Hello wonkey….Gatley lights…last year…I can't remember :oops:
Still on the road and off road just as much though. Loads of free time these days and I seem to spend it all cycling. I'd be well up for a ride.
Ahhh, I've just twigged! Christ, it's been a while mate! How's things?

It's next to the car park Eddie. It's nothing to get excited about. Hollywood Park has more stuff.
West Park at Macc. is much better and it's free (next to Sainsbury's).
If you fancy taking the family out for the day, the adventure and farmyard playground at Chatsworth is ace. I used to incorporate it into a ride and then meet the family there. In fact, I remember doing a Peak ride wth you lot a couple of times and then carrying on to Chatsworth to meet Nixe and Emily. A good way to get a rde in without abandoning the family.

Just my experience and opinion but I would run away from any mech. that has Shadow in its title.
Setting it up and adjusting it correctly became a week long activity and even then I didn't manage it and the pivot wore out incredibly quickly.
It was replaced with a non shadow version. Straight on and set up perfectly in 15 minutes and works like a dream 500 or so miles later.
I'll not have Shadow ever again.
Just looking at it up there is giving me anxiety issues.

Lovely. Thanks muchly.

That's a very doable route for most people I would expect. 20 miles further into the Dark Peak would be more tiring.

I'm interested. I can do most speeds and I'm local'ish so I know my way round. I don't have a car though so I won't be able to join you in your car crying thing :-).
It's a couple of days before I go to NZ so hopefully it'll help me sleep on the planes.
Can I get an idea of the starting location please? I'm good for all start points except for south of Buxton or Langsett. I can get as far south as Buxton by train but a Cut Gate start means a train to Sheffield and then ride to the start which would be horrible.
I'll see if a mate fancies it as well. He can do ALL speeds.

**Currently sat in the C/Tax dept. at Stockport Council**

SPD stays IF the other persons property is considered to be their full and main residence which is usually determined by the place in which they are registered for GP/Dentist, have bank account registered at, family live at, post sent to etc.
I'd try and lose the title "tenant" and any written tenancy agreement just to make sure some jobsworth doesn't go sticking their oar in and messing the whole thing up for a bit but under legislation, no, SPD remains in place.

Hi to "H" :-}
Left foot forward or right foot forward is a natural thing and although you can practice using both to some degree of success, you will always favour and feel more comfortable in your natural position.
A good way of seeing it in action is if you think about which foot you would automatically put forward to stop yourself falling if somebody pushed you from behind or even better, if you were skidding in the school hall in your socks (those were the days), which foot you would have forward. This is your natural lead foot. Snowboarders call it regular (left foot forward) or goofy (right foot forward).
Do you get pain in your thumb during any other activities that you do? I'd initially be looking to see if it's something inheritantly physilogical that is transpiring because your hand is in one position for a relatively long time which wouldn't normally be the case in day to day activities (I got through, but only just, my biomechanics element of my Sports Science degree). Ergo grips are a good call but take some getting used to and some don't ever manage it. If you turn your hand palm up and move your fingers into a holding position as if your were holding a pole, notice the flat spot from below the little finger to the wrist? Ergo grips support that.
The sciatica I dare say is already being dealt with? A few seat saddle forwards and backwards, seatpost higher and lower and stem changes will probably go a long way to easing it on the bike (although changes in any position on the bike are not in isolation – a change in stem length for instance will not just slow down the steering and make you lean more forward, it will also rotate your hip position and seated position on the saddle) along with spinning the easiest gear you can with higher revs rather than hard gear selection and hard pushes on the pedals.
I hope some of that helps.

I went from learning to ride a bike to using clipless pedals within about 6 weeks Simon so I've no experience of using flat pedals on off road rides but if they're just as good?
Do you think the person in question is very tense while riding, especially when things get a little intimidating? Maybe relaxing more (easier said than done for a beginner) will lessen the symptons?
Is the thumb issue being caused by the trigger shifters of the gears? Maybe a switch to grip shift would help?

The immediately obvious answer to a small part of the propblem is clipless pedals to help prevent the lady's foot coming off the pedal.
I can't think that that one issue is causing all of her discomfort.
The next thing I'd be suggesting is a bike fitting, some skills sessions (both with somebody knowledgeable if not professional) and GP and/or physio for the sciatica.

It holds your seat post in place just as it is designed to do. So does just about every other seat post clamp for half the price and probably half the weight. Why bother? Another Crank Bros. over engineered component.

Is that the bridleway that comes out of Goyt Valley from the rangers hut? If it is, it's pretty good. An easy, wide, bumpy climb and then a rutted, loose, rocky, descent to the outskirts of Buxton at Burbage.

You shouldn't really, they are infinitely more likely to shatter like glass if you do and I bet that would be a bit of a problem.
Techincally speaking (and this is an industry secret – well it was until I hit the Send Post >> button), you're not supposed to clamp brakes, shifters or stems to carbon bars but as so many of these itmes have been made in advance, they're not saying anything until they've all been bought used and worn out and then they will announce it and start selling the special glue for clamping things to carbon bars that I've developed.

"Talk to me about…" stop it!

I have the '09 Ltd Team. It's great apart from the Formula K18 disc brakes.

Any cycling baggy shorts with a pad for less than £50 that you like the look of and feel comfortable in.
There are no road cycling specif baggy shorts that I'm aware of.
Decathlon do some cheap ones that are quite short. £20 a pair, I think.

That looks like a colony of maggots overdosing on a rotten beetroot.
Your wife has my commiserations.

I'm confused:

"I have jumped the odd redlight myself in a car so I'd be a raving hypocrite if I banged on about bikes."

Then 24 minutes later.

"I had a stand up argument with one bloke who had jumped two reds…"

It makes a difference, I noticed. Same model of bike, no missaligned caliper, no sticky piston, much faster for same perceived effort. Same tyres , no noticeable difference in tyre pressure, same tatmac road, no noticeable headwind, similar resting heart rate this morning. Not compeletely scientific but close enough.

No it's not – well it is now. It's in my head that I can't face riding it now I know it's not working right where as last week I suspected it wasn't working right and I didn't much care.
I'm good with physiology (and sports psychology) but crap with mechanics.

"It's going to make **** all difference to your speed"

Don't be daft.

Definitley the brake. I removed the disc and it spins like a good 'un.
Bizzarely, it does OK with the caliper fastened down but not tight. As soon as I tightened it up, knackered again. Jon reckons the mount might need facing. Sounds like a plan to me.
Formula K18's. Never again. Sticky pistons, broken calipers….
Do you find your self ridiculously slower and more knackered than you previously were? My heart rate was through the roof. Perceived effort maximal, speedometer saying "you is rubbish". I knew it wasn't quite right but I didn't think it would make quite the difference it has. I rode a different bike in today, Shit a brick. man. I flew! It's not been a complete waste of time then :-)

Sorry, I'll try again:
My rear disc brake has been doing my head in. A shove on the front wheel hard enough to get the wheel rotating 10 full revolutions on the back wheel had it spinning 3 times – 4 at best.
I've messed with the caliper, pistons everything over the last 12 months that I've owned the bike and now I've conceded defeat and referred to Fatboyjon at the excellent Bike Smithy http://www.bicyclesmithy.co.uk/ and it's going in to be fixed next week.
It's been like this since I bought the bike and I've just got on with it and ridden the bike lots but now I know it's not just me but the bike is in need of help, I can't face riding it this weekend. Had I not called in the shop, I would have ridden it as normal, loved it and assumed I was just getting slower on a bike.
Is it irrational to hate it now I know it needs mending rather than loving it but suspecting it probably should go in to be looked at?

He's been squaking to all and sundry about it and he's got hold of the notion that if it's driving wiithout due care he's need to be visited bt the police before his court date.

The Postman has delivered a summons to attend court, in person. It has been suggested to him that he could go to prison for this (he wouldn't though, would he?). He's close to tears :-}

YDR. Ask for a detailed explanation of how that works. It doesn't make sense mate. The calores go in and don't go anywhere until they're used up or stored and used up or not at a later date.
500 calores in at lunchtime wlll be exactly the same as 500 calories going in at 9:00pm (unless of course the 500 calories in at 9:00pm is in addition to the 500 calories at lunchtime – that would be 1000 calories :-).
It's as simple as basic maths. Amount in – amount used up – amount left over.
Subtle temporary changes to metabolc rate and homostasis aside (based on somatatypes) your body will do what it wlll do with the basic formula of amount in -v- amount used.
The legendary breakfast like a king, lunch like a merchant, dinner like a pauper always makes me smile. Almost sounds like something out of a fairy tale. It should certanly be treated as one.

