that section has been 70mph for 50 years and few people stick to the new 50mph limit.

So, the safety issue is not the cyclists but drivers breaking the speed limit?

One has been there from early this year and is in through an air brick in the corner of the house.

I’d be a bit careful with that. Got called to a house because a circuit breaker for the downstairs lighting kept tripping. Within a few minutes of us arriving we heard a POP and the breaker tripped.

We eventually tracked the popping noise down to under the floorboards in a first floor bedroom. The Lady of the house then pointed out that there was a wasp nest there. They had entered through the air brick. She had the exterminator there the day before and he had squirted the air brick. We decided not to lift the floor boards as it took a few days for the wasps to die off.

When we did lift the boards we found that the wasps had come in through the air brick, passed through a hole in one of the joists, and set up shop there. The hole in the joist was where the lighting cable was passing through and the wasps had chewed through it to increase the size of hole.

Every time we heard a “POP” sound was a wasp crawling over the exposed cores of the cable and exploding. There were bits of them everywhere.

It could have caused quite a serious fire.

I have been using a Cateye Rapid mini[/url] for the last year.

Most excellent.

Thought the Nolan/Bale batmans were tosh, much preferred Dawn of Justice

😯 Blimey.

Meanwhile, in the Brexit camp…

Appropriate that someone in the clip has that particular moustache.

Just had a listen to that lot up top, and reminds me of the Drummers that were around when I first started playing drums, the Dave Weckl’s, Neil Pearts, and the Gary husbands.

They are technically very very good, but it ain’t what music is.

Hawker sea Fury.

I had a Pioneer minidisc player, two sony MD walkman’s which I used with a sony mic to do live recording, and even had a Pioneer MD/radio player in the car.

The irritating thing is that the mic is excellent for recording, but only works with Sony gear. I’ve got them knocking about in the attic somewhere.

The city state of London.

If you are riding out of london, take into account that the wind is from the south west and can be a bit annoying riding into it along the exposed parts of the river.

I think it’s a perception thing.

Its a belonging thing. A form of conformity.

A friend of mine moved to the cirencester area a few years back, and he could be best described as a pinko commie compared to the locals. He now owns a range rover to take his offspring to school, got a gun licence for his shotguns, and I learned recently that his wife who does baking for dinner parties etc, that its is frowned upon to buy your pastry already made from a supermarket, you have to make it yourself.

I love the way people can “frown upon” certain things, when in reality they are being back stabbing bar stewards when you are not around. Middle england is full of snipers.

I wouldn’t last five minutes there without extending my middle finger at everyone and everything.

Its about whatever class or social circle you want to belong to. Its about fitting in, its sameism and its a little bit shallow.

KRYTEN:
I’ve never seen anything like this before. A group of men who display all the normal life-signs, but seem totally incapable of movement.

HOLLY:
Never seen QPR play away, then?

I can understand the need for powerful flashing lights front and rear, particularly in London, but most riders commuting through richmond park leave them on FULL BLAST, there are no street lights and enough light pollution reflecting off the clouds most nights so you can ride without lights on full.

Just a minor irritation of mine. Carry on.

Brother in Law has recently bought a 2012 Vito. I do believe that from 2007 they galvanised the body, so they shouldn’t rust like the earlier versions did.

Nice interior, he is converting it to carry a rear bench seat, and pop windows into the sliding doors. The handbrake is a foot brake, takes a little getting used to, and the van is rear wheel drive.

I would hate to think what repair costs would be like.

Have you looked at Vivaro/trafic?

Got one of those, quite an old one, built to a price…and it shows.

The Sweeney.

Great theme tune and I was only allowed to watch it very very occasionally if my mum and dad forgot I hadn’t gone to bed.

I used to watch it live. They filmed quite a lot around the back of shepherds bush where I grew up.

I watch it occasionally, and it brings back the memories of the corrugated steel fencing, the wasteland we played on, everyone’s second home,(the pub)and all the social housing that was being re-built at the time.

Tis a shame that London has filled up with ar*eholes since.

Can I learn to drum, well, at 37?

Why not?

Twenty-two minutes late to the thread, badger ate a junction box at New Malden.

I wish the badgers would eat all of New Malden.

A) why, with all the care and attention in the world do mine only last a couple of months?

Because they are halogen.

B) Any reason I can’t straight swap the duds with LED version of the same?

No reason at all.

In through the out door, much like what Prince had written in the song Raspberry beret,but not like with boy George or anything.

Its great that there are quite a few people here who like watching technically gifted drummers play.

It makes up for me who finds it completely boring.

Got a few Helly Hansen base layers which are good, but also have a DHB active base layer which is also pretty good.

Started buying bits and pieces earlier in the Summer.

dhb Active Thermal Long Sleeve Jersey[/url] Bought it in black, haven’t tried it yet…its still Summer.

