Chris, there’s no traffic lights on that bit, the lights are on the crossing opposite the bus stop, it just adds to the problem of frustrated drivers going up hill.

Had so many hear misses driving through there, would hate to do it on a bike.

You’ve more hair growing our of your ears than…

Can we do TV and Radio too?

and

Hey Bunnyhop good to hear you and Jules are out and about again – confidence building up?

We always head for this one clickety

The foods brill. Park the tandem outside and you can watch it from the window seats too. It’s on Terrace Road opposite The Slopes on the left as you head up to the Market Sq.

@Ampthill – ask at Bamford Garden Centre if you can leave it there, reasonably secure and then cross Bamford Rec, pick up the old railway line up to the front of Ladybower, cross the top of the dam, walk around to Ashopton Viaduct and you’re back on plan – prob adds an hour to the route if on foot.

@Cougar – his tats are spectacular, but the piercing at the top of his nose is too tight, it’s cause his forehead to wrinkle.

@Taz – said by a self confessed attention whore 😉 😆

You’ve squeezed into so many niches, there are lichenologists ready to declare you a new species.

But what a sad world if we were all the same, I’m holding out to be the least tattooed/peirced person in the country.

Brilliant news.
Great to hear you got the All Clear.
🙂
It’s so easy to put on sunscreen it’s madness not to do so.

As someone who’s moleier than field full of moles I’ve had one removed and half a dozen are being watched just in case they get any ideas.

_tom_ – Member
The octopus on my leg only has 7 tentacles as adding the 8th in made the particular design look a bit messy. I’m sure this will end up upsetting some sad bastard one day

Then it’s a heptapus shirley?

My lads are similar ages and we did the following:
+1 for Greenwich, go by boat and visit the Naval Museum and Observatory
Go up and over Tower Bridge
Climb the fire of London Monument
Climb the Dome of St Pauls (not cheap but brilliant, go right to the top and look down through the window in the floor!
Borough Markets are good on a Saturday morning.
The Rose Theatre in Southwark is a quick visit but interesting nonetheless
The Globe is also pretty good – saw Merchant of Venice there and it was superb.
Cabinet War Rooms are pretty good.

DezB – Member
Tattoos are supposed to be scientifically accurate??

Just accurate would be a start. 🙂

loddrik – Member

I’ll raise you one. Two separate bodies pulled from the river Mersey in Liverpool on Sunday.

Do you Scousers normally tie your victims together?

At least Nigel Havers was paying attention! 🙂

Aaaaaaaargh – That tat of Dimbleby’s makes my inner entomologist scream in rage – the scorpion is an arthropod within the class Arachnida, they have eight legs not six. Someone fetch a rubber….oh!

at Llyn Gwynant with awning

Loaded with boards & bikes

My lads inside, small but cosy

On R4 they just said she had been given an ultimatum, resign or pay back the money. Bit of a no brained, but she remains an MP, just resigned as Minister. FFS prosecute the witch, make her pay ack the money, it’s tantamount to saying theft is ok just a bit naughty, don’t do so you can be found out next time.

Hang in there chap, it will get better.

I’ve just been for my first run since the op in mid Feb. Had open surgery to repair the damage I did after the laprascopic op, which I ruined by moving a tonne and a half of logs whilst off my head on tramadol, so was told, in no uncertain terms to take it steady this time.

So, I made sure I had as little pain relief as I could stand and as soon as it began to hurt, I stopped what I was doing and rested. Was back at work in a few days (sitting down job).

Your own body will dictate the speed of recovery if you listen to it.

Yesterday morning, first ride since op with my youngest lad, he’s got a wickedly dry sense of humour, we giggled for 12 miles. Happy day.

@Bunnyhop – are you back to full fitness now and able to tandem with Grattan Man?
He did offer me a play on his 29er but not had chance to take him up in it, maybe soon, once I can manage a gradient! 😉

Podge, the sense I took away from the meeting was that if nothing was done then a Section 56 could be served, by an individual not a group, that would compel DCC to make repairs. So that leads me to conclude that they cannot refuse.

It does raise the spectre of Monsal Trail type routes all over the place.

It’s why we need to keep talking to them and asking questions, unless we understand the process and legalities we cannot offer suggestions other than asking them to stop.

