If you're particularly heavy adjust the pressure to suit

yes, but for touring, i don't want to run tubeless at over 60 psi to account for weight, because that is advised against (for good reason i'm presuming)

i'm weary that the extra load might increase the likelihood of a burp (i'm talking tubeless here).

i'm keen to hear what people say here too – i'm looking to do a tour in summer and don't want to have a tyre roll off the rim on a 50lb bike on a steep hill. so was considering gunking up some innertubes with stans.

i like the qwerty bike! ?

i've just seen a photo! are shimano going to come and poke my eyes out as they now have had an impression of the new set? yikes, i better wear some goggles!

😉

i did everything on a stumpjumper hardtail with 100mm forks. and i didn't die. my mate on a bouncy bike couldn't keep up so i don't think i was too sluggish either.

EDIT: not quite everything. but it handled everything i threw at it…

and

i would imagine not, but would wager that the camelbak site might tell you. camelbaks normally come with a splash cover though.

and thanks to everyone's advice. think i might go for the hawg. cheers!

died in a car crash and the pmc as we know him is merely a record company-sponsored imposter?

cycling along the coast at dusk was lovely, and i didn't slip on the ice once!

ach, i think i'm just gonna take a cycle along the coast. thanks everyone!

no one for elling or (the original) funny games?

i hope there's still snow on the pentlands tomorrow! 😥

so where would a chairlift start? cos if it's the floodplain (i.e. carpark level) then no chance. that's why there's no visitor centre (flood risk – no council would give consent i'd say)

i rode there tonight and it was tough. only the lower slopes could be considered rideable. twas indeed getting on for two foot deep in places.

someone slung a couple of bikes like this in to my dad's skip. very exciting. also someone deffed off a 70s 5 speed racer with wingnut quick releases…

hahahahaha

wait, you're serious. let me laugh harder HAHAHAHA

nah, just kidding. but really, if you've ridden there before, surely you'll know if you can handle it on a different bike?

i bought a second hand hahanna in 07. i guess i'm not enslaved to consumerism enough to be a part of this site 🙄

what do you mean by hot hot? like glowing red? cos if they were only hot enough to leave a burn on your skin then surely that's normal hot?

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/metcheck-owner-in-prison

i went off metcheck when they started bragging about their new high resolution data set they were receiving – which seemed to lead to naff(er) forecasts.

then the court case stuff nailed it for me

very minor diversion

excellent! that's what i need to hear 🙂 thanks both

first intense M6's did that too….

the gt lts-dh (second year – the one with the alloy link, not ti) – the shock would hit the seat in long travel mode. meant having the seat too high for dh. ridiculous.

highs: finally doing lots of riding in the pentlands after living in edinburgh for five years.
riding some amazing trails in southern spain
doing some great commutes through the pentalnds last winter in the dark and snow

lows: screwing my IT band in my leg, meaning lots of time off the bike
being made redundant – which was good, cos it meant i could go back to uni, but biking-wise i have little time for it
my 'epic' in spain – getting lost at night in the dark with no lights with nothing but my mate and some beastly sounds around. i was imagining a helicopter trip…

from bruntsfield (edinburgh) cycle up to swanston village, up the gert big hill to windy door nick, down to the farm, accross to the souterrain thing, round the reservoir, right up then down to threipmuir res, and then head back via dreghorn and on the urban singletrack. so good. if it was for this assignment i'd be there now! 25ish miles

You'll be telling me cannabis … [is] more dangerous than tobacco

ahahahaha classic stoner ignoring the facts cos it interferes with their own actions. cannabis is loaded with tar, far more than tobacco. burnt tar in your lungs ain't a good thing…

31, part-time kitchen assistant, part-time student, part-time musician

i phone up dial-a-pizza
i phone up dial-a-pizza
i phone up dial-a-pizza
and i say 'that's not how i would spell hawaiian'

i bought some tights when i moved to scotland five years ago and have never worn them…

yeah, i guess there's poor infrastructure between cardrona and GT, which is a real shame. it just seems to me that there are far more impoverished areas – both cycle-wise and in general terms.

i don't get it. you have glentress and innerleithen and you still need something for the kids to ride? it'd go the way of bmx tracks soon enough if it was ever to get the funding (by which i mean overgrown and under-used)…

i went to spain in the summer with a friend. turns out it was too steep and slippy for my mate so he ended walking most ups and downs, while he had to wait for me on the ridable climbs cos i'm unfit. we clocked a nice looking riding, for which we left at about 11am. we'd never ridden it before, and we didn't get back to the car til gone midnight. the only lights we had were the flashes on our cameras. we were lost and i was scared. to compound issues, there was a storm brewing on the coast. we lost the paths and had to basically climb up scree slopes for hours in the dark. i entirely envisioned a helicopter trip. we made it back finally, but it was the most intense (not to mention stupid!) thing i've done on a bike. and i lost my sunglasses too!

hey genesis it's up now! http://www.channel4.com/programmes/freesports-on-4/4od

hmmm, i can't see it on 4od. i can find the episode that was on after but not the biking one 🙁

Look at the way you are positioned when you are doing things and if it hurts change something so that it doesn't hurt any more.

yep i'm not a complete cretin. thanks. the point of this thread was to find out what stretches. not be just to be told to stretch. i'm mindful that doing the wrong stretches will may make things worse, so i guess that's what i was asking for. i happened to pull my back the day before seeing a podiatrist about some custom insoles i got a couple of months before – he suggested that it was pilates and not physio i should go for (he also said it's very unlikely that the innersoles are responsible given that i've had the pain before).

so yeah, if anyone has any anecdotal advice to save me money and that won't end up causing me more harm i'd love to hear it! checked some pilates vids online but still unsure as to the their efficacy.

i don't. i run a seven speed cassette with an eight speed shifter and cantis! but then, i also have a fancier bike with nine speed and hydraulics…

thanks for all the responses. i'll definitely bear that stuff in mind. i work in a kitchen and i was leaning forward over a sink when i felt a sudden pain in the lowest part of my back, in the middle, but slightly left of the spine. this made it really difficult to straighten up. that part of my back feels pretty stiff and sore every day when i wake up. any thoughts on how to loosen it up?

cheers, kieron

i was on a multiday ride on the southern upland way and a mate snapped his gear hanger. we walked to the nearest town where he was at the front of the queue for a bus to village we were camping in. the bus driver wouldn't let him on so he took the wheels off and there was no stress!

i got made redundant and so started an MSc. it's like a dream