Lass at work – Isabelle Ender 😮

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-35832377

Yes – the 810 is resistive so it responds to pressure so works fine with gloves etc, and doesn’t notice water. Was yours a later model? Maybe they improved something in the device or the firmware? There are videos of 1000s apparently working fine in the rain on youtube, but with some people this wasn’t the case….

https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?105075-Touchscreen-doesn-t-work-when-riding-in-the-rain

I went for the 1000, but have now sold it and gone back to the 810. It has a fab screen, but the main two things for me were battery life and capacitive screen.

I did a lot of controlled experiments on battery life. If you have it permanently on a data screen the battery life is not too bad – around 10 to 12 hours. If you leave it constantly on the OS map screen this reduced down to 5-6 hours. I like to use the map screen a lot, especially when riding abroad so this was a bit of an issue. Similar controlled trials on the 810 showed very little difference between ‘constant map’ and ‘constant data’ displayed, with both configurations consistently achieving in excess of any option on the 1000.

The other issue was the selection of a capacitive screen by garmin. It doesn’t like some gloves, and in the rain it can become extremely erratic – sometimes locking the device (i.e. stops responding to screen input until you unlock it) and other times difficult to get it to do what you wanted it to.

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Sram recommend big big +3 for 1 x 10/11 setups.

Sram recommend big to big + 3 links for single ring setup 🙂

I have some polarised lenses – i find them great for riding, but if I wear them for driving they give me a headache!! Dunno why.

Nice for cycling though.

I have an XL. I’m 6’4″ tall but with an inside leg a smidgen under 39″. My top of saddle to BB centre is 87cm. I run a fair bit of post though – probably not far of the max on a 400mm post. Sounds like you might be better on a L maybe?

I put quite a bit of other stuff in on the way to the etape last year and BA didn’t care.

On the flip side BA were by far the worst out of all the airlines at getting you bike onto the same flight as you!!! Mine was late gong out and coming back. Hardly any other airline did this to riders from discussions with various other folks out for the etape…..

I can’t even do that now!!!

WELL DONE FOR GETTING HIM TO A&E FELLA!!!

Out first had to go back into hospital and onto IV antibiotics after only being home 3 nights. Coming home to an empty house on my own with all baby stuff everywhere was terrible!! Like you I needed to chat – I ended up chatting to a friend online who I’ve never actually met in real life for ages 🙁

The little guy pulled through fine and he’s just a couple of weeks away from his 6th birthday 🙂

I really hope it all works out for you all.

Sounds like depression fella. Can happen to anyone, but lots of things you can do about it 🙂

Try getting out on your bike – don’t over do it, but get out if you can.

I found Paul Gilberts audio cd extremely helpful to put it into perspective and help with ideas on ways through 🙂

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Overcoming-Depression-Talks-Your-Therapist/dp/1845298187

I have a set of (non disc) chris king R45s in green, CXP33 rims (black), black DT comp spokes. Only done a few 100 miles – they were for my best bike, but the frame cracked and I ended up replacing it with a road disc frame so got new wheels.

Would I be able to interst you in these?

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colinjwoodward at gmail dot com

I’m special.

6′ 3.5″ but with a 39″ inside leg!!!

If you send your measurements to lusso they will custom make you some for a 20% extra charge. I got some earlier this year, and for the first time in my life I have a pair of cycling tights that fit perfectly!!!

Highly recommended!!

Col.

They’re very pricey, but I’ve found assos mille shorts to be massively more comfortable than anything else out there – they’ve made a huge reduction to the number of times I get sores 🙂

Last ever concorde landing – BAe Filton in November 2003

We all went onto the airfield to watch it land. Pilots taxied around for ages waving at us all with flags flying out of the windows…

I was lucky enough to take a trip on Concorde to new york in 2003 – fantastic experience! Amazing take-off and climb (30k ft in 8 mins as opposed to more like 30 in a conventional plane!)

Excellent service, and the concorde lounge at heathrow. I was sat in front of Simon le Bon and Anthony Keidis was a few seats further back!

