Here’s mine, i guard it with my girlfriends life…

Its awesome. You have to let it rip. Weight back and let go of the brakes, then you reaslie just how good a bike it is. And it climbs well too.

Ignore ChunkyMTB

My neighbour, a fellow cyclist said his mates bikes were nicked, they broke into his house. The police actually found them though, the bikes turned up in Chorlton near the Water Park. Not sure where my mates mate lives but it is in the southern area of Greater Manchester.

my bikes are tagged with tracking devices, encased in 10′ of concrete at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and are held in a tight embrace by Chuck Norris

How often do you ride?

What big bloke says. I have a pair of the carbon cycles and the superstars and they are identical in every way apart from the logos.

I googled mountain biking around hayfield and that was the first link i found. Might pull the old OS map out when i get home and do my own ride this evening.

Antur – and then drive over to Revolution bike park and make a weekend of it.

Massive bump

Fieldy – say hi to me tomorrow! Im on the white Ironhorse Sunday :)

Binners/Agent007 – do you two live in West Didsbury? I live very close to Siemens. If im welcome, give us a shout if you go for a local ride one evening! I’d like to come with, meet new folk etc. Email is in profile.

Cheers

Ed

Bump

Honestly, Orange 5. For the cash, it was near impossible to keep it in a straight line up the hills, combined with the pedal bob, and the turdish single pivot characteristics….

Haha! Looking forward to it and give us a shout about Hebden B!

154 – you mean an Intense Tracer 2, with a £200 paint job ;)

Probably something as simple as IT band syndrome. Something all new runners suffer from.

Buy one of these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PE-FOAM-ROLLER-15cm-x-45cm-pilates-fitness-rehabilitation-UK-/150866495916?pt=UK_Sporting_Goods_Exercise_Fitness_Fitness_Accessories_ET&hash=item23205809ac

and do this –

Be aware – it hurts like hell! Also google ‘it band syndrome’. Its easily fixed.

Happy running :)

I blame MRB magazine. Its full of blatant propaganda on 29ers, trying to evolve the bike industry thus getting us to spend extra dollar. My lady subscribed me to it for xmas. I dont even use it for toilet paper anymore.

I’d change everything including the frame

Ironhorse Sunday 2008 – wont age, a classic.
Intense Tracer 2 – about 6 months old, pimp as.
On One Whippet – 1 yr old, rapid as!

I was cycling along once and someone threw some sodium chloride in my face. I said to him ‘do you know thats a salt….’

Sorry….

interesting. Maccruiskeen – I acknowledge your point that its just a state of employment and peoples self employment experiences wouold vary drastiaclly from one to another.

My situation is I have an opportunity to become Freelance and work for a bicycle manufacturer selling bicycles to retailers. I have a background in sales and i have always wanted to combine selling with bikes! I know the motivation is there, cold calling doesn’t phase me. The risk comes from the expenditure it will cost to undertake this task, car, petrol etc vs the gains made from the comission.

As of yet i dont know the numbers precisely enough to do some sums but im researching this. Its also quite exciting becoming self employed and i think it will look good on a CV.

What are your thought on this model?

Very interesting responses here. Thanks for everyone’s input; more opinions welcome though!

I own one, on my Tracer 2. It feels like a coil shock. Expensive but the difference is very very goood!

Ax an ex Orange 5 owner I can confirm they are pretty lame at going up hills especially in the granny ring.

Perhaps he should`ve thought about the possiblity BEFORE spending that kind of money?

He did

He doesnt like the Gyro, i dont think he is taken in by the whole 29 inch wheel experience

They’ll be alright if they are careful, just make sure they are aware of faster people behind them.

Tough one for the organizer, they don’t control the weather etc.

I think on a safety issue alone its an easy choice. With a significant number of people proposing to attend the chance of one person receiving an injury thus leading to hypothermia etc is very real.

http://www.whinlatterchallenge.co.uk/Organisers_Note_2013.pdf

I would assume this is going to be postponed. Wouldn’t fancy camping sat night….

I once dreampt about Rachel Atherton

I spoke to a physio about this last Thursday as i get lower back pain when i stand for quite a time. Cycling tightens the hammies and builds strength in the lower back. She told me tight hammies causes the hips to rotate slightly which puts strain on the lower back muscles. Also as a cyclist, abdominal muscles are pretty much completely ignored so you end up with a muscle imbalance. Youtube/Google lower back stretches, do some exercises to strengthen the abs and stretch those hamstrings :)

Catch 22 here. Need to grow the economy to generate revenue to close the national debt. Need to invest to grow the economy, which means borrowing more, but the country has run out of credit. I’ve said before in a different post as soon as interest rates rise, our debt bill will become too much and we will end up like Greece. Analgous to interest rates rising on your mortgage and you being unable to repay the mortgage.

I have the mech you have and it instantly made my bike much quieter as there was no noticable chain slap. I think it sounds like you have a faulty one.

Release the hounds

I appreaicte the product probably is very good. But, i wasted a days holiday waiting for an engineer to turn up, i dont really want to waste another. I was with Virgin previously and they do not need to visit my house to reinstate my service.

Also although it may not be Plusnets fault (ie its Openreach), the agreement is with Plusnet, thus they are responsible!

Their opinion is that because i am receiving the phone line, i am now contradctually obliged. I dispute this!

Thanks for the responses. I ride in the alps in the summer when i get chance. When suspension is compressed grip levels can be huge which is why i find my codes a bit weak, they could be better. elixir 5’s are good, i used to own a pair, but i do not think they hold anyway near enough power. It looks like im leaning towards the saints…

Have a look at Merlin

Where abouts in Manchester? Do you think the thief/thieves new the bikes were in your house? I’ll keep an eye out in Didsbury.

If your new to running, make sure you stretch your IT band after you have finished your run. From my experience when I started running I was only aware of what the IT band is when it started to cause me problems, pulling my knee cap out of place and causing a whole lot of knee pain. This is called runners knee and i believe most amateur runners have suffered from it in the past

Google ‘IT band stretches’ or find some videos on Youtube :)

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If you see those sand containers on the beach at Brodick, it was me who sold them to North Ayrshire Council :)