strip the LH sti

You've got to be pretty fit to cope with that intensity of anaerobic exercise.

but their aerobic threshold would be crap, which is important for anything over a few minutes

Big fluffy flakes settling in Croydon town

Shame it won't be like February's dump in Surrey

which I think is more than could be said for some of the XC/track/road riders on a DH course or BMX track.

"some" being the key word Mike. Plenty of top road and track sprinters have a BMX background. My money however would be on Killeen at the moment.

Or Elbry

road wheels are fine. I race with a 12 spoke carbon jobbie on the front!

the zimbabwean has a british passport too or something. I think he bought it for 136389000000 Zim dollars

I love my kinesis bikes. Now resprayed after 8 years of hard use. The latest get great reviews.

btw, do flat TTs really make that much difference? I've never had the slightest tenderness with my round ones.

get magura rim brakes and some 65mm forks. Lovely jubley!

What they said. Good deals on buying stuff and got rid of surplus items quickly and easily.
I do only use contributors to the main forum though

You'll need a structural engineer then.

Given the current economic climate, they might not charge initially, especially if a visit isn't needed, ie they could work off photos and/or drawings.

BB, how do you know he was unsupervised? 🙄

Mine appears to have stopped charging after only a handful of uses 🙁
Don't know if its battery or charger, charger shows green but there is no jiuce left in the battery.

Spend the £500 on a bike for her

graeme obree could

Brant, you is RAD. Cheers!

Quite surprised to see such a large variation

no 2, strong but allows for chainline mis-alignment

cheers, I asked ACT but they didn't come back with much…

It would be poo-stain on a Giant maestro, there is a lot of chain feedback in the little ring.
Don't know about an SX though

Black tie weddings for new money and yanks.
Charity shops are the way forward, as Joemarshall said they hardly get worn and plenty of people grow out of them as middle age spread takes a hold!

large PA, quite long post

just sent my money, what's the chance of it going towards some mango nicheness?

Don't be too scared, it's much easier to ride slowly than Manchester etc because it's actually not steep enough for the length (the original 6day track was over 60degrees, not a wimpy 45). You do get a great sense of speed though for not a lot of effort though, enjoy!

Don't worry, start in march/april and you still have a 6month long season. You'll burn out if you start now, especially if you've been doing cross

London League on Sunday was pretty epic! Top half of the course was wettish mud that cleared quite well but the bottom sections were so boggy at times is was quicker to run on the flat, euro-styleee. Luckily there was enough road and hardpack to clear the bike a bit.

Is the imperial series the hillingdon winter one? racing on the road at this time of yera is plain bats!

Apparently I have a 2nd cousin who used to be the Nigerian finance minister, he's going to give me £50896780.89 🙂

Lon League at Hog Hill. New course and the video looks like it should be dryish on mostly hardpack trails. Hopefully the mud tubs can stay on the spare bike 😀

6' 1" ish with 34" inside legs

175 HT, Road, Cross and BMX
170 FS and Track

I can tell the difference, I had 165s on the track bike and had to change, they felt so cramped.

what njee said. I'm using my deflects at the mo for rides and ridges for racing

Awesome Mike. If I wasn't so happy with mine…

What an awesome shot ols pic. Cyclocross rather than RSF though. Chapeaux to both!

MrSmith, I thought the PA was 520 tubing?

I'm 26 and I dont use them

I think age isn't the issue, it's sex!
No men in the World Cups, GVAs etc use them but plenty of the women do….

you got there first MM! so in that case…

but the pikey brands don't do 500+bhp estates failedengineer, so they're less "aspirational" to middle management types

yeah, the article said it was to do with arms and bike control on the banking. At hour record speeds you don't have to worrry about pedal strikes, I think Indurain used 180mm cranks for his 😯

herne hill is closed for the winter.

I know that. It was open quite often in the summer though!

MrSmith, you say you don't want to give them a free tow because they never do a turn on the front, then say that the streets aren't a place to pretend to be in the TDF! Confused?

Take your fixed off the mean streets of London perhaps and get down to Herne Hill!

Stanmer Park. Also going to be very muddy!