Due to the lower arc of the sun and the high, pointiness of the mountains we lose the sun entirely for just over a month reach year. Not one second of sunlight no matter how blue the skies are from mid-December to mid-January. And even a month either side of that it's down to less than an hour each ...

Promises by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2975740667_16.jpg I found this massively underwhelming. Not terrible, not without merit but even after a few more listens to give it the chance the names involved deserve I couldn't quite bri...

Bit of a youthful revival at BDS mansions, the recent addition of a record deck to the west wing and subsequent wallet emptying experience of buying vinyl again means I’ve gone retro, Clash- London calling, Jam- setting sons and now some Stranglers….. Yes! Welcome back to the club! And no, not a ch...

Wow! Just crunched some numbers. Ouchy! I need to get a grip - look at my past 'success' :lol: 2017 Start = 110kg Finish = 109kg 2018 Start = 111kg Finish = 113kg 2019 Start = 115.9kg Finish = ??? 2020 Start = 118kg Finish = 113kg 2021 Start - 115.4kg Finish - +125kg (not good, not good at all).

After just posting in the '21 thread I felt motivated to kick-start the next edition of this long-running helpfully motivational group therapy chat! :-bd https://chrissyjbrown.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/69161663_marjorie-dawes.jpg So who's in??? Likely some familiar faces and maybe a few new ones t...

My year ever so slightly got away from me. Culminating in a joyous cacophony of incredible hangover and lovely, lovely self-loathing today - yay! Covid failed to ruin the street Christmas Day celebrations with 3 families (and extended visitors) getting together (after a lot of dodging the virus, tak...

Morning all re-start 101kg 10th Dec 100kg on the nose 24th Dec 99.7kg A bit slow progress and I cant see that changing with the amount of cheese in the house! But progress is progress. Keeping the downward trend is the aim. 93 days to reach my target of 95kg :-bd Keep up the good work fella! :-bd

Yes!!! I can finally let my inner Grinch express itself..... I find the whole thing to be a great big loathsome commercial, consumerist nightmare! :-bd I get into it solely to see the wonder on the kids faces but I also make sure I educate them about the pagan origins and downplay any mention of tha...

My little brother was taken off his bike by barbed wire rigged across a popular trail waaaaay back in the late eighties in sunny Rotherham (I do not miss living there!).

Broke the skin at each side of his neck but the barbs all missed everything important - some proper psychos out there!

I very much like the idea of a nice challenge during said period in order to get me out and riding when I would otherwise be sat in the house shovelling after eights inside me 9-17h and then Turkey leftovers and booze from 17-23h. But.....I live in the mountains and every year I initially start thin...

2022 plans eh??? 1. Stay flexible and don't book anything that isn't completely refundable. 2. Ride my bike a metric crap-ton more than this/last year. 3. Continue my new and (seemingly so at this point) improved approach to health and fitness (leading to something approaching a healthy weight and r...

FLV wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 10:58 pm

In Reverse wrote: ↑Mon Dec 13, 2021 8:46 pm [*]A big overseas ride with other people would be nice too. Veneto Trail might happen at last...

I may be up for that one if the dates work

+1 for potentially being up for this if it's at the sociable rather than race-paced end of the spectrum.

Feavourite ride/trip/outing? Once again it's the Tuscany Trail - what's not to like? Five days of wonderful scenery, weather, food, wine and like-minded bike folk - win! Favourite piece of kit? My bouncy bike*. Rekindled my love for riding massive mountains on very very techy trails.....at pace! (*S...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 5:51 pm

I think she also did the first ever BB200?

Don't think so or at least I don't recall.

She did it in 2016.

That was the year I couldn't do it but lent a hand for a bit signing people out as they set off.

Check this out:

https://m.pinkbike.com/news/bike-check- ... -bike.html

Think I'll pass.....

Think I might bow out of this for a while. Still can't train due to COVID19 related damage and I think I'll start getting obsessive about the weight gain... which really isn't going to help a mental state that's already pretty fragile because of all the fitness loss. This is what I've done. I've ha...

Also happy to assist if for some reason the others don't work out.

Si, what a great story - well done for having sense and bottle to follow your dream!

So.....it's more 'what I did today that involves bikes' than something I've done to an existing bike of mine. I bought a new bike!!!!! :-bd It's my 46th birthday today and so obviously I bought a lovely new BMX to fanny around on. The middle squirrel (who's 8) has recently gotten one and we thought ...

fatbikephil wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 4:46 pm Skinnergate cycles in Stockton selling bonty XR2's 29x3.0 just now. Get 'em whilst you can!

Nope! All gone according to my internet.

Not that tricky really, I'll continue to ignore unknown numbers.....unless I'm lost in the hills, close to death and hoping for rescue - then I'll answer.

(Obviously I'm being flippant but come on, it's not that hard to do one thing sometimes and another thing other times)

So I've ended up with COVID-19 again. Crap - feel better dude! After a week in the UK I have returned knackered, poor and the new heaviest I've ever been - yay! Go me! I'm allowing myself today and tomorrow to finish off a few tasty bits and pieces (mostly bacon and beer) from the UK and then it's ...

Crap! My old stomping ground.

I can't think of anywhere I've ever felt less threatened, on or off the road, than riding in the Ardeche but it just goes to show that you can stumble upon a psycho anywhere!

As a lover of all things fat I think folk often overthink the whole tyre pressure issue. I look at the surface type and conditions and then I whack loosely what I think will be about right (without looking at any numbers). Then once I'm out I'll realise if it's too high or too low and then higher/lo...

After following random tangent after random tangent I've been spending a fair bit of time exploring a lot of early 80's Nigerian disco and funk -

Things like:

https://youtu.be/a44AMliMqHY

Very aware that it's fairly out there as a genre but there's some gems in there!