Have thought of that but the garden is too close to a road. Can't use an air rifle unless it is a certain distance from a public highway IIRC.

I've done it and I have only been riding one off road bike for nearly two years now after selling the full susser.

Went to an Inbred, and now a slot dropout Scandal. Althought it is only one bike it does get changed over alot.

Winter = SS + rigid fork
Summer = SS + suspension fork
Summer (big hills) = 1×9 setup + suspension fork

Also with two wheelsets this also make it easier to have a spare wheelset if one of them is bust.

Yeah, it is on a concrete floor (with lino). I will try an on old exercise matt underneath the trainer. Cheers.

Sorry training plan with specific interval HR zones says no.

Went tubeless with these, kevlar and wired beaded versions, both blew off the rim if more than 35psi was pumped in to the tyre.

BTW This was with Stans Olympic rims, propers Stan's rim strips and Stan's gloopy gunk.

My name is George Agdgdgwngo…

I have a way of checking for fraudulant activity on your card. Just let me know the 16 digit card number, exp date and the 3 digit number on the back of the card and I'll check it out for you for free.

Source: phonejacker

Std Hunka + PD400 down bag. No problems with condensation as long as you don't breath into the bag.

Just get undressed and jump into the bag or at least that the advice if you read the "Book of the Bivy" by Ronald Turnbull.

Personally I take a lightweigh poncho for get undressed and doubles as a tarp.

And without a tarp how do you get stuff out of your bags when its lashing down and setup without everything getting wet?

How about putting you down bag in the Hunka before setting out?

This has just arrived from the States. I've been testing it in the garden today and it can (nearly) boil 500ml of water in around 7 – 8 mins with only 20ml of meths. That works out to around around 100g of meths for 2 days cooking (breakfast + evening, 1l per day).

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It fits inside a ti-mug and the size is specific to certain mugs, though only tall, narrow mugs work with this. Could be a consideration if you are to buys a new ti-mug.

Bring the water to the boil, let the stove go out and use a cosy to "dutch oven" cook your food in a freezer bag or the pot.

Personally I would say that a SS makes a person fitter for two reasons:

– You pedal harder up hills thereby developing leg strength and promoting adaptation to slow twitch muscles

– You spin faster on the flats and therefore a person's avg HR rate will be higher for a given speed. Lance Armstrong avg cadence was around 10 – 15 rpm higher than other riders as pedalling a higher cadence vs slower cadence is proven to be more energy efficient.

Of course the points made above are generally true for "average riders". Pros will always use gears to mash up hills and have a £1000 worth of power meter attached to the bike to ensure they are completing the correct training workout dictated by their coach.

It is possible to train within HR zones on SS. Flat road circuit on the fixie with appropiate gearing for base training. HR zone used so that the level of exertion doesn't reach the lactate threshold zone.

Whilst intervals can be accomplished on a turbo trainer with variable resistance. I had a road bike with gears and was never really comfortable doing intervals on the road due to traffic and other hazards. So I use a SS MTB on a trainer.

The type of riding I enjoy is long distance stuff and 24hr solos. Whereby a lack of gears is a mental advantage as it is one less thing to think of and one less thing to break.

My regime is specific to using the SS to the extent, for example, of practising steep hill repeats without hitting my lactate threshold which results in pedalling up the same hill VERY slowly many times. This way I can train the leg muscles not to tire as much as if I were to blast up a hill. So my "granny gear" is simply pedalling slower though the level of exertion will still be more than if I were using gears and therefore more tiring except I try to overcome this by performing such hill repeats.

It is a tradeoff in the end, but one that I enjoy :-)

Pop some anti-freeze in there?

You mean Gordons gin mixed with Tequila?

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Torrent for UK shows only. Quite popular with expats. That's if they have any login left.

Cheers ziggy.

Mayhem (ss solo) = 16 laps (2nd singlespeed solo in the nichetastic sub class)
Bonty 24/12 (12hr solo) = 11 laps (14th)
D2D (pairs) = 7 laps (10th)

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Cheers!

Merlin: What are you doin? You're slowin down, you're slowin down!
Maverick: I'm bringing him in closer Merlin.
Merlin: You're gonna do what? This is it Maverick!
Merlin: I'm gonna hit the brakes, he'll fly right by.

What did the slug say to the snail?

Big Issue…

The men's pairs timing seems a little strange. The fastest lap time goes to Basildon Timber Two with a lap time of 32 mins whilst most of their other laps are 50min+.

BTW no other team got a sub 40 min lap time including the 4 man team winners (fastest lap time 40mins for them).

Something strange going on there…

I'm there

If you've had hubs with cartridge apart before these are not any different.

You will need an 11mm hex spanner to get the freehub off though. If you need to replace the freehub you can get a new freehub from Pedal On based in Salisbury, google it as they do mail order.

The freehub comes with a 8mm to 11mm adapter to save buying a specialist tool.

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Went here last year, it was recommended by a local. Good food. If you go ask one of the waiters about the local celebrity, Peter Singh (local famous Elvis impersonator), who sang hits such as "Bindi Baji Boogy" and "Poppadom Rock". Good food and good service.

THT was formed mainly from people not wanting to join the local club, myself included

What is quite funny is that my local club, we have discussed organising club shirts but overwhelming opinion is that this would be too organised and we would look too much like a "club", especially when venturing on cheeky off-piste routes in the New Forest.

