I'm local and always up for a spin round Wharny.

I'm at my fittest ever at the moment, and so with all the confidence in the world I decided to join some local XC guys on one of their regular evening rides. I got home after 3.5 hours of high-speed, up hill and down dale utter misery, wanting to cry, on the verge of cramp in every muscle in my body, and collapsed on the floor unable to move for half an hour.

Absolutely beasted me. A very humbling (and probably required) experience.

Since then I've been too scared to venture beyond the confines of my very small pond.

I generally sing out loud to whatever song I have stuck in my head.

The paperclip bike, without a doubt.

stato – good man.

There are two different bar (not at the clamp – at the grip) diameters, I think it's 22.2 for MTB and 26.0 for road. Stand to be corrected though.

EDIT: the bit I said about 26.0 is wrong 🙂

Bar diameter aside, D0NK, are you wanting to mount them on the horn position or on the flat section?

As far as brakes go I have LX cantis on my pompy so will they go on a bullhorn bar?

I use profile bullhorns. Very comfy. Used to run flat bar/bar end combo but spent all my time on the bar ends, so decided bullhorns would allow me to get the brake levers up where my hands were.

re brake levers, am I right in thinking that road bars are of a larger diameter (at the grip/bartape) than mtb levers?

Anyway, if not, regular MTB levers will fit but will put the cables out forwards and give you huge cable loops which will be horrible, both aesthetically and functionally. You could mount the levers upside-down to sort the cable routing, but it they might be a bit awkward to use.

The best best is to by TT levers. I run profile ones that fit in the end of the bar via expanding wedge, and the cable exits down the inside of the bar and emerges near the stem.

Not necessarily a cheap way to do it, but it's a very tidy setup. And as I ride far more miles on my commuter than on my MTB, getting the setup right seems worth it.

This is the first time I've ever seen a bike that looks like it's going at 100mph whilst leaning motionless against a wall.

That is a very, very nice bike.

As a group, cyclists are by many sectors of society thought of as obnoxious, anti-social, suicidal heathens with no respect for anyone and a total disregard for everything around them. We are all tarred with the same brush as used on those who ride on pavements, ride through red lights and on footpaths, scare livestock, tear up the trails and terrorise innocent pedestrians.

And despite this, we ourselves are still capable of such blind, ignorant, self-righteous opinionated crap.

Threads like this fill me with utter despair.

There's a campsite at Upper Booth, pretty much right at the bottom of Jacobs ladder.

Army Surplus folding shovel with serrated edge
Small axe for chopping fallen logs

That was about all I used to use.

Good lord, now there's a candidate for that bodge thread on here the other day.

Stonemonkey YGM.

Fit Powerlink in your chain if you haven't got one already.

My post-ride chain cleaning drill:

remove chain
place in old bike bottle with diluted fenwicks
fit cap/lid and shake thoroughly
leave to stand
clean the rest of the bike
go back to bottle and shake thoroughly again
empty and dispose of old fenwicks and retrieve chain from bottle
rinse chain
spray with gt85/wd40
leave to dry
refit to bike
apply clean chainlube

A good tip is to rejoin the chain with the powerlink while it's off the bike to avoid instantly losing said powerlink by hosing it down the drain. The only downside is you'll spend about 5 minutes trying to remove the seemingly impossible loops that have formed in the chain before admitting defeat and unlinking the powerlink, only to rejoin and have them instantly reappear.

weekends a go go here – but not your distances!!

no wonder your friends don't ride much with you anymore, it sounds like their excuses of patios and cello lessons are just an attempt to duck out of joining you on a death-march.

Oh dear, now I'm feeling paranoid.

Reading back it was hardly an ideal way of ingratiating myself…

I'm 'good for' semi-fast 25-50 mile rides, I don't always do them. When you're riding on your own, with nothing to get back for and nobody to stop and talk to you find yourself riding quite far.

It was a way of saying "I'm not a fat biffer or owt", so if you invite me out I shouldn't be too much of a liability.

I'm as up for a couple of hours round Wharncliffe as I am an epic round the Peak.

This bloomin thread has left me whittling that my riding mates all go on secret rides without me.

Yep, like it.

One of our neighbors drives their kids to school every day … less than 200 yards!

Dear god, that's utterly ridiculous.

44:18 for hilly Sheffield commute.

A few climbs around the city are out of bounds for that ratio as it's just too hard to push. But I'm not dropping any lower as it's already spinnier than I would like on the flat.

A bloke in the office rides one. He's a lifelong cycle commuter but uses one of these to ease the stress on his knees which give him trouble apparently.

I had a spin on it and found it very good. It's like riding, but easier. Would cetrainly be a great help on the hills.

He rides about 8 miles in, wearing his work clothes and never seems remotely knackered. And he charges the battery at work too.

As above, try on Retrobike and maybe LFGSS.

this isnt a competion!

When my kid was being delivered my missus sat on the egde of a huge canyon and my son came out riding a 10" travel Karpiel and wearing a Troy Lee helmet and did a proper sick 40 foot no hander 360 backflip drop-off.

My mate runs one and likes it, though with his skill and mechanical sympathy (which made me wonder why he bothered) I'll bet he's yet to prang it properly hard on anything.

Are Google going to rule the world one day? Is that the idea?

glenh – Member
Just rub it gently and channel your thoughts into it.

That's a good call actually. Maybe Uri Geller can set up shop as a rotor straightener now his main job of being a 'friend of Micheal Jackson' has come to a close.

good link, cheers 🙂

Clubber and RealMan – thank you.

Pull the rest of the line through? So the guy who does the elbow flick goes right to the back? Makes sense.

What dictates the length of time you spend at the front?

My general attitude to life.

Bit niche that product. I want one myself but can't get any report on what they're like.

may not have enough space on the dropouts for chain tension

Maybe you could try and do something clever with two powerlinks that allow you to shorten the chain by removing a short section.

You might need to have the bushes removed, swapped and pressed back in by your LBS if they're not the same top and bottom. Mine aren't.

This is STW and a thread about suspension bikes. So just do as your told and buy an Orange Five.

Have a look at Sheffield Forum's sports and activities section – a quick scan of that leaves one with the impression that the only sports and activities that take place in sheffield are of a kung fu nature, with the occassional korfball interlude.

Do most of you guys have bits of steerer sticking out above your stem then? Most seem to have around 200mm steerer length but that would put me in a pretty much sit up & beg position unless I left it poking above the stem.

We take a hacksaw to the remaining steerer length once we're happy with the setup.

realised that that particular road is far more heavily used at the weekend

That surprises me if it's true. Still would have thought the Manc/Shef commute would make weekdays busier than the weekend leisure traffic.

I moved house about 6 months before points were due to come off my licence. The renewed licence came back with the points removed.

Haha. Love the last line.

"Do you know what? I can see how people die"

I'm disappointed at the lack of a good quality hardy Nokia.

The Sonim looks good but the friends I know who have them so they have not lived up to expectations.

Oh. Shame. I preusme that means they broke em?

*toddles off to Google Samsung M110*