that graph: 😯
25 watts difference at 18 mph!

Berm Bandit – Member

I think you’ll find that the way the majority of non swing state voters voted was what was decisive, but if you wish to ignore them knock yourself out.

Please explain.

The reality is that despite all the gaffes and nonsense, that was incredibly close – 1 and a bit %!!!!!

…and another election decided by a minority of “swing” voters in just a few states… 😕 If you are an undecided swing voter living in Texas or indeed 30 or so other states it really didn’t matter who you voted for or if you voted at all.

Yum. It will be ace when they can make that whole system competitive with xtr/Xx on weight and drag. I already think centre of gravity and unsprung mass-wise they are doing rather well.

Hub gears on a race bike do not belong!

[devil’s advocate] I remember when we all said that about rear suspension and disc brakes. Not so very long ago that some of the most expensive Scott, spesh and trek race bikes (i am specifically remembering listing after the 05 scale and genius rc ‘limited’) had v brakes whilst cheaper heavier ones had discs. Relate gears and their varieties to the progress made in brakes over the last fifteen years. Imagine if alfine 11 (and putting it in the wheel not the frame) is just the past’s pig-iron grimeca cable disc to today’s xtr hydro, and xx1 is like the pinnacle of old top end rim brakes, ie the raceline yellow hs33 or single digit ultimate…

I am a late adopter for pretty much everything but I look forward to the possibility of a lighter, less draggy, less cloggy, more robust and more affordable frame mounted gearbox much more than I look forward to losing my front mech and shifter.

[/devil’s advocate] and 😉

Sub-forums for Kashima and CCDB for sure.

midlandstrailquestgraham to the thread please 😉

Zoiks, just had a google of it all: circa 1kg lighter than latest alfine. 😯 I wonder how much weight they can keep off the 260g cassette when they make it more affordable?

Still, if you chose alfine over xx1, after the race season we have had you would have £400 more in your pocket, and you’d be carrying about 300g less in mud and at the end of each race. 😆

With the bike press carping on and on about unsprung weight over the years, it is interesting to see ever-expanding rear cassettes. How does hub+new derailleur+massive cassette compare in weight to an alfine/rohloff hub? (plus or minus a tensioner)

I would like to start with being referred/re-referred to a physio but given a reasonable explanation, I hope I would be open minded enough to see a Cognitive Behhavioural Therapist or psychologist.

But then I am in the trade, so to speak. I am not a therapist but within my broadly systemic outloook, I also borrow bits of CBT very often, and have over the years passed on plenty of my cases for assessment for suitability for CBT by someone more suitably qualified.

The wording of Glupton’s last post suggests he is on to this already, but I stress the word suitability here: whilst research suggests that the rapport with the therapist is as important or more important that the choice of (rigorously evidence-based, not crystals, tapping or hot stones…) therapy, there are definitely folk/personality types who you can tell will “take to” CBT and some who are less likely to.

…and lighter!

chrispo – Member

Round my way the Forestry Commission has already cut down all the ash trees on its land to plant Sitka spruce

Round my way a couple of the plantations felled and cleared of Larch in the P.Ramorum crisis were replanted with Ash last year. 😕

I’ve got the steel railed fly on my single speed: I suppose that means I don’t sit on it quite as often as I would on a geared bike but I really like it. Totally and utterly different from the belair I have on another bike.

Someone I worked with tore a ligament opening a jar of pickle. (He was making lunch for the patients so it was an injury in the line of duty so to speak: sickness is recorded differently and your sick pay is different if you are off for ages. For this reason he had to write the accident report in his uninijured left hand. 😆 )

My rad wife is very pleased that I am buying her some new knee pads and supertacky Minions. 8)

Then it will be fine. Happy spannering. 😀

I once did a cross race on a single speed (34/16) mountain bike and still beat some folk on many-geared cross bikes. 8)

As I recall, the hard bit of the lap was one very short sharp climb: fine with a run-up, but if there was “traffic” you were forced down to the speed of the rider in front and then stalled. The course was almost all on flat, firm but quite damp grass so I didn’t really spin out on the straights, but I imagine I would have lost a lot of time to more sensible geared riders if there had been many dry or firm sections, or of there had been ridiculously gloopy mud too hard to spin through on your one gear through. But as above, it’s a cross race and there are no points for stubbornly pedalling where others shoulder the bike and run past you.

Yes, so long as they are both either 10 or 8/9 speed. You can’t mix 10 and 9 speed mountian bike stuff even if it is all shimano as the cable pull ratio is different.

Knock knock.

Who’s there?

Interupting Cow.

Interrupting Cow wh- MOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

(Can’tclaim credit for this one: it was on last jokes thread on here and I loved it)
My wife’s been missing for two weeks now. Today a police faily liaison visited and told me to expect the worst. So I’m off down the charity shop to see if I can get her clothes back.

As per the above post: the build quality on specialized own wheels a few years ago was legendary in its badness: alloy nipples to save weight made for frequent failures: a few friends eventually had their wheels completely rebuilt under warranty after several early spoke snappages/failures.

But is the “axle” you see missing looks like it should be a 9/10mm (front/back respectively) tube/rod going throgh the centre of the hubs, then replacements are much cheaper on superstarcomponents.com Click here: (top two products on this page)

DO you have a friendly bike shop you could ask for an opinion on the bearings and straighness/tightness of the rim/spokes?

^ naaaah

Does everyone new on here who comes over all lefty on the political threads get accused of being Elfin? 😆

If he was , he changed his written style and the sorts of “on topic” things he typed about. Elfin wouldn’t need to be asking about front mechs and chainring compaitibility, this is just the sort of question he used to be able to answer for other folk on the bike forum.

