Before you get too excited (great plans BTW), does your wifey/lady friend know that's is going to be a bike room? We have an attic room all done out but we both can't decide what we want to use it for, so nothing has actually been done with this spare room other than leaving the Xmas trees up there...

I tried to persuade my wife that it would be ok to stay on after the Divide and do the CTR - she could even bring my other bike over.

I got told, in no uncertain terms, where I could go with that idea.

I didn't even bother raising the concept with work :)

But, I'm on for 2017.

I use one, but again , flared bars. Wife used one in Cuba and she had little issues - 42cm Cowbells in image - small Apidura bag - midget sized bike. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/325/19031698095_01df692098_z.jpg IMGP6959.jpg by Greg.May , on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/415/18989108616_42...

Some good ideas here, keep them coming! I want a workshop - not a room to hold a dinner party in, so there will be no log burner/pie dispense/STW sillyness. There may be a kettle though. I'll probably keep the doors on the two storage rooms - if nothing else because I'm a bit OCD when it comes to se...

jameso wrote:

I find myself with a wife in Colombia

Is that the result of one of those really bonkers nights out?

One of those - how did I get myself to Colombia in the first place moments :)

Trail-rat wrote:window you say........

frosted glass and security bars on the inside before you start.

Double glazed window - recessed, but not sure if I can get bars across it - backing onto garden with awkward access - already looking at alarming it. Area is quite good at least. Plan to frost it certainly!

Anyone riding this year got plans for Easter BH weekend?

I find myself with a wife in Colombia and no commitments for the Fri-Sat-Sun.

Central wall is structural. Two little rooms - are little rooms, wall structural too. They are quite a good size. Problem with using RHS as workshop would be having shadow-board and tools on show through window. But, it would mean real light. Plan is to go straight to base concrete -sealed - then wo...

Let's say you've theoretically just had an offer accepted on a house which has a large basement area. See theoretical diagram below. photo.JPG If you were going to take the room on the LHS - which has bare, dry, stone walls - is plumbed and done for electrics - and has two nice storage spaces - and ...

Just to clarify for a few people:

[*]This is not the ITT I've been working on - that'll be later in the year.
[*]A MTB will be overkill - a road bike will be a silly idea.
[*]It'll be about 100km, with close as I can to 3,000m of climbing.

I think that's it for now.

Got it in one Chew :)

http://i1.wp.com/www.gregorymay.ie/wp-content/uploads/P5160002.jpg?resize=750%2C563 First there was the RVOL - Ronde van Oost Lancashire. An event my good friend Alan put together to ride on the day of The Ronde van Vlaanderen taking in the best of the cobbles he knew about as well as some brutal c...

You'll be grand Nick....right?

Happy to see you back dude.

*cough*

Three months

*cough*

My experience is more from the working with kids from disadvantaged areas - to the extent that some of them had never left their housing estates in inner city Dublin taking them into the mountains, getting them climbing, paddling, walking and bivying. It's rewarding. It's tough. It doesn't get easie...

I'm still here!

greg_may_

Where'd you get the pattern out of interest?

S'ok stumpy

Nick - I think the TT would be too long for you, its a 56/58 Sprint frame.

Interesting concept.

A chunk of the route may be possible from the EWE route too - down south it may be worth having a chat with Aidan.

Ian wrote: Or you just lean to the right and the slack in the fork does the rest

Ian wins at the internet today :)

Ordered one.
Stole a Sharpie from work.
Awaits delivery.

I'm back! A weekend of lifting, shifting, and generally sneezing is done. For those of you who gather clutter - deal with it before you die - otherwise your children will hate you for it. I didn't manage to get the bikes back - we had to take other important bits back first - important according to ...

ScotRoutes wrote:It's just as well that bear is only on the front....



.. after all, who wants a bear behind?

Assless chaps? I ride down Canal Street most days....

Interested...may need to take a marker pen to part of it though.... You can't do that Greg. It's only through the generous sponsorship of the companies we are advertising that the cost can be kept so low..... Indeed, one would think three separate bike brands is almost odd... Either way, it's the a...