lazy troll, must be the end of the week.

ilovemygears, did you read the thread title? why open it? It pisses me off that ill-informed ignoramuses get any internet space.

team car bike racks can often take 5 bikes and 3 extra spare pairs of wheels:

Steve Wright does custom versions.

I think you’d find that there is a huge range on “elevated” abilities in the pro peloton and a huge range of “moderate” ability with STW riders. There will be some overlap.

Are you sure she needs to be restricted by 650c wheels?
My GF is the also 5’1″ (and a bit) and has borrowed a friend’s 44cm spesh ruby (700c) and it fits perfectly. She’s now looking at getting one of her own.

I’ve entered male pairs. Won retro pairs last time with a time that would have put us on the podium of male pairs, will be interesting to see what difference a modern bike that fits makes!
either way, really looking forward to it

carbon ceramic brake material needs quite a bit of heat before it works properly, I’m guessing the tub glue would melt or the tyre would burst at those temps.

if it’s early season, so dryish and fast, you’ll probably find 32×16 very low. I used to do the beastway MTB series (similar to cx courses) on 32×14 or 13.

Flash +1

the person who designed the diff/ axle etc is an engineer. the guy doing the grinding and welding isn’t

Am I alone in not understanding why anyone gives a **** about stuff like this?

I sure there are plenty of OK magazine readers who agree with you GW

sslowpace that’s an interesting link, cheers.

Every bloody question answered opens up about 100 more questions!

God knows

Just to be annoying, the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. So we may never get there

To be a pedant, current favoured theory is that at some point at the beginning, it did expand faster than the current speed of light but it is not expanding that fast anymore. Either way this is correct:

So we may never get there.

mol, you answered that question yourself earlier! space is expanding, but gravity causes objects locally* to be attracted to each other.

* on a universal scale

EDIT: ignore the above, mol has edited his post

why not get some aluminium stanchions? they’ll be lighter and won’t rust

Why do people always say “have a poo” etc?

Do you not think that people with light bikes might just have worked it out for themselves?

What Teej says apart from chainring bolts. Many chainsets come with aluminium bolts as stock

73kg nekkid
med spring
lots of rebound
LSC 4 clicks
HSC 0 clicks

no DH mod, but doesn’t feel very plush. Would like to try a soft spring

older lyrik or new DH?

I weigh 73kg naked and the med spring felt a bit firm over the mega week. Would have preferred the soft spring with the ability to play with the compression settings a bit more.

How did the mod help with plushness?

Apparently marmottes really do exist

I’m grudgingly coming to the realisation that they do exist, they just hate me.

not for UCI races though, and you’ll have to start at the back with the hairy-legged brigade!

I raced Brighton Big Dog last year in the rain and the Bonty mud-x I borrowed were ace. Quite a few other racers changed to the same mud-x after starting out on different tyres and the lap times all came down!

grum, deffo check out stratobiker’s hood. He showed me round on lovely day over Easter and it was fantastic. Completely empty rocky, fast natural trails. I loved it even though he nearly killed me on the climbs!

guns:

superstar (and I guess MRP) BB mounted guides don’t work very well with road cranks due to the narrower axles (they don’t have the 68->73 spacers) and a larger BCD. I bodged one on my spare bike but it’s not great.

If you have a cat 5 tattoo you suck

Are you american? It’s known as either a “4th cat mark” or “sportive marking” in this country 🙂

+1 what a nobber.

fettling, get yourself down to Hove Park if you want to points chase. Usually the 4ths have about 15 starters and the 2/3s about 25. However in the pissing rain a couple of weeks ago there were 7 and 11 respectively!

hove park crits [/url]

got the STW standard thomson on mine with a flite saddle, nice and light. masterpiece will be even lighter.

STW brand snobbishness at its finest! I’d quite like an Ariel if I was in the market for a 6″ play bike.

I don’t think MTBing alienates women more than any other outdoor sport. I also don’t think having fewer women than men is a detriment to the sport as a whole.

trickydisco, that over 50 pic took me a while but it’s bloody brilliant!

lol @davidtaylforth

another all pedally bikes at the same height here

I wanted to but it clashes with Brighton Big Dog 🙁

I also find the work your doing on the front. chaingang style stuff were your slightly increasing pace to stay
on a wheel hard to replicate on your tod when out training

I think this is where MTBing comes in, especially singlespeed or 1×9 in a hilly area. It’s almost impossible to plod on a proper MTB ride, I find I’m either trying very hard or trying to recover which is perfect RR or crit training.

Cannondale Scalpel? I’ve only ridden the older 63mm travel version but it’s a flyer!

yes