Wow! Sorry about that. TL:DR. I’m raising money for St Ann’s Hospice. Riding Blackpool to Paris. Donate at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/twintowers540miles<span style=”color: #444444; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eeeeee;”>  and I’ll email you images of your raffle tickets in to a prize draw that is growing all the time in </span><span style=”color: #444444;”><span style=”font-size: 12px;”>prizes. Currently at Hope wheels, gym membership, a large TV, a vinyl album and a bike service. Lot more prizes to be added as the days, weeks and months go by, You’ve been very generous when I did London to Manchester in one day and I’m hoping you’ll be as generous this time. Thanks in advance. Steve</span></span>

<p style=”padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.2em; color: #444444; margin: 1rem 0px !important;”>On the 7th August I’m setting off from Blackpool Tower to ride to the Eiffel tower in three days to raise money for St Ann’s Hospice. I did a ride from London Velodrome to Manchester Velodrome in just over 13 hours and I almost died. It was horrible but I raised the best part of £1500, mostly from this forums’ members and some of you won some prizes.</p>
<p style=”padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.2em; color: #444444; margin: 1rem 0px !important;”>Now as before, I’m asking for your very generous donations BUT with a difference. For every £1 donated, you get a raffle ticket in to a prize draw to take place after the event (hopefully by somebody famous).</p>
<p style=”padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.2em; color: #444444; margin: 1rem 0px !important;”>The prizes  collection will be added to as the day, weeks and months go by assisted by the fund raising department at St Ann’s Hospice but as of today’s date they consist of a Toshiba 33″ flat screen TV,  a pair of Hope 29″ wheels,  a months free membership to New Bodies Gym (Buxton and New Mills) including any and all classes, a UB40 greatest hits vinyl album, free bike service (excluding parts) at Bicycle Smithy. All products are obviously brand new and unopened. I’ll update this thread as more prizes are announced. Simply make a donation to my Just Giving web page: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/twintowers540miles and send an email to twintowers540@gmail.com with your name, number of tickets and telephone number (it won’t be passed to anybody else) and I’ll photo the tickets and email them back to you.</p>
<p style=”padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.2em; color: #444444; margin: 1rem 0px !important;”>Anybody wishing to ride with me for part or all of the journey would be more than welcome.</p>
<p style=”padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.2em; color: #444444; margin: 1rem 0px !important;”>For now, my thanks go to : http://www.newbodiesgym.co.uk  <span class=”skimlinks-unlinked” style=”margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;”>www.bimm.co.uk/manchester</span>http://www.bicyclesmithy.co.uk</p>

On the 7th August I’m setting off from Blackpool Tower to ride to the Eiffel tower in three days to raise money for St Ann’s Hospice. I did a ride from London Velodrome to Manchester Velodrome in just over 13 hours and I almost died. It was horrible but I raised the best part of £1500, mostly from this forums’ members and some of you won some prizes.

Now as before, I’m asking for your very generous donations BUT with a difference. For every £1 donated, you get a raffle ticket in to a prize draw to take place after the event (hopefully by somebody famous).

The prizes  collection will be added to as the day, weeks and months go by assisted by the fund raising department at St Ann’s Hospice but as of today’s date they consist of a Toshiba 33″ flat screen TV,  a pair of Hope 29″ wheels,  a months free membership to New Bodies Gym (Buxton and New Mills) including any and all classes, a UB40 greatest hits vinyl album, free bike service (excluding parts) at Bicycle Smithy. All products are obviously brand new and unopened. I’ll update this thread as more prizes are announced. Simply make a donation to my Just Giving web page: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/twintowers540miles and send an email to twintowers540@gmail.com with your name, number of tickets and telephone number (it won’t be passed to anybody else) and I’ll photo the tickets and email them back to you.

Anybody wishing to ride with me for part or all of the journey would be more than welcome.

