Use parent & child spaces instead

The parent and child spaces are nearer to the doors of the shop too 🙂

No badge in evidence 😉

completely useless for trips to the DIY store

Local BandQ car park a while back:

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Tool for the job[/url] by MikeDavis[/url], on Flickr

I got a cheapie Performance Power SDS jobber from B&Q when I needed to drill some holes in concrete — it was nearly as cheap to buy as hiring one from HSS, so if it exploded after two days I’d still have been quids in. It didn’t and thus remains a handy thing to have standing by 😉

If it really is out in the woods, some sort of digging implement would be a useful addition to the bog roll 😉

I think 5 might be the first perfect-bound issue 🙂

Tig welded so they can’t cut out seat tube and put a new one in.

As Andy R said, tell that to a Yo Eddy owner 🙂 It’s perfectly doable, but quite possibly not worthwhile.

Maybe the rules and regs have changed since 1997.

They have. Still a points system, but the chassis/monococque is compulsory. In theory even cutting a bulkhead to fit a different engine to a car is IVA time.

Yep, Boardman or Giant are the only choices at that budget.

Cheapest Anthem is £1,400…

Looks rather like it’s rusted from the inside — even if it hadn’t perforated, it’s got too thin to resist blasting.

You can build from a donor vehicle and keep the reg from that vehicle

Not unless you’ve kept the chassis/monococque of the donor, which you won’t have done. Just using running gear/suspension isn’t enough. It’ll be IVA and a Q plate.

I’d love to build a car, but lack time/money/space/patience 🙂

(Oh, forgot useful stuff: http://www.the-ace.org.uk/links-to-existing-legislation-svadvla.html)

There were photos in the ad.

No there weren’t, there was a link to Flickr. Remember that people are lazy 🙂

Mm, I think it’s something German. Might be a Knaus. Some name I associate more with motorhomes, anyway.

Can’t see all that much wrong with hanging bikes off the back as long as you put something heavy right up the front too. In fact, the bikes might happily balance out the 60kg of gas bottles and leisure battery that most caravans seem to have at the front 🙂

The article also smacks of someone who never met the right woman. Or possibly any woman if riding as much as he claims?

He’s fairly recently married, so I don’t think it’s that 🙂

Totally agree with the dig at the retrobike geeks though.

You’d be wrong there, it’s about the riding for plenty of those guys too.

Can’t help thinking that Ben’s sort of missed the point of the “People’s Judean Front” skit, though 😉

How about using whatever tyres it comes with until they wear out?

There’s a caravan round the corner from us with a two-bike wheel-support rack mounted on the front of the ‘van chassis where it sticks out from under the body. I think it might be a slightly unusual caravan design, though. I know it’s not answering the question but it might be an option 🙂

Not sure I agree with letting the bike steer itself, but I’ve only ridden track at Calshott which is apparently a shorter track so tighter turns?

Yes. On a full-length track you can pretty much pretend it’s a straight line unless you’re spectacularly fast. Try that at Calshot and you’re in the stands, as people used to long tracks occasionally find out 😉

I didn’t like getting too close to the other riders

That’s the best bit 🙂 Better with people you know. As long as everyone knows what they’re doing it’s OK.

Oh – and don’t steer. Just hold the bars lightly – the bike will find its own way – it’s a track bike – it tracks.

You’ve not ridden at Calshot, have you? 😉

Don’t stop pedalling 🙂

Need to check out that track, looks good 🙂

Click on Fit Chart.
I’m 6’1″ and I bought a large. Which one do you think I should have bought instead ?

Looking at the geometry, a different frame altogether, with a seat tube longer than 18.5in.

Strangely it’s pretty clean on the telly but rubbish through the PVR for me, so I can watch it live but not record it. Which means I just watch later in the evening on ITV Player. This is on the south coast FWIW.

The Sportident listing isn’t doing a very good job of making it not look like a race 🙂

We’ve had a MacPac Vamoose for several years and two children. Still going strong, although the mirror’s a bit scuffed up now. When we bought it it was the only one made by a rucksack manufacturer, and it shows – for a start, it was considerably lighter than the other options, and far more comfortable to carry. Looked at the cheaper MacPac one but it doesn’t come with useful things like the sun canopy and rain cover — once you add those on you’re knocking on the price of the posh one. Plus they go for a very high proportion of the purchase price s/h so the actual cost of ownership will be peanuts.

