I wish you lot would stop posting these Solaris pics! My trigger finger is getting itchy but I’ve got to sell at least one bike first or the missus will kill me!!

Chelsea: Avram Grant ‘will not return’ to help Rafael Benitez

BBC website. 😀
Oh, dear, oh, dear…..

robh – Member
Surprised for the reccomendations for M&S mentioning tall and long legged as they don’t tend to do trousers longer than 33″ inside leg

You can order 35″ inside leg – usually takes 3 or 4 days to come through.

*goes to check “incitement to violence in UK law”……*

…someone had to do it…. 🙂

thepodge – Member
Even 80k would be pushing it

Do you think so? 😉 😉 😉

johnners – Member

Like Dalby etc on the fire roads, you can be touching 80 on a lot of sections

80 on a fireroad eh? That’s amazing.
That’ll be kmph, though, not mph.80 mph would be a tad unrealistic…. 😉

Kettling – Bloc Party

😆

Can’t access UNoob @ work so –

Ooh! Right, then….

It would be interesting to see if there is an increase in hospital admissions of cyclists, secondary to RTA’s from aggressive driving, next Thursday.
*or hospital admissions of drivers, secondary to aggressive cyclists! 😉 *

6’2″, 34″inside leg – 58cm CAAD10 – fits fine (after adding a couple of spacers and tweaking bar position). Brilliant, comfy, fast bike.

*Edit* The 60cm should be fine for you.

It’s a diesel, yeah? Could be something as simple as a dirty fuel filter………………….or the injectors are buggered (£££££££££’s).

On the way into work.Earlier.
Now (at work).

Usually give a nod, if eye contact is made, but during a commute, in particular, I’m concentrating so much on being not, almost, murdered to death, by traffic, that I don’t/can’t acknowledge everyone.
I’m reeeeeally sorry if I’ve upset anyone by this crass behaviour.

nmdbase – Member
What is the point of it?

I used to think that. Just been out to see Daughter No:1 in the Kalahari desert (she’s a research zoologist) ….by God I’d have loved to have taken one for that terrain!(Also saw the point of owning a 4×4 for the first time too. Very enlightening trip.)

Hmm, glad I got a Mk1 Stealth jacket from Rutland for £89.99 yesterday.

This –

Always have it through work (NHS) – it’s put on your records if you don’t take up the, not mandatory, offer, though. I can’t imagine why….. 😐

They can have Colin W(a)nker back. In fact we’ll pay them, with filthy Arab lucre, to do so.
MOT.

Nobby – Member
@ 2tyred – do you work with Kryton57?

VGLOL!! (Very genuine LOL) 😀

Er,for a hardtail, NORMAL. I’ve only ever owned steel hardtails.
M Trax 2000L > Marin Pine Mountain > Inbred 853 (+ Inbred S/S) > Pipedream Scion. (Finger, currently, hovering over order button for the Pipedream 853 29er)

Eyes wide open in Roundhay area (+ commute through Harehills).

I’ve heard all the horror stories but I’ve not had any trouble with them in 5 years. *wishes I’d not said that – waits for catastrophic t’internet failure*

Deep and well constructed defence there that helps to dispels all those lies and myths about football fans and leeds fans in particular
🙄 🙄

Great thread title that helps to dispels all those lies and myths about football fans and leeds fans in particular
🙄

Me and Mrs Soks keep talking about this sort of, out-of-our-comfort-zone, idea. We keep wussing out, though. *What about the pensions, last offspring at Uni, elderly parents, price of fish*
Ton, if you really think you can do it…..DO IT!!

Never been fast or, particularly, skillful but just enjoy being on a bike. Currently in a similar position with “getting out” on the MTB (damn that road bike and/or weather) but after a couple of rides, in a week, the mojo certainly does return. Don’t worry, enjoy. 🙂

or

…..or a Garmin 800,but will settle for some merino base layers and socks. A decent set of winter bib longs/three quaters wouldn’t go amiss either.

Wish someone would buy my Spark 40 😐

My 19yr old lad bought me the cd for my birthday thinking that I’d love ’em. They’re not bad but a bit light-weight, imho.
Now, this lot – – are pretty much in your face.

This will be the first Christmas without me dear old Mum – she died in May – so I’m not, exactly, looking forward to it, on a number of levels.

hora – Member
I didn’t even know BM was still in existence? I thought it was a early-mind 00’s ting.

Oh, it’s still there, just. It’s a bit like the Prefects Common Room at a (very) minor public school…………in the school holidays.

*shudders* Steepish drop onto a single railway sleeper bridge over a stream followed by steepish climb out over RootWorld ™. Got over the bridge, pulled on the bars to lift front wheel over big root and….backflipped! Finished upside down with head almost at right angles between 2 rocks in the stream – thought I’d broken my frickin’ neck – turned out it was very badly sprained. This happened on an off road detour on the commute to work – I was on my own and it was about 7am. Took me a good 15mins to get upright and then gently pootle into work (hospital, luckily) -> straight to A/E after locking bike up.
I’ve never been so bloody scared.
Best bit was when the A/E consultant asked me when I’d cracked the vertebrae in my neck as there was an “old” injury on the X-ray – Er, what cracked vertebrae?????? 😯

The new album, SilverAge, is pretty ace – nice companion piece to Copper Blue, imho.

Mike Davis leaving saw the start of BM’s demise, imo. The Kidderminster Clown was, initially, amusing but turned into a very disturb(ing/ed) individual. The redesign, which locked out a large number of people, was the final nail for many. I still post but it’s becoming less frequent which makes me a wee bit sad as there is/were some good people over there. 😐

Kinda sums it up…..

Toxicsoks’ Senior’s wartime ride –