Stoner no one can help me I am back in france, and as silly a it sounds I am the best english speaker in the whole department

14 :'(:'(

I have singlespeeded my road bike 2 weeks ago. And I have discover that the crank I though was a 175mm was in reality 170.

Bike is 11 years old, and if it wasn’t for reading it on the crank I would have never noticed it

I am with GF for once.
I hate pushing my bike. Plus you’ll almost never use 22/34 on the road (ok beside going up le col du berceaux around menton). It’ will be mainly off road. And you’ll be walking even slower.
Then the 32/34 debate will depend on
Where do you live.
How you pedal
What bike you have (my FS have 34, if I gear up my hardtail it will be a 32).

If you use a sram cassette, just be aware that it’s 34 and 28 so quite a big gap.

Thanks stoner much more appreciated :D

LOL yeah but in such case I’ll use the welding solution ;)

ohhhh
thanks stoner I’ll see if it can be done on mine (1997 sachs hub… :oops:)

one with peterpoddy
one with rudeboy (bring some hearplug or cut his rear mech cable ;) )
one with foxychick and Mr foxychick
one with WCA
one with jojo

I wonder what I’m missing here, must be pretty dope though.

The fact that’s a very nice advert, just that… I don’t really see the guy being a fashion victim or trying to look cool. He probably was riding fixies way before you even knew a fixie existed.

well as said howies are no different, I mean they did get some cash from timberland…

That’s a very nice film with some amazing shots and some wonderful light.
Obviously the narrow minded brigade on here is going to bash it because the guy rides a bike they don’t understand, but hey you can’t have it all.

Then get a lucrative tie-in with Cannondale, to produce the Rude Boy. Like a Bad Boy, but ruder…

You know that to design a bike you have to be able to ride a bike ;)

Well as I said if they really cared, a sail trip would be very low in carbon emission.
If you want to be ethical when you buy clothes you need to step away from cotton first and buy things made of hemp and bamboo.

Then you are probably as ethical when you buy American appeal stuff then when you buy howies. And that is because American appeal buy US cotton which is as unethical as it gets.

they are both downhill ski for the mid 80 I would say. As said above, parabolic skis are easier to learn on. Learning on non parabolic is doable, a bit more tough and you run the risk of injuring yourself (more due to the cleats than the skis)

Hope it helps.

Well I wouldn’t live in london. But I wouldn’t live in Paris either. All big cities are the same. Full of people, you just get stuck in endless queue to get to the tube.
I have been involve in a something with a girl in london for a few month. And to be honest going to visit her was a nightmare. It’s almost faster to go from my village to london that from waterloo station to her place (and she was living inside the zone 2).

There is no riding in london and what justifies (honest fred I am not trolling) that you paid exactly the same product in london more than lets say southampton, bristol, cambridge, nottigham, manchester or edimbourg?

On that logic you should relocate everything to france

Hé ho ça va pas non…

sp much money and he can’t even get matching colours

wouldn’t it be more carbon footprint friendly and actually faster to send him by on a sail boat?

picture will help.

You should find on the ski the width of the head hip and tail of the board. That should help a lot.

Well so basically why the 77% of the remaining population of the UK have to suffer the news of a city they just don’t give a **** about?

You cannot extrapolate anything from that incident You just do not know what would have happened.

True… however it work both way TJ, so when you say the helmet is of no use how can you prove it?

One thing is that if the kinetic energy of an impact is dissipated by the crumpling of the helmet, it’s less energy dissipated by your head, hence less damages to the head/brain. That is pure physics (conservation of the energy) TJ nothing is lost nothing is gain…
I have an idea of something: What if we put your head in a bike helmet and have a weight fall on it (probably something within the ranges of standard in bicycle helmet testing). Then we do the same without helmet. If what you keep banging is true (helmet do not reduced injuries) you should be safe?

Have a look at this. It’s the Html version of a peer-reviewed journal: http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/8/1/47.
But then I am waiting for you to tell me that this is wrong because you have read it somewhere in the internet…

Well No_discerning_taste has a very good point, case when helmet prevent an injury are not counted into statistic because there is no injuries.

