It reminds me of my last muddy night ride on Sunday – I had full set of mudguards, my friend had none. All I had to do after the ride was to rinse the overshoes, which then I put to the washing machine along with my knee length socks for a quick wash. The shorts and the rest of the gear was perfectly fine for next morning commute (on extremely dirty bike, which I washed at workplace after arrival).

Seeing him after we finished the ride… Oh man… :lol:

my Mother in Law lives in the states where they’re much easier to get
Eh? Virtually every major retailer sells them. The first page of Google shows Wiggle, Halfords and Merlin, all with stock.

Over there you can get them at your local newsagent. :mrgreen:

Woolie Boolies are the best socks ever made. I’ve used mine for more than 2 years now, a lot of heavy use and one sock have only just developed small hole on a heel.

I bought two pairs of Endura’s – after few weeks there was not much left to wear…

Another amazing winter socks I found are these .

DeFeet Dura. (The people who make woolie boolie socks) All I use until it gets warm again.

I love these gloves. If it’s above freezing and dry they are great! Around 10° they are nice even when soaking wet.

Mind that they “work” the best when you work hard – not the gloves to wear in cold when standing still ;)

I’ve found the biggest Data Killer is Instagram… Does she use that?

It happened twice for me. Both times it was under warranty (first I had replacement, then I got my money back when it happened to the replacement).

The rivets are c**p. No more XT cassette for me, waste of money and time.

It’s not so difficult really! I was very scared at first when a woman in the shop said: “be careful… there is a lot of parts inside…”…

But it didn’t take longer than 15 minutes total. The worst part of the job, which included a lot of proper swearing, was to position the bike with rear wheel removed on a cardboard box (so the chain did not touch the carpet), so I could fit the rear bast**d! :lol:

I do wear them on my road bike (cross bike actually set up for winter use)That way I only need one set of boots for all my riding needs in winter. Simples. Plus I have had years of pain free feet cycling using them.

But you can’t! It’s against the rules! :lol:

anybody use them MT500’s with flat pedals and 5.10’s? if so does it work?

I think it would work. The underside of MT500 is very durable, but I would expect a bit of excessive wear due to the contact with pedals.

Is it cro-moly?

I’m a big fan of the MT500 overshoes. They are waterproof, they keep your feet warm and shoes clean (even if some water gets in under some extreme conditions – mud is kept at bay).

The rubber front adds a lot of strength to them and helps keeping them in place while walking. I remember using BBB overshoes and every time I had to walk even few steps, they fronts were sliding up, leaving you wet and cold. This never happened with Endura’s. Plus they are very durable.

I ride very late quite often on weekends. Sometimes I leave home about 23:00, 23:30, after wife goes to sleep. The hardest bit is to actually leave home. After that it’s always prefect riding – wherever it’s road or MTB.

There is no cars, no dog walkers, literally nobody – it feels I’m the only living soul on the planet. I recently started listening to the music while doing this very late rides – empty woods/roads give me that comfort. It’s just good.

I used to ride with a backpack, then moved to saddle bag/stuffed jersey pockets but after treating myself with a decent hydration pack I don’t think I’ll go back to “gigantic jersey pockets” again.

I drink a lot, one bottle is almost never enough for me. I don’t like thinking about the strategy when/where to find a place to buy some fluid (if it’s actually possible). I don’t like microscopic pumps, so the big’ish one lives in a pack. Plus tools, gels, wallet, etc.

The pack I’ve got is this: and it’s extremely comfortable!

Rough Ride Guide[/url] I bought some here. And the book for my area – really nicely made stuff.

I went once (years ago) to Halfords for a front bulb to our Mervia. The guy asked me if I want to pay extra £6 for install… I’m quite a nice guy normally, but that moment something clicked and I said “yes, please!” :twisted:

It turned out to be an hour job for 3 people – I was in a car reading a book…

I’ve got something a bit different… one23 light with a review here: review.

It hasn’t got millions of lumens, but it’s bright more than enough for fast night mtb riding as a helmet light, with something powerful on the bars.

It’s very light, it’s robust and not afraid of very heavy rains (I’ve been using it for more than a year already), the beam pattern is awesome (nice spot of light with just enough of flood), it takes 4x AA batteries (comes with a charger and rechargeable batteries) which last me about 3.5 hours on constant high pattern (which goes up to about 6 hours on low and more than 7 on flashing mode). The “battery pack” weights just a bit more than the 4 AA batteries and has a nice clip – I attach it on a side of my bib shorts (under arm) where it stays comfortable under jersey.

Helmet mount included.

I recommend it.

It’s really weird – their Customer Service seems very professional and whilst dealing with them over the phone I had very nice experience.

