when out on a day trip i generally bought a carton of milk at a filling station as it was sort of food and drink but that's no good for cold weather.

yes i guess mcdonalds are a known quantity, the same throughout the country so you don't get any local ambience. recall stopping at one in some remote part of south wales, in a really exposed position on a hillside, near the top - somewhere near mountain ash i think. had all the charm of some kind o...

Pret has been going for years It's a high street brand- didn't know that Lucy's in Stow - i'll have to try and find it https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186290-d2615855-Reviews-Lucy_s_Tearoom-Stow_on_the_Wold_Cotswolds_England.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return fal...

smaller cafes with good coffee and homemade - me too i did spend quite a lot of time touring the cotswolds in central uk, it is a protected zone without any substantial towns except one on the edge called chipping norton. there's quite a few small museums dotted about, often these have reasonable ca...

there's a new motorway francishe called pret a manger which is nicer/better than starbucks, macdonalds and costaon the coffee (services) front

i know this cake thing is a joke with you blokes but, really, when you get older you don't want to be eating cake on bike trips, you aren't going to be cleaning your teeth anytime soon and it doesn't do your figure any good. having said that i'll eat home made that hasn't got too much sugar in it. o...

there's quite a good burger van at one of my local bike shops but no facilities as far as i know, i think you need toilets to go with the stop really. the other bike shop has a cafe in a container unit, like one of those portable cabins you get on a building site but it is claustrophobic and unpleas...

i like quietish family run places preferably with home made food where i can sit with a view of my bike, deli type shops can be ok on the other hand i have found myself in the company of obnoxious middle class/trendy twats who are loud/irritating in the above i'm not that keen on greasy spoon transp...

banana sandwich

maybe it's an old man thing.

An article that I got published in the VJMC magazine ages ago, I hope that you like it







It was quite heartfelt at the time, sadly both sheds are now gone...

i'm not so far from you then, sometimes go to henley and pangbourne for rides, the a417, reading to cirencencester is nice, from reading a329 then to a417 at goring.

where are you D6Nutz?

I'm going to go out to clean the car, sounds ridiculous but the windscreen is supposed to being replaced tomorrow so they won't want a dirty car to work on.

this threat went slightly off course - seems like you lot have. by and large. got hooked up with either tolerant or biker females

as for multiple bikes, maintenance and running costs are a factor as well as storage - not good to leave bikes outside if it can be helped

got some impact shorts but yet to try them out - thick snow here.

Got my article/cartoons on cyclists published in the VJMC magazine this month

sorry all, my fault but, at the same time, i have to admire ross for attempting it.

well sorry to hear about marriages ending - all the stuff i'm on about tends to come later in life imo actually, in my case, it isn't so much the mrs, more me feeling guilty because the 'kids' need a bit of financial help so that means i've got to not indulge too much. still think females have a tot...

all see is something for all the flies, wasps and bugs to get sucked into in summer [video]https://youtu.be/B5d_krKbCws[/video] no not really, looks cool - this is beyond me but i like it, honda's reinterpretation of the cafe racer idea http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-new-bikes/honda-reveal...

nice - i need a holiday like that