Thats very sad, I was hoping he’d pull through and finish his ride.

Sorry for your loss, please accept my condelences.

White, now that’s an idea 😀

But I don’t think I’d keep it pristine for long on these dirty Essex roads.

ballsofcottonwool – Member
Do you rather be a fashion victim or alive

That’s my conundrum, cool and dead or ‘Sports Direct’ and alive. I’m leaning towards the latter – even though it pains me.

Oldgit, it’s not available in other bright colours – just yellow.

BTW this jacket is for training/longer road rides and not commuting, on dull days I’ll take my rear light

cynic-al – both jackets have the same amount of reflective stuff.

or

What’s the soundtrack?

Maybe he just likes pain[/url]

Wider on front for me as well.

I tried a mates bike is running his the other way round and as soon as I hit a bit of slop and had to steer the front started to slip out.

I’m 39, 5’10” and weigh 10 1/2 stone so I’m not exactly a porker.

EDIT Just going off what the garmin connect stats were.

Thans for your replies STW,.

I’m thinking one of these (the mini one)

Mmmm, don’t think I’ll be buying that.

He’ll only go and spend the cash on deep v rims and skinny jeans.

Another vote for WordPress.

Fill your boots here[/url]

Urls an hosting you’ll have to pay for.

Selby Dickenson, you probably won’t know who he is.

But when I was 19 and studying in Banbury, I spent the 2 years cycling with him at college. He taught me how to be a weight weenie, introduced me to Konas, Pace, Merlin. He had 5 bikes 8O, lived in a ‘proper’ nice house and his wife was(probably is still well) hot.

Oh yeah and he was a cycling machine – he was in his 30’s (which is well old to a 19 year old) and rode like the clappers, probably still is.

Sounds like a love-in this but the bloke was and (probably still is) brilliant. If you know/knew him you’d agree.

I WANTED TO BE LIKE HIM.

shortcut – Member
Er N+1!

I’ve expanded the formula N+N+1, but it really should be N to the power 3 + 1

I’m greedy as you’ll see if you read my how much Sh*t I carry for a road ride.

mboy – Member
Where do I put my stuff?

As high as possible in my shorts, I have a good rummage before I get on the bike, and nice and central too. Otherwise I find that in the roadie tuck position, it can be all too easy to crush one, and that’s not nice!

That is what you meant right?

Well that would have been where do I put my junk, but a very good answer all the same 😀

I’d say as many as one can get away with.

I’ve got 3 and if I had the space/money I’d get a rather fetching 29er – just to be fashionable. 🙂

I think they are mis-selling a bit of junk.

Hope he pulls through and makes a full recovery.

By the sounds of it he’s quite fit so that should help, no?

sorry 😳 , I’ll keep my beak out of it

this 12.8mm stack height but it’s not cheap £125

edit

or Hopes at 11mm and £65

Be bit of squeeze with 27in thighs 😯

I’ve read every post on this thread, excuse me for not remembering them all verbatim.

I was just assuming you’d use the word chink as liberally as you do ****, I mean why don’t you, it’s only a word. After all words mean nothing, they’re just descriptive nouns aren’t they?

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Well said Ian, as a Engilsh ‘****’, I’d like to think we are and that’s why we make it such a big issue.

So Earnie gets pissed off when a Polish guy calls black people monkeys by has no qualms calling people ****, Chinks, Carpet Lickers or whatever else but not to thier faces as that’s rude. So there’s no difference is there? Why don’t do go round to the shop and tell them they’re such good **** for offering take away tea.

The polish guy was speaking white man to white man, I doubt he’d call a black person a monkey to thier face, bit like you. Heres a suggestion, why not just learn the shops name? But I suppose that takes too much effort.

Failing that, I’ve always found that putting ‘no offence’ at the end of one of these terms nullifies any offence.

Zimbo, I asked because I was curious. My brother spent a summer in Poland travelling and teaching convorsational English to kids at summer camps, with his then girlfriend (who’s white). He said he had a great time, he never mentioned he was treated differently, everyone they met seemed genuinely interested.

Racism does exist all over the world, that is true and we as a country are still in the early stages of dealing with ours. But whilst there’s **** shops and chinkys in every town, we still have a long way to go. Because there’s nothing wrong with calling them as such is there, it’s just normal innit, Earnie?

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I’ve read all 5 pages of this post and have a few questions.

@zimbo, you went to Krakov and didn’t see any racism. Can I ask what colour your skin is?

@earnie
What if there’s more than one ‘****’ shop, how do you further distinguish?

If your local shop was owned by an african/west Indian would you say **** shop?

But offence is taken when a foreigner (of the same race as you) Caucasian I’m guessing, refers to black people as monkeys. Maybe like you he was using the term ‘monkeys’ as a descriptive term.

That videos brilliant, “gotta go big”… splat! Bet his klankers took a while to get back to thier normal position.

Hope pro2 on 717s
Hope pro2 on Stans crest

Both are great sets of wheels.

Irish_AL – Member
Who ‘bike related’ is good to follow on twttter?
is this virtual drafting?

As you can see I’ll do anything for a free ride

that’s 2 all.

Think mine was funnier.

Thanks all, adjustable spanner and fingers it is then.

seosamh77 were you pretending be homeless this weekend?

Sounds like someone needs a hug.

I thought that about the tricolore ^^^.

Fireworks are good though.

The projections, maccer and chales calling HRH mummy my favorite bits.

I missed grace jones hula hooping, she’s got fine rhythm that one.

A lad at school did aikido, as a demo one lunch time 4 of us tried to wrestle him. He put us all in te ground very quickly, it was really impressive I thought as I laid on the grass looking up at the sky.

We had a rattle driving t wakes on the old focus.

When we took it to the local mechanic, he just pulled the shield off and binned it, apparently we didn’t need it.

Sold the car now, but in the six months after ‘having it’ removed it didn’t blow up.

PS3 for me as well. If you want more storage any hd formatted to FAT32 will work through USB.

Didn’t know the bluray would support 3d but you still need a 3d tv.

As for games if you get a ps3, play metal gear solid 4 it’s brilliant, probably be of the best games on the console.

They are indeed FUN, Whenever I’m up that way I try and go to one.

I’m sure someone will be along to say they are utter man made sh*te and populated by people who can’t ride a bike.

That’s a nasty thread, here’s a similar injury as the OP