@benw Are you sure you clicked on more, then export as file. I’ve managed to download it and open in in Komoot.

I wouldn’t cycle down the A6 it gets particularly nasty between Hazel Grove and Stockport. If you have time jump on to the peak forest canal it’s beautiful and quiet and has a good surface. Then the Alan Newton Way from Chadquirk chapel into Stockport.

You can get to Oxford Road from Stockport using various cycle paths. I’m sure a local could give you more accurate directions.

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I’ve not found trail forks very helpful in France vs Spain where it’s great. I don’t know about the Germany /France border but around the Spain France border the number trails is tiny compared to in Spain

I have / or have had every streaming device except Roku. The worst is Apple TV I’ve got the last gen 4K for Zwift on my wattbike I hated it particularly the remote which I believe they’ve updated with the new one but it’s way over priced to get apps on a TV. I really like the current Chromecast with Google TV but I lost the remote and my projectors USB couldn’t power it. So I decided to try a firestick max it’s been great so far especially as it works with my projector. You can get it for £40 in Amazons sales.

I going to my numbers on the spreadsheet I’ve not had chance as I’ve been away since it kicked off. I’ve absolutely piled weight on since the beginning of the lockdown. I had a couple serous injuries in 2019. I recovered by Feb 2020 and was probably the fittest I’ve been in my life however during the first part of lockdown I focused on keeping the kids active rather than myself. But one of the injuries returned at the end of 2020 and in 2021 I had surgeries on my knee and shoulder plus I was hospitalised after a freak bike crash. By New Year I was approaching 18 stone from 13. One problem I have I still can’t run and i associate running with weight loss. Well today I measured under 17 stone for the first time in ages and I’m planning to make big dint in the weight before my next hols im 9 weeks. I’ve gone low carb and I’m coupling that with long slow rides. I would hit the gym too but I’ve sprained both wrists in a OTB 3 weeks ago in the lakes and currently have no strength in them.

I’ve one 55mph on in Spain and the Mrs hit 60moh plus in her Dr Dew. It was a 20k descent with very few bends in it. I was on my early Carrea Gyphon with 19mm tyres and really shit brakes absolutely caked myself. I won’t go anywhere near than now. @crazy-legs was it anywhere near Sort, I think that’s where this hill was.

The missus is stupid she has the queen of the mountain for some of the road descents around her us. Which is saying something give m who rides around here. She’s never had a bad off

I was going to suggest lord of the loops too but the bit around the Woodhead is a bit meh. I’ve done it with full bike packing gear (no chance now without). So yes a 70 mile ride in the peaks is achievable. I did set off at 6am and was out fora boy 13 hours pedalling for about 11 of those.

I don’t see why it wouldn’t work a sup board weighs less than a bike. Use ratchet straps have the ratchet under the rack and put a towel over where the straps might dig into the board.

As usual with Planet X prices are all over the place I got the frame two weeks ago for £450 I’m sure that the force build was around £1500. The frame is now £900 and the force is £1800.

I have a GXC frame with the adventure fork i bought it via BTW so i’m probably not paying much over the GXA. I did have a Sonder AL frame on order but they lost it. I went for the carbon as i will be putting fancy wheels on it and using it as a road bike when I’m on hols but I’ve used a Al GT grade for years for everything from rough gravel to ironman but I now use mostly as a winter road bike.

I just picked up a On-one freeranger for my wife it was only £450 its the same frame as the Dolan but doesn’t have the option of the adventure fork and doesn’t come with a headset or seatpost or clamp.

We have live in the loft and have the same issue. We fitted sliding doors across and split the space into three with clothes rails into and we put Ikea draws in the three dead spaces. Its OK but I’m just now wacthing the missus crawling on her hand and knees through her clothes to get to the draws. I don’t keep anything in the drawers I need to access regularly

That’s exactly what I did the second time it happened , I understand that I should have span the cranks around before riding it. Ive never had that problem before normally the chain would shift into place maybe its the more extreme chainlines you get with 12 speed 1x. But its happened twice now with a new bike.

