It’s a long ride back from Trient…

The best commercially produced beer in the UK IMO. Once tasted, never forgotton…

If it’s your first time you won’t be needing to find ‘neat little routes’, there’s absolutely tons to do.

Enjoy. (we’re going out mid-September, I prefer it quieter and don’t mind riding up hill.)

Front National is way bigger than BNP ever was.

This tells you something unpleasant about the (particularly rural) French, and they have quite a controlling interest in the Tour, and hence other cycle racing.

I recall fuel was that price in 1980…

one drop bar’d bike to do it all..

A fat bike with an extra set of thin wheels ? Depends on what ‘all’ is…

It’s because modern bikes are designed for racing. They’re far too short for ‘just riding’. MTB geometry is finally OK (try riding a bike from the mid 90s and you’ll get my point), hopefully roadies / CX will catch up eventually.

For me, Boardman won every tour he started. Including 95…

mrs flap_jack had l4/5 disc removed 15 years ago. A month ago she rode 115 miles at 13.5 mph. It’s all about dedication during rehab.

irrelevant it’s illegal. it’s exceptionally anti-social.

Please, Genesis, make some bikes in 63cm. Please.

I think the key here is ‘Dealer’, ‘Large group’, ‘Morning Noon and Night’.

If my next door neighbour had a quiet toke, no probs.

If he’s running a house for continuous use, get the plods in, it’s not reasonable to live next door to that.

Smokers just don’t get how offensive the smell is (TBH weed is much less offensive, but that’s a different question).

Also, get a decent size barkey dog. That’ll ruin it for them and they’ll go elsewhere.

yep, tennis (like rugby) too middle class to allow the obvious widespread drug use to spoil the illusion.

I found pedaling efficiency to be interesting – I was appalling and by concentrating on this saw rapid improvements. This was on an old polar, which was a real rough approximator, but still useful. I increased average speed on my sunday ride by 10% in a few months by concentrating on style…

OK, my bad. There’s an allowance for the Pashleys.

Steel-frame bicycles, of new construction but with vintage characteristics, may be used (but joints must be brazed
in construction) and they must be assembled using vintage components (gear levers, handlebars, pedals, etc).

Quite right too, IMO.

I did 10kg in 2 weeks a few years ago. I did ride over 2000 km in that period though…

I think the new Pashleys should be allowed to ride, maybe in a different class – they’re a damned sight harder to ride than the tricked up Record Aces and Colnagos, and much more like the heroic era bikes.

Shame, oldgit. We went as spectators and loved it. SO much that I’m looking for a suitable bike for next year.

I did chat to someone who’d busked it on a Pashley Guv’nor, can’t see the Italians letting that happen…

I do like a drink, this is about 8 pints on a Saturday.

Sadly, this is the problem. I have the same problem. I can be thin and miserable or fat and happy. Has no effect on my fitness / BP / RHR , just on BMI.

but to burn more fat, you’ll need to ride faster

Not necessarily. Further, yes. Faster, well, that depends on your type 1 / type 2 muscle ratios, which are pretty much determined by inheritance.

oh dear. you will end up with thoracic kyphosis. best abs exercise ? IMO kneeling on a swiss ball.

29 x 3 superlight carbon frame rigid. Gets rid of all the stupid tecciness on the bikes. Then we can truly separate those whose want to ride bikes in the wilderness from those who want to ride pogo sticks.

Sis-in-law had a successful ablation and is on no meds and exercising hard.

Good luck.

Looks fab. One year…

Who you using ? I believe you’re relatively local to me, I’m always looking for good recommendations.

This thread was meant to be ironic right?

Given that none of us post under our real names.

Don’t you ?

May seem counter-intuitive, but try moving the saddle back. You can then easily support a lower crouch (think sticking your bum out when doing a squat). This may help.

Then watch Brazil.

What was better about the saints ? I can 1-finger lock sticky Hi-Rollers in the dry with BB7s. How can you need more power ?

epicyclo, what’s the build for the top picture ?

I’ve had a lot of luck with BB7s. 110kg down the Pleney you need brakes that work, and they do. But they are ultra fussy.

Where at Woburn ?

The Rollercoaster, particularly…

p.s. no offence taken, it’s friday night ffs, I expect a bit of strong response.

Also, weren’t you complaining about braking bumps at a trail centre?

Not I. I don’t really frequent them. Bikes are changing the environment at trails centres, that’s a given.

fin25 I’ve been MTBing since the ’80s so won’t be golfing anytime soon. I love a good natural knarly trail and my usual MTB holiday destination is Chamonix, not Morzine.

FS bikes let you keep the braking on harder on the back, and the rear locks/unlocks as the weight pitches front and rear. Once the bumps are started the same oscillation is set up in the next bike that passes through. So on ad infinitum. Rocky environments aren’t really affected and I love a full on descent on my FS bike in the right place.

I suppose what I don’t like is damage done by MTBs, I want us to pass through under the radar, without changing the environment. I suppose tree-hugging hippydom is no longer in vogue. Sigh.

+1 I Feel Love. The start of everything that’s still interesting musically. Put the guitars down, it’s all been done.

Join a Union. They’ll work for you, HR works for the Organisation. If you don’t join a Union, then you’ve swallowed the newspapers’ lies and will get crushed.

Ulm. Top trumps rules, Tallest Spire wins. Perched on top of a quite small church.

Particularly impressive as there’s next to no high-rise in the town.

I had to jump on my last damaged one to finish it off.

And had it been on a dome shape rather than a floor, it would have survived that too.

I was a motorcyclist in the 1970s. Same bunch of stupid arguments.

I think a full one has saved my back twice in big stacks. Hard enough to burst it once ! Worth it for that alone.

Yep, just as sweaty as old-school man-mades IME. Not a patch on cool-max or Merino. Are very soft and comfy if the conditions are exactly right, though.