So, quinoa ….. in or out?

God this is all over the place.

Which is my point, maybe if iDave published an explanation of the logic behind his iDiet it might help…

“Why we get fat” suggests this also explains e.g.. the Japanese eating rice but not being obese, they eat 1/4 the sugar and high fructose syrup the US do.

Presumably because people weren’t eating much sugar or “highly refined flour”.

I assumed that general health would be welcomed. Plenty of feedback from iDave dieters is that they not only lose weight but feel healthier, have lower BP, cholesterol, reduced eczema/asthma and so on.

Is the underlying issue here the fact that you’ve put this diet out there and it seems to work for many people, but you don’t explain the underlying principles behind it alongside the specific rules, hence the endless debates?

The low GI is only part of the picture. The diet is also aimed at cutting out grains, not for any insulin response reasons.

Now I’m confused, if not for insulin response reasons then how does it help with weight loss (as opposed to general health)?

I had a look at the earlier link someone posted to MDA ( http://www.marksdailyapple.com/definitive-guide-grains/#axzz1qsFzp8cu ) and it seems to imply that “carbohydrates elicit a physiological response that favors fat storage.” But the idiet isn’t supposed to be low carb either?

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What I’m saying is can I cheat and still get something out of it, but less dramatic and/or over a longer period of time?!

I asked that a while back in this thread…. no one seemed to know the answer.

That said, he did the bike ride incredibly slowly for someone who is used to riding a bike, bit quicker

That was the bit that puzzled me, the documentary didn’t seem to offer any explanation of what happened.

Do you think you could be a bit more explicit in you understanding of what the iDiet is and how it will affect your health negatively?

Sigh, forgot I was posting on STW, should have anticipated the smart arse response…

So. The iDave diet has a bunch of rules about what to eat and what not to eat, the central theme appears to be to cut out things like dairy, fruit and simple/white carbs, replacing them with lean meat and veg. Apart from one day a week. I would imagine for a lot of people that represents a fairly dramatic change in eating habits. I can well believe that if followed rigorously it could have a correspondingly dramatic effect on someones weight, body fat % or whatever. My question was simply: is it an all or nothing effect (follow the diet to the letter or see little or no effect), or does following it partially result in a partial effect. What does the dose-response curve look like?

So does the iDave approach have benefits even if only followed partially e.g. reducing consumption of white carbs and increasing the consumption of meat and veg? Or is it all or nothing?

I’m thinking here more about general health than significant weight loss or performance improvement.

Volvo xc70?

Hmmm, maybe I’d be better off with a roadrat then for commuting…. £575 at the moment with v-brakes and steel forks, £650 with discs, £750 with discs and a carbon fork.

Good question. Dunno. I thought they did, but I couldn’t be certain.

only with alfines….

How warm is it, too much for cycling in unless its sub zero?

and this is what gofar-mtb.com (precursor to singletrackworld) had to say about them at the time:

Free vegetables with every singlespeed!

Welcome to on-one, the home of our great UK singlespeed bikes and products. We’re building a rep for offering everything for the hardcore rider, whatever they want, as long as they only want one gear (though we do sell gear hangers, ahem…)

Taken from http://web.archive.org/web/200012150421/http://www.on-one.co.uk/%5B/url%5D

Way back in Dec 2000.

Cool 😆 was looking ‘cos I fancy a new ss commuter, not sure exactly what though… 29er, flat or drop bar pompetamine maybe.

To clarify, I meant whole bikes.

So buy a geared bike and sell the gears? Or buy a frame and all the bits separately then build it yourself? Or its a custom build?

Still seems odd to me given how central to the companies ethos single speeds were….

Don’t adverts go in the for sale section? 😆

Well my xxl tights turned up yesterday and they seem to fit ok despite only being 6’1. Ordered some XLs for comparison which turned up today…. will try them later and flog the size that fits least well.

I’ve added a row in the sizing chart for approx rider height

Hmmm, I ordered xxl on the grounds that every other set of shorts I’ve had from on-one/px needed to be an xxl for approx 36″ waist. But I’m only 6ft 1. Oh well, just have to see what turns up. Guess next week someone needs to start a thread on which everyone can post to arrange swapping sizes 😀

If the pair that arrives doesn’t fit, I wonder whether you could send them back to Altberg for exchange?

