The big challenge is finding the right way out the carpark. First time I was there folk were milling about all over due to the lack of signing. It can be a bit like that further out too.

Is any backpack not just a hydration pack without a bladder? They all seem to have a hole through which a tube would pass.

Those domestic cream cleaners used to work well on white plastic mudguards.

Cheers but getting radio on the laptop ain’t the problem, it’s using recordings from there to a “radio” in other rooms (I’m not unplugging laptop from router etc then dragging it around the house every time)

I’m sure the signature on the form will need to be that of the registered keeper.

DVLA are not (yet) interested in your sleeping arrangements but will be concerned that the registered keeper is insured to use the car.

This is nonsense as it can make life difficult for genuine people who want to stay within the law, but easy for those who are not so bothered.

All the time and it works much better than the cheap rubbish footpumps that seem to be all you can get nowadays. It’s only an £8 Tesco job too.

I rather like Ayrshire (memories of trials riding years ago) but there are some desperately unfortunate places.

I have to occasionally visit a site near Beith. Beith has a baker that claims its Scotch pies are award winning. The pies are the only possible reason anybody could have for going to Beith.

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You do not need to restrict yourself to podcasts. Get this and you can download anything on BBC Iplayer. Loads of drama, comedy, documentary etc.

Or try Resonance FM, the Bike Show for poscasts.

EBC certainly used to stock ’em.

Thanks guys. I use radio downloader but it only covers BBC. Essentially I want to be able to move SD/USB from room to room so I can continue listening to, say, a play.

Pure now only seem to have fixed 45 minute memories which can’t be moved about. A definite retrograde step in my view.

I’m told Roberts may do one, but at a price.

Interesting one Pigface, full of atmosphere and educational to see how the East German and Chech teams were well disciplined – all riding over the same line to within a sixpence width on the special test.

Arthur Browning was a sight to behold on the big Yam too.

It was that event that decided me to take up enduros before I got too old.

Apart from that it woud have to be a TT or SSDT but there are too many memories to allow choice of a specific one.

Or indeed use an impact driver.

That must have been it – 153 sets of wheels churning away on wet ground where there is some level of antagonism to cycling. Not clever.

A pal was up the Pents last week or the week before and he’d never seen the like. I think the Somme was called to mind – some goons were running a bike orienteering event or similar with no thought to the consequences.

Does the Land Reform (Scotland) Act really allow commercial organisations to do this? I thought responsibility was the key word.

Can’t see the question.

Seems the Sassenachs will have to wait for I-player.

“You know they race them, don’t you?”

Read “Stealing Speed” by Matt Oxley. Amazingly Radio 4 did a programme on this piece of history earlier in the year, called The Degner Defection. Suzuki would be nowhere without MZ.

Dickyboy. George, ever the showman, might even have approved of that one were he alive today.

I certainly burst out laughing at that one Rusty Spanner – absolute magic but there’s probably not many on here old enough to really appreciate it.

I have to confess I don’t understand the media euphoria about the produce at Tyndrum. A bit greasy for my taste.

A Glasgow police horse that doesn’t like sausage rolls? You’ll be telling me next they won’t eat square sausage or drink Irn Bru (other forms of ginger are available).

A cheap plastic groundsheet and some duct tape sounds like the answer to me.

Peebles one was excellent when it was Big Ebbs – discovered it one Easter and we went two nights running for a sit in tea. Changed owners now but still as good.

I’m hoping that my local Edinburgh chippie, which has been excellent for near forty years, will be as good when it reopens in a couple of weeks after changing hands. But I live more in hope than expectation.

I can still remember the astonishment of staff 30 years ago when an English visitor asked for mushy peas, unheard of then up here.

And what’s this daft English thing of a chippie being closed on a Sunday – don’t they know we’re not allowed to cook on the Sabbath?

Worst always seems to be at the seaside. My brother lives in Scarborough and I’ve yet to get a decent chip there.

I’ve only ever swapped one car tyre (but literally dozens of motorcycle tyres, my record being nine minutes if I recall correctly and I know many who can do it much quicker) and it was dead easy with the right levers, but it was not a very low profile tyre. Google will bring up lots of ways to break the bead with two bits of wood and a hinge – this will do any width of tyre. The use of tyre lubricant helps too.

How dear is balancing at the local tyre fitters?

I’d be worried that the use of winter tyres in “warm” weather months would give the insurance boys a get out in the event of any sort of incident.

You might need to be lucky if you want a van before Christmas as they are generally all hired out to the Royal Mail – I speak from experience.

Elbow Grease from SemiChem does the job and is good on the bike too.

The Bike Station if you are in Scotland.

“Nope, I’m a biker and have been for 30 years – old bikes are mostly crap compared to the bikes you can buy now.

If I wanted an ornament, I’d buy a picture and stick it on the wall. “

Therein perhaps lies the difference between a biker and a motorcyclist.

Park in Corstorphine and take one of the three buses that go in that way?

Four eyes. The bracket remains attached and the light clicks in – takes all of about one and a half seconds. Many use a similar bracket on the seat post.

Secure? No worse than other bolt ons I suppose but if I were dishonestly inclined and wanted a $75 light I suppose I would be prepared to spend 10 seconds with an allen key.

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There is a “truck stop” behind the BP just south of Carlisle (can’t remember the junction number). It was fine when I was there but not as good as when it was just the front rooms of a house knocked together.

I don’t suppose you are going to be running on the road with minimum extension though and you don’t want to be distracting a following rider on the singletrack by running a rear light when he can see your front light, in effect.

For road use (it would collect too much dirt off road) Smart do a bracket to attach the light to the seat stay. Like the one on the left here Bracket

UPVC doors ain’t overly secure apparently. My locksmith’s advice was good timber door with two mortice deadlocks. OK the UPVC may have four “locking points” but all come off one lock which is relatively easily disabled it seems.

Was once pulled in to one of these while in a hire car (hence nearly new etc) by three police in the middle of nowhere near Kilsyth. No attempt made to check docs or the vehicle other than working headlights “due to bad visibility”. We were both squinting against the sun. Pretty lame excuse for something going on but couldn’t figure out what.

Surely just remove the equivalent number of links to the difference between the old outer and middle rings?

All valid opinions but surely the problem is knowing what is a “good” charger, with price apparently being no guide. And we all know the CE markings etc mean nothing.

Funny thing is we all seem happy to pay hundreds of pounds for various devices equipped with batteries and chargers from the same factories but never give safety a thought.

Or you could just have your parents to thank, like me.

I’m all in favour of people wearing hats while driving as it enables me to be extra careful round them (drafty Landrovers obviously excluded).