Might be worth looking for damp mould too, can’t imagine inhaling large quantities of that is going to be good

Completed up to the point where I was asked which body would I most like to look like, I was unable to answer none. Sorry

Floyd Pepper – Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem

Essentially, I need a boyfriend for two weeks in July or August and two weeks in December. I’m flexible as to which two weeks, but I’d prefer the lead-up to Christmas inclusive of Christmas Day. By Boxing Day I’m over it. I’m happy to be unhappy again once the big dinner is over and I can get on a horse and go hunting.
#NotTheMash

What the everloving f$%k 😯 ? That has to be trolling.

*quietly closes the door and heads back to the bike forum*

It’s the mother gypsumfantastic

Top marks (or you’re reading the same book as I am)

Back at you with – Advice

Man and Son in a car accident, father dies son is rushed to hospital.

Upon entering the operating theatre the surgeon exclaims “that’s my son”

I was in the supermarket the other day when an entire shelf full of Omega 3 supplements collapsed on top of me.

Fortunately I only sustained superfishoil injuries.

glol!

How they poo is apparently one of the questions most frequently asked questions of the ISS astronauts.

Flipping that one round, how do you flush a submarine bog with 700psi of water trying to get in?

Isn’t that a Hyacinth?

I have roses in bloom in my garden

Eggs, all the way through the egg and ham block. You never get a bit that’s just white it always has yolk through it.

How do they do that?

Requiem for a Dream

I quite enjoyed that one 🙁 .

Independance Day or Volcano are my nominations for the most awful films of all time. I am physically unable to articulate how bad they are.

As for things I probably shouldn’t have seen, someone getting hit by a train. Can’t remember the year but it left me pretty much unshockable since.

+1 to Every Nicholas Cage film ever.

why don’t we just turn all this on its head and allow doping? Give up second guessing and trying to catch the cheats?

Not everyone responds to medication in the same way, but at least it would do away with the lies / percieved lies and would make for some crazy racing.

No that’s psychopathy/sociopathy, the rest of the human race sticks to a code of moral conduct based on empathy. The elephant in the room being that often the best do ‘win at all costs’, because of their psychopathy/sociopathy.

Exactly.

What answer would you like them to have prepared that would satisfy you though?

It’s not a question of having an answer prepared for them, it was more about anticipating the questions and keeping calm rather than kicking off.

Oh and Armstrong failed tests in retrospect, after the tests improved

Cortisone 99 tour, EPO (Alledgedly) TDS 2001 both failed tests

Doing what you can get away with applies to most professional sport, so I’d say your point is moot.

Why stop at pro sport? It’s human nature to try and win at all costs, it’s in our genes.

But you were saying that pro cycling is the same as it’s always been. Now you’re saying that they can’t get away with stuff the likes of Pantani used to get away with. I’d call that progress.

Same as it’s always been as in taking whatever you can get away with.

You can’t get away with a Pantaniesque 60% Hct these days though therefore they’re unlikely to be beaten. Much like athletics in the 70%.

[Troll]Although doesn’t Paula hold the Marathon world record [/troll]

comes down to faith rather than science

This x 1000 and when the science has been abused in the past (by both sides, think Armstrongs physiological testing that got savaged and the W/Kg brigade on twitter) all you have to go on is faith. Sky, through their inaction and absfucation do not have my faith

Unfortunately it’s history that’s put us there.

If you want to prove you’re different from those that went before then act differently. Pro cycling remains resolutely the same as it’s ever been.

Clearly my refusal to believe has touched a raw nerve with some 😀

What would you do if someone asked you to divulge all of the training and preparation processes that you use to remain clean but compete even with opponents who you believe to be dopers?
Would you sit down and explain in intricate, comprehensive detail your working out ?

Simply put, Yes. If it absolved me of cheating or even the suspicion of cheating then it’s worth doing especially when you’re asking people to believe you.

No that would be the previous cheats that mean you have decided to distrust them

Replied to any 419 emails lately? I’m sure the latest one is genuine.

TBH there is no point having these discussion when folk talk about their “spidey senses tingling” what you mean is you have **** all evidence but you wont be convinced because you have a hunch. Just say that then and admit your view is not evidence based.

Wow! These things don’t even make you even slightly suspicious, in a sport that’s got serious form? You lap it up unquestioningly? I couldn’t give two hoots if they’re doping or not but if you want me to trust you, support your team and buy the bikes and kit you’re peddling (not just pedalling) then you’re going to have to at least attempt to allay my fears.

Gypsumfantastic : Prove it. How exactly can he prove a negative?

You can’t hence the arguments all over the interwebs.

Everyone else just saw that as he was getting peeved off with the questions over a long period of time

Did the questions come out of the blue? Did they honestly think that people would disrergard the previous 100 tours worth of drug use and take them at their word? Did they completely fail to anticipate and prepare for the relentless doping questions that inevitably follow the leader around every single tour? Actually that might have been a genuine oversight from a team that failed to do basic background checks on staff (Lienders / Julich / Yates / Rogers / etc).

I’m not here to convince anyone one way or another, I don’t mind what you believe. The question was what would sway my opinion and the answer was deal with doubters head on at the time the questions are asked, the Vuelta 2011 would have been a great place to get on the front foot. Also don’t take people for mugs, did you not even google who Geert Lienders was before hiring him?

Doubt remains ergo I remain suspicious.

Would the arguments be so vociferous if the thread was about Contador and Tinkoff or Nibali and Astana?

Just as a matter of interest, what would sway your opinion?

What would you do if someone questioned the quality of your work? Would you attack, avoid or obsfucate? Or would you sit down and explain the results show your working out and calling on mutually respected colleagues if required?