I thought this would be good way to get round the issue but most aero bikes have custom seat posts

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I got my saddle position slightly wrong in the Ironman, it was never quiet right as I was 50:50 in and out of the aero bars and afterwards I didnt feel my bits for 6 weeks.

Im actually registered for the half series including next weekend but a huge list of injuries and about 4 stone has ruled me out for this year. Enjoy it.

Coincidentally I was looking at the Lac de Cap de long last night to if you could kayak/swim in it. It always surprises me in the Pyrenees that two palaces can be so close on foot like Bareges and Lac de Cap de Long or Gavine and the Monte Peridido and it takes 4-6 to drive between them.

If that link was possible it would a really great ride. Where you planning to link back via col de aspen and tourmalet or the longer flat way round. I’m staying near Luchon this summer and could recce it it would have to be from Bareges and my kids are always sick in the car depending from Aragnouet.

@matt_outandabout No it was coming into Seathwaite half way round the Walna Scar route. I don’t know the path but at the its a bit of a boulder field. I was on a hardtail.

I had to ride/push the rest of the route with two sprained wrists and a staved thumb. I could brake but I couldn’t change gear. It wasn’t much of a problem as I pushed all the way up and half the way down. I was a seriously underbite/underfit.

I did go OTB last year on a freak accident on a gravel bike on a quiet road and ended up in Salford Trauma unit.

I’m interested too, spend a week in that area most years

Was planning just watch episode 1 last night after watching the first episodes of season 4 stranger things but ended up watching all 3. The pace of the show is phenomenal so much happened in the first episode at one point I had to ask if it was still episode 1. By contrast Stranger Things pacing was glacial

T5, but with 7 bikes and 2 kayaks and a SUP. I’ve given up on camping

Thanks I add I’ll check for that tonight too. I’m both case it occurred after the bike had been pushed and then resumed riding rather then during a ride.

I just received a new 5g SIM from Virgin. I think they may have changed virtual provider to get 5g

I love the Mandalorian, Boba Fett was rubbish until the Madalorian and Luke arrived.

We are enjoying Obi Wan thought episode three wasn’t out until Friday. So thanks we will be watching it tonight now

Have to agree that the kids understand this part of Star Wars through the cartoons but also the computer games apparently the 3rd sister is really hard to kill.

I work for an Anglo Swedish company. The Swedes always book meetings over Uk lunchtime if you did it to them there would be a riot.

I work in an open plan office the acoustics are dreadful there’s no soundproofing so there are few folk who speak so load you can’t hear yourself think but they refuse to use conference rooms

Assuming it’s Cheadle staffs as it’s a farm house and not a a flat in Stockport. Alton Towers is the obvious thing with CBeebies land just get a 2 for 1 promotion from somewhere.

If that’s not your thing the the museum of childhood isn’t that far at Sunbury Hall. The steam railway at Leek is nice too.

Im in France at the moment the X100 is 35O euros versus £400 in the uk I’ve convinced the boss that we should get one. Heading to the nearest decathlon on Monday

Has anyone actually used the decathlon drop stich kayaks. I quite fancy one just for messing around one lakes in France and the canals near me. I’m not interested in a rigid kayak and I won’t be going on Rivers or the sea in it.

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There is no way that extra £400 is going to drive inflation, I don’t need the money but I am currently on a fix till October I reckon that my bills are going to go from £2000 to at least £6000 a year. So I’m going to blow the £400 on C&H when I’m still down £3600. The energy cost increases is going to massively cut any demand-driven inflation way more than pissing around with a 1/2 % here of there on the interest rate would ever do.

I could do it if I had the time. Give me a couple of weeks to get fully fat adapted and at that pace it’s not even a challenge.

This is a much tougher challenge I can’t even imagine running 118 miles let alone with zero calories

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Not sure the point it proves. If you don’t eat and do exercise you’ll lose some weight. That’s kinds of obvious.

