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What he said

Hexham, Wylam, Corbridge are all within 30 mins from Newcastle.

Rooms & Tariff

Have you tried this backpacking place? I noticed it last time I was in town

We know what the ending is anyway.

Quirrel, know what you mean on the costs, given that I'll probably not be having the breakfast either.

The Corner House is charging 219 quid.

Tell them you are running for charity and to stop being c***s.

What route was that?

I'm sure it will be the automotive industry that pushes LED's to the next stage in development.

Sunderland is close now as well with the Metro open. Went there for the first time for the air show.

Strange lot down there mind

Just had a look through late rooms and the ones that are free, I wouldn't be paying 219 quid to stay in.

not bad for something travelling at 17,000MPH

Bet it can't do a wheely though.

What size frames are these 'heavy' bikes?

My Wanga when built up was 31.4lbs, it cost less than 500 quid to build up and was a 21" frame.

I'm sure that if it an ickle 18" frame it would have easily lost another half a pound.

Lived in Thailand and South Korea. Traveled extensively around Malaysia, Thailand and Laos – and Australia but I wasn't really that keen on it.

Really want to go back to Malaysia when we can get a chance, somewhere I didn't get to see enough of.
Brunei, Sarawak and Saba are also on the list.

Laos is great fun, and you can now get off the beaten track and only have to interact with The Great Unwashed if you want to.

Thailand is good, but I highly recommend not doing the tourist thing, it's a load of tosh.

First time I went there I was recovering from the tail end of dengue fever after Malaysia, I had stopped with a friend who lived in Bangkok to recover and then headed off on my own.

I would take local buses to whatever city or area I felt like, sometimes take the train. I ended up traveling all around the north east, meeting some mental people and generally not caring where I ended up.

A few times I ended up in the arse end of nowhere on the last bus and would have to stay in a temple or if someone took pity on me there floor.

I never once paid anybody to organise my trips. I had a guidebook that I read, but I didn't let it govern my traveling.

When I started working there I took advantage of my long holidays to visit places off the beaten path.

I met people traffickers in the border region of Tak when out riding dirt bikes with my bike team. A moment I now look back on with amazement that we didn't end up buried in the forest.

Loei province is outstandingly beautiful and the road from there to Nong Khai is superb riding.

Malaysia I ended up spending two weeks with the Orang Asli in the Tamanegara National Park helping a guide setup an off the beaten path experience with less visited tribes

Jesus christ. It's time for someone to grow some balls and make a decision on the ownership of such animals.

You're right.

Time to put the owners to sleep.

I thought 73mm had to have a spacer on each side.

Done it a few times sneezing as well.

First time I was 20 – did a diving forward roll down the stairs and through the doors at newcastle uni into the club downstairs – didn't know it was out until the morning when I couldn't get out of bed.

Took it out again at the gym – slipped adjusting my position and the jolt knocked it out. Couldn't get my undies on or off and got stuck on the loo. Had to be helped off by the missus.

Last time was getting up off the sofa. I put my laptop down as I went up and it pinged out.

Touch wood, been ok bar aching and such from falling.

Riding through the woods which were pitch black other than my light, I suddenly heard a bloke say 'Alright' right near me. Didn't stop for a few seconds then turned my light off and looked back and there was no sign of him so he was clearly in the woods, in the pitch black doing who knows what. Admittedly it wasn't the most threatening of comments but…

are you sure he wasn't just taking a dump?

Might have been telling somebody ' I need to wipe'

You're not that nutter I work with are you? The one who claims that "they" shouldn't be in our country and it's disgusting that "they" are allowed to practice their religion here?

They are sheeet.

I needed a Certificate of Good Conduct last year. Looked at their website and the info they had made no sense, didn't mention any of the countries I had lived in.

Took ages to get through to someone who eventually told me they didn't do them for either country and to contact the local police force.

Filed a complaint against the person I spoke to and the crap website.

My mate wants to borrow one of my old bikes. I agreed, but on the condition he comes to collect it and ride it back himself

He is really unfit and fat. It's 35 miles to his house along the Tyne.

He still hasn't come to collect it yet.

I am sure I read somewhere that if you can get a 20 year old virgin to pee in them that will counteract the smell.

rode "the nephew killer" the other day for the first time since his near miss and my mojo was gone.

Could do with it back.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CUSTOM-BUILT-MAGICSHINE-900-LUMENS-P7-LED-LIGHT-/300461725355?pt=UK_SportsLeisure_Cycling_Bike_Lights

What are the connectors like on the magicshine? I notice they carefully don't show them in those photos.

I presume they are standard sized jacks and the cables can actually be either cobbled together easily enough

You have nipples???? 😯

good rice and peas

It's an interesting dish, something which looks like it would be crap, but when eaten is really nice, unless it's from a package then it's usually crap.

And I'll tell you something Ambrose, for the last couple of weeks I've been working on site paired up with my mate who is Jamaican (I got him the job) We spend the day taking the piss out of each other…..can't wait to tell him about this thread

Don't suppose you happen to know a gay person as well 🙄

The first time I ever tried proper Jamaican cooking was in a nightclub.

An old fella called Reggie, had convinced the club to allow him to use their kitchen for one night, during a jungle night put on by another friend.

So in among a hundred or so sweaty ravers, was Reggie, serving goat curry, pates, jerk chicken, rice and peas and some sort of sweet.

Sadly it was only a one off event.

Great day out, apart from catching my nipple on handlebar gubbins as I flew over the bars after interfacing with a hidden rock!

It was a day of many offs for me, nowt serious though, although I did manage to eject myself a good 2m from my bike on one, quite impressed by that.

At 16 quid of Ebay XL-II's were the ones for me.

Dangerous drivers up there. Used to be terrible in the summer months.

True.

Used to lose a few tourists every year because they forgot what side of the road to drive on or they would do stupid things like overtake on Ballahulich (sp) bridge.

Suppose it's not as bad as the plonkers who go and try and climb The Ben in their shorts and t-shirts though.

Do they still do the body search after the snow thaws?

take the gondol

My mates dad was the architect for the gondola, must be back in 1990 or so, Swenson was his name.

. I hate them, scare me silly they do.

remember when they first tested them, they wrecked one in the winds when it smashed against the side, they then realised they needed ballast.

I hate it even more when they stop for five minutes to unload stuff and you're left hanging in the air.

Thrunton – a decent afternoon out today, weather was cracking, still getting lost too much though.

I found that my valve stem gummed up and is a sod to get air into now.

I have been planning on taking the valve out and cleaning it, but haven't got around to it yet.

Dangerous stretches of road up there. Used to be terrible in the summer months.

In Bristol for those that don't know.

So that is where all the stolen bikes in Bristol go.

Surely a club would ensure that they do not hack people off and keep their numbers to a reasonable level?

Londoner's innit. Don't care about nobody but themselves

Creamfields in my day was a one day event.

Good laugh, but not something I could cope with these days.

Can he make me one Carlos?

My brother got a free bike when they delivered one that wasn't what they had asked for, then sent another one, never picked the first one up and finally the company went bust.

I give it to the person that lives under my stairs. They take it to the local river and handwash it for me, then run round the garden with it until it's dry.