Brighton, 2 minutes from the South Downs and 10 minutes ride to the SDW. Best bit is a 5 mile off road commute with lots of options up to 25 miles or so.

I always carry an axe on night rides – what are the chances of two axe wielding maniacs being in the same place at the same time.

But if it means that odious little man doesn’t get any success I for one am happy about it

He’d be just like you then. 🙂

Ordered a C456 for £250 this morning so hoping everything is ok. I ordered some of those Tinny pedals recently and they arrived next day so I’m hoping everything is good.

I once witnessed with my own eyes a pigeon killed by a fragment of clay pigeon. The guy who’d shot the clay was quite upset as he’d no intention of ever shooting at anything alive.

Damn you sir I’m now £320 poorer. 🙂

Thought I might as well buy a slackset while I was on the site as well. I’ve been hovering for a while waiting to buy one and your post was the last straw.

That’s not the ultimate Titanic tat this is

Do you guys run Mud X’s in the summer as well (as it may be that soon!) – as the downs turn into rock hard chalk with loose rocks on top.

How would an all-round tyre like a Rampage SC or Fire XC fare?

As I said they stay on my rigid bike all year round and I don’t find them a problem and the grounds as hard as summer now. I’ve got Fire XC’s on the hardtail which I use in better weather but I found they clogged in the winter too easily, I could end up stopping 3 times in 5 miles on the way to work to clear the mud.

I think I’ll put the kettle on

Mud x for me on the south downs through the winter, in fact they stay on my rigid bike all year round.

They work for me, however after having my usual annual total of 2 punctures in a week I’m thinking of going tubeless.

One is shootining oneself in the foot, I believe.

With a Purdey I assume.

I both find turning left easier and always fall off to the left as well

Black. My research shows it’s even faster then red!

but white is faster

I reckon BR Green out of your list, it looks good now, it looked good when it was first used and it will look just as good in another 50 years.

MTG are you not going to run it with a Rohloff or is that a future project?

Accumulating miles while cycling as a goal and the autistic spectrum – discuss. 🙂

Saw a repeat of the first episode, was about to go to bed but started watching and had to see it to the end. It’s very good.

Nothing,never have done never will. I like listening to what’s going on around me and I quite like no sound at all.

My Roberts white spider frame from 1989 is hanging in my garage stripped of pain and a little rusty. I still look at it and especially the fillet brazing and it still gives me pleasure even though I haven’t ridden it in nearly 15 years. I don’t have any similar feelings for the bits of old groupsets lying around.

They cancelled a tsunami?

Yeh there’s a drought.

It’s 4 years old

And if you want to see it reach it’s 5th birthday….

**** me that Theroux geezer gets about

Yes well he likes to hang around with the mad, bad and dangerous to know so no real surprise that so many on here have met him. 🙂

Our twins have them and love them. They have the 8gb models but use them for games as much as anything and don’t need masses of storage for music or video. as above I think the face time requires 4th gen.

100mm is all I need for what I ride but I do the majority of my riding on a rigid bike. For rides less than an hour I prefer the rigid in many ways because it constantly reminds me that I am actually riding off road even on bridleways. I’ve got a 5 mile section of my commute which is off road and I love the way the bike bounces all over the place and rattles my fillings loose but at 46 more than an hour and the smile starts to turn to a grimace.

I run 40 x 16 and still rarely use 14 off road. When I need to change the rear cog I may actually go to 17 to give the lowest permitted gearing though I don’t use gear 1 very often either. However it does mean a little bit more time in the higher 7 gears which are more efficient. Not that I’ve ever really noticed that while riding. The downside with changing will be that I’ve been riding with the same ratios for 6 years and got very used to them especially on the commute.

My chainring is in the outer position and a 113mm axle gives a perfect chainline. This is another very useful on line gear calculator from Kinetics

I’ve got a Rohloff and like you don’t mind spending money on stuff that lasts. The thing is though with the UN54 you can both spend very little money and still have something that lasts a very long time. My first did I think 4 years and the current one is 2 years old and this is on a bike used for off road commuting all year round which is never cleaned.

I would only be looking at the Royce option if I was looking to minimise weight which isn’t a consideration for me on that particular bike.

Clunk click every trip!

I’d buy some woodland. No capital gains tax if you sell it in years to come and what better way to honour the person who left this to you.

My rigid bike has a bb7 at the front and a v brake at the back. The v brake is fine in this lovely dry weather and doesn’t need any more attention than the bb7 but when it’s wet and muddy it’s a whole different story. It either does very little to stop you or it stops you dead because it’s collected so much mud. My commute to work is 5 miles off road followed by a steep 1 mile downhill road section which was pretty scary when I had v brakes front and rear. I have hydraulic discs on my hardtail and never think that I’d want v brakes ever again. In fact in many ways I think the cantilevers I had when I started mountain biking were more practical than v brakes. They were a bit more faff to set up but I can’t ever recall them clogging up with mud and stopping the wheels turning.

It doesn’t matter how long they are it’s how sharp a point you file the ends to.

I made an offer of the asking price on our house because it was exactly what we wanted, in a perfect location that has few properties like it and had only been on the market for a few hours, and hadn’t been advertised at all so no one else had a chance to look at it before our offer was in and accepted. I might have got it for 5 – 10 grand less but that was 10 years ago and we’ll stay here till we go out feet first I hope so I was happy to meet the asking price rather than lose it to someone else.

My arms get in the way when I sleep, it would be awesome if I could remove them at night, and pop em back on again in the morning…

It’s simple you remove your left arm with your right hand and your right arm with your left hand. I didn’t even need to go for a ride to work that one out.

I often find myself wondering at the ability of the wind to know which way I’m about to turn so it can change and allow me to head straight into it.

And I often think that I can’t believe that 27 years on that I still enjoy riding on the downs around my house just as much as when I started.

Sheldon as always has a good article about why crank length really doesn’t matter

Too long cranks cause excessive knee flex, and can cause pain/injury if it causes your knee to flex more than it is used to.

I learned this the hard way when I bought a used mountain bike that came with 180 mm cranks. I found that it made my knees hurt every time I rode it.

You didn’t really read it properly did you. 🙂

Best not start a thread about any of Brant’s bikes now. Someone might post an “opinion”

So as well as no reviews of any of his bikes we’ll also have no opinions either. 🙂

I mean, this is Cy. His own money. His own time. No big corporation.

It’s just seems really rude.

But isn’t it a real friend that pulls you aside and says you really can’t go out looking like that. 🙂

Why anyone sets their bike up to steer like a narrowboat I’ll never know.

Because all they ever really ride are tow paths? 🙂

Yesterday actually

What, GW said something positive – I don’t believe you. 🙂

Sometimes too much sex can do it.

Not really applicable for anyone on here.

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Max Hastings

25 years mountain biking and I’ve broken a seat post bolt.