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An Emu steak was on the menu at a restaurant in Courtenay. 6oz piece but it was very red and very tasty.
Apparently there’s an oil produced from their glands or skin that’s supposed to be good.…for moisturizing
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An Emu steak was on the menu at a restaurant in Courtenay. 6oz piece but it was very red and very tasty
Apparently there’s an oil produced from their glands or skin that’s supposed to be good
I was joking but you Canucks will eat anything or rub it on your skin.YES!
An Emu steak was on the menu at a restaurant in Courtenay. 6oz piece but it was very red and very tasty
Apparently there’s an oil produced from their glands or skin that’s supposed to be good
Holy Mackerel ! (Btw , love those too after they’ve soaked in salted brine for 6 months). It’s not like we eat Poutine all the time …just with pickled herring after each meal. And mackerel can be used to mask your body odour.
Edit; I forgot to mention bear Pepperoni with chocolate pudding …that’s heaven right there
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that's quite the compliment coming from a Scot - surely our appetite has a touch of the "haggis" brought over from our forefathers - now I wish I could get over checking the Dandy Don's football scores every week that my long departed Aberdeen dad followed like a religion - man its tough getting past those Celtics or Rangers
Haha brilliant I'm only 55 miles from Aberdeen . Yes Celtic and Rangers are never far from the top. I loved playing football at school but not a big follower. Strange though I could probably watch the womans teams.
Is it the Hurtigrutin one ?
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I never liked the look of rollmop herring all my life . On a ship 4 years ago they were on the salad server every day two different kinds. 2 inch square half inch thick absolutely lovely had a piece on the side every night. They stocked up on food in Namibia before I joined very cheap there for food. I only acquired a taste for Salmon about 3 years ago . You wouldn't think I was a Fisherman for 15 years eh.Holy Mackerel ! (Btw , love those too after they’ve soaked in salted brine for 6 months). It’s not like we eat Poutine all the time …just with pickled herring after each meal. And mackerel can be used to mask your body odour.
Edit; I forgot to mention bear Pepperoni with chocolate pudding …that’s heaven right there
On Wednesday @johnc and I went to Cotic Bikes in Chesterfield UK. My son-in-law lives in the South of France and had bought an ex-demo Flaremax and he'd asked me to collect and store it for him until he could pick it up in January.
A few slogans:
# "The feel of steel".
# "Steel is real".
Here is the Flaremax in Moonstone.
That is a 130mm travel Pike Ultimate on the front and Cane Creek Air1L (designed for short travel) with 125mm on the rear.
We also saw Cotic's prototype emtb. The production model will have lots of small differences. But the biggest will be that it wil use the EP801 and not the EP8 fitted. All cables as externally routed as possible, all bearings are super sealed and designed for easy access. Choice of three colours only, of which this is one.
They did try to have an inboard battery, but it just doesn't work in steel. They even tried going with aluminium alloy (I'll bet that was a bone of contention within the team)! But in the end it was the ride feel that ruled the design. Nothing other than what they ended up with felt as good. They will offer three different sizes of battery all standard Shimano ones.
I sat on the bike and I could tell from the sag that it was set up for someone much lighter than me, turned out it was the Cotic guy's wife who had ridden it that morning. And it was way too small for me. However, @johnc was a bit closer in size and weight to the wife than I was so he took it for a test ride around the block. @johnc has an earlier model of the Merida eOne Sixty that already has an outboard battery, so he is completely OK with the design in terms of looks. He thought the bike rode great, and that it felt like a lightweight emtb. He dubbed it a serious contender for his next bike. Production models in Jan. Cotic will sell a frame and shock, or in fact, any part-assembly for you to complete.
I was asking the Cotic guy about the company and I was told this:
Bike frames are manufactured and painted in Edinburgh, Scotland, and shipped down to Chesterfield where they are assembled. They only make a max of four bikes per week (yes, a week!) So even if the average sales price of a bike is £5k and they sell them all, that is only a turnover of £1m/year, assuming a 50 week year. It is pretty much a made to order business, so stock is at a minimum. The founder and owner is a mechanical engineer called Si Turner. I asked if that is why the company was called Cotic, as in SiCotic (Psychotic). I thought it was just a slightly amusing observation, but the Cotic guy laughed and told me that I was the first person he had spoken to who had worked that out! Surely not!
They don't just do mtb, they do gravel bikes, road bikes, hardtails as well as FS. Here's a few.