Also bought these as my last pair lasted 10 years: 661 Storm Gloves Not good for below freezing, but ok for the general Winter weather we get down here in the shandy drinking softy southern lands. I can put glove liners in them as well.

I’m a bird-murdering, sheep-worrying, landscape wrecker.

Shouldn’t you have included “Greggs stalking” as well?

Finished 17th in the male team of three category. Course was tougher than I thought it was going to be, with no real flowy single track descents. Great fun in the dark. Bike developed an awful creak on the second lap, which I think was the Bottom pivot bearings giving up.

Didn’t hang around for all the prize giving, would have if there was an award for “best comedy bike dismount in the transition area”, I would have won that hands down.

I’m going to pretty much go against what everyone else has said and say buy an inexpensive electronic kit.

Snare stand, practice pad, pair of sticks, book of rudiments. When he can play everything in the book to a decent tempo buy him a kit.

That’s one way to kill the enthusiasm. It would also be better for you and your neighbours sanity not to have an acoustic kit either.

but playing on a kit is more fun and it is all about the fun at the end of the day

At that age it should be fun, this may only be a passing phase as well, so you don’t want to shell out too much initially.

If it becomes more serious, then lessons and better kit.

Ever since he started he has gone through drumsticks like there is no tomorrow and nothing he or his drum tutor has tried with him has stopped him breaking sticks.

1: How often does he play? Wear and tear on sticks,
2: What music is he playing? How hard is he hitting stuff,
3: In a studio with his mates? Everything turned up to 11(also see 2).

I use promark sticks in Japanese oak. These are a harder wood than American Hickory and the like, and tend to splinter rather than snap like Hickory. Of course, this is entirely dependant on the style of playing.

I haven’t broken any sticks for ages, mainly due to my more sedate style of playing these days.

Can I also suggest he wears earplugs if he is not already.

Apple is the most valuable company in the world, worth nearly double the next closest on the list.

This clearly demonstrates how many suckers there are around the planet buying their stuff.

I still have a pair of Psylo Xc’s knocking about in a cupboard somewhere, TFT did some work on them to make them a bit better. I only took them off one my bikes a couple of years ago.

Utterly shit. Every time you felt it was getting it’s groove on, it would hit a gate, or a bitchy climb that killed all momentum and flow. Almost like it was designed for people with dropper posts. As in, “ooh, here we go! *Drops post* Woop, woo oh bugger. *Raises post* Bitchandmoanupaclimb. Repeat.”

Similar at Swinley. Height is lost(not a lot of height in the first place) far too quickly in pursuit of the “woop”, then a climb back out. Particularly on the blue. Perhaps I’m being old fashioned, I presume this is what’s called the open trail design, but the trail doesn’t flow.

Both the blade trail and the stuff at Swinley were designed and built by the same people.

what happened to gomez and mansun i wonder?liked their music.

Gomez are still no doubt playing that bloody instrumental bit in a gig I saw them play in the late 90’s. It had the feeling it was going to go on forever, so I left.

They are still recording and touring.

Mansun, You will never see play live again. Paul Draper the singer is currently recording an Album for release soon.

His Twitter feed.

Did anyone else get a mental image of Chuck Norris riding up Everest on a 1980’s era steel frame fully rigid while reading this?

Chuck must have visited the south of England and not been happy with the mountains here, roundhouse kicked them out of existence, making us all “leisure cyclists”.

The FC “insure” themselves I do believe, as no insurance company would take it on.

My group deals with a private landowner, and we have separate insurance for building trails AND for the “public” to use them, as general landowner insurance policies exclude stuff such as mountain bike trails from their policies.

Liability is a very big issue.

Just buy a Honda and stop worrying about the car breaking down.

That’s probably what Mclaren thought when they signed up Honda as an engine partner.

pick the sales, most of my pricier kit lasts years.

Indeed, but I have had a pair of DHB 3/4 bib tights for about 8 years, and they are still going strong.

+1 for DHB

+1 also.

I don’t like the usual cycling Jerseys, so tend to go for stuff like this: District T-shirt.

Have a few of these, for everyday use and for the bike.

This kit was recommended to me by a music teacher couple, they have this kit themselves & said that the mesh head on the snare gives a much more realistic snare drum feel –

Mesh heads are good.

Electronic kit.

I have an older version and my Nephew has a new one. They can’t beat the real thing, but for practice at home using headphones(for your sanity), they are pretty good.

Well said @5thElefant. We have a Conservative government which supports the NHS and a budget of £140bn a year of Welfare (even if that’s £12bn less than we currently spend). That’s left of centre politics globally.

Its certainly an efficient way of transferring public funds into the pockets of private enterprise, more of which will now be happening, leaving less to be actually spent on the public.