drinking with the joss!!!

my last tot of pussers had my dolphins in the bottom of it, near on choked to death in front of the capt :oops:

to much pussers rum for b1galus

Simon, since you got back to the UK have you actually spent any time off the bike? I envy you your recent riding trips

I'm a long way from Heathrow, but in woods and lanes round my area if it wasn't for dog walkers we wouldn't have half as many great little trails. Walking the same routes for years has certainly produced a fine number of trails for us riders.
I've always said I would love to be able to commute to work on the bike, but there seems to be a lot more tails on here of meeting dodgy folk enroute & difficult road conditions

I left about 10 years ago, spent all my time on submarines, never went to many places but the work was quite taxing on the brain but enjoyable (communications) some jobs are better than others and require more between the ears, but those jobs have better pay. The guys I joined with, I still speak to and visit (was in Plymouth last weekend) they probably been in around 16/17 years now and are doing pretty well job and salary wise.
I would say the forces are great for single people but was you get paired up and kids come along, dealing with being away from home for long periods takes a very good relationship and lots of understanding.

Osborne also added front line forces to that 18k threshold, does that mean if your currently in Afghan/Iraq or elsewhere you will get a rise but if your a stores jockey at RAF somewhere-on-the-wold not really ever going to be in a warzone you won't?

Drove from Gateshead to Plymouth to help my mate move house, then drove all the way back to Gateshead next day with van full of house bits. result 870miles, to much motorway coffee, and a sore back.

No use to you whatsoever but when I was in the navy, my mate from Cairneyhill spent more time sleeping on in the copshop than owt else. Just thought I'd share that, it was back in the mid 90's and where he lived was a bit rough. Spent a couple of nights out in the town and boy was it rough.

PS: I'm sure its changed

money-grabbing has-been

cue transfer to Newcastle on Jan 1st.

We love money grabbing has-beens/never-gonna-be's up here

I stopped at the Rugley travel lodge last year with my brother £29 for a night. Little chef breakfast, and a strange night out in town. people watching, pricless 8O

Bit of a hijack, but would you patch a small hole in a tyre?
I got 8 punctures at GT week or so back and had to walk back to lower car park from spooky wood. Found a small hole in between treads on tyre, was gonna keep the tyre for winter work, not sure if its worth stciking a patch on the inside and hoping it will hold.

I have the house to myself right now, oh the peace, the quiet, the internet sites you find……

£3.50 at the cricket the other week

£4.95 for san miguel Barca in Jan this year

Low Fell Cycles, Gateshead, great if you want to be told "you don't want to buy that", then get ripped off. Otherwise, not so great.

LOL, I live just a few hundred yard from this place, I find the guy is a pain in the arse. Agree with Davy.

I've only been into Bike Scene Guisborough a couple of times but they seem to be on the ball much more than most.
I here good things about Cestria in Chester le Street.

Yeah big up for Cala D'or, went there 4 years back. pedestrian only food and drink area no motors, lovely little beaches and coves

I have no idea how it happened it just did. I must have looked like a junky shooting up at the side of the trail, all these little bits of foil lying around from the back of patches.

I'll be having a good look at the tyres in the morning.

EDIT Road Bike! I wish I had been.

On discovering the 6th hole in my rear tube I made the decision to spend on tubeless, I am looking right now for prices, would you care to recommend anything?

I will, just got back from working in Glasgow today and realised my shoes weren't in the car.

GT Friday, working in Glasgow saturday, ToB back home on Sunday

I'm going up to Stanley & down to Quayside as well

I watched a bloke in a TT fit a foof box and rails to his pride and joy outside Halfords today.

edit: foof box!!! clearly a typo and not a ref to anything else, at all 8O

Pirates of the caribbean 3…….awful tosh

:D tomatoes, spring onions, spuds, lettuce & carrotts

:cry: beetroot

i thought it was drogba in cycling gear

goes down like a pinch flat

chilean cab Suav

I can't remember my login bits and bobs :cry:

too many passwords and usernames in my life

He'll find his frame on bricks in some parts if he's not careful… :wink:

Hhmmmm…..? tidy garage, neat garden???

OCD without a shadow of a doubt….

You won't need to be riding round Hamsterley anymore Mike, not with that on your (back) doorstep!

Mortgages are a funny business right now and I don't envy you with this. Some of the fees are huge and I would always recommend you trying to pay it off upfront rather than adding it to the mortgage otherwise you end up with no real benefit from taking the fix, your balance will be pretty much what you borrowed after the fix is up.

Good luck.

First offer is always low, I was told to hold out for 2nd and got £1600 about 4years ago. I think there has been quite a clamp down as there have been loads of dodgy scams going on. ( not suggesting anything ) I've heard of old bangers been driven in front of trucks on motorways and slamming on the brakes, happened to one of our delivery drivers, but as he went into the back of the car he can't argue according to our insurers

Cheers TR, I think your right that a new pod will come with the cable fitted, they are £25.
I've ordered them

My brother lives there, Meguno City in Tokyo I think, he's keen to find someone else to ride with

I'm suprised nobody has put Newcastle on there yet

A very strange first day all round.

The Watson thing seems to be going well for Oz, and as is are usual fault the bowlers don't seem able to keep to a decent line & length

£711! looks nice for the £'s

Hope you enjoy it.

NOTE TO SELF: don't click on wiggle linky, you've had 4 beers.

1984 Polo (with a boot)
1992 Ford Sierra 2l glx
1997 Ford Mondeo 1.8 td Jelly mold model with boot
2004 Astra est 1.9cdti 150ps (a beauty in black) company car
2000 Daewoo Nubira est 1.6 (lost company car during job change)
2008 Ford Mondeo est 1.8tdci company motor, still got the Daewoo in case work goes pop!

I like, is that off the peg?

I have one in the back garden, and I've heard they grow to a max of 40ft. So I like to keep mine in check to around 15-18ft ( I don't have any higher ladders) We generally massacre most things in our garden around late Sept early Oct, but I'm not sure if thats the right time.

Check with that well known garden expert George Google or Google to his mates.