We are lucky that there’s no such thing as society or we’d be blaming that too.

Riding the antique around the 7Stanes:

And out and about on a weekend, don’t judge, I need the cash.

Yep, do it a lot – Lea Valley or Chertsey both ok and my sites of choice.
Chertsey is nice as it’s on the Thames and you can walk/ride/paddle up to Shepperton Lock for food & beer.

Loving that.

You may want to consider a Social Media “policy” too, had some great fun trying to re-bottle a few genies for clients recently.

Started in 84:
1969 1200 Beetle 6v
1969 1500 Beetle
1969 Beach Buggy
1969 Bay Window Camper
1972 Reliant Scimitar SE6A
1972 Cal Look Beetle 1200
Arrival of 2 kids
Peugeot 407 Estate
1985 VW T3 Westy camper (still got)
1969 Karmann Ghia Coupe self assembly kit (still got)
2003 Beetle Cabriolet (still got)

Various motorbikes inc lots of RDs, CX500, XT500

Various company toys.

I live in the Peaks, and have been riding mostly SS there for the last errm… 10 years or so. Not for any reason other than I like riding SS.

Well I’ve lived here over 20 years, ner ne ner ner – waves willy at ChrisF 😉 😀

Friday headed for Angelsey in the camper and left the bikes at home.

Sat & Sun spent in the sea on the SUPs with and without sails, BBQs on the beach both evenings and home by 11.30pm.

Too hot and dusty for riding, we need some rain, I’m missing the mud. 😀

Maurizio – before you shell out for something boingy with weierdy geardy stuff try riding your rigid SS round here, you’ll be surprised just what you can get up and down. We have ridden most of it on a rigid bike back in the late 80s (because we had no suspension) so any claims that you must have x amount of travel is just bollocks, you just ride things differently.

Having ridden rigid, HT & full suss, all with lots of gears and also with just the one, I am back on a rigid SS 32:16. There are some climbs I have not cleaned and the downhills are more like a trials ride than a ball out hoonfest, but that’s what makes riding the same trails more interesting – the challenge.

So before you consign yourself to eternal penury, bring your SS bike with you, drop me a pm when you get here and we’ll take you out for a ride (we ride evenings because of work and kids but that’s also good because most folks have gone home by then). You may not be as fast down the really rough stuff as the full face, body armour brigade but I can assure you you can descend Cavedale on a rigid SS and live to tell the tale.

😀

unfitgeezer – Member
Have been using another forum for the campervan and its so unfriendly members are rude to the point of just f off will ya never met such a bunch of twits

If it’s Brick-Yard – persevere, there’s some pretty good folks on there but it has been through a bit of a transition recently, seems to be getting back to normal now. The language can be a bit blunt but it’s run by Yorkshirefolks so is a bit direct!

Other than STW, BY and Seabreeze that’s it, all three hobbies covered and no time to watch any others.

Survived a week without getting the bikes off the van.
However, we dod get out in the water every day – good waves at Cable Bay and SUPing at Rhosneigr today was brilliant – thanks for the pointers but the waves were too good to miss.

Old Man Cooper is an entertainment on his own and worth the camping fee.
If you want quiter camping then Fieldhead in Edale is nice but you have to carry your gear to your pitch from the carpark.
I would avoid Laneside in Hope as it gets packed and is naxt to the main valley road.
There is a campsite in Hathersage but the name escapes me (can’t look it up either as I’m in a field on Anglesey at the moment) I think it’s up Jaggers Lane in the direction of Stanage.
Quite a few around Hope and Bamford are next to the road or trainline so you will get some noise.
Sorry I couldn’t offer more good ones but at least you know what to watch out for.

Fastest diving bird my arse! That was a lass I met at Uni. She could trip a lad up and be under him before he hit the floor !

IGMC

Hmmm..interesting thread & good topic.
Germany in 1933-37 is a very different place to the UK in the present time so the analogy is a bit tenuous, for example no PM is seen as a redeeming figure of national pride and an economic saviour. Witht he media as it is today, including social, it is unlikely that using the re militarisation of a nation could be used to prop up the economy. This is far more akin to a creeping encroachment of state control, but with some clear differences.

We are reducing our military capacity, there is no active move towards large scale industrial manufacturing to offer large scale employment. The holes in the analogy come thick and fast.

And, whilst I may not agree with Ernesto on many things, he makes a lot of very valid points re Blair’s effect upon the state.

