far too much blue cock!

z1ppy you’re a genius! that’s the one.
Singletrackworld is without doubt the no1 information resource on the net!

Old(ish) By no means a new film.
Can’t remember who’s in it. Think it’s either the nazis that capture an allied soldier or the other way round, can’t remember.

This!

“chick” eh?
So I should stop using “Bint” to describe women? Righto.

Michelin pro race 3’s!!

Patsy Cline
Tammy Wynette
Dolly Parton
Reba Mcentire
Shirley bassey

You know that KR810 you're after……..I've already got one so ner ner ner ner ner! 😛

It's a bit of a wordy one, would be good as an A level study at school though.

Now many many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as can be
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life
My daughter was my mother 'cause she was my father's wife
To complicate the matter even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him br'ther
Of the widow's grown-up daughter who was also my stepmother

Father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son
My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue
Because altho' she is my wife, she's my grandmother too

Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
For now I have become the strangest case I ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa

So…..this isn't about Fish then? 😳

I think it would be classed as an mtb sportive. Or have I just invented a style of event there?

Can you enter on the day? I see it's only got 321 riders at the minute.

How can anyone be qualified to give advice on what you should or shouldn't do when we haven't found a cure for it yet!

Most other diseases etc we can at least delay the effects if not completely cure, the common cold? The best we can do is advise people to MTFU!

Swiss stop green pads are what you need.They wear quick but grab hold of a rim like no other canti pad.

Eye of the llama!! 8)

I've just got a Scott Gore-tex paclite jacket fom the bike shop at Grizedale.
Wore it for running on Saturday and I've worn it for cycling too.
100% dry and the sweat content was better than any other waterproof I've tried.
Top marks from me.

Between a rock and a hard place By Aron Ralston.
The one where the guy is trapped by a fallen boulder on his arm and (finally) decides to cut his arm off to escape his predicament.
I couldn't have cared wether he lived,died or stayed stuck.

The other I hate is the Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.
Was made to read it at A level. It was supposed to be some steamy story about Mr Rochesters mad wife in the attic before she went mad.
Utter drivel.

With commentary by Reeves and Mortimer!

Didn't they have any decent colours or designs then? 😆 😉

4 pages is not cool! 🙄

Todmorden still has a sherriff! 8)
bet they have indians in them thar hills too.( for indians read native americans)

As mentioned, cyclejersey.com
or bio-racer or Giordana.

….aand me! I'm so cool I can use this forum and not be uncool! 8)

The race wasn't hard enough after crashing so jens borrowed the Mavic Service bike! That's cool! 8)

oh yes…Tom Ritchey….the epitome of cool…….

…..on which planet? LOl 😆

Specialized not cool eh?
I beg to differ!

and the section in "Dirt" where he's riding on the grass banking next to the dry stone wall? It doesn't get any cooler than that!

Ah, a Phil Saxena trail!

The king of bike cool!

Can't believe no one has mentioned Last of the Mohicans! 😮
fantastic sound track, also Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid?

Wether you know Steve or not, the point I was trying to get across was that he had no idea who he was goading. So why do it? We could have all been foreign tour domestiques who are pretty anonimous, but none the less rapid riding gods he didn't know that.
It just struck me as a strange thing to say to strangers.

I'm not bigging up who I ride with at all. I get blown away into the weeds by some top class riders very regularly!

It was the attitude of the guy, just rolls onto our back wheels and berates us for not riding fast enough!:roll: with no idea where we'd been,or what we'd done.

The rider in front was Stephen Bottomley, won't mean a lot to most of you, but for those who know the three peaks and fell running they'll know his pedigree.

Why do riders do this though? surely just sit on and get a free tow or come past (which he didn't and couldn't do)and smile sweetly.

Ignorant morons!!
They're not plastic, it's cloth and glue!!
Luddites the lot of you.

I've got a pair hung up in the garage from back in't day.
Used once on a muddy field they called a downhill course.
Might be okay in deep snow but great on muddy downhill grass.Just stay away from roots and rocks!

I know a conical warning device distribution engineer.
(He puts the cones out on the motorway)

They're rubbish! (there you go another satisfied customer!) 😆

I'd go with the Maxxis mud wrestlers.

Grippy enough in all but the gloopiest gloop at which point I switch to Michelin mud 2's

or the original green muds I still have.

I've been running the wrestlers all summer in the Yorkshire TLI series, no punctures and fast as anything else you'll find.Not draggy at all.They do actually have a centre ridge of sorts which makes them quick on gravel and tarmac.

I'm actually preferring them in the dry to Michelin jets which are a semi slick.

Might run them on the 3 peaks as well as the jets lost grip on Ingleborough last year and dumped me on the deck! 😥

Erm, can't you just use a long socket set and a hammer like everyone else? 🙄

Jim reeves
Marty Robbins
She hates me

Will people please start posting pics of cross bikes, instead of these steel framed,single speeded,brooks saddle wearing abominations to all that is holy and Belgian! Thank you.