I would like to know for example the number of crash replacement giro and met perform every year in UK.

Oh and indeed TJ’s new helmet design, because apparently he can do better than helmet manufacturers.

Several studies have shown exactly those two issues

Please which studies then? Crap from website I guess…

Mark I don’t want to question your integrity with respect to the advertising, but how come I have never seen a tested product been received as crap or rubbish. They must be one they can’t all be perfect?

dodgeball

Juan – tell me what is crap in what I say?

well:

There is no evidence of them doing much good ( ie doing anything than preventing minor injuries) across populations wearing helmets may actually increase injury rates.

Oh this old canard again.

And once again you spout your old crap. Quoting ONE studie in australia. I too could quote original studies TJ. There is one where they managed to link the fact that people not wearing helmet are far more likely to commit road offences. So helmet compulsory = less cyclist comminting offences on the road = better respect from the car drivers…

See that is called a tjism. As for your comment about helmet, I for once (that must be the first time) agree with mark.

horse for courses…
When I was in southampton it was perfect here in Nice it’s a pain, the only thing it’s doing it’s buggering my knees I’ll try to get to the top of the mont chauve but I am not sure I’ll make it without pushing.

I am thinking off putting gears back on that sucks because I did like the concept of singlespeed

whatever you buy just DO NOT buy thierry mugler

well unless you can’t change or get a shower for that distance I’ll go on a push bike.
If you really want a petrol powered one, I’ll try to get an old DT125…

Choose the colour wisely, you’ll keep the bike for a long long time

For christ all mighty sake can someone tell rude boy to man up…

It’s just snow… Just snow it’s not going to bite you. I love snow, it keeps all the morons inside you should be happy about that
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Well, having now got both RS and Fox coil forks in the garage I can tell you without any doubt that there’s bugger all difference. Nil. Nada. Nowt. Diddly-squat.

Not when you are barely 61 kg…

Nasher; alain & françois have no problem with vanilla and float at all…

Pétanque… Like you need to ask

Monster 695. The new 696 style doesn’t hold a candle to it IMO.

i don’t know you but I already like you

yawn…
‘XC-jey boy: you DH boy are unfit lazy scum because you are too lazy to pedal up’
‘Dh boy: you xc whippet have never try to pedal a dh bike they are not meant to be pedaled plus you can’t go down for a farting penny’

yawn… yawn…

get a grip it’s just snow…

Those town boy pah

well let see
Decathlon cobra 540 from 1997 road bike that got singlespeeded and maybe soon will be fixed for commute duties.
Rocky mountain switch 2002, I am not very happy with it at the moment but that is because I have become too much of a shite rider to ride it properly.
Kona Hoss a part from the fork and the fact the bike is gathering dust in tim’s garage it’s all ok so far.
Cove handjob singlespeed, not sure I’ll keep it as a singlespeed but I’ll try…

That is it really more a problem with the bloke than the bikes ;)

probably because they are the plushest fork on the market, and everywhere outside the UK they last forever.

Remember Fox fork are produced in california and most of the production is sold in california too. Why should they spend money for UK market when from a commercial point of view it’s not worth it.

RS are a definite no no to me as I have seen far too many psylo dying after a week of use and I have tryed a commencal meta6 a month ago which 6 month old RS add more wobble then anything else.

New zocchi have been crap too. The AM SL on my hoss never worked well. And the new one need taking appart to have the lubrification oil removed before even being used.

So there is no such thing as “perfect fork”.

the new Ducati Streetfighter and the Aprilia RSV 4. Both are simply stunning

That must be a joke surely… They look like any other ugly japanese supershite.

To be honest the monster 696 and the streetfighter are really something I was not expecting from ducati…

If we speak of modern motorbike, I would say triumph would get my vote for the bonneville and the thruxton

At least we see some proper nice motorbike. None of this modern crap…
What about a douglas firefly