We can stamp our feet like petulant three year olds or we can try and understand what motivates DCC to behave as it does and work towards changing it where we can. This was the outcome from the first meeting that DCC has had with any MTB organisation, we went with the aim of trying to build relationships that may allow us to have some influence in their decision making process. If you want to see the effect of being confrontational, take a look at how effective this has been for the 4×4 groups. They have won few allies and even fewer battles.

Full suss singlespeed with an Yess tensioner, currently being rebuilt with some more silly bits added.
Also the remains of the late Mint Sauce.

Quick update.

We’ve contacted a couple of local providers re apprentices and there is a framework that is perfect, job description complete and submitted. Would be perfect for any youngster keen on live events, social media and mountain biking – that’s the industry, the role and where we are based, Hope. This we would expect to become a full time job at the end of the apprenticeship. I’d like to think that’s an attractive set of criteria for a bright candidate.

We’ve also created the framework for a one year, paid internship for a fresh graduate. It’s just for one year, in at the deep end, lots to do and a thorough grounding in the industry in which we work and our own industry. It’s a fixed one year term so that the intern knows that it is finite, there may be a possibility of a job if the business grows to accommodate one but no guarantees

Any thoughts from those who have been down this road, does this sound like it would be attractive? Any advice on what we can expect? Ta.

If you see what happened to the barriers placed at the bottom of the Long Causeway then even barriers may not provide an effective deterrent.

One question, though – I have come across various groups who are trying to represent MTB in the Peaks and wondered where they all fit together. For example – you lot, Ride Sheffield, Ride the Peaks (I think that was their name – I filled in one of their surveys once).

Ride the Peak is no more, as far as I am aware it morphed into Ride Sheffield.
We set up because we were asked to do so by a PDNPA Councillor as there was no voice for resident MTB riders, we discussed this with RS as we wanted to look further into the Peak (south and west) as there is a lot of riding to be had in that direction. RS are heavily involved with the Eastern Moors etc.
Also, as residents we elect the councillors at DCC so, in theory, they should at the very least listen.
There is another group called the Hope Valley Cyclists who are keen to link up villages within the valley.
There will, inevitable be some crossover but we are trying to keep it to a minimum.

@dannyh – where do you live and do you have any free time?

rob jackson – Member
podge – are you coming to the pdmtb meeting in buxton tonight?

Bugger, arse, knob and ****!

Better get a quick pass stamp – that’ll teach me to look at stuff!
See you later, I’ll be the one looking for somewhere to kip tonight.

Since there is such a wide range of rules and no one is sure where they apply I can’t see that dobbing some one in is going to help especially if the ban doesn’t cover them.

Sorry, I missed out the ‘irony’ emoticon at the end of that sentence. You could dob everyone in including yourself, just to be on the safe side, then at least someone will get what they deserve. 😉 😆

Hi Rich – it seems that a TRO is not a universal ban on all vehicles. It can be almost anything that the applying authority wants it to be, for example the one on the Long Causeway is a restriction by width, stops 4×4 but not trail bikes, horses or motorbikes. Not sure what the Chapel Gate and Roych TROs are specifically banning.

But to answer your question, if they are having substantial cuts to all budgets I can’t see how they can enforce it unless other ‘legal’ users dob them in with pics and reg numbers.

If you have old sleeping bags you can foreshorten them by using a belt and this stops the smaller ones vanishing to the bottom and panicking.

Not enough green in this thread, green is the new bling:

Bump for the evening crowd – the more feedback we can give the better, it only takes a few minutes.

To be made to feel truly inadequate in so many ways
(Stoner & McMoonter, this primarily means you two)

This week I have been endlessly listening to just two albums:

Slade: Play it loud.
Glass Caves: EP bought from them when they were busking on Fargate, Sheffield.

So speaks Derbyshire’s finest philosopher! 😀

Awesome, I’m marginally faster than a still tortoise! No change there then!! 😀

Waddington is great, check out RAF Cosford near Telford, there’s a great museum and I think they do an air show too. Not a lot else round here as far as a decent show, as has been said ^^^

A steel, single speed, rigid bike is all you really need, if you are being completely honest.

The roads in Sheffield are beautifully smooth.