Ta.

2 bridges hotel is really good, quality rooms, middle of no-where, great food – but I’ve not done Christmas.

I did a Rosetta Stone language course when I was laid up with a broken ankle, but I couldn’t work or walk for 10 weeks!

Generally the rebuild cost is significantly les than the market value – some where between a 1/2 and 2/3. Yours is an unusual situation. Does the RICS website offer any more info?

Just best wishes for Mr Mountainlight Snr from me mate, get well soon sir!

Hi frosty,

A Rethal Fatbar is £50ish and seems a popular choice.

Hehehe I’m inspired To do a midnight trip with some paint on some of my road routes.

In true STW fashion…. Anyone recommend a good paint for road writing!?

Thank you for your post and sharing. I share with the STW family in wishing Hadyn, you and your mrs all the very best. My thought to you all. Please please keep us updated.

I’ve had good results with that gag oven the years! Didn’t know a tarka was a dish, would really ruin the moment!!

Thankfully we can close this thread because I know the best pun ever.

I had a chicken tarka for my dinner last night. It’s like a chicken tikka only otter.

Cooking? About the only creative thing I do. Man cooking can involve alot of attention to detail and improvement/refinement over time. And you can eat it.

I have just signed up for the two day course alexxx, doing it in September so will let you know.

Am in a similar situation to you, have some land, never used a saw before and want to maintain land/prep firewood.

Would your work consider a sabbatical? It sounds like a fairly cushdy job to be fair and a year off might just set you up right again. It would be a shame to chuck it in only to have to work 8 hours a day in a job you still hate earning half what you earn now.

How about a 32h Open Pro rim on a XT hub?

Sadly no, Menchov and Tiernan Locke in the last week alone. It taints a truly incredible sport and tales away from those riders who do race clean as the finger of suspicion always hovers over them. It also means Big sponsors for the pro teams are hard to find, sky the exception. Bel kin have only done one season. The fear of having your teams name all over the news associated with doping s still too much of a risk.

Food.
Booze.
You won’t believe the loo roll.

Cyprus.Weather is cracking that time of year. Western bit is nicest, somewhere around Polis.

Fly with Monarch, they are brilliant.

(I work for Monarch.)

I followed this advice and bought some Spesh BG for the Sportive I did yesterday.. £30 from Evans. No numb fingers excellent product. +1 from me and thanks for the advice.

Cheers for coming and cheering me on when I came past on the Sportive yesterday HughStew. I presume that was you with the cheerleading gear :lol:

Diesel is what I was recommended and now use after asking the same question on here.

Works like a charm and costs c.£1.35 a litre!

You are not wrong Sir,I’ve never smoked cigarettes but enjoy a cigar about once a month. With some Jim B.

Chainsaw ing in flip flops. Mrs K rightly gave me a terrific and well deserved bollocking.

+1 for Open Pros, 32H sounds ideal for you, mine have been brilliant.

+1 for muppetwranglar and bregante.

I am 100kg although lowi-ish body fat% so climbing isn’t my forte but I’m getting better at it. Downhilling is fine but never lasts long at 30mph. So for me flat is where it’s at. I can get the easy speed with a nice sustained effort and really enjoy it, especially if sharing turns at the front with my mate.

I was surprised as I’m in the market to get a PM and thought Stages was the business but it sounds like there are better options.

First check – Oil cooler core failure first.

Than sadly it’s cracked cylinder head or less likely gasket.

Good luck.

The stages product came last in this months Cycling Plus power meter group test, mainly based on accuracy.

Prolly be fine… But why take the risk?

High roller II on the front Purg on the back here, year round. 26″ HT. Works for me!

I’m going for wabbits. Live traps is the answer here. Ensure you take bun bun a good distance to release.

+1 for the Titan for DIY use. Been faultless whenever I’ve needed it and plenty powerful. Perfect ecomomy option IMO.

Kings biltong online. Quality.

Great post rob dob.

And one more thing OP – schedule the exercise sessions. Put the rides, walks etc that you want to do this week on the diary at the beginning of the week. Feels really shit when you don’t do it then.

+1 for the myfitnesspal thing too. I did that from new year until Easter. Very interesting if you are totally honest with yourself and shows where the excess calories are coming from.

A good motivation is riding with mates. They will be faster than you uphill due to the ballast. Lose that and you’ll keep,up with them.

Or enter a hilly event on the bike in a few months, there’s nothing like sweating up a hill to motivate you to lose weight.

I’ve done both, I ride with a mate regularly and I’ve entered the etape Cymru in September. It’s keeping me off the biscuits and on the bike because I don’t like being a slow sweaty mess!

Good luck mate.

+1 for refurb, I’ve done laptop, iPad and iPhone all refurbed over the last few years with no problems at all.

However a note of caution. Whilst some real communication can be useful when it comes to house buying if it ant written down it means nothing. So for the OP if the guy says yeah I’m going to sort the leak, re-plaster etc etc you must get him to then write it down and send it to you!

Chatting between yourselves can be awkward if things start to go wrong to.

But if your seller is decent then it can work great to be able to speak directly to each other. Just tread carefully as I’ve been promised something and then it didn’t happen several times doing it this way.

Cheers trail rat. It’s a steep learning curve, I shall treat myself to some new rubber. Is there a halfway house between Gatorskins and the fast wearing ones you mention for a 100 mile a week sportive (ie slowish compared to a racer) rider like me?

Mr mo – I’d be interested in a bit further analysis of Gatorskins. They are my first road tyre and they seem to do the job. What am I missing out on?!

High 5 zero. Tastes good and has electrolyte salts and a bit of caffeine in it.