I’m writing this with stinging fingers. Summer is well and true upon us. The trails have grown their hair out and every ride sees regular brushes with nettles, brambles and other various whipping green things.

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By ben_haworth

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had to google claymore, thinking a Mine, also a sword.. very nice Red

is the bluegrass d30 back protector cool?, my fox one is well hot..

ps. £110 for the canvas sleuth, black leather ladies ones are £30 on Evanscycles

Headset-routed cables can get to ****

is the bluegrass d30 back protector cool?, my fox one is well hot..

I’ve got the slightly bigger one with shoulder pads in and it’s not bad at all in the grand scheme of these things. You’d never forget you’re wearing it but it’s not bad.

thanks @ dangeourbrain, i’ll see if they drop in price

Amongst some strong contenders for the title of “worlds’s ugliest E-bike” that Whyte goes straight into the top 5. Why are they (as a group) so uniformly bad?

FWIW The pockets are a good size and there’s space for a bladder in with the back protector of mine too.

Why are they (as a group) so uniformly bad?

I guess its just that we’re used to seeing skinny tubes and the like. Give it a decade or two and I reckon they’ll look the same but we’ll think that’s very normal rather than awful

We all know the vitamin stuff is nonsense, right?

It is absolutely not @IHN its even more potent than purest rattle snake distillate

May as well replace every side on those dice to “crash horrificly” for me…..

Pretty standard vitamins and readily-available supplements, with added marketing… for £££

That T140 looks like the play bike I want. Please tell me its less than £3k…

Tell me I’m not the only one who opened the article so see what these ridiculously overweight bikes were that pushed even STW to title it the Heavy Bikes Edition

and offer the purest ingredients without the use of any additives.

Where are they mining this pure vitamin ore?

Such bollocks and £30 a month! 🤣

Give it a decade or two and I reckon they’ll look the same but we’ll think that’s very normal rather than awful

Maybe mountain bikers will evolve cat-like pupils so we see things slimmer and massive shoulder muscles so we don’t notice 40kg bike weight when lifting them over gates.

Not THE Bryan Steel?

Headset routed cables and flat mount brakes can go do one.

I reckon if you add a decent waterbottle to that Whyte E160, it will weigh roughly the same as 3 of those Canyon bikes.

Those dice should have “compound” and “fracture” along with “dislocated” and “shoulder” on them.

@Kryton57 the Whyte is listed at £4099 by Balfes, cheaper model at £3299 has full Deore groupset and Rockshox at both ends. I saw the Guy Kesteven review and went looking, no idea if the prices or spec are correct.

It’s coming to something when the title of FGF makes it sound like it is an anomaly for it to actually contain several bikes

its even more potent than purest rattle snake distillate

As good as directional hi-fi interconnect cables?

Doesn’t help that the Whyte is in Flymo orange.

That Claymore looks ace, has turned my head more than any other recent bike I can think of

As good as directional hi-fi interconnect cables?

Better than that, it’s like directional cables crossed with conti vert pros.

Where are they mining this pure vitamin ore?

Such bollocks and £30 a month!

There isn’t even an out of date discount code in the member’s area

I love you all. I may have been drinking.

@whatyadoinsucka so as it came up yesterday…

I’ve been out for an all day and wholly inappropriate for a back protector ride in mine today, under a thin ls jersey, and I haven’t been too hot despite the weather.

As to why I would do this there is a reason, its not very good, so I’ll pretend it was in the interest of science and being able to tell you if I died of heat exhaustion or not. I didn’t.

Whyte have got rid of that horrible seat tube brace, the T140 now looks like most of the bikes in that 4-bar style, but at least they have UK company and support backing them up, would have been a contender before i got the norco if this had been out.

Has the integrated Canyon handlebar/stem combo broken yet? Like many other needless bollox designs they’ve put out in the past couple of years on road and TT Bikes ? If not, it’ll probably be doing so before long.

£1 per vitamin pill on a monthly subscription vs £3 for 90 pills in Aldi. That is quite some mark up!

And zero evidence they do any good.

Are nettle stings more powerful than they used to be? Not for people who wear gloves like they used to do.