Personally if your not eating I think it’s more important to do weights to mimimise muscle loss rather cardio.

We booked a 9 seater Renault traffic for £850 it 9 days, 48 hour cancellation so we look out for better deal later in the year.

There are 5 of us plus we will have 3 massive cases when we arrive. Then we need to shuttle 5 people and 5 sets of skis around. I’ve seen a Passat estate, will that work

We are in some ways in a similar position to you. I’m not tight, but all our money goes towards three things giving the kids great holidays, saving for the kid’s Uni/future, and saving to retire A.S.A.P. I do spend money on bikes but not stupid amounts though my main mountain bike is a battered Boardman hardtail and nothing compared to many on here. I drive a Hyundai I10 most of the time, as my self-esteme is not wrapped up in the car I drive.

But I really resent tightness, I’ve just been on holiday with someone who would spend ages looking for the yellow stickered sandwich and would only eat at Spoons. I took him to the a craft beer bar in Keswick and bought him £7 330ml of beer it blew his mind.

But for me, the worse thing he did was eat his 20p Sausage roll in the beer garden of a remote pub in the lakes. I could see that the folk running this pub weren’t doing well, he really took the piss. He also lied about having a SUP board to save £1 on his campsite fees. He’s a good friend but I’m never going away with him again.

@twonks they were my favourites in the late 80s. I think I have about 7 different 12” of A little Respect, but I gave up on the in the early 90’s. In 1994 I was mostly listening to early chemical brothers, Underworld, Goldie, Orbital whatever Andy Westherall was remixing/producing at the time but one of favourites which I came too at the time which i still love is George Micheal – Listen without prejudice

I just did a week in the lakes mixture of biking, hiking and SUP boarding. During the week I barely saw a soul and the two campsites I stayed were dead except for Friday and Sat. Two of the rides I did were great two were out of my skill level but I didn’t put enough thought into them and should asked on here .

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You can’t put more than a years into your pension in any one year. We had consider this as we’ve been moving savings into my wife’s pension using up previous years unused allowances.

Theres nothing to stop you taking your salary down to the NMW via salary sacrifice, then making additional payments so long as it doesn’t exceed your annual salary. You can even put in more than 40k if you for unused allowance but you’ll have to do a self assessment form to get the higher rate tax relief back.

If you go 1011, you can do 101/ with three bikes, giving you more room.

Do you believe in God ? do you celebrate Christmas ? Just because you don’t agree with something doesn’t mean you have to be a dick about it, moaning about the royal family at a family party isn’t going to suddenly change others views live and let live. I think the Monarchy is bollox but I’m really looking forward to my week in France only using 3 days holiday, cheers Liz. Bonus, I won’t see any of the celebrations

I had a bad crash last year and was unconscious for several minutes. I was rushed to the trauma unit at Salford and my immediate emergency care was fantastic.

However I wasn’t given any information around the impact that the concussion would have on me in the coming weeks and months.

As I was working from home I went straight back to work despite having a fractured shoulder. I never gave my head time to heal and after a month I was in a pretty bad way and no way myself. I’m lucky I could call on my private healthcare and ended seeing someone at the Priory it was clear I was suffering from post concussion syndrome. It took at least 3-4 months for me to anywhere feeling normal. If I’d just rested for those first few weeks I reckon I’d have recovered so much faster.

I’d look out for an old Boardman hydrid pro, my wife has one and it’s essentially a flat barred gravel bike before they were a thing. Tonnes of tyre clearance, all the mounts for guards etc full carbon fork.

Ive just started and went with decathlon farmer johns and a neoprene bodied t shirt. I fell in Derwent water at the weekend and it was about 11C I stayed in for about 20 minutes and was fine but I open water swim in the winter. This question was asked a couple of months ago see the link

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Paddy, our kids ski instructor is also qualified mountain guide in the summer. He was great with the kids, we’ve hired him as a ski guide next year.

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