You’ve all been very helpful. Thanks.

New Specialized Demo 8 – serious design flaw?

The answer is no. It’s perfect. Thanks for clearing that up.

Oh the humanity!

Too much deja vu. I’m off back to my hermit’s cave.

I sometimes get tyre buzz on my calves from my bike, I think the coils on this shock might give you a nasty nip at the very least.

Cheese and Ham on toast

Erdinger Isotonic beer

Absolute 80s on radio

Hi Chainline, let’s talk via email, your offer sounds good.

Hi badllama Andy, we’re still not fixed up! (only just got refund for the Orange Diva 29er) If you would be so kind as so measure up please. The required measurement is standover height in the ‘usual’ standover place! Just behind the halfway point of the top tube. Some manufacturers use a point just by the top tube/seat tube junction. The saddle nose is way forward of that point!

If anyone can measure the hardtail 650b Boardman and the Oneone Inbred 26 I would be very grateful.

cheers

Facebook says Saturday morning (13th). So it’s guesswork until then. Shouldn’t be too hard to find them.

This isn’t my ride (I wasn’t a Strava-ist the last time I did the route) but it shows the section I’m on about.

https://www.strava.com/activities/203623073#4800872229

I’ve done this a few times, it’s a classic!
I have a suggestion for a great add-on mini loop:
As you get to the bridleway junction on Middle Moor, don’t head straight down into Hayfield. Take the ‘right turn’ bridleway towards the A624, it’s a nice descent ending in a ford/bridge. Then, head up the A624 (sorry, it’s a bit of tarmac bashing but you can probably chase a few roadies up the hill!) to the first left turn at the top of the hill signposted to Charlesworth (Monk’s Road). Go along for a bit until you see the left turn to take the Pennine Bridleway towards Birch Vale. This is a great route that starts steady and then ends in a nice plummet into Birch Vale.
A nicer detour, that ends right next to a cycle-friendly café (assuming it’s still there and open!). Then head to Hayfield and pick up the original route again.

EDIT: I took too long to write the post, looks like you’re already considering the Pennine Bridleway!

2.5 downhill version Maxxis Minion DHF might be a bit of a struggle to get seated tubeless on an Arch. I had big problems on my Crests so went for non-DH sidewalls. As the tyre deflates, because it’s so stiff, the sidewalls contract off the bead. Maybe do a split-tube ghetto tubeless to be sure.

philfive – Member

just seen this video and i know the 4×4 driver was a prick but did the cyclist really spit at him?

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LHS – Member

Well i will be carrying on going to Brew in Putney most weekends as there food and coffee is fricking awesome. Don’t care if the owner is a dick, i am sure their are owners of many restaurants who are dicks, shouldn’t really impact your decision making.

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The thread was quite well behaved until this point. When LHS steamed in to defend the 4×4 driver. Then bomberman accused the cyclist of bringing misfortune on himself.
Several people leapt in to refute their assertions. Then it got ugly.

Them’s the facts guv.

Anyway, what’s happened to the 4×4 driver? any more winkie pics or revelations of a Yew tree nature?

Twitter rumours have him as a homophobe as well now. Also, this rage explosion has happened previously. All allegedly of course!

This thread:

Linky

Illustrates the imbalance perfectly.

One wrong move from a car and a cyclist is pizza. That’s why most cyclists react like the one in the video. He just saw the hem of the cloak of the Grim Reaper as the wing mirror hit him. The link above illustrates how cyclists feel when sharing the roads with massive metal meat-grinders.

That car driver was asking for it. I’ve seen loads of cars jumping red lights and pulling out in front of people! She deserved all she got.

TFIC

This thread is still open then?

“look what a dickhead the range rover driver is”

It is a Land Rover Discovery. Get it right! Lord Clarkson will have you struck off!

Wow Bomberman and LHS are even bigger trolls/car-lovers/cyclist-haterz/idiots than I imagined.

*adds to list*

They won’t need to open their mouths all that wide with this one…

This thread has gone downhill from after about page 8. Newcomers can’t be arsed to read all the way through so are repeating the same already refuted rubbish.

So, what about a competition? Send in your best ‘homage’ videos showing some shortarse beardy berk in a tight leather jacket going apesh1t about something random. While dancing a crap Hakka around a 4×4. Extra points for wearing a mask of the offender while doing it.

