Love Bell, for me the golden age was the early 2000s,

Why do they do this? Every film seems to have some Yank droning on and on about how spiritual yet rad their journey has been. It’s awful. It’s not just the bike films, overrated snowboard film Art of Flight is a prime example.

+1

I miss Earthed. Riding, actual riding. Not slow motion ****.

la la la la la la la la I can’t hear you…

‘an agenda’ please fix or its gonna drive me mad.

I race, but i race myself, and my mp3 player, for the rest of time I’m just riding…

… people actually still try and buy stuff from Winstanleys … once many moons ago was enough …

this matches my own experience.

Well I’m in under the name goodsirjohnny… cant promise every day will be a cracker but I like the idea of it.

At the time of writing I own 5 oranges… [plus 2 satsumas and 4 apples]

I think I can commit to at least have go at that since I have one of them there smart phones now…

tempted, can I clarify the ruleage, do they have to be posted every day, or can I take them daily and post when I get round to it?

Name : Simon
CMR : -14
Likes : Hugs, contemplative solitude, the ripple of breeze across a wild meadow, butterflies, the smell of egyptian cotton sheets dried outside on a sunny day.
Dislikes : The blackouts, The voices, Waking up covered blood after loosing three days and with no idea where I am, just the slow dawning knowledge that it has happened again.

Hows this for a deal……at 4pm we have a vote on the best, i will send the winner a 4 pack of there choice of lager?

This is STW, four bottle of your favourite obscure micro brewery real ale…

Name : What? Help! who? Christ! Who are you people?
CMR : arrrggghhh!
Likes : Way too much acid.
Dislikes: Way too much acid.

Name : Steve
CMR : 22
Likes : spending all day on STW, discussing tyres, trolling noobs, looking at bike porn, Python, Unix, Iphone, Ipad, I-whatever-comes next, buying new things for my bike, selling the last new things I bought and then comlaining about the guy who bought them, saying how I have 38 bikes but need another one, looking at my 2 actual bikes, imagining riding my bikes, colour coordinating my bikes, wood bruning stoves, £400 coffee machines, saying the thing you like about bikes is poor, finding someone who posted a thing that has already been posted – burn **** burn!
Dislikes : Mud, the wet, the heat, outdoors, trail centres, riding my bike.

😉 [obligatory I’m just kidding you, love you all really smiley, don’t burn me… 😀 ]

Left 4 Dead 2

nuff said.

Name : Brian the Hippo
CMR : 0 – I’m just doing ma thing.
Likes : Being inside a kangeroo, the musty aromas of a well groomed pouch
Dislikes: Haters. being judged. Other Hippos.

My squirrel sues your squirrel for 100,000,000 nuts over copyright infringment and identity theft. Then he beats the crap out of him, cos he’s **** SuperSquirrel [bi-atch].

*too much?

Name : By Day – Joe Average, By Night – The Squirrel of Steel
CMR :50
Likes : 5 a day, The strong arm of the Law, the power of disguise offered by a pair of NHS glasses.
Dislikes : bald villains, Kryptonite contaminated hazelnuts and BatSquirrel – that guy’s a douche.

Best wishes what must be a crappy time.

I can’t help with suggestions, but all I would say is whatever you choose practice the hell out of it. At my mother’s funeral I did a reading from the tempest, and I knew it off by heart for days in advance, but when stood up there, with all the emotion, I was still reading from the paper, running my finger along the words as if I was 8. Also there may be a microphone, which is also weird if you’re not used to it.

Bets of luck with, as others have said, what might seem proper etc. is balls, choose something he would have liked, it be it monty python, something off beat or whatever.

Willard wins I think.

I heard that weather was suspected of grooming kiddies by hiding subliminal messages in the weather.

Name : Test Subject g4-delta (known round the lab as Stan)
CMR : 31
Likes : enthusiastic frontal cat attacks
Dislikes : sneaky cat attacks from the rear.

I have one expiring on 25th or very shortly afterwards if anyone wants it.

I’d be ‘OK’ while in the cage, but the top bit… good lord no!

I use squirt lube so chain cleaning just not necassary.

If i reckon the chain is wet, remove chain, hang over radiator, put bike in garage.

If the bike is particularly clarted up or its a while since I last did it, hose it down and remove chain, and hang from a radiator, put bike in garage.

If its my v nice bike that lives indoors, hose the worst off, drip dry in the Downstairs, air dry in the front room, turn cranks to ensure chain dries, shove in spare room.

I live in the country, always have, but as its not arable land we don’t get pidgeon shooting round here, so I would not be able to say for sure if I saw what the OP saw. And we loose rapters round here, most recently with a dead female Hen Harrier found on the moor near Masham, after it’s transmitter stopped moving. So if I was further east near the vale of york, I might ask the same thing. Not wanting to waste plod, or innocent pest controller’s time, but caring about the world around me. I’d rather live in the land of the conciensous than the land of the smug critic.

/rant

after looking over this form I suspect I would just put 6music on…

I’ve been humming a song by Alt J today, do I owe them money for that?

PAYE is a terrible way to pay it off, your employer takes the money off and makes one payment a year on your behalf I only noticed my loan going down after I started to dd it myself, not that that didn’t stop them threatening me despite me having references for the agreement to change to a dd….chuggers!

No way, I only pay anything at moment because of the idiotic way I’m paid, but over the whole year I don’t hit the threashold as I’m part time!

I love the roast turkey, its not really about the bird, but all that goes with it, though I do like turkey, wrap it in 2 layers of bacon, the bacon then forms a late breakfast to soak up the early booze.

Anyone know the implications for the SLC if they are unable to produce copies of the orginal signed documents?

Friend of mine has recently started making inroads into his since he got into the mid twenties earning bracket, until then the contributions never added up to enough in a year… To me now Its just another tax and it really is best not to think about it.

But for the reasons above I had no problem with the new SLs brought in a couple of years ago, the repayment threashold rises with inflation or thereabouts, and they expire after about 25 yrs. If you have to have them, that seems the way to do it to me. And a much better system negotiated by current government than was brought in by labour (who also went against an election promise).

But what’s the salary level to start paying it back? 22-25k

I chuffing wish, 15 K,for me, and not going up with inflation , so dropping every year in real terms- I pay 9%. And I graduated in 2002. For those my generation does anyone know if it expires at all like the newer ones or am I stuck with this shit for the rest of my life? Cos I’m yet to earn enough to even reduce it, I’m just paying the interest. I used to work in consumer finance, if this was FSA regulated I’m pretty sure it would be illegal.

The rumour I got when I last interrogated W2Y chappy, was Leeds Harrogate Skipton Keighley [wtf?] and down to Huddersield, which would hopefully mean up through nidderdale, up Greenghow [big hill], 2 min walk from my house!!!

Sorry unklehomered, I should’ve put a on the end of my sentence

I was just miffed at not having seen the advance email from W2Y, I could have broken it like 5 minutes earlier than the OP… life is harsh… #firstworldproblems

No, send em DOWN through Heptonstall, on a wet day, on skinny tyres, we all know everyone watches for the crashes… 😈

More details in January, I imagine including a draft route etc… I’m pretty optimistic for my local big hill…

I broke this story 3 months ago!

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/yorkshire-folk-some-more-good-news

But they hadn’t won then, they were still in contention, thought it ws known to be the front runner, hence they started preperations etc…

Ahh beaten to it, but yes, fantastic news!

in terms of gears you should be fine, last sections may be uncomfortable. As a gear loving wuss, I would solute you. 😀

Meta AM in proto form (old 9 speed chainset while I ponder options)