But then when I placed the order for a bike on-line (it was “in stock” and “delivery 3-5 days”) after waiting a week and phoning them up I was informed the bike was not available yet for the next 2.5 months! If I didn’t phone I would be waiting forever… That was upsetting.

However then the guy patiently was giving me a list of the bikes he could confirm were in stock and I could change my order without any problems. After that I received a bike next day.

Therefore I can say: great shop to deal over the phone.

That’s totally opposite to Jarolav Kulhavy’s saddle angle…

Accuweather for me. Plus their phone app has very accurate prediction for the next 120 minutes (it works brilliantly!).

This is hilarious!!!

Not that I can ride any better, but watching this is so entertaining! :lol:

I’ve been using Madison Tempest for two years now – they are holding up nicely! From time to time I treat them with NikWax treatments.

I don’t wear them when it’s dry and above 5° – “boiled in a bag”. But when it’s wet, cold and windy – they are awesome. They don’t keep your legs dry (they are shorts…), but the cojones are kept in comfort :mrgreen:

I use the “few quid” Deore ones. After about 6 months I have to spend about 15 minutes of my valuable time to replace them. :mrgreen:

When it’s windy I normally ride in this my jacket

The other day I went for a ride in my Karrimor Elite Pertex jacket. It’s a really lightweight piece of kit. The temperature was about 4° (it was a late night ride), it was dry but windy. Blimey, after about 20 minutes I could feel my jersey under being soaking wet… Is Pertex such a low-performer in terms of breathability?

I bought a bike with Wheelies last year. It was a first half of October. All “in stock”, order placed with no errors, estimated delivery “2-5” working days. After a week I rang them up to see where is my bike…

“They are not in stock yet. We should have them in at the beginning of December”

Now, where is that Sylvester Stalone’s facepalm?

I can’t imagine running my bike 1x or 2x. Triple for me. It allows me to ride long road rides, it allows me to climb horrendously steep technical climbs… 40-30-22 is my optimum. To take anything of it would limit my use of the bike I think.

Is Treadz the same thing as Wheelies? Their websites look identical…

haha, I’ve had that on segments that others have created after I rode them.

If you have a KOM and nobody sees it on your feed, is it really a KOM?
Just go to your ride, set it as “private” and then set it back to “public” – Yeah! You’ve got a KOM! 8)

I’ve got SB8’s – they are fast and very grippy IN BONE DRY conditions. For easy cruise applications, on predictable terrain they should be fine even now.

Have you considered Maxxis Crossmarks? They are as fast as SB8, but they cope much better in harder terrain. And pup them up to 55 PSI and you’re flying on tarmac!

Lawmanmx says good! 8)

It is addicted as hell… At the beginning the app makes you want to go faster. This makes you put more effort every ride. You become faster. You get to the top ten. And that is when your life changes forever… :lol:

But to be honest I love Strava – I met few really nice guys thanks to it, after some time it becomes like a social network thing, with a lot of positive energy going through.

I used to suffer from that quite badly! I remember riding the Bontrager 24/Twelve last Summer – I was in real pain after one lap!

The solution for me was unexpected one – I discovered, that Manitou put a wrong sticker on my Marvel Comp forks: all air pressure guides were for ISO spring, whilst my forks have TS-Air. This means I was running my forks about 35PSI under-inflated (the sag settings looked OK, but these forks are not the ones that “go down very easily”).

I couldn’t believe the difference when test-rode the bike with firmer forks (according to the label I was running them set up for someone almost twice my weight…)! Comfort, control and speed – it was finally all there together!

Any waterproof gloves are as good as the jacket’s sleeves, that go over them! 8)

I used to blame my Sealskinz for being c**p. Until I changed my Aldi jacket into something better performing… :wink:

…fear of being knocked down by a bike.

There are some treatments for it… Cyclo Phobia

How about Radio 1 and Heart FM? :lol:

Radio 6 and Deezer for me.

Well… You actually need a pilot license to use it legally… ;)

This is my set up:

Rear and downtube: Crud RacePac 29er

Forks: Mudhugger (home modified to fit the reversed arch of the Manitou’s).

It works great for me, especially with the front Crud Catcher positioned quite low.

Nah… I’ll wait ’till they pay me to get it.

I got the Showers Pass Skyline jacket.
It made me change my view on softshell jackets! It is waterproof to a degree that I’m still amazed with – after having the jacket for a year already. They say that heavy rain would find its way through (no tapped seams), but it hasn’t happened to me yet – even when riding in torrential rains.

It is quite warm, but it has plenty of useful “air circulation control” zips.

Pirate style for me.

What eye do you cover? :lol:

Let a torx key cam out a disc rotor bolt.

*slice*

I never liked that knuckle anyway.

This… :lol: