Slight thread hijack…… anyone fancy a slightly more road oriented version to compliment their tripster? I ordered a 60cm Kinesis Grand Fondo Ti a month or so ago and a change in circumstances means it hasn’t even been taken out of its packaging and now needs to go. 😥

Freeborn are doing these for £1593, you could have this one for £1493 and save yourself £100…..

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I got a Bialetti Brikka 2 cup stove top for just such occasions. Seems to work really well including producing a reasonable crema if the beans are fresh. More info here: http://coffeegeek.com/forums/coffee/machines/220503

How to hide the U2 album from iTunes:

Macworld

One of these might fit the bill:

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Dethleffs Campy, more pics here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjBVy1qG

You cannot simply wash the smell of freshly cut garlic off your fingers. Not with anything that’s going to leave your fingerprints intact anyway.

Rinse using cold water, rather than hot – can’t remember where I read that tip, seems to work.

@ Jamie, Njee20, crofts2007 – thanks!

What’s a typical British Summer’s day? I wear shades when the sun is shining and it’s bright, that can be anytime of the year.

🙄 Gotta love this forum… always helpful

It was a flippant way of asking whether the lens tint would still be ok for mixed use – woods, shade, overcast etc, or whether it was a bit dark. Not that keen on being plunged in to darkness as soon as the sun goes behind a cloud or the single track passes under a few trees….

Lens tint looks pretty dark too…. Oakley website says its for very bright light. Is it any use on a typical British summers day?

Hmmmm, I’m also 6’1″ with a 33″ inside leg and have just ordered a 58cm CAAD 10.

So hopefully you are all wrong 😆

Some opinions here: CAAD 10 sizing thread

From Vox:

Transformers 4 is a masterclass in economics

“Transformers: Age of Extinction is the fourth Transformers movie made by Michael Bay, and it’s inarguably one of the four best Transformers movies Michael Bay has ever made. Even so, a lot of “critics” seem to have misread the movie entirely. At the New York Times, A.O. Scott frets over the film’s “narrative incoherence.” At Salon, Andrew O’Hehir says the movie leaves us “measurably stupider than we were before.”

These reviews miss the point so badly that you wonder whether they weren’t written by Decepticons.

Transformers 4 is a master class in global economics. Over the course of 166 minutes?—?long for a film, sure, but short for a graduate-level econ seminar?—?Bay destroys economic shibboleths as if they were a major metropolitan area concealing the Autobots from Lockdown. His lessons are pitiless: inequality will keep rising, job security will keep falling, and American companies will contort themselves into all kinds of embarrassing positions to suck up to China.

And Michael Bay will keep making all of the money because he understands the changing economy much, much better than you do.”

Been looking at the Grandfondo Ti on freeborn’s site, looks like just what I want (don’t need disks or racks etc), just not sure about sizing, 6ft 1in (185cm) with short inseam (33in) puts me right on the boundary between the 57 and the 60cm. Tried emailing Kinesis for advice a few days ago… but no reply…

Anyone here tried one for size?

Endura MTR – thats what I use and I *think* ticks all of your boxes?

I’m getting my beans from A Fresh Bag Of Coffee at the moment, chap who runs it is very helpful and as I’m in Nottingham delivery is free…. and by bike 😆 Last lot of beans I had was ordered at 2pm, then roast and delivered by the time I got home from work the same day 😯 Hard to get fresher than that!

This is fun:

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: FIFA

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Ordering coffee in a pub/bar/restaurant after. 6pm should be punishable by cheap instant with uht milk.

But when I go to the pub with friends or on a works night out I’m often driving, and hence not drinking, I’m often tired too. I’d far rather drink coffee with them in the pub, than either sit in a coffee shop on my own (if one was even open that late), or drink the chemical effluent that is Red Bull or diet coke.

Is this just a british, pub, thing? Doesn’t seem to be such an issue in bars on the continent?

I emailed Chevin about that Trek, they’re response:

The Madone 4.9 C Di2 comes with SHIMANO ULTEGRA 6770 DI2.

Thats the old model isn’t it?

That Trek looks nice, but isn’t that the older, 10 speed version of Ultegra Di2? Is that likely to be an issue?

