Credible cycling movement and it has Astana in it :-/

thats a shame. i like lars boom. i’m not well up on my masking agents and microdosing strategies these days, what are the chances this is all entirely innocent?

I’ve seen a picture. It’s on facebook and everything!

*does a little dance*

some sustrans type bits early on, some road, some landrover track, some arrows across fields, some of the tracks and fields might be rough or muddy. nothing crazy steep or techincal. Hardtail? yes, panniers? – i’d go for bikepacking-style luggage if you can but take panniers and you wont die. oh, and pack midge repellent.

Gavi.

It’s not the cheapest though.

fracking is big energy and we have to buy it off big companies, that’s a good model for the established players. Often donors to plotical parties.

Renewables are far more able to be decentralised – solar, ground and air source heat can all be done in our own homes and we then own them, dont have to buy anything off established players and can even sell our excess back into the grid and compete with them. Thats terrifying for the estblished players. Germany has a very high percentage of decentralised community owned power, our industry is being held back, e.g. huge renewable energy subsidy cuts at the last election.

Having said that one of the justifications for fracking is not for energy but as a feedstock for the chemical, plastics and pharmaceuticals industry. You can’t make that stuff out of solar so we do need fossil fuels its just they are far to valuble to burn.

Also, the geological evidence seems very flaky that fracking is going to work in our country. The number of places that are estimated to have the right rocks is very small, the certainty about how much can be got out is very low. It sometimes feels like a huge investment bubble to me.

Oooh, promising. My plan is try to get to hawes before the chip shop shuts, after that is play it by ear.

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Is there a roll call for this?

I’ll start off: me

What’s the verdict on conditions? I’m expecting very wet ground but dry sky (at least on Saturday)

God I’ve got all this to come as a parent but I remember a bit of it as a 16 year old.

My 2 peneth: 1) those 10 and 14 year olds might just be better than him so he may just need to suck that up 2) nudge him into a branch of cycling he enjoys and the fitness will come by time in the bike but only if it’s fun. Does he get his kicks out of circuit racing? Big days out? Bike packing? Keep it fun. Watching your fitness improve as an adult us interesting and rewarding, as 16 yr old is boring and slow

I’ve had Clements on Flow ex if that helps. (They were huge and heavy)

i think the support comes from the cross/roadie side of its culture and wont go away. There are some close passes between ribblehead and penyghent. Annoying when they are clearly all cyclists/supporters of cyclists driving.

i saw a team supported by cargo bikes last year. Big dutch, low loader front types. they were great. they can come again

that adverts brilliant. whys it only london it should be everywhere in the middle of corrie.

Is wireless not the future? So loads of 240v sockets but no need for anything else?

No they make up their own rules as it’s not under uci, bc, tli whatever rules.

Not in 🙁

Most fun I had on a bike last year. Gutted.

Hope the drop out rate is high

I know you can ignore it but I like my sport. I like talking about it, reading about it and doing it. I object to manufacturers spoiling my enjoyment of the first two by pumping out increasingly cynical guff.

I think the point is mountain biking is becoming a joyless experience. Manufacturers improvements seem to be more And more marginal, just different rather than better, and we seem to have model months rather than model years, and each product cycle seems to be a cynical minor improvement where you can’t help but think they already know the next 2 iterations of the products and could include them all now but holding them back would make more money. Enduro and bike packing look really fun new directions but the bikes were being flogged to do it are getting less fun.

road seems simpler and funner at the moment, but BUT I’m not naive enough to think it isn’t coming in road, with discs, hubs , axles, even wheel sizes now.

When 650b was decided as the next big thing for us someone from one of suspension tuners maybe or a sponsored rider went to great lengths with shortened shock and geometry tweeks to get 650b in a 26 five frame. Can you not just do the fork if you have an itchy shopping finger and have 650b-26er? I’m surprised I’ve not seen more of those.

Dérailleur!!

Like it de-rails the chain or something!
Haha stupid French

http://www.thisiswhy.ip3.co.uk/thisiswhy/stripsforweb/350march13ThinkOfEngland.jpg

Brian Cook?

Rim depth between 30 and 38 not
Too much difference I’d day toss a coin. Deeper rims are meant to cut through gloop better. not used anything deeper than a reflex personally but carbon scares me for adding even more complication to the already difficult job if gluing cross tubs.

How heavy are you? I wouldn’t go below 32 for a cross wheel as if you’re racing they get a battering.

Come on Noones going to win a your sport is shittier than my sport between athletics and cycling. We both are catching some, still embarrassed by others, have some people doing it the right way and we all hope we will end up clean one day but are under no illusions. Footballs the freak show we should both be pointing at.

it cant be true. only cyclists take drugs and anyway British athletes never test positive

its happened in mine too. At least you have clear productivity figures to prove yours doesn’t work. In mine its not so cut and dried so management can continue to be in denial and claim it is working.

The sad thing is that you can be the bloke to stands around being cast as the naysayer dinoaur saying ‘we’ve done this before and it didn’t work…’ in as little as 6 years now.

please lets not have a texas revival to go with it. they were on every bloody week.

i was just thinking how times change about chris evans the other day. maverick anti bbc taste maker to one show presenter.

and now this!

surely todays equivalent of TFI friday is happening somewhere on youtube or snapchat or something away from us fogies.

Never in a million years would I have guessed this thread was about a scarecrow competition from the title. 😀

There’s a little bike shop opened in askrigg which should be good for supplies and a little village shop that shuts at 5.

Hawes does epic fish and chips but not well placed for timing

ok. but no more. just trying to accumulate lots of time on the bike. Cant see how you can ‘train’ for any other aspects.

Checked out 80ish miles of the route a month ago. the bits i didn’t know. Stu then decided to remove them. oh well. 😆 To be fair it looks more logical as a loop now, although does miss a lovely bit in the north west corner.

In a classic example of ‘unspeak’ (Sir) Eric Pickles ‘Localism’ bill was in fact a massive centralising power grab from local authorities to bring more decisions under Whitehall control, while simultaneously spouting a load of guff about empowering local communities

Which is why it makes me sad.

Have you ever met any local counselors or attended a meeting ?

yep 😆

In their defence there are some great ones but i realise there are very many very poor counicllors but i view it as a viscious cycle, why would you be one? Make them organisations worth leading and the applicants would get better is my hope.

this nationalisation/centralisation does make me sad.

Especially when it’s accompanied by rhetoric about how they are doing the exact opposite.

is it any wonder no-one votes in local elections? they are not in charge of anything any more. they only have adoption, social care and bins.

I did read that if all the smith commission things went through Scotland would have the same level of responsibly as a small french city. whoop e do.

It’s in the shops now. I nearly bought it for all the old pictures of peat and Warner. Then thought nah…

Did 4x and dirt jumping never happen? I remembered it being huge for dirt but it didn’t jump out at me from the last mag

Stewart lee. Massively shouty live

Just look at Peloton magazine, it’s full of Americans who soooo wish they were Belgian

are you racing or just riding about?

Mountain factor get samples in from a range of brands great if you are male medium or female 14.

You sir have too much time on your hands 😆

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Any update on your quest al?

I’m trying to answer this impossible question, a rim that will work off-road on a dyno hub but can be used for commuting. Pacenti t25 or t28 look a possibility. Also anyone running stans Grail as a mountain bike rim. It’s the same internal width as a crest but I worry about the strength.

Land registry search for owner. It’s 2 quid. But finding him after that….

Daft thing is his sites probably worth a few quid for houses in rural Cumbria. Be carefull what you wish for.