oh the love that dare not speak it’s name…..between man and road bike!

turns my stomach 🙂

The S&M is on it’s post and I’ve sanded it smooth. Might have to make a cover though as my arse isn’t match fit.

awesome thread, best in ages. Woody – is that a Kona Stuff? I sold one on here yonks ago just like it.

My friendship with you Monksie lol failing that, the Aston Martin Vantage I’m gonna buy when me numbers come up this weekend.

I feel your pain but my knees are too shot for running. As soon as I can I’ll be back on the dull-as-dishwater turbo trainer.

my green bike, awaiting wheels from Santa

and, my yellow bike

[fellow tubeless virgin pulls up a chair and awaits outcome]

I grew up doing ‘game’ and a bit or pier float fishing. Loved it all. All the game stuff was consumed with chips. All the pier stuff was chucked back in ALIVE ‘part from the odd garfish which was sliced and frozen in foil ready for the next adventure 🙂
A return to annoying trout is on the cards once sprogs have grown.

Tiz the time of year for it. Despite flashy LED’s and reflective clothing I was nearly punted off 4 times last week. Gggrrrrr makes me maaad. Praise the lawd for Elixir brakes otherwise there would have been some serious chafing/hair stretch injuries. On the fifth day I fitted the Lupo and shared it’s 900 lumens. Amazingly, cars started to move over for me. Go figure.

There was some white stuff at Flash (Buxton/Cat’n’Fiddle) as well. I blame the government.

My first bike cost £330 so don’t worry about cost. If you start getting serious about it then look at what others have done and buy something from ‘last years stock’. Barginorama.
In my opinion ‘good bikes’ start at about a grand.

bleddy ‘ansome innit, althought I reckon you probably could have got away with a smaller frame. Don’t worry about the weight, my FR is ferking tank but it’s still my number 1 bike for XC.

ditto “None at the minute”, I have needy kids who don’t sleep, gggrrrr.

does anyone ride anymore?

The tide has turned!!! We even got some sleep last night…I KNOW, CRAZY!
Boy has been dispatched to nursery and crawler seems alot better.

Apart from the odd day both sprogs are consuming and drinking plenty, infact the 3year old had two weetabix and a bowl of weetos this morning. Give it a few hours and that’s gonna get seriously messy. As long as they’re distracted you’d seriously never know anything was wrong.

paging Flash and his “Guv’nor” to the forum please

If you affect a Rab.C accent then the spelling and grammar is actually bob on.

That’s the second time for her as well. We lost one really early on and that was bad enough. Her head will be all over the f##king show.

you’re all amateurs! here’s one of Pat dogging….catting….. here’s why your post is always late.

jct 12 was sooooooo the way to go. Didn’t need any map/spacnav/luck. Had to use the force for the last mile but got here first time. From driving round i kinda like woolferhumptun. Itz glrate!

‘fraid not. We are meeting chums and staying at the Prem Inn beside the choo-choo’s. Would have gone by train but we’ll need the car through the day.

roll on Sunday and the voyage of discovery that will be ‘the journey home’

scruffy’s route will be route of choice especially as they’re closing jct11-8 exactly when I’m traveling. Feckers. It’s bad enough I have to detour on the M56. Could be a long journey this one.

I’ve got an Intuos 3 and it’s great but keeps losing it’s settings in Win7 64bit. A quick log off/on sorts it. Despite having the latest drivers I have to have the mapping set to ‘mouse’ which is a bit gay. In aswer to your question, I’d get the driver installed.

stumpy, this seemed nice

They’ll weird you out at first but I reckon they’re where it’s at. Here’s a couple from summer at about 5am. I didn’t even need lights after 4am.

It’s never good to lose one of the tribe.

Sad day.

Should we go to the funeral?

Really Outdoors

Outsiders

Mud & Water

(or my fave)
Wet & Soiled

Terraflirters

bike’n’boat

I win.

sorry I’m late….again

**** awesome ride! and that first Nic from yonks ago is mental cool.

xc-steve, I likez da cut of yer jib, (crazee rad pirate speak)

respec’

DIY 2×9’s are the way forward

aaaah le Monk est returna. Un S&M saddle maintenant!

don’t care, now sell me one of your specials!!!

luv

TRH

sorry I’m late! Helius FR nearly 5years old, bleddly looooooovely

The missus has one, it’s alright. I’ve got the 5800 chrome which came before it and imo it’s waaay better. For geekness get the 5800, if you just want a phone get the X6.

I’ve just discovered them too! where have they been all my life?

Highonbikes has got some green liz skins 🙂

cheers all

you’ll be able to pooh through this soon

bog standard bleach works everytime, none of this scrubbing bollox

ta muchly, got loads to chosen from 🙂

FunkyDunc – when he does start grabbing stuff try warm chunky mccain chips. They’re not as messy as you’d think and it takes them a while, allowing that all important vital time to stick some food in your own gob.