Which shop and where?? Name and shame.

I'd echo Fuzzy's comments. I had some Mavic Razors and they are quite narrow. Felt ok in shop but 20 mins in to a ride they nipped pretty badly. Only rode in them 3 times and they went on ebay.

Hercule Poirot?

Don't know much about Borovets for skiing, although as mentioned by someone earlier, the fact that it is (perceived to be) cheap means you get alot of neg-ends going there for a bargain holiday.

Oh and by the way, watch out for the Gypsies and the mafia!

Before anyone gets all high and mighty about being racist etc. I've seen it with my own eyes!! Gypsies (proper Romany ones) are treated as the lowest of the low, consequently they have no choice but to revert to pick-pocketing, begging and theft to survive.

As for the mafia, I've never seen as many big, blacked out, BMW's as I did in Bulgaria. A friend of my missus was car-jacked and then asked/told to 'insure' it with a local crim if she wanted to get it back. Nice place!

Varna, Stara Zagora, Sofia (which was OK to be fair), Haskovo (hell hole), Plovdiv, Dimitrovgrad (one horse town) and Borovets (mountain resort in the summer, urgh!)

Having been to Bulgaria a few times, my missus worked out there for a year, I can safely say I'm really not that jealous!

Some of the scenery and some of the women are decent to look at, but on the whole it's a bit of sh!t hole.

Everywhere in Keswick is overpriced!

How can weirdy beardy veggie be ordinary?

(I'm not a vegetarian by the way, in fact I only realised it was a meat free establishment after I sat down and read the menu.)

It's good to know I'm not the only one not planning on growing up at 40.

a significant birthday

my birthday is at the end of April

Same here on both accounts, 40 on the 30th to be precise.

I'm laying the groundworks for 2 weeks in Whistler in Aug next year. I know it's after the event but it still counts.

How about vegetarian? Is that what you mean by special? Try the Lakeland Pedaller, it's more of a cafe than a restraunt but the food is good. Plus there's a bike shop upstairs!

I've got some on my road bike. Dead easy to fit, light and really unobtrusive looking.

Only thing I'm not sure about is they have a little felt pad which rubs on either side of the rim to keep the mud guard central. It's abit off putting at first as it makes a 'shishing' noise when you're riding, especially in the wet, but you eventually get used to it.

Even I didn't fall for that one!

Get back under your bridge. Bell-end!

Why do you want to find him?

Does he owe you money?

Erm…

Pete?

From Reading?

Maidenhead Art College in the late 80s?

Goatie beard?

Nuts about bikes?

Don't know him, sorry!

(You didn't expect sensible answers did you?)

Will you be changing your forum name to "Road"…erm… "Gibbon"?

Junkyard – I think you might be missing something here. Riding four abreast and pissing off a lot of motorists is much more likely to provoke them into driving more dangerously and therefore put the cyclist at greater risk.

Chances are they weren't riding like that for safety reasons, more likely they are just a bunch of selfish wan*ers.

Int t'Pennines – surely it should be cobbled?

As aP said, when they went bust, must be 2003-4, something like that. The name was bought out but the range was cut to base/budget models only. Again, IIRC the dearest model they had at the time was a £300 HT.

They started picking up again with the i-Drive design but it hasn't been universally accepted.

Stocking them in Halfords probably hasn't helped but it went wrong long before that. Shame really, when I first started riding the Zaskar was THE bike to aspire to having.

Here you go! 8O

neverfastenuff – Member
Trailsnob.

Is that 'trail''snob' or 'trails''nob' ??

Don't know much about RHS but we've had family membership of NT for a few years now. In our experience adventure playgrounds are a bit thin on the ground but some do have them.

We have planned UK holidays around how many NT places we can get to, including a Cornwall on a couple of occasions.

Despite the lack of playgrounds they can still be good fun walking in the grounds and looking round the houses, teaches them that there's more than just TV and video games out there.

I've used it for a variety of applications, chain lube, cables, mech pivots, frame cleaner etc plus I've used to degrease bearings and the like. It's better than WD40 'cos it doesn't leave as 'wet' a residue.

Not used it on fork seals, I use Brunox Deo for that and I can heartily recommend it.

If you have to ask you already know the answer.

How about something MTB'y on the lip!

I've not been with Trail Addiction but I have been to Les Arcs twice and I can heartily recommend it.

That's the thing Viv, if you go with a company you're not on your own. On a couple of the holidays I went on there were women who had come on their own.

(Have we actually established you are indeed a woman? If you are not then I apologise and please ignore my post above.) :oops:

No wonder no-one rides with you! :wink:

In all seriousness, I've been on many bike holidays on my own before I met a group of like minded mates, the Alps, Moab and the Pyranees to name a few.

All the holiday companies will take single travelers and you never know you might make some mates you can ride with back home like I did.

Are you paying? :P

1. Undo bolts
2. Pull out axle
3. Wheel falls out!

Tinc – I'll try and find it in the shed somewhere. You can have for the cost of postage. I'll email you.

This is something I've been wrestling with for years. I've got a plated radius and ulna as well as a plate in my ankle (two seperate crashes) all of which give me pain in varying degress almost all the time.

I've been back to the GP a number of times for a referal to the fracture clinic, one GP poo-poo'd the idea saying it was not possible and the other wanted to make the diagnosis himself because quote, "it's more interesting than the normal cases he gets" :roll: Neither of which filled me with confidence.

Then after a chance meeting with a specialist in the pub I got some impartial advice. He said that it could be done relatively easily however there is an increased risk of further breakage until the holes fill in plus there's an increased risk of nerve damage.

That was nearly a year ago and I still haven't decided whether I want to take the risk or put up with the pain.

I thought the child trust fund was paid out just once at £250 per child when they are born.

Are you saying you've lost out on £750 because you planned to have 3 kids and they're not yet born?

There are easier ways of making £750. :wink:

I've got a custom made bearing puller/press kit if you're interested?

Got it made at work when I had an '05 Enduro, no use to me now.

It'll do all the bearings in the rocker assy IIRC.

Obi_Twa – Member
DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE.

No need to SHOUT. :roll:

A couple of shandys is hardly drinking and driving ffs.

Do you think there's mileage in a STW Doncaster local evening rides group?

Not a bad idea. Thing is, Thursdays have been in the calender for years so with kids klub, piano practices, gym tots etc almost every other night is full. Monday is possible but not every week :|

If you factor in everything mentioned above, like wear and tear on bike and car, spares, washing powder, energy gels, clothing etc etc etc. It must come to freaking fortune!!!!!

That's it, I'm packing in riding and taking up something cheaper. How about motor racing?

coffeeking

I've done something similar earlier this year:

Home (Doncaster) to Castle Douglas to Glentress to Caslte Douglas to Kirroughtree to home in one w/e

just over 600 miles = £90 fuel
digs, food and beer = £70

£160 for probably no more than 6 hrs riding!

I hope the miserable lot I call my mates appreciate this, the bast**ds! :wink:

A couple of shandys plus nibbles for me and I'll probably get a round in for 2 or 3 others.

Problem is I'm billy-no-mates where I live and the riding isn't as good.

They're all new to me. Despite living in Tickhill for 9 years I haven't done any local riding. :oops: