Kings Stables Road/ Lothian Road in Edinburgh is good – (coming towards the camera) two way into one way plus cycleway on pavement, then it just ends on the pavement.

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Eyre Place was another good one, though I’d imagine somewhat less sporting now they have painted the cycle lane red.

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Thanks TJ, that’s one black dashed line of delight and/ or despair ruled out.

Just for the record (in case anyone happens across this thread) the bridge by Carnachuinn at NN846937 isn’t there any more. The furthest upstream bridge over the Feshie is now about 2km south of Achlean (NN850964).

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Reckon snow down to about 700m in the southern Highlands. Good day of riding for us, but superb scenery – seeing the Black Mount from above Pitlochry is pretty good going in my book.

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CaptainFlashheart – Member
…”Tomorrow may be a chore.”

LOL!!!

Yes, between Livingston and the city of truth, light and beauty.

The hills are shale bings, remnants of the oil shale industry – basically a shale (fine grained sedimentary rock) with a high organic content. Sort of like a really crappy grade of coal.

Basically they quarried the oil shale, crushed the rock, heated it under pressure and a sort of oil comes out that can be refined into useful stuff.

You’re left with the red shale that was dumped in huge quantities all over West Lothian. A lot of the bings have been levelled but the ones around Broxburn and the Five Sisters and Tarbrax bings were presumably too big to do anything with, so stayed. Most are SSSIs as they support unique flora that can’t grow anywhere else.

One’s morale has been raised by some gin and a bottle of Crozes-Hermitage, but would dispute any attempt to assess one as “utterly pished”.

One must maintain morale but avoid severe correctional events the following day, what!

nuke – Member

Was just on mine…£2k+ just for this year and there’s still 3 months left to the end of the year

Anyone know if you *need* to put a copy of the invoice in if returning an item to CRC btw?

Nope – order number has been fine in my experience.

All well with order history here, but then I haven’t just set up a new account cos I can’t remember my login and expected the old account’s history to appear as if by magic….

You could piss them off, ask them what went wrong in their lives that they ended up watching CCTV for a living and find some bloke’s skillz on a bike worth worrying about.

Or try talking to the security blokes like they are normal people (give them benefit of the doubt, eh?) and get away with murder…and maybe get the vid of your no-hander to post on here.

Could get lucky with a cancellation or something new onto the market though I guess, but not much hope of being choosy.

A man on a bike MUST race another man on a bike whatever the circumstances.

FACT #1

If you look like you’re losing you must pretend not to be racing.

FACT #2

Yes it is a bit rubbish, but why are you going sarf of the river in the first place? Oh, and when I was in Fife and they closed the Forth Road Bridge to cyclists (cos of the G8) it was a 36 mile detour or £3 on the train.

Pedalo???

What Would Andrew Flintoff Do?

#3 for riding cross handed. I was ok for about 20m then I tried to turn.
#3 for not ending well…hit the road hard and pedal went deep into my shin (still got the scar 20 years later).

Best in restaurants would be Gaucho Grill nr St Pauls, and some place I forget in Jo’burg.

Since then, definitely home done.

Proper thick base frying pan (best xmas present ever!) heated to a point where you can’t hold your hand over it for more than about 10 seconds, oil the steak not the pan (with a smidge of butter so it chars nicely), the amazing ribeyes from Well Hung and Tender (http://www.wellhungandtender.co.uk ), Bearnaise per Nigel Slater’s Appetite, some garlic portabellos and garlic and rosemary roasted tomatoes and skinny oven chips (life is short enough, without dying in a chip pan fire).

And a good strong red (Chilean Penaloen or D’Arenberg Laughing Magpie are particular favs).

Frankly since I learned the way of the DIY steak, I never have them when I eat out as I’m always disappointed.

Glad you had a great time, though that is largely unavoidable at Glentress.

TandemJeremy – Member

I think people are to blase about GT when its localish to them

It is a fantastic facility with something for everyone. Very well laid out and with a huge amount of trails. Even when busy there is plenty room on the trails.
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I find myself agreeing 100% with TJ. What is the world coming to????

I don’t know how it became cool on here to hate Glentress – frankly we don’t know how good we got it living so close to a world-class MTB facility.

Yep, give Garmin CS a call. They do very reasonable flat rate repairs/ exchanges.

I was never comfortable with 170s on one bike (CX) with 175 on everything else – just felt wrong and gave me sore hips.

I guess my legs are used to 175s and everything had settled into that diameter – the mechanical “advantages” of 170s and 175s were clearly overcome by sheer pain and misery on long rides.

Isobel Campbell – love her stuff with Belle and Sebastian and Mark Lanegan, solo less so. “Is it wicked not to care?”

Also Sarah Cracknell (Saint Etienne) – floaty voice of an angel.

Ride hungover all the time (well, weekends anyway). Usually hurts like hell at first but it seems to accelerate the hangover and I feel far better at the end of the ride than I did before. Just make sure I drink plenty of fluid and eat something when I feel able.

There’s only been one time when it didn’t work, mate’s leaving dinner before he went to NZ – one of the worst hangovers of my life. Roomspin, shakes, cold sweats, couldn’t eat or drink anything, then had the boak, then the dry boak, forced myself out and felt like shit before, during and after. Only perked up with a gin that evening.