Whilst you THT trollers all have laid-back-group-not-a-club standard shirts (which look quite good IMHO)!

Club vs. laid back group of riders… In the eye of beholder me thinks and what like minded people are looking to get out of riding with other folks. That's my conclusion anyways!

If we started to charge a fee now, THT would just wither and die. It will carry on as it is.

PP, why is that so? To all intents and purposes the THT sound like a club, just free of charge.

Personally I pay £12 per annum for a club, most of the "club" rides I go on are Thursday night rides and a handful of Sunday rides (the rest of time it an impromptu ride elsewhere).

I'm not really what sure I get for my £12 as it's bu$$er all in the great scheme of things. I'm not too fussed about knowing TBH.

I guess your point is that some people will feel aggrieved at having to part with money whilst others are not too bothered with parting with a few quid?

EDIT: With the membership we get 10% discount for most of the local bike shops and 20% at Cotswolds, so the membership pays for it self within a few weeks/months.

Here you go Lady Luck. Take your pick…

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It will rain.

Clic24 2007 -> my first solo event = first time it rained at Clic24

Mayhem 2008 -> first Mayhem = torrential rain

D2D 2008 -> first pairs race = first time it rained at D2D

I'll be there this year therefore it is a foregone conclusion!

I did pairs last year. Good fun IMHO. It always rains when I do these types of races so I don't really know any different.

Thetford is flat with the occasional bombhole so being knackered depends on how fast you want to pedal round rather than getting knackered climbing up hills.

It maybe because you have too much "rubbish" being loaded in the background.

Click on the start menu, click Run,then type in "msconfig".

This will bring up a window. Click on the start up tab, this will show all of the stuff that windows loads in the background. For instance Adobe Acrobat viewer kindly installs a widget that makes sure you have the latest version, you don't really need this.

Uncheck the items that are slowing your PC down, you may need to perform a little trial and error here. You could also do the same with the Services tab.

You do need to be careful as you could stop something loading like your anti-virus from loading.

Get a long straight pole, such as a broom handle, place the broom horizontal against the front of the stanchions of your fork whilst standing behind the bars. Move you head up/down until the ends of the handlebar line up with the broom handle.

Job done.

For those who are truly desperate for more in-appropiate imagery these images are from their catalogues for gloves.

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Maybe their gloves increase stimulation, not sure that folk's wife/gf would agree to that, foreplay with DH full fingered gloves with knuckle protectors…

They are reliable (I had a set for 4 years). Though if you like a one finger braking setup I would look at a separate brake lever and shifter combo.

If you are happy braking using two or three fingers they are good. Reason is you need to have two / three fingers worth of lever over the grips to get enough leverage to shift gears.

I went back to a separate combo for this reason.

rickon, the best advice I've seen was on the mtbr forums a while back.

1. Set the positive up as 60% of your body weight in pounds i.e. 200lbs in weight = 120psi for the +ve.

2. Set the negative 0 – 5 – 10 psi less than the positive (depending on how plush you want the forks), though don't run the -ve more than +ve otherwise air will transfer from the -ve and to the +ve air chambers.

3. Set the compression about half way, floodgate off (fully open).

Also remember that when tinkering around with pressures, always let the -ve out first (fully deflated), let the +ve out, pump air into the +ve, then the -ve. Otherwise you will have issues mentioned in step 3.

I used this as a starting point and then fine tuned further.

If you put more negative air this cause the fork to sit lower and blow through the first half of the travel thereby bottoming out quicker. TBH the settings there are pretty much spot I would say.

If you want the forks to be more plush you could always experiment putting 5ps more +ve and running the -ve the same or 5psi less than the +ve

e.g.

+115
-110 or -115

Then experiment by upping the compression damping if the fork is diving too much. I found the Reba to be easy to setup in principal though difficult to setup to make sure that I get full use of the travel (bottom out once per ride) and not blow through the travel too quick and be responsive to small bumps.

IMO the bottom line is how reactive you want the forks to be for small bumps and then work backwards from there.

Beech Quieter than Bournemouth and you can either park up in Mudeford and get the ferry or park by Hengistbury Head (to the west) and play gold on the pitch 'n' putt on the way.

Cycling: Any where NE of where you are camping. Park up at Brockenhurst and use that as a base for exploring.

I came off whilst riding at the Bristol Bike Fest, long story short, two weeks later I still had a lot of pain in the left rib area. Had a sports massage at Mayhem, bloke advised me to go to hospital.

A few days later I spent 3 hours waiting in the A & E at the local hospital, finally saw a nurse (one of the high up A & E ones) and she said unless there is "serious trauma" they don't even bother x-raying.

So in short, unless you get taken into A & E in an ambulance they won't bother x-raying it or looking into it.

I used to have a full suss with lots of gears. Used to pi$$ me off no end suffering from mischanges and crunching.

Sold that and now ride a popular make of cheap steel hardtail that every man and his dog owns. Plus it's credit crunch friendly.

It has slot dropouts. If I'm riding local (South Down, etc) it is in SS mode. If I go to the Wales, Peaks or somewhere with hills I bung gears on the back and turn it into a 1×9 (only takes 1hr of fettling).

Job done; best of both worlds.

Cheers grievous, purchase of gazebo from Argos imminent!

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Padstow Touring Park

Quite close to the town, good facilities and quite good for the price.