I’m another one who just wishes someone would build a digital full frame FM2 or OM1 type camera where all the digital bit does is replace the film and the camera remains essentially manual. It’ll never happen though as the market will always be too small.

And you can put your stylus in there when friends come round.

get something that fits down the holes and spend a weekend squidging buggering the buggers squidgers

1×9 on 1 bike
1×14 on another

I’d only ever have more than one if I bought a road bike.

Working here and yesterday as well. On the good side I’m in Stockholm. On the bad side I’m at the congress centre in the middle of nowhere and my hotel is also in the middle of nowhere. A different nowhere obviously as otherwise they would be very close together which would be convenient. They are not close and it is not convenient.

My take on this is that the countries handing over the money should buy bits of the failing countries. For example the Germans who have pumped billions into the Greek economy could have Corfu in return. This would mean they would no longer have to get up at the crack of dawn while on holiday in order to get their towels on their chosen sun lounger. It would also be a lot more civilised than their previous attempts to acquire somewhere nice to go on holiday. Perhaps the UK might pick up a bit of the Algarve or County Cork.

Average speed of 11.26 miles an hour – I reckon that would be closer to my maximum than my average if tried it!

Of those 3 Berlin. I was in Venice last December and it was deserted. Apparently it’s now so expensive that the majority of property owners are extremely wealthy and their place in Venice is a just for the summer. On the other hand it might not be around for ever so maybe it is worth a visit. if I wanted to go to Italy though I would choose Rome or Florence

How would you like it if there was a no tradesmen sign on the public library.

Can they read? 🙂

I want the Supernova E3 Triple. I’ve already got a SON hub but only with a halogen light which is fine on the road but useless off. The latest one is 800 lumens I believe.

Mucky Nutz and Neoguard do a very similar job of keeping the crap out of your face. One of them offers some protection to your stancions and seals and the other directs some of the spray that would have missed them back onto them. Both are best combined with a Crud Catcher.

The down side to the Mucky Nutz is that on some forks there isn’t much clearance and they can become brittle in the depths of winter.

V on the rear of one bike and in the dry it´s every bit as good as the BB7 at the front. Shame it´s on the winter/wet weather off road commuter.

It doesn’t matter – if you put milk in tea your judgement and taste are so fundamentally compromised that nothing you think, believe or do is worthy of consideration. 🙂

I don’t know but we do around 6000 miles a year and average around 50mpg so a lot less than most. My wife walks to work and cycle.

I was at Maastricht airport flying home. It was playing on all the monitors and it was the quietest airport I’ve ever been in. We got as far as Amsterdam and had to wait a few hours there as UK airspace was closed.

And today I’ll be flying to Lisbon.

I’ve got a rigid hub geared bike and they are great – I use mine all winter to commute off road to work and pretty much any time it’s wet and muddy for the rest of the year. The chain gets a wipe with a rag and a squirt of GT85.

My attack 3/4’s are into their 3rd wet season and have been really good. They are worn every day for the off road commute once the route becomes permanently wet and muddy which seems to be at least 3 months of the year.

Well as no BMW drivers have a soul I think we know the answer, they are all bought with the Devil’s money

We get quite a lot of them in the house – none of us have been bitten yet.

The Jewish Museum is a must if the “installation / sculpture” Fallen Leaves is still there. I’ve never seen any piece of art which comes close to it for the effect it had on me – I’ve just looked at some photos of it and – don’t really know what to say just go.

The Radison Blu Hotel is worth popping into to see the fish tank.

An the Opernpalais on Unter Den Linden has an amazing cake collection.

I find them very good and helpful – I usually wait until I need a few things before I put an order in due to the postage.

Blown off the bike on Tuesday evening on the ride home! I had to tack for a while just to keep going the way I wanted to.

I use a Source 2 litre bladder in mine which fits well. I usually only put 1 – 1.5 litres in it but it will go in with 2 litres if you need it.

A couple of weeks ago I made a comment about averaging one or two punctures a year and I then had 3 in 4 days.

5 hours ago I made a comment about mud x coping well with wet chalk.
2 hours ago I rode home on the wet chalk – do I need to continue?

My 86 Rockhopper had 18″ stays and was a pretty comfortable ride considering it only had 1.5 tyres. It seemed to go uphill pretty well.

I’ve found mud x very good for the winter on the South Downs. I commute off road and they have coped well with thick mud, thin mud, somewhere in the middle mud as well as flints and wet chalk. I leave them on my rigid bike all year round.

I’ve got a Rohloff with a handy twisty thing you mount on the bars which allows you to vary the volume – and it goes all the way up to 14.

I think I may still have the bolt so 75p wasn’t so bad after all. The only other bits I have are the front wheel and for some reason the cantilever brakes. And yes I rode for 4 or 5 years with toe clips until I went to spd’s.
As for it being a fad there really weren’t enough mtb’s around for it to be a fad, I could ride all day on the South Downs and only very rarely saw anyone else out for the first couple of years. – I’d already spent 2 years off roading on my Coventry Eagle so I wasn’t really trying anything new to me.
Just about the best thing I ever bought.

I ran two sets of wheels on the same bike for a while and just bought two chains

Am I missing something or isn’t the above blindingly obvious?

Flow, I have a hunch you don’t really have much knowledge of composites?

I don’t think he’s ever heard the phrase “when in a hole stop digging.”

of course we remember that it is unlikely that the racekings on your boardman were anything other than the same pattern

That’s a valid point the speed kings I have are oem steel bead. However I also got 3 punctures in 4 days and bearing in mind my usual rate is 1 or 2 a year that was enough for me to ditch the rear.

The Enduro wasn’t designed for carrying much. I have the Catalyst which has longer chainstays and proper rack mounts. Looking back I should have gone for the Enduro but at the time I bought the bike as an on road commuter and then changed to off road commuting. It just means I’m stuck with v brakes at the rear which are pretty useless in the middle of winter.

My Boardman came with speed kings front and rear. The front came off very quickly and the backs gone as well now. They do roll well but I just found them a bit too sketchy for my lack of skills. I put on some XC pros which I had lying around which I feel safer on. From all I’ve read on here I’ll probably try racing ralph when they have worn out.

Yes they do take a bit of undoing and doing back up again.

I had one but wasn’t heavy enough for the seat to go down.
I still think it’s a good idea though.

The handbrake cable had snapped on the car, and with the steering turned slightly, it caused it to roll backwards into the hedge across the road.

I assume the ex now leaves her car in gear?

Another account of a double here.

I reckon go for it but don’t worry about the time. Sure it would be nice to say you have done it in 24 hours but is that really important? It would be a real shame to do it and then think you’ve failed because it took you longer than a 24 hours. If you set off with just riding it non stop as the goal then if you make it you’ll feel brilliant and will still have achieved far more than most of us ever will.

i’m not sure of a tap between winchester and cocking either. 30+ miles

There is one at the back of the cafe in the QE park. It’s round where the bins are! I had to ask to find it.

The only tap I know isn’t working at the moment is the one at Beeding.

Is it essential to you that you do it alpine style in the conventional way? If not you could park along the route and do it in 2 loops meaning you wouldn’t have to carry as much stuff. You could choose a halfway point or you could choose a point where you have a long loop which stretches you but you’re confident you could do and a smaller loop to complete the whole thing if you feel up to it. You could do from South Harting to Eastbourne and back which is the original route and then do the Winchester extension and return.

Bring back the Hite Rite.