You riding this year? And after last night rainy pounding I don't think we should!

They can only show terestrial TV if they can get the signal sorted.

I have the latest Nuke Proof hubs and they are brilliant and sooo easy to maintain.

Jill is currently trying to sort TV reception as they have the screen sorted!

Well if they make F1 cars out of it and drive over 200mph then it must be good stuff.

I have a carbon XC race bike and ride it like any other steel/ally bikes I have ridden in the past.

Just get on and ride it.

Cheers buddy, I use fork juice on the after every ride so they are supper smooth. Will check pressures tonight.

Anyone?

I have a Merida FLX3500D and it is the best HT I have ever been on. And it races well too.

Why would you want 50lb line? I have never used anything greater than 15lb and have bagged 44lb carp in France no problem on the stuff.

Seems a little harsh asking for the buyer to pay for your decision to get 9am delivery.

I would just sucki it up and ask for £66 to cover the cost of posting and be done with it.

I'm in but snapped my medial ligament on my knee a week ago so can only do light training rides to get my strength back.
Will start tomorrow!

Cheers guys

Looks like the european unpainted 2008 version.

I will have a go at playing with the cable tightness.

Nope, as people who have time to look at them on the trail are going far too slow or are too unfit and should concentrate on themselves!

Got mine from here!
http://www.vcgraphix.com/en/Store/products.asp?subCatID=149&subCatName=Team+Replica+Names&mainCatName=Bicycle+Custom+Name+Stickers
Waiting on delivery of them

Chris,

YGM

Cheers
Dan

Jedi, that has melted loads since the week before. The snow was so high we could stand on top of the way marker!

I would join you but sadly my new house needs lots of work.

Hope to be up there this weekend and most night next week

£6 per person per night. Loads of availability and great hospitality.
Just got back from there last week.

You will need to drive to the trail centre as getting there requires going up a bloody awful hill.

Leave it for the next two weeks of good weather and it should be OK. Still messy in places and certain parts have been wrecked by **** riding it when it was soo wet!

If you look at any decent training plans they will all get you spinning at 90 rpm in a light gear at the start.
Then build you up, so you are still spinning at 90 rpm but have made the gears harder to allow for better climbing stamina.

Yeah I know what you mean

Ditto the above

I am 5'10" and have an 18.5

The 17.5 felt too crampt in the cockpit area with my knees.

90mm stem and you are away!

Will buy a set then!
Cheers

Difficult one but pairing at night can be a bit of a pain if your paired with a 50 minute lap partner as it doesn;t really give you much time to do anything.

Double laps kill your overall time as you will always lose time on your second lap.

We have 2 sub 50 minute lap boys in the team and 2 that will just crack the hour based on last years course and weather. So we will get about 2 hours between our laps.

Work out your strategy once you have ridden the track once and roughly timed it.

Steaming Ahead in 😀

Did on my Trek EX8 last year and also a Giant XTC hardtail. Forget full suss as you will only be on the bike for about 60 minutes and a hardtail is a damn site quicker in certain sections. Plus you will have to pick up and run so go light.

There was 7 minutes difference between a lap on the EX8 and the XTC.
Any my arse was fine on a hardtail.

I got my email from Pat last year on 4th March so expect people to start finding out tomorrow/Friday

Sounds like a few up and down experiences of the place.

Nigew, what is the name of the other campsite?

Iain1775, if you are happy to that it will be greatly appreciated thanks.

Name Stickers

CARBON 337 i am unable to find the page you are refering to.

Any links availble please?

Cheers

5'10" and 18.5" is spot on!

Merida XC Racer

Giant STP Zero jump bike

They make me laugh as lots of the products they know they are expensive on they offer a price match policy. if you know your more expensive, reduce your price.

Veriety is the spice of life.

I am just doing long distances to get my stamina back.

2 hours max on the trainer for me.

Mmmm I guess if the bike is secure it should move that much.

Must be siliar to planting the front wheel on one of those supports you can buy.

Just wondering as sometimes people may offer slightly bad advice on HR, Cadence etc without taking age into it. We are not all spring chickens 😆

I am like you, averaged 29 mph for 1 1/2 hours and my knackers were dead after 50 minutes. I have lowered the saddle 1/2" and pointed the nose up a little as well as having a small block of wood under the front wheel.

This has worked for me before so it may help you (worth a try).

I also purchased a portable dvd player as my trainer is in the garage so this helps the time go by and gives me some peace to watch what I want to watch for once.

Sounds like a well structured interval session lasting no more than 40 minutes will do what you need.

Mix it up, keep it fresh and throw in some climbs.

But what you need to ask yourself is, "Am I doing this to get fit or just to get some exercise"? As an inerval session is a lot of pain to go through just to have a bit of exercise.

breakneckspeed, how old are you?