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First time out on my new build today so we set off out early up onto Cutgate from Langsett and then back via North America. Loads of people out, never seen as many bikes in a long time up there and the trails were near on perfect. Pleased with the build just needed to spin the gear leaver a bit towards me.

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Posted : 09/04/2017 1:39 pm
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Out for a pootle today with Mrs C, but a great day out yesterday including Gowk Hill
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Posted : 09/04/2017 2:07 pm
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Did a "social" road ride with a local Facebook group. The actual ride was just over 50 miles at 17mph. Probably the fastest ride I've done in years. And this was the slow group.

68 miles in all having ridden there and back. Longest ride for a couple of years as well. Planning on some serious recovery for the rest of the day!


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 2:09 pm
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injured my leg being taken out by a dog so I am on crutches for the nicest weather this year and on leave the following week and housebound

The gods mock me once more


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 2:12 pm
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No pictures, but wasn't far from you Tracey, I went up Lantern Pike, down to Sett Valley trail and up towards Kinder.


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 2:14 pm
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Nowhere. Spending the morning with my wife and the little man before they bugger off for a few days, then working this afternoon. I have a CCTV camera outside so I can see that it's sunny....


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 2:26 pm
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Just a local loop around Ashton Court and Leigh Woods. I've averaged one ride a month so far this year so having ridden yesterday and today I'm pretty shattered 😆


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 2:32 pm
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Just a local bimble around Rivi for me. Was lovely.

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Not riding today, yesterday was braw though!

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out for 3 and a half hours in the sunshine, local loop mini picnic watching the sailing, a couple of beers on the way home. Steak chips chianti in a very warm garden, watch the pros thrash it in the heat 🙂 what a day !


 
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I officially became a MAMIL for the first time in years, leaving the Endura baggy shorts behind and going with the nicely padded Funkier baggy shorts liner! 😯

It started out as a run of the mill, hill climb route on the 29er wheel Wazoo, but I ended up in Marwell Zoo carpark.

Turned into my longest ride this year, just over 23 miles, with a short breather in the carpark when I discovered there was a BT wifi hotspot. Managed to get myself lost for a few minutes, but I was relieved to get back at ~1200, it was scorchio out there and I had no water with me!

I must order up a water bottle cage ASAP, thinking one of those Topeak Modula ones, that can take a 1-1.5l soft drinks bottle (had an old model on my better half's bikes that got nicked a while back)!!


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 2:52 pm
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Fantastic weather in Hebden Bridge too. Went up Ragley and over to Gorple then back into Hardcastle Craggs. Climbed out of the Craggs and then backwards along the same route. Saw loads of bikes and walkers, people were making the most of the good weather.

Stopped at the top of Hardcastle Craggs for a cereal bar. Nice to not have to wash mud off the bike after the ride as well!

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Posted : 09/04/2017 3:16 pm
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Yesterday was Ballater riding bone dry trails in glorious sunshine with this view (if you ignore my mate)

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Today was fettling

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Posted : 09/04/2017 3:17 pm
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Lovely today, found some brutal rocky climb from Lisvane up to the Ridgeway, over to Rudry, back to Caerphilly, over the top of the Mounatain, drop to Forrest Fawr and into Ton, cyclepath but to my place.

Strava quit on me half way and I lost half my ride, didn't care - that good!

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Posted : 09/04/2017 3:56 pm
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Pissing down in Inverness


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 3:58 pm
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No riding for me today, as i was under my 335 changing a boost hose:

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Bit of a PITA to get to the quick release clips securing it in place, i say quick release, but without the knack, they are more like downright-obstreperous release clips........


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 4:04 pm
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Don't know how to post pics but I took one or two ok ones for a change. Got out yesterday with my endurotastic mate around Win Hill while I was all over the place with no grip on my newly fitted Slaughter tyre. Today I pootled around Ashover with my wife, absolutely gorgeous weather and Spring trails, perfect flower sniffimg


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 4:05 pm
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Rode the train down to Bristol for the Bespoke bicycle show, bought some swrve shorts, marvelled at lugs, welds, paint jobs and funky bike stuff and then sat in a park nearby while waiting for the return train. Was nice.