I think there’s a significant part of the idea of “personal preference” that some people are just not getting.

FTFY.

Midland Trailquests. The clue’s in the name

You asked about the UK. It was only 14 minutes ago, surely you remember?

I still can’t believe people are taking my original post so deadly serious.

Ah, the “only joking!” defence. Tried, tested and generally found wanting 🙂

mountain biking can be commuting, racing, recreational, exercise or any combination.

Yes indeed. Different things to different people. Are you getting it yet?

I’m just surprised at how few people on STW do it.

Why are you surprised?

I just find it unusual how few people take part out of the hundreds who post on here.

Doesn’t seem at all strange to me. There’s a certain mentality required to diligently log rides (even if all you have to do is turn a phone on and press a couple of buttons) and it’s not one that most people possess. The vast majority of people ride for fun, how far/fast is of zero interest to them.

recognize which are the preferred modes of speech and written communication to enable us to deal with each other on the most efficacious bases.

You might want to work on that a little. Something like “speak and write clearly” ought to do it.

🙂

whats the point of having a 7D with bitchin fast AF if you’re going to do that

Most pros have more faster AF and don’t use it 🙂

campsites that say it’s not a camper so you can’t sleep in it?

He appears to have windows in the sides, that’s good enough for campsites.

It’s pretty crude but NHS budget is £110bn / 60 million = £1800 per person per year.

Although there are only 31 million taxpayers, so it’s a bit over £3k for each of them 🙂

MikeD – dont want to sell that LOCT do you??

‘fraid not, kids are 5 and 2 so we’ll have a use for it for a few years yet 🙂

I bought one of those Esge stands for our tandem, but cable routing (and a 2.3in back tyre) scuppered it. Still looking for a bipod stand that’ll go around a big tyre.

Nothing wrong with middle seats for most purposes IMHO. We’ve got a Siesta, a LOCT and a Weeride Kangaroo, they all have their place. All that stuff mainly gets used for getting around the place rather than RAD GNAR though 😉

£2000/year is £40/week. A 37.5 hour week at minimum wage is £200 take home. The bloke presumably lives at home, so unless his folks are stiffing him for rent I reckon he can afford to insure his car. And if they are, he should move out 🙂

http://www.cadac.uk.com/products/product.php?pid=262 🙂

Do people get on OK with these things? Every time I see one the kid’s bike’s twisting off to one side or the other and the nipper’s having to hold on for dear life ‘cos they’re doing a wheelie the whole time. I dare say there’s a degree of user error involved there, though 🙂 (Definitely user error in the case of the one I saw the other week setting off with stabilisers on the kid’s bike…)

“Bike frame included for scale” 😉

Get hold of an old kids bike for free and just take off the pedals/cranks/chain.

Works for older kids, but a typical two-year-old is unlikely to be able to straddle a bike with a bottom bracket. Proper balance bikes have very low seats.

In a similar vein, here’s ours:

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Long vehicle Mk II[/url] by MikeDavis[/url], on Flickr

Went for the left-hand extra chain, largely because the second-hand kiddiecrank came with the pedals reversed (RH body on LH axle) to let you run the ring on the left and I couldn’t be bothered stripping them to swap them back 🙂 The cranks have grubscrews in the ends to stop the pedals unscrewing. Extra ring added to rear timing crank. Getting it all aligned is a bit fiddly. If starting from scratch I reckon the front drive option is probably easier.

Stoker is currently an average-height 5. Could definitely accommodate a shorter one, there’s plenty of seatpost out. The kiddiecranks can’t go any lower than they are without the cranks colliding with the outer ring/front mech below.

Takes a bit of faffing to get it all working, but well worth it. I reckon it’s more future-proof than a childback tandem – when they grow a bit you just revert to the standard cranks. Can also take taller stokers as-is just by taking the pedals off the kiddiecranks and putting some back on the main cranks.