For now, my thanks go to : http://www.newbodiesgym.co.uk  www.bimm.co.uk/manchester http://www.bicyclesmithy.co.uk

Things are moving, albeit slowly. Due to hospice fund raising promotions and a few other bits, it looks like this is going to be a mid week event, sorry. I appreciate this may cause insurmountable problems for some who are interested in giving it a go but it is what it is. I’d have preferred a long weekend as well.

The week commencing Monday 6th August looks like the official date. Pencilled in for 4 days (including getting back from Paris) so it needs to be done in no more than 3 days. 2 if we can manage it.

Great stuff J. I reckon you’ll enjoy it so much you’ll do the whole thing.

Mate! That would be mint! You can sit on the front all day. “Eat My Pie”. I’ll be in touch.

One other person so far. Pencilled in the last week of August but subject to change if more sign up.

if the company ceases to trade or you leave, you pay the total remaining amount from your final salary payment. If the company doesn’t have sufficient funds to pay you your outstanding salary, Cyclescheme (or whichever provider you use) ‘take ownership’ of sorts and pursue you for the outstanding amount.
The final 13th payment is equal to your monthly payments if I remember correctly.
You absolutely can insure the bike against theft as if it gets nicked, you’re still going to have to pay for the bike, not your employer and not C2W. I do this and I tell the insurance company each year that it is a C2W purchase. When the bike is paid for, I cancel the insurance on that bike and take it out on the new C2W bike that I get.In fact, C2W advise you to get it insured. I get a new bike each year through Cyclescheme out of habit more than anything else. The savings, as pointed out above are next to nothing.
I’m pretty certain Evans won’t apply a BC discount (or any other discount other than Price Match) on a C2W purchase but I’ll hold my hand up if I’m wrong.

“TBH it probably wasn’t the right thread to start a debate over what constitutes sexual assault,”

I only asked (my assumption was it is a sexual assault) as I was going to make the point, as somebody has already, the idiot who carried out this assault would be quite rightly going on the sex offender register.

https://www.gov.uk/request-information-from-dvla.
Hope you’re as OK as you can be. Is this a sexual assault?

Might still be on. Juggling medication. I was really looking forward to it.

I’m not going to be able to make it, even if I get the train both ways. Very sorry.

I’ll be trying my best to be there on time. Don’t think I’ll be able to go to the pub though. I’ll be riding back with one eye on jumping on a train if (let’s be honest, when) I’m flagging.

The Sram cassette will work perfectly with Shimano and KMC but as noted above, depending on your cassette size, 105 rear mech may not have enough length.

Sarn Helen. There does seem to be some variations on what is the correct route (the original now has the A5 running along it) but none of them are easy.

I’ve been on sick leave for the best part of a year.
3 mountain bike rides.
8 Road commutes
2 cyclocross rides
Total mileage for the last 10 months : 176 miles. I used to do more than that in a week.
I’m slowly selling all my bikes. Can’t be bothered.

Local Market Research company’s are often looking fir people to do evening shifts. It’s telephone work and zero hours contract but it can add up after a few shifts.
Also, do you have a W H Smith depot nearby? Taking the papers and magazines out to the shops before they open is a good earner. They supply the van and fuel. You get to the depot at 4;30am.deliver papers to shops and pick up returns. finished by 7:30am’ish. . My mate does this (three kids and a divorce has forced his hand) but he’s always knackered.
Where abouts are you? I know of a position that is going to become available soon. A national tyre company that looks after lease car tyres. Job involves being in the office overnight and answering the phone to people with lease cars that have punctures, blow outs etc. The guy who does it at the moment is giving it up but he spends the first three hours 10:00pm to 1:00am watching films on his iPad and then he gets some sleep until a) the phone rings and he wakes up to answer it to and organise what’s needed or b) gets woken up by the morning shift people at 7:00am. The company has supplied a cot bed, blankets etc. He says that he gets three nights out of five on average where he’s not woken up by the phone. The job is in Stockport. That might work?

Unsurprisingly, not much really.

