Hayfield

There is no local riding round those parts worth dirtying your wheels on Dave. You could maybe try Alderley Edge at a push, it's about 15 mins away in the motor or something like that. It's all footpaths and the locals will deploy servants to chase you off the land.

Blimey what a day! Great pics

Jon, re amount of travel, the orange website gives full spec details for the bikes – http://www.orangebikes.co.uk

OP – do you work at McDonalds perchance?

They were on Sat

They make home feel like Tracy island.

The kevlar ones are v good, and they come with haribos too

I agree re bar mounted control. Adjustable seat posts without them are a flawed concept unless you're the type of rider that encounters a sketchy bit of trail and at that point is comfortable taking a hand off the bars and squeezing a lever under the seat whilst at the same time boinging your arse up and down on the seat. Seems a massive flaw to me!

What did he say when he zoomed through the tube and landed on the tongue with his assistant? Something about "must be Lancashire"? Cheeky sod.

I'm liking the new episodes so far – hell of an act to follow, and they're doing it well.

Next week's pormises to be all my airfix kits coming to life with daleks. Top banana!

Oh sorry, I thought you were talking about the proper blue army….

Xherbivorex – I got there about 1, did a 22 mile ride out towards walsden and back then finished off witha quick circuit of the red about 4 ish

Mine's the ks one with the handle under the seat and it really bugs me. The problem I have is Pulling the lever up with one hand and slamming my arse down hard and getting the thing to lower just when I want it to with any sort of predictability. At times I've even lowered the wretched thing as if it's a normal seat post. I've now taken to riding up and down the street practicing. It amuses my neighbours very much to watch me apparently grabbing my crotch and bouncing up and down on my bike. Think I need an old deserted runway for this, the humiliation is killing me. Not taking it on proper rides at the mo for this reason.

I shall persevere for now, but got to say frustration is mounting , and a bar mounted release looks an infinitely better idea right now….

Is there also some sort of gypsy camp breaking out there? Quite a few caravans and trucks there yesterday. They were parked up before anyone asks if there were trucks towing caravans round the red run….

Yak!

And it's all for charidee too!

Hayfield is fantastic!!!

Or put the fox floats with a different frame? There's a fair bit of life in them yet…

Pat, I've still got the old fox floats and that frame I mentioned. You'd be up and running then?

Lowey's right!

+1 for burrowhayes near porlock in exmoor. The riding there is bloody fantastic, and there are stables on the campsite so you can see the rest of the family off on gee gees and get out riding yourself. Love that area. Sorry, disagree re pubs – the beer there is all rubbish but that's true everywhere in the sarf innit, and seeing you live in east Anglia you probably won't even recognise the issue. 😉

low wray nt campsite on windermere and fisherground in eskdale are also good family sites with fab riding nearby. Beer's better there too, hem hem….

Hora, welcome to the world of cindertrackerella, where your bike gets transformed into a pumpkin if you're late back… Quickest cindertrackerella blasts from s Manchester are rides from roman lakes or hayfield, defo

You are doctor who and I claim my £5.

I skied in fantastic powder

I shall pray for their sins

crispy – that I cannot deny!

Reading this reminds me why I spent Thursday afternoons skivving physics round at a mate's house where he fast forwarded horror vids to the "good bits"

I can't believe there were no questions about Vibek Saugestad's video. Your quiz was a bit rubbish I think

This Vibek Saugestad video features a spaceman at one point

It's been a long time since I've been out in Liverpool, but it's got some fantastic old boozers that were tarted up by the peeps that did the liners in their spare time in ye olden days – thinking of places like the Big House or the Phil – do any of these show the footie per chance?

All furniture in space was purchased at Habitat, apart from the Russian Space Station, Tid. That was purchased at Ikea. And so was this computer(oops)

All furniture in space was purchased at Habitat, apart from the Russian Space Station, Tid. That was purchased at Ikea.

Yeah but it has a certain "right of package"aspect, don't you think?

I agree with miketually. See playing on bikes is exactly that. The joy I get from it is immense, cos it ticks the same boxes that have always made me happy all my life. Playing in mud – brilliant! Remember those days playing footie on the park where there was a massive puddle, and all the sliding tackles and dives occurred on that patch? Gadgets – LOADS of gadgets, more even than my action man had. Fettling – yahoo, bikes are sometimes like a big **** airfix kit. The adrenalin thing, tick.

And for me singletrack getting delivered is a bit like when my comic came through every week. I can't say that for any other mag.

I look forward to it cos it touches on stuff over and above bog standard bike reviews. I mean ffs, how much can iread about a bike? Benji's article on history of trails – blimey, I've developed an Unhealthy obsession myself for that. The article about the posh break- something else I think when I'm out riding sometimes. Jamaica article- something I've never even thought about, hats off for that. Quantocks feature – genius, an article based on riding with forum plonkers! Nice one.

Not read the whole mag yet, but bits I have read have been good.

I disagree with all this negative crap for one, but of course each to their own.

We set off from Broadley and did it clockwise in 1 day. It's a bit of a slog and omits a lot of the fun trails in the area tbh, but you know that before you set off of course.

It was fp to be fair. Not through his land or anything like that. He was a very angry man indeed.

We had a FANTASTIC experience with an angry farmer Wednesday night. He went truly mental, state of the nation speech with much effin and jeffin. He threatened to ring the cops. We just completely ignored him.

But maybe a little dance routine whilst singing wreck a party rock by kingkurt would be a better response? If we all did the same one all around the country when confronted by these people all the better

Learn to breakdance. Then go into the surgery pretending to be ill. When you get in her room alone, switch on your ghetto blaster and bust some decent shapes. Doesn't have to be breakdancing – northern soul or jiving will probably have the same effect.

The hucklebuck and that dance Racey did to lay your love on me probably won't work so well though.

Custard with bilberry and apple crumble, special.

What about pink custard from school dinners?

mike – my daughter declared herself vegetarian about the same age, on the grounds she disagrees with keeping animals to kill and eat cos it's cruel. Can't argue with that I suppose, although I still eat meat. She's 11 now, and survived ok! 😉