strange thread title as of all the small bike things you could post handlebars seem err…large.

nice to see some girls without ugly tattoos or body piercings

yup, great pic. That’s Drew Carters, who was a Trailaddiction guide when I went to Les Arcs in 2012.

Great rider despite the rather large off he’s suffering there.

Some of the comments are priceless such as “and they told me a 29’er would roll over anything…”

saw loads yesterday (Monday) morning and evening and again this morning.

On CS7 heading North, they started appearing at Tooting and there were from one to half a dozen officers/PCSOs at every major intersection up to the Elephant which is where I turn off CS7.

I saw them pull over and ticket a couple of mopeds who were in the ASL and a couple of tourist RLJ’ers on Boris bikes. But at Stockwell where the resurfacing work has been undertaken but they havent repainted the yellow grid they did nothing about the cars blocking the junction meaning cyclists were weaving in between the cars to cross.

They are going to be with us until Xmas

yes both. I went to El Campello in March with MTB Spain which is about 40 mins down the coast. Tons of MTB riding and great trails.

A mate was there at the same time on his road bike and stayed in Denia which is just to the north and there’s plenty of really good road stuff there too. he rode something like 750km in a week

Here’s a look at some of the MTB stuff out there

MTB Spain

Prince Albert 720 with 700c wheels and disc hubs

rides like an MTB with road wheels. Not as fast as my road bikes due to lower gearing and higher riding position but it does the job when required.

It also got my youngest up the Col de la Madeleine in July (as well as Alpe d’Huez and La Semnoz)

njee20 – Member
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MTB-idle – very similar route to me, probably seen each other! Geetee1972 does a similar route too, bumped into him previously.

Hi njee20, yes i thought you were down this way. Seen someone on an old orange framed MTB with hub gears recently and wondered if they were off here. What you riding?

At the mo I’m riding this as my winter hack (not sure what happened to the saddle in that pic, it’s straight now, honestly!), say hi if you see me.

18 miles each way, 36 miles or 58km a day four/five days a week

Strava

119 sets of traffic lights

Tooting High Street, heading south in the evening,

It feels like a video game as you head down there with all kinds of cars, buses, pedestrians etc. jumping out on you form left and right, in front and behind.

Regularly see other riders down there i.e. lying on the deck having been taken out by something.

It’s like a war zone.

okay so I’m a bit late to the party but I need to ask this question as it’s been bugging me.

There I was last Thursday morning riding up the alpe with my two sons when I hear someone comment “look at that dialled with slicks” commenting on the dialled bikes frame I had kitted out for my youngest son.

That must have been someone off here, c’mon who was it? 8)

Here he is at the top

Looking a bit better than Froomedog

A great week spent riding the alpe and then Col de la Madeleine the next day and Semnoz on Saturday. If you haven’t done it yourself you really must ride the alps during the tour.

you need Enfield garage door bolts. I have a pair, work well. Here’s me fitting them

I stayed in a villa a bit further round near Alicante

Great riding tho

8)

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got the answer from Mike, 28.6mm

That appears in the Rules of Procedure shall Section “Daniel Esteve Mountain Park”, which determines the intention EIdense Rookie Center for cultural and sports park, and is copied below:

“Our age is characterized by an attitude of man against nature in quest of destruction. Air pollution, water pollution, which has led to the extinction of plant and animal species, indifference and apathy address vital problems of Nature, its misuse, the hobby of destroying beauty imprudence caused so many fires every year, lack of respect and care, probably due to lack of knowledge and love for her, are causes that determined social strata international calls emergency relief and defense of nature. civic education is imperative in man that translates into respect for natural resources.

Nah! I dunno either…

Mine does that when it gets too much data on it. Have you tried removing all the ride data off it manually?

Plug into USB on pooter and open ‘Garmin’ folder and then open ‘Activities’.

Cut all the ride data in there i.e. the *.fit files and copy them to an external hard drive or wherever you want to back up data.

You should now have an empty Activities folder (or perhaps just leave the last few rides in there).

Close the file and unplug. Garmin should boot up and find satellites and upload/download a lot quicker.

I flew to Alicante two weeks ago with Monarch from Gatwick.

Bike was well packed and came to no harm although they are really hot on the weight of the cases on the way out they didn’t even weigh the bikes just asked ‘is it about 20kilos?’ to which the obvious answer was ‘yes’.