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 4:07 pm
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Nice loop in the Chilterns around Wendover / Dunsmore / Great Missenden /Hyde Heath. Really good to see the mud starting to dry out on Coombe Hill - I nearly lost a shoe sucked into the bottomless depths a couple of weeks before.


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 4:11 pm
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Sprint 50 min ride this morning. picked up a KOM and a 3rd overall.


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 4:12 pm
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Ben Macdui to Hutchinson hut, fords of Avon and up on to Bynack Mor, returning to Glenmore. Long day with plenty of carrying but the weather and views easily cancelled that out. No finer place when the weather is good.

Then blasting round Inshriach today on super dry trails.


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 4:16 pm
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No riding but was out trail building at Gisburn, was glorious for most of the day but has clouded over now and a bit chilly. Great weather to be outside in. Did get a very pleasant hour on the road bike on Friday afternoon though, brilliant riding conditions.


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 4:17 pm
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Minimal riding this weekend, been a couple of days of life admin & DIY. No fun.

I managed to et out for a blat this morning, only to get too rowdy in a rutted corner & burp the rear tyre off the rim. I had to ride home with a flat & a sulk.


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 4:25 pm
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What a day! Worked off a bit of a hangover this morning in the garden, then off and out after lunch for some rad gnarmac. Tracks and trails of Hampshire at their very finest.

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Warm spring days in the UK really are the greatest.


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 4:45 pm
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Llangdegla yesterday.
And a steady 25mies around Cheshire's finest B roads this morning.
Now still trying to set my Krampus up tubeless.
And failing miserably.


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 4:48 pm
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Spent the morning off-piste at Glentress, 16 miles and 3500ft and a load of PR's - good move swapping out the winter tyres for a HR2 and Minion SS.

And for those who've missed the cracking weather, I also did Friday evening Yair ride 😀


 
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Photobombed by a bee! South Downs in all their sunny glory.


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 4:53 pm
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Did HONC. Man it was hard.


 
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Ride out from Harrogate on a mix of road and BW to stainburn for a play on the new bike on Saturday, revelling in the dryness of the normal perma-bogs...

Garage bikes shop ride round local trails this morning which was equally wonderfully dry, and my legs are feeling as good as they have, pretty much ever so smiles all round from me.

Veging out having watched Paris-Roubaix, watching recorded F1 now.

Good weekend all round say I


 
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Couple of hours hard efforts round a local mini trail centre yesterday, hammering up the hills and working on tech skills on the way back down. Finally got ride of my phobia of wheels leaving the ground 😆 sheet blue sunshine hot and dusty!

Cruisey couple of hours this morning but the mist came in and spoiled the sunshine.


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 5:02 pm
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Chilterns around Wendover / Dunsmore / Great Missenden /Hyde Heath.
- my old stomping ground. Lovely loop and if it's close to dry in april, that's a bonus!

70km MTB in the FoD/Yat. Lovely conditions. Didn't stop me smacking my toe into a stump but a small price to pay for such amazing riding. Forgot my camera but it was basically warm, dry and occasionally dusty 🙂


 
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All nice n' sunny pics.

Went a pootle up neilsons monument which will mean absolutely ****-all to 99.999% of folk on here but i took a pic anyway.

A tribute to [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beaumont_Neilson ]James Beaumont Neilson[/url] who invented the hot blast furnace which kickstarted the industrial revolution

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Great weekend. Pootle in the Lakes from Staveley today, including comedy OTB in front of tourists on Garburn.

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And chuffed dad territory yesterday in the Dales as my lass managed a good loop in great weather. Here showing great determination on some hideous grassy slog. 🙂

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Hamsterley for a local DH/trail bike TT on a hardtail in a sea of FS. I wasn't last 😀


 
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Probwbly should be prep ride for southern enduro champs next week, but family duties call....
Back on the tree house project after a winter hiatus

Then only managed a few km around the local paths, but it was first time in the trailer for these guys
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So pretty amazing ride really!


