mysterymove… have you found the 4X/BMX track at Ruddington yet?

There’s plenty off stuff around just following the bridleways, just don’t expect it all to be fantastic although there is some fun stuff about.

For singletrack woodsy stuff you really need to be heading north towards Bestwood country park, and then Burntstumps, Sansom and Blidworth beyond that.

By July I should be back on the bike for evening rides, so drop me a line and I’ll see if I can show you some stuff out towards Ilkeston way.

The RWS skewer will definitely help stiffen things up a bit, but as said above, the 9mm version would be better.

A Reba with Maxle would be even stiffer, but the extra beef in other areas of a Pike will mean that a Reba will never be as stiff.

Now people like Magura with their double arch fork design claim that this helps stiffen things up, especially when using a RWS skewer again, but actually by how much difference the arch design makes, I have no idea.

Titec make two different versions…

The H bar which uses a 25.4mm clamp and has about 1.5″ of rise in it.
The J bar which uses a 31.8mm clamp and no rise…

Does the iDave diet make folk grumpy and argumentative?

How would that would be any different from normal on here?

😉

molgrips… I thought the interesting graph from that study was the one which compared the GI to the Insulin Index… which had beef way out as the highest.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that the graph is for insulin level compared to white bread for equal calorific value of each foodstuff (1000kCal I think it was)… which means that the cheese amount was about 59g whereas apples were 450g-ish… so they might not stack up to actual serving sizes!

Stop!

Dunno if anyone is interested, but there is a good series on R4 at the moment, which should still be on iplayer, by the folks who produce More or Less called The Story of Economics.

Now, carry on…

Thanks CaptJon, very interesting… although it’s interesting that they note that while there is some tie up between GI and Insulin response, it’s not a perfect indicator.

This quote from the paper

A low-fat diet based on less-refined, carbohydrate-rich foods with relatively low ISs may help enhance satiety and aid weight loss as well as improve blood glucose and lipid control

seems to be agreeing with iDave.

dd… how else are you supposed to know what should and shouldn’t be eaten if you don’t understand the basis behind it?

From an example I used above… wheat is not allowed, but what about buckwheat? It’s not a grain, but the seeds of the plant are milled for their flour, just like chickpeas can be milled into gram flour.

Just as a tip, you can make fantastic chickpea chapatti’s if you are having a curry. I’ve got the recipe somewhere if anyone is interested.

molgrips… I’m getting that impression too.

molgrips… I’ve just had a look to see what I can find out the milk insulin spike… and dug up something which seems to suggest there is a similar spike with high protein/low carb foods like meat and eggs. So I think it is a little more complex than just insulin levels…

iDave… I completely appreciate that, and it being a STW freebie I think you are doing an excellent job of at least making people think more about what they eat…

I guess it’s just the engineer in me trying to understand what the thought process behind it all is, and then be able to help out my other half with finding things she can eat on her diet.

So is it just insulin levels which were considered for this diet?

molgrips… but what is the trigger for causing an insulin spike?

Also, are peppers allowed as a veg? They appear to have similar or higher levels of fructose as some fruit, especially berries… and how about tomatoes? They appear to have a lot too…

I’m just trying to work out what the criteria are for selecting foods for this/similar diets…

iDave… just going to pick your brains a little here as you seem to be answering questions as my other half is on a similar type of diet, and I’m interested in how it works…

As I understand it, the effect of this diet it to limit insulin production by not eating various foods which stimulate it’s production. But isn’t this triggered by increasing blood sugar levels? Or are there other triggers for this as well?

Also, do you have a source of comparative data for the effects of various foods on insulin levels? Or are the foods that are valid as part of this diet just the ones you have found to work best?

For example, I believe wheat and rice are not allowed during the 6 normal days, however, what about other things like quinoa and buckwheat?

But a tubes stiffness is dependent on the tube diameter and wall thickness… so by making the wall thickness thinner you are losing stiffness in the 953 tubes.

damos.. any tube shape that could be used for the 953 could also be used for the 853, and it’s just simpler doing the comparison using round tubes! Do they even make anything other than round tubes in 953?

Yes, you can have thinner walled tubes than 853 for the same strength, but by doing so you will lose stiffness.

You can of course increase tube diameter to increase stiffness to counter this, but as the tubes would have a larger diameter there would be more metal… so increasing the weight.

So, it’d be whether the decrease in weight by thinning the ways offsets the increase in weight by increasing tube diameter…

Well… I think that went well…

Not bad for 1kg of flour, a few grams of yeast, a little salt and some water!

EDIT: I guess I’ll have to work out how to post pics… d’oh! I worked out how to do it!

I put in an application but haven’t heard a thing… which is a bit of a pain as it means I have no idea if I should be buying any tickets or not.

You can select your country in the top right hand corner…

Whether that helps or not is another matter.

Anyway, as said above, Streetmap.co.uk has OS mapping.

I’m liking the look of the new 661 XC/AM helmet.. although I’d want to try one on before buying, but it’s at about that price.

EDIT: As reviewed by ST here[/url].

Middleburns here as well… it’s a pity you don’t need 175mm cranks as there are several sets in the classifieds at the moment. I was tempted, but I really don’t need any more sets!

You’ll be fine if there is 2cm of thread showing… I have less than that showing on my 5 Spot and that gets a lot of abuse and hasn’t caused any problems.

