My Indy Fab Club Racer. All you asked for…….except the discs bit!

Buy my Hope Pro III hubs on Mavic Open Pro CD rims. £185.
Campagnolo freehub though.

crashtestmonkey +1

A mate has just recently got one of these. He’s got Mavic cc40’s on it. I did the obligatory road side test of lifting it off the ground (wih two full bottles in the cages); it’s ridiculously light. My mate then took the bottles out of the cages. I lived it again……..I swear on my life the weight of the whole bike was halved (and this was on a 56cm model).

I havent been to Glentress for years. Is Alpine Bikes at Glentress?!(please excuse my ignorance!)

What paul4stones said. Just head north out Alston towards Hexham then along the Tyne Valley to Tynemouth.

Quite an enjoyable ride. I’m doing it again this year, probably June (if my knees ever recover).

Wow!! That seems incredibly expensive. Just dropped my ’08 A4 for it’s MOT. It’s also having a major service, plus replacing all discs and pads and I’ve been quoted £346 for all of the above (might not need all discs/pads replacing – just wanted a price for worst case scenario!).

This is at an independent Audi specialist (shout out to Ron Turnbull’s in Midddlesborough).

They’ve no idea codybrennan, hence needing the bone density scan….! Hope I haven’t got osteoporosis!! My grandmother had it, it apparently skips a generation, but I thought it was just women that suffered from it (please excuse my ignorance!).

Got another MRI in a couple of weeks to see of the fractures have healed. If not then it needs metalware and probable bone graft (shit!). But, I have been exercising regularly, going to the pool 3 times a week. ‘Running’ in the pool to start with, slowly introducing the swimming. I could hardly do the ‘running’ when I started 3 weeks ago, I’m up to 50 lengths each time I go now (and enjoying it so much I bought some swimming goggles).
I’m also back on the bike. Managed 25 miles last weekend (avoiding hills as my knees didn’t like that), and did 35 miles, with hills, on the Saturday just gone.

I’m just off to the pool again now, then modified circuit training (modified for my knees) tonight.

I’m dreading going back to work, don’t know how I’ll fit it in :D

Running is evil!!!

Currently off work with bilateral tibial plateau fratures. And that’s after only 3 runs……..no more than 5 miles total……!

Needless to say I’m now waiting on a bone density scan!

Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, ask for the Caveman Room!! and be sure to eat in their restaurant. If the bubble – gum pink leather seats in the booths doesn’t impress you their food certainly won’t!!

Sad bad it was great!!

We only stayed the one night on our way from San Francisco to San Diego. Apart from the Palace Hotel in San Francisco and the Anabella Hotel in Ananheim (across the road from Disney) the Madonna Inn was up there for memorable hotels!

2nd hand Indy Fab Club Racer float your boat?

Thanks, will have a look

I like my job, and I’m a hero…….FACT!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2884209/The-army-NHS-heroes-saved-Donna-s-life-driver-picked-donor-liver-d-waited-two-years-surgeon-implanted-27-reveal-vital-roles.html

I’m the bypass technician (number 14). But also part of the organ retrieval team. Very rewarding if long hours and lots of on calls.

6 months after getting clattered by a car my wrist still hurts occasionally, in certain positions, clicks and feels like it’s going to lock.

My break was simple, wasn’t displaced so no manipulation/pins needed. Only in a cast 4 was. Boy did my wrist hurt when they took it off, it was so stiff!! I nearly asked them to put the cast back on.

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is, the swelling has probably gone down, you wrist can move inside the cast, it clicked.

As long as it’s not excessively swollen, painful, fingers aren’t blue? It’s probably ok………but I’m no doc!

If worried, go get it checked. Or ring the fracture clinic for advice.

Just as tinribz has suggested, try another form of cycling.

I felt exactly the same as you a few years back, so sold my mountain bikes, bought a nice road bike and have never been back on a mountain bike since (can’t say the same for this forum however!).
I found I had exactly the same enthusiasm for cycling as when I started mountain biking. It brought back the passion for me.

