Oh should be doable on a kelly-kettle! The M-kettle has a rubber cork… wouldn’t like to transport it on it’s side though…

Get him to bug the employer about suppliers? Edinburgh Bikes have loads of 26″ bikes left in their sales just here and they do C2W and are super helpful!

Joshvegas – it’s not too wobbly? I was going to get a titanium trivet and use the base to cook with once the water is ready… The water boils so quick is there time to cook on top? ❓ Oh mine came in a tight fitting red bag, it had a couple of D-rings for strapping it to stuff iirc.

Scotroutes – lovely gaiters 😀 I think I did the WHW a few years after you, I remember some of the path was knackered. Oh and my friend got food poisoning at the glenorchy hotel. 😳

Ah, that does look fancy!!
http://shop.18bikes.co.uk/products.php?plid=m1b0s442p2037

It looks pretty cool – I’m a novice at bike building though – how much would a pretty basic set of components set me back?

They might even do you a deal with a pipe and some tweed plus fours!

It’s got lighter wheels anyway… ah, from Evans site

(TL:DR lighter wheels, disc brakes inside the triangle so you can use normal racks. Other things a bit better)

“Genesis Croix de Fer 2014 Cyclocross Bike. The irrepressible Croix de Fer returns for another year. Visually similar to last years’ model but with some choice tweaks to improve versatility, everyday use and overall ride characteristics. For starters, the new inboard disc dropout moves the calliper mounting position to between the stays, meaning no more faff to space out mudguards or a rear rack to clear the calliper. They’ve dropped weight from the Wheelset (via some lighter rims and double-butted spokes), upgraded to better sealed hubs and added Continental’s Cyclocross Speed semi-slick tyres into the mix for better rolling performance on a wide variety of different surfaces. Gearing has been widened via a 12-30T cassette out back to give a really low climbing gear to aid fully-laiden adventures into the unknown.

Everything’s brought to a shuddering halt by Hayes excellent new CX Expert (formerly CX5) mechanical disc brakes – the stiff, one-piece forged aluminium calliper offering brilliant power and modulation. There are integrated barrel adjusters for on-the-fly adjustments and we’ve offset the slight weight increase of the calliper with Hayes L1 lightweight rotor. Oh, and we’ve also added a 50cm frame size, meaning more of you can now enjoy the closest model we have in our range to that fabled ‘one bike’.”
Evan’s product page for it

2015 will be the year of the mountain tandem.

Sadly now amazon has all the small crappy sellers working through them, that’s pretty normal. Sorry! They are worried about being swizzed.

And now the free postage is being done by Yodel, the worst pile of sheep’s balls postal service EVER. 👿

This is why road jerseys have three pockets at the back – the left and right ones are for a pair of Crocs.

Wel fair enough if you don’t like them… Ti frames are going to get a lot cheaper and better over time though…

What about a nice leather jacket, or a cowboy hat? 🙂

No one talks about the Dark Tower embarrassment. Talking dogs, gun-shooting knights and possibly the killer Thomas the Tank Engine…. 😀

Most definitely the custom bike (Shand for preference). Get a nice bottle of whisky and think about her when you have a dram. Keep any left over money for house/wedding stuff – she’s a granny, it’s what she would of wanted!

They do look bloody excellent.

And you can spend ages thinking up Shandy jokes when it’s raining!

Eat different stuff 😯

I cree what you did there. 😉

You could have a holiday in a railway carriage in the meantime… 🙂

http://www.scotlandrailholiday.com/

The bit with the dinosaur was a bit much I thought.

The warehouse is over that big hole that goes all the way through.

If you’re at the art college, check the Bike Station and Soul Cycles – you can pick up a second hand bike for not too much. It might be a clunker but you get get some rides in!

I have a regular kindle and it’s great – kind of wish I’d gone for the paperwhite but hey ho. Normal books are pretty good, and a lot of slightly out-field ones tend to be cheap as chips, or free. As said above, Project Gutenberg is great, and you can find other sites (I mean proper legal ones!).

Oh and for series of books like err terrible David Weber books *cough* quite often a lot of them are free, to get you to buy the new ones. 😯

I’ve been touring with someone who took their kindle – it was crap for maps, but she did have the Rough Guide to Scotland on it, which was useful..

You might be better with a basket and bodge it with saw and some bungees to convert it into a pannier holder. 😆

The better baskets do have pretty hefty fittings so should be fine for carrying a laptop, especially if you’ve sawn the front 2/3 of the basket away!

Edit, ah thought I remember these – pretty strong tubular one for carrying beer. Takeout Handlebar rack. Possibly too nice to saw up though!

Just rub petrol into their scalps… then give them a fag each!

Heh.

I once had a couple of teenagey girls say ‘what are you doing on the FOOT path??’ I got to point at the white painted bike-path sign they were standing on 😀

edit – fair play to them, they said ‘oh’ and got out the way!

You could try singing hymns? Or doing a full-throated evil laugh “Mu-ha-ha-ha”

I’d pay good money for an electric bell that played Brian Blessed at people…

They are a mind-bending 75p!

Has ANYONE seen the piri piri ones anywhere? I keep seeing the adverts!

Also…

Catch up with a fellow rider and vigorously rub your hand up and down his back. Don’t say anything – he will understand.

I was wondering about that! If he can get sponsored by Irn Bru and Glenmorangie too I will build a small shrine in my shed.

Caramel Log ftw, as it is basically the wafer, but with MANLY death-risk from choking on the coconut/dandruff coating.

That said, at my wedding we did a buffet and the giant pile-o-teacakes was ravaged into nothing in the first 5 minutes.

I always liked the postie bikes – didn’t they donate them to african charities when they were finished with them?

Closest I ever found was a stall at a market in amsterdam selling loads of the Royal Mail post bags. Oh, and bowler hats.

Hmm can you buy the police mtb’s second hand anywhere?

Ah great thanks!

Except for the DFS price thing but hey ho 🙂

Well now that’s cleared up, what IS thick/thin? ❓ I feel I missed something!

edit – Nvm, a bit of googling told me 😳

I’ve got an M-kettle that works on the same principle as a Kelly Kettle, and it works a treat for boiling water. That’s all you can do though!

Alpkit Rig 7!

Packs up wee, and has a lot of the loop doohickeys!

As a minor PSA Finitribe cd’s canbe bought on amazon for (strangely) not much cash at all… 😆

You can’t really go wrong with Forevergreen 🙂

You can get shiny photo paper that works in a normal printer… A4 obviously 🙂 we did a bunch of printing from my baby niece’s baptism, and they seemed to come out lovely. Obviously this won’t work for your large pics, but if your doing loads of normal sized ones…

No no read ‘The Road’, very cheerful and relaxing!

Lovely vid!

There are other ways to get the same sound effect though…

My only experience of the Skate games is the excellent videos of the glitches that show up regularly. 😆

If you tap your feet too many times, do really simultaneously break your legs and fly off into the scenery??

They couldn’t break in again, and start a new chapter, I believe that in my heart!

The ‘Preview Post’ button doesn’t show pictures, in my experience… 😳