Turbo training for two

i asked this recently, the general consensus was try and get a bike frame that would fit all 3 of your with a quick release seat post. depends on the height difference obviously but it is not like you have to go around corners.

Morning all, thanks for the replies, I have a wheel on trainer at the moment and swapping between bikes is ok but the right bike is never in when you want to use it. An eBay special with two seat ports sound the best idea I hadn’t thought of that
Cheers

I don’t seem to have any issues with my starter, get it out of the fridge in the morning, feed it, make a dough late afternoon, do a stretch and pull meathod a few times in the evening. Put it in a tin in the fridge over night and bake in the morning. If you don’t need it in the morning it will quite happily wait another 12 hours or so. And repeat every 2 to 3 days. The same starter I got from a baker in bath is still going 2.5 years later

i just managed to buy two orbea mx24 for £250 for both of them, exactly the same to hopefully prevent the argument about whos bike is the best. they have v brakes and rigid forks and weigh just under 11kg each. i was tempted to go more expensive but didn;t seem worth it for the amount my girls will end up riding them.

we used skiidy gonzales, there were there when we got of the plane, got all the stuff inside the trailer, didn’t crash, and was wearing a large sombrero hat throughout. if you enjoy novelty hats, they are the ones to go for.

I recently bought a acoustic upright from a shop in bath which had 40 plus to try ranging from reconditioned models from about £1800 upto new grand yahamas etc at £25K (i think) after working my way round playing all of them. i couldn’t really hear or feel the extra money in the more expensives ones so went with one from 1986 for £2.5. which feels and sounds like the one i learnt on when i was a kid. I have tried a few electronic and if you are regularly moving it for gigs etc i think they are brilliant. We had a old one my brother bought about 25years ago which the kids were banging around on for a while but if i heard the demo songs played at full volume one more time i was going to take an axe to it.
I was once told my a piano turner once, the problem with alot of the victorian ones being given away for free these days, is they are very hard to keep in tune once they get that old, unless they were orginally very good ones, and most aren’t.

just bought the dog guard from travall, and the divider second hand from ebay. quite impressed with them. there is no rattle at all and feels very solid.

we went last summer, few days in an AirB&B in Dubrovnik (where the old town is very pretty but very very expensive) then got a ferry up the coast to Korcula, across to Orabic for a week in a villa with friends, and then island hopped via Hvar and Bol to Split.
we really enjoyed it, the weather was great, the water really clear and good to swim in. people friendly, food good.
there is no sandy beaches so you have the slightly odd thing of people sunbathing on any flat bit of concrete.
i would certiainly go back

Yes cosies is still a think, at least it’s still open, does music nights and there may be a fragrant fog hanging in the air as you come down the steps if that is what you mean

I have a surge, and on the second one after the strap broke on the first, but they replaced it. However this one must be over two years old. I now don’t really care about the step count anymore but I use it for Strava which saves draining the battery on my phone. If it broke I would probably replace it with something else. Probably a normal watch and another way to strava

i wear mine all year round, including a week in france at about 30 degrees. my feet are fine, not sure i would want to go walking around town in them but don’t notice them when on the bike

My mates dad went to my school with roger Taylor and my brother had aphex twin in his year.

I am worrying that letting our new puppy sit on my lap while I work is setting myself up for trouble in the future.

after watching the Deviate ones about Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine, i now seem to be have been drawn into a deep abysis of history of hiphop and Rap programmes on netflix. quite enjoying them at the moment.

i boiled in salted water as well, then roasted, some left salty, some in moraccan spice mix and some with parmessan and herbs which were the business

brilliant thanks

ful gaz is offering to let you ride the last 30km of each of the TOB stages to the end of sept (i think) for free.

i quite like the scoobious pip ones. distraction pieces. quite a few actors/singers he is working with, but also non celebs with something to talk about. there was a good recent one about tourettes.

We were in Morzine last year when it was on, didn’t really noticed anything, till we walked in to our hotel and steve pete and greg minnaar were sitting at the bar.

Up on the hills you wouldn’t even know it was on, until you dropped down into town, or found yourself sitting on a chairlift with finn Illes. nice kid

I usually have about 100-150 grams of starter in a kilner jar without a seal in the fridge, get it out, add about 150 grames of flour and 150 grams of water to it, give it a mix and leave. it seems to be go to go after about 5 to 6 hours.

I am no expert but the baker on my course told me, if you want a more sour tasting loaf you can change the quantity of the starter. strangely using less starter will give a more sour taste.

also heavier flours, like wholemeal and rye need a greater percentage of starter to make them rise.

I got sent on a course by my wife at christmas (she likes sourdough) at the thoughful bread company in bath, which was really good, you get part of their starters as part of the course, both rye and wheat which are 10years old. I have kept it up so far doing a loaf every couple of days. I normally bake a wheat loaf it in a tin to give a softer crust, but i have also done larger free form loafs. I am going to put my rye starter in the freezer as the my kids aren’t as keen and i keep forgetting to feed that one.

i use the no kneed method, so i generally get the starter out the fridge in the morning, feed it, make the dough when i get home from work, to the strectch and pull method a few times during the evening, stick it in the tin before bed, and bake first thing in the morning.

