When I bought my white Orange 5 I fantasized about tricking it out with red bits.

But then I remembered I’m not 12 🙂

Purple

Good google skills Matt. The French in that Canadian ad is ropey as hell, suggesting it’s not the original ad either? Or would English-speaking Canadians run their ad through Google Translate in order to sell to the French-speaking market?

Try to right-click the advert text. It’s an image file, meaning that it won’t show up in search results. It looks like a hijacked auction.

I rooted my Galaxy Note. Followed some instructions on an android forum and had no problems. If you root, I can recommend SDMaid as one of the most useful apps out there

At least MTB’ers tend to be chatty when you meet up with them randomly.
Having said that, the only people i’ve found who don’t let on/lift a finger/give a nod when i’m out on the road are members of a certain local club out in their club livery, everyone else i see has time to let on – including members of other clubs.

Lordy. You should skip the bike ride and just go to a coffee morning!

. I could only conclude that because i was on my flat-barred hybrid

I’m surprised they didn’t kick you into a hedge 🙂

Cyclist vs motorist stories offer the best click bait because they pit libertarians (who tend to favour justice for the out group) against authoritarians who instinctively identify with the most powerful group, even when to do so is irrational, unjust or against their best interest.

All to do with whether you were spanked by your father, or something.

Is this still going on?
At this point is anyone, on either side of the argument, genuinely thinking, “Right, this next post will change all their minds.”?

Education, my friend. I just posted to correct the individual who thinks that cyclists must keep left in an ASL. But yes, it is probably futile.

So…. How many should we be lining up for, along the entire ASL?
I reckon you could get at least 6 along there. That’s fine is it, that’s what it’s designed for?

Yes

I’m pretty sure that lining up in front of other road users is not what an ASL is intended for. That would be deliberately put different road user in conflict.

The ignorance in this thread is staggering.

Maybe he didn’t want a chat. It’s not a crime. Maybe he was working hard, training to a specific goal, and wanted to focus. Roadie etiquette – you can share the work with a stranger without having to swap phone numbers. Your unpredictable change of pace as he drew alongside you would have come across to him as a bit childish, possibly dangerous.

Hmmm…

hur hur hur you sound like a bunch [of] gay boys

<Tries hard to think of a worse night out>

<Fails>

I like steel, I like niche, I like Yorkshire, and I am in the market for a new build project.

But:

you sound like a bunch [of] gay boys.

That ugly remark has guaranteed that I will never, ever support your business.

Several of my neighbours are gay, one of my riding buddies is gay, and I would rather be out on the road or trail with them than with an unreconstructed bigot such as you.

Thanks. It’s the drivetrain options/solutions I’m hazy on. Very hazy.

I think I’m at one end of a long learning journey!

Just had a read through this thread. What a complete cluster ****.

What Sputnik said. I ride Centaur but I think Athena looks gorgeous. I focus on looks here because I doubt there’d be much noticeable difference in performance other than the Athena being a bit lighter.

It’s hear hear. Here here would make no sense whatsoever, would it?

I know this is an MTB oriented forum but I wish cyclists would show a little more solidarity to each other. The cyclist did nothing wrong in his cycling. Nothing. He found his way blocked by an absolute pecker who should not have a driving licence.

Personally I wouldn’t have bothered with escalating the confrontation like he did. This woman is far too stupid to be reasoned with. I would have given her a little round of applause then passed her on the right.

But you can’t blame him for being angry. Cycle commuters (I am one) sometimes have to stand up for themselves.

People blaming the cyclist, “holier than thou” or whatever, just sound like the Daily Mail readers who think that cyclists are second class citizens.

“We opened a high-end bike shop in an affluent area at a time when cycling is booming. But we went bust. I wonder what went wrong?”

“Why don’t we look on the internet, and find out what people are saying about the shop?”

“Good idea. Ah, here we are. There’s a thread about us on Singletrack. Several people are saying they came into our shop to spend money, felt unwelcome and ignored, so they left.”

“Wow, that’s hard to take. But maybe we should acknowledge the honest feedback, and learn from this for our next business venture.”

“Nah, I’ll go on there and post a passive-aggressive denial, while at the same time basically acknowledging that it did indeed piss us off when people came into the shop. That’ll show them, those potential-customer-bastards.”

Sealskinz here. Never had cold or wet hands when wearing them, either for cycling or throwing snowballs at the kids.

If you raced hard but even paced

This is the big if.