7-8 weeks could see you a stone lghter. 1000 calories deficit per day. You may not keep it off, you may lose performance (muscle atrophy) and you may not feel great for the duration.
A much better idea would be take longer losing it and lose it by slowly increasing activity and gradually changing your diet to a more healthy regime if it's not the best at the moment.
Try to match your diet intake to fuel the activties your going to ask your body to carry out.
"Don't eat in the evenings" Why do you say that youngdaveriley?

I bought a pair of the hollow axle version two weeks ago. The bike (mountain bike) they have been put on has probably done 100 miles since then and have probably been fastened up and unfastened when packing the bike away and getting it out again and they've been fine.
They weigh 5g each more than advertised (or that could just be my scales).

I took an old Decathlon £75 thing up to the main road a few years ago and left it leaning against a tree with a sign on it that said "Free to anybody that wants it. For confirmation this is genuine, feel free to telephone…."
Within 10 minutes the phone rang. It was the Police telling me to move it or I would be in trouble for fly tipping! The very cheek!
When I got there a guy was having a good look at it and he was very pleased to be able to take it away.

Some bike and non bike shopping this morning, so only cycling today is riding over to Man City's ground along the canal for the match as soon as I finish this coffee, Peak District all day tomorrow and Penmachno on Monday. If I've got the legs for it, I might take the sneaky off road route and link some of the Marin in as well.

I find the concepts of Brownie Points and Facebook equally pointless and depressing. I think I might be morphing in to Simonfbarnes. I'm only short of quoting everybody I respond to in italics and it will all be over.

From the benches outside the shop, up, down and getting off to order a coffee at the kiosk, 2 hours.
Snowdon, Penmachno original trail (not been since the 2nd one opened) and Marin trail is a nice day out for me and although I easily qualify 'cos I-is-ace-innit, I have no known superman powers :-}.
I have been known to do a bit of hiking with my family. I see no issue with adhering to the very reasonable summer voluntary ban. Plenty of other areas to ride are available and Snowdon doesn't go to Spain for it's holidays at any time so you could always go early or late in the day :-}

Only person items such as childrens toys, story books, clothes, stuff like that went in the skip although I can fully apreciate your point(s). It was all general stuff, nothing to identify anybody. The neighbours to the property and offices don't really know what the building is for (as far as I know). I assume they think it's a hostel of some sort which I suppose as near as damn it, it is. We don't get to know or even want to know the surnames of service users, where they've come from although this is often divulged by the youngsters if any are involved or often exactly where they're going next.
Nothing that can be pinned to any individual leaves the secure office.

Bottom to top and back to the bottom is two(ish) hours for me.
Get there in the summer for 7:00am, have the ride done and be on my way to Marin and Penmachno by 9:30. A top North Wales day out.
The Bwlch Maesgwm bridleway is apparently excluded from the ban completely although I've never ridden it.
Any knowledge of the bridleway and its ban exclusion Max?

I did it for four years when my daughter was 2 unil primary school. Let me think…….no, I can't think of any single day in that period that I actually enjoyed it.
If I was told I was going to be a Dad again, I'd leg it. Hateful little creatures, kids. I'm glad I grew out of being one.

Or in this cae have all three if that price is correct.
KCNC is very good kit. I'd be interested iin one at 110mm at that price.

I've been a bit of a cock as well though. His girlfriend has got hold of a couple of bikes so they can go for a bike ride on bank holiday Monday. She has a helmet but he doesn't so he's asked to borrow one of mine.
I've told him I don't have one that will fit him. This may mean he doesn't go for his bike ride. This bothers me more than it probably should but the bottom line is, I really don't like the guy.

Clockwise
Doesn't really matter where you start
Yes, that's fast but has been done

Definitely "Internet Explorercanot display the webpage" fella's.
I tried the reinstore disc and it sets off running and then says it needs the correct disc inserting even though it's in.
Your help is much appreciated and a donation will be on its way to Singletrackworld.

No warning markers Waderider. It somehow ran scandisk and it seemed to be completely fixed and then during an Internet surfing session, it started downloading 8 instals and it's back to how it was again :-(
Managed to download Firefox but it just keeps saying "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" although the computer itself says it is connected to the internet and the signal is excellent.
I also mamaged to download IE8 but again, it won't display the web page.
It's doing my sanity in now.
It's an Advent 5711 with Vista installed