They also sell Tee-shirts (on that rack behind the orange hardtail), so I bought a grey Cotic branded Tee-shirt for my son-in-law).
Cotic have three test tracks available for customers. Two are rideable from the shop and are more gravel and XC-oriented (bottom right on the map) The rougher trail is a 20 mins car ride away and can give a proper test of an mtb (top left).
That was very enjoyable indeed and worth the 90 mins in the car to get there. We finished off the visit with a ride into the centre of Chesterfield and lunched at a German bar.
A few slogans:
# "The feel of steel".
# "Steel is real".
Here is the Flaremax in Moonstone.
That is a 130mm travel Pike Ultimate on the front and Cane Creek Air1L (designed for short travel) with 125mm on the rear.
We also saw Cotic's prototype emtb. The production model will have lots of small differences. But the biggest will be that it wil use the EP801 and not the EP8 fitted. All cables as externally routed as possible, all bearings are super sealed and designed for easy access. Choice of three colours only, of which this is one.
They did try to have an inboard battery, but it just doesn't work in steel. They even tried going with aluminium alloy (I'll bet that was a bone of contention within the team)! But in the end it was the ride feel that ruled the design. Nothing other than what they ended up with felt as good. They will offer three different sizes of battery all standard Shimano ones.
I sat on the bike and I could tell from the sag that it was set up for someone much lighter than me, turned out it was the Cotic guy's wife who had ridden it that morning. And it was way too small for me. However, @johnc was a bit closer in size and weight to the wife than I was so he took it for a test ride around the block. @johnc has an earlier model of the Merida eOne Sixty that already has an outboard battery, so he is completely OK with the design in terms of looks. He thought the bike rode great, and that it felt like a lightweight emtb. He dubbed it a serious contender for his next bike. Production models in Jan. Cotic will sell a frame and shock, or in fact, any part-assembly for you to complete.
I was asking the Cotic guy about the company and I was told this:
Bike frames are manufactured and painted in Edinburgh, Scotland, and shipped down to Chesterfield where they are assembled. They only make a max of four bikes per week (yes, a week!) So even if the average sales price of a bike is £5k and they sell them all, that is only a turnover of £1m/year, assuming a 50 week year. It is pretty much a made to order business, so stock is at a minimum. The founder and owner is a mechanical engineer called Si Turner. I asked if that is why the company was called Cotic, as in SiCotic (Psychotic). I thought it was just a slightly amusing observation, but the Cotic guy laughed and told me that I was the first person he had spoken to who had worked that out! Surely not!
They don't just do mtb, they do gravel bikes, road bikes, hardtails as well as FS. Here's a few.
They also sell Tee-shirts (on that rack behind the orange hardtail), so I bought a grey Cotic branded Tee-shirt for my son-in-law).
Cotic have three test tracks available for customers. Two are rideable from the shop and are more gravel and XC-oriented (bottom right on the map) The rougher trail is a 20 mins car ride away and can give a proper test of an mtb (top left).
That was very enjoyable indeed and worth the 90 mins in the car to get there. We finished off the visit with a ride into the centre of Chesterfield and lunched at a German bar.
I have heard of cotic right enough. . I still have my custom steel Alves hardtail light as anything and superfast and no flex climbs well. . Elastommer front shock hahaOn Wednesday @johnc and I went to Cotic Bikes in Chesterfield UK. My son-in-law lives in the South of France and had bought an ex-demo Flaremax and he'd asked me to collect and store it for him until he could pick it up in January.
A few slogans:
# "The feel of steel".
# "Steel is real".
Here is the Flaremax in Moonstone.
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That is a 130mm travel Pike Ultimate on the front and Cane Creek Air1L (designed for short travel) with 125mm on the rear.
We also saw Cotic's prototype emtb. The production model will have lots of small differences. But the biggest will be that it wil use the EP801 and not the EP8 fitted. All cables as externally routed as possible, all bearings are super sealed and designed for easy access. Choice of three colours only, of which this is one.
View attachment 152044
They did try to have an inboard battery, but it just doesn't work in steel. They even tried going with aluminium alloy (I'll bet that was a bone of contention within the team)! But in the end it was the ride feel that ruled the design. Nothing other than what they ended up with felt as good. They will offer three different sizes of battery all standard Shimano ones.
