The london sleeper used to go all the way if thats any use??

I'm 6 foot with 34" inside leg, would the 19" be the best fit from you guys experience?

Fontmoss – what I mean more I guess is that they dont give you a lot of advice in my experience. I found that our works occupational Nurse more practical in terms of what to do activity wise and being preventative in terms of posture/ lifting/ excersizes etc.

From experience, if you can hardly move/ walk/ sit/ sleep etc., wait until the spasm subsides and then see an osteopath.

If its uncomfortable but you can bear it and keep moving then keep moving around sensibly, use ibuprofen and it will mend in a few days/ weeks.

GP's I have found are useless with backs.

sounds pricey to me unless its a very high house which requires a lot of scaffold, about a grand sounds right.

When am I getting a tour of those Dalbeattie secrets then :?: :wink:

Was in Evans tonight in Glasgow and the choices they had there in the rough price range were:

Genesis Altitude 10 and 20, lovely bike but a bit too similar to my PA

Fuji MT pro – felt a bit too racy?

Scott Scale

Felt six

The didnt have any specialized in stock at the time.

And to throw a curved ball they had a Charge Juicer road bike which looked very retro.

Choices, choices, I will do some test rides on Friday.

Have you not got a mountainbike?

yes I do but I am choosing my c2w bike at the moment and wondered if it might be a viable option, I will forget it after the posts above.

http://www.nethouseprices.com/index.php

Very difficult to answer that, how is priced against the local market, what position are they in for moving, condition of house, how long has it been on the market, have they had any other offers etc.?

Look up the net to see what comparable houses have been selling for local to the same house.

Anything else?

Basically anybike from Evans or Leisurelakes up to about a grand is available as far as I know. There is a stack of choice, but I have looked at spending the max so have honed in on bikes for 1K because you effectively get them for half price, interest free payments over one year.

Am also considering another road bike but know zip about whats a good one at this price from these two companies.

Ive got an 18" Kona Coiler Deluxxe frame with serviced shock and new bearings with forks, seat post, and other bits and pieces sitting in a garage gathering dust if you were interested in that. I rode it XC for a while with a view to looking forward to the downhill bits.

Depends on bike Ton, but about 19"/ XL size I would say. Looking at something for the Keilder 100 specifically.

scotabroad – you doing the Kielder then?

Thats the plan but kids sailing taking up this weekend and the next two so training hasnt exactly kick started yet!!

Trekster dont you be telling to many folk I have entered the Keilder 100 or I will have to go and do it. :wink:

Have not done nearly enough cycling/ training yet, although this week have managed to squeeze in a few miles, inc a cracking road ride around Hawick and Selkirk yesterday, some cracking remote riding to be done up there.

I would echo that about D&G Forge197

Wow! 8O

I'm still trying to do those manuals Clive, up to at least 3 inches off the deck now :wink:

OP – if you like Penmachno then you will certainly like Kirroughtree IMO.

Just did Newcastleton, trail rides well, but rain torrential and horizonal!

Dalbeattie paths clear today, very wet.

Reminds me of a documentary about undertakers. They had a very sober view on life in that they see all sorts of deaths at any time in life. So it made it very real that it can happen at any time to anyone. Quality not quantity as the gentleman above said.

Carp Diem.

mabie is clear, Ae has diversions due to windblow.

& Mr Yeti – troll somewhere else.

MF – lets agree to disagree I was there and sure it wasnt pretty on both sides, but trust me the guy was out of order.

You were crossing a road and got upset about someone driving too quickly? Perhaps you should have chosen a safe place to cross seeing as you were with children.

Often it is just a case of over-zelous pedestrians not liking young people driving cars with loud exhausts/music and forgetting their own youthful exploits…

And I think I would be a bit pissed off with a pedestrian deliberately staying on the road to make me slow.

MF – thanks for your kind words it really brings a glow to my heart when I see such consideration after what was a nasty incident.

The reason I didnt run out of the way was because my daughter was at the right of me and she could have been clouted by the car, so in controlled manner I made sure that gadgie could see me.

The reason I was crossing there is because its the only place that you can, there is a pedestrian island where you stop halfway then proceed when clear. If you take the trouble to read the OP you will see that I mentioned the fact the roundabout is obscured in the middle with trees so the driver cannot see all the way round. Highway code determines that you drive within your field of sight. The gadgie tear #rses round the corner then does not slow down when he is obviously aware of pedestrians crossing at the correct point.

Mr gadgie then stops and starts to kick off with real physical bodily harm threats.

Police were very considerate btw the way, as long as the **** gets a talking too perhaps he will drive in a safer manner and not get the next pedestrian that gets in the way (although I somehow doubt it).

Kit – no sow at all in Mabie right now.

Funnily enough I was on my very first skills course today after 12+yrs of proper riding, with Clive up at Mabie. He was teaching me skills that I had not even thought about. It doesn't convert you to a riding god in a day, but I found myself riding berms sweeter, moving around the bike better, cornering with more thought, picking different line & even managed a wheelie of sorts some thing I have never been able to do.

cheers Clive great day out and good company as well! :)

The worst (quickest) puncture I had was on the rear of an XT500 20 yrs ago, when a spoke broke and when through the rubber band and into the tube more or less instantly deflating it! 8O

scotabroad I will search that book out,,,, guess if I ever do it I will have to go anti-clockwise now.. "land on my left"

Ron Pattenden is the guys name but I think the book is out of print now, but if write to him direct he has some copies. He did a talk to our local sailing club. He took the title from the cyclist who did it, who called it sea on my left/ right or something like that.

Cancel the DD or SO and tell them to spin on it(politely)

ps. I rode round with one of the commisaires and he said there had been a load of loutish behaviour during the event and was less than chuffed with the minority that had spoiled it for the organisers.

So how much damage was done to the trails from BUCS then?

I went it round the Sunday evening right after the event and to be honest had ridden the loos stuff in pretty nicely. Rabs climb had a few short cuts but no real lasting damage to the official line that I could see.

I used to fany sailing around the coast of the UK in my Mirror Dinghy.. I never did find the spare couple of months..

A couple of weeks ago I went to a talk by a retiree who first went round it in a tandem with his missus and a jack russel in the shopping basket.

He then soloed it in a laser dinghy, and camped overnight wherever he stopped!! Barking mad, he has a book "land on my right". He took about 6 months to do it, about 3,000 miles of sailing in a small dinghy.

Not had this exact one, but did have one RF post bend, but I am a heavy chap.

No issues with Thomson ones now

I'm no expert on leverage ratio but I have a meta 4 with a float R on back with 250psi in it.

I am 18.5 st with no gear and I have had no issues with the rear suspension at all, in fact it works remarkably well.

Thanks I did use Crucial and found their website to be very useful and it seemed to be a very easy excersize, so thanks to all for confirming that.

I told the wife what I was going to do and she gave me "one of those looks"…

Mousetrap + peanut butter = dead mouse

not that I begrudge public employees their entitlements, but I do wonder how they can be paid…

explain further please?

Dare I also say as well as the great outdoors which are fantastic the cities have plenty to see and do as well if you are into that sort of thing. e.g. Edinburgh old town great for a touristy wander, pubs, restaurants, castle, Holyrood, museums etc.