I remember a few years ago “outing” a “new login but obviously pushing everyone’s buttons” member as Elfin/Fred. Turns out it was actually Glupton on his umpteenth anonymous reappearance on the forum. 😆

It’s all a smokescreen to divert atention from Justin Lee Collins, I tell thee. 😆

Hi elfin 😀

My kids met him at one of the BBB’s and they thought he was funny (in a good way) too.

I last saw him in Team Bullheart at this year’s 24/12 -the one with the red storm warning where half the field including Bullheart hq flooded, and loads of campers gave up and went home before it even started. No wonder he never leaves Lahndan. 😆

Twisted Timber Design [/url] dude Owen is a good mate: he was “demonstrating” at Haldon Forest the other week. He also works for the FC: anything wierd looking in Great Wood (Quantox) will most likely be his work.

All we need now is for Prince Harry to turn up at a party dressed in a silver trackie.

The bit where Bishop Brennan is meeting the pope and finally snaps out of his cataonic shock at being kicked up the arse.

CRIIIILLLLYYY!!!!!!!

😀

Schraeder is for cars and tractors, presta is for bicycles.

Sorry, wrong thread. 😀

Registered mental nursie, (only applied 18 steri-strips at work today!), AED and intermediate life support, and I did the ‘general out and about’ first aid course much like teachers/youth leaders do.

But a few years ago a few of us came across a 2 car, multi-casualty RTA very early on a sunday morning: friend I was with is a Naval officer and had done some sort of battlefield first aid training. Although I stayed with the most worrying (physically ‘ok’ but very confused goldfish-memory) casualty who got airlifted away, RN officer mate was just brilliant – in terms of taking charge of several panicking people, managing the other 3 casualties and quietly telling the police that he felt drugs and alcohol were involved and where the driver had dumped his stash. 😈

You would be far better off with him than me in a bad accident!

All you need to get is a 31.8mm seatclamp (seat-tube is the same inside but thicker outside).

A friend has a 16″ (2nd version, not really scandium) scandal with the original shape 95-130mm u-turn rev fork: it is a bit wandery up hill at 130mm (I guess you are used to that with your inbred at 130mm though) but it is a proper giggle to ride, and between us we haven’t broken it yet. Can’t say it rides any different/harder/softer/flexier compared to my wife’s 16″ inbred though, just weighs a bit less.

There is even a “ribbon-cutting” guide/how-to book! And fitted scissor-cases! Aaaaaawesum! 😀 😀 😀

IHN, that website is amazing! 😀 (but it clearly in the US! 😛 )

That thread is well funny. FWIW I have met and really like one of them, and the other always seemed pretty staightforward on the forum. Strange to see two usually sane regulars go so wierd at each other.

Remember that “boxxer world champs” they used to have? Where the team mechanics would race to see who could do somethingorother to a boxxer fork the quickest?

This party you mention, you could invite esselgruntfuttock’s LBS mechanic and have him taking on allcomers at bearing replacements. Livin’ the dream! 😀

-Reads far to gramatically well Peter.
-Good use of an “of the moment” (new series innit) comedy rude word. -However it needs some random keyboard slamming like this:

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-I do like the idea of you simmering there comtemplating breaking stuff too. Don’t break the wheels though. They are worth £450!

I think before passing judgement we really need to know what frame he spent £900 he didn’t have on. If it is not really special then I reckon its a genuine “let rip”. 😀

Shirley it is a non-willy-waving orange five owners thread?

Whilst you are changing the pivot bearings in your heckler/superlight/bullit in under 15 minutes with an allen key and a brick, you can also laugh at how many hundred pounds less you paid for your frame than you would have for an orange. 😛

[edit] Also bearings are garuanteed to original owner on SC’s, non? So as long as you are not in the woods in the fog and dark when your SC bearings fail, you can also get them for free. 😀

Co-op run loooooads of our little corner-shop-sized-shops round here. Since our local post office closed 🙁 they have become my most local shop. I don’t know how well they treat their suppliers (iirc for some things they are as bad as Tesco) but their employees are well looked after, they ‘own’ the business like john lewis/waitrose, and like tesco metro, everything costs the same as it does in the one supermarket they also run round here as opposed to “convenience” spar/londis prices.

I used to be a community nurse and know my way round everywhere here, but I struggle to think of more than a couple of dozen convenience stores in our 250000 population city which don’t have the name of one chain or another over the door nowadays, many that locals still refer to by the surname of the original owner as opposed to “bargain booze on Merafield Road”. Loads of the smallest ones have also closed outright in the last few years

Blimey 😯

Although this bit sounds familiar 😉

All the while, Violentacrez’s critics cried out the same refrain: “How does he get away with this?” One reason Violentacrez continued to occupy such a high-profile position on Reddit was of course his free speech rhetoric. But Violentacrez has historically had a close relationship with Reddit’s staff, a fact far less well-known than his controversial behavior. Violentacrez was a troll, but he was a well-connected troll. He told me he was close with a number of early Reddit employees—many of whom have now moved on—chatting with them on IRC or sometimes even on the phone.

The Epiphone “special”s are all bolt-on necks iirc. My brother had a les paul studio shaped one in glossy black (including neck and headstock) which looked nice but had rather poor machineheads and pots, and played and sounded very average indeed 😕

Our local council (Plymouth) deals with rats for free and mice for very cheap if it is your own home (as opposed to business premises). Would be worth a look at your council’s website. YMMV, but apparently our council’s pest control people are well good.

I have left small block eight on the back over a couple of winters too. Pretty sure that the absurdly good xc-steve of these parts also left the front one on all winter one year. 😯