take three pairs of shorts and ride then wash in rotation, Pair 1 will be dry by the time you get round to them again

Rusty Spanner – Member
Apologies.
Could have sworn the article last year on opinions and influence of friends on kit choice was yours.
The accompanying illustration certainly was, perhaps that’s what got me confused.

the illustrator does not always share the opinion of the article he’s commissioned to illustrate
:-)

Rusty Spanner – Member
Not just Dirt.

What MTB are the worst.
A couple of unbelievably patronising pro 650B articles by Jo Burt and Matt Letch, people I previously had much respect for, has put me off both the mag and the authors.

i’ve never ridden a 650b bike, i’ve never written anything about 650b bikes, just to clear that up

i assume you mean brake levers that don’t need any geary gubbins inside?

the Cane Creek ones are really nice, comfy broad top to them, and the SRAM S500 if you can find them

105, because it just works

look for some Footon-Servetto team kit

there’s bound to loads left, heavily discounted

contact Pace, they have a lot of spares for old stock

do both by seeing eating healthily as part of your training, which it should be anyway

Cleland Cycles have a special chain mudguard

it doesn’t address the fact that the whole drivetrain rear of whatever bit of plastic you put round the chainrings isn’t protected from the elements, the crap from which will efficiently make its way onto the chainrings every pedal revolution

if no-one’s made something like this there’s usually a reason

um, neither of those seem to be doing a good job of keeping the chain-ring area clean, or the rest of the drivetrain getting crap thrown up onto it

i have slow-worms in the back garden

TV that stopped transmitting at lunch and midnight

rickets

i use the same helmet for XC/road/cross, any of those will be fine, get the one that fits you the best

i remember getting a bit embarrassed watching the flower animation bit with my parents

no, would you like to borrow one?

i’m interested to see how ‘history’ is interpreted :-)

to be pedantic it’s a special edition “History Of Mountainbiking’ magazine, but still, JMC

cycling version also available

the UK Jones importer[/url] is in Eastbourne, he might be able to help

*reaches around*

80?!?! blimey

aroundabout 35 – 50

depends on the terrain you’re riding, whether you ride heavy or light, all sorts of things

experiment, keep lowering the pressure till you get a pinch puncture, then add a bit :-)

if you’re doing ‘proper’ training with a specific regime leading to a definite goal then there are certainly junk miles as they don’t contribute towards your target objective

if you’re getting out just to ride a bike then no

no-one’s arguing the performance benefits, it’s a pragmatic argument as to why people are still using cantilevers, it’s because they’ve been around for 100 years and there’s going to be a few years of change-over before discs become omnipresent

I think all of those arguments are outweighed by ‘work in the wet’ and ‘don’t consume your rims at a frightening rate’.

that argument is outweighed by ‘i can’t afford a new dsic-equiped bike and the spare wheels to go with it’ if you’re racing

if i was buying a new CX bike right now id go disc, but i have enough cantilever equipped bikes and matching spares to see me for a while, like many

as you can see he has the choice of disc or cantis, he chose discs for today

So does it really matter

no

i have a yellow one, despite not liking the whole hi-viz thing i like it because it’s not hi-viz, but is

the pockets in the back are handy, they’re quite long in the body compared to others

that’s it, tighten that bolt a bit more

i did a beach race the other weekend, 800 people entered, more than most MTB races i’ve been to

:-)

/freelance

puts kettle on

couldn’t stop a Big Mig in a passage

38/18 so i can ride past john_l when he’s had to get off and run

;-)

in-line cable adjuster?

they said ‘aircraft grade aluminium’, i’m in

but what about encouraging kids with sod all money and their Halfords special.

they’re happily building trails in the woods round the back of your house

standard track spacing is 120mm, standard road spacing is 130mm

thanks for drawing my attention to to that clever bit of marketing

oh

yes, you can buy packs of smaller patches that fit road tubes perfectly

most of my road tubes have patches on them, it’s not a problem

i’ve raced SSCX, sometimes it’s a benefit, sometimes it’s a hinderance, sometimes it’s an excuse, sometimes it’s a matter of pride, there’s less to clean