Shuddup everyone, you're confusing the guy! It's World of Twist….

world of twist – an example:

I bet it's World of Twist. If it wasn't them, listen to them anyway – they were fantastic!

yeah, you wouldn't want to take a helmet, especially if alone. I mean you might fall off and break it

top banana

fudge and coco

I wouldn't say they're low maintenance, bet that's also true for billybob's?

Riding all year round is the business. Enjoy the differences!

You could be sleep walking and peeing on your carpet without realising it. I'd ring the pope and tell him anyway. He should be aware of these things

Anyone that's appeared in ok, chat, hello, and all that stuff. All celebrities. All worshippers of celebrities. The trafford centre.

With you on the pit bulls binners, same happened to my daughter when she was 3.

Well I don't agree with execution, so could the above have a jolly stern telling off please?

We do it lots. If with the family, we tend to take in a stop at a Logis De France place. Get to see loads of ace places off the motorway by doing this, but it's doable in a day.

Don't underestimate how much longer it takes to go off the payages/motorways – it is really completely massively slower, but you do get to see some nice countryside

spud guns. Wandering around with rotting potatoes in our pockets. We stank.

We use them on bigger rides. Sometimes it feels overkill and they're not used all ride, but there are times when they're definitely useful, especially where there's no phone signal.

Also useful on multi-car convoys or camping holidays when the kids wander off and need summonsing for feeding etc. We take them skiing too.

I've got Motorola ones which are v good. Upgraded from cheapo units I bought for beans which did the trick but weren't so robust.

Jackson Sisters – I Believe In Miracles.

Big rides = soreen and salted nuts, but not at the same time…

the french puters' broke innit!

vondally – re what bikes… Last year between 4 of us we took an Orange 5, Orange 5AM, Commencal Meta 5.5. and a Spesh Epic if that helps?

You see a lot of people on big downhill rigs in storm trooper fancy dress, but we did it on bikes we'd normally ride in the Peaks, Lakes etc no problem. It's like mk1fan says – last year at least there was no downhill we thought we needed bigger bikes to complete, and there are sections where it'd be a definite disadvantage. There are flat bits, technical flat bits, and some climbs, all of which would be a right pain on a big downhill bike.

And overall we clocked 91km – possibly a long way to drag a monster bike!

dirt worker whilst the mud is fresh. Then every now again when the chain screams for extra love, I use the chain cleaner machine thingy with some neat Fenwicks in it, or take the chain off and leave it soaking in the stuff.

I recently dreamed there were crows in my bedroom, diving at my bed and dying, crow feathers everywhere, in my mouth even, kept having to spit them out. Much to the amusement of my wife, cos apparently I kept sitting up and try to spit feathers from my mouth. There were bullfinches watching. Oh, and there was a very menacing crow hovering outside the bedroom window directing proceedings.

I went on a ride in the lakes the next day, but nothing significant occurred involving crows or bullfinches.

Bloody hell! Never looked at the prices, nor will I again if they're that much….

What about indoor sky diving??? Kid you not. It's next to the chill factore
http://www.airkix.com/default.asp?css=1

There was a mega student v riot police battle in Manchester during the miners' strike.

The SPG charged into the mass in a v formation, with batons and riot shields swinging wildly about, people getting stoved in all over the place, pandemonium r us. The bright lights of the TV crews switched on, adding to the disorientation. And in the middle of this modern re-enactment of the fight scenes of zulu, there were 2 idiots wildly waving at the cameras. The one with the particularly silly psychobilly haircut was me.

Not just silly and proud, but silly under fire.

And there she learned to spell aerial properly…..

My daughter's 11th was at the Arial Xtreme in Knowsley by the safari park. That went down well

Where do you get merino riding buddies from?

Trough of Bowland area round Dunsop Bridge, Dunsop Fell, Whin Fell etc

Ah, was looking at that on sat, didn't know it's name. Those steps are pretty "interesting"!

Understandable what you did, but avoiding confrontation is always the best. Be like kung fu. Only respond with violence when there is no alternative. Grasshopper.

Grown ups worshipping pop stars is also a bit strange. Not talking about liking music which is a good thing, but the big fan thing. They should be in their potting sheds dreaming up new religions and stuff, and leave pop idolatry to the kiddies.

Speaking as a lapsed footie fan, footie as a game is fundamentally good. You put kids in an open area together, they like to kick a ball around. It costs nothing. As the skill levels increase, the game has an intrinsic beauty that couples individual skills with team tactics. That's why it's so popular around the world.

One of the aspects of footie I find bizarre relates to the obligatory hatred between certain groups of fans. For eg, as a Citeh fan, I was supposed to hate Man U, Liverpool, Leeds whatever. But then when watching England, all this hatred is put to the side so that fans can collectively hate the Germans, etc etc.

I know plenty of otherwise intelligent people who know what's right and wrong, racism not to be tolerated blah blah blah, then introduce the concept of footie and it's ok to hate Leeds, Mancs, Scousers, Cockneys, whatever.

Jason Mountford does a good routine on this. It's bonkers.

And better than Jedward even!

Having done the PPDS last year, I'd agree with what peeps are saying re depends what you plan to ride together.

Nowt on the PPDS (including the Pleney downhill) that we felt underbiked on. Between us we had an Orange 5AM, Orange 5, Commencal Meta 5, & Spesh Epic, and the only change most of us made was trying out superstar kevlar brake pads which were v good. We already had decent sized rotors/brakes on the bikes anyway. I guess on a bigger bike you'd just go faster on this stuff. Great fun anyway.

There is much harder stuff, and if your mates are rad gnarly DH doods planning to exclusively session this at mega speed, get big air etc etc, a beast of a bike starts to make sense.

Actually, you could try and revive it using offal from the butchers and some electricity from the mains.

At halloween you can use it like this:

Or maybe even this:

The kids will love it. Mwahahahaghaa

I like the idea of using beacons on the top of hills like in the good ol days. "Just off to check my mail darling", as I ride out to the hills on my bike with some wood and a box of matches….

Yes. I reduce the wine down then add milk and do same

Superstar Kevlar pads.

Line your walls with egg boxes. Sorted.

My main comment is you're bloody lucky to be able to ride regularly at a place I only get to ride occasionally on holiday! Pictures making me jealous in a nice sort of way tho

You generally need a powerdrill or power screw driver which you can use in both directions to use the extractors. I use grabbit. Youuse one end to drill the hole out and then switch it around to extract.