Most days. Except when it’s too cold, too wet, too muddy, too hot,too cloudy, too windy or too far.

Which is most days

Sold my Kona Hei Hei (the Ti hardtail, not the current FS thing) and put the money towards a Moots because I wanted disc brakes.

Things have just never been the same since.

I know what you mean. I’m getting lots of pleasure from putting a home workshop together at the moment, permanent stand, bench, peg board for my tools – all hanging neatly – that sort of thing.

It’s even all in matching ‘park tool blue’ as well. How bleedin sad is that?

Crikey.We’re all getting on a bit aren’t we

If by mountain biking you mean crashing down quarry slopes in East Tilbury on my dads old sturmey archer steel bike, onto which I’d put ‘stag’ handlerbars and spokey dokeys. Then 1983/4

If you mean actually owning a proper mtb. 1987.

Rudeboy – I feel your pain, even remembering the crap I had to put up with a couple of years ago when trying to sort business broadband fills me with rage. I ended up emailing the CEO a guy called vanmayan ..or something. Within 2 days what had taken them 2 years, got sorted. Funny that.

I still enjoy leaving them on hold/speaking in stupid accent/letting them think they’ve sold me something/completely contradicting myself etc whenever I receive a sales call from them, which I still do. Even though we don’t even have BT here in Guernsey!

Immature I know. But **** ’em. Stupid tw*ts!

Recently bought a workstand from CRC which arrived quickly but with a part missing. Emailed CRC who ordered new part which is now in stock – took about a week.

The impressive bit was that before they dispatched it they bothered to email me again to check what I needed and pointed out another bit that I had missed.

Kept me informed throughout. Well impressed!

God you lucky feckers. I wanted ALL those bikes at one stage or another of my childhood.

All I ever got was catalogue rejects (mum worked at Freemans)with names like ‘super 16’ and ‘Tuff Terrain’

I’m sure my obsession with expensive bikes has something to do with being so deprived as a kid

Oh Bollix! I give up. It’s a very nice MOOTS btw

New Inn, Appletreewick. Bloody brilliant place to stay. Check it out here

Get a two toned bike red and blue or blue and red.

What is this new fangled type of ‘red AND blue’ bike. That’s just plain crazy talk

Will the red one be faster?

I used to go cycling with a guy that murdered his mates wife. Bashed her head in with a lump of wood. And drowned the cat.

I went with him to help him choose his first MTB. Kona Lava Dome.

Steel it was as well

Took them a week to sort my issues with a missing part for a new bike stand.

Emailed me 3 times though to keep me informed. I was pretty impressed with how they handled things actually.

The road bike, the mountain bike and the work bike

Moots Rigormootis.

£1500 on a Moots frame. 6 years ago

Got my Ronins done by them just before Xmas. Did a good job £80.00

I don’t get why the house prices are affected. I’d pay top whack to live next door to a porn studio! **** me. A PORN STUDIO!

**Looks over shoulder to make sure wife is not in the room**

How does that quote thing work now anyway?

nah, I reckon any man who thinks Kylie is unattractive should be the one to have their sexuality questioned

Funny that I was just explaining the whole Friday Kylie thing to my girlfriend. Her response “That means a lot of gay people are on there”

My feelings on the talentless antipodean are well known!

Been a while since I was involved in this kind of financing but IIRC it is only under a regulated agreement that you have the option of returning car without incurring further action from the HP Company- and that is dependent on how much of the total amount payable (i.e.cost of car + interest)you have actually paid

It sounds as though the shortfall is due to the difference between the value of your car and the ‘balloon’ payment due to the HP Company? Correct me if I’m wrong

You should check your copy of the agreement you signed to see what rights if any you have, but from what you say it seems doubtful. You could try returning the car and hope that the shortfall is simply written off by the financing company and this will depend of course on how much we are talking.

I would suggest that pursuing the whole deficit with the dealer will prove fruitless – as you say it was all verbal and you have signed a HP agreement.

One other thought-is it unregulated due to the amount or because you bought through a Ltd Company. If the latter, and you have not provided a personal guarantee, you may be able to avoid any personal repercussions.

Also, if you decide to pursue the dealer, be aware that there are two types of leasing agreement. One where you bear the risk of reward and ownership and the other where the finance company does, i.e. Contract Hire.

Happy to discuss this off forum with you if you prefer and you think it might be useful. Email address is in profile

You did sign the agreement though. Was it a regulated or unregulated agreement?

Moved to the Channel Islands 3 months ago. Have pretty much had to move to the dark side since leaving the UK, doesn’t stop me spending money on the MTB though.

Have to say that the thought of owning a Moots was better than the real thing. It was all a bit underwhelming TBH

Try this

We stayed here about 4 years ago. Was pretty decent hotel and good value for money. TBH with somewhere like Marrakech you’ll be spending very little time in your hotel room so I’d recommend not splashing the cash on accomodation and spending it on shopping/food/day trips instead. I was only there for a long weekend though….

Lawyer with a global financial institution. Interesting times at the moment but usually dead boring. Unfortunately I meet some real twunts in the job but it pays for shiney bikey things and I get to travel a lot

Living in London in the late 80’s I used to cycle everywhere and it never even occured to me to get a car.

For my 18th in 1987 my parents bought me a Marin Pine Mountain which I put slicks on and used as an ‘urban’ bike for a couple of years but then used for its real purpose when I moved away from London.

It just grew from there.

I’m 40 today and that bike was still the present I’ve ever been given

Nice one. Glad you liked it. Barden Moor is a decent mornings ride.

Hi pscycle – Lanes no problem at all for your Renault. Try the Red Lion – in Burnsall – next village along, or some where in Kettlewell or Threshfield.

The first time I ever visted the Dales with a bike, I stayed in Harrogate and drove the 30mins to the New Inn – who let us stay in the car park for 3-4 hours whilst we set off on a loop. Skipton is a good bet as well. There is a campsite opposite the New Inn also if that’s your thing.

Oh, meant to say, took Mrs SP there. She is rubbish at cycling, but she still loved it once, we’d found some flat bits for her.

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It’s been a couple of year since I last visited but can highly recommend B&B at the New Inn at Appletreewick in the Yorkshire Dales. Bloody brilliant pub plus fantastic trails from eay to hard all on the doorstep. Good food served at the New Inn or there are a couple of decent restraunts 10-15 mins away.

Stable at the back of the pub has been converted to a cycling livery. Workshop/spares/storage.

Used to speciliase in foreign beers if I remember rightly…