I haven’t read all of this yet, but it looks to be a fairly comprehensive explanation of the whole calories issue:

http://thecaloriemythbook.com/%5B/url%5D

Calories aren’t the problem….

http://thecaloriemythbook.com

Quick Start Guide

Shame the santa cruz solo is such an OTT (£8,000 FFS) build – would be much more interested in reading a review of it in a more typical spec.

The only evangelism I can see on display in this thread is from those taking the piss.

Have a read around here: http://www.marksdailyapple.com for lots of considered discussions… rather than knee jerk, arm chair experts. 😀

Really fancy one of these, but can’t work out whether to go for a Large (56) or an XL (58) and obviously it’s not easy to test ride 🙁

I’m 6ft 1in with long torso and short legs (33in) which would seem to put me on the boundary between the two sizes.

Anyone the same sort of height on here? What size are you riding?

Thanks.

I read his “Why we get fat and what to do about it” a while ago. It is interesting stuff. I’ve also read some of the paleo stuff, the 4HB book and the Lean Gains stuff. All differ in the details, but seem to have common threads running through them. Currently reading “Racing Weight” which has yet another, slightly different, take on things.

I think the key is to find an approach that is sustainable and enjoyable, rather than being too hung up on finding the “one true lifestyle”.

Indeed – thats why I wrote

Not that that means much in absolute terms.

Sweet corn on the other hand….

Sure it goes against the grain

ba boom, tschhh. 😆

Sweetcorn is a “non-root” veg, 80% carbs, 29g carbs per 154g serving.

This is all so confusing. 🙄

Lettuce appears to be 67% carbs:

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2475/2

Not that that means much in absolute terms.

So by “Low/zero carbs” do you mean no veggies, legumes, salad, fruit etc? Or just no grains, sugar etc?

I read this recently:

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/a-guide-to-flexible-dieting

and it pretty much echos what samurai said. Makes a lot of sense to me.

I ordered 10 for a laugh, also because you don’t have to order them in 50s it got me free delivery so only really cost £5 for 10.

Only tried one cup so far and can’t say they tasted anything special – but maybe my palette isn’t refined enough?

Pompetamine?

I picked up one of those cheap pompinos they were knocking out a few months ago, I replaced the front forks with some cotic carbon ones I found cheap on ebay and added a lyra front disc and second hand 700c disk wheel – loving it for commuting, should be about as low maintenance as its possible to get and cost very little. 😆

Interesting point about cheat days…. I thought the perceived wisdom that as you approached your goal weight / body fat percentage, iDieters tended to loose interest in the cheat day? Is the iDiet / 4HB approach intended to be used purely during a specific fat-loss period, and then replaced with a more “balanced” approach to diet, or is the six days on, one day off pattern supposed to continue effectively forever?

Dunno, I think so, depends whether cups of tea count? I thought they did?

I’ve found the iDave diet to work pretty much as advertised, I have to confess I haven’t followed it religiously – both in the sense that I “cheat” to a small extent during the week by still having milk in my tea and eating the odd bit of cheese and fruit, but also in as much as I don’t really go for it on the weekly blow-out day, just take a more relaxed approach to my diet. This is probably because, whilst I’ve been aiming to trim up a bit, I don’t need to loose a huge amount of weight.

The problem I’ve run in to is that I’m now finding that after even modest amounts of exercise, such as my 6/7 mile commute, I’m getting really stiff muscles, not just my legs either, but also hands and jaw. Which is all rather odd. It’s making me wonder whether my carb consumption has just dropped too low as I’ve seen recommendations of 100-150g per day for weight maintenance, which seems quite a lot when they need to come from legumes and veg?

Has anyone experienced anything similar?

Are the body fat readings on scales like these accurate enough to be worthwhile?

She reminded me of this:

Thank you for smoking[/url]

A great little film!

Interested to see the references to “lean” meat. That runs contrary to Gary Taubes take on these things ( Why we get fat – and what to do about it ) doesn’t it? Also the idiet allows for chorizo and nuts etc…..

Read a copy of Gary Taubes’ “Why we get fat: and what to do about it”:

Linky

(It comes with with proper references to scientific studies to support his arguments)

Follow his advice.

Loose weight.

Easy.

Mines for sale, lots of pics on the ebay ad…

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