Jeesh, enough with the ad breaks already.

I dont get why he’s doing this interview? He’s really not coming across very well. What he hopes to achive I dont know. I dont trust a word he’s saying, He dosent seem perticually remorseful, in fact hes a pretty nasty vindictive ahole.

A bloody good question. Some don’t even have balance control. Sorry, I don’t live in a harmonically perfect box, I have a house with furnishings and such.

How long does it usually take to process a subscription? I hit the button only last week and a new saddle will be most handy. Just wondering like.

Im off to Australia for a month in February with my wife. Were stopping at Sydney, melbourne, and Adelaide to see family. We’ve all sorts booked and I can’t wait. So far were walking the top of sydney harbour bridge, jumping out of a plane, swimming with great whites, driving the coast road for a couple of days in a supercharged v8 mad max style to see the 12 apostles, before going to see the clipsal 500. A few concerts at the aderlade fringe festival before calming it down and chilling on kangaroo island for a few days. Stoping in Singapore for 3 nights on the way home too.

Can’t bloody wait. Goodbye wettest 12 months in history, hello 48 degrees.

iPad fail, let me fire up the laptop.

I went on one about three years ago, and I thought it was actually a very good course. They covered a lot of the observational and driving skills that you find on a IAM course. Granted, it might be run by a different agency in your area, and it might not be as good, but for the course I went on, there was no patronising or judging, just a fairly intresting presentation. You’ll probably learn something if you change your attitude.

WOW, thats some scarry footage. I cant belive anyone in that plance survived.

Grimy – ah sorry assumed you had ridden road bikes before. A sack of spuds will appear amazing compared to an mtb on the road

Indeed, other than a few quick rides on my brothers specialized secteur, Ive little miles put in as a roadie so cant really speak with any excperiance of road bikes. I just wanted to share, for what its worth with others who might be in a similar boat and after something to ride out this guff weather on and to commute with. I get the impression theres a wave of people coming to the conclusion and CX bike might tickle their fancy right now.

FunkyDunc, Its fast! Originally I was considering a set of road tyres, or perhaps even a second set of road wheels for commuting, but Im starting to think there is no need. Perhaps not until the summer anyway. I accidentally read the maximum inflation pressure as 165 psi, when it was actually (65) psi, so I inflated the tyres to about 120. Ive been riding it like that for a week and it seems fine 😆

Even at those pressures, the bike seems quite compliant and the lack of suspension really not an issue. Its confident in the turns, the carbon forks and oversize headtube give a really tight feel, but I cant get my head around fast cornering on wet roads with skinny tyres yet as I’m pretty new to this drop bar lark and it just un-nerves me, especially as im also getting used to being clipped in. If and when it ever drys up, ill push it a little harder but for now, I cant help but imagine the ensuing consequences and pain of the front washing out when im clipped in, on a wet road with trucks and cars flying about. Dont even talk to me about all the wet polished old railway lines that cross the roads at an angle in trafford park 😯

I dont know what else to really comment on? As a mountain biker switching to something more suited to the road I’ve noticed that it accelerates very quicky, which comes in usefull when negotiating traffic and comanding the road at dangerous junctions without slowing the cars behind me too much and pissing people off. It feels safer somehow for that.

Hills seem effortless compared to lugging a FS mountain bike up. You really dont need the same ratios as a mountain bike as it flys up. Must be the weight and lack of energy sucking suspension.

Oh and the Brakes are working great now. I pulled a decent endo past my driveway when I got home last night! 8) For its purpose, you really dont need discs or the extra weight.

I bought my Sensor Fermo just before Christmas. I absolutly love it. There’s some nice features, one of which is the cable routing. For riding round the cheshire planes, on and off the road, across the medows, canal toe paths and transpennine trail, its perfect. With the ultegra upgrade, its a pretty light bike at 19.5 lbs whislt still having plenty of strength in the 32 spoke wheels. I havnt been on any epic rides yet, but when I’ve finnished my regular loops, I feel like Ive got enough energy to go do it again.

Your not going to go for it with the lack of disc brakes. I was a little concerned myself, but now the cantis are bed in, they’re plenty powerfull enough and just make for a lot less maintnenace which was the whole point of this bike over my mountain bike. Well, that and its speed. My commute on it is averaging about 5mph quicker than the mountain bike and is shaving some serious time off the journey.

The Fermos lack of discs probably means its not for you, but I can tell you a cx bike is a real hoot.

Best:-

Worst:-
2 pairs of jeans from Burtons. They fell to pieces within a week of wearing each pair. Almost like the cotton was rotten. First the buttons just fell apart, then they just developed random massive holes everywhere.

BREAD SAUCE. WTF. I thought they were having a laugh when they told me what the funny looking white sauce with cloves stuck in it was? I mean, Bread….Sauce???? 🙄

Like 😆

When I’ve been out shopping in January, all I can see is an accumulation of rubbish they couldn’t sell all year and that nobody still wants. It’s particularly annoying when they don’t bring the decent stuff ack out till February.

Cheers boblo, I’ll file that suggestion in the usual place.

Joe Browns is great for finding my wife something to wear to the pub.

HotUKDeals is pretty good for baging a bargin. Just bought myself a jedi light sabour for £14 lol, But my wifes new Catapillar mardi fur boots for less than they go second hand on ebay was a bit of a bargin.

Websites that wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for Tim Berners-Lee the British inventor of teh Internet! 😛

Sounds like youve got wonkey feet. Do the soles of your favourate shoes have more wear on one edge? As claudie alluded, you may need pads fix you up.

