West Beers : Every Thursday @ The Lamb Brewery, W4 4PH

Sano Good to see you all, even though I had no idea where I was going in the West Country. Now safely home in the dirty East, gunshots and police sirens are rocking me to sleep ;)

Home already?? Bloody hell.. you all drinking shandies in my absence or something?! Soft ;)

I suppose murtle's lying in a gutter somewhere unable to make it home. Come get your vodka twat.

Well done to jw and Murtle for keeping me company until last orders.. I live 5 mins from da pub.
Hippy i'll have you know murtle rode till uxbridge rd. with me and he wasn't falling over at all... he was quite concerned about that bottle of polish vodka you promised him!

Concerned about drinking it or concerned that I might've finished it off already? :)

Concerned that the 4 bottles you brought from Poland would have gone by now...
Do you have the shakes Hippy? hmm... do you? teetotaler!

Good to see you all & hello to new faces. Sorry to rush off, it looked like it was going to be a good night.

Dogs - props for the tie. SimonC - thanks for the hat.

See you for Australia ride or next Thurs - whichever it ends up being.

Hippy, how come the no show??

I gave up socialising for the new year :)

Just you and the vodka, eh?

Hippy's probably on the rollers too... 'training'... "hic!"

yeah i feckin' made it home no probs........good to meet sano proper, and proven...and the usual pisshead westie cnuts :)
good laugh, was had by all...................i hope.
hippy's still afat cnut in denial....
where's me fuckin' vodka??

I wish I had rollers.. then I might be quicker than last at roller racing! :)

Nah Mouse, I'm cough training cough or some approximation of increasing speed on a bike.

I got Londres-Paris and Paris-Roubaix to do in June and Chiltern 100 and depending on logistics 3-days of Wessex in May .. dunno about camping in between 300mi though! :S

31t®um yeah i feckin' made it home no probs........good to meet sano proper, and proven...and the usual pisshead westie cnuts :)
good laugh, was had by all...................i hope.
hippy's still afat cnut in denial....
where's me fuckin' vodka??

You're mean to me and make me cry so I drank all your vodka to make the happy bunnies come back to my brain.

awwwwwwww!!,
i'm sorry.......ya GREEDY CUNT!!

good one all, nice start to 08

provenrad - good on ya taking in the G to the final bell
dogs - cheers for the grips
simonc - ditto the hat
sano - will form some words/ideas for that ride
31trum - i nearly managed to leave before lasties - you a bad man

cornelius, mouse, brett, snowy, good to see y'all.

soon

you didn't need that much pursuading.....hehe

"Just get me a half.." - Sorry - what was I thinking?!

hippy there were a couple of us not drinking, could at least be sociable!!

enjoyed it a great deal, a great bit of serendipity meeting up with jonny
obviously would have been better if I was drinking but not until march big fellas, not until march.
always good to see you all again, murtle, sano, jonny, brett, dogsballs, provenrad and for the first time, snowy, simon c.
Look forward to doing it again mines a pint of orange juice and lemonade...
oh and thanks for the hat simon, I look very dashing if I do say so myself, though I've got a long way to go to wear a cap as stylishly as jonny.

dogsballs hippy there were a couple of us not drinking, could at least be sociable!!

Trust me.. I'm very "sociable".. I've got the hospital records to prove it :)
I'm merely removing the temptation to drink until I have the ability to say no in a crowd.
Besides which, I didn't leave the fscking office until 8.30pm!!!! Did anyone else see the car without any doors on the side of the road near Notting Hill st??
Bloody hell! I took a photo of the crash but it's not real clear - I didn't wanna get too close there was a cop car nearby.
It was actually a real nice ride home last night.. roads were bloody empty.

What happens in March Corny?

i start drinking again

5th of January is the new March. Official.

cornelius blackfoot i start drinking again

Is that just an arbitrary date for a restart then, March?

jonny 5th of January is the new March. Official.

Do I get my birthday presents now then?

I made my excuses and left after just the one pint, was quite brain dead - been working too hard and its only the first week in January. But a pleasure to meet you all (in fact meeting some of you again). I got home to my girlfriend asking whether I'd been seeing "the bicycle nerds again". What could I say?

SimonC thanks for the wheels.

Oh I'm in Edinburgh on Monday, can anyone recommend any good bike shops I could visit on my way back to Waverley?

I've always wanted to go to http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/ (it's a co-op)
Good luck with the tub wheels - dont forget to inject some sealant!

hippy [quote]cornelius blackfoot i start drinking again

Is that just an arbitrary date for a restart then, March?[/quote]

just got into the habit of not drinking through jan and feb, so after a two month hiatus, weight loss, detox, etc etc, I get back on the sauce in march.