Is there a L4D contingent here?

Jase, I honestly think it deserves saying twice! I hadn’t realised all these guys were to be found here! That’s fantastic. I also believe that in addition to the outstanding generosity, when these people take SingletrAction seriously that is credibility that the trustees and Heads of Trail can carry with them when they meet with other organisations and groups to discuss possible cycle/mtb projects. And you just can’t buy that.

On that subject how do they do with address formatting??

I’ve ordered from german companies before and often they turn the address inside-arse-about-upside cos Germany formats addresses differently, postcode in the middle, house number last, street name broken into fragments and scattered liberally about the place, and as i live in a rural location there’s a very real chance that could mean i don’t get my breaks, especially if it comes through PF… :(

Sods, typo. “Try to be a little less abrasive” I meant, of course.

Thought so, but on a 21 page STW thread about the [non]existence of a god i didn’t feel i could be sure :wink:

try not to be a little less abrasive

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In there… I’m not delving ‘in there’ to find it, but nice.

I know the answer anyway cos I follow God on Facebook… 8)

Good lord is this one still going?

Have we all come to some form of cencesus yet?

A provisional draft?

+1 Dakine – specifically the nomad.

Anyone following the select commitee hearings on cycle safety today? For a summary see twitter @CTC_Cyclists

Some encouraging some, some stuff to make you dispair.

Only problem i’ve had with dogs when riding is accidentally stealing other people’s. Turn round, I’ve got a dog, the dog’s delighted as its had a good run, and obviously me riding is a heap more fun than their owner and their boring walking.

My dogs pretty good around people and riders, but i’m always very aware of whats going on cos at the end of the day, he’s a dog, and not capable of seeing and understanding things in the way people are.

presumably only being ‘lightly clipped’ means the poor chap was only ‘lightly killed’.

I read this several times yesterday assuming i was missing something. pleanty of room, overtakes, hits stuff, kills cyclist, is fine.

Clearly not. I’m too dismayed to even be angry. It only goes to reinforce the primary position arguement, which angers motorists sometimes, but it does stop stuff like this.

“That’s great! We have always wanted one, i’m really super excited about this, its gone be revolutionary, see you guy for the launch! bye now”

#reaches for microphone#

“Kill them”

St Edmund ftw.

^^ what he said… ^^

their Vimeo channel is worth a look if you have a really high cringe tolerance. I don’t and was at times hiding behind my hands,…

:)

Hate to dissapoint you, but this isn’t troutie…

#suddenly reaslises who BAnana is#

All hail Pieface. good points well made

In particular i agree about boot tread, i got new boots recently after finally giving up on totally bald ones, my first thought was “yey grip, oh how i have missed thee!” but given the recent weather, i got to the bottom of a steep grass section and looking round for the dog and saw, like a good mtb tyre on a locked up wheel, i had in places torn the turf from the surface under neither. I now pay more attention top my walking style.

I now also, follow on from trail maintenance knowledge kicka drainage ditch in puddle when possible, to make things better. Stuff like that from everyone would make all our paths and trails better.

@badlywireddog

that’s a bloody good point actually. Right now cheeky trails tend to be the plaything of locals, who have scoped them, ridden them, know them, and I would argue have more of a right (not a technical right, just a fuzzy notional right, they live there, is basically what I’m saying, and I think that makes your cheekiness, riding from your own front door more legitimate). I have some rather good local cheekiness where people would surely get injured if the army of weekend warrior middle management types that some doom sayers are predicting, were to descend upon them.

hot and sunny.

But no, if you want details ask these guys. http://www.mbnw.co.uk/

Saturday PM.

Did you like the newly exposed rocks on the boulder trail? We’ve been up there with brushes cleaning them all off. On some of them you couldn’t even see how pointy and frightening they were… you can now. glad you enjoyed it. Worth visiting again over the summer, various new bits being added. 8)

I live in the country and its the walkers who see doing more damage, it was walkers were persisting in walking all over the shop because they “had the right” during F&M, its walkers now in their massive bloody gangs walk four across who are causing much increased erosion and path widening. Paths are erosion, that’s what a path is, erosion of top soil and plant life. No-ones going to go cycling across access land bog/moor etc, its not fun, its bloody horrible, they will follow footpaths. Case in point – Ilkley Moor, Bradford council have allowed cycling all over the moor, but the cyclists are just riding the paths, and they avoid them when its muddy, they don’t have to, they choose to.

This can work.

put ‘kony charlie brooker’ into youtube for quick explanation.

I wouldn’t advocate a Scottish style system (ride anywhere) in England , as its too small and your prediction could come true. But riding on footpaths would not greatly increase footpath erosion as riding typically creates a thiner footprint (big problem for footpaths is pathwidening), and the impact of bike specific erosion patterns would be diluted. Then if specific spots do suffer badly I’m sure measures can be brough in to protect those areas.

On the flipside if it is enforced effectively it should massively increase the number of people prosecuted for animal cruelty and mistreatment of their pets, and that can be no bad thing.

Nothing… You can queue outside Betty’s in the rain. that’s really about it. Go to Masham or Ripon instead.

Crikey, i deny myself really good riding quiet often on the grounds trail conditions, diplomacy, not making a scene, knowing i’ll leave tyre marks and anger the red socks (who exist in large numbers round here). A very large chunk (most?) bridleways in Nidderdale are tarmac, track, or peat bog and impassible for over the half the year – While many ‘footpaths’ are old horse and cart tracks, paved, and have packhorse bridges on ’em. It’s not a consistent system, its not an up to date system, its not really a system. It was pot luck of the time. Now it takes years and huge effort to upgrade to a bridleway.

It is very silly, I work in a TIC in the Dales, and I can’t tell people where the good biking is… So all visitors to the area have to do the same old loop that’s 50% road… #yawn

Certainly not everyone in the same place, that would come right back at the bikers. What little research there has been has show walkers encountering bikers more mellows any strong negative feelings they may (apart from the miserable ones who like hating).

Gentle increase in exposure is the way to go for now imo.

Dogs offer a companionship and increased quality of life to many on the edge of society, who can’t afford the cost of chipping or don’t have a fixed address (defies the point). On the flipside i’ve heard tails of dog theives ‘digging chips out’. Not nice. That said ours is chipped. But no, the people they are claiming to be trying to stop, will just ignore it.

My understanding of Dalby is you don’t pay to park, you pay for the toll road. The car parks are free.

Misfits is outstanding.

also Generation Kill was made by some of the same production team as the Wire.

Walking Dead, True Blood maybe but that’s a bit hit and miss. I hear good things about Boardwalk Empire.

There’s a great mini series called The Company, CIA answer to tinker tailor. Homeland is very good too, very much the anti-24.

@BANana really? weekday afternoons or evenings, sitting in the boot eating a sandwich between laps, 2 or 3 cars pull in, see someone’s there, turn around and drive out… probably more workplace affairs than dogging, guy and woman drive in behind each other, turn round and leave. Or a car full of Youfs… See it loads… either that or they’re scoping for bikes in cars…

this is true.

lets be honest though the best trail centres don’t have cafes… (excluding scotland)

Stainburn car park is a dope smoking hot spot, box would most likely get wrecked. A lot of trails have a group attached that take donations.

Gisburn – PMBA
Stainburn – SingletrAction

PS. There’s also a lot of dogging at Stainburn, but i believe you can watch that for free. :twisted:

I’ve frequently bought on here and had nothing but good experiences and great comms all round…

Yup, it is sloppy round these parts right now, it was slop on a hard undersurface for a while, but after the last 72 hours, I’d scrap the bike idea and take a dingy… (It was almost dusty 2 weeks ago :x )

Realman, i did, but what they don’t offer is a “left in the car park and drove away” replacement… which is a shame.