Strange how these ‘improvements’ seldom do.

project – Member
AS IM 6 FOOT 3, i tend to bang my head on low hung branches, doorways, and train doors, so for me helmet compulsion is a good thing.

That would suggest that your feakish overly tall frame is not suited to the current environment and that natural selection will render you extinct as we normal sized people can move around free of cranial damage in the world as it exists today. Clever chap this Darwin fella. 😀

What?
The Queen’s a roadie?
Down with the monarchy.
Vive la revolution!

We really are ****ed, aren’t we?

Yep, and left to sleep in the wet patch too!!

I’m waiting to see how Footflaps responds when the black helicopters start circling over his bunker.

How did they get an old maggot to look this good – wouldn’t have sold mine if I knew this could be done!!!

Friends & colleagues on the second lap use them, too many nutter stories for me, mostly male nutters.
Colleague runs a singles night in her spare time and that seems a bit better, still get a share of oddballs and weirdos.

Surfed and windsurfed a lot in my teens and early 20s all around Devon, Cornwall and S Wales.

As everyone has said, you spend a lot of time not surfing/sailing, spend daft amounts of cash on petrol and vehicles. (if you hang around the beach and load wet boards on your roof whatever you are driving will dissolve!) To improve you need a lot of water time on a regular basis and the comparison with snowboarding is unrealistic – you fall over on a snowboard anbd you can just get up, the hill is still there and you can start sliding immediately, in the sea if you fall then the wave has gone and you are padding out back again – it is tiring when you are learning.

I swapped to SUP when I moved up country from Cornwall, they are great if you DON’T take them in the line up and steal all the waves – they can and this will really piss people off, they are also the size of an oil tanker when compared to a shortboard so need skill to handle in the bigger waves. Because they will pick up almost any swell you are able to head off and catch waves that the rest can’t when starting prone so why fight for their waves?

But the best bit is you get maximum water time whatever the weather. If it’s millpond then you can go explore the coast, anchored boats, etc if it’s windy mine has two mast positions so I can stick a 6m rig on it and sail. And, if it’s working and there’s a good swell, I go fetch my Stewart. 😀

Guess what I got served in the local and no one asked if I was over 18 – still gives me a buzz and I’ve been legal for a couple of years now. 😀

@CZ – he’s 16.

Hat doffed to Cosima Towneley, the more trails we can legally open up the better.

No, you just need one of these.

@atlaz yes it was meant to be ironic but we seem to have misplaced the irony emoticon.

If he has such a problem with the ‘occupation’ of Australia then why didn’t he protest and demonstrate whilst he was living there, why travel to the other side of the planet? I have some sympathy with his argument in this respect, but Australia is an independent country whose residents are at liberty to redress the wrong if they feel the need. Perhaps we should go and disrupt the TdF in protest at the way the Normans sacked the North of England. (tongue in cheek emoticon!)

tinsy – Member
He is best known for his lovely garden that BBC’s Ground Force installed for him, it was this program that made him a household name.

I think it may have been his routing of the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars.

When MrsCat was still a Midwife we had knitted breasts all over the place, along with plastic pelvises (pelvii?), rubber placenta, etc.

Always an interesting experience for the lads mates when they came round.

My folks we about as straight down the line as it is possible to be.

Great video – what a complete crock!

@atlaz – it’s in there, just beneath the UK’s continued subjugation and pillaging of all her past colonies.(6:37) 🙄

Not alternative but a little different.

My lads hate it when MrsCat discusses personal health issues at the dinner table – the last one to elicit cries of “noooooooooooooo” was when she asked them “you do check your testicles regularly?” a couple of nights ago.

Let’s send him home, along with his family, and then benchmark all other crimes and misdemeanours against it. Anyone on a visa committing a crime worse than interrupting two boat loads of posh kids going backwards whilst sitting down gets sent back home.

Binners for King. 😀

There has been more than one too. This was the third

You threw out Mummy!
Just wait until Dad & the kids find out 😯

Check your body for any unusual lumps that move independently when you prod them.

lucien – Member
Better than trying to get your wood out of wax I suppose

Why, older women are more grateful, or so my young son tells me.

Shelob not got you yet Pook?

Breeding your own coat?

@Project – non-Cheshire/Mac reg plates – we should be ok! 😀

@Project – bloody hope so or the windsurfng kit will be redundant too!!! 😯

I feel psychologically violated!