I reckon the Germans have been waiting for something like this. You know the famous scene from the film ‘Der Untergang’ where Hitler rants about stuff and non-German speaking people make memes with subtitles that tell a different story. I can imagine them doing that with this video!

Small ones, in some cases, obviously.

FNAAAR!

Dev/Rich I think you’re probably wasting your time.

I’m on the stw forum during the daytime…

So obviously this is why it’s OK for cyclists to run red lights and pull out suddenly in front of people, because they are so small and vulnerable that they couldn’t possibly do any damage.

Get back to reading the Daily Mail and voting UKIP. Yes, this is why I’m wasting my time arguing against people who are cyclists but insist on dragging up this hackneyed phrase. Go on, accuse him of not paying road tax now!

The 4×4 attempted to overtake.
The 4×4 failed to overtake cleanly and moved towards the cyclist.
The cyclist shouted a warning.
The 4×4 driver went apesh1t!
The 4×4 driver deliberately steered his vehicle towards the cyclist in a threatening manner.
The cyclist’s adrenalin surged, causing him to shout and scream, hopefully scaring away the danger (natural response by normal people not equipped with the means to physically defend themselves – big muscles, weapons etc etc).
The 4×4 driver performed a very rubbish Hakka.

The video was handed to the Police.
The 4×4 driver was prosecuted.
The cyclist was not.

The 4×4 driver may have other issues (allegedly).

I rest my case M’lud…

I’d rather just sell the post on. I may lose some cash but the seller seems rather SHOUTY so I can’t be arsed! It may work on some frames but not mine. I kept knocking the cable sideways where it entered the actuator housing. Kinking the inner cable by 90 degrees.

I wonder if I could use the post actuator etc to resurrect my dream of the venerable Hite Rite being reborn… off to the shed I go!

I wasn’t happy. I bought a Specialized Command Post. I am currently trying to return the Tmars. If anybody wants it for £50 posted, email in profile… I’m not sure I’ve got the strength to fight the seller.

I will leave it there

He didn’t though did he? And the rest of you apologists.

Here’s a suggestion: All those who think the victim brought the tirade upon himself and that Brew Café branches are a cool place to eat should go there and eat, drink, listen to INXS guitar riffs on an endless loop while having your handlebar controls moved for a tenner etc, etc. You deserve it.

I would feel uneasy giving any custom to the places.

OR, train to Penistone then do Cutgate. After that head to Edale via various interesting routes. Then up Jacob’s ladder and through Hayfield then up the long drag, back to Edale and catch the train back to Sheffield or go over Whin Hill area/Hope Cross and down past the dam to catch a train from Bamford station back to Sheffield.
OR train to Chinley and ride back via Hayfield and come down Jacob’s ladder.

This is the vid that started my craving for a POV cam:

Mpora Link

EDIT: it now has the GoPro splashscreen. Still ‘amateur’ tho IMHO.

What makes this incident special is that now it’s gone public, a lot of other alleged ‘misdemeanours’ connected with this chap are coming out of the woodwork. And the naked tiny knob pic is just… priceless! This thread is worth reading. I can’t keep away. I keep looking at twitter on my phone as well.
Must. Look. Away. And. Get. Some. Work. Done. Oh look, @theJeremyVine is having a go at him now!

I love the irony of his coffee mornings/bike fixing sessions…..

Maybe someone should take a mangled bloodstained wreck of a bike in and ask for a quote to repair.
Apparently someone on twitter is going to organise a ‘die-in’ outside his café/bar establishments.
The aftermath of this will hopefully be a new found respect of cyclists by drivers. Unfortunately this may be because they’re scared of being filmed but it will have the same effect. How ever it happens I welcome it. Stick or carrot (snigger), I care not! I recommend every cyclist buys a fake camera and wears a ‘CCTV’ sticker/patch/badge front and rear.

If anyone’s curious about ‘that photo’ just look at @AnarchoBarista on Twitter. There’s also some interesting opinions and stories about Jason Wells. Sometimes, the feeling of schadenfreude may well be justified… #boycottbrew is also a good search term.

Yourlocalguardian.co.uk has made the connection:

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They’ve used the meat cleaver shot to illustrate the article. Snigger.

