Keith,

Coventry has been running fine since I got back to work on the 4th, roads are clear in and out, give PF some more grief

Strawberry jam on crusty white bread – simples

z1ppy, same one that my lad thought it was, by the sleeper bridge on the bridleway next to the river, an area my kids call pebble beach

lol, bet there not many ppl who know where that bridge is, any idea what the 'railway'(?) line it's on was for?
I assume you rode down the line, must be pretty damned scary with snow & ice on off-camber trail with a nice deep ditch to fall in

z1ppy, considering that bridge goes over a stream that runs along the bottom of Feckenham cricket club, obviously a 'long' time since you visited the 'ditch :wink:

Ready to venture back to proper stuff now but couldn't be 4rsed to drive anywhere, had 3.5hrs of fun in the snow locally

PSA – Do not ride across sledge runs, it ends in tears :D

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Gilles – don't be so bloody European :D

Just had pastrami, florida salad and cold mashed potato for lunch, might not be comfort food but boy did it go down well!!!

Redditch area?

Trout – just gives you an excuse to get on with building more lights :wink: In fact, couldn't you melt that ice with all the lumens you have to hand :D

Must be genuine badger fur :D

Gary Glitter – before he was exposed as a paedo his Christmas tours were legendary

Same here in Coventry, 50mm of snow at home in Redditch and freezing rain falling on top of it, over an hour to do normal 30min drive in to work, all aided and abetted by c0ck weasels that can only clear what the wipers reach, obscured lights and mirrors make for some scary manouveres(sp)

I thought puffer was another word for gayer :wink:

Ry,

take it the knees are ok now then?
Another vote for Ay-Ups, they survived when my ribs didn't :wink:

I have an old Olympus at least 5 years old, it has been dropped, kicked, driven over (reversed over camelbak, doh) used in +40 in France and at least -10 in the states, only 3.2megapixel and set me back over £200 when new, still works fine so no plans to replace it.

Shooterman,

wifes family are from Ardfield, just outside Clonakilty, would also recommend that area too, miles and miles of sandy beaches etc and about 45mins from Cork airport. Beautiful part of the country although, as most of Ireland, there's not much to do if it rains (and it will!!).

riding a 29er but not blowing a trumpet about it – Member
votchy if you got a good run you could get across 2 fairways, a few were doing it sunday as it was a bit icier, v parky indeed at the top as you say

True, managed to get down to the bottom treeline from about 3/4's of the way up the main bank, only did it once as it takes too long to walk back across the 2 fairways 8O

We were there on Saturday, the main sledging bits are not on the golf course anyway (The Lickeys if any one cares), all manner of things being used as sledges, windchill at the top was a bit parky :D

TJ, that must be the worst post you have ever made…..did you type it with mittens on :wink:

Wish I could ride in the snow, wifey is ill so when not at work I have the kids, however, sledging, snowballing, snowman building is ace :D

Just rag it!!

We share a drive with 3 other houses, ours is the one at the bottom, drove straight up the drive this morning without any problems, just had a text from my wife, guy next door has just spent 40mins trying to get off drive and has now given up, leaving his car across the drive and within an inch of my wifes car, hope he moves it before I get home the stupid c0ck, really find it amazing that people do not know how to drive in these conditions

All the salt gets washed in to the rivers and doesn't do the fish any good, certainly puts them off their food as most fishermen will confirm.

Kids by us are using an old metro bonnet, 6 of them on it and it goes like the proverbial :D

Be careful if you use the grit bins and spread grit anywhere, any one having an accident on an area you have gritted can and may sue you as you are responsible, that is why our shared drive is always left snow/ice covered, it's not worth the risk with some of the 4rseholes in the world.

Took my boys out when I got home from work last night, 3hrs later we gave up because we were exhausted, had an absolute blast, pity I'm in work today as they are at home because school is shut.

Not surprising as he shares business ventures with bernie (ownership of QPR)

The shoot out in Heat following the bank robbery is awesome with the correct system set up, also, blackhawk down has me ducking as bullets whistle over head, another vote for transformers and saving private ryan too

They have just closed my sons school in Redditch, will be closed tomorrow as well, no buses running due to having about 2" of snow in an hour, how the **** are we supposed to just drop everything and collect the kids asap from the school office. The snow has stopped there now as well :roll:

Sat at my desk along with everyone else, **** all yet here in the midlands, forecast suggests it will start about 3pm :cry:

**** all still :( Wife says thats about normal :wink:

See if you can try a new battery on it, mine does the same and a new battery transformed it even though the old one seemed ok, also think I may have an issue with the alternator as the poor starting has returned so think it may be the alternator not charging properly. With the glow plugs they are still heating after the light goes out, turn key and slowly count to 5 while listening carefully, you will hear the solenoid click off as the glow plugs stop heating.

Wish it would snow here in the midlands (just south of brum), what bit we had before xmas was washed away by rain on xmas night :(

Ry,

sorry to hear this mate, hope everything works out ok for you as it won't be as much fun travelling to the trail centres and everyone getting round without breaking their bike :wink:

Mark

Can't beat a nice Chicken Korma, pilau rice and a naan bread :D

Great pics Nige

LOL, it's on offer at sainsburys and the old man gets an extra 15% off, no room left in the garage :D

Northwind – can remember seeing them at Reading, drummer had his back to the crowd, did think they were higher up the running order though.

Was still sloshing around yesterday in my tyres and it was -6 when we started and the bike had been on the roof rack for 1/2hr at 50+mph so seems to quite resistant to the cold

2.3 Blue groove on the front, 2.3 nevegal on the rear, both DTC and both non ust, both kevlar beads run with the rubber rim strip and stans and no probs in 6 months so far.