Cycling UK Forum

The wind makes an enormous difference.
In Holland it can be so strong it is impossible to stay upright.
Have not cycled the English bit but the best (easiest) way is to go anti clockwise ie. up the Dutch coast.
Cycled back from Copenhagen one year - against the prevailing wind all the way down through Holland - unrelenting misery.

hope you have a good holiday

Terry - My husband has red rims on his Trek road bike
- they have 'Airline 2' written on them - they are a bit narrow for touring - dont know if they make any wider ones.

They are very gaudy - black looks smarter.

Terry - I think our posts crossed -
As you will see from above it was Wiggle
I have emailed them and asked for all my details to be deleated - and for confirmation that this has been done

Thirdcrank - thanks for explaining all that stuff about sealed boxes - no I did not know it before (I'm a wiz with computer graphics but the rest is a mystery).
It was Wiggle - I bought a trailer - theres not problem with that the service was extremely quick and simple.

ThomasDylan - that is very strange - two of the items on my card were at a service station at Stockport - I've never been there either
the other was Tescos in Hertford - I dont use Tesco on principle and I've never been to Hertford.
How long has it been ongoing?

I think the problem with ordinary specs is the wind and dust gets round the sides.
Most cycling protective glasses - with correction lenses - are extremely expensive - well over £100

Anniesboy - If there are some around for £12 I would be interested as well - but I have not seen them advertised

Thanks for the link Graham.

Contacted the card company at once and I should get all the money back in the end - but it is worrying.
I thought I had taken all the recomended precautions.
Will get my PC checked. Thanks for advice.

I have just had the unpleasant shock of finding out that my credit card has been used fraudulently - for in excess of £400 over the last week.

Is it just coincidence that five days prior to the start of this I made my first ever purchase over the internet - or is there a real danger in putting card details on a website of even a reputeable company.

It used to be free to take a bike on the ferry from Felixstow to Europe - the cost being just for a foot passenger - my husband and I used this route for many years.
But when the Felixtow ferry closed except to commercial traffic, about five or six years ago, our nearest route was from Harwich. It is now more expensive for the two of us to use this route with just our bikes than to take our campervan with bikes (the price could include four people and as many bikes as we could carry).

Not only do we have to pay more as cyclists but are usually allocated a grubby space in which to tie our bikes and have to wait in the car exhaust fumes to disembark.

Our experience using ferries in Europe is quite different - probably because there are far more cyclists - and they are not treated as second class citizens.

I have found that complaining to the ferry companies or the government does no good.

We live in a capitalist society and big business runs our country (and most of the world) to make profits - regardless of the damage this causes in the future.

Strange lot - what ever gave you that impression T.T ?

We go out in the cold and wet, pedal for miles and carry our shopping home in bags hanging on our bikes - when we could far more easily travel in a warm car.
We dont care what our hair looks like - blown about in the wind.
Some even wear skinny clothes and zoom around at high speed,
or pack a few belongings a go away for weeks on end,
does'nt sound strange to me.

I like Jake Thackery as well - KM,

Oscar Peterson
Chopin
but my real favourite is Rachmaninov

I went to school with Elton John (then called Reg Dwight) - he was the only pupil allowed to play the school grand piano.
But I still cant work out which spotty oik he was in the school photo.

Kayak - did someone mention a kayak

cant even see a boat myself - but he does look a bit shifty - and in two minds about direction to pedal

Horizon - yes I did post on this several days ago then on reflection thought it probably was not relevant as it was not about this ferry.

When booking the cross chanel ferry a couple of years ago it cost more for two people and two bikes than for a car and four people (and bikes on the roof)
When I asked if I could book the package deal and just pretend I had my car with me the suggestion from a not amused booking clerk was that I was trying to get the ticket fraudulently.

I wrote to the PM to complain that his policy of getting everyone out of their car and on their bike was hardly being encouraged by the Ferry companies and their unfair pricing policy.
Just got a reply back from ministry of something saying it was nothing to do with them.

Your kidding - something about bikes in the daily mail

- its got to be a joke - the orange 'frame' would not support the front forks if any weight were put on it. And it looks suspiciously like wood

censored censured - never could spell -

Thats OK then.

Simon L6 - I dont know why you are mystified - it was simple question -
Does this mean that if we criticise the running of the CTC our posts are going to be censured or not?