cats scare nematodes?

do you have a reference for this claim?

I think the closest campsite to Mach is Llwyngwern Farm – a few miles N next to the Centre for Alternative Technology (details on their webpage).
Never stayed there myself.

The waterfalls in the limestone country between Pontneddfechan and Ystradfellte is my favourite walk in South Wales. Probably about an hour from Cardiff.

There are many people who argue that Armstrong took PEDs but I’ve never heard anyone (apart from TJ) claim that it was from his cancer treatment. The idea that his success was due to “rebuilding” after cancer is an argument usually brought up by his fans.

Many years ago I walked it. Over Phawhope bothy would be convenient for you.
How do you pronounce Sanquhar?

156ish miles Aberystwyth to Trowbridge.

When I got to Bath I stopped to ask directions and people were amazed that anyone would consider cycling the 18 miles or so to Trowbridge.

and back two days later

sky needs weeding

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There are a lot of bookies offering £25 free bets when you sign up.(You place a bet with your own money then they put £25 in your account so you have to use it for another bet)
So you take up two of these offers with different companies and place two opposing bets on some form of two horse race – where there can’t be a draw, then place two more opposing bets with your free bets. You are guaranteed to win two bets and a probable profit of, I guess, 80% (I don’t know how betting tax works these days)
What is wrong with my plan?

mid Wales seaside campsites tend to be massive parks of static caravans.

The campsite at Rhyader is good for biking.
If you want somewhere really scenic and peaceful look at Tyllwyd in Cwmystwyth.

260 and 262 is the closest you’re going to get from CRC whatever source you go for. CRC always used to send out the correct spokes if you told them what rim and hub you were using – and they might even do you a box of mixed lengths

“the ants are my friends”

voodoo something, salsa las cruces, lemond poprad

Johnny63 – reducer headsets like the Orbit Z1.5R won’t fit cannondale carbon SI headtubes. You will have to get an adapter from a cannondale dealer.(this is the case with rush frames – I assume taurines are the same)

I doubt if the guy who was (technically) assaulted will complain much.
I think he has got the publicity he was looking for (helped by L.A.)

“COST ALMOST £270 when bought new last month”

http://www.maesnant.org.uk/

I cook in the tent porch when there’s just me. If there’s more of you then you get distracted, someone could knock something over, but on my own I’m sat there facing the door watching the stove and doing nothing else. If it goes tits up I can get out quick.

you’d pay £75 for a watch?

can you take the tyre, tube and rim tape off and do them with a screwdriver through the spoke holes?

If I’m going that way I climb up through the forest at Llanerch-yrfa and over Drygarn Fawr to top of Nant Paradwys.
It is always hard going in places but no harder than Ambrose’s route climbing from Trallwm. Up by the cairns on Drygarn Fawr is one of my favourite places – really peaceful and miles from anywhere.

if you do the monks trod then skip the western end and cut down to the farm at Claerwen – this makes the riding/wading ratio more acceptable

try again

I believe there is no reliable test for autologous blood tranfusions
Warton, you may well know better.

Most tested athlete, man on the planet, etc etc.I have no data on this but for a start the most tested cyclists would be those who race a whole season and not those who concentrate on one event.

there is no test for blood doping

armstong is not the most tested person in sport
never has been
that is an armstrong lie

Armstrong is a doper – first epo then blood doping
road cycling is a dirty sport and armstrong has done his utmost to keep it that way

Several years ago I woke up in Borders General, Galasheils, bruised and cut and wearing torn bloodied lycra. I had no money and at first couldn’t remember where my car and camping gear was. When they let me out I had to hitchhike to Dunbar wearing old clothes far too big for me that I’d begged off the hospital.
(thanks to NHS, police and my helmet)

also B+B accomodation in cottage next door to the Druid http://www.goginan.com/druid/
One mile from NyA centre, not sure how many beds.

If there’s that many of you and you want to be closer to the trails than Aber then your best option would be http://www.maesnant.org.uk/
(if available)
A couple of miles off the NyA trails and more wilderness riding on the doorstep.
It is bunks but enough of them that you wouldn’t have to use the uppers -and you’d have to do your own breakfast.

cheap steel merlin frame
old 8sp stx kit
half-decent wheels and fast tyres
and a rack to make it look like a proper commuter

My workmates probably think this is a state of the art hi-tech machine

Nice guys sometimes win

Indurain was a nice guy

(Doped to the eyeballs though)

Have a jar of Pataks in desk drawer here beside me at work for use on Morrisons samosas (alas not many asian shops in this part of the world)

moroccan pickled lemons – that is another fine thing

An idea that I’ve been toying with in mid Wales (not sure if it would work elsewhere) is to have a ride with the aim of crossing as many different rivers (or tributaries thereof) as possible.
So you could start at Mach and cross one of the Dyfi tributaries on the way to the Severn round Havren way, then cross the Upper Wye and over to Cwm Ystwyth just touching the little streams that drain off Cefn Groes into the Rheidol, before heading towards the Teifi and Tywi. If you went East to the Elan that wouldn’t count again, as it is a tributary of the Wye. See what I mean?
It would be open to different strategies as the shortest route would involve clambering over bogs and steep hills near the sources with a bike on your shoulder, or a much longer but easier ride (on a road bike even),helping to negate the concept of a “winner”.
This is what I spend my time at work thinking about, anyway.

<looks out of window>
just small patches of snow on hilltops round NyA, won’t be any ice around on the trails
and no freezing forecast

I have a set of used satellite elites bought off ebay but now surplus to requirements. Can sort out some pics if you like.
kevroderickAThotmailDOTcom

personally I’d go for the voodoos

General opinion round our office is Gwesty Cymru

http://www.gwestycymru.com/

assuming you aren’t paying yourself

Rhenigidale (??)on Harris ought to be on the list

is Bluepig a dried meat product?