*it definitely wasn’t a race.

That’s what everyone says when they get dropped on the first climb :lol:

What about all the people who moan about speed cameras (including the Mail et al)? Best way to not give money to the council for speeding would be to… not speed?

Not a lot to moan about with most fixed position cameras. If you can’t notice them then you shouldn’t have been going that fast.
However some are placed in the only overtaking spot for miles and miles which rather than making the roads safer just makes irritable drivers as they are bottled up behind P-Jays 83yr old Morris Minor driver doing a top speed of 40 for another 20 mins.

roll on self driving cars, because once they become established all cars will have limiters.

I tend to agree, but for the opposite reason, it’ll bring up the speed of the slower cars on the roads to a sensible level.

Anyone who isn’t paying the most attention when ‘pootling’ through housing estates and past schools and shops, needs to have a word with themselves. That’s the least relaxed I am in a car!

That’s not the situation that was being discussed. They are indeed when you should be paying most attention, and i’m a particular fan of the new(ish) flashing 20 limit around school start/end times.

It’s when you are on some random B road and being forced to do 40 when there’s no hazards other than the odd pheasant that would warrant doing a lower speed than 75.

Overall, speed limits need reviewing in many situations. A lot of urban speed limits need reducing, and a lot of other limits need increasing.

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councilof10 with all due respect you sound like a(bad) accident waiting to happen massive bellend

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http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/stw-abusive-and-obnoxious-subculture

councilof10 with all due respect you sound like a (bad) accident waiting to happen

In many respects he’s right.
Whether its riding your bike, a task at work, or driving the car, its easy to become bored and not concentrate when the task at hand is well below your ability level (how many of us have had silly MTB crashes on trivial trail features?).
On the other hand when you are actively engaged in what you are doing concentration (and hence performance) is much better.

Bit of several things.

Rules that aren’t enforced may as well not be rules at all for large chunks of the population
Speed limits being randomly lowered despite an accident rate of 0% over the 30yrs or so i’ve lived in the area.
Cars becoming more capable making old speed limits obsolete.

By and large I have much bigger problems with people that drive massively under the limit (a lot of 40mph on main A roads around here), and idiot overtaking (when on the bike).

Wonder if the new versions will be available in 26″..?

You’d hope so, up and coming XC racers in the under 12’s category deserve decent tyres too

Only watched the channel a few times when I was round at parents house.
Everything I saw was pretty much terrible, so not really surprised at its demise, and certainly can’t imagine anyone paying for it.

Or is that little climb (when they have to do it 12 times) enough to break things up?

It’ll take a few teams with no out and out sprinter pushing the pace for a number of laps to really break things up, but yes, in theory 1.5km@6% x12 should be enough.
Looks perfect for Sagan/GVA/Matthews.

Just as a quick tip, if anyone really likes the MKII, then maybe stock up, as Conti were showing a new MK design at Eurobike.

Some new pics are surfacing:

Looks like they put the side knobs in a more sensible spot than half way down sidewall this time. And slightly more surface area on centre tread to make it grip better on hard surfaces.

Snap all the way.
Tacx don’t seem to be able to make a trainer that will work and stay working for more than 10 days.

Thunder Burt 2.1 for max speed.
Xking 2.2 or Rocket Ron (either size) for speed with a quite a lot of versatility.

Anyone know how to view live?

+1

I’ve found the Protection carcass can take a day or so of turn and shake to get fully sealed (with the conti sealant), but once sealed its been flawless.

You don’t live in Britain then…?

Well yes, but i’d probably have had the road repair team out rather than have riders dodging craters on a TT bike at 55kph

Just as a quick tip, if anyone really likes the MKII, then maybe stock up, as Conti were showing a new MK design at Eurobike.

TT shook things up a bit today, and actually quite enjoyed watching it.
Road surfaces though – wtf! A couple of mine shafts with yellow paint round them…..

They’re racing

The guys that crashed weren’t racing, they were having a snooze being sucked along waiting to race a bit later.

couldn’t that have been avoided?!?

Yes, by riders paying attention. There was a day-glo whistle blowing marshal there.

Obviously in an ideal world, the car shouldn’t have been there, or you’d have some cones to deploy on the day to keep the peleton entirely in the other lane all the way around the corner.

Has such a thing happened on any other major tour?

Yes, all the time, although usually static objects like bollards that should have been removed but weren’t.

For Example:

Vuelta a España organisers apologise for bollard that caused Kruijswijk injury

Also bizarrely short,
I haven’t found the medium overly short, and I’d consider myself of average proportions. Its 15mm shorter in the TT than my M/L Defy and 10mm shorter Stem.

Same, at 5’9 with ever so slightly long legs for height, i’m pretty much as medium as medium gets, and I don’t find it short at all.

