Now there’s a blast from the past

They put gypsum in beer water don’t they – any connection with your moniker?

You can bung it in your mash tun it helps extraction and accentuates bitterness but in my case it was a Brass Eye reference iirc he was a slaughterman

Patellar tendonitis?

Apply one to each foot for best results 😕

Shimano M163’s are super comfy and well vented at the front

Are the valve cores ok and are they tight? I had a tyre deflate on me due to a poor valve core, I popped in a new one and it’s been fine since.

And seeing as it’s budget day I submit ‘oleaginous’

Such wanton verbosity pray continue. May I proffer ‘poppycock’, ‘blaggard’ and ‘piffle’

it is very tight with my rebas, rubbish in mud

Bugger!

The 2.35 Ikon is quite different from the 2.2 or whatever the narrower one is – has much more pronounced edge lugs and works nicely as a dry to medium front tyre ime

How close to 2.35 does that measure? I wonder if I could fit that through my Rebas.

Never considered a wider tyre on the front and a narrow one on the back.

For some reason I’ve not looked at Conti, odd as I run a couple of sets on my road bikes.

Wow – cheers for all the input. The honey badgers look interesting.

For a bit of context I ride a 29er with Nobby Nics will be training for and riding the Hamsterly Beast and Kielder 100 (May and September). I’m reasonably familiar with Hamsterley but have never ridden Kielder. Has anyone any input on Keilder.

It’s good to hear that I’m barking up the right tree with my tyre choices. I may just have to bite the bullet and get a couple of sets to figure out what’s best.

How do the Ikon / Ralph / Badger fair when run tubeless?

a) at least this much –>| |<——- *
b) 7.876%

* not to scale

HTH

Put it on freecycle?

P.S. Sorry for your loss

Sorry my personal distaste for the mystical crept in there 😆

There’s lots of different types of yoga, some of them don’t involve any spiritual twaddle, like Bikram. I never quite got what Pilates was though.

Treat it as an exercise class, a path to self improvement presumably like non-spiritual yoga or spin classes [shudders].

Have you thought about pilates? Like yoga but none of the spiritual twaddle.

Also buy this[/url] book ignore what the chemically enhanced guff-head in the backwards cap has to say and read the bits by Allison Westfahl which, mercifully, is most of the book.

Also check out this handy youtube compilation of her demonstrating tyhe core exercises.

The routines are something you can do every day in 10 – 20 minutes and have a direct application to cycling. After a couple of weeks of this you’ll ride pain free and stronger.

Google seems to think that tubeless rims have less distance between the rim bed and tyre bead to reduce the chance of burping. The rims also have a channel in the centre to aid with inflation too.

has anyone tried emulating this “shoulder” using duct tape?

Thanks all

319 rim bed isn’t the right size/shape for tubeless the rim strips “bulk” it up so the tyre mounts better and less chance of burping.

you could try using a load of duck/gorilla/rim tape to bulk up your rims and the valves you have and see how you get on.

Cheers Donk. Should I be aiming to give it any sort of profile or just fill up the space between the rim bed and bead hook?

I see from your life line your are due a large pie at 3:32 on a Thursday, nice.

I should have seen that coming!

Google “Tabata intervals”, they’re short and brutal but give results.

Just up the road from Reeth behind Calver hill, taken from the climb up towards Melbecks / Great Pinseat. If I was a better boy scout I’d be able to work out the grid reference!

In the absence of a self portrait have this, old gang smelting mill and hard level gill

Kind of the conclusion I drew but when you buy a top line product and spend that much cash it tends to make you less sympathetic to the dilemma the manufacturer finds themselves in.

My 2p – Read the Hunter Allen and Andrew Coggan Phd book, it is literally everything you need.

I really hate to bad mouth companies in open forum however do yourself a favour and avoid the powertap G3. My experience is that it’s failure prone and the speedy palligap warranty spoken of in years past is just that, a thing of the past. It failed 3 times in the first year on the last time I got my money back. When you spend that kind of money you expect the thing to last at least 1 training block.

They’re a fantastic resource and the data they pump out is really interesting. It’s doubtless that others will disagree with my experiences however Powertap / Paligap have put me off the concept of powermeters until either reliability increases or prices drop.

Moved over from standard 19mm to 23mm wide rims and they feel loads smoother and seem to roll faster when compared to mid to top level factory rims on the same tyres (width / brand etc).

It’s one of those things that sounds like it should be filed under “snake oil” but when you try it it does seem to work. The archetypes get a lot of love and rightly so but I have a set of TB14’s that are equal to, if not better than my archetypes.

These things are entirely subjective of course but I’d urge you to go for it.

Got both my sets from this chap http://www.spokesmanwheels.co.uk/

Edit: I’m not affiliated with the above wheelbuilder etc etc but would gladly accept bribes, bungs and free kit for gratuitous promotion

This niche driving school[/url] makes me laugh every time I see the car about.

There’s also a JSM driing school round here too, seeing a huge lorry with JSM all down the side brings out my childish side.

Not sure about that. To tie in with the camera analogy above (A good one, BTW!) there are many who would just ride on “auto”, but there are, I suspect, equal numbers of people who would set up different ‘profiles’, for want of a better word. A bit like my Garmin, I have different profiles set up for different bikes/usage. The idea of an “integrated” bike should allow the user to set up custom auto modes to suit them. So, there might be one that was set as “Trail centre gnarpoon” and another set as “Local bimblecore”. Angles, suspension, gearing etc could then all be set in the required mode for that use case. It’s not out of the realms of possibility, with GPS, motion and vibration sensors etc. Hell, one of my cameras can already sense a whole load of that stuff for me, so why not a bike? [/quote]

It takes long enough to go riding at the best of times witout all that gubbins. Imagine the size of the forum posts? The “what tyre” threads already occupy hundreds of acres of the internet without throwing electronic suspension modification into the mix too!

