Impossible. That would conflict with the nuclear recycling plant and chemical weapons testing facility.

Brighter the light the better really, but you need to factor in what’s the beam like, run time, how well made they are, mounts, and stuff like that. For my first go at night riding I borrowed a set of lights from a lbs and compared with a mate’s. I’d say try some out if possible, borrow off a mate or shop or see if a local posse have a spare set. When you’ve tried it you kind of know much more about what you’re looking for really. Night riding is brilliant

Haha! That’s exactly what he does to us when we go up to the cross. He goes mental. Glad to hear it’s not just us!

No discerning taste – do you know the farmer that owns that barn right next to the crucifix perchance, you being a local and all that?

Ta for that naranjada. An opportunity to use the newly invented twisted wheels bike plough attachments (pat pending). I’ll take a camera….

Few of us riding round mellor tomorrow night. So basically you can still get onto the zig zags by riding around the pile of soil yes?

Doh, we could have learned southern!

Arse. Anyone got pictures?

One stolen bike in the op, 4 retrieved. Wowser, results all round.

Like badly wired dog says. We ride the peak from Manchester most weeks of the year. There are some bits best avoided in the wet, but lots of it is good all year round.

Superstar kevlar pads are good. Used regularly in the grittiest horridest peak and s pennines conditions as well as on alps trips over by a whole bunch of us.

Best ride in ages yesterday, Jacobs ladder, chapel gate, roych clough, coldwell clough etc. Conditions to die for, stunning views. Then isotonic beer chips and steak ciabatta by the fire in the sportsman at hayfield. Today someone could set off an industrial sized muck spreader in my bedroom and I really wouldn’t care less. Today is for smug glows and less smugly ordering a new cassette off tinternet. Life is good.

Yup great book that, well worth having

Ermm Don Johnson from Miami Vice with his sleeves rolled up again?

My stepmum took this one step further. Using the powers of tinternet, she truffled out relatives in the American Mid West, made contact with them, then arranged to visit. They could have been murderers, or pig sexing hillbillies, as I warned my dad several times. Turned out they were just boring. And mildly irritated by the visit too. So they inflicted one back, which iritated my folks. So they inflicted another one back. Repeat to fade.

I think sometimes these things are best left alone.

There are a few bits that get muddy, rushup edge comes to mind for eg, but plan for rocks and you won’t go far wrong I think

I’m northern scum and I don’t put ketchup (NOT RED SAUCE) on roast dinners. Neither do any of my northern scum friends or family. I suggest it must be Cornish scum or perhaps welsh scum or midlander scum that do this maybe?

Anyway, my hat is doffed to the Scottish chippies, where you get brown sauce on absolutely everything. That’s brilliant that is.

Since when did tomato sauce become red sauce? Stop calling it red sauce for ****’s sake.

For me there’s a special buzz when I discover a new bit of trail that I just know is killer and share it with mates. Even better if it’s the not even marked on a map variety. It’s all good though

It’s the same as buying a bike. Go to a local shop that knows their stuff, talk it through with them. Where do you live?

I think the gangster war between Wythenshawe and Moss Side is my favourite of Hannah’s – it’s clever.

Oops too late. Now you should buy long and sell short.

You should buy short and sell long, but be quick about it, these conditions could easily change

stw should challenge them to an argument

Plenty of duck action at both of those lakes too…. 🙂

As you get past Warrington it gets a bit grim to be honest. Try the other direction next but take in loops o sale and Chorlton water park, on towards didsbury etc.

Go towards Warrington/lymm. It’s ideal for what you’re thinking of. Most of it is ex train track. Wide flat straight as an arrow. Easy peasy to follow too.

Jim jones revue

Rishworth up to norland moor down to copley and back. Plenty to ride there

Dig your own hole.

Chemical brothers

We are all morrissey

And if binners is sad so am I. Bloody hell, a cyclical depression thing has broken out on a happy thread

hungry monkey. Your post has made me sad you bastard!

Oh yeah, and I’m seeing the Jim Jones Revue on Friday and I’m really looking forward to that

I had to go to that London today. I read privateer cover to cover on the train and enjoyed it. And I managed to get an early train home too. I’m in the quiet carriage wilfully ignoring phone calls, listening to some great tunes. And it’s a kebab ride tomorrow. And i had a fantastic blast on cut gate on saturday. One of those good vibe rides with a mate. My daughter’s 12 at the weekend. I spent ages finding the right pressie for her and after much messing about on tinternet I’ve found something I know she’ll love. Life is good

Just trying to waken the slumbering masses with that in mind mate. Watch this space, I’m cat herding, you know what it’s like… 😉

Phew. Just checking like

Mine arrived over the weekend. Initial impressions are it’s good. I’ll read it properly on the train to that London tomorrow and I’m looking forward to it. So ner.

A wunnerful spin off for me created by all the usual negative forum withering disapproval of absolutely everything is it led me on to charlie kelly’s website, which is bloody ace on oh so many levels. Loving the journal of how his folks got to the west coast too.

Chorlton cum hardy. That’s Chorlton as in the wheelies. Hardy as in kiss me hardy. Cum as in nsfw. Don’t blow it up just yet please Adam, We’ve kebabs to munch

Peter poddy, that’s europe’s soreen mountain you’ve discovered. Got gps coordinates?