But as Cannock is made of sand and s upper round pebbles you’ll be fine, just watch the first section by the visitors centre…. It’s very skippy in the wet !

…. It’s only rain.

I’ve got some cobalts on my AM bike. That’s ridden hard by 12 stone me… And I can honestly say there brilliant since the new re design to the hub pawl housing in the hub. The seals work brilliantly and there awesome to run tubeless .

If you can get em at a good price do it !

We did ours after our favourite childhood sweets …. As our wedding was a bit of a party rather than a stuck up wedding 😀

Been married 9 years, o my !

Buy yourself a ” grab bag of mounts” from go pro, the outdoor edition of the hero 2 I’ve just got only came with “in line” mounts and none that turned the arm by 90degrees if that makes any sense ?

My dads best buddy had his Harley Davidson v rod stollen from his garage when they first cme out! But the thing was they cut through his ground anchor shackle and then DRAGGED THE MOTORBIKE OVER THE TOP OF HIS PORCHE ( midlife crisis car & bike I know ) he was out and didn’t know until he opened his garage door !

So his ( frankly BRILLIANT) solution was to get hold of a skip, get some spider type legs welded to it to act as grip, and then sink it into his garage floor and concrete it in place. When you opened up the flap/ door you rolled the bike in, and secured it to the massive anchor points he had welded into the side and bottom of the skip, and then fitted this bar type thing around the bike, again locking it in place, then locked the flap dead bolts in place. Massive overkill, but worked.

Funnily enough he didn’t have it nicked again, they did come back but took the porche ! Oops

The skip idea was I think genius 😀

I love my Honda, it was cheap, quick ish and never goes wrong in the 6 years I’ve owned it.

Agree on the lotus thing but 20 years ago it was über cutting edge…. Apparently only 8 where made and they sold 3 to wealthy people for £15,000 each, then sold 1 to a newspaper as a competition prize for £7,500 but then resold it to the science museum. That’s the one he had last night, as it going into a new exhibition that’s opening in the museum soon.

The tcr was good, but he slated the 2012 model as it uses ” square” tubes…. For reasons he ant work out as its not as strong, aero etc.

The recumbents are awesome, he was telling us that one of his buddy’s averaged 37 mph in a hour long race on his retracer style bike, and the bloke riding it was 52 years old!

I now want a recumbent ! A bad ass super low carbon one 🙂

Jack,

Yes I did he was a really nice fella, a little bit eccentric.

He loves the fact he made a name for himself with the lotus bike, but was constrained by lotus cost cutting on the bike when it was made etc…. They had a lotus bike there, its 20 years old now, and still looked AMAZING !

Mike was very anti UCI as they hated his innovations so changed the rules to make his bikes illegal! and also seemed to resent giant as they stifled his designers flair for innovation, but he did say he was on good money £50,000 a year in the 80’s ! And he enjoyed being a ” jet set superstar bike designer” which made me laugh as he kinda looks like a eccentric art teacher ( all be it a very clever one)

He is now MAD for recumbent bikes… And that rat catcher is a mental bit of kit… He made soo many versions to get to the bike he has now. And the steering on it is mental! Obrees now races with him in the recumbent racing he does.

I asked him about wheel sizes he said bigger is better on the rough stuff, if you make it light.

Asked about Obrees 100 record attempt, that started a interesting conversation on speed v’s aero performance and rider ” power” he basically said Obrees new bike had wheels that where too small but he knew Obrees was the ” Van goh” of the bike world so would try it anyway.

Loads of questions where asked and it was a really interesting night.

We’ve got a Honda Stream, lovely I’ll car and quite a rare sight as only 2000 ish where sold in the UK. It’s got 5 seats plus a fold away 3rd row. Looks small on the outside but is massive on the inside really, and ultra reliable as its a Honda.

3 very helpful pictures there 😀

The second from last is class! 😀

Last time I saw that, I thought he back flipped it. Did I imagine that bit?

Nope he did Backflip it… outside of Gregs ! lol

Both Vids are ace! cheers.

LOVIN That Bam Margeria Video on your site UNSUPPORTED. Crazy stuff.

Ah, the company bike…

😀 There’s a few of those here ! some are built for speed, and some for comfort, personally i’ve NEVER tried either for size – pun intended!! 😯

cyclescheme own the bikes as far as I can gather, until the final “loan” payment is made… and then its yours. Any people not wanting to pay that final payment can give em back to Cycle Scheme.co.uk

I assume that not many people choose to give the bikes back as the final payment is around £70.00 for the company I work for. But just on the off chance that someone did hand a bike back I wondered what they (cycle scheme) did with them? as my employer doesn’t take the bikes back.

… EMail to cycle scheme coming up…

It depends upon the company you work for too.

We use: CYCLESCHEME.CO.UK

I believe the bikes go to charity.

Oh that’s very noble and all that, but BOOOOO ! LOL

One of the first ones of which that did the rounds of the cycling magazines for reviews is currently languishing in my shed
Does it have those carbon-spoked wheels on it?

…Or any bits of a washing machine ? !

Are there any huge step changes in bike design left or is it just tinkering around the edges?

good Question, I might just ask that 🙂

“Who are you?”

