I think trail riding is like diving always have a "buddy" along with you .I suppose this was a gentle reminder of that because as you have already hinted, if you were alone and out of telephone reception, deep doo doo. Still glad to hear you are on the mend. No I dont come on here often so...

Sorry to hear about the fall Simon was it up on one of the trails?

so you are taking the heresay of the daily telegraph over someone that lives here and has been importing bike clothing and selling to bike shops for 6 years, with hundreds of bike manager connections. You will go places. I see that some of your other sources of info are politicians, I suppose unlike...

there is one mistake and that is filtering is permitted in slow traffic, they tried to make it law and the bikers stopped the traffic in Paris and caused a 300km traffic jam on the motorway so the government gave up on that one. In fact now that I read more there are quite a lot of small errors but ...

yeah no problem i wrote it in haste because it is one of my pet "hates" here, how the brits act abroad as they then piss off home, leaving us to face the locals. The problem we get is that a lot of them live here as well and dont seem to realise what a problem they are causing for those th...

they may well have the right, to close down a thread all that will happen is that it will be continued on other threads here and so that makes it a pointless exercise and all it does is upset people. you have put the cart before the horse, with no people on this site it wont exist

As the previous thread was closed by someone who was not participating in it which I think is bang out of order , I will have to start a new thread here to answer TRAMPS question. And add paragraphs as requested so that he can get a breath :) The legal situation in France is that if you ride in grou...

Simon, I understand your anger, here in my region there are loads of English who are happy to drive around in uk registered cars with no MOT, No insurance, no tax, the local police have had enough of it and are having a binge stopping these cars and giving them a 2000 euro fine plus confiscating the...

must be a long bit of rope

Cheers for the thought but I'm back in the UK after getting a text from BF at 3.30 on Saturday.I was the otherside of Brittany and after finding some internet access I had to ride to calais as BF had stopped everything and everything else I checked was full. I even looked at going to Ireland then t...