Although if you anything BMW with an X in it without being able to fully justify it, your on your way to a enforced persona change anyway.

you can’t justify it, they’re no good off road. The only ones who can get away with them IME is the armed response unit of West Yorkshire Police. Bloody hell do you get out of the way when they’re coming…

You would need to drive considerately at all times to get away with it, unless you found a nice car that’s understated, or quite old, then you become a connoisseur, not a ****.

Once more, I thought this was going to be a filthy thread.

But I can actually only convincingly wink with the right, with the left I look like a stroke victim…

Right now watching Safe – literally every character is in varying degrees of peril all the damn time – excluding those who are already dead. They did not die of natural causes either. they were murdered!

There was posts about this at Gisburn recently, Not all the far ends of trails have the no pedestrian signs up in fairness. Buuuuuuuut, what footpath zig zags about and has big rocks in the middle of it? I wonder if the one who caused choss (and injury) last week were just too stubborn to admit having made a mistake?

Jurrasic Park:The Lost World – they found it right at the beginning the film…

Goldfinger – see here, all 8 and both thumbs made of flesh

Star Trek – Trek? they didn’t rucksacks, or walking boots, or walking poles, not a Llama between them, they used a bloody space ship FFS!

Did you ever find it or did she have to live with the disappointment?

#pass me mine, the black one, that’s the one, thanks

I would, but my local one is nowhere near as local. While maybe not actual members of RGB I meet Ramblers every day. Rude joyless souless people most of them. But always very clean boots, so not the people I meet when out on a bike, who tend to be lovely!

Can anyone show me an example of a concerted campaign by the Ramblers, or any other national organisation, to restrict access to mountain bikes?

Ramblers have extablishged themselves (through being VERY well organised and articulate, and large) as being a go to on consultations over ‘shared use’ paths. That’s all that’s happened so far, individual footpaths being considered for upgrade. They consider them all unsuitlable unless they are many metres wide, this becomes received opinion, same as erosion and yobbishness from all mtbers that outwieghs the reality of a tiny minority. The latter arguably more by the individuals than the group. No there is not national campaign, because the mtbers have yet to come together with something for the to campaign against (we should, needs spearheading though). But this is way OT from the original post, I was just being half hearted/humourous etc (seriously though, they are everywhere, special hand shakes and everything.) ;)

As a dad of 2 who rides with the kids more often than not these days, those bits ar essential.

I’ve nowt against a good green or blue. Should be more of them IMO and they should be more than just loops of fire road. Gisburn has a great one, soon to be extended. The one at GT is a hoot as well. The new Gis one looks like it will be a lot of fun, like a massive pump track.

Wore out and replaced laces on my spesh shoes about 3 years ago, new ones still going strong.

More of an indoor jump park pump track really, rather an mountian biking (singletrack), but for a city then fair enough, I can imagine there might be the demand. good luck. 8)

We are doing… but there’s these chaps in red socks and gaters, and they’re like the masons, they have people everywhere.

This woman is also not beating about a bush. Someone else did the beating and she is now re-enacting a famous scene from Hamlet, with Bonnie the Golden Retriever as Horatio…

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

This man is NOT beating about the bush.

If we all enjoy it the warmth might grow to a critical point and provide a new perpetual power source, thus solving that nuclear thread before it turns nasty…

I have now read it, and really liked it. Wished it was longer/more detailed, but liked it nonetheless.

I have chosen to interpret this use of the word Bush, as being filthy.

please continue… :D

It should say when you check for service availability in your area on their site. Also if not, you will be told you have to pay more than the advertised price because that price is based on them having their own equipment in the exchange.

I grew to love my 2.2 MK, but the side wall began to fall apart round the rim after under 500 miles riding (much of which was road/track).

Has put me off for the time being… big shame, nice tyre to ride. Not quite a totally grippy as HR, but fast roller, and predictable in how it slides once they’ve been ridden in a bit)

Does he at any point leave his shoes outside the camper, say, because they are muddy etc :twisted:

Gonna read now, but watching the various tours recently I was thinking Ibet that’s some pretty intense driving, a lot to watch out for, mnay hazards, cornering at same speed as a time trialist etc…

On my pike and recons there’s a splodge of paint – somewhere I forget where, no spare springs so can’t look. Red is med, blue i think, is firm, yellow is soft iirc.

No, not at all at all. People like him are for got owners what red light jumping non signaling cyclists are for the rest of us.

Complain to whoever runs the site since its not one isolated insident.