If, however, the course profile is variable and therefore his effort was variable then he may have been racing considerably below LT on flat sections then blowing out his @rse on the climbs. This would still give an average which is close to LT.

OP needs one of those graphs which overlays course profile and HR.

You need to toe them in

This

Your average HR isn’t that meaningful, over a course with ups and downs requiring changes in effort.

It is expected that you would go over your LT for sprints, climbs, even stretches of soft ground. It hurts though. You must be fit and motivated 🙂

I’m not a sports scientist but I don’t think that bursts of 90% max HR during a race are dangerous, assuming you have a healthy heart.

Yep Merlin

Indexed gears
Suspension forks
Threadless steerers
Dropper posts?

Are everyone else’s trails absolutely rammed with ‘walkers’ and their obligatory out of control dog/dogs at the moment?

Tolerance, mate. The countryside’s big enough for us all 🙂

I had some dealings with Planet X many years ago when buying a bike. I had a long email chain with Dave the boss which was, to put it mildly, chippy and bad-tempered, and left me feeling like I was bothering them for wanting to buy a £2000 bike.

I spoke to Brant about this at the time (he lives locally) and he said “yep – some people just can’t deal with us”.

I’ve no doubt their operation has got slicker since then, but I wonder whether that old culture remains. And even though they don’t say it outright, when your order doesn’t turn up on time, I wonder if they’re thinking “We’re doing you a favour by supplying you with low-priced goods. You’ll get it when you get it.”

Going by the stories on here, there seems to be something amiss in their inventory/shipping operation. A customer-focused business would see the importance of this, drop some money on it and sort it out very quickly, and in the meantime communicate with their customers: “Whoops – sorry we got that wrong. We’re working on it” type of thing, rather than machine-generated “out of stock – order cancelled” emails.

Do you remember when all bike shops were a bit like this? Unless you were a regular on their Sunday “A” ride you were made to feel like you weren’t worthy of their custom? Wiggle and Evans have changed all that by being inclusive and customer-focused (yes I know they don’t always get it right). Cycling has changed and it’s not just a handful of Cat 4 roadies who buy bikes and parts. LBSs have to compete and now employ staff based on their people skills, not just whether they can memorise gear ratios.

If you want to be the type of business that simply bangs out cheap parts with a minimum of fuss, that’s fine, but you have to do that reliably, if you’re not set up for retaining hearts and minds when things go wrong.

Can you imagine the outcry if the experiences on this thread were with Wiggle instead of PX? Jeez – people moan if they don’t get a free packet of sweets in their Wiggle order 🙂

Have you been into Blazing Saddles? Good lads.

I ride a brown Pitch with 36 Vans.

I have no idea what you’ve just said 🙂

White Orange 5 here and a silver roadie helmet

Flite on my road bike. B17 on my touring bike. Whatever Orange put on my MTB.

Train to power.

Sir, you have my attention 🙂 Tell me more. How do you do it without a power meter?

Just moved to Hebden Bridge

Welcome dude!

The dealers hang around in the car park and get the best stuff off the sellers before they’ve even got to their stalls.

Not much decent left for the ordinary buyer.

Glad you had a good day mate. I’ll be making my second visit next Saturday. My goals are: 1. Keep off the brakes a little 2. Get both wheels off the ground 3. Do some of the blacks 😀

I’ve been doing 2min 30 steady (still a bit of a sweat on) pedalling, followed by 30 second all out

Presently you’re training on RPE (rate of perceived exertion). It’s cheap and easy but not very precise.

An HRM would enable you to train in specific HR zones. You could find an HRM training program on t’internet. You’d see improvements pretty quickly I reckon.

Someone did post it a little while back, but yes, it’s a good ‘un

You just needed to up the cadence.

In the same gear though, right?

I have an old pair of North Face approach shoes with a Gore-Tex lining that I use for all my MTBing. They are over 10 years old now and starting to fall apart, but the Gore-Tex membrane is intact so my feet stay warm and dry.

When they get too muddy I sling them in the washing machine and dry them on the radiator then they’re ready to wear again.

When they give up the ghost I’ll definitely get another pair 🙂

Surely all miles are good miles as they increase fitness and burn calories. In my case every time I get out and ride has got to be good as riding becomes more of a habit and less a special event meaning I’ll ride more. So is there really any such thing as junk miles?

Burn calories yes. But if you’re riding slowly to stay with your mate, you may not be increasing your cardiovascular fitness or your muscular strength.

But as others have said, these things don’t have to be important to you. It all depends on your goals and your reason for riding.