Worked for me, and a few others I now regularly ride with, people I probably would never have met had I just sold up and never touched a bike again.

Shimano or Campag?

I may have a pair of Hope Pro III’s on Open Pro CD’s (Campag) for sale soon. Just deciding whether to get my old Chris King Classics built onto some road rims but this will mean having to change to Shimano or SRAM.

Ain’t nothing going to stop you going down on black ice Chris.

Sounds like you were taking it easy round the corner, you were just unlucky. Be thankful that you weren’t going faster.

I had my first off on black ice his time last year, unfortunately I was going downhill at the time (around 30mph), just coming round a bend when I lost the front wheel. Went down like a sack of shite and bust several ribs.

Anyhoo, don’t let it put you off, just be ultra careful when cornering etc if it’s a bit nippy.

Splash out on a pair of Chinese carbon clinchers (and some Swissstop Yellow brake pads). Sorted.

Champion, that’s what I wanted to hear.

Thank you.

His insurance details and a solicitor. Oh, and a quote for repairs from a bike shop.

When I first started mountain biking many moons ago an old guy I used to ride with in our group was an ex road/cyclocross racer. He used to say Shimano for the mountain bike and Campag for the road bike.

Needless to say, when I packed in mountain biking a few years back to take up road cycling I knew my road bike would have Campagnolo. I’ve never regretted it. Campag has a more ‘mechanical’ click when shifting gear, a definite click. Shimano, at that time, had super light shifting which I wasn’t keen on. However, I tried a bike with the latest Shimano Ultegra on and was impressed at how ‘mechanical’ it felt.

I’ve never tried SRAM or electronic shifting (Shimano or Campag) so can’t comment on them.

I currently have 2 road bikes on the go. My good bike is decked out with Campag Super Record and my training/commuting (Although I haven’t commuted since getting knocked off) bike has 10spd Record on it. I much prefer the old 10spd Record if I’m honest, it’s piss easy to setup and never goes wrong, also it’s clunky when shifting (in a definitively good way!). The 11spd Super Record is so much lighter but still ‘mechanical’.

If I had my time again I’d probably go for Shimano. Only because I could have specced my bikes cheaper. But then, there is all that carbon and titanium and Italian styling…………

road bike = Campag

mountain bike = Shimano

SRAM = don’t know, never tried it, probably never will.

Mary King’s Close

3T Rotundo’s? (Although they fail in the price!)

I had a broken scapula and clavicle after getting knocked off my bike. The thought of my shoulder bouncing around whilst running makes.me feel sick now……!

Saying that, if you think you can manage a trail run then go ahead. But be aware, as already mentioned, if you stumble and fall you may cause more injury.

Static trainer perhaps? I was comfortable on my bike on a turbo trainer even after 2 weeks.

I had an annoying creak/click on a rear wheel. Turned out it was the freehub. There was a teeny – tiny bit of slack, a quick tighten with an Allen – key cured it.

I use Goodridge inner gear cables on my 10 and 11spd Campag set ups. No issues to report.

My Indy Fab Club Racer?

Takes 28mm tyres, full guards and racks (if you want to use them)

Currently selling as a frameset (with full guards and deep drop calipers) or as a rolling chassis (as above but with Hope Pro III’s on Mavic Open Pro CD’s – brand spanking new front wheel)

As long as it has a ‘T’ shaped nipple then any cable will work. I have Goodridge inner cables on my bikes (cheap from CRC).

+1 for the Cyclone on Coney Island. Not sure if it’s open again but if it is and you’re visiting NYC then you just have to go. It’s so old and rickety you’ll be convinced it’s going to collapse. Great fun though (and then to Nathan’s on Coney Island for a hotdog).

Next, The Hulk at Universal Islands of Adventure. It’s the most loop-the-loopiest roller coaster I’ve ever been on, and yet also the smoothest.