ONLY if your exchange is unbundled. If not avoid like the plague. I’ve been with them under both LLU (unbundled) and non-LLU (forget what that’s called). under non-LLU their ‘fair usage policy’ and traffic management made the connection unusable, and when you did manage to use it, by setting up a server to down load things in the night the only time it bloody worked, they would ring you up and threaten you for going outside their arbitrarily defined user limits. They would not tell you what these were to begin with, and would give you no way of measureing your useage (which they claimed was unlimited) and when you rang to say that the connection was unuseable in the first place they would outright lie to you, and say it was BT! (not true, since I was non LLu before and after, both those connections rocked – as much as ADSL1 can rock – sort of status quo levels of rock). In short ok if unbundled – we had many years happy usage in Leeds, but after my more recent dealings I will never use the lying scrotes again. I had infact in fact forgotten just how blindingly angry I was about that! deep breaths.

Now with plus net, and happier than a happy online internetty person ever was.

EDIT : – by unuseable i don’t mean i couldn’t watch HD streams when ever I liked, or max out my connection on a whim, I mean after midday i could not listen to radio online. It was actually slower than dial up.

Kenwood Major FTW Kenwood chef very good, but doesn’t do as much bread at one time though…

The official said the ambassador and three other staff were killed when gunmen fired rockets at his car.”

either way…|

Bomb Ban Libya?

Maybe…

As above, Obama under massive pressure from his own right wing loonies, will be many calls for retaliation.

Not sure how you retaliate against an angry mob though…

OP isn’t actually getting into the TC vs PROW arguement. More the type of trail being built, to get numbers into the trail centre seems to be going in the berm/jump direction, over the tricky traversey direction of old.

, but suspect you are not the target demographic of those building trails,

Other thing woth remembering is not all trails are built by the same people. As Mubgboo says above somewhere, niggly trails are being built – Homebaked at Gisburn, Stainburn’s Norwood trail are totally un surfaced trails through the woods, not weather proof but not at all roller coastery.

But there’s two way of building trails, and then hybrid mixtures of the two.

Machine built. – Gets the job done, but by the nature of getting machine in there, will be wide, at least a bit motorwayish, and tend to be vulnerable to the weather.

Man [hand] made. – all but weather proof, rock armoured – no machines so can get in between trees and pay a fine level of attention to detail. But – Takes for bloody ever. Dependant on Volunteer numbers – no contractor is going to built trails like that, economically unviable.

The Hybrid tends to come (IME) when machine built trails degrade and get patched and repaired by hand, by Volunteers. this can allow for the best in both worlds… but is never the intention when designing a trail, just how it ends up

My own reason for disliking bermy jumpy roller coaster bits is unless there’s a very good maintenence program the surface gets shagged cos people ride into stuff too fast and panic break, create short cuts rather than make a corner etc.

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! :?

LT wicked,

[joking, not available for many months :D]

Yep, I’m out with the Boneshakers lot in Harrogate, XC tonight, suspect these boys can shift, and I’m all knackered from three days riding… but needs must :D

Sullen or otherwise, Sky just earned their keep, with Cavendish first over the line at Dumfries.

DAMN YOUR EYES! I had a plan. With Ale, and a post ride pie, and the tour… and not knowing who won. well… bother.

You sir have spoiled my Pie. :P

Who will win today?

Don’t know, but no one mention it on this thread. Start another and put a spoilers warning on it, gonna watch the highlights when I get from this evenings ride. I’ve got this whole plan laid out with a pint and everything. 8)

ITV4, both live and highlights @ 7pm I think.

Then another study comes out saying the opposite and before you know whats going on we end with people like this..

People wearing jackets and glasses, drinking coffee?

The bastards!!!

#sorry, the science bit of brain didn’t really wake up today, glib pointless derision is really all I have to offer…

I ate after. But that was cos they had sausage and bacon sandwishes, it was a big long climb, so i was always going to eat after it… resistance was useless…

it was pretty ruined, in fact …

Well I’m sure there would have been signs telling you not to park there…

What happened to him yesterday?

Not sure, i meant to go back and watch again, but as the last guy was about to give him the lead out, he suddenly dropped back and everyone else seized on the opportunity, came stonking back with everything he had and it was close, but not enough.

Yeah he has gone that way, a shame as his book Captive State really changed the way I think about brand name prevelence, high street dominance, planning system susceptability to big names, PFI lunacy etc…

But I don’t read him much any more.