Well done Oldham!
…and, erm………………..MOT!!!

That is all. 😀

cynic-al – Member
Rumours are that Nadal is serving a drugs ban.

More dodgy Spanish steak? 😉

Of course, there’s always –

😉

Attaquer?
Wanquer, more like!
Reminds me of someone….

Sad, sad news. 😥
Lucky enough to see The Feelgoods with Wilko at leeds Uni in 197andfrozentodeath. Agree with previous comment about them being proto-punk. proper Bo, ah tell thee.

My Scion 853 has been great but as far as customer service goes I’m inclined to agree, to some extent, with IvanDobski.

*A large, sky blue, Scion frame will be, shortly, on a classified web page near you*

This –

Dales_rider – Member
Toxicsoxs, you should be ashamed working in the kitchen on a bike it may pollute the flapjack

“No flapjack was harmed in the fettling of this bike ” 8)

Kryton57 – Member

Posts like this piss me off… ….thinly veiled attempt to increase audience for their overpriced/undesirable item!

Give him a break he lives in Leeds and works for the NHS, can’t be easy.

Oh you mean the op…

Cheeky twunt! 😉

It’s alright for you southerns wiv your gold paved streets and lighting cigars wiv tenners…….it’s bloody grim, up North.

Same problem here -http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-2011-scott-spark-40-l-price-dropped

yossarian – Member
You could always try sneaking the ad onto the main forum under the guise of a help needed thread?

Oh, indeed. 😉

PeterPoddy – Member

we have technology at our place. some of us have enough of it to work from home when it’s not safe or sensible to try travelling

What about those that don’t work with ‘technology’ and don’t get paid if they don’t turn up?
I think you’ll find more of them manage to get to work…..

Aye. The poor souls that work in the NHS, for example. (waves).

Pint of Creme de Menthe and stick some Black Flag on t’gramophone, please.

Seems that the worse the weather gets the worse the road manners of drivers get – lots of fist waving/horn blaring/ stupid pulling out maneuvers, this morning. The fist waving/horn blaring was at each other not at me, btw.

Ridden in, only 4 miles and wasn’t snowing at 07:10. Different story going home though I think

+1 and quite looking forward to it………..going home, that is.

This mornings, toasty, commuter outfit(-8C when I set off) –
Baa Baa long sleeve under Convert softshell top
Altura lycra shorts with Thermolite knee warmers. Singletrack shorts on top.

soma_rich – Member
I find they come up a little short but are a bit wider than most so I go a size up and they are perfect.

Same here.

Harewood! 😀
Even Mrs Soks is excited and she doesn’t cycle. 😀

1st things that get changed on a new bike –
grips
saddle
pedals (if supplied)

Not supplying pedals, on a mid to high end bike, makes sense.

sugdenr – Member
When you buying the Audi then?

Passat is to 650b what Audi is to 29er…………probably.

mafiafish – Member
Isn’t graphene just the conductor in a screen? People seem to be making huge jumps from a layer of carbon to bendy, indestructible electronics without considering the limitations of the other materials necessary to make a screen.

http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/research/

1st album –

1st single –

I’m a lot older than I thought I was…

Fave – Ed Milliband – he’s funny.
Dislike – Peter Hitchens. Read his “comedy” essays in Mrs Soks’ Fail on Sunday – he’s not funny.

No………….but the guesses are getting closer to the reality than they used to, unfortunately. 😐

Heineken………???
Er, you said beer.
Going down the local for tea/dinner/supper/whatever with Her Ladyship, so it’ll be a few pints of this –

Heineken………???
Er, you said beer.

If anybody bought a 21″ scandal V2 frame on impulse and has changed their minds, email me and i’ll take it off their hands.

Similarly, if anyone wants to get ride of their impulse buy 29er Scandal in 16″ then I might be in the market so I can build a 29er test bike

+1 for a raw 19.5″ Scandal 29er……. 😐

Brilliant! 😀
Got many of the IF… books from the early/mid eighties

…oh, btw –
Hereditary haemochromatosis is an autosomal recessive disorder with a genetic prevalence of 0.4% in northern Europeans but a much lower clinical penetrance

Those affected are at increased risk of cirrhosis of the liver and hepatocellular carcinoma

Symptoms are often non-specific at presentation and include fatigue and arthropathy

If transferrin saturation and serum ferritin are raised, test for C282Y mutation of the HFE gene

First degree relatives of patients with clinically overt haemochromatosis can be screened for C282Y and H63D polymorphisms

Regular phlebotomy is the main treatment, although newly developed therapeutic approaches show promise

*pedant* HAEMOCHROMATOSIS, we are not American! */pedant*

66 year olds just don’t make exciting music.

Fifty-odd year olds don’t do so bad, mind……

Kryton57 – Member
You’re the IDoT or the in line for the push?

Neither but I’ll probably suffer as a consequence of the “Transformations”.

atlaz – Member

Interim Director of Transformation

The worst part is I can probably guess what they’re doing. My feeling is they’re a short-term hire involved in “fixing” the NHS but mostly that will involve cutting costs and/or firing people.

In one, I’m afraid.

+ 1 with regard to the stunning camera work. Was in the Kalahari (and Botswana) back in Oct/Nov to see our eldest who’s a research zoologist working with meerkats (yes, those meerkats). Cue much “seen that”, ” been there” comments from the Family Soks. If you get the chance to go to somewhere like Botswana, you, really, must go. It’s gobsmackingly stunning.

I’m………..oh, I really can’t be arsed.

Stopped raining here (Leeds). There now appears to be a blanket of very high up, “blue” cloud……whatsgoingon?? 😯

Agree that 1 x ?? will be the future for MTB

As natural trails and some trail centres turn to unrideable gloopfests more MTBers will buy road bikes/defect completely to t’darkside…..after trying Fatbikes.(assuming it keeps raining……and I, for one, am pessimistic)

UK remains the last bastion of 26erdom.

Very happy with this – http://www.trustedreviews.com/pure-one-flow_Portable-Audio_review

Mind you, I got it for £49.99 from a local Tesco Extra which makes it a cracking deal IMHO.

All my childhood heroes are dropping like flies! 😥

Got it for my birthday earlier in the month.
Long sleeve, zip up Baa Baa today 😀

Not so much Yorkshire puds………