Come and give it a go – the more the merrier!!

It’s a fun event ernie67, so you can ride as you see fit. My advice would be to enter the 30 and see how it’s going when you get to the split. I reckon that once you’re riding and full of adrenaline you’ll be fine and make it round in one piece. Don’t worry, we’ll look after you if there’s a problem.

Did I mention that the bacon butties are still only £1.00 each?? :-)

Still plenty of time to get your entries in the post ready for Sunday 10th May.

Last 2 Sunday Club rides:

81.3 miles at 20.3mph ave. 4,200+ft ascent
90.2 miles at 18.9mph ave. 6,200ft ascent

Tight group formation with rolling rotations on the front, which obviously helps up the average. You’ve still got to pedal hard though!

Just to clarify:
The event starts at 9.00am – so you need to be arriving earlier than that to park up, register, use the loo etc etc
There will be entry on the day – but that will cost £22 as opposed to the £17 for pre-entry.

It’s like summer here in t’Udders at the mo, the trails are baked dry and dusty.

Get those entries in the post whilst it’s fresh in your mind and come and test yourself over some great terrain.

Save yourself lots of time and effort and just buy yourself some nuun tablets. Problem solved. Really. They just work, trust me. Use as directed and say goodbye to cramp!

I’m signed up to the STW 500 mile/month group, so all my stats are there to browse through at will. Sunday mornings are usually Club rides, unless I’m ‘racing’ the MTB somewhere, so my fastest rides will be on that day.
I think my ‘total’ average is around the 14mph mark across all rides, which will mainly be down to MTB rides and that I lead the Steady Eddies Tues Club run where I lead from the back and always climb with the slowest rider on the night.

My fastest ever recorded ride was 84 miles at 20.6mph, which was Hudds to Tadcaster and back over terrain best described as rolling. That’s the only ride I’ve ever managed to get an average of over 20mph. My fastest 100 took 5h 2m for an age of 19.9mph! I think (all my rides are on Endomondo and I cba to check back) that there’s around 3500ft of climbing for both those rides, but they were club runs with plenty of rotation on the front and in good summer conditions. The fastest I’ve managed solo is about 35 miles at 19.5mph over a flattish (mebbes 1200ft ascent) training loop that’s an out-and-back with plenty of traffic lights etc.

Well we’ve been blessed with awesome weather up here this week, drying out the trails nicely. Get your entries in the post before you forget!!

Hahaha, just seen your post Al. Are you coming down with Devs for another go?

Hora, I’m the same height as you and a similar ‘solid’ build. Not a chubber like you, obviously, but I used to be before I started riding loads of miles a month. I’ve only ever used these bibshorts and they’re incredibly comfortable and fantastic value for money too. Especially as they’re on offer from Ribble at the mo, with £20 off. You’ll want the XL size.

Lusso Pro Gel

Le singe est dans l’arbre…

White Spirit FTW!

Well Mint Imperial, from this very Parish, is in already!
Cheers Tom :D

Cheers chaps, your support is very much appreciated.

I chased an annoying creak for months. I eventually found the cause….
when the drive-side crank sheared across the pedal thread!
I paid for that ‘discovery’ with a bruised right plum…

Hmmmmmmm, I kept the house and contents, and was awarded full custody of both daughters. It can work out more ‘favourable’ to the bloke if the circumstances dictate as such.

Bloody hell Nick, you’ll be retired before you finish that if you try to board between the joists. Especially buggering about with all that (currently) exposed wiring. If you want an illusion of height, then board it on the joist bottoms and get someone to paint a picture of a nice blue sky on it!!

Why not just take it back and swap it for a *Scotland kit?

* delete and add appropriate national team as applicable.

Carlsberg would do it much better. Probably…

It was rice while it lasted, but if he’d not strudel-ed to come to terms with all the waffle it generated then he’d have been able to dine out on the story with the occasional mille feuille two…

I’ve been Satin all week waiting for news. Glad you got a lovely finish and didn’t need to give him a good pasting.

