Surely kg is a measure of mass. Weights would be Nm?

So unanswerable.

Did he hit you?

“Tiredness kills. Take a break.” Yes, this means you.

(Real men also have to stop halfway down some of the Kielder descents to let their hands stop cramping, so they can still hold the bars and brake.)

🙂

My heart sank each time I saw another of those signs for the Kielder red route. Suspension forks are on my shopping list!

I used 36:21 last year (29er). It meant I could get up most, but not all, of the hills, and still go past people on 26″ geared bikes by spinning like a loon.

Right up until the point where I bonked that is 🙂

Disclaimer: I was actually riding a 29er as well 🙂

Good effort GB – I will never understand how you 2 hour racers can inflict that much pain on yourselves!

29ers are rubbish. Everyone knows that. Heavy, slow, unresponsive. I have no idea why anyone would buy one.

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This forum is slowly but surely degenerating into self-obsessed onanistic drivel.

And that’s just my posts.

I think I’ll take a break from STW and come back in a couple of weeks time. I’ve got a nice bike trip arranged (remember those) and hopefully when I come back the sun will be shining more and there will be some actual sense on here.

Fillet steak, followed by sweet pigeon pie and custard?

Grilled trout, new potatoes? Followed by chocolate mousse?

It might have been my imagination, but there seemed to be quite a few more 29ers at the last round of the Thetford Winter series than usual. Still massively outnumbered by 26ers.

They definitely roll better and get through mud more reliably. I think the stuff about being slow through twisty stuff is, at least for me, not relevant, since in my case the limiting factor is how slowly my dullard brain works.

EDIT: even with my slow old brain and allegedly slow 29er steering I was still finding I’d be catching up riders on 26″ wheels on the fast cornery twisty bits.

My 26″ 456 is still a lot of fun though.

Mine don’t squeal anymore.

They used to hoot like mad.

Got rid of the Avid roundagon rotors and replaced with Superstar ones.

Pads are Superstar. Not had any problems since.

I’m pretty sure my wrists would break before my O-O carbon forks would.

Superstar one lasted for 6 months (about 1200 miles) and then cracked. But was replaced under warranty.

What gear ratio?

You need a single speed.

“Even at 72 he would cycle 60 miles a day, every day.”

You wouldn’t have to put up with posts from me 🙁

In fact, just doing my tax return right now and it seems you can backdate gift-aid payments made between 5 April 2010 and when you submit your form.

So, if you find you’re going to be paying them money just make a suitable donation to your favourite charity. Worth doing just to annoy them.

I dare say a nice contribution to a new sports field or science lab goes quote a long way in getting you child accepted at such places…

I don’t think it would. I know a few people involved in Cambridge uni admissions and I don’t think they’d stoop to that kind of thing.

If anything it’s the reverse – if you apply to Cambridge or Oxford today, and have good ‘A’ levels but come from some wretched sink estate, you’ve a better chance of getting in than some chinless wonder from a public school.

So what crank length do people use off road fixed?

hence teh oxbridge elite in politics

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Too late for this year, but if you pay shed loads of money to the Bullheart charity thing, then if you’re a 40% taxpayer the tax man will end up owing *you* money. So even if you’re late paying, there’s still no fine to pay.

If you can install in non-graphical mode then if it’s crashing you will see the crash dump, which might offer a clue.

Some of the stuff Cambridgeshire CC trashed a few years ago is now just starting to come back to life. So take heart, it does recover.

There’s a local bridleway that used to be a lovely test of your ability to pick a line through deep rutted muddy sticky madness, and keep your wheels turning despite the mud.

Then the council spent £30k on making it accessible. And for one miserable Summer it was dull as anything.

But now, it’s not bad. It’s still not as good as it used to be, but it’s once again getting nice and impassable down at the bottom.

OK, sounds worth doing. I’ll leave the prejudices at home and bring the bike instead 🙂

There’s a van at the race. It sells the most amazing food you have ever tasted in your entire life.

Egg and bacon baps, sausage baps, you name it, they’ve got it. Heston Blumenthal could not do better himself.

Bombay-mix FTW!

Carefully choose your route so that it goes past as many apple trees as possible.

Obviously only really works well between September and December. But stolen apples are truly delicious.

I once found some passion fruit in August; they’re pretty good.

+1.

LIKE: Black Dyke Mills
DISLIKE: Linkin Park

Built? Cycle to work, so can’t possibly comment.

Howdy! In what way is it harder? Terrain/Climbs? May be should do a reccie for at least part of it?

The terrain is similar (unless it rains, in which case it’s lethal). But there’s a lot more height gain (12000 ft. K100 about 9000ft?), and the hills just feel steeper, longer and harder, especially towards the Eastbourne end, as singletrackmind says.

Cracking ride though.

I trundled around Keilder 100 last year and had plenty left in the tank at the end,

<waves!>
I remember that! I think you were parked next to me?

SDW one way is harder than K100. But two-way would solve a lot of annoying transport problems.

Double… that is so very tempting.

Our greyhound snapped his leg chasing rabbits. No insurance at the time.

Just gritted our teeth and paid out enough money to buy a new bike. And then got insurance.

Stupid animal. It’s not like he was even ever going to catch anything.

What are MX riders doing on the Beast? It’s a bridleway!

Yes, she’s not real but she thinks she is.