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Thanks for that,as a long time sufferer i have worked out there is no golden ticket.

Can pikeys actually read?

44 married with no kids,never wanted them tbh but never gave it too much thought and it just never happened.People always find it strange though and presume there must be a reason why you haven’t had them.They are not obligatory and i don’t doubt its the best thing that ever happens in someones life but what else can they say..

As speckled Bob says amphetamine is what you need if you want to try something as a one off,very prolific in the pro peleron back in the day.let us know how you get on.

I want 10 minutes with number 7

I thought you were meant to keep them separate( with your pedals and shoes)so if your bike doesn’t turn up you can rent a bike and not ruin your holiday

Big up to ya Bigjohn and Mrs Bigjohn that sound like a great plan,i wish clubs opened at 7 and finished at 11 as i would still be going..

Funnily enough since starting pilates and stretching often physically i feel better than i did 10 years ago in my thirties

jambalaya – Member
Best wishes. Make sure you go for it in the next 10 years, stuff really does get tougher around 50!

****,i am right in the middle.what happens at fifty i don’t know about?

Belly might be contributing to bad back,+1 for the stretching.Hamstrings and glutes

I know its a bit obvious but go and get a decent bike fitting done,there are loads of them out there.Position is a bit more important on the road bike as you don’t move around anywhere near as much as you do on the MTB

Calcio Storico in Florence is where its at

+1 a bike is a bike,bmx,time trial,mtb whatever.the problem is not everyone on a bike is a proper cyclist

I had the 500 which i lost after a couple of years good service,now got the 810 which is worth it just for the bigger screen so you can the data better.

You can do pilates at home but i would go to a class first or even better some one to one sessions so someone teaches you about body positioning as its quite easy to look at pictures and try and replicate it,doing it correctly is completely different.

Yeah you can stretch in front of the telly with a beer if you want and you only need 5/10 minutes couple of times a week to make a difference so no excuses.Pilates has made a massive difference for me to the point where i feel i sit on my bike in a better position which puts less stress on my back

Thats some line up,would love to be going,Mojito no thank you would rather drink my own ****

Here in Italy to do any competitive amateur sport you have to have an annual ECG with a cardiologist,this involves 12 minutes on a gym bike or treadmill depending on what sport you do.I have a couple of club mates who have had problems highlighted and refused a license.They have then been treated and then returned to racing.Maybe the UK should follow suit.

Dinglespeed,it’s what Burnley folk ride..

Skink2020 i have just googled Janet from hull…Haha,the world needs more women like that

I used to deliver one on my paper round, iirc it was in a plastic wrapper even back then circa..1981/2.
inevitably it arrived a couple of days late..”escort” it was

the youth of today,they have it so easy..

Haha…I was hoping for another girl but I am not ruling it out

Threesome!? Is that allowed..just trying to convince the wife

I bought a custom 953 a few years back,Brian sized me up for it and I ended with toe overlap.Not a major issue but if I hadn’t let home convince me and had made him make it the size I wanted it wouldn’t have happened.Then the chainsaty cracked,ok it could happen with any bike.When I got it back they hadn’t put the headset back in and forgot to even put it in the box.They also forgot to weld a cable stop on the chainstay ffs..I found a manufacturer near me who fixed that for me,now the chain stays go rusty and I have to wire wool them every now and again.Maybe that’s normal I ain’t sure but I wouldn’t recommend them.Just my experience

Join the local cycling club as soon as you get there,there a good chance they won’t speak much english on the club run hence you will have to speak spanish.As doug says do a university intensive course before you leave ,but what ever you do you WILL arrive underprepared but thats the way it goes.For me personally learning the language grammatically really helped me understand it,which is the way i think they are teaching english now not how we learn’t it.I live in Italy and when we got here enrolled myself on a course which i studied for a whole school year.I really worked at it and sat an exam at the end of the year, which i passed to be told that was the exam for a 5 year old italian ffs..Whatever you do best of luck..Ben

External bb I can understand but 3×10 ?

No Pierce Brosnan fans!!strange that

Four really good races,very hard conditions to race on .I do prefer a more heads down course though tbh sand/mud as opposed to a skating rink.the junior race was really good and the women’s excellent..

Ciao Marco,same happened to me last week.Some bloke opened a car door on me,broken nose and arm in plaster(not broken).Hoping to be back at work on tuesday and on the bike next weekend.

just ordered one,i didn’t know they did them.thanks for the heads up,i will report back when i have fitted it and gone for a ride

Use a cheap tubular tyre as an innertube and put some sealant in it and use it in combination with the tyres recommended above.Robert Millar used to do it apparently

stand up for ten seconds every now and then to let the blood circulate

My R.E. teacher at secondary school was a priest and he showed us footage from concentration camps and Hitler watching piles of bodies being bulldozed into mass graves.Very harrowing but as morecash said it should be compulsory in schools.He also showed photos of aborted fetuses for which he got a b**locking off the headmaster.I can’t stand religion but they were certainly the most interesting lessons i did at that school.In another lesson he told us what was involved in exercising peoples houses,all interesting stuff as a 13 year old lad

help

The cannondales are great race bikes but in my experience very fragile in that of the group I ride with at least five ride cannondale hard tails and they have all had new frames due to them cracking.he is a reputable dealer and they come with a lifetime warranty but I couldn’t be bothered with the hassle.one lads road frame cracked as well.

Pay for a cleaner? 1..they will do it better than you will as it’s their profession..2..you will gain more free time..3..you are giving someone a living and thus helping the economy..

ordered off ebay from germany…

cheers ninfan,i will probably go down the ready made route and order the trail tacks as suggested by dexa..