What kind of muppet would visit a MTB site when they are trying to avoid finding out the results of todays race?

Oh – I see.

Just weighed myself there. Somehow I have managed to put on half a stone since friday.

Anyone got anything that can figure out how many calories something like that would have burnt? Because I must have eaten 9000 calories worth today.

Fittest person wins bike race shocker.

Why visit a MTB forum if you are trying to avoid finding out the result of the biggest UK race of the year?

I liked Cam Cole's reaction to seeing how close he was to 1st after he had been pulling whips on the way down. "****!!!"

Pity that Ben Cathro had his mechanical otherwise he would have been right up there.

Warton – do you have the ability to read?

Skinz are about the best you'll get.

Constructive post that. Well done. You must be proud.

Animals are unimportant. Humans are apex predators, dogs and cats etc are not.

When animals become more important that humans it's a sad day.

Here's a couple of questions for you all: If a human behaved in the same way as the dog would it be acceptable? And, if not then why does it appear acceptable for the dog to do so?

Last week me and my two boys were out for a walk. Coming the other way was a guy walking his Boxer dog. For some reason, poorly trained probably, the dog decided to take a run for my 3yr old son. Unfortunately, the guy didn't hold the dog's lead firmly enough to stop it and the dog flattened the boy scaring the shit out of him in the process. Was I fair in my decision to take a steel toe capped welly boot to its ribs, grab its lead and throw it down the path? The owner spouted the usual "he's only playing" nonsense too.

Thing is I quite like dogs and used to work in kennels, I just hate dog owners that think this is acceptable behaviour.

You only own the house if you have paid off the mortgage. Anther way of looking at it is that the interest only payments are a damn site cheaper than rent would be and you have security of tenure.

I have algeria flags attached to mine.

Looks rubbish.

If the fungus looks like that i'll learn to live with it.

Just go and practice it until you've got it nailed. You wouldnt go straight into hucking your meat of a huge jump on your mtb if you hadnt ridden off road before now would you?

Also, there is no such thing as a weegie chav. NEDS are the Glasgovian equivalent of Chavs. Think West Highland Sabre Toothed Fighting Midgie compared to Southern Soft Gummy Midge and you'll get a suitable idea of the relationship between the two species.

SFB – The land is owned by the National Trust for Scotland. It was received as a gift from a benefactor and one of the stipulations about the gift was that no improvements would be made. That includes building toilet blocks, this is also the reason that they moved the visitor centre from it's previous site.

M_P – I am loving the irony of you saying that Glen Etive cant support hundreds of visitors each weekend so soon after saying that you took 25 students up there…

If you really want to help out, contact Scott McCombie at NTS and see what he suggests. Perhaps some tree planting or survey work…

Trail_rat – are you like me disappointed that they have lowered the upper limit on the average speed from 30 to 25. Looking forward to doing the Snow Roads myself tomorrow too.

Didnt say that it was anything other than beautiful. Merely pointed out that there are other more beautiful places in scotland.

I am however of the opinion that it is good to have sacrificial places for these cretins to camp though. If they are in Glen Etive and on Loch Lomondside that means that they rent at many of the other much more beautiful places.

My experiences also tell me that the number of Weegies in Glen Etive is much lower than the number of Edinburghers and English.

Dont get me started on Glen Etive Kev. The sunday morning patrol was always an experience to look forward too. How a group of 4 people can create 14 bin bags full of rubbish in one evening is something i will never figure out. Then when they try to leave them at the side of the road expecting some silly eejit to come and clean up after them. It was good watching them try and fit it all in their car when challenged though.

Spesh Captains.

Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V would have saved you a hell of a lot of bother. As would export as .doc… 😉 I use pages on the mac which is way better than anything else I've come across.

I did a couple of those on power point this year. If you can get access to a projector you can see what it'll look like before you print it out etc.

I use them to stick tyres on my road rims. Just not got to be a cack handed buffoon with them though.

That is pretty comprehensively f**ked.

Never met anything that these couldn't sort out

http://www.tredz.co.uk/.Intense-DH-Tyre-Irons_10471.htm

The guy is/was a bit of a superstar. No minor celebrity there.

We all got older today….

petesgaff – Yip driven both. Owned an Elise for 4yrs. Handling of the Elise was far better due to the 120kg weight reduction compared to the Vauxhall as was acceleration.

VX220 is not better than an elise, dont talk nonsense man.

that is indeed minging.

Good man.

iain1775 – xabi alonso, pepe reina, javier mascherano, i could go on.

That badger would be supplying food to lot of other things in the local ecosystem. Let them have it instead.