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Did my first "test" of this winters training on Monday night. 30 mins eye balls out to calculate my FTP.

Felt very ill after (but satisfied with my result and knowing that I can push myself to that level) and could hardly stand up. The last 5 mins seemed like about 3 hours

My watts are up and weight is down. :D

No problem here either, Bonti xxx flat bars and on one lock on grips.
Like they say dont tighten them within an inch of their life.

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The old casio watch photo, its almost as ugly as the frame.

Good site rbmccunn :-)

Dare I say it :roll:any other "sensible" ideas ?

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The old casio watch photo, its almost as ugly as the frame.

Good site rbmccunn :-)

Oxnop,

Get a MK2 Leon Cupra, its a "lightweight" Mk5 Edition 30 with 260 bhp !!, looks a lot better ,higher spec (more gadgets) less expensive and handles mint. Done nearly 50 K in it and its not two yet 8)

Bimbler,
Excellent skills, never seen her before, think I may have dribbled.
Gina Carano – UFC fighter

I have a 17 week plan, it started at the beginning of November ending with a week in Lanzagrote (not resting but nailing it on the road bike everywhere) and then road race season starts.

If you think of it ALL TOGETHER like that your head will fall off.

Break it down into sections.

This is very general but mines broken down into section's where you will build (train) for three weeks and then have an adapt (rest) week.

Rest means still ride the bike a bit 6-8 hrs but very steady.

The build weeks get grimmer as the plan moves into section 2,3,4,5 etc.

Basically building you up steady but built into the plan "adapt" weeks to get fitter.

If you have a month of rides broken down on a large piece of paper hung up somewhere it’s an incentive to tick the rides off once you have done them and look back at it. Quite satisfying in a sadistic way.

If you realise it will be unpleasant and it will hurt and you have cracked it :D

lowey – Member
How very dare you. This matter must be resolved in the only way possible. Drinking contest in the Bull followed by ugly fist fight on the steps to confirm ownership

Right im ready for a fist fight as I claim them there hills, rode them for 20 + years and the beer well they dont call me "two can van damme" for nowt you know, bring it on, Oh mines half a shandy :oops: :lol: !!!

:oops:

Sounds like another leach on society, Keep paying your taxes and when you get up early to go to work, have a look at his house bet his curtains are shut and he is still in bed. :twisted:

I have been riding it for 20 years and to me its called the "Wrights Arm's decent" as San Marino restaurant was a pub called "The Wrights Arms" before hand and thats where the decent ends, roughly.

nbt, As for a folding spade, think it needs a bit more than that. :x

NWW spent a mint about 8 years ago and completely re did the path, when they finished it was so smooth you could literally fly down it without using the brakes, very scary as the waterbars where severe and if you caught one with any wheel you were a passenger heading for SHIT STREET !! :D

San Marino has badly erroded over that last few weeks. I went down it in daylight for the first time in ages on Sunday and could not beleive how fast we go down it in the dark, not knowing seeing the pit falls etc.

What you cant see cant hurt you I suppose. 8O

Halfway down where you go right then left around a big mound a stream has changed direction and now just flows down the rest of the track/path right to the bottom, its now like riding down a river for the last few hundred metres, grim. This will also make them ruts even deeper by the day. 8O 8O

Its a digital image/photo (2.05mb) that I want to do for someone for a Christmas prezzie, it whats to be printed on nice "photographic paper?" size A4 or the size up from that.

Please excuse my ignorance as never done this before.

Got some standard nobby nics on stans 355 running tubeless, pressure about 32 psi, im 75 kg and batter through everything.

They are the "tits" (awesome) :P

Cheers TFB,

It was me being a "flid" sorted it now, all on my phone and my misses is well harassed :mrgreen:

GavinB, I think I'll pop on over to Bob's Smithy tonight and then assuming I'm still weighing in under 14st by Thursday, I'll try to meet Kingkongsfinger then

Good lad :D

theflatboy,

That first site is the "tits" would love some on my phone, can't right click em and save, anyone got any ideas ?

Cheers :mrgreen:

Gav,

About 2-6 of us always meet at the Bottom barn on a Thursday at 6.30 for a 2 hr ride. It is fairly brisk but not eyeballs out.

If your >14 stone you may struggle (unless your Magnus Backstedt) :D

Your more than welcome to join in, theres no through and off this time of year. :oops:

Gone but not forgotten, fast as **** on singletrack's !!

John_Key – Member
king kong
way too many stickers going on there…. personal opinion mind you

All standard, non added by me, i was thinking of taking the wheel stickers of but then realised I may become a "weightweenie" if i did :cry:

jon1973 – Member

The arcade game was superb with those vector graphics.

I downloaded a copy for my PC yesterday. Haven't had a chance to play it yet though. It's meant to be an exact clone of the original Atari Arcade game. That's my weekend sorted.

