Nice, I’m after a CAAD ‘x’ frame, they seem to hold their value quite well though.

I rescued my old Colnago frame from my dad’s shed last month. My first proper bike. Rebuilt it with some horribly un-period Veloce 10v & Ksyriums.. only original stuff is Shimano 600 chainset (will go as soon as I find the crank puller) and Athena aero seat pin.

At 9.2kg & 42×23 it is poorly suited to its new home in the Basque Country.

If a pro racer ever found our segments we’d all be in trouble.

Happened here, Basque & Spanish tours and the San Sebastian Classic have passed through this summer leaving a trail of destruction in the leaderboards :lol:

I can save a considerable amount of energy by setting my bike lights to ‘flash’.
So if we can’t turn ’em off altogether, why not have flashing LED streetlights?

:-)

Donostia is the Basque name, I guess you don’t look like very Basque so they’ll probably forgive you if you use the Spanish variant :wink:
You could drop in a few Basque greetings though, they go a long way towards defrosting the locals who can sometimes be a bit reserved! http://wikitravel.org/en/Basque_phrasebook.

I know nowt about surfing, but you won’t get far in an hour! There are hire shops and schools etc on the beach if you fancy it.

Road biking is just as good, I’ve got routes if you need them or look on my strava if you use it http://app.strava.com/athletes/251561, I can give you suggestions for tranquil/rural routes. Give’s a shout if you want to go for a ride, though I’m back to work in Sept so will only have limited opportunities.

^^ Have to be quick, it was yesterday!
Check out Doug’s site above for sure.. if you have GPS then get in touch (email in profile), I’ve lived in SS for a few years and have tons of tracks either riding straight from the city or a short train ride away.

If you don’t have GPS there is a trail centre here, easily reached if you’ve hired a car, if not about 30m by train. Red & black routes are pretty good fun and well marked. Amazing terrain. Showers & bike hire, don’t know anyone who’s used that though.

*want*

Maths says “yes” :twisted:

http://www.kreuzotter.de/english/espeed.htm

I buy bulk dextrose & pea protein isolate, and make a smoothie with a couple of bananas, 0.5l of choc soy drink, salt, and the dextrose & protein. I just whiz it up in a pint glass with a hand mixer, straight after training.

You’re aiming for 4:1 protein to carb ratio, so you have to juggle the quantities a bit depending on whether you use bananas or not, what brand of soy etc, and of course your bodyweight.

Loads, but not that much competition in the Basque Country, locals are slow to take up strava. Got a couple of pro scalps though, and my descent kom on Col du Tourmalet stood for almost a year (didn’t know I even had it until it was beaten)

I bought some Milles recently with the same problem, gripper was loose and too low. Hadn’t realised they come in two lengths, I swapped them for the regular length and they’re fine. You’re the same height/weight as men, sounds like you’ve got the long ones?

Edited, got milles and unos mixed up :oops:

Mine purrs so loudly the vet can’t listen to her heart/breathing at the checkups. So he runs the tap in the surgery, and she stops, so they must have some control over it…

my Pego, tidied up a bit ready to start its fourth season. Does winter training duties too, 7500km so far this year.

so the Campagnolo designers finally found a use for all those 150€ corkscrews….

brilliant, dunno if it’s a April Fool but I hope it stays!

Check again Neil, same happened to me but now it’s appeared.

Haribo isn’t vegan :-)

Why did it finish early?* I was on for clocking up 2000k :(

I’m out for April, having a week off over Easter and then spending some time with my neglected MTB. Safe riding!

Edit: it didn’t. And in the end, I didn’t either :wink:

Is it your wifi? Certain combinations of Linux wireless driver + router security don’t play well together, rare nowadays but you might be unlucky. I’ve got a wireless USB stick with this problem.

Try (temporarily) an open wifi network to see if it works, and if it does then try some different encryption settings until you get one that works.

If it’s not your wifi, then try another distribution (Fedora, OpenSUSE…) on a live CD to see if you get any luck that way.

EDIT: Crossposted with funkynick

the car I learned to drive in. I’d spend the rest on breakdown insurance, sill welding and an auto electrician.

I must have too much time on my hands… I uploaded the same track recently onto EM and a few other sports tracker sites (RideWithGPS, Strava, etc).
EM reported altitude gain as 1450m, the others (correctly IMO) report more or less 2000m, also as reported by my Edge 705 at the time.

Not sure why they should behave differently.

I converted to X0 grip shifts last year, love them. One niggle, though, would be they’re a lot fatter than, say, an ODI grip so with thick gloves on in winter they can feel a bit clumsy.

