london you say? have you put your prices up?

I had a preemptive road rage retaliation last night.

Light turned to green and I set off out of the adavance box not even that quickly to go straight on and a guy in a knackered Astra coming from the other way floored it to turn right across me and the other traffic. it’s a big junction so it wasn’t even close and he didn’t even need to floor it to get across first. I’m just beginning to think ‘really what’s the need? what a wan….’ not even got as far as the superior head shake when I realise he’s got the windows down, carving the turn one handed, flicking me and anyone in general the Vs with the other hand and bellowing ‘**** arffff!!’ At the world. All he was short of was a fat boy slim I’m no.1 why try harder t shirt.

It was all very weird. Still don’t know what to make of it.

Screw that it’s cross season. I’ll definitely need drink come Sunday night. Ask me again when it’s warm an sunny.

Just because no one has mentioned it (and probably no one will, not being massive fans here); the On One Rango is basically a copy of the Trek Stache, but there’s no mention of whether it is boost or not.

^ 2nd post I’ll think you’ll find! :wink:

1st buy an umbrella.

I don’t know much about art but I know what I hate and I don’t hate this.

i managed to bend a maxle axle in a crash which i didn’t think was possible. Ive replaced it with the hex key only one. Its the new 50% lighter weight weenie enduro accessory for a clean look if you look on pink pike but i chose it because i’m tight and it was much cheaper and there’s nothing to go wrong. We’ll see how much having tool only front wheel release annoys me.

for road tubs just use tape, the pressure keeps it on. For cross tubs thats when the 47 layers and rain dance voodoo mystics come in.

Singular rooster isn’t in production anymore so you’d be looking for a secondhand. that said the rooster sizing is deceiving as you can move the stack and reach a fair bit by playing with the eccentric bottom bracket. The front is high because of the fork but it drops a fair way for stand over.

other options: Niner had something for a while non boost. wont be cheap though. Taiwanese/shand/on-one elevated chanistay carbon thing is not boost i dont think neither is the trek stache.

it can be used to mean trains that can run on two different power sources electric or diesel. but i don’t think its that.

big fields are fun but small fields can be fun too, it only needs one or two around your level to make a race of it, big fields increase the odds i guess. But big or small field if you get unlucky and you’re miles slower than whoever in front and miles faster than whoever behind its a bit of an individual time trial through no mans land to finish and not racing, ill give you that.

hmmm may it be the case that its not legally subdivided into 3 shit flats?

Clement pdx is good. They now do a tubeless version. 33c but on the big side.

Can I also point by out that we’ve had a massive transfer of wealth to the 1% since the crash. As public borrowing and business investment has declined individuals debt has increased to fill the gap. Non of these things are necessarily natural rebalancings they have been political decisions. Yes the baby boomers won out but fighting between age bands doesn’t help. They will still eventually spaff all their gains on their children and grand children. Privatising public services, marketisation of the NHS, flexible labour markets, £9k tuition fees for what is now in effect the bare minimum entry level qualification, unregulated rents. All ways for big money to get richer and mr or miss ordinary to face life with one hand tied behind their back.

They have very quickly gone from a small bash with a very accommodating refund policy to a big slick operation with a pretty sly refund policy which is like no other I’ve seen. It’s nice to see success, trails are very good and it’s still a great event but i think they are close to overplaying their hand.

the features (who?)

Saw them support kings of leon and they were amazing, one of the best supports i’ve ever seen. I thought these guys are going to be massive. bought the album immediately… it was awful. middle of the road mush. no tunes. no hooks, no ideas, meh. I still can’t explain the disparity. i wasnt even drunk.

Cycling straddles utility and aspirational hobby. Lbs is caught in that weird place.

Towns with big utility cycling eg Peterboro, Cambridge, London etc seem to have little lbs hidden away that tick over equivalent backstreet garages where people want their bike back on the road, want convenience and aren’t arsed about brands. That model seems equivalent to the car garage independent vs main dealer, lbs vs Halfords. whether it’s rewarding or accessible to new entrants I don’t know.

Otherwise the aspirational hobby end seems like the horse has bolted. customers more informed, big online retailers shagging you on price and choice and often monopolising availability. Ubiquity of couriers. Free returns. It’s really hard to spend your money in the lbs when buying online is cheaper and easier. Even high end servicing is going online. Box up your forks, send em off, comes back in a few days. At the minute it’s shit to be an lbs but great selfishly to be a customer. It is. To wring our hands and say I would use my lbs but… Is just lying to ourselves.

