Google has an odd sense of humour.

It is advertising Kan Airlines on the right of this page with a photo of an old looking turboprop anda map of where they fly to.

When I was at uni I had something similar.

Turned out to be scabies, and possibly living in a squat for a short period and banging bong-eyed-Jo the ginger hippy wasn’t the most sensible thing I had ever done.

Joking aside, on the start bit to Bovey Tracey I had quite a few “pro’s” looking at me and asking “you’re not riding it on this one, are you?”

My first ever race, was a mad mishmash of all and every bike in the open class.

After the puke inducing initial climb, and I was in my groove, enjoying the experience, I was just at the 8km before the turn around point for the return leg when a lady who had been near the front of the back rode past me waving.

She was in a scruffy pair of shorts, wearing a tired helmet, on the equivalent of a Halfords/Supermarket special.

I was at this point just passing a guy on a full carbon s-works with full lycra and one of those wierd velodrome helmets on.

I came in 47th out 130ish. She was somewhere in the top 20.

I had that decision last year, couldn’t get the plug 5 due to the brake issue, and in the end bought an Eastway CX 2.0 because it was on sale for 680GBP.

Still eyeing up the Plug 5 though, I just like the look of it. Can’t justify it yet, but give me a few months, and I will have convinced myself.

Those 2.4cdti hondas are notorious for it.

2.2cdti diesel

2.4i vtec petrol

^ where is the school Rone? You work there?

My dropouts slid, wheel was always slightly over, i put it down to me being a fat git.

Never thought of sanding them down

Email voodoo – they will sort them out for you

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Accord-2-4-I-VTEC-EXECUTIVE-/191458428072?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2c93cfc4a8

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Accord-2-4-i-VTEC-auto-EX-/261584721352?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3ce7aa15c8

Got an original imported one from Cycleworks from a long time ago. Being abused by my brother just now.Once the tight git decides to what new bike he is going to buy I think I will ship the frame out to build up again.

When I mangled the dropouts, I contacted Voodoo and Joe Murray himself replied. Great customer service.

Shame Halfords got involved in the UK and made them all hydroformed crap.

Ran mine single speed, 3×9 1×10 –

10 years on and I still have the odd dream about smoking, and wake up thinking I am again. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t take much more than a pack to rescratch those demons.

That might just be my personality though, as I dream about other previous vices and I know that road can be so easily traveled again.

We stayed in a holiday house this winter – the living room door lock was broken with a key in it.

On the first night I called to arrange maintenance to come and fix it, I fancied a bit of air flow.

The lady who took us to the house and showed us around answered, from the agency, and when I told her about the door said the following

“Do you really want to open it?”

I remained silent at this and waited, after a few heartbeats, got “That was a stupid question, wasn’t it? We will be there tomorrow morning”

Still is, just sanitised a bit these days.

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I’ve not yet found a part of Newcastle where I’ve felt intimidated in but there were definitely bits of Leeds which I didn’t like to walk through at night.

Bits of potterybank, cowgate and the westend weren’t the nicest places to be 10 years ago. Improved a lot now though, or knocked down.

Reading these posts keeps making me think I need to go back to the hospital and get that follow up chest x-ray to see what the nodule was, but I don’t want to go.

Here no, I live in the mountains, scariest thing is the really busy road opposite the house.

Last job, in ULaanbaatar, I was cautious on the streets, only place I’ve ever been where staff were assaulted in the day time for being foreign.

I was threatened by a large drunken man with my daughter in the buggy, outside a shopping centre.

Never went out to clubs there, staff that did, until they go their street sense a bit better tuned in were getting mugged, robbed and beaten up.
Saying that their lack of common sense at time, while pissed, was shocking.

I had one member of staff, who was robbed several weekends in a row, and on the final one, he tried to go home in a gypsey cab, and was dumped about 25km from the accommodation, in -25 with no shoes and jacket – fortunately there was a lone shop that was there otherwise he was ****.

Kia and Hyundai aren’t cool, but they are sensible.

^ a risky strategy in the dark, if misjudged can end up with over correction, and piss everywhere.

Wet rooms do have their advantage.

