Slightly annoyed by Google Maps who have changed the name of a house just outside of Uplawmoor (which incidentally used to be called Ouplaymoor).

It now shows up as Spinkie.

But the sign on the house shows SPUNKIE !

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=spunkie%20uplawmoor&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDUQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geograph.org.uk%2Fphoto%2F2756252&ei=VO8rUcOnCOm00QWMn4HIDA&usg=AFQjCNGqr5VZdQBmOam0hOyfI7g8ajBBxA&bvm=bv.42768644,d.d2k

Just back from Crawfurdland.

Plenty more for folk to do tomorrow following a good turn out today.

9am start time or just come along whenever you can. Mini digger and powered wheelbarrow were a great help.

Alex in the cafe is the man to see when you get there.

Handy place for an evening ride in the summer, being so close to the M77.

I can’t find the start time unfortunatly and it’s a bit late to phone the cafe. I will post tomorrow night once i get back from it for anyone who can do sunday.

I’m heading there for 9am.

I am trying to find out if there is a organised time.

You can of course have a ride round the trails if your early.

No charge at all to ride it. Free parking too.

There is a mtb trail there already which is 10km long. I believe the plan is to improve it.

http://www.craufurdland.co.uk/trails/

To get there, from the M77, head south through Fenwick Main Street and when your nearly back at the M77 you turn left onto Waterslap Road. Follow this for about a mile and you come to a sharp left turn. Straight ahead are large stone gateposts. Head through them and you come to the trailhead and fishery. There is a large sign at the gateposts so you won’t miss it.

I will try and find out the time, it is both days this weekend.

Edward Enfields (Harrys dad) books are quite inspiring for a gentle european tour.

Dawdling by the Danube (Including Bavaria and Poland).

Downhill all the way (La Manche to the Med).

Greece on my wheels (Needs no explanation).

He tended to average about 30 miles a day with plenty of sightseeing.
Some day i will do one of them, or two.

Got a type 25 in the garage. Was my fathers. He died 36 years ago.

Needless to say, it still works perfectly.

7.5 mm drill in case your wondering.

Perhaps he is resigning so he can go play for the other side ?

(Read into that what you will !)

Bosch blades and rain x.

Current blades are 3 or 4 years old and still fine.

Rain x means you use the wipers less and when you do the friction is lower.

Generally, at over 45 mph i don’t use wipers at all.

4 of us there this morning. My first time and i have to say i enjoyed it. Apart from one crash that is. Looks like it will be very well used, must have been 50-60 folk there despite snow and very damp conditions in places.

Nice flow to it in places though no one managed the steep climb just before the very end of the trees.

Will be even better once the last section up from the car park is done.

One thing is that the car park was completely full at 10am. Think an extension may be required before summer evening rides kick in.

Several friends have done full Accreditation.

One need to go back for part 4 once his collar bone gets better !

Everyone (bar 1) thoroughly enjoyed it. Accred 4 is pretty hard going.

And you will of course be insulating the 20×20 bike shed your building ?

Or better still, a workshop under the house.

Not looked at the pdf yet but i assume your going for mechanical heat recovery ? Aircon would be a complete waste of money if you insulate correctly.

I’m 400ft ASL south of glasgow and wind is the big thing here. Airtightness makes sense though i have seen some on the likes of Grand Designs where the airtightness seems to simply mean no flow out/in from the inner skin of the building. Unless your using kingspan everywhere you really want airtighthness on the outer skin. (allowing of course for condensation control).

Where roughly are you building ?

Some say, he has an invisiblility field !

Yip, dropped stuff of at the Milngavie shop too.

Alisdair always tells my daughter to help herself to a chocolate bar when we are in.

And hopefully this summer i will be saying ” why yes, i can afford those Chris King Hubs”, having as usual been on the receiving end of his witty comments.

Always amazed at the stock he has and the way he will say ” a left hand outer bearing race for a 1986 Campag Tipo rear hub…….it’s in that drawer there”. And it is.

Legend !

Just wondering if any other religions, i.e. not originating in the deep south of America, have any opinions on creationism ?

Budhism, Islam etc have been around for a bit (obviously not more than 6,000 years…impossible), so have their current theologists any thing to say on creationism ?

Oh, and i do realise that this may not be the obvious case as frankly in some parts of the world you still can effectively “STONE THE HERETIC”.

Google here i come. The truth is out there. Possibly.

If your frame is going to crack with the cold then i think your forks may sieze up first.

Or your bars snap, or your bearings/freehub/BB/headset etc etc etc.

Freehubs tend to go first i find.

Just be glad it’s not been on the telly (that i know of).