Because I don’t know who he is.

He designed this amongst a few other things…

Chris Boardmans Bike

I had a bit of a “collapse” a while ago, resulting in my cracking my head open on my bath !
So I paid a visit to my doctor who told me nothing to worry about your fine now arn’t you! cheers for that I thought.
He then sent me for a ECG and the nurse went very quiet when my RHR settled to 42 BPM, she was so concerned she came and shook me and got the doctor ! LOL I then explained that I cycle about 200 miles a week so would expect to be pretty fit in the heart department.
The Doc told me that RHR’s that low where usually a sign of a imminent heart attack or stroke…

… I’m still here fit as a fiddle tho. 🙂

I wouldn’t worry about your RHR if your feeling super fit, don’t know about your temperature thing though.

Do you mean the white pushbikes with the little BMW stickers on?
I did – but then look what happened

LOL

It appears that the (LONDON) Olympics are a bit of a sore subject !

The simple fack of the matter is that BMW PAID (MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF MONEY) to have their cars driven at pretty much EVERYTHING and ANYTHING that involves a car and is official to the Olympics !
I work for JLR in the R & D centre in Coventry, and when we found out about BMW being the official cars we where pretty annoyed that JLR products wearnt being used! so I asked my Director and was told that JLR simply couldn’t justify the huge expense…. As in 10’s of millions of pounds ! that the Olympic car sponsor would have to stump up.
Its much better invested in new products such as the F Type. ( blatant plug to keep me in mortgage payments lol)

And I have to say I agree with the company’s standpoint, the Olympics are just a massive marketing exercise now, asked up by a supporting crew of elite athletes that dra the punters in to get bombarded with dvertising…. I’m not feeling too Olympic today, bah humbug!

I’d recommend a Spesh’ Hotwalk… awesome lil balance bike, super light and just the right size for a lil un.

My oldest was on it on his second birthday, and his lil bro inherited it when he was 20 months old… and took to it in about 40 mins to ride it.

The lil un couldnt half tank around the local park on it. Made me proud to see him being soo small on a “bike” passing all the other kids leaning on their stabalisers!! people always used to ask how old he was and couldnt believe he could ride a bike so well.

Took literally 15 mins To convert him from a balance bike to a bike with pedals.

He’s 4 now and has a Ridgeback MX16 and rides blue routes win me 🙂

Cheers neninja,

Silly question I know but given the choice what lights would you say are “best” ? Is the inton as small and light as the glowworn ?

Are the glowworn lights the ones that you where asking people to test on here the other day? Or is there a “secret” brighter light that your gonna start selling?

BTW the point of the post wasn’t to start a slagging of your business, I was just a bit confused as to who was selling what..

Cheers

Adi

Cheers M6TTF

That’s the sort of info I was after.. I’ll pm Danny to see what the differences are. Just wanted to check it out as it seemed a bit fishy to me.

Now it’s been explained, it all seems ok.

Cheers

See if they also sell coaster brakes?

Explain please.

I wonder if the 2200 lumin lights listed on the FBD website are the SAME as the 1300Lumin ones listed on the GRG / glowworm site ?

EDIT: closer inspection of the case, and they look different.

Got it to work – thank you google.

That looks like them, but the link (in the advert on the forum) takes you to a website thats under the “CGR” banner although both website have a very similar look and feel to em..

http://www.crgmoto.co.uk/mountain-bike-lights-26-c.asp

I wonder if the 2200 lumin lights listed on the FBD website are the SAME as the 1300Lumin ones listed on the GRG / glowworm site ?

don simon.

The link doesn’t work..

Loving this Will… I hope you wash it in the Kitchen too ? 🙂

It’ll be the “Mountain” bit of “Mountain biking” that makes them dirty ! lol

cheers all… 🙂

Phil,

Those pics where after the “Mud Runner Ice Breaker” at Eastnor Castle in Feb this year! all that mub from a 20k Bike section of the Duathlon !! AMAZING fun tho… Bike was (IS) sweet as after a FULL strip down, clean, CLAEN and re grease where required!

Paaahhh call them dirty !

After a good clean…

And if you think Crank Bro’s wheels hubs are poorly sealed, look at how clean it was after I opened it up… THIS IS BEFORE I WASHED THE WHEELS !

Yeah the only way she can sleep is on her back, or LHS side with a V pillow supporting her Right arm.

she’s been told by the Osteopath that if its sore to use her Left hand to GENTLY pull the shoulder forward I.E reach across her chest with her LH and pull the Rh shoulder forward.

… Nothing seems to help.

When you did your’s did your hand go very clammy and have opins and needles ?

Ta Adi

here’s what it lookes like… its HER RHS thats affected.

I guess its pretty painfull ?

Cheers Sugsey, we have heard of that from the student that initially saw us today.

Its more of the fact that A&E x rayed her, and said its not broken and we don’t know what to do so we’ll book you and appointment at the fracture clinic ?!

I just wanna get her better sooner rather than later… I don’t like seeing my beloved in pain 🙁

But there is a awesome ( off piste) very steep technical decent that’s closed too… Hope it’s still there when the FC have done there stuff.