TNF Tadpole 2. I love mine, it’s lasted years, it fine for two big lads for one night and very comfortable solo for longer trips and it meets your spec – 1.3kg and can be got for £200 ish.

I have a smallholding and have lots of rats.

I agree with not using poison. It is dangerous to pets and other animals.

In order to be humane sticky boards need to be regularly checked and you have to have a strategy to despatch said rat.

Spring traps are effective but need to be placed in a tunnel/box so pets and wild birds are safe from them. I find peanut butter to be the most effective bait.

An air rifle and some time is by far the most effective and humane way IMO.

Fitness. Be obsessive for a few months. Enter an open water swim/triathlon/sportive/marathon. It can be fun but can cost a few bob. Less than a Harley though.

Yep, make it up not very wet and I got it done in 3 goes. I used 3 bags of premixed stuff from B&Q for a fairly standard tyre.

Bald tyre for free from local car mechanics, some concrete inside it. So then you can loop chain for padlock inside it.

What I fly!

AVG free has works well for many years on my windows machines.

Discombobulate. Brilliant word.

Scwalbe land cruisers are good and excellent vfm if you also want to nip down the occasional towpath.

I’m afraid you have to get rid of it. The damage they can do with their digging/chewing is incredible. I’d suggest a good quality spring trap or live trap it and drive it a long way away. Peanut butter is their bait of choice. Crunchy.

Thank,you for posting here oldnpastit.

My heartfelt wishes for your boy, you and all the family.

The best advice was up there somewhere – live a frugal life. Easier said than done but it’s allowed me to recently take quite a big pay cut to improve my lifestyle.

That’s got to the the winner then. It’s a great hotel.

What’s the floor of the shed made of? Pour concrete into the holes if it’s a solid base or screw a thick piece of OSB over the area?

Find the inlet outside and put spring traps out after dark. Keep the dogs (and your fingers) away form the traps. They are deadly. Use peanut butter as bait.

Or find a mate with an air rifle and shoot it soon after dusk as it tries to get in.

That raddisson is the top,pick for quality but is expensive and don’t know if they offer a package with car parking.

Bewleys is the best package generally. And only a walk/very short bus to the terminals.

Avoid the crowne plaza next door.

The Marriott is nicer but is a 10 minute bus in.

Hilton is ok. Used to stay there too.

(Am an airline pilot hence waaaaay too much knowledge of airport hotels)

How old are you mate? A 20 year old body can take a lot more training than a 40 year old body I reckon. Also what are you doing? Do you ride hard, doing intervals, attacking hills?

The obvious answer from your OP is to give yourself more rest days and eat carbs on the days you’re riding. Eat the lower carb meals on the rest days. There are so many variables… But ultimately you have to listen to your body to some extent. If you’re not feeling fresh, rest for a week, change the type of riding you’re doing, swap a ride for a weights session or a swim once a week etc etc

I concur with Flaperon’s figures. Although SE taxi at 70 would be quite ‘exciting’ I think. I’d prefer both on, but the kgs/hour would be very similar for 70mph.

Amber Heard. Jolly lovely.

Malverns?

Edit -Too slow. And yes crappy at the weekend with walkers.

Failed. 163 and 3 hours. Soz. But it’s very lovley for a weekend.

Bath. Might be more like 100 miles.

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1000s of miles left on that.

Frame is best IMO.

What globalti said. Go and ride mate. You have to pick your battles and this one is worth the fight. Once you’ve given in a few times to keep the peace it sets the precedent. Be brave and go smash out some miles.

I’m with you suggsey – the Ginger Nut is the true and undisputed king and high overlord of biscuits.

Duggan wrote – Why not football? It probably should be- so in this case, we should aim to amend the legal system to include football as such a job where you cannot play if convicted of sexual assault. But we can surely only expect Evans to be treated as per the law in force at the time.

Good point, well made. I can’t argue with your logic here mate.

@Duggan I’m not sure this guy is receiving special attention from the judicial system. I couldn’t return to my job if I had been convicted of the same crime as he has. I can’t speak for any other industry but I’m sure it would bar you from many other walks of life. So why not football. The ‘he’s done his time’ argument just doesn’t add up.

Tpbiker – I was very briefly a semi-pro sportsman. I was around guys like this , what I read about the culture and circumstances regarding this case was so familiar from a small hardcore of guys I knew. They shamlessly used drunk and silly young women. They knew what they were doing, They knew it was on the ‘edge’ of what was right. They justified it partly because of herd mentality and partly because they were having sunshine blown up their arses as young pro rugby players. They stopped doing it after a while because it was cruel and nasty. But they didn’t get ‘caught’. He did. And what he did was wrong both morally and in the eyes of the law. And he had probably been doing it for years.

Like it or not pro footballers are in the public eye and are news. The kicker here is that he is unrepentant. He genuinely still believes that he did absolutely nothing wrong. That makes him a borderline psychopath in my book. So he shouldn’t be employed by a football club as a player.

If he had pleaded gullity, begged forgiveness, apologised for being young and stupid and started to behave like a changed character things would be different in my opinion. He would still be a rapist but I could live with efforts to rehabilitate him under those circumstances.

I think I may have hit on a good solution! Thanks all.

I’m sorry to hear your mate died OP.

My opinion is that the funeral/wake is not anything to do with the person who has gone – it’s all about the immediate family. How that day goes will be remembered by them for decades. If they want and expect a big boozy celebration then go with it. I’ve been to raucous funerals, I’ve been to very sombre ones – I’ve always looked to the immediate family to set the tone and pace.

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My wife has been using one. I’m dubious about the activity tracker – I can’t see how it differentiates between a step and other movement. However the sleep tracker is excellent IMO and I’m thinking of using one as I work wacky shifts and the jawbone would give some warning before getting deep into sleep deficiet and very tired.

Cheers chris. Apple and ginger sounds like a good un.

Jacob – the folding basic ones. There are some Ultra gators now but I use the ‘basic’ ones.

Lunge – I often get this response when I recommend gators. I am genuinely interestd having never used anything but them about the differences. The grippy ness or lack of with gators has never been anything I’ve noticed… But then I’ve never used anything else. What I like about them is I can roll over broken road, potholes, freshly cut hedge deposits without puncturing.For info I don’t commute but do 60 -80 miles most weeks. Im not a racer, ex-rugby player turned recreational roadie, do a few Sportives.

Folding gators on wiggle for £25.75 each.

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Gatorskins. Best compromise between £££, puncture proofing and durability IMO. I run 28mm gators and do 3000miles a year. No punctures in 2014!