Also, in winter I’ve been so cold my thumbs wouldn’t operate a lever, but no such problems with gripshift. OK, we’re talking one or two days a year here, but still…

AKA Monday morning animal abuse. Nice.

As Doug says, San Sebastián is notoriously expensive, not sure if May is off season or not. Also look at Zarautz (surfing town) or Getaria; great places and probably much cheaper. You also get into the countryside quicker, without trawling through the burbs and industrial estates to get there.

I’ve got tons of gps routes you’re welcome to, and if you want to hook up give me a shout. I’m out 4 times a week, you’d be welcome on my club run on Sunday. There are 4 local “martxas” (ie sportives) in May if you want to do a mass participation thing, and our club race is on May 6th.

Basque country. You won’t find cols much over 1000m but you can climb all day if you want, there’s nowt flat here. Tour of the Basque country is April 2nd-7th.. if you haven’t decided by then, check it out on TV and see if it looks appealing. Flights to Bilbao or Biarritz.

Also check out basquemtb.com, Doug’s pics will give an idea of the terrain.

If you’re in SW, then the fetes in Bayonne are supposed to be good.
http://www.fetes.bayonne.fr/

The San Sebastian jazz festival is 19-23rd, loads of free music all over the city. Not just jazz. And not in France of course, but only 20 mins from the border. There aren’t many venues better than the green stage on La Zurriola beach as the sun goes down.
http://www.heinekenjazzaldia.com/?language=en

Better off just downloading content from uknova.com or thebox.biz

+1 in theory. In practice I tend to get banned from thebox as I download unpopular stuff, and only have unpopular stuff to share, which puts me in deficit and ultimately banned. Haven’t tried uknova though, you need an invite I assume.

edit

It is not possible to sign up at the moment. More accounts may become free later

:|

might as well have a stab at the roadie one. Feel at a bit of a disadvantage living in the mountains though (excuses in early – check)

I have to get a cert from my doc every year for my competition licence, and I get an ECG etc. It’s free (you have to pay for the blank certificate), wouldn’t mind paying though since I do feel guilty for clogging up the service. It’s usually around this time of year too, so waiting rooms full of coughing and spluttering flu victims… (I’m in Spain BTW)

Used to commute on a Ti track frame, which a Czech national track (pursuit iirc) champ had ridden to several victories. His name was stamped on the BB but I can’t remember what it was. Talk about an ignominious end…

^^ I think I can just about make out a pinch bolt under the BB?

My ss L/H is not exactly in the right terrain (Basque Country),so it really is a love/hate relationship, but I knew it was a keeper when I bought the t-shirt… never done that in my life!

Crikey FTW :D

What’s the warranty on these? Mine is doing the creaking under pedalling loads thing. I’ve eliminated everything and am starting to think it’s the bonds in the rear triangle.
Bought new Nov 09…

it’s lazy gramma an ting innit? When we report what someone has said, we have to put the tenses back, change pronouns, adverbs of place, time etc.

Bob: “I’ll put this on here for you tomorrow”
Bob said he would put that on there for me the following day 8O

Much easier to say:

And Bob was like, “I’ll put this on here for you tomorrow”

zzz

edit: that was in reply to Nico rather than the OP

Or maybe not. 102€ went out of my current account, ref PAYPAL IMPEXCO LUXUMBOURG. Paypal knew nothing of it, it never appeared on my PP statement, only my bank statement. I guess someone had taken my card details, set up a PP account in my name, and sent themselves some of my money? Dunno, in the end I reported it to the bank, filled in a police report, and the money came back.

Elfinsafety’s lightbulb yesterday

2011: 171 rides, 13,300km, 194,501m climbed, 515 hours. :?

About 3/4 on road, no commuting, no turbo, all in Basque mountains/coast & Pyrenees.

Last time I ran TTs front and rear I did 800km in 5 days (Camino de Santiago), so I guess that’s testament to their rollability!

My only gripe with them is the feeble sidewalls. Used on rough stuff, it doesn’t take long for the cotton to start showing. Just got the UST version last week, should be better in that regard.

Well if it helps any, I’m picking the Love/Hate with 32×16 over my 575 most of the time, despite it being totally the wrong bike for my terrain (haven’t done a ride with less than 1200m climbing for ages). It’s been a great all day frame, it’s the legs that go first. No probs whatsoever with the pointy EBB screws.

Some pics…

Typical beeb, it’s assumed that the bento panda was made by mum :wink:

What impressed me was the accents of the women he interviewed. I’m going to show this to my Spanish students who claim they’ll never be able pronunciate proper :twisted: