Why should learning a physical skill be different?

You mean like walking? Catching a ball? that sort of thing?

Beginning of week – Greeks vote no to austerity.
End of week – Greek government proposes austerity plan.
Good to see democracy in action.

If I am cleaning the kitchen after a meal, for example, I will just have an extra slice of cake,

If there wasn’t cake there in the first place you wouldn’t be able to eat that extra slice.
No specific suggestions, but I imagine anything you do really needs your wife on board if she’s the main meal provider.

Actually +1 for myfitness pal, use it for a month. Make sure you are ruthlessly honest and thorough though.

In, MTB, i don’t see much of the above, i see work sitting in the saddle twiddling the pedals, but no real work on problems.

Horses for courses to a large extent though. Spending 10 hours a week improving jumps skills is only going to makes sense over spending 10 hours steady state riding and intervals if your rides consist mostly of jumps.

Just heard about a local club rider who collapsed and passed away last week after completing an Ironman in Germany, only 30 years old. Apparently he died due to mineral depravation. Keep on top of your nutrition.

Not enough salt or too much water, depending on what you subscribe to.
http://www.slowtwitch.com/News/Athlete_dies_after_IM_Frankfurt_5190.html

Sad ether way.

No, You’ve quoted your speed in km/h :)

In answer to the OP – no.
Besides brakes aren’t very strava.

Bah! too late posting :)

There you go. Perfect bike will definitely fit. Cheap reliable all the mounting bits you want.

Buy it and ride it and you’ll soon realise how a bike should fit.

It’ll go absolutely everywhere you want it to go.

This +1

Also bear in mind that the amount of fat bike frames that a typical uk frame builder will have built will be approximately zero. Do you really want to fork out that money for what will basically be their first best guess.

I want the higher level document which sets out the original decision on pricing structures.

Requests like this is why councils end up as expensive bureaucratic dung-heaps that need to charge people for administration costs in the first place.

I’d be mightily pissed off too though if I’d been charged that much.

Day to day cycling is such a generally safe activity that evidence other than anecdotal is very hard to come by as to whether helmets are essential safety device or a head ornament. Datasets of accidents are so sparsely and incompletely populated, that not much can be inferred from them either way.
All I can say is choose whatever evidence you like, and be thoughtful in your judgement of others who chose differently.

OP, Does your other half hear the humming noise?

As opposed to a continuation of the last five years of austerity policies which has left Greece in this state?

Yup. Now they now have the option of jumping out of the frying pan.

Anyway, not the time for sniping – I’m very happy for my Greek family and friends who faced the financial stormtroopers and said OXI !!

Let’s hope that it works out well for them.
The worst case scenarios sound pretty horrendous.
Fingers crossed those scenarios are scaremongering.

Grinned as soon as heard the dog section from Richard’s Bicycle book. Alexei know’s his stuff.

Not too shabby for a mountain bike..

What’s the point of the drops at all? Well they are nice for long distances, and I’m wondering if drops would be nice for really long distance – slightly more aero could make it slightly more efficient.

Are you sure they’re nice for long distances? I sure as hell wouldn’t do a long distance on drops out of choice. Unless it’s one of those setups where the bottom of the drops appear higher than the normal top of bar position, in which case you haven’t got drops, but flats, with an extra high bit in the middle.

How about narrow flats, or swept back flats with set of clip ons. Less hassle, more aero, more comfortable.

Drop free mtb.

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/andy-wilkinsons-dolan-time-trial-bike-29431

I got rid of a small wasps nest last week using this –

Great stuff! Nuking it from orbit would be less destructive than this.

Bloody hell, there’s some right old grandad comments on here ‘call that singing?’ ‘Call that music?’
You really don’t realise that sort of bollocks has been said since jeez, probably before Bill Haley…

Didn’t see him, but just watched this –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNkPn0JrTFQ

To quote one of the youtube comments “AIDS was the second worst thing to ever happen to Freddie Mercury” :D

Dump the brakes, big tyres and suspension then. You don’t need much to live on the edge.

While we’re redeeming people – A big shout out for Jimmy Saville too. Raised lots of money for charity. Just got vilified because he was caught, when loads of others got away with it..

The theory used to be that if they are on the back they would naturally cam in a bit more due to fork flex, rather than bend away if on the front. I’ve no idea if it makes a noticeable difference though.

I just do a punishment pass. They don’t listen to reason, so you might as well terrorise them instead.

I think the concept is fundamentally flawed, as it sounds that ultimately what you’re after is an event that isn’t xc because you don’t feel you can compete on fitness, and not enduro because you can’t compete on skill/risk.
There’s nothing wrong with not wanting to compete on those terms, but if you come up with an event that is slightly less gnar enduro and less meh xc, people will still compete, and they’ll compete on skill/risk/fitness.

Crocket’s theme from Miami Vice.

Then I asked one question about if monskie New the pad width,Not that it mattered.

Is this something people measure?

The mains electricity seemed to be brushed over a bit too.

Eat more pies.

Their actions reflect the activities of governments, central banks and regulators. All are flawed.

Though presumably you’re not suggesting the banks are passive partners in this relationship? Government, central banks and regulators are all directed by external influence too.

Seen a couple on the local lanes and they look like fun. Yet to see one off road yet.

:D

I spotted one making a making a nest in the garage this week, so whacked it and the nest with a stick with and ran very quickly.
Shame, but a nest at head height that I’m going to disturb on a daily basis just isn’t going to work.
Had to fix the hole in the garage roof where I whacked it though.

Has the commentator watching a different clock? Keeps on mentioning Wiggo speeding up, when he’s been slowing.

Parents moved to Sidmouth. Nice place, good hills, no idea what houses cost though. Appears to be a great place to be if you’re a builder/handyman though.

Swap the cassette to an 11-23. I road race a compact with 11-23 and average 105 rpm. Power is Force x velocity (cadence). If you want to mash big gears with high force, you’ll have lower cadence. That doesn’t work for me. My FTP is about 300, but it’s from spinning lower gears faster. Why do you think this is “unnatural”?

I’d imagine because if he’s already at 107 rpm @ 277watts in top gear, then doing intervals at 350+ watts just isn’t going to be natural/possible,
I’d agree that 50/11 is plenty as a top gear on tarmac, but the rollers just don’t provide sufficient resistance.

I’d say it’s pretty accurate if you’ve got a power meter. You would typically estimate 1Kj = 1Kcal, but depending on how efficient you think the body is at processing food the figure might vary between about 0.95Kcal to 1.2Kcal
So if you’ve used 1000Kj of energy, estimates of between 950Kcals – 1200Kcals of cake are reasonably valid.
Strava uses about 1.1Kcal per Kj.

If you haven’t got a power meter then it will estimate your energy use. The figure is in the right ball park if you’re on a road bike, and the height profile is correct for your ride, if not, it’s a pretty random stab in the dark.

This. I amazes me the speed that strava says people go down one narrow and well used bridle way with blind corners near me. Meet anything going the other way at 50kmh and someone will end up in the hospital.

You know you can flag it as dangerous?

I can’t quite understand the link between how many people live in your house and your impending death.

Dunno. Might be if you suffer a life threatening incident at home, you’re going to be better off if someone else is in the house.
Assuming the other person isn’t trying to kill you.