Which goes no way towards explaining the lack of slammed seats on DH bikes……
Tomhoward has it.
I miss geex too....
Riding on the road and holding traffic up, pull over and let them pass. Only takes a moment, but helps to increase goodwill all round.
Goes double if your in a group / on a single track road
You should have a licence to cycle on the road
imnotverygood
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Despite riding a mountain bike, none of my friends work in IT, have a beard or possess a wood burning stove…
Zoiks! Tick, tick and err, tick. :/
South East England is a terrible place to live if you enjoy mountain biking, it's nasty in winter and it's too flat. The few places that even attempt to address these issues are too crowded and travelling for hours to ride somewhere decent is rubbish. We should have taken up something more locally accessible instead.
Rigid is more fun than full suss.
Inching down potato alley on a rigid is just as bum clenchingly rewarding as smashing it on a gnarpoon.
The Mrs is correct, I have too many bikes!
"This is the new clean era"
No it's not, they're* just using different doping techniques and are still ahead of the testers.
Until climb times drastically reduce, and consistently unbelievable performances stop, then I don't think a clean rider of this era (no matter the "smoke screen" increases in technology/training) would be within touching distance of an EPO time in the 90s. Judge the riders on their climb times/performances, not on their PR department's excuses/spin.
*The bulk of the riders winning the major races.
Its giving us bikes that are lazy to turn and hard work to manhandle around tight singletrack
People pay too much attention to opinion on the internets
Most mtbs are too heavy and most road bikes are too light.
Most people aren’t really racing, they are just turning up to a paid event
I'm always racing. Being bad at it changes nothing.
1. Its always the newbie or bad riders that bang on about wearing helmets.
2. Disc brakes are not needed on summer road bikes.
3. People only ride mtbs because they are either too fat or not fit enough to ride road bikes.
4. I am a better cyclist than at least 90% of people who post on STW.
5. Geraint Thomas is a money grabbing fake.
Lovin this thread , a free open rant makes the perfect tonic to the pre-xmas stress period
Sram gears are clunky junk compared to shimano
Tubeless is way more faff than many will readily admit
internal cabling for a mtb is a victory for stupidity & style over common sense & practicality
worrying about aligning your valve core \ rim labels \ tyre labels shows a mental lacking
Ahh but it makes locating the valve easier when you want to put air in :-p
Putting your name on your frame means you are delusional and very selfish in bed.
It’s not that these people are being selfish in bed, it is just that they have very small willies.
Get the **** out. Most eye catching and innovative more like. You can keep your black and shades of grey!
I was clearly mistaken and owe you a debt of gratitude for enlightening me.
Most people in this forum don't ride, they just own a bike and hate their lives. It's why they live in the chat forum so much.
People who join groups to tell others in the group how shit they are, they are the best kind of people.
Absolutely the best kind of people.
Flashing lights, at both front and rear, have more of a negative safety impact than positive and are hugely antisocial to other cyclists.
People only ride mtbs because they are either too fat or not fit enough to ride road bikes.
People only ride road bikes because they lack the skill to ride off-road.
Cycling is better when you’re wearing sunglasses.
100% correct at all times.
GT Zaskar is a total disgrace to its roots and should not be adorned with the legendary name until its redesigned back to a hardcore hard tail.
Testify brother!!
Although thats not controversial, its a fact.
Tubeless is way more faff than many will readily admit
I was a very early adopter, it was amazing, it genuinely improved my riding, but still I just gradually sort of drifted back to tubes, and somehow just couldn't be bothered going tubeless again, and just sort if didn't miss it...
Still, 30psi in a 35mm CX tyre is pretty tempting...
The GT Zaskar, like all GT bikes is and always was an ugly bike
large group rides should be discouraged seen pics of local ride 60 ish riders on it, just wrong
Disc brakes are worse than rim brakes for UK winter road riding.
Bloody hell bruneep when did the ramblers take up MTB?
If you can't trackstand properly then I can't really respect you as a rider.
Disc brakes on road bikes look bad, no matter the bike.
My wife is scathing about people who rode with their knees sticking out and I love that.
Fisting is not necessary on group rides.
Mountain bikes, mountain biking and mountain bikers are all pish boring 😜
Gmbn is crap and doddy looks like one of the double take brothers with that stupid haircut, also ebikes are for tourists, dropper posts and flat pedals are for wimps who can't ride and uplift and bike parks are for men who wear skinny jeans and are bullied by Thier girlfriends, happy Christmas
SPDs are like those stretchy strings that go up each arm and across the shoulder, from glove to glove, for thick, clumsy kids that canny keep their gloves on.
Your frame doesn't bend enough to be compliant
Wheel weight matters much less than everyone claims. The twice as much as benefit as weight saved any where else thing doesn't apply when your riding up hill or if the weight is saved in the hubs.
Fisting is not necessary on group rides.
Strictly necessary? No.
But you'd have to be a churl to deny that it can add a certain je ne sais quoi to what could otherwise be a fairly vanilla experience. Though in fairness it can have connotations from a saddle soreness point of view. Best to carry large jars of bum butter, just in case..
Flat pedals work fine on road bikes
Problem for me was not the pedal but the shoe! Very few sleek, light, non 'spongey' uppered, roadie looking flat shoes around.
Disc brakes are worse than rim brakes for UK winter road riding
Amen brother! That makes two of us now, the resistance starts here!
Properly trained trail hounds (ie ones that have been buzzed a few times by 2.4" of high speed rubber) that know where they should be at, massively improve the ride experience. They're also way more competent at climbing, descending and ridingalonging than the practically hairless bipeds teetering along on their overpriced metal machines some way behind them..
I got undertaken on a corner by a properly trained trailhound while riding in North Van, awesome/humbling/hilarious/distracting all at the same time!
Disc brakes are worse than rim brakes for UK winter road riding
Interested in this bollocks - do you actually mean that rim brakes stop you better? **** knows what abomination of discs you’ve tried, if that is the case!
Rather like the Picolax thread, the whole Mint Sauce collection is one humorous idea stretched out until it became exceedingly boring.
There's no such thing as a stupid question about headsets.
Interested in this bollocks – do you actually mean that rim brakes stop you better? **** knows what abomination of discs you’ve tried, if that is the case!
My experience: Disc brakes need to get hot, so gentle rolling winter road rides in rain and puddles = cold wet rotors = squeeeeeall
Stock tektro callipers + Swisstop BXP pads = adequate but silent braking. Bliss.
If someone develops a guaranteed silent disc brake, I'll be all over that bandwagon like a shot!
I've been a spectator at one world cup cyclocross race. A very muddy course. It was about 90% rim brakes. The teams stated that disc brakes were great in the dry but not enough modulation on the wet. There was a thread on here about it
Bikes with 50T cassettes and a piddling 28T chain ring up front look ridiculous
2x10 provides the ultimate gear set up for nearly all cycling applications
Medium gear (72") is the correct gear for all occasions.
Except when it isn't.
Training for an event is cheating. A gentleman relies on his natural athletic ability.
Big groups of roadies all wearing matching tops. ****ers.
