Andy

I don't think Dougie will be signing anything for a few days. He had his stag night in Ibiza last weekend....

<opens thread> <shakes head> <toddles off back to re-designing article pages>

Results have just gone up on the front page.

Why am I likely to kill you when I gave you a blatant plug further up the page???!!!

Stuart Cameron of Autowbars in Bradford is now making bike trailers to order. He's on holiday at the mo, but posts on here regularly.

Up where? I've heard nowt...

For this, please read "I've discovered women"

I carried an article on it at the time here. It looks like they only hold articles for so long. Email alison AT acu.org.uk or mary.kerr AT acu.org.uk and they should be able to help you.

Thought you were sold on the wee Scorpa?

By my reckoning you'll already have the order in for 156 of them. (i.e. you plus the 2 boys = 3 x 52 weeks) Can't use them again once they're dirty, can we?

Somebody needs to invent those Odour Eater insoles for helmets... Charcoal they're full of. Hmmm.... Idea - Empty a bag of barbecue briquettes into it

Apparently it's hot as hell out there.

Photos just gone up front page.

The 2005 Indoor Calendar hasn't been announced yet, but the British Round is in Sheffield on Jan 8th. I'll be there

Traffic bollard. Metal or concrete - either will suffice

The real answer is obvious. Baggy clothes - sponsors logos get creased and distorted and can't be made out. Tight - sponsors logos highly visible.

Dorothy Perkins

I've heard nowt. I'm sure they'll appear at some point. The Manx organisers seem to have things well sussed as far as press goes. did Neil ride? I know he was planning on.

If you're in HK and I know the riding community there is very small, I'm presuming you must know Stu Essenhigh? He posts on here. He used his family in the UK as a go-between to get goods to me from HK so maybe the same could be done in reverse? i.e. his family can source and send out. If, on the offchance you don't know him, then he posts on here.

You can click Edit and fix them yourself!

But hopefully you can see WHY I don't want it to go that way? I really don't want to censor discussion, but I have to support those who are not only supporting me, but are supporting the site too. PS. For you US/Canada guys, I'm hoping to be in the position soon to sponsor something over there too. Not big, but given I have stateside advertisers it's only fair something goes back to that side of the pond.

Hehehe. I saw you viewing this thread for ages and thought "Uh-oh. what's coming here!"

I'd just add that I'm running this as a tight ship for tax reasons. Other than covering the running costs, I've already negotiated to sponsor one Club Series with the surplus thus re-investing in the sport. No money from TC advertising goes down the pub with me! If there was no advertising revenue, I couldn't do that. The aim is for the balance book to show

I agree it's not illegal, but...... You all enjoy a free resource in this website. I can't afford to fund it out of my own pocket so it's paid for by the advertisers and as long as they're helping me financially to keep this site free then I'll do my utmost to support them and would encourage others to do so too. It's not me that's providing you with this website - I'm only providing the technical knowledge to put it together. At the end of the day it's THEM that's providing this website and as long as I have their support financially it will stay free. I believe a subscription-based site would fall flat on it's face very, very quickly and would rather pull out than go down that route.