Was his bike ok?

I think so. I thought initially the forks were a bit off, but looking a bit more carefully I think they are ok. Think he is getting new forks this weekend anyway.

Haven't had the ticking off yet. No doubt that will come when I drop him back home tonight.

Hopefully it will be reduced after fixing his brakes, giving him a nice gilette and a set of crud catchers I had spare.

Worst things are to come though, when he inventively tells the missus in the next hour or so when I pick her up, she will give me an ear full for days.

350,000 Won North East of Seoul at rush hour to Suwon – bottle of Black Label in the back with my mate trying to get to another bar where friends were.

Maybe we should start the "how much have you paid for a drink in a bar " thread

I'll start 600,000 Won for a bottle of whisky in a bar in Seoul. Got well and truly stung on that round.

You had 2k to be pulled straight out of your current account? Are you one of those 40% tax rate payers who milked the CTW scheme?

Give her nowt, it will just get covered in baby sick and she will lose it from being too tired.

Geax – be different

Used to have a Varadero 1000 – could ride it all day and not feel tired, but it was crap at corners.

Have you tried calling it?

Narrower tyres clean mud better!

I'm a bit portly though. I was eyeing up some 1.7 mud tyres, but I might end up with oval wheels

This was hundreds ( ???) of times bigger than a safari park – we have one in Scotland anyway.

Which is rubbish now that the monkey's can't pull the windscreen wipers off.

I was only a nipper back in the early eighties, but I remember my old man taking me up to Lagan to show me how low the water was and onto another loch that Alcan used for the hydro up there.

Caused havoc that year at the smelter. Pretty sure that was the year of strikes as well.

I would love to see wolves whilst out riding.

I never get the voucher codes emailed to me.

I've paid for items on BR and it's taken 8 days for the funds to get there. Still 950 no communication, sounds like it's gone.

Typical council house tat.

When can you go into the details then? We want stories.

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/scott/vanguard-winter-glove-ec022820

Ultrasonic anti bark things – work wonders when you have a street full of strays fighting

Hunted monkey's with a blow pipe
Maxed out a Honda Blackbird XX – nearly resulted in my death as well so – cheated death at 180mph
Swam with sharks (black tipped so not that exciting)
Walked through the highest jungle walkway in the world – papping myself
Had Dengue Fever
Lived in Canada, Thailand and South Korea
Never went to the DMZ.
Had a near miss with an elephant in the dark because it wasn't wearing a red tail light.
Found a 3.5m reticulated python in my garden,
Found a 2mish cobra in the garden.
Had a mental mate throw baby bamboo vipers at me from my garden whilst capturing the python
Found a frog in my motorbike boot.
Been attacked by a Tao-Kae
Found a turtle wandering around my shoes one morning.
Come home in the monsoons to ride down my drive way in the dark and end up in four foot of water – motorbike kicked over first time after being fully submerged – had fish swimming about the driveway.

Education sector will not be getting any pay rises for the next two years.

The Graveyard Book –

I first listened to this driving the car, fantastic story, really surprised that I liked it. Listened to a few others of his now and I really enjoy his style of writing. The Ansi Boys and Stardust were excellent as well.

Neil Gaiman reads most of them as well and does all the accents which was a bonus. Lenny Henry reads The Ansi Boys

Why don't you sing into that pet and I'll do the chorus.

Depending on your qualifications there are lots of jobs out there that pay good money on rotation not in a war zone.

You might have to work up the ladder for two or three years and work out in the desert but it's doable.

Years back I applied for a job in Iraq working at one of the universities in the green zone, didn't get it, never noticed that it said Americans only on the application form., steal the oil and take all the choice jobs.

If you can get into the oil industry a couple of years back there were big money jobs in Nigeria paying silly day rates for working there with decent rotations as well.

Local ride

Hexham common or another route around that way.- haven't tried that yet.

Hamsterley – never been there yet either.

Nephew is down for a few days and is a keen rider, who still has the 13 year olds no fear thing going on as well.

Fingers crossed he doesn't brake himself

That is the problem with this country, community service has got too short. When I was a lad if you did bad, you had to clean the graffiti off the walls, not ride bikes around the hills.

I thought it was something like that, but really can't see how it held a calliper securely in place.

It's a Landrover, what did he expect?

Cheers.

Just now been tinkering with my old Binatone Satnav to get it working with memory maps and routes. Don't see it being too accurate, but it should do the job until I melt my brain with GPS stuff.

Go Outdoors also had the GPS 60 in for 129 with carry case and bike mount, but it looks like a big bugger to me.

http://www.tracklogs.co.uk./cgi-bin/publ/user.cgi?obj=route&id=520

Although the download sections seems a bit bust just now.

You are an easy ride to Newcastle as well. Straight down from Hexam to Corbridge to Prudhoe to Wylam then follow the river down to Newcastle. Should be about 25 miles each way, but it's easy riding.

Have a look at Beyond Hamsterley for a route around that way and several others in the area.

When I was a nipper ~12 I used to ride down the river Pont with my mates. dropping off waterfalls (small ones) into pools.

Never used to oil the bike or nowt. God love the Raleigh Mustang

A bar of soap produces interesting sculptures

I've seen a video showing plasma balls in the microwave, haven't tried it yet.

Years ago a friend, whilst somewhat worse for wear, cooked an egg in it's shell in the microwave. The egg never exploded, he carried it into the living room in the egg cup and touched the top to cut it off, a huge bang and hot egg went everywhere. A large portion of it was on the old victorian height ceilings.

I've chowed down on rat a few times now. Never a city rat though always nice fresh country rats. Don't think I would eat a city rat.

What is wrong with just wearing bin liners? Worked for me for years.

Happened to me a couple of weeks back.

Hit my head hard enough on a tree root to make me sit there and assess what had happened and why was my leg stuck (stuck in the wheel between the spokes)

Mrs Q is can shift with the right shifters in her dual control all in one rapid fire v-brake combo but can't on the left.

I had been considering getting her a gripshift and now think I shall.

At work we have an Africa Clawed frog. It eats pinkies, is an albino and I hate it. Looks like a cartoon frog.

Saying that though, the chickens stalk me, the horse hates me, and the goat and I are best friends.

This tyre in rigid fitted with inner tube for a couple of days use + Joe's[/url] + El Cheapo Pump = Two pumps and inflated

I know quite a few lads who like to 'juice'. Not close friends so I have no idea if they do it properly or if they just jab and lift.

Hopefully they just jab and lift, knacker their hormonal system and can't reproduce.

I have a soft spot for McEwans Champion.