I have a Skoda Octavia estate and I can get 2 EVOC bike bags in the back.  Looking at the Skoda website, the combi looks pretty similar to what I have.

I still ride my 22 year old Airborne Lancaster.  Although it started off life as a 26inch mountain bike, it now serves as a flat bar gravel bike with 650b wheels and 47mm gravel tyres and an eXotic rigid carbon fork.  As another example of longevity, it also has the original Chris King headset including bearings.  Do I have the oldest Ti bike still being used regularly?

My Levo SL has been back to Edinburgh Bikes in George St Aberdeen a few times.  They seem to do a good job and kept me informed on the state of repairs.

I gave away similar vintage stuff last year using facebook.  Search for “Windsurfing stuff for sale or wanted”.  It all went within a day.

I did this circuit in the summer with a bad back which meant I couldn’t carry the bike.  It’s certainly harder pushing the bike up the Bachnagairn climb but it is possible.

Been thinking about the physics of these. I have my doubts that it is adsorption, air would have to be adsorbed and desorbed multiple times a second and I just don’t think it’s that fast a process. I couldn’t find any useful literature discussing speed of adsorption, papers tend to concentrate on total volume rather than speed. People seem to be getting some benefit, so I wonder if it is the friction of the air moving in and out of the pores in the activated carbon. This would act like additional damping but more rapid and I think more progressive than oil moving through a nozzle would provide.

We were there in October. We actually had a good time doing the orienteering course at Sandringham – more interesting than just walking around the grounds of a country house. Our son lives in Norwich and it’s worth a trip as well.

We did the Tollaidh path this August. I would say unless it’s particularly dry don’t bother, there’s a lot of erosion and water running down the trail. We did enjoy the coffin road though between Applecross and Kenmore despite the atrocious weather we did it in.

I’ve looked at mine that has 3 Euro cycle maps – Central, East and West. They appear in the Garmin directory on the 1030 as disc image files, I think they are called D6016070A, D6017070A and gmapprom. See if those files are there. I install mine using Garmin Basecamp software if that makes a difference.

My Specialized Levo SL made a whining noise when pedalling with the motor off. E-bikes motors have a freewheel in them and it was sticking. Specialized replaced the motor under warranty.

Its busy on the coast around Bamburgh, Seahouses, Alnmouth etc but much quieter inland.

My mother lives in Belford, just a few miles from Lucker. I do a road loop from there via Fenwick, Lowick, Doddington and Chillingham. Roads are quiet and scenery is very pleasant.

I’ve been carrying bikes on a towbar rack for years and never had a problem until this year. January was very dry here (NE Scotland) and I was riding my bike without needing to wash it (so I thought). But I had 3 different sets of brakes seize in a short period. I figured it out as salt from the roads corroding the inside of the brake callipers. At this time of year I now wash the bikes when I get home after every ride even if not muddy.

If you still have the activities on your Fenix or Edge you can plug them into your computer and look at all your activities on Basecamp (available from Garmin website). I couldn’t see an obvious way of loading them directly from Garmin Connect but there probably is a way of outputting a format from Connect that Basecamp can read.

It’s all about the outdoors, you’ve got great access to some of the best biking and walking in the UK, a beautiful coastline and snow sports in the winter. It’s relatively dry, we get about half the rainfall that the west of Scotland gets. On the downside, it’s a long way from everywhere else and it can be cold.

A slight deviation from the thread but still relevant is that the design allows the cranks to be put on the wrong way, i.e. left on RHS and vice versa. I had an amusing few moments watching my mate try to get clip out of a set of SPD’s that were effectively on backwards. It was a bugger to clip in and near impossible to clip out. It took him quite a while to figure out what was wrong. He got his own back after my ebike came back from the shop with the pedals reversed, I use flats so it didn’t become apparent until my pedals unscrewed and fell of mid ride.

I’ve had a Levo SL for just over a year. My fitness hasn’t suffered but that’s because I ration my rides on the ebike and ride my conventional bike a couple of times a week. If you only ride an ebike (even a half fat one), I think you’re kidding yourself if you think your fitness won’t suffer. You just don’t get the same workout. That’s not to say you won’t be fit, just not as fit as if you weren’t riding an ebike.

I have an A4 Allroad with light grey leather interior. It is a 2013 one though so it has probably changed. I like it, being leather means any dirt is easy to remove. It’s so much better than all the dark interiors you normally see.

I did this a while ago. I used Bitex hubs from Just Riding Along. My Easton Haven wheels were 24 hole. As far as I’m aware the DT Swiss 240 24h hubs are road hubs and do not come in Boost spacing, otherwise I would have used them. I seem to remember I didn’t get the spoke length right first time, but they are only £1 each so a new set plus spare was only £30.

I have done this with Easton Haven carbon rims and Bitex j-bend hubs. I wanted to go from 135mm QR to 142 bolt through and this was the cheapest way. It’s a bit tricky but not impossible. You have thread the nipple onto the spoke and the rim at the same time, otherwise you will run out of thread at one end. When you turn the nipple it will tighten on both spoke and rim. Having done it once, next time I would get straight pull hubs to make it easier, but what I’ve ended up with works fine.

The guy who built it hasn’t been maintaining it and it isn’t currently available. He said he will get round to it eventually but that was several weeks ago so I wouldn’t hold your breathe for anything soon.

Gallia in tres partis divisa est. (First line of Caesar’s Gallic Wars part 1, my set text for Latin O’level many years ago.)

I cycled past Pennan on the NE coast last week where local hero was filmed. The gradient on the hill out was 17%!

I think I saw that vehicle on Deeside yesterday near Glen Tanar.

The clockwise route is a regular ride for us – Loch Muick, Broad Cairn, Cairn Bannoch, part way up Carn t’Sagairt Mor, Lochnagar, then down Glas alt Shiel back to Loch Muick. The route is pretty clear (except the Broad Cairn boulder field) and not boggy. I wouldn’t recommend doing this anti-clockwise – the path up Broad Cairn has recently been ‘improved’ and wouldn’t make a great descent. A better clockwise route would be from Braemar, up Lochnagar going over the top of Carn t’Sagairt Mor and getting the excellent descent down to Loch Callater.

Off-road routes do not really work in Basecamp because it will try and use roads where possible. Rather than create a route, create a track. This works by joining the points, it will mean you have to put a point at every bend and turning but it won’t do anything silly. You can join multiple tracks and edit the points pretty easily with the icons provided. Note, I use a PC so I’m assuming a Macbook works the same way.

I’ve had an SB150 for almost two years now. In that time I’ve removed and regreased the SI twice. There has been no wear. I’ve had two Yetis in the past, a 575 and ASR5 that have cracked at the chain stays. This newer one seems an altogether more substantial construction. I had read the issues that some people have had so realised there was a risk. But I reckoned at 75kg and not an especially hard rider I would be alright and that has proved to be the case,

Yeah, I was thinking the slot in the nipple head effectively removed the threads but that’s not totally true, and there is some of the head below the slot.

This is where you want the spoke to be:

As I understand it, ERD is measured to the end of a spoke that is completely threaded to the end of the threads on the nipple but not including the head of the nipple. I have used the ERD as supplied by Light Bicycle and found it to be fine.

A much fairer way would be to apportion an individual user’s membership fee to artists based on which artists that individual user streams.

It doesn’t matter whether you do it this way or put everybody’s subscription in a pot and divide it up by the number of streams. Mathematically it comes to the same thing.

MTB_Trails

This route suggests there is a link

On a similar if a bit more exotic note, legendary surfer Laird Hamilton had to be rescued when his jetski ran out of fuel. He was Keven Costner’s stunt double in the film Waterworld and used to commute between Maui and Big Island on Hawaii.

I think you also have to take into account how assiduous you are topping up the sealant. Usually, the only time I get punctures that don’t seal by themselves is when I’ve forgotten and the sealant has run out. Having a lightweight tube usually saves the day.

I’ve had one for about 4 years. Recently, it was requiring a revive every ride and sometimes twice in the same ride and I thought it was about time I serviced it. But I thought I would check the air pressure first and lo and behold all that “reviving” had depleted the pressure. I pumped it back up to 250 psi and it was just like new. Since then I don’t think I have had to revive it once.

Be aware that the path on the Northside has been “improved” since those pictures above were taken. It’s a lot less technical than it used to be, but at least they have built bike routes to the side of the drainage channels. This is the first time I have seen these features.

Some options of routes are shown here:

MTBtrails

I would agree, the Glen Clova, Loch Muick, Capel Mounth ride is a lot bigger bang for the buck in terms of effort vs fun.

I reckon with my SL I can get 1000m of climbing on Turbo, 1500m on Trail and 2000m on Eco. Add 50% on top of that with the range extender battery. Any long flat sections will reduce these numbers, although I live in the NE of Scotland and where the riding tends to be either up or down. This gives you a lot of scope to vary the amount and type of riding you do. I am finding I am getting tired just from the length of time on the bike rather than the amount of climbing I’m doing.

Pre-lockdown, I test road a few ebikes – Spesh Levo and SL, Trek Rail, Focus Jam and Lapiere Ezesty. A few weeks ago I bought the Levo SL, for me it was the best compromise of power vs feel. I hardly used the turbo mode on the full fat bikes and didn’t want to lose my fitness for when I ride with my non e-bike owning mates. I love the SL, it gives enough support that you can do 2 or 3 times as much climbing as you would normally but still feel like a conventional mtb on the descents. Yes, the ability to zoom up tricky climbs on a full-fat ebike is a lot of fun, but it’s not really the reason why I go mountain biking.

They are expensive but you don’t need to buy the top of the range to get a decent weight. I bought the Comp carbon, which is not very well specced but with a few choice upgrades it now weighs 17.3 kg (38lbs), I sold the SRAM NX groupset for £150 and replaced it with Shimano XT for about £300, I paid about £700 for a set of carbon wheels (LB rims and DT Swiss 350 hubs), I hope to sell the Roval wheels for about £300 and I added a set of carbon bars.

I would definitely have considered the Orbea, although the stories of the rattling noise made by the shimano EP8 motor would be a concern.

I just bought a pair of Five Ten EPS’s from JE James. Haven’t ridden in them yet but they seem warm and have a gusset around the tongue so water isn’t going to get in through the lace holes.

^^ This

Interestingly I have been running XTR 12 speed for almost 2 years and had no problems. But I have recently put XT 12 speed on my new ebike and the derailleur has come loose twice. You really need to get it tight.

Does the New York Subway contain bread or trains?

It’s not bread it’s a roll