when you need but small enough to not be a hassle ever. Huge boot and useful space plus it is rapid! 300bhp and 4wd. It’ll do 40mpg on a long journey and mid-30’s all day long if you’re not silly.

Thanks for the advice everyone :) you’re all very right there’ll come a time when I won’t be carrying her and I guess it’ll come quick! The last five months certainly have flown :)

Cheers Mr Vader! I think some short test walks are in order

Meeeeeeeehhhh!

Flashing red?!!

Hi everyone
Thanks for your thoughts!

Whilst perhaps paranoid, it is something my mum has mentioned as a confidence thing, she is now 60+ and more aware of mortality etc than she has been previously, so if this acts as a sort of confidence prop then as far as I’m concerned crack on. I’d rather buy this and help mum keep active and enjoying the outdoors than not.

Where we are there is limited reception and in reality no network coverage of any kind over s significant portion of the area, I know this from guiding round it so the phone type solutions are not applicable as there is no signal of any kind to pick up in most places and triangulation would most definitely be an issue due to the mast locations.

The spot one seems very good, I will investigate. Thanks again for everyone’s thoughts!

Windy?!! That was normal……

Out of interest does anyone know who the photographers on the route were? Quite keen to see the pictures.

Perhaps see a good podiatrist as well to get your feet checked! Ended my knee issues almost immediately.