If you’d like to try something different, try Penderyn. My sister bought me a small selection case of Penderyn Sherrywood, Madeira and Peated. I usually drink Talisker or dalwhinnie scotch, but I can report all three of these welsh whiskys were excelent. If your trying to amass a collection, then it would be rude not to have something a little different like these in it. 🙂

Edit: Just looked at their website, 2012 winner of the best world whisky. so It cant be too bad eh.

Foxs killing cats? Long live the foxes! 😛

Ive got to agree, the clear skies and hard dry ground is fantastic, but when I opened to the curtains this morning to -5c and sheet ice I wimped out of my 5.30am cycle commute and reached for the car keys. I convinced myself it was only on health and saftey grounds, mixing it up with lorrys in trafford park on two wheels and ice isnt fun, but we all know the truth is I was being a big girl. 😆

A couple of hip flasks, and a bottle of talisker to take out riding over he winter?

we should change the name of this thread to “who’s got the longest seat post” 😀

Went into Manchester with my wife for dinner and a show last month. Had a great dinner, but time was getting on, so had rush the waiter with the bill before running across town to the MEN arena. We get there and it’s very quiet. 😕 Oh dear, they’ve gone in already, quick come on, lets run some more…..hang on, there’s no lights on. Wtf, we’ve got the wrong place, must be at one of the other theatres. Don’t tell me we’ve got to run back across town.. Get the tickets out. Wife’s getting pretty flustered a this point. Tickets say MEN Arena, right day, right month…

Wrong year. Nov 2013. 😆 I wouldn’t mind, we got them six months earlier. Who sells tickets 18months before a gig? Went to the pub instead and had a good laugh about it.

Three bed semi here and our stat is in the hallway and set to 15 degrees. I don’t bother with the timer as our life’s don’t run to a schedule. It kicks in and out about three or four times a day for an hour or so whilst its frosty outside. We’ve old thin double glazing, 9″ solid walls with no cavity, and a little loft insulation but the arched ceilings mean that it’s impossible to insulate about 25% of the loft. 15 degrees in the hall gives us about 18/19 in the lounge. If my wife’s cold, she just pops the gas fire on for a while. Our gas usage averages out to about £35 a month.

I did just make a significant improvement to the heat retention by draft proofing the hallway. The gap between the floorboards and skirting boards was letting a real cold draft up from under the suspended floors. We lifted the carpet and caulked all the gaps, including a few around old pipe runs and broken floor board tongs. Relayed some thick cloud 9 underlay too. The difference has exceeded all expectation.

When I heard about this program earlier this morning I was a little worried about the damage it would do. Having watched it, I think it was pretty well balanced. Sure there was parts that you wish you could have re-written, and I’d have liked it to deal with some of the attitudes towards our right to be on the road, such as the usual VED comments thrown our way. Considering that the mass majority of its viewers have probably never ridden on the road, and many already have grudges about cyclists, this was a good program to challange some of the views without basically alienating them and telling them they’re all wrong. Instead it may make the odd one just think a little.

None. Zero lies.

yea right.

“did you mum say anything about me”
“does my bum look big in this”
“have you ever thought about someone else during sex”
“Did you enjoy that meal I spent hours preparing”

Little white harmless fibs to protect her feelings are mandatory.

Maybe he was out buying you a christmas presant?

i-stuble works for me. For the money you cant go far wrong. Ive had mine a couple of years now and its still cutting well too.

Please dont be insulted, but you have routed the chain through the rear derailleur correctly and not over the metal guide between the jokeys? Its an incredibly common mistake that causes a fair bit of chain noise as it rubs away.

Iron and teatowel worked a treat for me a few months back. I did worry I was gonna make it a lot worse, but the gamble paid off.

Yes I would, and so could any other mechanic worth their salt. However, for the cost of a chain, I’d go with option B. Fit a new chain and see how it goes.

Three outcomes are:-

a) It works! your quids in.

b) Worn cassetts tend to cause slip, where as worn chainsets tend to cause chain suck. If your getting slip and no suck, I’d get a new cassette.

C) your getting chain suck. Put the old chain back on and get every pennys worth out the old rings whislt you save up to replace the lot.

I just recomended an ebay one to a work mate. He fetched it into work to show me, and I bought myself another as it was bang tidy for the money. Comes with a UK charger, Headstrap, and a waterproof rubber case for the battery that ive not seen before on the old bastid lights. All for £22.50 inc first class post. BARGIN!

It arrived two days later and is much brighter than my original dx bastid from two years ago. The rubber battery case isnt shown on the advert, but both came with one from the seller below. 😀

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150952621986?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

I dont have a misty eyed relationship with my lbs. I guess because Ive not been since I was about 12 years old and learnt the pretty basic skilz needed to maintain a bike myself. If I should ever suffer a lobotomy or require some specialised equipment that necessitates a trip, I’d expect to pay the poor sod that worked there.

Another Nexus 7 vote. Think you knows the answer!

Another super hub sufferer here. Running in Modem mode with old router plugged in.

Coffee, at work whislt all my mates and wags are out on the town having a good time. 🙁

I love Britain, because despite being the cradle of the industrial revolution, you resolutely plough on with two taps per sink in the year 2012 – one to boil and one to freeze.

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Sony MDR XB700, Huge, but the most comfortable headphones EVER. Like strapping two fluffy pillows to your head. I can wear them for hours and hours no probs. You get some funny looks though! 😀

It road around the buisness park very nicely 😆 I’m afraid i’m just not qualified to give a good comparison to other cx bikes as this is the first I’ve owned.

There is a review Here! but I wont agree with the coments about the brakes. They perform very well, and as far as I can make out are widley used by pro racers with far more need than I.