don’t use Sudocrem, it’s designed as a treatment for any issues ‘down there’ not to prevent them

go for specific chamois cream that’s actually designed to prevent such matters, Assos seems to be the most popular, for good reason, but you may find it a bit, er, tingly

pick some bars where the reach, drop and bend suit me, set the flat ends of the bars so they’re pointing ever so slightly down, position the brakes so it’s flat and comfy on the hoods

i suspect the Bell Laps might be your problem

Ceci n’est pas une google

Late Junction[/url] on Radio3 has that sort of stuff on all the time, and all kinds of other weird and wonderful, er, music

i’m sure Mr Wiggins’ D.S. knew what he was doing when he let him go

it’s not a fixie, and the bikes not red, but apart from that you’re spot on

:-)

eh?

can you move the wheel back a bit in the track-end so the chain is a bit tighter?

i’ve got over 20 years of MBUK in the loft, it’s good insulation

raise the straddle-wire yolk

“also start playing around as you reach junctions, as an expert you wouldn’t want to be at the front to lead out the sprint now would you?“

no, i’ve lost more “Tesco Sprints” than you can imagine that way

“I commute and tend not to draft but if i see someone go past that clearly just wants to get past me to make himself feel good cos of his inferiority complex then yes, I will draft him deliberately. “

does that make you feel good?

the correct thing to do is flick your right elbow as a signal for them to come through and take their turn on the front, if they don’t then you’re allowed to everso gently up the pace, or ask them if they’ve brought you up a new water-bottle

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“toe clips are awful on fixed (i’ve done it and i’ll do it again!) it’s difficult to get the timing right. “

not really, it just takes practise, somehow people lots of people managed it before clipless pedals turned up

if it has a hole under the wishbone then a three point fixing rack like this lovely Tubus should fit

Jane Wiedlin – “Rush Hour”

reminds me of religiously cleaning my first mountainbike whilst Southern Sound played the hits of the day on a 20 minute loop

they’re wear indicators, when you can’t see them it’s time for new tyres

take the chainring bolts out, grease them, and put them back in again

that works for me, you might prefer something different though, who can say?

it’s a radical thought i know, but have you tried your LBS?

;-)

a crank extractor tool

available from all good bicycle emporia

it will also help you pull them off (ahem)

“I’m deicating this afternoon to an ALL-FNM mania day on Spotify.“

Midlife Crisis?

it has cissy-levers throughout the commercial

i’m still using the metal Rotring propelling-pencil i’ve had for almost 25 years, it’s a thing of reassuring joy

i spent 15 minutes fondling various water-colour papers this afternoon and then got needlessly excited by an A4 cutting-mat

help me

swap those allen-headed bolts for some proper 13mm headed hex-bolts (with flat washers) and all your woes will be over

those levers on the TT bars look good for slowing down a wee bit for a corner while you’re in the tuck position during a time-trial, i’m not sure i’d trust them to actually stop me in an emergency

:-)

and that Pauls solution looks tidy, although the gear lever has quite a long throw, it’s a bit of a reach on flat bars, which might make the full-forward position a bit awkward.

“Has anyone ever seen/heard of a urinal installed in a private house. “

yes, it was in the bathroom of two, er, theatrical men

No, i had the sissy-levers mounted right at the end of the bars with the blades blades pointing back towards the bike, and the brake cable threaded into the end where the cable adjuster is in that picture

if you want to use bar-end shifters having a brake-lever anywhere near there is going to cause cable issues, would STIs not work for you?

VisionTech do a lever that clamps round the outside of bar, spendy though

i have bodged some sissy-levers to fit on the end of some bars, required shims to fit but worked ok

otherwise some normal road brake levers will be fine, they used to do it all the time

the SwissStop Green pads are ace, wallet-cringingly expensive though, and they don’t last too long

if you’re going to ruin it i’ll take it off you hands

;-)

‘cross racing started in the early 1900s, as a way to stay in shape over the Winter months when road riding traditionally stops and over the years has grown to a point where certain riders specialise in it alone

far from being anachronistic i’d say it’s one of the fastest growing arms of cycle-sport at the moment, especially in the USA
it’s huuuuge in northern Europe where massive crowds gather to watch and the top-riders get almost pop-star status

“Kris Delmhorst’s…… She’s wonderful, and could easily supply a lyric line.“

she is, she has
;-)

that’s a Spooky Jennies there!

“IIRC the CX races exclude mountainbikes as they are quicker to ride “

you mostly recall wrong, most CX races happily include MTBs, apart from posh UCI/World Cup events, and a CX bike will be far far quicker than an MTB on a CX course

Why? Because they’ve got skinny tyres and drop bars with rubbish brakes and you have to run sections with your bike..

and it is mentioned on the Park website, just a bit hidden and not illustrated

“There is often a small piece included with the tape used for the brake lever. Pull the brake housing cover away from the bar and place the tape over the back of the lever.”

it goes round the back of the brake-lever, covering the clamp

the wheels on my bike are worth more than my car

the same people that pay what you think is too much for a bike, or a car, or a watch, or a loaf of bread

awww, shucks, thanks Pegglet, xxx ;-)

once more, thanks everyone, it’s been quite revealing to me to see which strips are peoples favourites, and reassuring too as when i send the strips out i have no idea what may hit and what may miss, and also it’s frightening to see what long memories everyone has.

the book – MBUK weren’t interested in producing a book, they crunched numbers and decided that it wasn’t financially viable for them, which is fair enough.
a very good friend stepped into the breach and said they’d be more than happy to self-publish and deal with the marketing and distribution for me so the book WILL go ahead, eventually.
i can only work on the book when i have no other jobs or bike riding to do so it’s going to take some time. there will be an all-new multi-page story at the start (some pages of which i worked on today) while the rest of the book will be a collection of past Mint cartoons with commentary on some of the strips that mean something to me, and a whole host of extra stuff.

we don’t want to rush out a piece of tat, we want to make it a special thing, we want to make it glorious, we think his fans deserve it, we think Mint deserves it, but we don’t know when it will be out, but it will exist, someday.

that’s just up the road, i could ride it home

oh