Shot by both sides – magazine

Not that I am in love with her personally, I hasten to add

I'm in love with margaret thatcher, notsensibles

nukeproof 760mm bars & shorter stem on my Orange 5. Going to run same on my Summer Season I think.

hear hear – great issue for sure. Whinge factor on this forum doth my bonce in veritably

http://www.richardpricephotography.co.uk/ – Manchester based, rides with us

We've used la treille in montagrier. There's a mini downhill course a couple of miles away which is a bit of fun, loads of non technical vtt routes. Good set up at the gite, nice accommodation, pool etc etc
http://www.dordogne-gites.net/

Arbouretum – down by the fall line. I is chillin innit

I used to know someone that virtually died of laughter at the word "Chorley"

Don't drink the water down there. It's rubbish

There's only a small amount of technical stuff on it, but it's mega hard. I'd love to see someone nail those switchbacks after the gate. I reckon you'd need trails bike skills?

Does anyone know someone that's cleaned them?

Try it and see what you think. Glossop's v quick to get to from Manchester. You just ride about 8 miles uphill on the Snake Pass, and maybe the drivers might stop and encourage you on a bit. Then turn left just after the road starts to descend after it's summit. After a bit of a bimble about, it's downhill all the way back to Glossop. Doesn't take long.

Doctor's Gate, where one stormy night a doctor in his horse drawn buggy raced the devil and won. Some **** buggy he must have had.

The hard bit after the gate is crazy with interesting consequences of failure, but after that it's a bit of a wash out I think?

I've got it on my iPhone. Wouldn't rely on it to the same degree as a proper GPS on the bars to be honest, and I'd still carry maps anyway. The tracks it draws are rubbish too. It doesn't take way points often enough so you end up with a rough approximation of the ride recorded. It warns about this on the app description to be fair.

My geko 201 cost £60, and it's been dropped in a river, battered in falls, covered in mud, grit, soaked in rain, and frozen. Amongst other horrid things. Not sure an iPhone would be up to any of that abuse, and it's a more expensive thing to break too.

11 – I saw a strong pattern in the questions though

Gun metal Orange 5 with White forks, I was wearing a black ardbeg top. There was a big crowd of riders just setting off towards derwent as I reached the cairn at the top probably about 2pm ish. Other than that my timing was brilliant. Saw only a handful of other walkers and bikers, got back to the car just before it started chucking it down.

I was gettinb cramp on long rides last year. Eating salted peanuts on rides sorted it for me.

I did cut gate this afternoon. Just got back to the car before the rain started.

Chameleon – it's the bridleway between derwent reservoir and langsett

Well I'd have voted for the Susan Boyle on a bike installation art given the chance, but no one asked

Op – honestly, the best answer is night riding. If your alternative is 5.30 am starts, which is going to make you more tired? Think about it for a min, for at least some of the time during a night ride, kiddies are asleep so is not so bad. It's whilst they're small and awake it's quite tiring when you look after them alone.

The other way I used to get out weekends when my daughter was v young was setting off v early and timing it with when she was at her ballet class, my wife was ok with this cos whilst the kids plodded about allegedly doing ballet, in reality they were just being marshalled in vague circles like cattle. My daughter used to even wear her citeh shirt! Meanwhile, all my wife's mates could have grown up time together. If I'd have bogged off til midday, leaving her alone with a toddler she'd rightly have gone mad.

It gets much easier as they get older.

Hora, your comment about baby sitting did not portray you in the most positive light, nowt to do with political correctness.

Kiera knightley would be good I think, all things being equal. Which they're not

You do good voodoo you do

Hora, thou clearly needeth guidance to the path of righteousness

Ardbeg. Miss judy's farm by the faces

postierich – a curse on you!

Hora, I forgive you for your sinful thoughts

Ooops, a binners/finners mistake here! Pics as an apology:

And some Formula 1 hotel BILF action

Adam, these are no friends. Do you want me to persuade them with hammers?

In my new messiah role, let me save the world. Send me all loose women immediately.

just wear spacemen suits.

Rather scarily I predicted this volcanic phenomena on April 12th on facebook, and was expressing concern should I be dug out of the lava in 2000 years time to be discovered to be listening to the Dukes of Hazzard album on my iPod at work. Only I got the wrong mountain -I thought it might be Copley mountain. Just shows though, I'm probably the messiah and will also be shown to be right about Russia.

Send money, I will forgive anyone for cash.

The Russians are coming! Run away run away!

If you're really stuck, just go to grizedale and bomb up and down the bridleways between coniston and windermere. They're all good and you can't really get lost

Junkyard's pic of Walna Scar road being ridden:

Video of same – best with sound off at work…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/snowslave/3261006097/in/set-72157613504688104

You could ride to go down Garburn Pass from your door in Windermere and come back via Kentmere. Garburn Pass is fabulous, especially if you set off v early in the morning

saving wear on components…

We took out an apartment not far from Barcelona's ground, with a roof top pool. Great location for us with a 10 year old to consider, but the underground is ace and v cheap. Easy to get around, great food, very friendly, fab vibe to the place. It's kind of good to just hang out.

It's worth reading up beforehand, and picking up some of the history of the place.

We never had any problems with pick pockets, but then I'm a lethal killing machine and my daughter carried her flick knife and knuckle duster just in case. Seriously, the guy that owned the apartment advised to be aware of pick pockets, but that violent crime is v rare in the city.

It's one of those places I'd happily keep going back to.

Give me a tenner and I'll look after your car whilst you're away

I find it doesn't plot my tracks very accurately at all. It's as if it takes waypoints and draws straight lines between them. Not really played with it that much though