Search for road rage cyclist on twitter and a veritable storm of twittery comes up. He’ll get his just rewards. STW does not need to stoop to his level. But it helps to talk about it.
I would have grabbed his car keys and thrown them as far as I could. Hopefully he would then have chased me on foot. I would have cycled just fast enough to make him chase, running until he did what the angry golfer did in ‘Falling Down’.
Or, jumped into his car, locked the doors and pressed the gas pedal to the floor as hard as possible until the engine failed!
Good job I don’t cycle in busy cities. I prefer the quiet life these days.

Slight antipodean accent. Watch the video again with that in mind. He seems to be such a nice bloke on the video on his website!
Another chef, another c**t: James Martin
If it had been Gordon Ramsay…

Videos like this remind me of why I try not to cycle on the roads.

Is the bloke in the brew-cafe website the maniac nutcase on video ?

I wanna know…

‘Horst Link’ type pivots. Remember the Yeti ASR and 575 ‘hinges’ at the chainstay/seatstay junction that eliminated the usual bearing or bushing? Something like this that would eliminated bearings and bushings from suspension pivots that have a very low angle of rotation.

Ridgeback X1? Full bike for £499. Fully rigid. Excellent frame and forks, heavy chainset, average wheels. The only real downside is clearance for a rear tyre. Max is 2.1. After a year, I’ve gradually upgraded mine into quite a versatile bike.

I’ve been playing with this calculator:
http://everesting.io/%5B/url%5D
Too addictive!
I’ve discovered than an undulating climb gets the height a lot quicker due to the fact that you gain a bit of altitude on the ‘descent’ as well.
I’ve found this segment:
https://www.strava.com/segments/6674394
It looks like a sub-24hrs 140 mile route. Hmmmmm…. I will have to actually ride the route to see how I feel.
It’s labelled OFFICIAL 100Climbs No66 The Lecht so I’m assuming it is officially allowed as an Everesting climb.

I’m looking for a suitable hill in Aberdeenshire. Anyone think of a decent one? Suie hill looks quite good but a bit steep. Maybe the Braemar to Glenshee ski hill? I need something not too steep that I can spin up but not to shallow that I have to cycle for more than 24 hours and do over 300 miles!

I gradually upgraded my steering parts when I went from a MK1 26er Nukeproof Mega with Lyriks to an SB95. I went for a Manitou Tower 140 at first on the SB95. A Pike was the first upgrade and it was noticeably better at tracking over rough stuff (Instant Strava results. PRs on first ride!). Next was a Renthal bar (740mm) and stem combo. Again, a further speed increase. The final component was a Maxxis Minion DHF 2.5.

In 1976 I lived in Rugeley. I had a nice purple Raleigh Chopper and my friends (from Western Springs Junior School) had a motley collection of racing bikes and their mum’s shoppers. We started off going to Etching Hill and did some ‘downhilling’.
The summer of ’76 was basically a long drought so rain never stopped play. We were out seemingly every day. One of our number was crazy about finding old military emplacements so we went exploring Cannock Chase. I distinctly remember cycling along the road to Birches Valley and going along the fire road to the stream crossing and then turning right up the long fire road climb that is now on the Follow The Dog Trail. When I attended the Follow The Dog opening day, the nostalgia was overpowering!
I’m not sure parents today would give kids as much freedom. We were a bunch of 10 and 11 year olds and left the house at about 9am and didn’t return some nights until dusk.
I wonder how many of that group apart from me still go biking?

I’ve ordered a TMARS – for £40 it’s worth a go to see if I get on with a dropper or not. Any idea if Shims are provided with them or do I need to order one too?

If you ordered a particular size, you’ll get the shims to make it that size. I think there are only 27.2 and 31.6, all other sizes are shimmed.

I have a 30.9. The shim slipped in my frame so I had to ‘shim’ the shim! I have already had a cable pull out of the lever and some difficulties in actuation but I’ll put that down to training at the moment, see how it goes. I wanted a cable actuated dropper with 2 positions. If I’m not happy prior to my race I may get a Giant Contact as I used to have one and it worked great. I never really got on with the Reverb remote. The release button never seemed to be in a comfy place.

On the Tmars (and clones) anybody thought about using a brake cable rather than a gear cable? And a small bmx brake lever to actuate?

Powerlink pliers

+ lots

Decent cable cutters

Star nut installer (home made tho)