I don’t think it was anything too specific mentioned previously

Well in that case, based on A) the information given previously, B) no-one wants silly upside-down forks this year, i’ll vote for one of these:

Depends how much actual mountain biking you want to do.
If envisage yourself maybe riding a trail centre, or some local rocky, rooty singletrack, then a hardtail MTB is the correct choice.
However if all your off-roading is going to be canal paths and forest roads then go for the gravel bike (make sure to pick one with clearance for at least 40c tyres)

The guessing game doesn’t quite work as well since you’ve mentioned on other threads what was coming!

Depends on the shorts really.
Typically MTB shorts are made of a much more robust material than normal shorts so they don’t rip the first time we fall off, and last a while with wet gritty mud grinding away between them and the saddle.

2.5W/Kg is essentially untrained, so should be able to make good initial gains up to ~3W/kg, then it starts to become much harder.
It’ll depend a lot on how you personally recover and adapt to training, and possibly if you’ve been very fit (nit necessarily cycling) in the past.
I’d say 6 months at the very best, but 12 would be a more realistic expectation.

have you two done a bike park?

No bike parks, but more than enough trail centres, MTB marathons, endurance races etc.
Going down is WAAAAY easier on the cardio than going up (unless you are going down screaming STRAAVAAAA as loud as possible).

Yesterday I rediscovered the long-forgotten (by me anyway) Lucozade tablet

The problem with those (much like jelly babies) is the crazy quantity you need if using them as the only source if energy.
To be fully fuelled, you’d need 1.5 packs per hour!

Also may be able to find some good info here:

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If you’re losing weight, my guess is that your starting nearly all your rides part bonked. Feeling really hungry 2hrs in kind of backs this up.

Lots of things go into what fuelling you need on the bike.
What intensity are you riding? How ‘strong’ is your stomach (tolerance to digesting more difficult foods). How well fuelled you started off. What your objective is for the ride.

You need to experiment a bit and find out what works for you.
For me, for proper long rides (especially if including higher intensity), I can’t physically eat enough, so rely quite heavily on energy drink like you linked.
Shorter and very low intensity rides, you can deliberately ride low fuelled to help encourage the body to choose fat as its fuel source and preserve your precious carb stores.

It’s uplifted = i’d do it.

Not got any first hand experiences, but do some checking up regarding expected costs vs profit.
Last time I checked into it (which was ages ago admittedly), unless you were running an ASIC the electricity costs of running your mining rig outweighed any likely gains.

I guess it’s something to do with humidity too.
Even on the rare day here when its clear sky, the sky is very often ‘ice blue’ rather than ‘sky blue’.
It sounds daft, but the first time I went on holiday to France, i landed in Toulouse airport and the first thing I did was take a photo of the sky because it was proper blue.

I saw an info graphic t’other day about the amount of sunlight received by the USA vs europe…. might explain the amount of un-photogenic flat light from overcast days we get in the UK

That’s a real eye opener, did not realise that at all.

Sorry for asking this, but…. are random weird toolbars (that people just automatically click OK to) still a thing?

Yes, people love to click OK, OK, OK, OK, OK.
And then ask you round to see if you can check why their PC is going slow.
Worst i’ve seen was 1/3rd of the page taken up because the browser had about 20 toolbars installed……..

Easy choice.
Carbon 29er HT.
Covers the widest range of possible uses I think.

Think it’s an 18t on the Grinduro. 16t on the Plug 1.
Plug seems a really nice frame, enjoy mine, good confidence over the rough stuff.
Not sure i could manage a gear that size off road.
Glad you like it.

Dull course = dull race.
KOM’s on small rises is pathetic.

I get this ALL the time, unless I am under direct and significant pressure to get something done. And it’s not to do with medication either. It’s just who I am.

I have no project at the moment, I have endless scope to do some great work without commercial pressure, and yet here I am doing basically nothing. It’s not really forum addiction – it’s just that the forum is where I go when I feel like this. If I have lots to do I come on here far less.Describes me exactly.

And this I think highlights an area of capitalism i’m really quite uncomfortable with. 1400 people lose their job because company ‘only’ made £600m profits is quite disgusting.

I’d definitely have a small snack (nutrigrain breakfast bake would be my choice) and a bottle of half strength energy drink.

Andy, I have a USB rechargeable Lezyne one that came free with a magazine subscription, can be used as a front or rear but I only ever use it as a rear. Must be 4 years old now, think it’s called a Zecto IIRC.

I know exactly the one you mean, but have avoided it as there are a lot of reports of them failing when they get wet. But yes, that’s more or less exactly the sort of thing i’m after.
Currently running two of its smaller brother (KTV), and whilst they pass the waterproof test, they’re just not very bright.

Edit: Seems they are doing a new brighter version for this year.