Or maybe letissier

Campag delta are lovely. Saw a bloke running them in him ratty commuter last week. I was amazed, one because they are worth a bomb, and two they (by all accounts) don’t work.

Beardsley

That hopping up is cool as …. But he’s not actually any quicker.

Tightrope, stone roses.

Ooo it’s hard isn’t it. You sound like you are one step ahead of me in having actually been in jewellers before. I used baby steps. One discover where the jewellers actually are, two spend weeks looking in windows, three start going in shops but not speaking to anyone, four start speaking to staff, five start actually looking at particular rings. Eventually you figure out different settings, metals, carats, and before you know it you are being treated to a complementary coffee whilst you pay ( well fill in the installment forms) for the most expensive small box in the world.

No. Other way, just been changed to go to Tenant. If you want to be more charitable let the housing dept. at council know before you do. He might be on known to them as a ‘vulnerable person’ ( don’t laugh ). At best they might be able to help him to pay you. At worst they can help him get another house and your conscience is clear.

Edit: soooo slow. I would add that not everyone will be pulling fast one, there some absolute casualties out there who need housing who are on no fit state to get their benefits paid direct to them under this new system that’s why they are already in the social housing safety net. But in other cases some people are just jerks.

Cracked freehub body? Can cause those symptoms

There you go op, It looks like the gap in the market is an easier to access, cheaper training and acreditation body. Keep cytech on their toes. :)

Pdx rewards commitment as the mtb mag cliche goes. it has a bit of a bald spot between centre knobs and shoulders to help it roll I guess as the treads pretty aggressive for cross but once you get to the shoulders it digs in again. Mxp looks a bit more gradual.

How long till hell freezes over? Just after that. Possibly.

Clement pdx are good. Clear mud well, good shoulder. Nice volume. The mxps look good for intermediate but not used them personally

a mat/carpet over the whole thing. taped down at the edges.

Focus focus focus. And focus again. Puntos are ———– awful. Made of tinfoil and cheese.

The top tube for the 17″ was the same as the 18″, just with more stand over.

From what I can see iron cross is a restickered alpine so it’s definitely a robustness level below crests. If you race I’d say iron cross but for knocking about stick with what you know, crests.

Tufo cubus flexus seem popular even on dryish courses. I’m still a pauper on clinchers tho, I rate clement clinchers but the tubulars are ££££s

BUMP

anyone doing the northern rounds this weekend?

Anyone done previous years, all thoughts appreciated on what to expect. Specifically whats the skipton course like, i’m guessing muddier than it was a week ago?

Interesting. How long would a small battery charged by said inverter run a strip light for? ( not bothered about a radio)

Eh? Well this is a revelation. If the ctc do all that why the hell don’t they change their name? Britsh cycle club/campaign or some such.

Not being a cycle tourist I have never felt the need to search them out, I just thought they represented a branch of cycling I don’t do like cycle Speedway, or downhill.

For folk who are serious about cross its not just one bike either, it’s the spare bike and a van full of spare tubular wheels. It’s going to take a long time I reckon for shift over for racing.

Edit. For me mini v’s. discs when hydro gets down to last-seasons-105-being-sold-cheap-in-merlin level

I think the old advice used to be a bit shorter in the top tube but still with a decent sized seat tube carry the frame but less and less courses seem to include carries ( unless that’s just our league?)

As you probably saw today you still need to pedal effciently so don’t go too far off your road bike size.

If you are worried about being on top of the bike the American brands are shifting to lower bottom brackets and slacker head angles. Euro brands tend to be higher and steeper.

does she not fancy enduros herself?

as for cross id say yes budget is enough. don’t think of it like a ‘weekend of racing’ though or you might be disappointed. its more ‘a few hours on a sunday you can fit round the other stuff in your life’. at most its an hours sign on and warm up, hours* race, half an hour cool down/faff/pack up.

british cycling website should have the links to the local league in your area.

I’ve not really sold it there have I? its good fun but i wouldn’t want it to be the only riding i did.

*some leagues lump the women in with juniors and vets so she could only be doing 45-50 mins.

Same boat here. Nodding at everything you say. Especially the fork. Mojo can fit the 2014 damper for about £40 plus full service or theres the new push kit from tf tuned which gives you full damping control for a bit more or there’s get what you can for them on ebay and buy a slant.

I too have added float fluid to make it more progressive and its helped a bit but they are very under damped.

I’m waiting for a review from an early adopter on the push kit before I make my decision.

If you’ve got anything dual ply hanging around I’d stick it on for the day. You’re not going to win any records on the way up anyway and you seem to pick up speed so easily on the ranger path it’s easy to pinch. Not done it tubeless mind.

Ben swift is local. Good lad. I imagine he’s on twitter but he has links with Richmond cc and Columba.. Someone there might be able to help you .

Can we stop pissing about. Call his out as anti semitism pure and simple and get the police involved. It’s beyond low.

What was the judge thinking? Anyone got a link to their reasoning?

dont hold your breath

renthal talked about when the 50mm one came out 2, 3, years ago? i think i emailed a year ago and they said its on their to do list but since then I’ve seen more talk of shorter still :(

clement pdx

Most? Commute

What i enjoy? Is this like a league system? Can you get promotion and relegation based on last weeks ride? Bit of a division 2 pretender at the minute.

I was safely mid pack so don’t know whether i did go past. i overtook you driving home in my nice warm car and wondered who’s that fool ;-)

lemonysam – genesis vapour? :-)

good lad, ponteland first one of the year for me, nearly brought up my lunch by lap two but got up to pace by the end. well impressed with my clement pdx’s though.

Ponteland was surprisingly fast and grippy, its been a real swamp in previous years. Other ne rounds are more mountainbikey, some even have singletrack. Certainly ponteland has the highest quotient of stupid off camber grass.

Easy. Mohammed Ali

Torridon.
It’s great.
:)

Hugh porter and david millar last years worlds were good.

Paid for minor car repairs in biscuits, but must put £100s through the local garage the rest of the year so it keeps me sweet. I don’t spend enough in any lbs to have been offered this option for bike repairs but I imagine it exists for good customers. Perhaps i should ask wiggle/ merlin/crc/eBay.

Yep. Had one for ‘racing’ and commuting. It’s like many cheapo 7005 frames. Light enough. Stiff enough. Mounts for guards. Everything was straight and nothing needed facing. Paint and stickers were budget but didn’t wear off. Couldn’t complain at all for £79 new off eBay. This was a couple of years ago.

I’d warn against going too cheap on the fork though. I did and it was a noodly horror racing.

Revant off eBay +1

Slooooow postage from states but otherwise great. Lenses plus postage was less than import duty threshold and fit my fakeleys fine, no filing.

Smyths have loads

Ours has just got one from there for £15 quid with two handlebar setting heights. Lowest is good for 5 yr old. Not all had this. Has steering limiters too to stop jack knifing