Complain to his boss.

Driver of moving car is at fault no matter what else happened.

hels – looking at the bandit a bit more and speaking to folk that have done a lot of miles on one, I don't think it'll be the best bike for me.

Also – trying to talk the father inlaw into giving me his bike that he doesn't use.

Is that the new Trek?

I'm loving that they have already had test races for the XC at the Glasgow Commonwealth games, but have not yet had any for the Olympics which are a couple of years earlier..

Fair enough.

JonR – These ones?

1 Chelsea £558,190,000 £191,875,000 £366,315,000 £20,350,833
2 Manchester City £403,110,000 £102,553,000 £300,557,000 £16,697,611
3 Liverpool £416,855,000 £216,120,000 £200,735,000 £11,151,944
6 Manchester United £415,350,000 £276,065,000 £139,285,000 £7,738,056

First Column purchased, 2nd Sold, 3rd Net Spend and 4th per season spend? Now correct me if I'm wrong buy 3 multiplied by 7.7 is not 11.14. Man Utds figures are massaged a wee bit by Ronaldo's £80m transfer too.

JonR – dont talk rubbish.

He spent half of what Chelsea did, Man Utd's figures are skewed by Ronaldo's obscene transfer valuation. Funny that 3rd places was pretty regular then isn't it.

Is this really all that bad a record? From where I am sitting it is far superior results wise than what Wenger has managed in that time.

2009/10
Premier League: 7th (63 points)

2008/09
Premier League: 2nd (86 points)
Champions League: Quarter Final (lost to Chelsea)

2007/08
Premier League: 4th (76 points)
Champions League: Semi-Final (lost to Chelsea)

2006/07
Premier League: 3rd (68 points)
Champions League: RUNNERS-UP (lost to AC Milan in Final)

2005/06
Premier League: 3rd (82 points)

2004/05
Premier League: 5th (58 points)
Champions League: WINNERS (beat AC Milan in Final)

Normally I would have jumped at the invite, but timing is all wrong for me with this one. New kid around then stops play.

avdave2 – you really do need to include the last three words in my sentence to retain the intended meaning.

Most definitely the victim of a club that cant believe they didnt win anything in the season after they sold their best player and replaced him with an injury prone pansy.

Benitez did a brilliant job at Liverpool under the circumstances.

bangin on – you might be at risk of assuming a higher level of skill from some of the people on here than they actually have. They are not all Scottish you know…

I initially read that as ITB syndrome and was going to recommend a course of stretching and massage. That would not be a good look for IBS….

Commute will be to the centre of Glasgow along motorways. Trust me – car is not an option here. Plus – the wife is letting me buy a bike – I dont want a car – I am sick of cars.

Any other bits of kit I should be looking at? Hein Gericke will be taking care of clothing. What is a good quiet helmet?

Oliver Coats is the best bike photographer out there bar none.

Bregante – I would put money on it.

ton – Member
child benifits gonna go
working tax credit is going
rent rebate is going
v.a.t going up to 21%

And if they try that lot there will be a revolution quicker than they can sign an expenses form. The country would be in flames.

Is it only me that doesn't think that Drumlanrig is all that rooty?

Why would you want to have a 24 spoke wheel on 20mm?

Went close to there this time last year and we had 62C on one day, average was well over 40C too.

Thrutching – The name given to the act of applying pressure to the internal muscles which is required to push out a turd.

i.e.

"That curry had me thrutching like **** the next day."
"I thrutched so hard I nearly popped my grapes."

😀

Murray – car is ruled out due to parking costs.

Failedengineer – Of the people I know that have posted in this thread I would put two of them in the "greased jobbies off a teflon shovel" category and 3 of them in the "pretty bloody rapid" category. So basically most of the people who have posted on this thread can ride bikes to a very high standard, there are a lot of podium places and race wins amongst them.

Trail_rat – cheeky. You've just added 45mins onto my time.

Calorie calculators reckon something in the region of 15000kcal for that ride.

You could try reading the size that is printed on the side of the post.

Vulcan Death Grip on the bars?

In the last month, probably 1000km or so. But I am struggling to get time on the bike just now.

Aye, but its been proven fairly conclusively that Geoff Hurst didnt actually score a hat-trick, but was awarded one as a result of dodgy refereeing…

There is just no need for it.

Perhaps they should have 0330 123 1967 for viewers in Scotland.

Dasilva – I would suggest that your physio goes and looks at an anatomy book and reminds themselves of the origins and insertions of gastrocnemius and soleus.

The bit about the bent knee stretch being better. Makes no difference.

Dasilva – that is incorrect.

You may find that going out on the bike helps take the pain away.

Tape the thing up so that you pretty much immobilise it for a couple of days then gradually reduce the taping as it improves.

Few weeks and it'll be fine.

Another thing that I have just remembered is that I didn't have a single car cut me up or even get a little bit too close yesterday. Rare that.

It's a novel idea, but how about working the muscles that are weak? If it's your lower back that is weak try doing some back extensions.

I would put money on it that it has nowt to do with your back and your hamstrings are tight.

Be careful that you dont give the result away. 🙄

Cycling is crap for building lower back strength. It's even pretty crap at maintaining lower back strength.