As I said Cav, Bernie and renshaw to sky. Brad will concentrate on track and olympics next year anyway.

Cav, Eisel and Renshaw all going to sky.

I would spend the money on a good quality pair of handbuilts they will probably last longer be easier to repair and built exactly for you.Try wheelsmith.co.uk.

A visit to spa cycles is highly recommended those guys are proper mental. Chas roberts good choice too along with bob jackson or maybe mercian or ……… loads of choice really

😈 I have been rumbled. I believe the correct answer to your question is don’t and commute instead.

Don’t listen to Ton these places are full of down to the earth salt of the earth type characters you will love it 🙂

Why not take a look at
Beeston
Chapel Town
Seacroft
Armly
Gipton
Harehills
amongst others

I’m pretty sure that z4s are made in Taiwan( by Giant) just like dozens and dozens of other brands.ThIS doesn’t make it a bad frame but neither imo does it make it the special artisan carbon frame that many Parlee owners claim.

Tea
Mos def, Black star, Common, jurassic 5 and Nas mmmmmmmm 🙂

I have always used look keos which are good however if I was starting again from scratch I would go for speedplay zeros. As for shoes spesh,sidi, shimano are all good. Spesh and shimano seem particularly good at mid price range.

Many thanks for all the replies they have been very helpful.

Look Keo’s with Red Cleats, summit like 10deg of float in each direction

speedplays 0-15 deg and anything inbetween you can also alter so diff float on each leg (if you really wanted to) btw this is from lifelong look user but if I started again I would definately go speedplay.

Take a look at speedplay as you can alter the float to suit you.

Outstanding and politician are mutually exclusive.
Eric Heffer 😆

For me it would be athena every time. However you shouldn’t call it campy unless you are american or a cock 🙂

Very good, excellent script and acting only spoilt by the truly dreadful continuity , one scene snow on the ground the next all gone. 😈

Apologies for being nosey but out of interest where and when did you race as a cat2 easyrider?

Not just sportives you get them everywhere even at ‘ proper races’ sportives, testers, club rides even on mountainbike rides. Not your problem as pointed out if someone wants to spend their cash on kit let them.Whinging just makes you sound like you have an inferiority complex imo

Couple of times around the ring road?

simple You need to join your club’s chain gang rides.

With Canyon bikes it is worth checking out their discount for have a racing licence.

Get one on e bay or here as you are bound to find somebody who has bought one used it twice hated it and now wants to get rid. Good makes are cyclops, elite, kinetic, taxc, minoura.

Saddles are a very personal thing so you really need to just buy and try. Buy one if you don’t like it sell and try another untill you find your perfect sadddle. My preferences are fizik arione and a toupe but that doesn’t mean they will suit you.

Don’t bother the skiing is sh1t in the summer. 🙂

Decide what you want it for first commuting, racing, touring etc etc
Then find a good lbs and talk to them.

Are you from Avatar?

Wait till you fill your car with petrol.

Keep them just for the bike and get some radars

If you get one try the sufferfest downloads, advertised on here. Ive used a turbo for years with different workouts but those downloads are unvelievable. The fight club and downward spiral 😮

Lots of gigs many been okay but highlights must be
David Bowie 78 Newcastle
The clash 81 Leeds
The Damned 80 Durham
The Smiths 83 london

Ok it was at the end of my usual training ride ( 6 cols before breakfast) with Paolo Salvodelli. We were just coming off a very misty croix de fer when he bet me I couldn’t beat him downhill. I hit 120mph overtaking him just before the last hairpin, I was so scared I had to put both hands on the bars.
To be fair there was a tailwind and my hardtail did have slicks.

I’m waiting to page 3 to post mine. 🙂 It will give me a chance to think up some fantastic anecdote to go with it.

If you look at this thread you will notice a gradual increase in the speeds being posted. I fully expect someone to have done 120mph by page 3.

Interesting one. We own most of the company so it is in our best interests that the company does well. To do well it has to attract and maintain suitable talent. The folk getting the bonuses have helped the company get out of difficulty which means they can pay back the taxpayers quickly. But it feels wrong to reward them.

If we took project’s approach and massively slashed wages and bonuses then no one with any talent would want to work there. The company would collapse and we’d all lose the money we invested, but we’d feel happier that no “greedy bankers” got bonuses.[

Apart from it takes very little talent to make money when you are riding the largest wave of cheap money in history, financed by central banks lending money at 0.5%.

Don’t worry I’m sure Nick and Vince wont let that happen it was in their manifesto that they had a five point plan to stop them. 🙄

If you are really serious get a coach.If you get a good one it will have a MASSIVE impact on achieving your chosen goals. Some books are okay but the problem is they are not specific to you and your goals.

Try Argos in Bristol no idea of cost but it probably won’t be cheap.

Dont forget to busdget for panniers, Good ones are wotth theri weight in gold IME, they survive crashes, things don’t fall out, theyre waterproof, they go on and off easily etc etc.

+1 and I would recommend ortlieb

You dont need a bar code scanner for e bay you just type in the EAN number and e bay automatically give you art work and track listing etc. I would probably sell them on e bay with fairly low buy it now prices and put them on in lots of 70-100. This is time consuming but will probably give you the greatest returns.