My take on Coed is that you can get the most out of it if you do one ride on the visitor centre and one ride on other side of the road (where the original centre was) as they are quite different. For your first trip I'd avoid the long, long ride (can't remember the name) as it is long but you'll not miss out on anything by just doing the shorter rides.

Enjoy the cake and food at the visitor centre as well as the showers with heated floors!

Cheers Woodsman – will look into the SWOBO option – I may pass on the Ti hardtail purchase…although I am sure there must a useless/useful Ti accessory out there for such an occasion..

First Direct – ace customer service – excellent online

ALso had one loved it – if you buy one take it down/up to Puma Speed in Wakefield and get a miltek exhaust fitted….fantastic….they provide loads of options to tweak the standard car to what you'd like/afford…have seen a few pumas with bike racks on the top. By folding the rear seat you can get one in the back.

If you can find one by a Racing Puma…Puma Speed occasionally sold cars as well

it's only cricket…

cheers will put it on the list of possibles – lack of radiator in feb doesn't sound fun….

cheers for that, is the local pub any good?

Got a great deal on an iomega 1TB from tesco last year – worth a look

anyone?

stay at the criffel inn just outside dumfries – well palced for 3 or 4 rides including ae, dalbeattie and mabie

oh and cheers for the offer-much appreciated

90mm white with rise less than 10

njee20 sounds like a nice stem – let me google…

it's not as nice as the old one – the site that is

re. the stem,just bought myself a nice trek ex and them the rxl stem looks like an after thought – was going to replace it with a thomson – but saw this as an alternative…

I think you've just convinced me to put away my wallet!

scruff many thanks excellent link

tubeless ready – UST- not sure? Have just bought a trek and the wheels are tubeless ready (assumed this meant UST) help!

….I've decided to go to scotland to collect it – interesting conversation though..

I've already bought it!

…looks like it – store have said they'd transfer it to another store that's a bit nearer which is kind – whole policy is a bit bonkers in my opinion!

…looks like it – store have said they'd transfer it to another store that's a bit nearer which is kind – whole policy is a bit bonkers in my opinion!

I spent a while looking at folders for commuting and couldn’t see where the money was going in a new brompton – considered a dahon but ended up with a really nice trek f600 (don’t make them anymore though)

check out j e james as they have a good range of folders – last year they had a demo hon solo limited edition single speed from dahon – think it’s probably gone now though

gingerflash nice motor don’t let it go and good to see that saab has a future, it would be a shame to see what was an innovative company go the wall (I admit it wasn’t the same saab of old when it was in GM)

maybe we’ll see a diesel saab/koneg at le mans…

bloody hell don’t we all know a lot a bout washing machines/the needs of fat lasses…..

you need to remove the bolts they fit so it doesn’t get damaged in transit. they are normally big things on the back of the machine – normally have a big health warning on the machine/instructions saying don’t use until you’ve done this! most people do what you’ve done though! it shouldn’t have caused any problems though if its just the once.

CSB – if your looking for 1tb have a look at the iomega one a steal at tesco for £70 especially if you can collect at the store for no cost!

fotorat – have you still got that hope black headset for sale? if so can you mail me as per profile

Just buying a 1 TB from tesco for peanuts – cheers mildred

amex blue can be useful if you can find somewhere to use it…v good abroad though

well it was never the most efficient organisation was it…

one of the few organisations with a steady stream of customers (unfortunately) at the moment – taking on circa a 1,000 a month, so the rumour goes

Fiver coming your way mate – but you’ve got to apply for one of the jobs going at your local jobcentre:

Jobcentre Plus vacancy in Nottingham

Where: guiseley, leeds to sheffield (ok two trains are also involved)
when: two or three days a week
what: trek f600 folding bike with some carbon bits to make it less dull

alpkit out of stock until april :-(

looking for something lightweight to wear at night in lapland so that we can keep our hands warm in our pockets and to see where we are going when we sledge at night through the trees!

chewy cheers for the link – will have a good look at them later in the day

si is right – do it yourself it’s very easy to set up and run your own adword campaign. buying advertising space on line is very cheap but not very effective – you’ll be lucky to get click through rates above 0.1% and then you need to spend money on getting someone to produce the graphics for the ads.

Spend a bit of time and see what your competitors are doing – doing something similar is often a good thing because if it works for them it is likely to work for you!

we’ve found it more economical to pay in £ via our holiday company this side instead of over in euroland with euro dollars

Tate modern has some great stuff from kids and after visiting you can walk across the bridge to St Pauls.

sorry minor hijack – mr Tall could you sned me some info about the xtr v’s cheers

>>I missed out on the norther trade windows salesman as my builder got ours, sorry to hear johnhoo had a bad experience.

I agree coral windows are good and have a good reputation but they cost the earth!