Looks great – but how do you know what width you’d need?

Boardman hybrids look pretty hard to beat for VFM.

Although now the weather has improved I’ve developed an irrational desire for one of these:
http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/CBPXSLPFB/sl-pro-carbon-hybrid-

Agree with the flats vs drops comments, my commutes mostly urban and flats feel a lot more secure than drops.

Oh and of course its all the way up, no point in keeping “the boys” overly warm and sweaty with a covering of hair!

So when naked you look like you are wearing a hairy t-shirt?

So, how high do you go? When naked are you left with hairy shorts?

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Had all these:

good shoes/insoles(if needed)
good shorts
a change of stem and/or bars to get the ideal fit.

Just not this:

a bikefit done by somebody who knows what they are doing.

Can’t be arsed to MTFU, would rather go for a ride on my mountainbike, it’s far more comfortable and more fun. Which ultimately is the point (YMMV).

a bikefit done by somebody who knows what they are doing.

I did start a thread about bike fitting http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/road-bike-why-does-it-hurt-so-much . It’s been a while since I read it, but I don’t recall it resulting in much of a consensus.

Anyway it’s academic now, can’t afford another road bike, let alone bike fitting.

I really like the “idea” of road bikes, indeed I’ve bought a couple, but in both cases ended up selling them again. Partly because the image of sailing effortlessly along smooth roads seems to translate to a reality of crashing and banging along the pot-hole riddled mess that passes for country roads on a bike that seems far too nervous and fragile for the job. And partly because no matter how I adjusted my riding position, after an hour or so I invariably ended up with an aching back, stiff neck and completely numb hands.

Shame really ‘cos I still really like the idea <wanders off to gaze wistfully at shiny new road bikes>.

I thought I was the only person in the world who wanted a commuter bike with proper fast bike geometry, 25mm tyres plus full guards and (please god) disk brakes coming in at sub 20lb. Not interested in ‘cross’ or ‘sportive’ geometry.

+1 (although I’d like flat bars rather than drops please).

When I was running 3×9 through the winter it seemed to eat drivetrain parts (chains, cassettes and chainrings).

Belt drive alfine hub brakes, and comes with a thermal coffee mug in a special holder. And frame coloured mudguards!

…. and weighs as much as a small house by the looks of it.

Stop stop stop! This thread is now and henceforth officially over:

Oh no it’s not….. crap brakes for all weather commuting, too many gears for low maintenance. 🙂

Currently using a cannondale badboy with 8spd alfine, discs and schwalbe marathon tyres. It’s proved hugely reliable, the only weak point is the avid disks – the pistons in the caliper clog up with road crud and start sticking, but at least they are cheap to replace. It certainly doesn’t feel fast though and I’ve a hankering for something similarly reliable but a lot lighter….

It’s a tricky one.

Over the years I’ve tried 3×9 (too much maintenance, don’t need all the gears), 1×9 (optimal selection of gears, less maintenance), alfine 8spd (no maintenance but “feels” heavy and slower than 1×9). Toying with trying a single speed but the way in is all downhill and the way back all uphill so it would be a compromise in one direction or another.

Also decided I prefer flat bars to drops as most of my commute is through town and I prefer the more upright position and better grip on the bars and brakes.

Been shaving my hair for years now, been through a variety of rechargeable clippers but they never last. Go for these: http://shavers.co.uk/shopping.php?product_id=444. Indestructible, quiet, decent range of length options. Fantastic service from shavers.co.uk too.

a lot of mtbrs say this

“never really felt comfortable in drops.”

because they try and make it fit like a mtb.

I’m curious about this…. so what’s the difference, and I’m think of recreational riding for both, not dirt jumping vs. TDF time trial?

Drop box does the same thing more or less – just a bit less elegantly

But Dropbox has versioning doesn’t it which I don’t think iDisk does?

SuperDuper?

http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

Not sure it does incrementals though.