I’m sure people will by this sort of thing but it seems a bit OTT given that a ride out for a lot of people usually consists of a few km loop of the red route and a drive back home

Oh and wasn’t the Cannondale Simon supposed to take the world by storm by now?

It seems like that in the future the faff:km ridden ratio will be off the scale! I’ll stick with what I have for now.

If anyone wants me I’ll be in my Unabomber style shack at the bottom of the garden.

Yours scincerely

Ned Ludd

Dirty Dog nailed it with “too little tension”

Bit annoying it wouldn’t flush 4 times to clear the evidence !

Known round these parts as a “bog salmon”, it keeps heading upstream trying to reach the place of its birth

This one comes a bit out of leftfield but always works for me.

I tell myself I’ve witnessed childbirth and consequently any argument I may have had about being a little uncomfortable whilst playing out on my bike becomes entirely irrelevant.

Like I say unusual but works, that’s not to say I’ll not try the soapy tits trick next time!

Definately not! You’ll end up in a hedgeback and you wont care

Actually “Virenque forehead” or “Lewis Teeth” aren’t that appealing, I may pass on the HGH

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7916118

I know it’s only rats but it makes you think.

For the record I’ve used diclofenac, tramadol and prednisolone for recovery and I’ve given pseudoephedrine hydrochloride (mucron) a whirl too. Not in competition just for my own curiosity.

Diclofenac turned my wazz orange but worked, tramadol had a disco biscuit vibe that took my mind off aching legs, prednisolone worked a treat. Couldn’t tell if it was the mucron or weapons grade coffee that opened up my airways but they did something.

Would I have a go at EPO, HGH or synthetic testosterone? Absolutely. Would I try other anabolics? My liver has enough to deal with given my love of beer so no.

I’d give them a whirl out of curiosity more than anything I don’t race anymore and most of my riding is solo these days so my experimentation wouldn’t be unethical in my eyes.

A pint of milk followed by oily fish works a treat for me after a long ride.

Hi Airsick

I know exactly what you’re going through it’s not nice but I can tell you it is entirely manageable. I am also not a doctor so feel free to disregard this entire post but am dealing with a situation almost identical to your own. Speak with your GP as soon as you can because this sounds like textbook depression to me, you _ARE_NOT_ wasting anyones time by doing this.

After 15 years of living with it I took the decision to medicate which, I appreciate, isn’t for everyone but I’d tried CBT, relaxation, self help books etc with mixed non permanent results. I ended up reasoning that none of this would address the fundemental lack of happy chemicals in my brain, hence my decision.

A couple of things I found useful to bear in mind

– Depression is not caused by anything, it just happens. Tell yourself this every time you think I have nothing to be depressed about.

– You do not deserve to feel like this despite what you are telling yourself. You are not a bad person.

– Taking medicine to make you better is no different to having an inhaler or wearing gegs to see.

– Cycling is fantastic and can really help but isn’t a lot of use if you can’t get off your living room floor.

– The voices telling you that no one cares about how you’re feeling and that you’d be wasting the doctors time belong to the depression and do not reflect reality (you may not be able to see this but it’s true)

– Cut back on alcohol / non prescription ‘medication’, I did very extensive research in this area and none of it helped (nothing implied here).

See if you can get hold of Marcus Trescothick’s book, I forget what it’s called, it’s a good read and helped me.

Keep venting and get help, please

I’m assuming that your calorific intake on these rides has not changed.

Could it be increased metabolic efficiency brought about by the longer steadier rides? Meaning you’re burning more fat than you used to.

I noticed when I started road riding that my on bike I ate less and less on the bike.

My Dads dog did something similar after encountering a toad. It came on suddenly and went away reasonably quickly too no lasting effects.

If in doubt take it ot the vets

Hi All

I’m in a similar position to the OP and wondered do you need a race licence for the Nutcracker races or is it just BC races?

Cheers

higgo – Member

I quite fancy a ‘trail’ 29er HT and have £1000 to spend on Cycle2Work scheme. The On*One Parkwood looks like just the thing but the scheme at work is run through Halfords and that rules out the On*One.

So…what else is out there at £999?

Just shelled out my own cash (ie not CTW) on a Boardman Pro 29 and I’m very impressed with both the way it rides and the level equipment on it. Not too worried about the Halfords thing as I do my own spannering and the discount they were offering was too good to turn down.

mrbelowski – Member

Lovely bike. I think you’ll find that the stem is already on the right way and the bars are in the right place. Bloody roadies

going to get my spirit level on the saddle too 😆 no really I am!

After much deliberation, reading the interweb and speaking to people I came to the conclusion that 29 was the right choice for me and after even more searching and head scratching I opted for one of these.

After looking at several 29ers in my price range the Boardman won on spec and price (10% off RRP plus 10% discount with my British Cycling membership).

I took it out last night and it was super quick and with snappy handling. I was very impressed considering everything I’d read about 29ers meant I was expecting it to accelerate and turn like an oil tanker. Speed was really easy to carry through rougher sections.

I’m going to flip the stem to put the bars in the right place, move the saddle back on its rails and that’s it. The fork is suoper plush and I suspect that it will just get better when I figure out how to twiddle the knobs and dials properly but that will come right eventually. The XT shadow mech that doesn’t flap around is brilliant, a proper innovation!

It’s certainly different to the 26er I’ve been riding recently but not in a bad way, just different. I can’t wait to get it into the dales for a proper test.

Cheers for the advice and the gentle shove towards looking at 29ers