lovely bike just wish i had more time to ride it 🙁

interesting study ratadog but prob not big enough or useful enough to make any proper judgements from? do you know where the original article was in BMJ?

theres prob a lot of truth in that whether its conscious or not

cant abide folk that take it too seriously and by that i dont mean expensive bikes* but people who think its somehow anything other than playing about on bikes at the end of the day

*quite the opposite, the folk i know with expensive ss bikes are lots of fun and v down to earth

im not arguing that there aren't well qualified people on here but being able to talk to someone who is informed and whom you trust is a big deal plus the fact we can all pretend we're Travis Brown* on a forum.

i also understand where you're coming from with the professional/personal slant, uptake has been pretty varied professionally

*insert favoured cycling bod here

lol cheers Drac but im not sure its that far from what i said originally

Speak to your GP or another trusted med bod, do not use stw as a legitmate site of medical knowledge. please.

but yeah i didnt make it as clear as i should have 🙂

A medical person at a professional level will give you the advice they have to follow.

i know where you're coming from but what i was driving at was speak to your GP if your GP is someone whose opinion you trust or alternatively and/or additionally a medical person within your family/group of friends

Surely the official medical advice is "get vaccinated", otherwise why run large scale vaccination programmes?

yeah but they're better placed to answer questions about it IMHO

plus I feel a decent GP whom you trust is better than garnering the collective knowledge of a bike forum, also if you have a med person in the family/friends then they'll give you an honest opinion (id hope a GP would too)

but yeah i concede the party line is its a good thing

bizarly I find it easier than with gears, what's that all about?

yeah i feel a bit like that, i think its just conditioning from pedalling harder when you see a hill

it might be that Im too thick for gears 🙁

my opinion is that he should seek medical advice

(not medical advice from a forum regardless of the source)

He's right as medical people don't post on forums.

yeah that was totally the point i was making. 🙄

Speak to your GP or another trusted med bod, do not use stw as a legitmate site of medical knowledge. please.

tick

yeah that was the first port of call, they werent sure…

not all lbs' are created equal

yeah the prob now is which pads and how i know they're wide enough, there was nothing to suggest the clarks wouldnt fit 🙁

Are they Avid brakes?

no shimano

id rather buy another set of pads now than fork out for brakes further down the line!

yeah pins were in, im a bit confused too but ill have another bash during the week

be honest, can you throw them around like a tough trailbike?

I cant but thats rider not bike limited, try one (or lots) out you may be very surprised

anyone? just normal shimano br550 brakes

looks suspiciously inbred like…

pretty sure they're not campag fit, these ones

Mister P, not so much after I complained about cross brakes being rubbish* and was shot down by all the race bods

*and if they're rubbish anyway no great loss

comfy beds and long showers

there have been a couple tallboys on here, quick search should bring them up

not too many knocking about in the UK (prob a lot more in the states with the public release of the frame) but the 2 of the bosses i worked for in the bike shop have one

i didnt realise merino love was so split, i much prefer my merino kit for both cold and warm. i sweat like a monster and never found a synthetic top that worked that well, coupled with the lack of smell ( i wore my thin merino wool tee constantly in India) make it a total winner for me but i guess for other folks its not so clear cut.

this hasnt answered your question in any way. 🙁

no bike is too good to ss, however some bikes are unworthy*

*actually thats a lie

if you dont think or know you need f1.4 then you prob dont

try eckinspain of this parish, hes thinking about doing it his year and is based in madriz

handy drop me a line if fancy a pedal (im not exactly match fit though) or if not let me know some routes locally if you don't mind (been to robins wood?

handyman-is that samways?!

this is my 'race' bike 😀 only got out on it once so far :'(

see those cog things on the back wheel? dont need em either

[disclaimer: post author not responsible for declining marriage due to heavy expenditure on ti single speed goodness]

scan mtbr for tags such as: 29er convert, fork conversion, broken limbs, face reconstruction

im in derby and based at the hospital ill keep em peeled

worked with a bike mechanic, same thing happened warranty not honoured-fingers crossed for you though

i find it a bit weird, mentions rival by name and then implies a fallout?

tbh it would put me off, its not a sense of humour thing its a throw the toys out the pram sort of thing as far as i can see. the other lot might be every inch as bad but something like this would put me right off freeride spain

on the sweating front-sweating like a nun in a cucumber shop

These are similes mate

thats a rubbish one

😉

face like a melted wellie

looks like their face was on fire and someone tried to put it out with a spade

(i should point out we aimed these at blokes, well one bloke really. poor bastard. anyway the point is im nasty but not sexist)

who'd wanna be Howies?

Timberland?

i am paying more than mikey74 for standard depends where you live etc

i liked the mountain king 2.4s (wont be as wide as rr 2.4) but i know there are a lot of people who dont like the Mk 🙁