When all said and done, you can’t polish a turd!

He has to be good to get to the grand tour stages, to be accused of doping in the first place. If it was just a case of taking drugs we’d all be at it!!!

Hmmm, might put my GB kit on and have a play! 😉

Aye, top pic known locally as “Reet Moab!”

gulp!

😉

Right……
These Sportive riders, you’re absolutely right, they don’t race at all do they….. oh wait, I just remembered this!!!!!

Maclolm Elliot sets new etape record

Shaun palmer chain smoke!

As said by Gw “The Circus” is a true classic.
Also track down “Chain smoke” it’s old but worth it just for Shaun Palmer ragging his intense at speed along some desert ridge.
Also check out the “Sprung” series of dvd’s some really good old school stuff.

Did this last night.
4 miles through central Bradford.
Was track standing so well at one set of lights that…..I forgot about the lights!!! 😳
Cue much hornblowing from the queue of traffic behind me and several obscene comments as drivers passed by me.

I’m the same 28 inch waist and I have to have 32 Inch waist to get them to fit the ass and thighs.

Not that I mind as they’re ridiculous!

been to the roller racing at Hukaz bar in leeds a couple of times, it’s full of Fixie freaks dressed in skinny jeans, I feel I just don’t belong.

And another thing……. why do they all wear the kind of pants you hated when you were at school? Is there a company doing a roaring trade in 11 year old boys recycled underwear?

You might find people don’t want to ride with you if you have flat pedals, you’re not good for their image!

winterfold – Member
That green Trek is wrong in just so many ways it is difficult to now where to start.

It’s like someone wants to do Dirt Jumping in their heart, but half listens to their head when it says ‘but you are an old queen get a road bike’.

wrong wrong wrong

Do your LBS still talk to you or do you find the shop is closed every time you go there?

No offence.

My thoughts exactly!

matthewlhome – Member
Red bike,

Because it’s a communist?

I like Bassspines theory. 8)

My haro/intense downhill bike was called “Stacey’s Mom”.
The fountains of Wayne song was out at the time and that bike had it going on!

” I’m off out to ride Stacey’s Mom” was also quite amusing at the time.

Mate has a GT hardtail he calls Brian, as It’s a Lopes frame.
Not because it’s a very naughty boy.

other than that, well, the road bike is the road bike, the cross bike is the cross bike and the XC bike is the hardtail, the full suss XC bike is the Spesh, the 4x/messing about/jump frame is the little hardtail.

I’d have decked him! 😉

^^^^^me too!^^^^^^

was hoping for the wet nosed type that come in pairs. 😥

Who just said Brad Pitt?
I’d like to refer the gentleman to exhibit A……a film by the name of “Snatch” M’lud.

I thought Nick Cage was pretty good in Bad lieutenant, whilst it’s not the original it was pretty good.In fact it’s brought a new film rule in for me, anything with a fat Val kilmer in is going to be a good film.

As for bad actors, with the exception of the first Rocky film it has to be Stallone.Followed closely by his ex, Brigitte Nielson.

I also can’t believe no one has mentioned Kevin Costner yet, who seems to have made a career out of simply playing ……Kevin costner.(though 2000 miles to Graceland was a major blip in the theory and a thoroughly enjoyable romp)

Crazy golf in Ambleside town centre. Nip over to Coniston and hire a boat or have a ride on the Gondola and a “Brantwich” at Brantwood.

Cathedral caves over near Tilberthwaite would be good for the kids, has a long unlit tunnel and some goldfish in a natural pool. All a bit lord of the rings and whilst there you could threaten (or even carry out a threat) to chuck your kids off the top of Hodge close! 😉

Easy, just track stand at the lights!

These are what I chose.
Very comfy, did the peaks in them last year and were much comfier than my Specialized on the rocky walking( I know, I know, I should be running) sections.

Oh, there’s so many,

Elvis doing “You were always on my mind” not a patch on Willie Nelsons version.

