cant find this in any news / paper reports… i wonder if its some kind of viral ad

For what exactly? Bridgestone durability? Vodafone video phones?

I care.

No, actually i don't 😀

I'm hoping that in 2011, there will be a law that bans outright all Americanisms from the English language!

Gonna being THE prime candidate for the initial cull.

How do you know the OP isn't actually American him/herself? 😉

Nope.

thepurist – Member
1 – Pay off ALL your debts including mortgages
2 – Talk to a financial planner, not an IFA
3 – Ignore any comments from an internet forum

+1

Buy a house and rent it out, as people will always want shelter. You can always sell it if everything goes wrong.

Don't bother with shares/investments as there are to many variables, with lots of other peoples interests tied into them.

Just my £0.02 worth 😀

3/10 😉

Daily Mail anyone?

You survived then?

I don't think you took a big enough rucksack. You where lucky you made it al the way round without needing your flares and space blanket!

Your a fool i tell you, a dam fool! 😉

On the whole people who own and "fly" hot air ballons are very rich. This helps, like most things in life really.

Wear what you want, if anyone really cares then they really need to get a life.

+1

Now where is my day glow jockstrap?

Are you going to race? Or just ride a bike on road that happens to have thin tyres and funny bars?

If the latter just use the same pedals you have on your MTB to save hassle.

Chambery airport – Approximately 100km from Alp D'heuz.

DO NOT GO THROUGH THE CSA

I repeat – DO NOT GO THROUGH THE CSA

If possible arrange something with the Mother. They are an incompetent bureaucratic machine, once they have so much as your name there is NO escape. You will have payments missed/forgotten and then clamed for later. You will get threatening letters, aggressive phone calls. You WILL be treated as the bad guy.

Ignore this warning at your peril

If it really does go the splitting up/moving out route, try and talk and come to some agreement with her. It will work out far better for everyone in the long term.

Good luck, it's never going to be fun.

Keep your head up and ride your bike. It helps.

That was sarcasm mate. Like I say, I grew up in the country, and I don't mean a posh village in the home counties, I mean where land rovers are 30 years old and held together with bits of wood and baler twine and have a sheep in the back instead of Pandora and Zachary and a frigging bugaboo pushchair.

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I do live in the "home counties" and that is pretty much bang on. Quite a few 2010 plate Defenders are being driven around that have cleaner paintwork than most BMW's 🙄

I know this is really obvious but I don't think the intended audience for that article includes the anally retentive work-shy STW massiv.

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Beat me to it!

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Dorset_Knob – Member

Just because you live in the countryside does not give you automatic moral superiority over anyone who doesn't

Yes it does

Brilliant! 😆

So, are we saying its Ok to shoot dogs? Or are people the preferred option? This thread has gone on so long i've lost track 😕

More tea anyone?

I'm In. Solo. Idiot.

Peabrain,

When you use it's with an apostrophe, it's to indicate a missing letter.

The possessive is its: shoot its brains out with a gun, for example.

Apostrophising the possessive its is like apostrophising his or hers.

And if you wrote it is her's, or it was hi's, you would look like a bloody peabrain.

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That’s how you win an argument!

Spoil sport. You should have left the number in!

Carpe diem – Don't forget the spare tyre and mech hanger. Plus 2 meters of cable outer and some extra shoes.

Your riding the "back country" after all, anything could happen 😈

As for supplies, common sense really, water, some proper food and some jelly babies or similar and an emergency energy gel should you bonk, but whatever you do don't go loaded up like a Sherpa you won't appreciate the extra weight. (some people I see at Afan look like they are going exploring for a fortnight)

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I know exactly what your talking about, seen some seriously big bags going up the sheep track. Gore-Tex jackets, "riding trousers" and the compulsory camelback HAWG bursting at the seams!

Skyline is a two bottle and a Malt loaf ride. A great ride at that, have some of you forgotten how to pedal? 😉

Blimey silver shadows. They almost crippled me

Whimp 😉

Oh dear, is it that time again 🙄

I've never had any trouble with Hitec Silver Shadows, there light, cheap and have a tough flat sole so your foot has a consistent platform to push off/land on. As long as you build up slow and let your stabilizers develop, you should have no problems. Can't see why you need to spend £80+ on trainers that effectively stop your foot doing what it was designed to do.

#Tries to force lid back on the can of worms he has just opened#

chewkw can i ask you a personal question?

Are you a Troll or an Idiot? 🙄

Check the CCTV for Audi's in the carpark.

At a trail center? That will narrow it down! 😆

sram gripshifters

+1

Ive got a set of the long barrel ones that just wont die!

IIRC the scheme is under some scrutiny due to this kind of abuse. So, to answer your question…I give a ****. The more bad press or abuse the scheme gets, the more unlikely it is that other employers will have the opportunity to take it on, which means that people like me (who actually cycle to work) don't get to benefit from the scheme.

+1

Well said that man!

Well said Nick – At last some reason in this thread!

It's usually the paperwork, not the people that cause the problems. Not always though. Like every profession there are bad eggs.

he should know

I test them, not buy them 😀

You'd have to be a bit of a mug to spend £3k on a sofa. Having said that you are looking to buy a Lapierre 😉

Sounds like a job for me!

I second BordinBobs idea, as this will leave you lots of money for a bike. You know your only getting a nice sofa to keep "in" with the Mrs B 😉

Oh dear 🙄

What size do you have

MASSIVE

are you happy with it

YES

what size do you think is ideal?

MASSIVE!

But are they cheap? Or are they just reasonably priced, and everything else is ridiculously over priced?

I hope your not suggesting that Trek* stickers cost £400? 😉

*Or any other "quality" frame.

Someone will be along shortly with a formula. Just to let you know, it will be A LOT less than your hoping for.

Whoop whoop, dis is da sound of da (STW morality) Police!