That bikefax book is decent but do some additional research, have a proper map and heed the weather. I guided for a bloke once who followed directions from a book, up into the cold (wearing only shorts and a base layer) and nearly slipped off an iced up trail. His book mentioned nothing about environmental hazards.

Great white distribution map for coastal regions.

Still happening. Malware alert, browser memory alert and redirects to an “app”

The best “diet”, and the one humans most likely evolved (from Frugivore) is a Faunivore. Fruits, nuts, vegetables and eggs (possibly eggs daily and main source of animal protein). Also some grains, honey, fish, shoreline creatures like mussels, birds.

We also have an aerobic and anaerobic energy system that requires regular revving up. I.e at least daily. Depending on activity you can eat more or less food.

IMO

Falke slipper socks for me

Hope this inspires you http://www.allmountainventure.com

Pretty laid back climbing… but plenty of it. And loads of techie or flowing singletrack.

I could also run a road trip if that suits you. Fantastic mountain roads around these parts.

Chris

harrison beumont do risk based cover / outdoor sports.

I do love ‘libertarians’ – it seems to mean “Anyone can do anything I agree with.”

That not libertarianism tho is it…? more like bigotry.

Anyhow, the “law” got chucked out. Thats how liberal democracy and free speech works. Progressive? Cools lets do that. Regressive and oppressive… lets not. (mostly).

Right wing bigots are pushing for their beliefs just like everyone else (just like they always have). Going on all over the world. Its up to free thinking liberal minded people to fight back.

You should be able to do things like hitting rocks/roots at a good angle without paying attention to it.

Summs it up really. Improvisation, which only comes with experience and practice.

People always says speed is your friend. Thats balls, its more about having the right momentum to pass through stuff. You don’t have to be going fast to have enough momentum.

Everyone comes off now and then. Being flexible and strong (weight training) plus wearing protective gear is all you can do to minimise injuries.

Get well soon, hope you nail that section one day.

Edit; Are you carrying the right gear (namely a down jacket and a bothy) so that if you go down miles from the car and cant move you wont freeze to death?

Anyone sticking fingers in the eyes of corrupted establishments is good to go by me. If more people did stuff like that the world would be a much better place.

I think their name is brilliant, my FIL cant even say it out loud 😆

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

Cakes and biscuits are very high in sugar. Sugar messes up the systems your body uses to regulate it’s wieght, and you cant ever out train that. If you really want to lose weight you need to drop that childish behaviour ;0)

Dont eat many hi quality carbs unless you have just done, or are about to do, some training.
Take in most of your energy early in the day
Get plenty of sleep.
Drink plenty of water.
Eat natural foods that make you full.
Do interval training 20 x 20 seconds all out sprints
Ride a 100 miler once a month
Lift wieghts. Heavy, reps of 6 to 8. 4 sets
Do some fasted training. First thing in the morning.
Train 6 to 10 hours per week minimum.

Edit. Salter do a good set of scales that are worth buying. Reads weight, % fat, % muscle, % water, BMI and BMR. Repeatable results but dont take the numbers as gospel. Use them to spot trends and weigh your self everyday, note the numbers. Spot the trends and adjust the plan.

Found a wallet with €150 in it, in addition to ID card driving licence and pictures of offspring. Called the owner and returned it.

Not exactly saving the world, more fighting the evil voice shouting YOURS YOURS on seeing all those 20s.

epoc

Hope it helps.

Invite them over to eat it.

Or take it back round tomorrow and say “hey I got you one too mate”

Put some peaks and troughs into the year… spend some time in recovery mode and other times working a bit harder. Build it around the main riding season or an annual race or something.

Swimmimg resistance training and stretching would cover a lot of the rest if you put a bit of thought into what, when and why.

If you are not healing or recovering maybe not enough sleep or diet or both.

Mid 30s isnt that old…. mid 70s is fall apart time.

Heading to granada so will have a look at the tour route on the road and also have a bit of an explore on the mtb. Nothing really that fixed.

Very lucky boy…. bleeding like that out in the hills.

Crazy bleeds are worth going prepared for, kit and knowledge. You can change the outcome by doing some thing right there and then.

They have to ask those dumb questions. The electorate demand it.

Strategy is one thing but the tactics of walking across no mans land or sending officers over the top effectively unarmed is rather questionable… I read recently, german soldiers felt that if the British had only run they would have overwhelmed the German line on the first morning of the Somme.

So while the strategic objectives may have been achieved, tactical objectives and methods were absolute suicidal faliures. I think that is why Haig is viewed so poorly.