I think because of the angle that the rear guard ends, anything rigid will stick out the back rather than hang down and anything pliable will sit on the tyre…. I’ll have a think…or contact Crud as suggested by the Gent that is theboatman.

No extra pieces as far as I’m aware. The design in this respect does seem quite strange. I can’t see why they didn’t extend the rear down past the hub.
Awww, bugger! I’ve just bought the Cruds from Evans in Macc and my lovely wife is in the conservatory as I type swearing like a docker fitting them for me. I’ve been two minutes too eager or I would have happily paid for those adapters Stevie!

Thanks very much for the suggestions. I really like the look of those recycled truck tarps so I’m having one of those and also I’m having the Thule Shield very kindly offered by Gilesey.
I’m going to ask next “Which Pannier Rack” – Hope Ortlieb don’t make one of those….

Sorry, I forgot about this. I went round the rim twice with standard insulation tape, favouring each side with each wrap.

I’ve done it. Aksium Disc on my Focus ‘cross bike and no problems mincing round the Peak District at 50psi front and back. Kinda Kwicker folding tyres.

Mine: [/url]1 by Steve Monks[/url], on Flickr[/img]

Thank you both very much for the help. I think I’m going to cut my losses and go for an Ultegra 32 tooth, 11 speed cassette. I’ll run up anything harder than my legs will let me pedal.

Double chainset. 46 and 34. Nothing is easy, is it? Thanks for your help though.

Thank you very much. Back to the drawing board…… or the shop for an XT cassette……

Thanks for the reply. Does this mean that the 11 speed 105 cassette will go straight on to the Crossride wheel and work perfectly or is the 105 cassette too big for the Crossride hub?

Really enjoyed watching that. Makes me want to go to Iceland.

I can do any date. Anybody from Manchester area fancy a ride down, round and back again?

Just seen this. James….don’t do it. I’d do London to Manchester again before I did another go of the Cheshire Ring Of Arse Fire….

Does anybody have any experiences of this http://bridgestreet.cc. If I ever get back to work, I was thinking of getting one of these. Different sites means I can’t leave stuff overnight. It all has to be taken too and from.

I might ride down for this if I’m well enough and I’m allowed. Is it’ crossbike’able?

I get them very badly along with night terrors (the dream / nightmare continues for up to a minute after I’ve woken up during the nightmare) but I’m on 200mg of Quetiapine bd (400mg in total) a day and this is a rare side effect.

I have a Neil Pryde padded bag you can borrow if you like? I’m in the Peak District though.

If you wanted to dip your toe in I have a fat bike going cheap. Easily under £200. and I’m not (that) for from Manchester.

“You seem to have strong opinions – care to share them?”

I tried to, a little, up there but hey-ho, what do I know?

“Yes, i do believe the statement is true.”
Your belief is hugely flawed.

This is like saying a person is very fit. It’s half a statement. Fit for what? Compared to what or who?
edit; Now you’re adding a little detail, it gets clearer.
If riding at a continuous threshold on a terrain designed for each bike (on a fairly flat road and on a lumpy, bumpy, rootie, rocky trail for each respective bike), then yes, the road bike would be better suited to the task. But isn’t that very obvious anyway? You’d struggle to ride at continuos ftp on a technical mountain bike ride so the original statement is still rubbish.
further edit. ‘miles’ are just miles. On there own, in isolation and in large numbers, they indicate an ability to sit on a saddle and pedal for a long time, not much else.
Specificity. Be specific in your goals and your training to reach them.

It’s been a few years since I did my Sports Science degree but even so, that statement is so lacking in any kind of information it isn’t even a valid statement other than, in the way it’s been presented, it’s completely not true.
Riding a (road)bike or a (mountain)bike for 2 hours at 200 watts is exactly the same as each other. You may well travel a little further on one rather than the other but the training effect will be exactly the same.
Needs more detail and even then, I can’t think of a (super contrived) situation where it would be anything like correct.