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I am cycling L-P with a group of pupils from my school in order to raise a load of cash for charity. We are leaving this Sunday. Because it is with kids, I have had to be V precise with my planning - choosing a quiet ish route etc. I have google map links or publisher or pdf files of the route that I have turned into booklets for each rider. You are more than welcome to these if they would be of use. Just let me know. I will be able to tell you next week whether the maps are any good and if the kids make it.

Did they?

It's almost worth repping for the use of "disaggregated" but maybe I'm just in a good mood because it's A. sunny and B. There's a ride to look forward to.

1. Oliver Schick
   
2. mattty
   
3. damo (as usual need to check calendar)
   
4. wools
   
5. middleofnowhere
   
6. Cassin (back stop if needed)
   
7. Kx.001 and Dad too
   
8. Brun
   
9. MURR
   
10. CG
    
11. HANSON
    
12. CYOA
    
    

BAM!

And buy a cow. Preferably rare breed. Then just tie it up in your living room. And buy Bubbles to clean the cow shit each day. I hear he's looking for a new home.

You could finance Hippy the movie. It would consist of 10 minutes of a fat guy cycling from Ealing to Clerkenwell and another two hours of him sat at a computer screen on the forum.

Be fair. Twenty minutes of cycling at least.

One's on telly.

iPlayer...

29th is in my calendar. It'll make up for my desperate no show this time round. Gutted. Was called in to work Sat and Sunday and including a late session on Saturday waiting for a satellite feed.
Photos/stories look awesome, though I'd have to agree (even though I wasn't there!) that it'd be a 10pm start ftw.
I used to do Brighton rides on my own overnight quite a lot last summer and always started that bit earlier in the evening at a slow pace to make sure I got a few hours kip on the beach before the sun really came out.

August could be a good one - I'm planning on cycling to dartmoor with a mate for some climbing for the ten days starting 17th, then Brighton the following weekend. Ace.

MSTRKRFT

actually ----its fixed...hes a life long hard core rider, just has kids too.
by all accounts kids love going in them.

Ok, my shit eyes have been commented upon before. But he definitely has brakes, right?

At least this chap is SS with brakes. There's a guy I see riding with one of these on a brightly coloured brakeless fixed rig heading north through camden each morning at about 8:15 which strikes me as... well... insane.

Riding down upper street towards Angel, lights turning amber, I'm going fairly quickly and there's not enough time to stop safely so I speed up and plough on through just as it turns red only for a motorcyclist that is very eager to get away from the lights that are just about turn green on his side speed through and nearly take me and two other cyclists out.
It was definitely still red when he started to accelerate. Twat.

OK, well as far as I'm aware you can order him at http://www.hire-a-mentalist.co.uk though I'm not sure if he comes in that outfit by default or whether you have to leave a specific note when you place your order him.

You need to sort yourself out with one of these:

I miss those fucking owls.

It's bollocks.

Chortle.

Cyclists are still boning their way around the world

Less pun-tastic, but still a quote worth remembering.

Spotted: Me feeling quite guilty for shouting angrily in a very drawn out, public and surprisingly literary fashion at an OTP fuji commuter wearing full high vis on Green Lanes twenty minutes ago after he undertook me and pushed past me, knocking me off my track stand [quite vigorously] as he RLJ'd across the manor house junction. Then I realised what a fucking dangerous idiot he was and didn't feel so guilty and shouted at him some more.

If you're on here - show some sense in future. Pretty please. With a cherry on top. And sprinkles. Cunt.

I have never seen that apparent conunrum as anything more that an issue with defining terms.

If, before you pose the question, you tell me what you mean by sound, then the question asnswers itself.

If - for example - you define sound as a vibration of the air falling on your ears and then being electrochemically (through nerve impulses) translated into the abstract we call sound in our brains, then of course if there is no one there then there is no sound.

If- on the other hand - you define sound as the dissipation of pressure waves through a medium such as water or air - then regradless of whether there is anyone there the dissipation of pressure waves through air happens, thus sound (as defined) happens.

The question is not a profundity, it is sophistry and equivocation, it is a trick question that relies on the equivocation of the word 'sound'.

You know that bit at the end of The Matrix, when Neo gets all angsty on Agent Smith and then flexes in the corridor and the corridor flexes with him? Then Morpheus suddenly has that wonderful epiphany, and says "He is the one".

That's what I feel like every time I read something written by Tynan.

oh my...

Oh, forms. In-famous is when you're MORE than famous. This man Murtle, he's not just famous, he's IN-famous.

That a Three Amigos reference? If so, bravo.

1.CrazyJames

1. Clefty (available for laminating and cutting spoke cards, and route recce)[/quote]
   
2. Bainbridge
   
3. Spudger
   
4. CYOA
   

Nick
I think this could be an excellent idea and would be happy to help in any way the discussions see fit.
I'll be keeping a close eye on the thread.
Ed

That movie had Will Smith in it, instantaneously negating any filmic value.

I've just now recovered from fainting after reading that.

If I was more petty I'd give you neg rep as often as I could for the rest of my/Jeff Goldblums life.

Crap film career though, save for Earth Girls Are Easy and The Fly, maybe.

[fume]How very fucking dare you!? Haven't you seen Independence Day??!?!![/fume]

It is indeed... It's odd stuff, you can seep sugar cubes in the stuff and set fire to them, then blow them out once it's caramelised slightly and then pop 'em in your mouth as crunchy shots. Purists frown upon those that do but I reckon it's the best way to have the stuff - certainly the most fun. Otherwise you can have some cold water, a sugar cube and a measure of it, stir it all together and drink it. Some people have it neat at room temperature which I think is revolting.
For me I think it's great as an ingredient for more intricate drinks like the earlier variation on the Old Fashioned.
We had a range of absinthe shooters which went down very well. Try things like layering it with different coloured liqueurs. A bit fiddly but great fun to do and satisfying to look at if done well!

Try layering it with Baileys, Amaretto, and maybe grenadine for colour - (layer in order of viscosity i.e. how "heavy" the liquid is)
I'd definitely give the raspberry drink a go though. If only because it means buying a bottle of chambord which A. comes in an amazingly intricate bottle and B. is one of the best ingredients in the world ever. Fact. It's very sweet but it just goes with anything!

Ed

Let's be clear. There are no muddled cherries in an Old Fashioned. They MIGHT be served as a garnish but the only muddling that's going to happen is to a sugar cube in the bottom of the glass with 2 dashes of angostura bitters. Perhaps a dash of soda if you have some on tap. Grind it all into a thick paste with your spoon, then add your ice, continue to stir the heck out of it for a minute or so and then add the whiskey. Stir a little longer. If you want to garnish with fruit, now's your chance - a pair of maraschino cherries or a thick wedge of orange are common ones but I find they overpower it and make it a bit too sweet.

Try it with a half measure of absinthe added at the same time as the bitters.
Probably the manliest drink available. Even more so than the Vespa....:

Six parts Tanqueray Ten
2 parts Stoli
1 part Dry Vermouth and a dash of Angostura (because who has Kina Lillet... Seriously...)
Stir with lots of ice.
Serve very cold and with a large slice of lemon peel

A cocktail I used to make when I worked at Koba in Brighton went a little like this:

2 parts good brandy,
2 parts Chambord,
Shake
Fill a glass to the top with ice and fresh raspberries and grated chocolate, give it a bit of a stir.
Pour in the mixture and top up with soda
Grate a little more dark chocolate over it. Serve with a long bar fork or cocktail stick so you can pick out the raspberries..

There's nothing to it in terms of ingredients so I never bothered with a name but it's a nice intimate drink and good for hot summer evenings.