Am I being stupid here.. the lack of a seat post cable stop would only be a problem with canti’s not V brakes, as the cable outer runs directly in the V brakes.

Wouldn’t it?

I know what you mean loneomen… I have an old Marzocchi branded pump where it’s possible to completely deflate the shock while you are undoing the connector as there is a point where the pressure seal is lost while still having the valve pin slightly depressed. It was always a race to undo the pump as quickly as possible and so get as little pressure loss as possible

I ended up fixing that by stuffing extra o-rings down inside the pump head so it would seal until the valve was fully closed, but it still didn’t work very well.

Thankfully I was bought a new shock pump which has a two stage head on it… you screw onto the valve first and then screw another part in to depress the pin.

No idea what make it is though…

Yep, I’d go with the Boardman owners on that thread too…

Nowt wrong with the 2010 range, and the 2011 range looks rather good too, although prices have gone up a little..

Dr Alimantado
Black Uhuru

Mad Professor for a bit of dub…

Just off the top of my head

If you are looking for cheap you can just remove the cable and adjust the limit screws on your front mech and use that.

On the chainline, do you want to use the big ring up front as the single ring? Or the middle ring?

If the middle ring then the chainline will be spot on already, if using the big ring then you can just shift it over to the middle ring position. You will need shortened chainring bolts though, or just take a file to the ones you already have.

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but hasn’t this thread been about whether it’s responsible or not to write about a ride on the Cairngorm plateau in light of the concern from various people over the possible erosion/conservation issues. This then went on to a general discussion about the rights and wrongs of riding in such a sensitive environment.

I’m not re-reading the whole Stanage thread, but I seem to remember the argument there was to do with the right of access and the blatant flaunting of such in a very busy part of the Peak District. I don’t recall any argument being used there on the basis of erosion/conservation.

So no, I don’t see the similarities between them as one was about riding within the access laws, the other is about riding outside of the access laws.

Simon… as you know the access issues with Stanage are different to those being discussed in this thread, what with it being a breach of various laws and bye-laws to cycle along the footpath at the top of Stanage.

So while it would be entirely possible to ride there responsibly in the same manner as riding responsibly on the Cairngorm plateau, the difference is that one of the places we are allowed to be by law, the other we are not.

But I think everyone here is well aware of your views with regards to that!

I think so… however it does only weigh 285gms!

It’s because the flange on the DMR hubs sits right up against the disc mount, whereas the Hope hubs have a gap between them. I understand this is done to allow the DMR hub to be built up as zero dished wheel.

You can get disc spacers, I think I might even have had one once, but I then found that the bolt heads fouled on the dropouts!

Can you not build the wheel so that all the spoke heads sit to the outside? Would this weaken the wheel at all?

How much interference is there between the spokes and the caliper? Is it only a fraction? Or a few mm?

Hold on… why can’t you use a 160mm disc on that hub? It’s just a standard 6-bolt pattern isn’t it?

Erosion can’t be that much of an issue up there now anyway, walkers are now allowed to take the funicular up to the top and then go for a walk on the plateau.

Granted, they are only guided walks, and you have to book, but the plans are for upto 140 people a day to do this.

If that is responsible access, then how is a few bikes riding on existing paths not?

yunki… I asked in the other thread whether your opposition to this is predicated on the following:

a) that mountain bikers by definition are a less responsible user group than all others

b) that mountain bikers generally cause more erosion than other user groups.

Is that correct? Are there any others?

Have you got a lot of text messages stored? I ended up with several thousand and they all take up space on the internal memory.

I then backed them all up to GMail using SMS Backup+ before setting a limit for how many texts I could save from each person.

That made quite a large difference to the space…

Freeview and a hard drive recorder as another option? Or FreeSat HD if you already have a dish.

But of the two I’d stick with Virgin purely because I don’t want to give any more money to Murdoch than I have to…

Yeah.. could be a 2012 model I guess.

Yeah, it does have a Crank Bros logo in the picture doesn’t it…

No idea which stem it is then… maybe a special?

This is the Cobalt stem…

Which has a continuous band at the front, and doesn’t have the bolts.

I don’t think it is a Crank Bros stem… at least not one of the current ones. The Cobalt stems don’t have the bolts at the front, they hold the bar by a wedge that presses in from behind, and the Iodine stems have a face plate.

As for the bike… it’s f’in gorgeous…

yunki… I’m certainly not getting in a mood with walkers or climbers, after all I am a walker and a climber too. Them pesky horse riders on the other hand… 😉

Your stance seems to be based on the following:

a) mountain bikers are by definition not capable of being as responsible as other user groups

b) mountain bikes in general cause more erosion than other user groups

Now, I don’t believe either of the above are true, but could you elaborate on why you think they are? Or if you agree with me on those two, what else are you basing your argument on?

Brown.. I was merely trying to say that the problem with littering is not a problem solely for the mountain bike community. It’s people who litter, and no doubt a biker who chucks their litter away would also do it if they were walking or climbing.

Also, while I have seen inner tubes discarded at trail centres and races, I can’t think I’ve ever seen one when out in the hills… lots of crisp packets and drinks cartons though.

I think that it’s general education that’s needed.

Is it worth keeping heads down a little on the one hand on order to pursuing greater access on the other?

So ultimately no-one should ride somewhere, to enable us to preserve the right to ride there?