I have also made pizza and bagels a few times which go down well

i used FulGaz last year, which is one of the ride along to a real life route while it controls your turbo ones. it was ok, I used to have it running on a ipad while i watched tv, occassionaly glancing over to look at why it suddenly felt like i was cycling though treacle. however from all the emails i am getting from them, things seems to have moved on over the summer (they are based in australia) and they now have alot more routes, and are doing competitive time trial events for prizes and group training.
however i still find i train harder on zwift, there is nothing like chasing a random dutchman up box hill to go abit deeper. so it is probably worth the extra money but i would agree, lets see if they actually try charging more in a years time or it gets forgotten.

I was going to say that he is doing a wilderness lecture in bristol soon, but looks like I missed it and it didn’t happen anyway. however looks like you can still go and see Hans Rey.

wilderness lectures

i have had a couple of coleman doubles as well and they are very good, but they seem suspectable to picking up random punctures which are impossible to find and fix. I was looking the other day and i see Colemon now do a more durable and expensive version as well

I am going out to Morzine as well in a few weeks, and are flying, so was wondering if the flight boxes are significantly better than the bags.

it looks like you need to strip forks off to get a mountain bike into most of the bike boxes but the bags take them with only the wheels off.

anyone have any experience on this?

cheers

that it helpful, cheers

on a related subject, does any one recommend a particular repellent for ticks?
I was finding a least one a week last summer on the mendips.

i would second the hot wires kit, my 7 year old loves it but it does need an adult to help with the harder circuits.

He is my MP, north east Somerset, so yes, rural and abit posh in places. He turned up to a local hustings before the last election with a rosette on his lapel the size of a Labrador.
Annoyingly at the end of the hustings you were left thinking he was clearly the most competent candidate we had available, but this is more the quality the opposition put up against him.
The greens was a 19yr old student at bath, Lib dems couldn’t be bothered to turn up so sent her husband, I can’t even think who came for labour and the ukiper paced back and forth frothing at the mouth about black people taking our jobs, which is clearly a massive issue in a small village just outside Bristol.

Not saying I voting for him of course.

i ve got mine four packs of Pork scratching. big ones mind, i m not cheap.

ok given them a call, turns out you can buy them separately, component part HUB 256.
strangely that is not listed on their kit conversion chart. found and ordered some now.
thanks all

Davieg

The Kia sportage seemed more golf estate sized than passat sized which is what i was looking for. it isn’t small, and would certainly get a couple of bikes with front wheels off in.

i have just handed back a company car insignia which i had for nearly 4 years, and nearly 100K miles. it was ok, nothing more, does big miles quite happily cruising at 85. the only thing i think that went wrong was when it decided to go into limp mode for a few hours, but after starting it again the next day it was fine, and the garage could find nothing wrong.

when i was looking for its replacement, i was thinking octavia, avensis, i40, kia sportage or mondeo.
however after talking to a manager in a eurocar hire place he told me the number one make that is always going back to the garages is the scodas and to a lesser extend anything in the VW group. so that put me off a bit, which was a shame cos i really liked the hire one i had at the time. however the engine light kept coming on, hence the conversation.

I then drove a kia sportage, which was nice, bit small for kids, and biking and not very exciting but a 7 year warranty.
I also drove a mazda 6 saloon, which was ok however apparently the dealers can’t get hold of second hand mazda 6 estates they are so popular, i am not really sure why but might be worth considering if you can find one.
I then went to the car supermarket place in newport and drove the avensis, i40 and was going to drove a mondeo, however after driving the others i didn’t bother. the avensis and i40 are pretty similar, i40 maybe a touch smaller, but go ok and have all the toys and long warranty.
the problem with mondeos is nothing is standard, so you find cars without sensors, or sat navs, both of which i wanted.
in the end i bought the avensis (3k miles for £15K) and driven it for 1K since. The only issue that keeps coming up at the moment is the sensors on the front seem to need to be spotlessly clean for the auto-dip light and lane sensor system to work (neither which i really need) and if they are dirty you get a constant warning flashing up which is quite annoying.

oh and my wife used to have a passat, did nearly 80K miles. everything went wrong. i wouldn’t have another.

this appears to be my specialist subject.

Ron Jeremy – yes that’s the one. and get a little electric pump to run of the car fag lighter.

colman do one with two chambers which is pretty good. stops the lighter person rolling onto the other or getting bounced off. Add a sheet, duvet and two pillows and it isn’t too bad.

i also used to do the late night feed so the wife could go to bed as soon as possible, and also i slept in another room for a least a few nights a week.
there is no point everyone waking up to feed.

My wife also has a hectic job, but it was only after 9-10 months so she was getting annoyed by the constant baby singing/bubbletime/massage class (all an excuse for coffee and cake) and looking forward to talking to people about something else.

i can confirm they can hold 3 pints, and 2 people using McDonald Straws can drink it in under 20 secs.
although my personal record was 25.2 (i think)

if you want a good disc that will fly properly you need an Ultra Star 175gm, however dog teeth mess them up pretty quickly so if you check http://www.catchthespirit.co.uk they sell dog specific discs.