Glad the station attendant stepped in and so you’ve still got your ‘rat – was going to ask how the top tube was as looks like it’s had a bit of abuse. Reckon it’s new helmet time though, that ain’t going to buff out.

Just a thought – if you lock the bike up through the rear triangle it gives less “wiggle room” inside the lock for a thief to go at and also secures the rear wheel.

My burd’s hardtail:

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and her Jekyll:

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Update – found one.

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Don’t have a pic of the whole bike but some peepshow teasers for you.

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just don’t get too into hotel living, or you won’t get your trousers round your waist, and then you’ll feel like weeping then as well.

still, as a one-off, it’s no bad.

have you checked out the pay TV yet? 😉

Hub is about 150m and the Mast is about 600m so there’s a decent amount of climbing there. Depends what you’re used to, how fit you are and whether you’re a spinner or a grinder as to whether a single ring will be OK. Black is about 1,000m of ascent and descent and Red is about 600m.

Climbs are pretty long but tend not to be hugely steep nor technical. Steepest bits are probably bottom of the Kipps climb and start of Redemption (both on black), I usually ride most of GT in middle but drop into granny for those bits.

It is all doable on a hardtail but I’d go for the mid-travel FS especially if you’re there for 3 days, you’ll be less beaten up from it and enjoy your riding more IMO.

Anyone who says it’s not rocky should ride it on a CX bike. 🙂

it’s on the edge of a famous riding area if that’s a clue

dooge – Member

…cannot transfer photos taken on the phone to computer without a paid for app…

I just plug it into PC and it appears as a camera. Or you can e-mail pics to yourself full size if that's easier. Would be handy to send the file to PC by WiFi I guess but it's not a major issue for me.

Durham Police used to have a couple of Metro GTAs that worked the A1 in late 80s.

The Edinburgh TT was a seized criminal asset I think. haven't seen it for a while.

I remember seeing a Vulcan at Teeside airshow in the early/mid 1980s. It went down the flight line making the earth tremble, set all the car alarms off and then the pilot stood it on its tail and it went almost straight up, turned and came back down the crowdline in the other direction. Hugely impressive, you could feel the vibration and the turbulence coming off the aircraft. Ears were ringing the next day.

Would love to see XH558 in real life.

Hope you all had a good day.

Did the sportive, made it 99 miles so not a proper century ride (but morally it was!), lovely route through the edge of Southern Uplands.

Wonder how many people did the sportive in the end – my money would be on about 1,000… We set off at 0730 and ended up in a big group coming into Edinburgh, just riders as far forward and back as you could see for the entire route so must have been a huge event. Hope they do the sportive next year, but add a mile or two into it to make it a full 100!

Had some isotonic sports recovery gin and a small glass of red for morale tonight…

ps to the guys with big rucksacks and panniers – what was in there? A camelbak or pannier I can understand, a pair of panniers or 35l sack I can't…

EDIT – finest moment definitely having a poo in the portaloos in Douglas. And sincere apologies to the poor sod who went in there after me.

You got a nut needing cracked?

1988 Kona Lava Dome – don't have any digi pics, they would all be on film.

19" frame. Bought from Aire Valley Cycles. Ended up with Pace RC36 EVO2 forks, hope/X517 wheels and full XT kit. Eventually frame upgraded to a Kona Kula – the only bike I really regret selling.

Sold the frame to some bloke via Bikemagic classifieds, met him in a services on M1 vaguely near Bedford in about 2001.

Pic from:
http://www.klassickona.com/oldgold/98bikes/lavadome.html

Albert King: Live

"I'm going to hang those young guys by their toes tonight"

Almost 10 mins. Chicken processing plant. Didn't even get into the overalls. Wasn't the first of that week's intake to quit either…

Will get out on MTB tomorrow, just local, make the most of the trails while still dryish. First MTB ride since I did me ribs in in the Alps at start of August.

Sunday – Pedal For Scotland sportive, 100 miles on road from Glasgow to Edinburgh. Tidy.

By a professional comedian – midnight show at Edinburgh Fringe 2 or 3 years ago, Adam Hills and Jason Byrne. Now Adam Hills has a prosthetic foot and I don't recall how, but Jason Byrne ended up wearing the foot and charging round the stage, leaving Adam standing on one leg in the middle of the madness. It's hard to describe how funny it was.

By a drunkard. In the station, a Friday not long before Christmas, middle aged woman totally hammered tottering towards her train, starts to wobble, starts to topple, reaches out for nearest thing, unfortunately it's a luggage trolley, it sort of stops her fall at an unfeasable angle for what seemed like ages then suddenly the trolley launches across the concourse and she hits the tiles with a huge thump. Laugh? I nearly shat. (I think she was OK, just humiliated and a bit bruised).

By my burd. Playing scrabble, she wins, she's dancing round the room with her hand on her forehead with the loser sign (an "L" with thumb and forefinger). But the L is the wrong way round…

For tax purposes it's just part of your salary regardless of what it is called – same tax and NI as any other cash remuneration.

Spent the weekend in a caffeine-fuelled haze. Yay!

Just had the strong decaf (of that's not too much of a contradiction in terms) and that's really good too.

Only dilemma now is do I drink all the freebies and order at the end, or take a punt so I don't run out of capsules?