I sat on the bike and I could tell from the sag that it was set up for someone much lighter than me, turned out it was the Cotic guy's wife who had ridden it that morning. And it was way too small for me. However, @johnc was a bit closer in size and weight to the wife than I was so he took it for a test ride around the block. @johnc has an earlier model of the Merida eOne Sixty that already has an outboard battery, so he is completely OK with the design in terms of looks. He thought the bike rode great, and that it felt like a lightweight emtb. He dubbed it a serious contender for his next bike. Production models in Jan. Cotic will sell a frame and shock, or in fact, any part-assembly for you to complete.
I was asking the Cotic guy about the company and I was told this:
Bike frames are manufactured and painted in Edinburgh, Scotland, and shipped down to Chesterfield where they are assembled. They only make a max of four bikes per week (yes, a week!) So even if the average sales price of a bike is £5k and they sell them all, that is only a turnover of £1m/year, assuming a 50 week year. It is pretty much a made to order business, so stock is at a minimum. The founder and owner is a mechanical engineer called Si Turner. I asked if that is why the company was called Cotic, as in SiCotic (Psychotic). I thought it was just a slightly amusing observation, but the Cotic guy laughed and told me that I was the first person he had spoken to who had worked that out! Surely not!
They don't just do mtb, they do gravel bikes, road bikes, hardtails as well as FS. Here's a few.
View attachment 152045
They also sell Tee-shirts (on that rack behind the orange hardtail), so I bought a grey Cotic branded Tee-shirt for my son-in-law).
Cotic have three test tracks available for customers. Two are rideable from the shop and are more gravel and XC-oriented (bottom right on the map) The rougher trail is a 20 mins car ride away and can give a proper test of an mtb (top left).
View attachment 152054
That was very enjoyable indeed and worth the 90 mins in the car to get there. We finished off the visit with a ride into the centre of Chesterfield and lunched at a German bar.
How has the elastomer shock stood the test of time. Many rubber-like products fail after too much sunlight or just from the passage of time. They go sticky or brittle.
Not much bounce in them if there ever was . Be 90s that bike . One inch tubing as well I tried loads of places in UKto get replacements all said the same like hens teeth. Yes rubber hatches on my kayak perish if you leave them on.
What is or was this elevated barn(?) / shelter(?) for?
Not a clue I will try and find out. Built a long time ago the tree on left has grown up and the door won't open. If it was built before the trees it could be a hide for looking at wildlife ?What is or was this elevated barn(?) / shelter(?) for?
Rollmop wrapped around a pickle. Always a jar in the fridge. Wife says I can only eat those 6 hours before we go to bed.
“…taste for salmon 4 years ago”?
…were you attacked by a lobster or something? My wife would shiver when I tell her I would eat the eyes of most fish and most everything (except the shell) on a lobster. It’s a maritime’r thing.
I sometimes get a John Dory and bake it in oven as it is ,wife don't like it winking at her . My neighbour is the Skipper of Eternal Light a Fraserburgh registered boat. He fishes for Scallops so I get a bag of 50 from him and any by catch gets taken home. Lemon sole and Dover sole lovely stuff.Rollmop wrapped around a pickle. Always a jar in the fridge. Wife says I can only eat those 6 hours before we go to bed.
“…taste for salmon 4 years ago”?
My wife would shiver when I tell her I would eat the eyes of most fish and most everything (except the shell) on a lobster. It’s a maritime’r thing.
There is an old building about twenty metres away which was once a sawmill. The sawdust went in to that shack maybe through a chute or pipe . Then a trailer would reverse under it and sawdust emptied in to it and taken away. I've cycled through that woods for nearly 40 years and never noticed it through the trees it just caught my eye today. Every days a school day remember.What is or was this elevated barn(?) / shelter(?) for?
Wheels don't work to well where we are today (Seiser Alm) but by all accounts it's epic eMTB here in summer. Peter Fill (ex down ski racer) 2 years ago stocked Trek Rails but now all Haibike.
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Sorry for OT. Question to the fisherman who may know. When fishing soles from the beach at the dutch Northsea coast I catched some with dark brown spots on the bottom side. I though it might have to do with the lumps of oil sometimes floating to the beach, what might be wrong.
Do you have any explanation for it?
Example:
What kind of sole is it ? . There are lots of Flat fish which are not called sole eg witch , Megram. Plaice there may be others . Sole fish I know of Lemon sole ,Dover sole .
It had the shits ....
I would eat any fish
Plaice and/or flounder.
Once you strip the skin off if there's still dark spots don't eat the fish.
I was looking for a explanation for the dark spots on this (blind) side of the fish, that had been in the skin only, not the flesh.
Maybe its something like freckles? Anyhow, we ate them all except the lugworms!
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