Ride the steps of doom – binners will show you how :D
Do a bivvy night
Do some cycle touring
Hold a women only bike tour of Ramsbottom with/without pub stops
Get totally smashed in the Lounge – near morrisons then go for a night ride (I used to do this a lot)
Buy a single speed

places I’d like to live/work

Nelson BC

Golden BC

Fernie BC

Canmore is just about ok

places I hate being in

Whistler BC

Squamish – town BC

Calgary AB

Banff AB

Of the places I have ridden

Fernie – resort – nothing special – off piste some of the hardest riding I’ve ever done – I wouldn’t be able to find it again without a guide though

Canmore – Banff – goat trail at the back of 3 sisters – piss easy to ride but stunning scenery and well worth the afternoon it will take – single speedable :D

Outside Calgary – race of spades is a good jumpy/north shory ride in the woods – up lift required in my opinion

Calgary – bragg creek area – good general trial riding – like glentress blue but better scenery

Calgary – Bowness park – sublime single track if you can find it :D

Calgary – olympic park – supposed to be pretty good now

Calgary – lots of hidden steep almost impossible to ride chutes down to bow river – if you can see the cliffs about 400 ft high then thats them

Whistler – disappointing after all the hype

Nelson BC – fire road climbs promise not much but absolutely fantastic trails and pretty tricky too

Squamish – best 2 days riding that are not in italy – Brilliant

Kicking horse – pretty good uplifted resort – trails a bit bashed further up but play park stuff seems good year on year

as c bike but you might need to move the render margins to excapsulate the whole recording

I ride my SS rigid almost exclusively now – thats cos i have more fun on less demamding trails that I normally ride and have access too

That said I can and do ride it on other stuff too – it was good fun and quite a challenge mentally to ride it down Llannberis path last November in the snow

As I broke my front wheel on last Saturdays turbines ride this Weds I used my FS that only gets used in the Alps normally – it feels big/heavy but great in an entirely different way than the way I normally ride

I’m glad I have both but happier with my general trails to ride a rigid

Really can’t stand guitar music these days

+1 for banana splits and add the Double Deckers from my yoot

I **** love Diamond Dave

Heavy Metal bands churning out the same old power chords. WHY?

quite possibly because there are only 12 choices, much the same as any other music

I find the interaction between melody and harmony is what makes a thing unique

I ‘appreciate’ jazz from a ‘difficult to do well’ perspective but wouldn’t listen to it from choice

Anti Pop Consortium – not for me

http://youtu.be/AuDuqW1EgDQ

I still love this though

Blue Sky Black Death – Days Are Years

listened to this, whats innovative – reverse delay/samples?

Jazz seems to be misunderstood in the current climate of 4/4 and 1/4/5 ness

No Neck Blues Band – Sticks and Stones

weird and interesting but innovative?

DezB – like the chicks on speed track quite a lot but can’t see anything innovative in it – still the same TR box drums after 20 years?

theres gotta be something out there

Whether I like them or not I’d like to be amazed :D

By innovative I mean Eno or Wendy Carlos – ahead of their time

Absolutely bollox in every respect and that video confirms my seething hatred of them and their ilk

Q Dezb innit

video please :D

Cant make it myself – sorry

We saw a peacock yesterday – I had forgotten how beautiful butterflies are

on that basis

I’m out :-)

Which ones?

Going from M66 motorway footbridge to nuthall hall road – near nuthall park

last set of stone steps

well it was a fantastic ride although only 2 of us attended

ended well with my buddy riding the ‘steps of crushed wheel’ taking a fair amount of skin off his arm and needing a cold beer to keep down the swelling

still yet to see anyone ride ’em

lucie 4s is great in my experience

Smith do some that I find excellent

I’ve been in a million bands – hence I hate ‘musicians’

I’m quite happy to widdle on my own now :D

I think the peavey 30 would be equivalent to the old fender hot rod deluxe models

I had a hot deluxe after trying loads of others including the peavey

It was ok but only half useful when driven about 3/4 volume and then it would kill my ears

sold it

Many years late I now have a blackstar HT-5 which is much better but still bloody loud – certainly more versatile

I’d stick some pedals in front of yours :-)

kingtut…if you’ve nothing sarcastic to say then dont say anything at all!

I thought it was sarcastic so he’s in line with your request :-)

Wow – there are some cracking buildings in this thread

Dali – Portrait of my dead brother

probably the most surprising painting I’ve ever seen in real life

Giger was responsible for the main alien design in the alien films I believe

B

Thanks for the info :-)

I’ll try to keep my future rims in a vaguely circular shape

I had a great ride on Saturday and it was nice to meet you all

Mr Sparkle I bow to your talents going up’ill on a SS. very, very impressive.

Binners, thank for keeping me company on tha walk to the pub, could you remind me of the rim you recommended

Thanks all

Plum

make sure brakes work
hands on hoods
stay very loose
be ready to ‘hoist’/ unweight front wheel over roots if need be
look forward to where you’re going, not at roots

works for me anyway

Slaters – Nelson

Retrotastic

Jenkins crag, trout beck, garburn pass
Elterwater
Iron Keld

many variations of these rides are on bogtrotters website

H – I’m fairly certain the rim is now a wall hanging objet d’arte 8)

couple of clips and pics 4 ya

summertastic

paging DezB

3 out of 4 currently

one has a slow puncture that just needs fixing