Mountain Bike Cumbria - Resource site for mountain biking in Cumbria. Routes, accommodation, riders profiles, shops and links to other bike resources.
Cumbria Cycling Club - A small and friendly club for touring cyclists in or around Cumbria and the Lake District. Affiliated to the CTC. The site lists various events organised by the club.
Holiday Lakeland Cycling Holidays - Holiday Lakeland offer fully supported cycle rides, with bed and breakfast accommodation in hotels and good quality guest houses. Rides include C2C, Reivers Route, and 9 Lakes Tour.
Cumbria Way Cycle Route - A two day alternative to the C2C cycle route travelling from the South of Cumbria (Ulverston) via Keswick to the North of Cumbria (Carlisle). Description of the route, plus a guide book to buy, and halfway accommodation in Keswick.
South Lakes Area Group of the Rough-Stuff Fellowship - Information on off road cycling and mountain biking in the English Lakes and Yorkshire Dales, by the South Lakes Group of the Rough-Stuff Fellowship. Also information on Lancaster CTC Section.
LifeCycle.ukf.net - cycling around the UK - A group of cyclists raising money for those in need in the West of Cumbria. Details of their cycling exploits and find how to contribute to their cause.
Kent Valley Road Club - Cycling club with race results, club records, news and marshalling rota.
Grinupnorth Mountain Biking - Mountain bike hire service. Routecards, bike delivery service, and hire and sales details.
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Cycling The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Cycling
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Cycling Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Cycling
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Cycling Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Cycling
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
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-- Molly Ivins I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Cycling Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Cycling
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Cycling We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Cycling
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Cycling Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Cycling
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Cycling For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Cycling
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Cycling Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Cycling
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Cycling Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Cycling
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Cycling Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Cycling
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cycling Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Cycling