I do like the phrase ‘gambled and lost’

6′ 3.5″ here with 87cm bb to saddle.

I currently ride a 63cm super six – I’ve been really pleased with it so far 🙂 Nice long head tube helps get the bars up – currently running around 4″ drop.

Always worth checking seat angle when looking at top tube length slacker angles will result in lower reach for a given top tube length……

As a metalurgist and former failure investigator – on the basis of those pics i’d say 90% sure that is a cut not crack since:

Too straight for a fatigue crack, no branching or secondary cracking either.
Crack is completely perpendicular to tube
Not near any stress raisers (welds, bosses etc)
Tube is deformed slightly either side of crack – you can see this from the way the light reflects.

http://www.tweekscycles.com/Product.do?method=view&n=3336&p=103136&c=215&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Base&utm_campaign=Lubricants%20&%20Cleaning

I’ve had really good results with carbogrip where friction paste has failed, or left things still a bit creaky (carbon bar in ‘dal OPI stem….)

I’m 6’4″

XL 29er – still needs a 400mm seatpost at nearly full stretch for my long legs!

I’ve never mtbed on t’gower before – not even sure what the terrain is like!

tyres will be specialized storm control – theyre the only tyres me bike has!!

He was just turned 4 when he was riding that one. He got a balance bike when he was three – he loved it to bits. It made the transition to pedal bike really easy – only took a few mins in the park 🙂

He did 5 mile rides (to the pub!) on the pedal bike a couple of weeks after he got it.

Your little one will be on balance bikes before you know it!

He’ll be like this in no time at all…. time flies….

Lombard building here 😉

Why has no one mentioned this??

Slightly related – playing games with my 20 month old little girl a couple of weeks ago, dangling her upside down above my head. Her arms were flailing around in excitement – unfortunately she managed to wack one of my eyes and her finger nail took a 2mm by 5mm chunk out of my cornea!! couldn’t see out. Down to A&E to get patched up, then had to go back to see a consultant the next morning so he could cut the flap off my cornea that had been left hanging on!! Luckily for me it had fallen off of its own accord over night. Eye just about mended now…

Safety glasses and a bixe required for playing with toddlers me thinkks….

Is he suffering from depression maybe? If so some help (CBT, behavioural activation etc) might be helpful?

Just a thought.

it got this lot. Appeared between setting off and coming back, road was sheet ice. No-one injured fortunately!!

I live in chellaston and work at RR. Robin woods / ticknall etc. It’s great for a quick couple of hours post work in the summer, but hellishly muddy on the whole in the winter – singlespeed makes it round, but gears generally die!!! Peaks is only a shortish car trip away – lots of classic loops like edale and cut gate on hand!

If this one down the pub and he’d said “some chavs have broken my window” would you go on and on like this???

No doubt there’ll b cries of “i wouldn’t be down the pub with someone who’d say something like that” blah blah blah. But we know that this isn’t really true. It’s just easy to have an argument / wind people up typing at your keyboard in ways you’d never do in real life……

Fire away…

We have an Isabelle Ender at work……

Hi anxious11.

I was very much in the ‘man up and don’t be soft’ camp until I was completely humbled with with two extended bouts of anxiety disorder and depression, neccesitating quite some time from work!

I did talk to a lot of people and this was a big help, i was very fortunate with all the help and support I got!

I found a combination of CBT and citalopram worked for me – I feel better than ever now, and the CBT has helped me understand why things happen the way they do for for me, and how to cope with it. I would definately recommend CBT. IF you can afford to go private then IMHO it would be money well spent if you can find a good one?

One other thing – you mentioned you don’t feel like cycling? PLEASE GO CYCLING even if you have to force yourself. When have you ever come back from cycling wishing you hadn’t gone? Quite a lot of people find excercise very useful for both anxiety an depression. The thng with depression is you feel like doing nothing, but this is the worst you can do – you’ve got to get out and do stuff even if you really have to force yourself.

Good luck, and hope you’re feeling your old self soon.

Col.

I’m 6’4″, 15.5 stone and called Colin.

vampire in my house this morning….