You need a full face helmet for when you ask the landlord to fill your water bottle and he punches you 😀

there’s no fun watching someone with a mental illness implode

I respectfully disagree

You are Bez and I claim my £5.

I went to Bowlers. They didn’t turn off the taps or owt 😀

Roses race on Sat – I can’t make it

I vaguely remember all the taps being turned off in the Hacienda bogs

You’d be reet upset if you’d been for a poo and your finger had gone through the paper…

Don’t mind coming last I suppose. I was last of my wave out of the water in the Salford Tri many years ago. Got a good sympathy round of applause from all the WAGs spectating 😀

Awesome. I’m going to enter. Thanks.

**** hell. You’re actually insane.

Ha ha. The bell ends on this thread are hilarious.

I have a Cafe du Cycliste merino long sleeve. I love it, but wear a windproof gilet with it when it’s cold.

If you want more budget end, look at Torm, which is merino blend. I like mine a lot!

Yep – I’ve always found them fine, too. Even the seat tube on my London Road was within tolerance! 😀

The Hart’s Head, Giggleswick

It’s all a state of mind!

In my view, all cycling is good cycling. You’re lucky to have a farm track as a link to your favourite trail, rather than a busy road full of Audickheads.

Unless you’re in central London, you’re never more than a few miles away from countryside. Use your move as an excuse to get out and explore.

Or just, y’know, put your bike in the boot and drive to the trail.

Another vote for Time ATAC.

Just book into the Premier Inn and be done with it?

I’m doing Coasts and Castles from Newcastle to Edinburgh, staying in pubs.

You saw some drivers acting aggressively towards a group of vulnerable road users, so you take to the internet, like the hero that you are, and…

…blame the victims.

Tool.

Imagine a post on Mumsnet:

“Husband tells me I can buy a new dress if I sell my old one”

Do you tell your wife what she can and can’t spend her money on?

Yep. Check out Rapha, Castelli, and Gore, I think.

Is this a humblebrag thread? 😀

“I did 40 road miles on a fatbike and I’m just sooo knackered now”

Well, I stand corrected too. Apologies.

Depends on wind, elevation, tyres, fitness, etc. For some, 40 miles would be a real achievement. For others, it wouldn’t be a challenge.

40 road miles on that Surly thing would not be my idea of fun, though.

Nope – you can’t use the B2W scheme to put £1000 towards a more expensive bike.

For BMR + moderate exercise (ie 25km bike ride) then 1600 cals sounds about right, and congrats on the weight loss so far.

6kg in 7 weeks here. I did it by eating 1280 cals/day + half of exercise calories. I’ve found that macronutrition is very important. Eat clean protein sources and get your carbs from veg. Have a filling, high-protein dinner then eat nothing after 7pm. Exercise at high intensity. So a 25km pootle (even if you think you’re working “hard”) might burn off a few cals but you actually want to blitz your major muscle groups to exhaustion and avoid “empty miles”. If cycling is your main form of exercise then this means structured quality sessions, such as intervals or hill reps, to actually get some intensity into your rides.

Otherwise, check out other high-impact activities to do when you don’t ride. Lots of HIIT videos on Youtube, but I like calisthenics. In fact, I’ve got right into it in the last 2 months, and my sore muscles eat those calories while I’m sleeping. And you can exercise in front of the telly 😉

ah. <reads a few posts from page 15> You’re not still looking for recommendations.

Not reading through 15 pages, but Bob Jackson

http://www.bobjacksoncycles.co.uk/default.php?cPath=28&osCsid=t1js6mpfd5p6e1mb8vi2ijio47

Everyone wants to ride in this place that you ride then
you are very lucky

I don’t mean to sound smug. It’s just that most of my riding is trouble-free.

I commute in West Yorkshire; mixture of rural and urban. The only incident I’d count as “serious” happened to me some years ago; a guy turned right across my path and I only just missed him. I went back for a word and he was very apologetic.

I use hand signals and road positioning to tell drivers what to do, I don’t wear a helmet which means (according to research) drivers give me more room, I do a little wobble every now and then to discourage close passes, I ride out of the door zone, I take primary at pinch points, filter on the right, wave thanks to patient drivers, and stop at junctions forward of the stop line.

Maybe I have been lucky so far.

It’s a bit like dealing with toddlers – give them very clear and assertive guidance about how you want them to behave and you’re more likely to get compliance.

This.

I never get impatience when riding in primary or assertively out of the door zone. In my experience, drivers are happy to wait behind you as long as they know what you’re doing. As I said above, most people are **** stupid. They feel all warm and safe inside when someone is telling them what to do.

I wave thanks to patient drivers, and accept that nothing I do or don’t do will change the attitudes or behaviour of the minority of dangerous and ignorant ones.

Most people are just **** stupid. Ever talked to an averagely stupid person? Well half of people are even more stupid than that.

But they are still allowed to drive cars.

I’d have no problem picking up the kids/going for a pint in lycra. I mean, who cares what anyone else would think? There are loads of cycling dads at my son’s school; no-one would bat an eyelid.

However: given your stated preference for non-lycra, you could check out Vulpine. I think their stuff is smart as hell.

Tops currently in my bike kit drawer: Torm, Rapha, DHB, Cafe du Cycliste. Tops I am eyeing up: Howies, Rivelo, Velobici, Shutt.

My current favourite: Torm

I’ve just ordered a Regatta waterproof for my 3 year-old lad for £7.95 from the site. Cheers 🙂

That’s exactly what I needed to know. Thanks man 🙂

is it any worse than my mates offroad proflex

Yes.

I had a hardtail Activator as my first MTB. It was a cheap and fun gateway into a sport. It weighed a ton though 🙂

What do you want it to do?

Inspiring stuff and great pics!

Drive to Derby. Do Pennine Cycleway to Hebden Bridge, camping overnight in Buxton. Get train from Hebden back to Derby.

As others have said, relax and it goes away.

Do it, mate. There’s something pure and simple about road riding. Just you, your bike and the road. You go faster and further than on an MTB. Your bike is simple and efficient, and everything you need can be carried in a back pocket, doing away with the rucksack full of shite that MTB magazines have convinced you you need just to go on a bike ride.

The people saying that road riding is “boring” have never climbed a Pennine pass until their legs turned to jelly, then descended the other side at 50mph… etc

Learn to embrace Lycra!