Hello

[Lance legweak]

I'm Lance legweak (I know it's very corny but it puts a smile on my face) and this is my first post, so hopefully at some point I'll have something sensible to say.
I'm in the poor deprived northeast near Chester le Street and have to eat bread and drippin for me tea. Not really, we have proper shops like netto and greggs so I can eat pies everyday.
Anyway I ride a Raleigh (don't laugh, it hasn't got a gear lever on the crossbar or a backrest). It's a CX Comp cyclo cross bike which I've done 5 rides on now after replacing the mountain bike and it's pretty bloody good.
Had to replace the seat post with a Thomson (lanky legs) and need a seat that's not made out of toughened granite but other than that it's canny.
Anyway hello again and goodnight , I'm off to belt the wife. Again not really, she's too hard to risk that.

 

[Biker Joe]

Hi and a warm to you.
You brought a smile to my face

 

[medavidcook]

Welcome, hope you enjoy cycle chat

 

[welsh dragon]

Hi and welcome from powys

 

[Ganymede]

That's a very evocative name you've got there - in the tradition of Charles Dickens and Smollett!

 

[Peteaud]

like the name as well

 

[ScotiaLass]

I too like the name

to CC...it's a great place!

 

[Lance legweak]

Thanks everyone for your kind replies and hellos, but my wife Biffa says it'll be me getting a belt if I spend too much time on here.
Anyway to digress from my stereotypical northern misery, does anyone have experience with a Garmin 800 and the city navigator maps. After this weeks benefit cheque I should have enough left over to buy one and was wanting to know how they cope if you turn off the road onto a cycle track.
Half of my riding is on road and half on cycle lanes ( the C2C is on my doorstep, not literally that would be dangerous) and it is often safer and more interesting to mix the two. Apparently the OS maps are not that good on road and sometimes iffy off road. Can the city navigator maps pick up your position once you get to the next road or am I expecting too much.
It seems ideally the mix of the two maps would be ideal but not possible. Any users out there.
Ouch, whoa Biffa, whoa.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Hi and Lance from a fellow Raleigh owner (no, mine doesn't have the gear lever or back rest either)

I like the name . That'll amuse a lot of people on here. I only use paper maps so, sorry, no help at all with this electronic stuff.

 

[Scoosh]

@Lance legweak and to CycleChat !

I have a funny feeling that you are going to fit in very well around here ...

Sounds like you have a good CC-style diet too ...



Here are a few threads where the Garmin 800 has been mentioned ... though not all directly map-specific.

 

[Bryony]

Hello Nice to have you here!

 

[HorTs]

Welcome.

 

[Jon George]

Hi from Ipswich. Nice to see the art of Northern misery is still alive and kicking. (Actually, I think it's a national ability to take the proverbial out of ourselves and each other and we're all the better for it.)

 

[Lance legweak]

Hi to everyone else too.

The extraction of urine from everyone and everything is the only thing we Geordies/ Mackems ( I live near the Wear and work both in Newcastle and Sunderland so I get called a Mackem by the Geordies and a Geordie by the Mackems, a hybrid you might say) have to get up for in the mornings. Apart from the dole office of course! We do drink shandy up here but usually the lemonade is replaced with vodka.
Back to cycling, maybe I should post about the Garmin on another section. As a newbie if anyone can recommend which would be best, please do.

Thanks

 

[torpenman]

Thanks everyone for your kind replies and hellos, but my wife Biffa says it'll be me getting a belt if I spend too much time on here.
Anyway to digress from my stereotypical northern misery, does anyone have experience with a Garmin 800 and the city navigator maps. After this weeks benefit cheque I should have enough left over to buy one and was wanting to know how they cope if you turn off the road onto a cycle track.
Half of my riding is on road and half on cycle lanes ( the C2C is on my doorstep, not literally that would be dangerous) and it is often safer and more interesting to mix the two. Apparently the OS maps are not that good on road and sometimes iffy off road. Can the city navigator maps pick up your position once you get to the next road or am I expecting too much.
It seems ideally the mix of the two maps would be ideal but not possible. Any users out there.
Ouch, whoa Biffa, whoa.

I've told you, you need one with European maps!!