It turns out that the island is pretty hilly, and much bigger when you’re riding around it on a bike

I honestly can’t fault the organisation of the event in any way. Everything was signposted well (though we did nearly miss a sign for the first checkpoint/feeding station due to not paying enough attention), everyone involved was very friendly and helpful - and the food they laid on wasn’t bad

We camped at Kite Hill Farm, which was one of the checkpoints for the ride - so we could pretty much roll out of our tents in the morning and start the ride.

The Fishbourne Inn, close to the camp site, provided food and drink for the night before the ride, and now comes recommended if you’re in the area

My highlight of the trip was this sign:

More pictures that I took are available on Facebook (you don’t need to have an account to view them)

In conclusion, I’ll be keeping the date free for next year!

Polls have closed in the elections for the mayor of London and the London Assembly. Who do you think will emerge victorious?

And what is the best answer, as voted by other users?

Added: Thursday, 1 May, 2008, 21:34 GMT 22:34 UK

Just hope it is a candidate who will stop the mega mosque!

Keith Waters, Ely, United Kingdom

The internet never fails to disappoint

Let’s start a countdown until he gets bored of it like Xenocide did…

If you thought train spotters were a bit strange, check out this guy, he collects pictures of road safety camera vans

Ah well, everybody needs a hobby, I guess…

Examples: CM, b3ta, SA.

I predict that it will take about a week for it to get annoying and them to be removed

Not pictured: The same colour of paint sprayed over the cycle parking signs nearby. Great way to make people take your message seriously, guys

Myself and Xenocide made sure to boycott the ice cream when we arrived at Bitton (it was far too cold for that) and had a nice cup of tea and a cake instead.

Edit: Seems like the same guy edits Wikipedia, too

I wouldn’t mind so much, but it’s not really fair to inconvinience the person coming the other way by hurting/killing them.

Reading that title back, it sounds more sarcastic than intended

Just took a quick trip in to Bradford-on-Avon on the bikes with Lau, and stopped at Sainsburys to get some drinks.

It seems that, as part of their store/car park redevelopment, they’ve added a row of 5 bike racks - so enough parking for at least 10 bikes at a time, in full view of the shop (rather than in a dark corner of the car park) - a nice improvement from locking bikes to the railings next to the front door.

I’m impressed!

I only realised when I got home that I didn’t even put my bike in the picture

I look forward to seeing drivers convicted in court based on video evidence provided, published and promoted by… themselves

You know you’re from Somerset when…

• You thinks Bath’s a big city ..
• You can tell sheep from goats ..
• You know why to avoid Bridgwater ..
• You think Bristol is ‘up north’ ..
• The smell of cow sh*t makes you feel at home ..
• Everywhere else in the UK feels cold ..
• You learnt to drive in a field or on a beach ..
• You know Tesco’s don’t make meat, eggs, milk etc. ..
• When the sun goes down it gets dark ..
• Your local newspaper’s headline is ‘cow falls off bridge’ ..
• You turned to drink, drugs or heavy metal at an early age ..
• Your 4×4 has mud on it and it doesn’t do the school run ..
• You get excited/worried if you ever go on a motorway ..
• Your friends say you sound like a farmer ..
• You have nothing to do after 5:30pm ..
• You think pink wellies are a fashion statement ..
• You know how to walk over a cattle grid ..
• ‘Short and choppy on the North coast’ makes total sense to you ..
• You think nothing of grass growing in the middle of the road ..
• You know all your neighbours ..
• Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, you think a young farmers’ disco is a wild night out ..
• Until you went on holiday, the tallest building you had ever seen was Debenhams in Taunton ..
• You drink real ale ..
• You went to London………… once……….. ..
• It takes you 4 times longer to drive anywhere between May and September ..
• You’re a closet fan of The Wurzels ..
• Your neighbours’ average age is 76 ..
• You can buy most of your wardrobe at Mole Valley Farmers ..
• Your best friend goes joyriding in tractors ..
• You can’t stand the tourists, despite living off their money ..
• You thought it was normal for more than 50% of your high street’s shops to be operated by charities …
• Biggest story on the local TV news is a cat locked in a shed for 2 days in Yeovil ..
• Second biggest story, man fell off his bike in Glastonbury ..
• You take a torch to the pub ..
• Your entire phone number used to have 3 digits, it now has 6! ..
• You suffer from advanced lead poisoning from eating blackberries from hedgerows throughout the 80s. ..
• Your car has mud and straw in the boot ..
• You know mud is supposed to be reddish ..
• You haven’t gone to the Glastonbury Festival since they improved the security fences ..
• And you still call it the Pilton Pop Festival. ..
• you know the smell of cellophane .
• by the time you are legally old enough to drink, you’ve already had enough cider to last a lifetime ..
• your escape plans involve Berry’s Coaches ..
• you’ve been up the Wellington Monument ..
• the only non-white people you’ve met were running takeaways ..
• thankfully, your accent mysteriously broadens as you enter country pubs ..
• you’ve broken into Vivary Park after dark ..
• you sneeze and the whole town gets a cold ..
• you called shoes for PE at school, daps ..

(I’m on the Wiltshire/Somerset border, so most of these still apply :D)