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 5:43 pm
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Up high street from Brothers water, down n around edge of Ullswater.
Mate had a slight technical!

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But a great trail bodge and he finished the ride!

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😯
Not the best advert for Magura


 
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Cracked a Fox 32 (flexiest fork ever) at the top of the stanchion near the bridge. When I took the lowers off it snapped with finger pressure like a twig.

The lower castings are quite brittle and aren't very strong on there own.


 
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Was up on Cut Gate myself, probably took the wrong bike, Surly KM with the stock rigid fork, so had to push a bit more than I'd like, but had fun anyway.

Did a mini-epic from home to Langset then over Cut Gate to Derwent and some food at Ladybower Inn, then back home via Bradfield. Awesome 67km in the sun. B)


 
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Great ride over the South Downs and Friston before a pub stop and blowing up massively on the way home. Mrs M and EVA had to tow me home.


 
Posted : 09/04/2017 6:09 pm
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Up and down the Wendove bypass it was 5C when I started this morning. Still got a PB though. Walk in the park with dog and in-laws this afternoon.


 
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Freshly built slackline's first proper outing yesterday at comrie croft, hanging out with the gmbc crew. Lovely day, but comrie kicks your ass, ...i was knackered after lunch. Spent today fixing all the creaks, groans and shoddy indexing.

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Posted : 09/04/2017 6:15 pm
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Got in a quick few laps of Richmond Park yesterday including setting a new personal best for the full lap. It was one of those glorious mornings where the sun is out and I had chosen [i]exactly[/i] the right clothes to wear for the temperature.

I also felt like I was floating up the hills on the road bike after spending a lot of last weekend climbing Leith Hill on the mountain bike!


 
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8 miles round Cannock blue with my 6 year old. Think she may have been a bit rusty following the Winter and crashed 5 or 6 times poor girl. One of them ended with her in the stinging nettles 😳 Luckily she was a trooper and didn't let any of it put her off and wants to do a bigger loop next time!


 
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Road biking in the Essex lanes for me again today, although in celebration of Paris-Roubaix I did take my Roubaix off-road for a bit, despite having my best wheels on:
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Stopped for a quite pint on the way back as well, although as I was 50 miles in at that point it might not have been the best of ideas as my legs had siezed up by the time I set off again:
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Home from work at 06:30 this morning. Followed a kingfisher all the way up the canal 🙂


 
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Weekend riding with the kids, mtb Saturday with both. Found a new trail so that was good.
Road ride with my son this morning, then the rest of the day pottering in the garden.
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Out yesterday bimbling around south wiltshire. Longest ride of the year so far (35 miles) with a few hills and a potter through Grovelly Woods following the old roman road. Spent today fettling.


 
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Just back from the HONC with sunburnt knees and tired legs. An absolutely outstanding day on the bike with cracking weather and great company throughout. The organisation was top notch from start to finish with so many cheery volunteers. Definitely going back next year.

Dogsby


 
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Rode the Conwy Mountains and The Drum yesterday, added in a little cheek and it was Awesome!!!! Clear blue skies, dry trails, gentle breeze, great views and some good times too


 
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Kimbers wins the thread!

Jerrys, great to see that all together and out and about!


 
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Lowey - Nice pics. We're hoping to do that (or a very similar) loop before the end of the month. The scree off Skidaw is a great first challenge after the climbing.


 
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Up Rivi at sunset again yesterday, beautiful light and trails almost bone dry...
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Local loop this eve, yes I'm aware of that cable routing...
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First ride of the year following shoulder surgery, so a short pootle on Mellor Moor. Busy up there with walkers, bikers, horses. Very pleasant though. Was anyone here on the Bike Orienteering event that was obviously going on? Intended to do a bit of a relaxed spin on the road bike this afternoon but got sucked into Paris Roubaix.


 
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I had a lovely play in Friston forest too..via ace ,new to me, descent into alfriston .
South Downs were looking their best.
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HONC at a steady pace.