Ronan”top o’ the mornin too ya” Keating Murdering Garth brooks’ “If tomorrow never comes”

“Behind blue eyes” by Limp Bizkit

“Sweet child o’ mine” by Cheryl Crow.

Almost forgot, Ronan Keating covered “Fairytale of new York” as well,person of unmarried parentage that he is!!!

The health and safety advice inside the back door of the UPS delivery van, oh how we mocked and chuckled! 😀

If John said we all had to wear pink frilly leotards in the race next year then we would all have to.
It’s his race, he decides what’s in and what’s out.
Everyone who eneters knows this and abides by it.
If you turn up on a bike, (like the on one mentioned) which is marketted as a mountain bike 29 er frame then expect folks to recognise it as such and ask for you to be publically flogged as the rule bending pedant you would so obviously be!!

Hmmmmmm…………..

Not often a drummer gets applause is it Hooperman!? 😉

Is John Wayne liked by the same people who like Johnny Cash?

Certainly not.

He bloody well is!!

Is everybody forgetting “The Quiet man”?
A truly classic film, which still holds the record for the longest fight scene if I’m not mistaken.(which I could well be).

And the Searchers, perfect for Wayne, being a devout racist.

I have one!! Goes on the cross bike for the three peaks and the road bike for the etape du dales and the Fred Whitton. I like to spin up really steep hills rather than wrench my bars off being an animal. I have finesse.

You see how much trouble one woman official has caused…….think what would happen if more were encouraged to join!
Lets make sure they never get the vote!

” What’s that? Emily who? never heard of her!”

I like this one in Eldwick on a clear blue summers day. It’s there all year round.

We’ve always stayed here.
Can’t fault it.

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He’s won more TDF races than anyone else ever in the entire history of historydom.

You can’t polish a turd no matter how much Mister Sheen you squirt upon it.

Surely Joe Elliot and Sean Bean?

£311 shipping costs!!!!!!!!

I don’t want one anymore.

Merle Haggard was a great suggestion, ” Sing me back home” is a classic.
Kris Kristofferson, won’t truly be recognised for his genius until he’s dead I fear, along with Willie Nelson.

Marty Robbins for me is king, ” They’re hanging me tonight” is one of the saddest songs ever, and Mr shorty is the best example of “Western” music you’ll ever hear.

Check out this vid of Merle haggard impersonating marty robbins in front of him, amazing how two people can sound so alike!

Cos 3 of them were big and scarey! 😈

Thanks very very much Druidh, much appreciated.
Above and beyond the call of duty.

into de void, come on, you were bootnecks together.
Surely you’ve inspected each other for ticks and leeches at sometime or other, this is just a step further.
You can’t tell me you didn’t get involved in some ” manly” gayness whilst at Lympstone?
Unless you were complete pongos then I’m guessing you’ve at least lathered up together?
Wiping a comrades arse should be nothing to you,after all you were going to give your lives for each other, if the stuff you’re refusing to wipe had hit the fan.
M(marine)TFU! 😆

get an openly gay mate to come round and lodge as well, but let him share with the guy who owes you money! See how long he stays then!

Gieves and Hawkes suit?
I’d have had you strung up from the ramparts for this crime alone! 😆

They used to give me the squits so I don’t eat them anymore. 🙁

American Flyers- He gets a puncture and his spare rear wheel only has a 21 rear tooth cog, he can’t pedal it up the “wall” and blows up in spectacular fashion as he watches the entire bunch blow past him.

Lassie come home- She doesn’t!

Spiderman- he gets flattened by an emormous rolled up newspaper

It floods! River Calder has a habit of bursting its narrow high walled banks every time someone flushes their toilet.
Has some great riding if you don’t mind steep hills to get to it.
It does have a bit of a “Last of the Summer Wine” vibe about the place.Don’t be surprised to see groups of men trundling down steep roads in bath tubs.