Welcome, matching it to the stem and seatpost collar is the next stage of your addiction.

Stratobiker – oooooh, I had to turn away

LGB – in the interests of equality, surely a half naked man would be the thing to post up. I would, but someone may question my sexuality?

“their” not “there”, so there! 😀

Don’t go…….
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The braking bumps will fill with water, they will become like a mini reservoir, you’ll fall in and drown – that’s how big they are

Still running a Storm Control up front and no immediate plans to change!!

Managed to get mine to seal (new big dose of sealant plus new rim tape) and it’s stayed inflated ok

Doc leaves and a bit of spit soon sorts it out – so they reckon, but it’s never really worked for me…. 😕

I thought, based on the title it was a poll?

Its because you can’t ride past them at the same speed as normal due to all the mud around! Therefore, slower riding past, more time to get brushed by them. Less of a line to navigate = more stings, cuts etc

Try riding in the New Forest, Gorse and Nettles are there to break the trails up into something more interesting

I’m going out there for a year,

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And you expect people to comment when you make statements like that….. 😯
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Suggest asking locally would be a better bet tho’ IMHO

Lopes= awesome rider, but having watched the shot of the commentary at the end, Warner drenched in sweat, pupils massively dilated, and Lopes looking at him as though he was an alien – it seemed an interesting dynamic to say the least!!!!

How does he do it?

Thank you – come on Geeeeeeeeeee

Where’s the commentry?

Oh dear, pulls up a chair, hobnob anyone?

Either – short intervals followed by the same recovery to period to get you going with it – ie 30 seconds on, 30 seconds recovery – repeated 3 -5 times during a workout, once a week. As you progress, increase the interval and shorten the recovery and increase the frequency.
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Or; pyramid intervals, so 10 on, 10 off, 20 on 20 off, 30 on, 30 off, then down again, ie 20, 10.
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Good luck, get used to the sick taste in the back of your mouth, that way you’ll know you are doing it right without a HRM or Powermeter.

I’d suggest heated, with the addition of some “dickish behaviour” according to this thread Surrey Hills Thread

Ride it soon though, won’t be long before you can’t

You could knock one out and make it a proper day to remember?

Go on, do it – it’ll only sting for a bit

Me too – might try and top up my tan lines

then a bike for GF that then became an ex (and bike is still here),

Good trade!

I’m glad someone asked this, i’ve got about £200 worth of stuff in my shopping basket on line but cant quite bring myself to pull the trigger

THat sums up my working day – oh….and keeping an eye on STW

Maybe, but I didn’t see it

Logs on to Gorrick site to enter….. 8)

I have a GPX that I rode (for the 1st time)on Sat from Fordingbridge, 1st bit grim, 2nd bit better
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Mail me, address in profile.
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Alternatively, plenty of legal stuff around that area and up at Cranbourne Chase.

Good luck with the ride Stooo, great cause

Stayed here on more than one accassion – Excellent Campsite Link

About 500 yds to chair lift, good, clean facilities and right by the river. Awesome downhill (Venosc red run) to the chair / campsite

Burn it.

We could stand at the side with pitchforks when you do…

Lucien, I can’t imagine anyone would have suggested the singletrack I think your referring to

My tongue was firmly in my cheek………

40mpg wrote:

There are established links between the Verders and the local press, so read another unbiased report here

I’ve read the report and this item stands out: –

“The Bolderwood Ornamental Drive to the Portuguese Fireplace route has a significant length of grass and dirt track. The court was adamant that no surfacing of grass/dirt tracks should be permitted.”

To which my response would be that I would agree the the Verderer’s “Court” on this occassion as it would ruin an otherwise excellent piece of singletrack!!

Nice video, and good to see that QECP getting the right exposure

Is the kettle on?
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I’ve got biscuits…….

Thats Sam Fox on the front of that book, I reckon!

Expect a long wait, some crowd cheering, whooping at various false dawns, then the caravan will go past, then you wait and wait and wait and wait and wait then the peleton barrells past of 40kph and then a few stragglers, then the team cars, then you go home.

Best place to watch is on a climb or catch the start (as the tour village is truly a sight to behold) – ends to races are crowded affairs also

Biscuits only for spectators, not participants

Pulls up chair, puts kettle on and hands biscuits around

Went last year and rode up! 2 hours up on the road, 20 mins down on looney trails. Germans well into lycra / XC / posing / matching kit / gadgets galore attatched to bikes. Most of the shops will upload GPX’s to your sat nav for free. Thought the bike shops were selling high end kit at high end prices, hire prices were expensive and uplifts (which I did) were more like 30 euro’s as they needed to be booked specifically (so I’m guessing is wasn’t that cost effective for just 1 or 2). Didn’t do the cable car, and plenty of slighlt quieter riding on the other side of Riva. 661 trail is awesome, shown on the Kompass map along with some other trails and a couple of specific DH runs (not named)

Might check THIS out. Looks promising.

– that’s where I’m off to for 2 weeks at the beginning of Aug 🙂

My Pitch originally came with loads of spacers and other assorted paraphenalia on both brakes, as built by my LBS! I’ve still got some spacers on the rear although have chnged the mount also – interestingly, not needed for 200mm rotors