Lost credibility on the whole government is responsible thing… everyone knows its extra dimensional beings

Easily verified with youtube

The real issue on the roads is that its dog eat dog even for car v car, Let alone cyclists and pedestrians. In London you have to drive and ride very very very defensively. General courtesy to anyone anywhere is shocking… its a full on rat race.

What he is absolutely doing wrong is confronting people like that, and seems on at least one occasion to give someone the finger.. In London that sort of thing has a shelf life, sooner or later he’s going to “disrespect” some nutter and then anything could happen. Potentialy this guy is more at risk of assault than RTA.

Make the video, share and report… blow that horn as a warning. But for crissake keep calm and ride on.

Spain is not suffering “severe crime”. Far from it.

The OP was very unlucky.

Not quite what you are looking for dezb but interesting ref’ visibility

What an RAF pilot can teach us about being safe on the road

@Turnerguy

Maybe that was their background, was a while back so can’t remember, but both were marketing themselves as physios.

Been to chiropractors, physios and had good and bad massages.

Id say avoid the chiro, for me it cost a lot and didnt seem to help any more than the problem would go away anyway in the time span of the treatment. The initial evaluation seemed highly bogus to me as well.

The physios I have had were less than half the cost and took a much more wholistic approach to healing the injury…. exersises, stretching, heat treatments and so on. As well as working out why it happened in the first place. Combine that with a descent massage to get the trigger points out of your muscles.

Only imo.

“In some limited areas it can produce some good results v competition if all you GAS abou is th eprice”

In lots of business models you can charge more by adding value, particularly in small businesses where its not about about churning volume and the customer GAS about more than just price.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23239764

State sponsored monopolies (id include the banking sector in that) are not examples of free markets, they do make good examples of state interference, corruption, rigged markets and state sanctioned barriers to entry.

Doesnt sound so bad. Used to work on big trucks delivering those plastic crates, we didn’t have a beeping machine but we’d always split into two teams and do races to make it interesting. The supervisor counted each teams crates and shouted abuse at us if we came second. Looking back it was a good time and the low pay encouraged me to do some courses, move and get a better job. One of the best jobs we went on was an mod site with no lift so we had about 50 blokes leading from the truck up to the second floor… good craig and all that.

Leave some of ours on, some on timers and some activated by tripwires.

Now that the capitalist model has expanded to cover the globe it has no new resource or market

Not so…. a great many emerging and future markets out there.

Air travel is cheap, what do you expect?

Unless of course you go 1st class, then its much nicer.

Service and quality are price dependant.

Capitalism isnt all about huge companies and shareholders… plenty of small businesses out there capitalising on one thing or another.

Adapting the hub to dufferent axles is far easier. You just change the end caps, , therefore don’t have to dismantle the whole thing.

Medicine balls make for good training. Its more like circuit training than time in the weights room and better for cycling IMO.

What an RAF pilot can teach us about being safe on the road

Interesting stuff

My LWB traffic, nine seater. Im sure you could get a campervan conversion. Really nimble on mountain roads for the size, 125hp good for big hills and the open road. I can fit 9 plus six bikes inside, so big interior. The last 3 bikes go on the towbar rack.

Maybe its like that for you because you have years of road fitness under your belt? So firstly you dont find it nearly as phsically demanding as road biking and second you are used to being in constant grip with a reasonably smooth surface. Mountain biking being rather different in that respect. What you describe may be similar for most roadies coming onto mountain bikes but maybe not beginners in general.

Just a thought.

Similar thing come up now and again in Spain ref’ the civil war. A pact of forgetting (el pacto de olvido/el silencio) was established, basically an agreement to say nothing until everyone connected to it is long dead. I guess its a valid idea, to try and put the past to the past and concentrate on the future… Sometimes, however, its not that silent.

The problem is… A relative shooting someone and throwing them down a well is easier to forget than a relative being shot and thrown down a well, esp if you drive past it everyday with them still down there.

The things people do 😐

http://www.chaletribot.com/

I think they are on HP22 on the road up.

Great place, been there a few times

Trouble is with moving to primary that it puts you straight under the front of the loon who is texting instead of looking out of the big front window, never mind the blind spots.

In that instance either… moved to primary too late or no amount of road positioning will help you. Same as the speeding driver who jumps a red light, nothing will change the outcome. Cycling will never be risk free.

Its very easy not to ride down the side of a large vehicle stopped at a junction (well, you’d think so).

Difficult to avoid is the overtaking bus or lorry that turns left as its passing?

Answer, always ride primary in heavy traffic or move to primary well before passing through any junction.

To me the answer to busy junctions is so simple… we already do it for pedestrians v cars. You have a phase for pedestrians, then a phase for bikes, then a phase for all traffic.

What is absolutely crazy is the ASL bike boxes are in a lot of HGV blind spots. I notice they dont show that on the video.