 You are in Germany aren't you, DP? I spoke to the girl last night but she said it hadn't snowed. I'm not doing any official form of certification. Although if all goes well and I think I have an aptitude for this sort of work I'll look into it. I would love to take my bikes, but I'll have two suitcases and my hand luggage. I'll have no way of carrying it. I wanted to take my kites too, but I'll also be leaving them behind. I'll look into buying a cheapy hardtail over there or perhaps come back and pick mine up. The girls flat I'll be staying with is pretty small she says and I don't want to take it over filling it with all my junk  It's going to be a novelty having proper snow and not the smattering we sometimes got in London Heh, Billy, and now you are doing system support. There's quite often a bit of design work on jobserve. I think it's whether you'd be willing to relocate.
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 I got a call from an agency in London only a couple of weeks ago asking me to work.
They asked if Exeter was in commuting distance of the city!
I had to refuse, I know it's career suicide but I couldn't relocate to london, even the rent a bedsit mon-fri Home for the weekend thing I still couldn't do that.
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 I ride with couple of polish guys, they say that bike bits in Poland are quite cheap... Plus you have the Trans Carpathia to try 
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 correct CO I live in Leipzig which isn't that far from the border to Poland and even nearer to the border with the Czech Rep. Apparently the ski areas have been so badly hit with snow overnight that the snow ploughs have been buried too! As I write this it has just started snowing here too!
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Well you can live on the Surrey / London border Billy. Or Wimbledon. It's not all concrete you know  Arf. Commuting from Exeter! - I hope found what looks like a decent site for bike stuff. I'll google the Trans Carpathia.. -- Wow, DP. Looks like I might be buying winter gear sooner than I anticipated. I'll arive in Wrolaw at 14:00 tomorrow. I can't wait to see a thick carpet of snow on the ground
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Yeah, but surrey isn't 1hrs drive from the nearest surf spot (well actually 30mins from the nearest surf spot, but an hour to the nearest consistent surf spot!)...which at the end of the day, is worth more to me than another 5grand in wages.
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 We should organise a northern Europe BM get together at some point, get some light riding and heavy drinking done.
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Fair point Billy. If it's only 5k more then it doesn't really sound worth the effort. And like you say having a some of the best surfing in the country on your doorstep is quite a handy thing. That sounds a jolly good idea, MSP. If all goes well over in Poland I'll be up for that.
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I'll arive in Wrolaw at 14:00 tomorrow I'll remember to wave when you are flying overhead then. Good luck and have fun.
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We should organise a northern Europe BM get together at some point, get some light riding and heavy drinking done. Sounds good but the shower on here can't even organise a ride when they live in the same country!
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Ahh yes but with our new found German efficiency we should be able to gather quite a large group to cross the border into Poland.
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well, there's 6 months or so to organise it. Unless you have studded tires on your bikes
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I was thinking of getting some schwalbe ice spikers this morning, I did have quite a few falls last year sliping on ice, not sure we have quite enough snow and ice to justify the 130 euro price tag for a set though.
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Why not by a pair of larsens and get some pop rivets, same job fraction of the price.
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pop rivets wouldn't last 2 minutes, the ice spikers are carbide steel or some other especially hardened substance, all the review are really good, its just a matter of if its worth it for the 2 or 3 weeks that they will be probably required each year, but with that kind of usage they should last for many years. The rubber compound they use on them is also meant to be much much better in cold temperatures.
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