 
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Today I went out with family - I was out all day with my bro yesterday. Scenery was pretty special on Saturday - with an unusual POV for me. The weather was excellent although the activity was a bit of an anti-climax TBH.


 
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Glorious weather here in the Blacks.
Almost died from heat exhaustion after 3 weeks off the bike.
But trails running sweeeeet

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Shouldn't you have your arm up a sheep, or something?


 
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HoNC again here 79km for me. Hot. Hard. But such a well organised event will be back once again next year.


 
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Sunny singletrack on Saturday with my buddies from Kent then Barton Hills today including spotting a biffer in an orange bikini by the stream at Oughton Head... Riding proving to be a great distraction from worrying about 83 year old mum in hospital after head butting a concrete step and fracturing her skull (I have been visiting her as well!)


 
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Cobble monster in London. 90k of city grit, cobbles and sun. Different but fun. Oh, and cotic demo. Great weather!


 
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Did Swinley Blue & Red on Saturday with my lads.

Today I had a local bimble around the Chilterns. Lovely weather, Chilterns now dry (unusual for April!), bluebells just starting to show.

Two great rides


 
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@willv, saw your photos on fb - been planning to do a very similar route post exams in May! Looked like a stunning day out.

I built up a ss and took it up to Carron Valley for a quick shakedown/ to see if I could actually ride it up hills. Thinking the 34/16t gearing might be a bit too steep - only had to push once but Carron is hardly full of monster climbs..


 
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@slowoldman 🙂 only 8 left to lamb so thought I could risk an afternoon off. Of course one of them decided to have triplets while I was away but Mrs Farmer is more than capable of sorting it out.


 
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Too many aches and pains for a proper ride today so did some local pentlands singletrack and some trail maintenance instead. Nice day to drag log blockages off a trail...


 
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Tinkering in the garage - Pair of Maxxis Mamoths and an oval N/W for the fatty 😀


 
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Spent the weekend up in Betws riding Degla, CyB and Gwydyr with Penmachno to cone on the way home.

The weather and trails have been stunning, most definitely good for the soul 🙂

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Tay loop on saturday, 60 miles

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Comrie to Callander and back on sunday

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A day of two halves yesterday. Pennine Bridleway in the sunshine (not all of it 🙄 ) to meet with the Mary Towneley loop, round that. The weather changed as I was heading up Rooley Moor to Cragg Quarry and all a bit cool from then on as I'd only a short sleeved top. Then back home.

Having a rest day today 😆


 
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No pics, but saturday was riding in Tokyo - up Mt Hakone in the foothills of Fuji in monsoon rain.

Flew home yesterday, but this morning out riding at 8AM on Bexhill seafront with my youngest, who is finally getting into bikes. He rode head on into a brick wall, OTB headfirst & cracked his helmet on the wall. Then wobbled at the sight of width restorections and hit a parked Range Rover 8O.

He loved it all!!


 
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Rivi again today, normally I'd be getting bored but it's wonderful being able to ride my favourite trails dry and flat out for the first time in months.

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Had a run out on the Quantocks on Saturday - glorious ride 🙂


 
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Up staying with the gf in Scotland. Nipped out early today and caught a nice lap of Dalbeattie. The slab was significantly drier than the last time I was here.

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Posted : 10/04/2017 7:07 pm
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Half term here.

The last few days have included Ben Cleuch/Andrew Gannell Hill, Comrie, Dumyat and Glentress. Mainly bikes, some feet. Awesome to see littlest_OAB suddenly find his pedals - ripping the place up on his new Specialized FSR and middle_OAB, normally a reluctant rider also suddenly deciding that much fun is to be had on wheels, and that he can climb like a whippet on new Santacruz Superlight. More sun than expected, even if its been cold.
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The week had started with a DofE Silver exped, that eldest_oab took part in and has to put up with his old man being the Supervisor. Of course the only way to keep an eye on three groups going in different directions is to use two wheels...

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Back to work tomorrow for me. 😥


 
Posted : 10/04/2017 7:15 pm

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