The Snow Roads Audax (North East Scotland, 160 miles) was on The Adventure Show (BBC2 Scotland) and sold out in 3 days !

That would make it even more difficult to get into the FWC.

Camphor wood is best for burning !

Horse Burger ?

We’re going to need a bigger bun !

I never buy burgers. I always make them myself. With Beef mince.

Probably !

So the car in front of her pulled out and she had to stop ?

Had she been driving (Ok, parked but still applies) with due care and attention, she could have realised that as the car in front was occupied, it was likely it would be pulling out into traffic.

Further to that, if you had been going any faster (within the speed limit) and she had stayed where she was, you would have just run in to the back of the other car. That said, he may well have actually seen you and stopped moving because of that. (if i have the sequence correct).

Thought the comment that people in general no longer make things was a sad reflection on British engineering heritage.

Obviously, like the guys on the show, every member of the STW massive can hand-craft a seatpost from an old coke can !

Did read an american book called “The case for working with our hands” that championed good old fashioned manual skills. And incidentally, the satisfaction gained from actually creating something.

Tom Cruise is to Jack Reacher as the little white thing was to Marvin the Paranoid Android.

It’s just WRONG ! STOP IT !

3/4 length shorts all year ? Hell Yea !

(Roubaix longs under them when 0c)

Difficult to say if “Africa” is better television than say “splash” ? Or Strictly dancing on whatever ?
Giraffes dancing on ice on a 10m diving board in a Gypsy wedding dress. That could work.

What a load of utterly mind numbing tosh there is on telly. Saved only by the natural history unit again.

Could be a thorn just, and no more, sticking through, they can be a beggar to find.
I ride on Specalized All Condition Armadillos and in 7,000 miles with them i have never had a penetration puncture.
They do only last about 2k each but good grip and puncture resistance make them more than worthwhile.
I have also heard the Gp4000 4 seasons are very robust.

SRAM PG990 cassette on mine causes no damage whatsoever. The previous PG950 did dig in to the freehub but i just lightly filed it before the PG 990 went on.
Have not used Shimano alloy carrier cassettes so im a bit puzzled as to how it would cause damage when SRAM is fine ?

Kermit Weeks at Fantasy of Flight has the majority of KB976 Lanc B10 stored in containers. She was very badly damaged in a hanger collapse and it’s going to be a long time till she is rebuilt.
I e-mailed them a few year back and there was no plan for a time to even start work.
I worked on her at Strathallan in the early 80’s before Sir William Roberts sold off the collection (still have the catalogue).
Had e-mail conversations with a RCAF Nav (Ivan Ransome)who flew in her in the Canadian Artic, he said she got them home a couple of times on 1 engine !

I have not crashed the road bike for 20 odd years but i still wear the helmet every time. Maybe it will come in handy one day.

On the mtb i have had any number of crashes, none of which has resulted in a proper head impact.

However, i have on numerous occasions, bashed my helmet off branches and such and thought “without a helmet on, that would have been really nippy”. So, for me, it seems to be sensible to have some head protection even if you never crash.

Not quite the same but i did once let my 12 year old have a bottle of Volvic Revive at the Hub Cafe.

She talked constantly, without apparently drawing breath, all the way back to Glasgow.

Its like so annoying man.
Trying to post a link on it from Road.cc about the crashes at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. One guy even broke his collar bone.
That’s why he did not make our club run this weekend :-)

Working on something involving a tub of Evostick in the hut.

Concentrating very hard on the part in my hand and really not concentrating on the fact that i am tipping the tub of Evostick ever so slowly into the road bike bits box !

On the plus side, it stops things rusting till you peel it off !

Boss in the late 80’s had one of the supervisors over his desk every morning. Both got in early doors.

Head honcho from the building opposite complained in person to our District Manager that his Forensics Dept staff were being very distracted, and that he would personally arrest the pair if they did not desist forthwith !

The HFX9 pistons corrode really badly. Well they would if they were not ceramic.

Had to replace mine, and they still like sticking.

Not very impressed.

Christmas shopping ? Naaaa.

No decent wheelbuilder would ever reuse spokes that have been through that. Indeed, any change of rim should have new spokes.
I think Sapim spokes are about £2 each.

Listened to it as a teenager. Lying in bed with the headphones on and the lights off.
Just as it got to the bit when the first saucers lid unscrews and falls off, a neighbour drove into his driveway and lit up my room with his headlights.

Change of jammies please !!

From his e-mail address he is Agent 0001. That makes him way more important than Agent 007.

YOUR IN SERIOUS POOH-POOH MATE !