Then, seeing as you’re in Florida, already mentioned, Everest at Disney Animal Kingdom.

MadBillMcMad – Member

did my clavicle 13 weeks ago + broken shoulder blade & 2 ribs – It was a big tree !

Wow MadBillMcBad, nearly identical injuries to me but I’ll see your clavicle, shoulder blade and 2 ribs and I’ll raise you another 2 ribs and a wrist (opposite side) :-)

Managed conservatively.

Managed to get back on the turbo trainer after about 3wks (was surprisingly comfortable) and now just back on the bike after 6wks, first ride yesterday (in Majorca!). Going out for a longer ride today, once it dries up :-(

I was back on the bike after 4wks when I broke my ribs back in December. As long as you feel comfortable.

Not since 6pm on the 7th July after getting knocked off by some silly bint. Just waiting on my fractured collar bone, shoulder blade, ribs and wrist to heal before getting back out. Managed a spell on the turbo the other day, felt comfortable on the bike surprisingly. The wife won’t let me back out till after our holiday though so it’s going to be another couple of weeks yet.

My mate is racing in the handcycle section, against Paraolympic and World Champion (or both!) Handcyclists. He’s under no illusion he’ll be picking up a medal.

If you see a guy in a bright orange handcycle with deep section carbon rims give him a cheer please, it’ll make his day! (His name is Sean).

Thank you.

Parlee keep getting mentioned. I had never heard of them until a week ago!! They look very nice, but how good is the warranty compared to a Trek/Spesh?

Lifetime warranty on their top end frames (Z0, Z1, Z2, Z3) which is tranferrable (you have to send the frame back to Parlee for inspection before they’ll tranfer the warranty).

I ride occasionally with a guy that wears a full face helmet. Nothing unusual with that I hear you say.

We were on road bikes.

He told me he once came off and bust his face hence the full face lid (well, when I say full face I mean one of those helmets with the remove able chin guard things).

I was out again with him recently. This time he was wearing body armour as well as his full face helmet. He’d been off again and bust his collar bone.

Didn’t slow the whippet down any………..

I had a weird experience when I bought my most recent car (used car). The salesman (sales kid?!) said the car had been on a few test drives and he’d need to put some fuel in. So we drove to the garage, put the fuel in then said “just drop me off back at the garage then you can take it out for a proper test drive without me sitting in with you”

“Just bring it back when you’re ready” he said cheerily.

Needless to say we were out a good couple of hours (had to put more fuel in). We were up and down the motorway, through towns, country roads. I’ve never had that before, most test drives were 20 mins tops.

It wasn’t an expensive car either.

+1 for Majorca. Puerto Pollensa. We went the last week in April for the past 2 years. There are hundreds of cyclists all over the place, no matter where you are in the mountains you’ll never be alone.

Just make sure you get to Sa Calobra!

When I first started mountain biking I used to ride with an old roadie. He told me “Shimano for the mountain bike, Campag for the road bike”.

No idea what he based this on (it was 1991 if that helps?!) But his mantra stuck in my head. Both my road bikes have Campagnolo. I have had a bike with Shimano (6700 Ultegra) and have to admit I prefer the ‘mechanical’ clunk of Campag over the smooth/light shifts of Shimano.

Budget: Gatorskins

Premium: 27mm Vittoria Open Pave’s.

I switched from 23mm to 25mm Vittoria Open Corsa’s. Can’t say I noticed any difference to be honest, except that I’m yet to puncture on the 25mm’s (that would normally be the kiss of death, but as I’m currently not riding due to injury thanks some silly bint driving into me I doubt I’ll puncture them for a while yet).
They certainly don’t feel any slower/more sluggish than the 23mm Vittoria’s.

I will only use 25mm from now on.

Our vet started our 11yr old springer on Metacam. Within a couple of days he was like a puppy again. We had him for another 18 wonderful months before the inevitable.

Never had any problems with it affecting him, except making him think he was a puppy again!