However the what next might be shit for customers too, maybe even other parts of the industry. big venture capitalists aren’t getting into wiggle and chain reaction for a laugh.

I’ve been that tenant!

It was sorted out between the landlord and the fella downstairs. don’t know what agreement they came to.

Needless to say my tenancy was not renewed.

I’m torn on team support. The team support has come from the roots of the event in cross and road and is just part of the culture and been there years and years. You accept it when you sign up. The fast guys are properly good and deserve it too. But…. to anyone who has come from mountainbiking first it is a bit weird. Can you not ride round some hills for 4 hours with your own kit?

The road ride from Whernside to PyG is harder than you think and full of cars (support crews) driving like d!cks.

Yeah this too. The bitter irony of getting punishment passed by fans of cycling and vans labeled up in cycling brands.

It’s rubbish give your ticket to me.

There’s not too much to know. Pump tyres up nice and high. Ingleborough will be great in this weather. There’s lots of false summits up to Whernside. If you are there the night before then the bottom of Penyghent is legal to ride up and down, test yourself out.

Stu sent you a message

My favourite is singletracks facebook linking to threads on here. We are effectively Generating content for their Facebook. We should charge commission.

so £28 more. or £122 vs £150 not even a round of beers for a few mates

bloody southerner :lol:

Mag just done a review. They liked royal racing the best. I’ve had a lot of joy from endura ones for 50 quidish.

Oh and Bedford town council are to the row authority so it doesn’t matter what they think.

Don’t know but have you looked at shand? They might have one coming out.

Bearing in mind how wastefully tax revenues are spent,

is one opinion, others may vary. its not a law of nature from which to hypothecate an argument.

There’s also an issue between capital and revenue. A trail centre might have been built with a grant, donation, loan etc. (capital) in the first place but it wears out and needs to be maintained (revenue) thats where the car park charges come in.

Its dead easy and they even post this piechart to your house but looks like no one opened the envelope. Your taxes went on that too.

Most of it goes on pensions and health. The welfare is deceiving as it includes in-work benefits and the majority of us (64%) receive something back through ‘welfare’.

http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/budget_pie_ukgs.php

Cx magazine have a lot of training advice on cross but the gist of it is find a playing field or woods with a few hills and repeat some drills for about an hour (unsurprisingly) cx has some unique skills not just the obvious like dismounting – starts and sprinting out of dead corners are probably the two others that have no real cross over from mountainbiking. Depending on who has set the course out you can spend an hour just sprinting out of dead corners. I hate those courses.

Go off hard, attack the middle, finish strongly.

i think it was moderately more sophisticated than that (but not much), i read it as bluff a bit and leave a gap so quintana attacks then counter and bridge to your domestiques up the road, ride of into the sunset and gain 1:30 and hey presto you win the vuelta. but it doesn’t work when you counter, reach your last domestique and you turn round and quintana is still there saying is that all you got? good stage though, chaves attack and the teamwork, awsum, battle for the win, also awsum.

Crikey. £1200 is high for racing. Racing breaks stuff you know. Novatec/campag/shimano sapim and a generic carbon tub rim would do the same job for less. However if it’s an excuse to get nice wheels go for it you’ll not get nicer.

I don’t get the bit about the lower seatpost collar and the enlarged seat tube.
Why not make the top tube sloped to begin with and have more seatpost exposed?

:lol:

shurely you’re not suggesting its a load of old snake oil?

Disney fast play.

i wish common knowledge of core strength had been available years ago. that would have fixed most of my injuries before they had happened.

13spd
Shorter crank lengths
Bars with more sweep
Different fork rakes
More carbon

I did our sooty fireplace with water and loads of salt to make a paste. Worked on with a cloth. Worked suprisingly well. Maybe two goes at that then 1 or two goes of soapy water. No good for paint though

Edit – it got all the soot off and revealed a lovely pattern where some bricks had changed colour with the heat. No dust or shitty chemicals either

Can I just point out that one of the problems of ‘stepping up’ from sportives to real races is that on real races most of the courses are crap. Laps and laps of back lanes that are cheap and easy to marshal.