Quote from: Nick on March 03, 2022, 09:54:34 PM

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on March 03, 2022, 09:48:58 PM

Quote from: Nick on March 03, 2022, 09:25:10 PMGerman and French leaders have met and spoken with Putin in the flesh, none of that for our clown of a leader.

And that's managed precisely what?

QuoteUkraine, Georgia and Albania now all looking to join the EU.

Giz some dosh, go on, giz some dosh

A fashion for long tables? Once the Ruski money has exited the U.K. we may well be in that queue.

But with all the dosh we can hold back we've got a better grip on their short and curlyskis

Quote from: Nick on March 03, 2022, 09:25:10 PMGerman and French leaders have met and spoken with Putin in the flesh, none of that for our clown of a leader.

And that's managed precisely what?

QuoteUkraine, Georgia and Albania now all looking to join the EU.

Giz some dosh, go on, giz some dosh

Wooden Shjips - Back to Land

I always wear a helmet - mainly to placate Mrs S - as if you're in a bad high speed accident a helmet is neither use nor ornament. 25% of car driver road deaths are from Head injury and nobody clamours for drivers to be wearing helmets.

I wear a cheap pair of cycling glasses from Wilko. Mrs S bought them for me and they have lasted much longer than any supposed "quality" pair.

As a general rule, the more you shell out on bib shorts the better it is for your comfort. My Rapha ones are far and away the best I've had, but Wiggle's dhb aren't bad.

I say keep it up Putin, anything that keeps those Meerkat adverts off the telly is well worth it

Two nice days in a row - if still a bit breezy - meant I hit the roads for the first Sunday in four weeks! Don't think I've ever had such a Sundayless run since I took up cycling again back in 2016. Let's hope the weather settles down a bit now.

I got another 40 miler in to take me over 200 miles for February and 146 of those were this week! I also got in two climbs I've never done before. The Cordwell Valley from Barlow has a plethora of climbs up either side of it - all with some degree of "interest" - and these had just passed me by. I'd been down one before, but never up it so I took the plunge today. The first one I took a wrong turning on, but it was no bother to get back to the start again, in fact it was a good mistake to make as otherwise I'd have missed getting to 40 miles. I'd say this was the better of the climbs, as it is more up and down and windy. The second was straighter, all of a similar steepness and covered in thick mud and big stones washed out of the fields, but what doesn't kill s only makes us stronger.

https://www.strava.com/activities/6747931544/

Procol Harum - Shine on Brightly
Wobbler - Hinterland (on very wobbly brown vinyl)
Mikal Lapaj - Are You There

Quote from: Rufus_the_dawg on February 26, 2022, 12:04:17 PMPutin - listening to radio 5 live this morning, its just plain awful.

What does bald man with a stupid walk, full of Botox want?

Lasting infamy.

I was saying to Mrs S last night that I wondered if he were terminally ill and so wanted to make his mark for posterity. Searching the interwebz reveal lots of loons are thinking the same way...

Personally, I'd be happy doing 90 miles in a week let alone in one ride - although I am now over a 100 miles for this week thanks to a couple of days off work.

Today's ride was only my third forty miler of the year and it looks like I'll end February 500 miles down on last year. Still, it's quality, not quantity that counts, that's what I tell myself anyway.

It was a nice dry day thankfully, but there was still a stiff breeze, but it had swung round to a southerly direction from a westerly so the segments where I was flying yesterday were down amongst the also rodes today. Still the sunshine had brought the cyclists out today, there were one or two who looked like they had just emerged into the world of real cycling from the Zwifting one as there were one or two very shiny posh looking bikes out there, probably why I was well down today's leaderboard on the climb out of Cutthorpe.

There's too many roadworks round these here parts, I encountered an unexpected set in Holymoorside. I ended up doing what drivists accuse all cyclists of doing - cycling through a red light. It looked very much as if they were stuck on red - and I did follow a Royal Mail van through, so the drivists started it. Whilst waiting at the lights a cycling couple turned up behind me and we exchanged pleasantries, I saw them again up on Beeley Moor as I was doing my refuelling lap round the Beeley Triangle. Looking at Strava I think it was Mark and Mad Dog Walsham. Mark was a pro for the Raleigh cycling team back in the day and Mad Dog's his missus, so she'll be the reason I beat them up Harewood Road easily...

I've got:


Saucerful of Secrets in April
Steve Hackett in September
Opeth in October or November. Don't recall which now.

Shopping in Tesco.

I need to get out more.

Was this the idea of your missus? Just say NO!
Mrs S keeps banging on about a new kitchen, but we've only had this on in 27 years, plenty of life left in it yet!

Quote from: Slim on February 24, 2022, 04:08:58 PM


I must see if I can sort out a 'like' button.

My own wife doesn't have a medal, but some would argue that she deserves one.

My wife keeps telling me that she deserves one.
I once made her a load of cardboard ones, so I could give her one - fnarr fnarr - whenever she said she deserved one...

Anyhoo, I think Mr Kenny has deserved to hang up the track bike and start a new career. Wonder if his missus will overtake him now?

Sad that it's happened. But I've been through it all before with Counterparts, but then I only went there to piss off the Seppoes and fanbois

Not 'arf has it been a windy start to the year. I thought it was supposed to have been a bit calmer today and maybe it was, but it was still no fun slogging up hills into it. It was nice when it was behind you though, I managed to set a best time on a segment today where I'd set my previous best five and a half years ago and today I didn't even try. It's nice when you get up to 30 mph on the flat

Had to contend with hail and snow today too. Luckily I missed the worst of it as I skirted the southern flank of the showers, but the hail was like being blasted by ball bearings at times and the road was covered in them. Yet when I turned off the road the hail lasted for half a chain and then the road was completely dry! Good job I chose to go out this morning as it's been filthy so far this afternoon and the moors are now snow covered.

https://www.strava.com/activities/6731087362/