Used to be 45 miles+ each way.way.
Now a mile at most unless I choose to ride a circuit. 😀

@Woody2000 not round here, there’s dry stone walls to keep you going n the right direction, like the inflatable buffers at Super Bowl.

Or just go to the pub at the end too!

FFS!

Yep +1 for jamesmio

Winter rides are ace when there’s this at the halfway mark:

That’s very sad for all concerned.

Yep, was out earlier/later/last night and turned off the light on the lanes, just beautiful

Pook – Member
Grattan’s catalogue man?

Ok, it’s worth getting the pic out again if you insist!

It’ll be fine right up to the point you and the Grattans Catalogue Man start discussing route options.

Comfy chair, fire, pint and something to read on a rough winter’s night – bliss.

My Colleagues father invented this : http://www.truckview.net/%5B/url%5D

It used to be given away free for all LHD trucks entering through British Ports.
It was used for truck in the Olympics to try accidents.
Seems to me it should be mandatory on all trucks/vans.

Blimey Graham that’s impressive.
Would love to see that in Sheff but the hills would deter people.
That is unless the buses had bike racks on them like they do in the Alps, the Trams also had bike racks and the train guards were not such arses about bikes on trains.
Overcome those obstacles and it would be great.

Oh aye, and fill in all the massive holes in the city’s roads.

I tend to be pretty relaxed about most pedestrians’ behaviour, with 2 exceptions – the head down smartphone user (watched one have a near miss just outside Graves Gallery, Sheffield and she look furious that someone had given her a gentle toot on the horn to distract her from her reverie!), the others are the people who chance a crossing through moving traffic within a stones throw of a Pelican Crossing (especially in Hathersage on a busy weekend).

Nowt!
Showing solidarity with MrsCat on her 5:2
Looking forward to two slices of grilled hallumi and salad for tea.

but harmless

Ouch! 😀

That was brilliant.
I would be very interested in hearing how they managed any objections from motoring/haulage lobbies to achieve this result.
They do have wider roads but I guess they were filled with more cars.
Thanks for sharing it, I have sent it all over the place.

teamhurtmore – Member

Are you sure they don’t meat?!?!

Conservation is full of contradictions. In Africa and elsewhere, legitimate hunting is an important cash cow that plays an important role in animal welfare (yes, I see the contraction). But there are very grey areas especially some camps were game is reared purely for sport and the hunt is little more that a set up for lazy, rich foreigners to satisfy a blood lust with an easy, pre-arranged kill. The early cartoon with the bear hits home.

But I see little moral distinction between this case and driven pheasant shoots in the UK other than the fact that the lion “looks” more appealing than a pheasant and rouses stronger emotions.

Tsk 😀

Neither big or small game shooting sits well with me, however, at least you can eat the pheasants.

@Kayak23 – oops, too far into a bottle of Shiraz!!

nobody living south of the 80th parallell really needs to eat meat for survival

Absolutely.
I believe Kayak24 summed it up perfectly.

Pigface – Member

Vegans supporting big game hunting, very weird.

?????

Awesome bit of selective quoting, only bettered by your great leaps of unsupported logic.

Well, I call it logic but I doubt it would pass muster in any true evaluation of logic.

Please show me where I have said that I support the killing of anything, man or beast. You said if I were to criticise that I should square the circle, I did 27 years ago.

What I did say is that I am able to discern a difference in killing as a form of entertainment and doing so for survival. Just as the lion in the picture would have been able to do before someone paid to get their jollies killing it.

The lion killed to survive, it did not kill for fun or, if it did derive any pleasure, it did at least have the good grace to eat what it had killed.

So, its Ok to gain personal gratification from cutting it up, cooking it, eating it – and even wearing it (nice leather belt/shoes anyone?) but not from squaring the circle?

Ok show me where I said that? Extrapolating what you think I said to try and trip me up doesn’t work. My circle is quite firmly square. However, I am able to discern a subtle difference between accepting that the human being has evolved as an omnivore and therefore eats meat as part of it’s diet – killing for food, as opposed to paying to kill for fun.

@ninfan – I would agree with you 100%
However, it’s the personal gratification of taking the life yourself that seems most abhorrent to me.

IMO killing for fun demeans the person carrying out the act, we are (or should be) better than that.

Thats fair enough but it seems like a suprising number of dating sites are used mainly for precuring a quick shag – so not really a small pocket of people

From my colleagues experience I’d concur. And, reading the opening gambits or replies from the blokes, a refined dialogue is not required. It seems that the most direct offer/request and detailed description is the preferred approach. 😯

Thanks AW, I was blissfully unaware of Tinder, Grindr and Blendr until reading this thread. I have never been more relieved to be well out of the dating game!

A view reinforced by the experiences of a colleague who shared her experiences with us, and that was on the regular dating sites. She’s now happy in a relationship with an old friend.

Good luck to all you singles seeking soulmates.

So very sad and either unbelievably callous or someone who should never be in a car.

@Kimbers – come and teach at my lad’s school please, pretty please with knobs on, one of which will be the current Head of Science

@aw a female Bernard Ingham look? 😯

Fragile little soul eh?

thepodge – Member
I thought you had a SS full suspension.

Cannibalised for the Corratec, but can be rebuilt if we are doing curbs as well!

Pook – Member
Let me worry about the route. You lot sort the cake

We’re riding over the cakes too?

Pook – Member
All the steps rog. Maybe even a kerb.

Better get a full susser then.

😯 all the steps?

The deed is done, if you do get to go don’t forget to put a thread up about your adventure.

I suspect its a carry up Grindsbrook to start and back down Ringing Roger, I could be wrong.

oooh goody, Edale = starting with a big climb out

I’m in and it’s looking a bit too grey!! So, if I can generate £300 by next Thursday I will dye it bright green for a major industry conf.

@sandwicheater – got a link? Could be very handy for us at the moment if you can.

Simple answer – yes.
Directors and shareholders (owners) can, and often are, completely separate.
The Directors are responsible for the running of the company and maximising the profits for the shareholders.
So he can own them and have people run them for him.
He will take dividends to receive and monies whereas the Directors will salaried.
Directors names are in the public domain, shareholders are generally not.

Not helpful I know but at least it explains why he may not appear on the official documentation.

John & Steve – YGM
Woody – great – my email is paul (at) vividink.info