re the biff. I was pretty grumpy, and there was a bit of loud swearing going on, but it ws never going to come to blows - not that kind of a guy. However, a guy that witnessed it grabbed me and sat me down as I think he thought it was going to get a bit rough. He told the driver to go sit in her car for a few minutes

Without a road bike I went for a MTB ride over in Rotorua today with the lads. We did 3.5 hrs in the Redwoods - 2C when we headed out and it got up to about 9C max. Brrr! I managed one OTB crossing a log and used a tree to slow down at one point as well. As one of my mates said, if you're going to crash into a tree, pick a soft one