2008, 76kg, with just over 200psi IIRC.

Jeesus! Based on that Im totally under-pressuring my shock!

That doesn't sound right, mine's '08 and I'm 72kg running 150psi (30% sag)

160lbs kitted up, 150psi for normal riding, 170psi for racing/marathons…

Quite a lot of rebound damping…

With the Five, 1psi per 1lb of body weight isn't a bad starting point…

Argos cycles?

http://argoscycles.com/www/renovation-pricelist.htm

Coogan, I see your point, but do you not see where I cunningly pre-empted in my OP exactly the sort of line you're taking with 'blah blah'

Now that's just crazy talk!

Flippin' 'eck, what if it gets covered in mud too?! Heavens above!

God forbid anyone actually have any interest and pride in their own bike!! Next you'll be suggesting I should actually ride the thing… Heavens above indeed! 🙄

Well I've always had silver cranks you see so I don't know if I'd cause it… but I've seen XTRs all polished and horrid looking…

The steel Genesis bikes remind me of mid nineties steel Konas – long and comfy and keen!

Robin: I just like riding bikes tbh, sometimes I love just going out and absolutely flying on the Five, sometimes I like the more raw challenge of the singlespeed HT. The SS HT can also make easy rides harder and more exciting.

Besides, the SS is nearly always mechanically functioning, which if your maintenance routine is anything like mine, is a god send!

Barnsley – I'm not sure the big hit is a good candidate for a FS vs HT argument though 😆

robin, I have a Genesis singlespeed and a Five, they see about the same amount of action tbh. I'm not one for HT vs FS, I couldn't chose just one!

Genesis Altitude

RE: what's the point of night riding…

I like to ride 3 – 4 times a week if I can, in the winter night riding is the only way to realistically carry on. I don't do it for the 'experience'

Just wanted to say that this image screams all kinds of cool!

Road seasons starts the second this freak nice weather ends.

3rd bike in was my ally Cervelo, apparently the start of it all going downhill LOL

Edit:

Isn't the super six a TDF frame? I thought it was.

And so was the Soloist…

lol, I just mean that as lovely as your bike is, it's not like it's a piece of TDF worthy exotica followed by a load of turds which John L seemed to suggest…

It gets better with each listen for sure but jury is still out.

Doesn't help that I was probably just hoping for Blackholes disc 2 for an album…

No offence to sunchaser but I do fail to see where this thread went overly downhill from there… I can understand if someone opened with a tour standard piece of exotica and then we all posted our normal-to-quite-nice standard of bikes.

Posted on the cheesy riders…

Tbh, if it was me, and assuming you really liked the Pat, I'd 'find' the £300 to get the Alpine.

The fact that you said "can't really afford" as opposed to simply "can't afford" means you could probably find it 😉

I'm sure the coffee elite would scorn all over nespresso but it got me 'into' coffee when I hated it for so long so it can't be all bad!

oddjob: it depresses me that your winter bike is my main bike :'(

Way!!! Another 'velo!

I don't understand, you passed him because he was going to slow… even if he was able to keep up by drafting, surely putting him back on the front is going to slow you down again…

Sounds like you busted a gut to pass him and couldn't make it stick… 🙄

Obviously it now has headset spacers… Cervelo Soloist with mostly Campag Centaur

You'll need to acquire mac versions of the software but everything will work fine. I work in a mixed PC/Mac office and Office 2003 PC and Mac works together happy as can be.

I've been on Macs for the last year now, it was forced upon me, I didn't believe the hype, wasn't really keen but now I'm converted. It's just really lovely, well thought-out hardware running with a pleasant and productive OS…

RE: Aquaplaning…

Sheldon Brown said no.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gloss_ho-z.html#hydroplaning

Got the singlespeed version, very good bikes! Very forgiving ride, might be seens as flexy if you're a big bloke though but not heard anyone actually find this…

Work horses:

I suspect most of the fluff/talking is work avoidance and plenty of riding gets done at the weekend/after work…

I need a firefox bookmarklet to auto paste this response I reckon…

Try a 2.35 Blue Groove Stick-E up front and a 2.1 Nevegal DTC out back. The 2.1 Kendas are like 2.35 Highrollers in size anyway.

The massive increase in speed of loading thumbnails in finder has been worth the cost alone for me.

Entourage seems buggy as now though, seems to crash at will when downloading attachments. CS4 seems to running sweetly.

Aside from the thumbnails thing, not seeing any performance increase (24" 2.4 intel core 2 duo iMac)

WMB are screaming bike of the year about the 2010 stumpy already. But then they did the same about the 'dale Rize last year and it didn't even feature in the shortlist so take from that what you will…

Singlespeed = 2.35 BG front, 2.1 HR back
Fullsuss = 2.35 BG front, 2.1 SMB8 back

Can cope with a wild back end (I run the above all year round) as long as the front is good and whether it's real or psychological, a draggy tire always feels twice as bad on the back as it does on the front.

The singlespeed is a steel Genesis and it's so comfy I don't feel the need for anything big on back for comfort reasons anyway.

Well I always swore by it until I started riding my Genesis singlespeed, with own brand saddle, without padded shorts (stood up most of the time see). On the few occasions I do sit down, I'm amazed at how I probably wouldn't need padded shorts even if it was geared, leading me to believe that perhaps the old Bel Air isn't that comfy afterball. I do go a bit numb and the arse bones on long climbs…

Another thing to note, I intended to look after this C-Max being the closest thing I've had to an actual new car – sadly the rear is almost always void of seats and looks like the front of craberry's landy!

The wife sarcastically suggested we might as well have got a van… to which I reply, "I did suggest a van!"

This thread is 90% fail!! This just looks like every other "post pics of your bike" thread…

Don't get me wrong, some nice bikes on here, but no way near what I'd call "most bling bike" candidates. I've got some lovely bikes (£3k +) but I'd never claim them to be bling I have to agree with some of the rules posted above…

Yeah, pretty sure MBR loop was more like 60km or something. Which if you straight line it and cut off the that big loop north from Cwmcarn, would be far off.

2.0 TDCi C-Max – powerful yet staggeringly economical (50mpg on an Afan/Brechfa M4 run, wife even gets 37mpg queuing bumper to bumper across Bristol every day), comfy, takes 3 bikes and riders inside the car, drives like a proper car.

Sadly, rattles like crazy and hasn't been the total reliability experience I was expecting coming from a modern Ford but nothing critical. I deffo reckon they make the C-Max on a friday though. I swear to god I'm going to hacksaw the bloody rear passenger dinner trays off if they keep rattling away.