cheers Sproketjockey, that last looks great – will definitely give Cardinham a go

thanks – I’m just looking into that. Haven’t found any trail maps as yet, but maybe its because they’ve only just opened

Oh no! I did about ten of the events right from the start. They were great. Still got the stickers in the garage.

-8C overnight in Dumfries and Galloway stands out! And the guy breaking his leg in Kielder on the ice before the start. Racing a tandem pair in the Lakes in 1994 – they were faster downhill – we were quicker up. Eh – you’ve got me thinking now 🙂

I see similar huge differences between the calorie numbers I get estimated by MapMyRide, which I guess are based on speed/distance/time/elevation and are always much higher than the much smaller numbers I get from my polar heart rate monitor. Both of them also know my body weight (but not my bike weight)

yes a lovely 40Km in sunny Leicestershire – no cars, brilliant:-)

tyres

are you riding with more aerodynamic kit now?

shock horror, they can all be ridden on fully rigid too!

not saying that you should ride rigid, but just that don’t be afraid to try stuff on your HT – enjoy it

this thread is getting to me – I have just been looking for latex inner tubes

FYI my saddle and seatpost weigh 500g in total

asterix – Member

@thisisnotaspoon
just weighed my CAAD4 R500 and measured 9.1 kg

it does have two bottle cages and a computer/watch on it, but I’d love to work out where the rest of the excess is. It has a 105 groupset. Do you have carbon seatpost. bars etc – I dont. How to find those extra kgs?

thisisnotaspoon- Member
Little bits everywhere.

Carbon (Canyon) post, alu (ritchey WCS) bar and stem
1300g wheelset (stans alpha without stickers to keep the ‘looks cheep’/sleeper illusion)
FSA carbon chainset
DA7800 groupset
Planet X brakes
Ultremo ZX tyres
Conti supersonic tubes

I paid £300 for the whole bike with tiagra s/h in 2004, then spent about £900 to lose the weight. The onyy standard bits are the frame and fork. I started by stripping and weighing each components, then seeing how much weight I could squeeze off without going silly, the criteria was it had to cost less in total than a new CAAD10 105 whilst manageing to be significantly lighter.

Cheers. I suppose I do have a steel seat post and a (very comfy) Brookes saddle that could be changed out to lose a pound or two. Also got winter tyres on just at the moment too, so that might help once spring really sets in

@thisisnotaspoon

just weighed my CAAD4 R500 and measured 9.1 kg 🙁

it does have two bottle cages and a computer/watch on it, but I’d love to work out where the rest of the excess is. It has a 105 groupset. Do you have carbon seatpost. bars etc – I dont. How to find those extra kgs?

to me all this means is I’m not gonna buy a Spesh – their loss

Ride a bike before damning it out of hand.

I agree

The downsides of them [29ers]are too great – slower to accelerate, slower to brake, slower to turn, heavier, flexier wheels – all for the benefit of a bit of extra rolling ability and to hold a bit more speed.

I agree having tried them

if you like them – great. But don’t take the 26er option away from everyone else

I think you need to be very certain of what rights exist for what types of users on the trails before you can know if (dog) walkers really are ‘in the wrong place’ in a legal sense.

“I can’t help thinking the Enduro should perhaps stay as a 26er…”

completely agree – at least give us the option!

plenty of clubs not too far from there:

Welland Valley CC[/url]

Rockingham Forest[/url]

Wakerley Wheelers[/url]

~75kph on a MTB in the Quantocks (like Scienceofficer)

~80kph on a road bike coming down from Buttertubs Pass – I whimped out at the thought of hitting one of those stone walls

for offroad – ViewRanger

on road – MapMyRide

I like them (but ride a 15+ year old bike). I have them because I cant get the Panaracer Smoke/Dart combo anymore 🙁 😆

I have one of these and it has served me for the odd cassette replacement for many years – cheap and (a bit nasty) but it works

hypercracker

[edit: not sure if you can still get them]

its always better in a forest – less windy and at least some shelter, so if like this weekend its cold and snowy or wet I opt for the mountain bike in the forest over the road bike. Tell yourself your choosing a nice warm cosy option instead of battle a headwind and huge wind chill. its all relative

what cp said

I’d say go for 10 instead of 9. Spare parts for 9 are getting harder to find. I think 2 x 10 is a great set up. Ribble cycles seem cheap at the moment

Hi there. I am one of the Wakerley Wheelers. Come and join in – the more the merrier. We have regular rides on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings, as well as at other times (e.g. Saturdays) as suits. All abilities and styles of bike. The trails in WW have suffered with the weather, but there are some routes still worth riding there and across in Fineshade too (it aint dusty though)

Wakerley Wheelers[/url]

Clobber you asked what I was afraid to 🙂

that black looks pretty much all rollable – is it? or does the video give the wrong impression?

whereabouts is this happening (e.g. which forest)?

might make me a faster swimmer;-) or perhaps i’d sink??

this happened to me over car servicing – the garage went ahead and did a full service when I had asked for a low mileage service – they explained they had done more work and asked for more money than the original quote. I objected and in the end we negotiated a price in the middle. You might say I was kind to them, but I wanted to keep using them. Bottom line is, if they do work without your agreement its at their own risk.

It doesn’t seem silly to me. The only thing it seems to me is that you will need to think about exactly what gear ratios you use, given that you would be changing wheel size (but actually I doubt even that is very important). Maybe at the start of the project write out a list of everything you need to have / swap over so that you can see any troubles ahead of time.

It doesn’t seem silly to me. The only thing it seems to me is that you will need to think about exactly what gear ratios you use, given that you would be changing wheel size (but actually I doubt even that is very important). Maybe at the start of the project write out a list of everything you need to have / swap over so that you can see any troubles ahead of time.

love whattyre’s (and rossi’s) Konas – they do it for me

the Spinergy on the M400 looks great too

can I ask seven, how did you repaint your ‘dale? Mine has many places where the original paint has come away – I though of re-spraying or powder coating it, but people around me convinned me not to

Berkshire carpets for the blind?

This is mu 1996 Cannondale M900

used regularly these days, full XT, 2 x 10, Chris King H/set, 23 lbs 🙂

listen to ‘Johnners – Leg over’[/b] on Audioboo</div><script type=”text/javascript”>(function() { var po = document.createElement(“script”); po.type = “text/javascript”; po.async = true; po.src = “https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/assets/embed.js&#8221;; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();</script>]

I have a prolapsed disk but if I do some core strength exercises, then riding helps rather than makes it worse (and I ride a really really rigid Cannondale).

What makes my back worse is sitting at PC (like now) and driving, and sleeping too long. So keep your bikes, ride more, do less desk work and buy a better bed and a better car instead

Maybe:

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/shimano-m424-spd-pedals/

or

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/shimano-m324-combination-pedals/

or

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/shimano-a530-spd-single-sided-touring-pedals/

you cant beat Letraset! 😆

It was a 1991 Saracen Tufftrax for me too. Original tyres rapidly swapped for Panaracer Smokes and wheels for Mavic 231s. Wore through several pairs of 231s before getting ceramics. Did several Polaris’ on that bike – big smiles

signed