The answer is a pair of Schwalbe Marathon Plus MTB tyres. You’ll need a crossbow to puncture them bastards!

Don’t even think about the summer bike until the clocks change! Even then think long and hard before taking the chance.

Barry at Firth’s Cycles in Queensbury is a top bloke and a top wrench too. Highly recommended.

Well this has been a lot of fun…

Every other post I’ve made shows a £25.00 refund and how it has been worked out. I simplified the events because people are saying that the refund was the admin charge, which it’s not.

He pays £329.00 for Item B

He takes it back. They charge him £25.00 admin fee for opening the box.

£329.00 (Item B) minus £25.00 (Admin fee) = £304.00

He now has £304.00 ‘credit’ with which to make a purchase.

He chooses Item C for £279.00.

The difference between his remaining £304.00 ‘credit’ and his £279.00 (Item C) purchase is £25.00

They refund him this £25.00.

He has therefore paid £279.00 (Item C) + £25.00 (Admin fee) = a total of £304.00

Drac – trolling from a mod is poor form.

AND THEN THEY REFUND ME £25 ONTO MY CARD

No they don’t – not in the way I just described the transaction(s)

I simplified the description to show that you paid an admin fee that they DID NOT REFUND.

Your telly cost £279.00 and you paid an additional £25.00 admin fee because you opened the box of Item B.

£279.00 = £25.00 = £304.00.

Just for Chewkw

He pays £329.00 for Item B.

He takes it back and asks for a full refund. They say no, because he’s opened the box, and charge him £25.00.

They refund him £304.00 (£329.00 (Item B) minus £25.00 (Admin fee))

He has now paid the shop £25.00 and has bought nothing.

He then buys Item C for £279.00.

Therefore, he has paid the shop a total of £304.00 for a telly with a price tag of £279.00. (£279.00 (Item C) + £25.00 (Admin fee))

He is out of pocket. And a bit miffed about it too.

Jesus bloody wept, we’ve sorted it. He’s paid £279.00 for the telly plus a £25.00 admin fee – £304.00 total.

£329.00 (Item B)
£25.00 (Admin fee)
£25.00 (Refund)
£279.00 (Item C)

£329 (Item B) minus £25.00 (Admin fee) = £304.00 minus £25.00 (Refund) = £279.00 (Item C)

The admin fee was NOT refunded. He has paid that along with his £279.00 for Item C

No no no!!

He buys Item B for £329.00.
He returns Item B, but he’s opened it, so they charge him a £25.00 admin fee. He is now entitled to a £304.00 refund. £329.00 minus £25.00
He now buys Item C for £279.00. They refund him the £25.00 difference between Item C (£279.00) and the £304.00 refund he was entitled to after they took the £25.00 admin charge from his original £329.00.

He has paid £329.00
He has an item that cost £279.00
The shop have taken an admin fee of £25.00
£329.00 minus the admin fee leaves £304.00
£304.00 minus the £25.00 refund = £279.00
He has therefore paid £279.00 + an admin fee of £25.00 which = £304.00
The £25.00 refund is the difference between this £304.00 and the original £329.00.

£329.00 (item B) minus £25.00 (admin fee) = £304.00.
Item C is £279.00 + £25.00 admin fee that they’ve kept) = £304.00.
The £25.00 (refund) is the difference between £304.00 and £329.00 (item B).

FFS
Item B is £329.00. He takes it back and they charge him an admin fee of £25.00 because he opened the box.
He decides he wants item C at £279.00, so they refund him £25.00 – which is the difference they now owe.
£279.00 (item) + £25.00 (refund) + £25.00 (admin fee) = £329.00.
They keep the £25.00 admin fee and he’s therefore paid £304.00 for the item.

They haven’t done that though.
He has paid £329.00 for an item that cost £279.00. The difference is £50.00.
That £50.00 is his £25.00 refund and the £25.00 admin charge that they have kept.
£279.00 (item) + £25.00 (admin charge) = £304.00.

You’ve paid £304.00 for an item that cost £279.00.

£329.00 minus £279.00 = £50.00 and you only got a £25.00 refund.