This is assuming that your detractor is incorrect and you haven’t been sending crap and lies out of the door.

Therein lies my issue with Sky (and all of pro cycling in general). I do not believe a dickybird of it (Froome / Wiggo) not because of physiological testing or iffy w/kg estimates on twitter, but because they have given me zero reasons to trust them.

Other things that get my spidey senses going are the timing of Froomes transformation, the appointment of a team doctor that has been subsequently banned for life the abuse of cortisone and AICAR for weight loss (raised in the CIRC).

It’s also been said that the faster Wiggo rode the less outspoken about doping he got. His MO when dealing with doubters was straight out of the Armstrong textbook (attack attack attack). Oh and his coconut hairdo and crappy clothes also p155 me off too 😀

I run a GX 2.1 on an 11-36 block with no issues, long cage.

Start fast, speed up then try to go quicker at the end

I’m surprised it took so long for the official STW diagnosis

But what do people care about?

Me? Non junk miles, a junk mile being one I’m not enjoying.

The more non junk miles the better.

Every day is a school day – cheers

They’re draggier than normal bikes; that doesn’t mean there’s no point in reducing drag.

Fair point, I find it cheaper to pedal a little bit harder 🙂

Laughably quicker than the 2.1-2.3 shod Fives and Lapierres I ride with.

Absolutely an it doesn’t have to be marshy either just a bit rough. I’d wager that some rides are actually quicker or easier on a fat bike (but don’t tell everyone)

If you’re worried about rolling resistance you probably shouldn’t have bought a fat bike 😆

the Fatty’s unexpected party trick- it’s ability to out-climb anything else on steep and loose surfaces.

This x 1000. First time out on mine I cleaned Fremington Edge for the first time since about 1996! You can spin them up anything.

People talk a lot of crap about tyres but the floaters that came on mine have been exemplary, they deal with thick gloop, loose rocks and wet roots with aplomb. You could probably get faster rolling tyres but you’d be sacriicing grip and that’s not worth it in winter.

Be warned though, the bike will bring out your inner hooligan

Going against the grain somewhat, take some time off a week, a month, six weeks it doesn’t matter. Uninstall strava so you’re not being bombarded by other people doing four rides a week and put your feet up read a book, learn to cook somthing new or do absolutely nothing if that’s what takes your fancy.

If you’re anything like me then the pressure to be out riding will be something you put on yourself and then when you don’t go out riding you feel worse and it becomes a vicious cycle.

Go out and ride if you want to and when the spring comes around your motivation will be picking up again right about the time when you’ll want to be upping the milage for summer goals. It’s pointless sickening yourself just because you feel you _have_ to go out.

There’s nothing that sucks the joy out of something faster than when a ‘want to do’ becomes a ‘have to do’

My pedalling style with both legs is fine.

Have you had it looked at in terms of left right power, you might be surprised.

I run speedplay on all my road bikes, if you’re after easy to maintain, hardwearing and adjustable then I’d recommend them.

This x 1000.

The way I see it is life is a buffet table, how will she know what she really likes until she tries everything? Right now she really likes the sausage rolls but the pickled onions on sticks might blow her mind, she’ll never know how they compare until she tries both. You are the custodian of buffet table and your job is to show her the pickled onions (or some sh*t like that :D)

Also this, make sure she’s thinking straight and making the decision for the right reason. Arm her with some facts, be there to support her and let her decide.

As an aside in my experience sport stopped being fun when it got too serious. I enjoyed cricket and basketball at school as it was a bunch of mates spending time running around and having a laugh. In 6th form it all got too serious belicose jobsworths on and off the court ruined it, so I got a mountain bike and look where that landed me!

All the best with whatever she decides, I’m sure she’ll be fine.

Yep, IME the world of diet and exorcize is full of people promising magic spells that make a healthy lifestyle (or more likely an unhealthy one that make you overly thin or disproportionally muscular) easier.

The age old issue of people wanting the results but not wanting to put the effort in. The cornerstone of the diet industry

OP, research the nutritional ketogenic diet, it just works and is Proven healthier than anything else.

Bold claim – do we have any research or context? Giving your body the opportunity to use fat as a fuel makes sense from both losing weight and endurance sport perspective, I’ve done 100km rides fasted. I’m not entirely convinced it’s a sustainable way of eating.

Not sure we really need to be eating what opportunistic stone age omnivores did.

Which presumably included scavanged bone marrow and brains that other predators had bother extracting -yummy! Where do I sign?

Saying that when stop eating bread for a while and go back on it I baloon up and white bread in particular makes me feel bloaty.

Are we talking fat gain or gas / bloating? White bread must be pretty calorifically dense which may account for becoming more, ahem . . . ‘cuddly’ and who knows what your gut bugs make of / with the bread.

It all depends if you have a book out on your point of view it seems…

The general advice is a good balanced diet.

A fellow skeptic 🙂 . I’m adopting ‘variety’ as my mantra

I think some of the “science” regarding what our ancestors ate has recently been busted.

The breeds and varieties of animals and plants are so far removed from what was around back then it does make you think. Couple that with a highly adaptive microbiome and the theory starts to look a bit ‘iffy’ from where I’m stood.

Aye I suppose.

Aside from weight and limited kit choice I don’t see that many compromises with a wider frame.

Three?

26 x 4
27.5 x 3.25
29 x 2.35

Given the right hub you can fit them all in one frame.

I can’t be the only one who is warming to the idea of being able to fit three different tyres into the same frame?

This one

Wooooo high fives

Now I’m really confused