Mrs Gti went, er, hopping mad and insisted I paid to get the house treated for infestation.

So you caught crabs, and passed it off as fleas. Well done.

As for pissing

At night time, I often manage to dribble down my undies and have to change them.

How many of you sit down for a piss, forget to check the positioning and piss under the rim? Sometimes not finding out until your socks or trousers are wet?

May

It was TB of data, I checked tonight he has 4TB, not 6, he fancies another 6.

I suspect he will have amassed the complete collection of all music ever made between 1920 and 1950 this year if he keeps going.

I know where my obsessive side comes from.

Interesting question:

My last job was stressful, full of muppets, ran by idiots, but I was in control of most things with asome manipulation and planning.

I couldn’t have managed a third year with them, but it taught me a lot to take my new job,

Which is pedestrian, more responsibility but less control, hugely frustrating, and I’ve seen my motivation being zapped, as there is no point in driving things as hard as I was trying to.

I need to stick this out for more than the inital two year contract, so I can hopefully move onto something better in the future.

Am I unhappy, no. Frustrated, tired, but then I am getting to see my daughter everyday, and be home before midnight. Ride my bike again and lose weight. Stop drinking so much due to the stress.

So I think it is good for me, my current job.

So what would be a better option for him, just a couple more internal drives?

Escaping from Durham must take some effort. The visitors section is difficult to get into with xrays, dogs and pat downs. Wonder how they escaped.

Silly question. Is there a need to mirror, or can they be as 6gb storage?

DId you eat a whole packet of blue rasber ry laces?

Surprised I presumed I fired blanks after years of over doing it.

It all came at a pretty inconvenient time but I always said if it happens we will deal with it.

Nearly 4 years now. I probably wouldn’t be where we are now, that had its posies and negatives.

Not much you can do though one they are born. Not like you can set them free back to the wild

Lyrcra if just riding, and not really stopping off anywhere

Baggies if stopping off places as I don’t like people staring at my willy mound

Bought my daughter the complete Richard Scarry book for Christmas – 4 in one – bloody cost 25 quid though, but it’s mint.

How man of you are just staying together for the kids or cost of splitting up?

That mio is the same as the magellan. Thanks for that.

I can get that in the US for 290, just wish there was a way to put other maps on it

Will the garmin maps from my car satnave work in it?

Just now I have a TOyota Corolla Altis – largish saloon with 1.6vvti CVT in it.

I thought I was going to hate it, underpowered for a larger car.

Currently gets me 38mpg all the time.

I do a 300 km round 4 or 5 times a month to the other site, and if I thrash it, or I drive it steadily it is costing me the same, around 18 quid a journey.

I was diesel man in the UK and thought I would be here as well.

Only thing that I would like in place of this car is a Camry Hybrid

Years back, my mate, while riding at Thrunton woods, after a dry season, decided to be cheeky and race ahead.

Those of you that know Thrunton, after the cairn, and down through the tracks with the rain gulleys.

He vanished from site. I caught up to see his bike tangled around his legs and he was upside down, quiet. Which was what worried me.

Got to him, spoke and he was okish, worked out how to untangle the bike without moving him too much as he was worried about the large cracking sound he heard when he went OTB and interfaced with the ground, actually the ground inside the rain gulley.

Got him out, and he was sore, a bit shaken, and really worried that the crack had been vertebrae or something else.

Crack turned out to be the back of his helment, sheared up the back with the force of the impact, plastic tighteners had ripped open against the ratchet, and it was just flapping away.

That was just a cheap and nasty halfords special helmet. He spent a decent amount on a good helmet after that. Really appreciated it.

I ride mine mainly on appalling roads. Some similar to the surface of the moon for large portions of it.

Offroad around, in the dry season, sandy rocky sections, and I imagine when the rains come, it will be muddy.

In a moment of paranoia, at how bad the roads would be here, I fitted 38c Schwalbe Marathon Plus – I always wonder if a thinner tire would be better for me. I’ve found they have taken me over everything but sand.

I am thinking of treating myself to a set of thinner wheels when I know it is only going to be okish roads, and swap the wheels in and out when I know it is going to be a bit shit.