You got a link or somert for the game jon1973?

Cheers

Had a Litespeed Vortex, the new one with the "diamond" style tubing, always wanted one, they look great and the effort that went into making one of these frames is extra ordinary. Waited ages to get the right one. Finally got it and it was rubbish, it flexed that much that it used to "ghost shift" all the time, under braking it was unstable also. Had it for just under a year as I "wanted" to love it, I changed everthing on it to cure the problem, spent a mint and it was the same. Its gone now but still love the look of it. My mate had the same model and cracked it near the BB. NEVER EVER AGAIN !!!

That's terrible form by afore mentioned downhiller.

On his approach to the walkers he should have been "shreding the rad" and looked for the best launch pad, ie berm, rock or natural occurring divot.

Hit this object to enable him to launch over the heads of the walkers while doing a superman seat grap, into a heel clicker and then can-can.

Do these full face helmet downhillers no nowt about trail etiquette.

The "red sock brigade" would then have a nice story to tell at their next coffee morning. :-)

I was a scout as a lad and we HAD to volunteer to hand sponges out at the local running marathon event.

When Jimmy Saville approached we all bombarded him with sponges, lobbing loads at him, very funny scenes as we collapsed laughing. He did lot find it funny for some reason and called us a bunch of f*****ing little C**ts !!

Anyway we had to jump in our shagged out Scoutmobile van and move up the circuit 10 miles.

He did not recognise us as we passed up the sponge to him (that we all had pissed on) and proceeded to squeeze it over his head, he instantly turned round and then recognised the laughter, my claim to fame. :D

Fantastic article, we have loads of "old lags" in our club that are around that age, their fierce competative edge is still with them when they are in sight of the "boundary sign" 8O

That article will keep me going when im having a grim day at work and realise their is more to life than the 9-5 rat race im in.
:D

Ask these testing geezers http://www.arborwood.com/awforums/show-forum-1.php?fid=6272

juan – Member

Stops loads of shite/spray getting in your eyes

You mean like a helmet visor?

No just tilt your head forward a little and the peak on the cap protects your eyes :roll:

juan – Member
cap under helmet is the rad to the power of sick

Stops loads of shite/spray getting in your eyes and v warm even when wet, i was not convinced but they are very functional. Also good to wear when on the MTB when your burning past all the body armoured up weekend warriors on the hardest downhill section :D

tezzer22 – Member
hi kingfisher was there a lot of water running down the rollercoaster ? that could be very destructive

Loads at the bottom, past the bottom of the folks, couldn't see the damage as it was literally a river.

The top section of the paths on the roller coater where getting nicely rutted which made it intresting ath high speed.
:P

The bottom of the "roller coaster" was a river, quite deep as well, maybe 30 cm !!

Found the slab this time and rode it, thats not washed away. :?

Could do with a new wooden bridge over the river just after the "roller coaster" it washed away this morning with all the rain, tried several times to wade across the river but it was above my waist and was very fast white water, impossible to cross without a rope !!

Love the work you lot are doing, some great sections but mother natural has done loads of damage today. :twisted:

adt – Member
No he is getting mixed up with Gisburn ,sort your head out Jason

Bloody hell, yeh I mean GISBURN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NAh, Please may I have a mug of tea with my Beans on. (UK) :?

Cafe culture is bizz unless your outside the UK. :oops:

The Swede,

Not sure who's party it is, one of my girlfriends work collegues who works at Toyota ??? :?

Tails,

Thought that was Morph PMSL !!!!!!!!!!!

grantway,tails + flippinheckler it has to begin with T :?

AndyP class photo, what a chopper.

Anyway sorted now, Im Tommy Cooper.

Mrs kingkongsfinger is Tin woMan, defo a good choice, tight silver mini skirt, hat, long silver gloves and silver long high heel boots.

I reckon she will need an "oiling" before we go on the lass :P

BTW anyone requesting photos can f00k right off!!! :wink:

Some good idea's, love the teapot and tweedle dee and dum.

May go as Tommy Cooper as I have a tux and can get a fez quite easily,just been swatting up on youtube about him, very funny !! :|

Keep em coming !!

My last post on this thread. As previosly said I have had a Mk1 Leon FR turbo diesel and did nearly 90K in 3 years from new, no problems, mega car, quick and handle well with excellent mpg.

Now Leon Cupra petrol MK2, fast as… and handles mega, done nearly 50 K in it in two years, no problems.

Both company cars so have had a mega thrashing. 8)

I got one 57 plate from new, done nearly 50 K in it, not let me down yet, handles and rides MINT.

Had the Mk1 as well for 3 years from new, did 89K in it and again never let me down.

I like the Seat brand now alot. :D