a Scimitar and a Mantra were definitely on my list. Along with a Volvo 480 (it’s the pop up lights) which is now my 4 wheeled pride and joy.

what software are you using?

Access you could just ‘group by’ for example, Excel there are a whole host of ways (Countif or pivot tables)

The thought had crossed my mind but it was pretty close to a proper off so not so sure.

…another ddn’t make it out today. On horrible antibiotics for a gum infection and they’ve made me feel very odd indeed, I’ll either hurt myself or someone else badly as I can’t concentrate at all. Ah well, weather is meant to be good all week and the flagyl should have worn off by then, a good excuse for a day off I think.

6 pages of good stuff. Good to see T-Power mentioned RichPenny, I love that album, Waveform too.

A few to add to the list,

FUSE – Dimension Intrusion
Laurent Garnier (it’s difficult to choose a particular)
Alex Reece – So Far

if he is still on his bike afterwards then its not exactly an incident worth noting is it (thought the car driver)

i have cycled round that London for 5 years plus at said speeds and haven’t hit anyone yet. Off to commute now. Now I have said that I’ve probably cursed myself.

I kind of get your OP, and the site would have come in useful on monday for the cretin bus driver who over took me and then squeezed me off the road to avoid a traffic island during the overtake. However, you have a kind of funny way of delivering your message.

so it’s alright to go round hitting pedestrians because you are cycling fast and assertively but cars driving fast and assertively too close to you are a problem. Weird.

Have I bitten?

Good stuff m’lady. I keep a packet with me for emergencies. Not needed it yet.

just snuck into the league in time hopefully, 12.30 cut off I think.

It gave me a nose bleed

Walthamstow dog track is now closed unfortunately. Still one in Wimbledon though I think.

I had a G ref 1.6i 16v a while back. I wanted CRX but I was too tall. It was great, a bit like a go cart that would fit a bike in or two inside. 500 quid very well spent. Like many Japanese cars though parts can be expensive.

Well, my favourite bit of single track in the area as mentioned up there ^ has almost been ruined, not by the types with logs etc but by the council i’m assuming…some lovely gravel paths now, in the woods, wtf?

Looking good, looking forward to giving it a whirl.

I’m quite liking the idea of the Honeyrose thing – what do they taste like?

Odd if I am honest and not as good as tobacco unfortunately. It tastes kind of sweetish, a bit flowery. Smells like a bonfire though. Careful with it though, I have burned more holes in my clothes than I have in all the time I have smoked. Still, I’d thoroughly recommend it to help kick the habit.

I think I’ve finally done it! Having been a serial quitter for goodness knows how long I think I have finally found a solution that works for me. I tried Alan Carr, all nicotine replacement products and was heavily motivated by Team Awesome and the smoking thread last year. However none of it worked. At the beginning of year I tried herbal tobacco to replace the rollies and the special rollies in the evening. At first I carried on smoking the stuff as I would have done with tobacco but slowly it became less and less as all it did was make the house smell like a bonfire. It did satisfy the craving momentarily though (probably more the habit than the need for nicotine). I went away for a week with two heavy smokers and succumbed thrice but since I have been back, a few weeks now, I have smoked nothing at all, not even the good stuff. I get the odd craving but they dimish very quickly now. It seems to have also made me drink less too.

So, probably not everyone’s solution but it seems to be working for me. Honey Rose Honeyblend if anyone is interested.

…keep up the good work quitters.

I can’t recommend the SE Racing Lager enough. I love mine, it’s passtherizla’s model up there, a 2010.

The new 2012 models look a bit…well, not to my taste but you can get a 2010 from winstanleys well within budget.

Another very here

why are all these bikes so small (Mega, YT, Canyon Strive etc). It’s not fair, I want one but being 196cm tall they just won’t fit.

Sorry, as you were (although if anyone does know of an option not in the silly money price range let me know)

Just register as a sole trader. Keep all your paperwork and set up a savings account to keep your tax in until you have to pay .

i have booked my first trips to the Alps for the summer. I now also want to buy my first FS. On the list so far

Canyon Strive
YT Wicked 150

both look great on paper but being a lanky git I think they will be too small

also considering a Yeti SB66, very expensive but, well y’know, and I like the slack and long geometry. A Heckler, Nomad, 5, Mojo also on the list

And also 29ers – particularly the Specialized Camber, Kona Satori and Tallboy

lots of test riding to be done 😀

What’s Fitzrovia?

an area between Regent’s Park and Soho. In fact, just go into Soho, loads and loads of restaurants.

CFH’s recommendation there made me very very merry not so long ago. The merriest I have been in a long time. So merry I forgot to mention it. Beware of the bottles in the fridge! (which technically are not real ale but quite fun trying)

The Bree Louise and the Euton Tap are both very good for real ale, both right next to Euton station. I’ll let some one else do food but you’re close to Fitzrovia where you should find something, particularly around Charlotte Street.

all the best to the OP’s mother but if I were to ask on this thread if Realman has paid Jimmy yet will it stop. Please make it stop.

£190 at a guess

no email, no trainers, no service at all it seems. Some you win…..

Thanks, just got some. Replaced my knackered goretex ones which are now like slippers.

I was just about to ask a very similar question myself. I need insurance for a week’s boarding and then a week’s biking in the Alps – I take it snowcard covers the both?

Prices seem to have shot up?

Good good 🙂

Good work DB. When does it arrive?

a north London pootle for me too. Feet almost back to life again now.

I have been on a bikey/non-bikey stag doo. Camped in Betws-y-Coed for a couple of days and then moved on to a great bunk house in Dolgellau when the non-bikey lot turned up. It still gave the bikers a chance to do Cader Idris which is well worth it.

I used to feel like that samuri. I think he’s great now.

I too am liking the new album, a return to his past glory. Old Ideas indeed.

+11

I very rarely use the pavement….in fact on my commute there is only one point I sometimes use it, on a three lane section which is sometimes snarled up and barely enough room left on the road to cycle. If I am on the pavement and I see someone, then yes, walking pace. I could get off, much like you could wait for a green light.

I am not against doing what you do either*, I just found that particular sentence quite amusing. I appreciate your RLJing is done with consideration.

* unless it was the complete idiot on a Pinarello who I hurled much abuse at on Kentish Town Road recently who steamed through a red light about a half a foot away from a crossing pedestrian.

I will go thru red lights when its safer for me to do so than to wait for green – I do not do it for my convenience.

sometimes TJ I just can’t work out if you are on the constant wind-up. Of course going through a red light is for your convenience. It is more convenient for you to be safe. Anyhoo…

Pavement riding isn’t a problem really so long as you have full consideration of others if they are about. And jumping off kerbs is proper rad, everyone knows that 🙂

If i the one I think you mean it’s my favourite bit of singletrack in the area. It has to be included in every ride, if not twice. Last time I rode it in the snow I ended up with a bruise on my bicep that lasted about a year – hit a little sawn off branch quite hard.

EDIT – thinking about it, that is not in the bit owned by the scouts

another vote for a salt beef bagel – you’ll know the one to go to, it has a rather large queue most of the time

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