I bought mine after being off a bike for two years. I knew that a full supension was pointless for me, a hardtail might be ok, but I really wanted the ability to hop on and ride, but be able to take the rough stuff as well if I needed it.

It is in the chat forum,

An intereting topic for me. In the gran scheme of things here, I am on the bottom of the road hierarchy here.

I have my solarstorm set on flash and angled so I can see it reflecting off signs. I know it dazzles drivers, motorcyclists, buffalo riders, street dogs, but I also know they don’t have an excuse not to see me.

So far, touching my morning woody, people have stopped when pulling out onto the road, and others can see me. I haven’t tried riding without it flashing yet, to see whether or not they do ignore me.

The only person who has ever complained in person was another expat cyclist when I was on holiday, who told me I had dazzled him. He got all red faced when I said I didn’t really care as long as he and everybody else on the road had seen me. He tried the ‘it gives people the wrong impression bollocks’ but this is Thailand, nobody gives a shit about cyclists,

Stuck on an island with only a container of one type of biscuit washed up it would have to be:

Digestive – definitely digestives. Not UK ones, but export ones, that taste like the orignals but a bit smaller.

They still sell for good money exposure/ I think they are quite marmite in their sound

THis is the exposure amp – simple, but sounds amazing.

Interestingly, from what I have read, the exposure speaker cable, gets the best out of the amp. or mains cable for speaker cable

Simple loud and clear. Weighs loads

Eating the edge of an orange chocolate club used to be fantastic.

Rocky robin to feel sick after 2 of them

Taxonomy of biscuits

Cakes
Usually easily distinguished from biscuits by their sheer size however individual cakes can be a bit tricker, for instance the macaroon. Also the Jaffa Cake despite having the word cake in its name can confuse some people.

Crackers
Crackers are aimed at savory use such as cheese and crackers, however you sometimes get those hovis sweetmeal digestives, I don’t know why, in big boxes of crackers, which is obviously confusing. Generally you wouldn’t want to dunk one in your tea.

Chocolate covered
Half way between biscuits and chocolate bars, are the chocolate covered biscuits. A bit of a grey area but this is where we encounter individual foil wraps, and strange quasi cake, biscuit hybrids like the Waggon Wheel. Also the home of the Jacobs Club biscuit, although this is a sad shadow of its former self thanks to the French again.

Chocolate Bars
The Kit Kat is a good example of the transitional phase from chocolate covered to full chocolate bars like the picnic.

How to spot biscuits

They come in packets
They have two sides
You could dunk them in tea
Entry level
They come in clear cellophane wrappers
They aren’t so nice that you could eat a whole packet
They are homogeneous
Mid range
Anything with a currant, or some sort of fruit in it
Twin layer affair with some sort of cream up the middle
Wrapper has pictures on it.
Some sort of USP
Luxury
Any thing with chocolate on top.
May be in a cardboard box

FAQ

Q. Are Jaffa cakes biscuits.

A. No, no the’re not. Apart from being called cakes they obviously have a sponge base. Granted they appear to be some kind of luxury biscuit being chocolate covered and shipping in a box.

Q. Why are ‘Nice’ biscuits called that?

A. I don’t know because they are possibly one of the nastiest biscuits ever, perhaps its sarcasm. Also if you are new to this site and are about to email me saying “Actually its because they are named after the town in the south of France” don’t. They’re not from there, nobody there has ever heard of them. Hop on an Easyjet flight get yourself down there and ask around, you’ll get even blanker Gallic looks than usual. Back when they were invented Huntley and Palmer were knocking out over 450 sorts of biscuits, so naming new sorts of biscuits was probably a matter of just going through the phone book or index in the atlas. Anyhow I don’t like them.

Q. Whats the best biscuit ever?

A. Well I would have to say the Abbey Crunch, see my page on this ground breaking oat based biscuit.

Q. Can something that is individually wrapped be biscuit.

A. Its pushing it isn’t it.

Q. Whats the story with pink wafers?

A. Well they have dropped out of fashion, and rightly so as they are unpleasant at best. Wafers in general have had to move up into chocolate covered jobs like the Tunnocks wafer, or chocolate bars like the Kit Ka