Where you going? The riding’s great!

mine in Spain last week

#notjealous

it’ll be busy, it’s Le Tour; but do it, you won’t regret it.

Try to get at least part way up a mountain for that proper tour feel. Much better than them just whizzing past you on a dual carriageway somewhere.

Wiggo; Grand Colombiere

Froome Dog: La Toussuire

Cav: Col du Granier

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i went from android to i-phone and send it back to get another android phone withing 2 days.
found the iphone to be more of a fashion accessory than a functional device.

i went from android to i-phone and send it back to get another android phone withing 2 days.
found the iphone to be more of a fashion accessory than a functional device.

Seems to working faultlessly

yeah I spotted that too. The irony was delicious, mmmmmm… :twisted:

neilsonwheels – Member

567 but missed 3 50 mile+ rides because my Garmin was in for warranty.

Eh? Are you saying you rode them but they didn’t record (in which case you can still count the mileage) or you didn’t ride them because you didn’t have a Garmin?

A quiet month for me:

568 miles (909 km)
44h 43 mins
6,670 metres vertical (or 21,883ft 2 & 27/64ths of an inch ahem :oops:)

went there the Sunday before last (3rd Feb). It was raining and lots of water on the trails but they were still very rideable; much more so than the surrey hills

Take some money and a change of clothes for the shower afterwards

Video of recent Afan trail conditions

eat less and exercise more

Last year I just used whatever was on my bike already and pumped ’em up a bit harder 8)

13,026 km (8,141 miles)

Lanzarote? Speak to Gav at Evolution Bikes

I’m doing it. Currently at 450km and just need to knock off the final 50km tomorrow.

Oh, and I don’t own any pink kit.

I’m having a go at the Rapha Festive 500 so I’ve been out in the rain all week although it has been on the road bike.

Covered 348 km so far this week with 3,267m of climbing and 152km still to go. Should knock those off by Monday

from Tim Moore:

As a variant on a sporting theme, Alpe d’Huez annoys the purists but enthrals the broader public, like 20/20 cricket or nude volleyball. Last year, a full-blown tent-stamping riot had required heavy police intervention. During this year’s clean-up operation, down in a ravine with the bottle shards and dented emulsion tins, a body turned up. He’d fallen off the mountain and no one had noticed. When the Tour goes up Alpe d’Huez, it’s a squalid, manic and sometimes lethal shambles, and that’s just the way they like it. It’s the Glastonbury Festival for cycling fans

that’s the idea. We drove on the day of the tour but still arrived in plenty of time and found a space as you can see from the video.

Approached from the east and there are loads of places you can park up. all you need to do is time it right.

It is of course rideable from Briancon but I can guarantee it is a long, long ride and you won’t fancy heading home afterwards. I rode from Briancon to the top of the Lauteret (bottom of Galibier) the previous day and it is a tough ride and that is only about a quarter of the distance.

Any tips? do it, you won’t regret it.

I did this in 2011 last time Le Tour visited the alpe (did it this July too) and it’s a great experience.

I was staying in Briancon too. I would query what Pete says as the route from Gap approaches Bourg from the south whereas Briancon is on the east.

Assuming that’s okay, we set off from Bourg about 9am and drove the 50 miles to just outside Bourg (admiring the Galibier on your right as you are about halfway). The road started getting busy so we just dumped the car on the side of the road (along with hundreds of others) got out the bikes and rode. I would take the bike, unless you will be fighting for a place at the top there will be plenty of space to leave your bike.

In fact even when we were right on the top at other mountains we left our bikes and were never worried about them. There really is a different vibe on an mountain. That’s not saying don’t be careful but I certainly felt much safer. Plus there will be literally thousands of bikes and most of them will be more expensive than yours (whatever you have) so yours will be low down the list.

They only tackled the alpe once in 2011 so got there about 4pm’ish. They will be arriving earlier in 2013 so you may need to adjust your leaving time accordingly.

It will also be much, much quicker to return down the alpe at the end of the day on a bike and of course more fun.

Here’s a short video of the day: you can see where we stopped the road wasn’t busy at all. We had been to the top but turned around and came down again to get some shade as it was absolutely roasting that day.

Alpe d’Huez

and here’s an even shorter video when I recognised Jens Voigt

Jens Voight – shut up legs

Other top tips are to take plenty of provisions and be prepared to wait a long time.

Take a decent sized flag if you can. Very handy for waving around and spotting yourself on the telly afterwards!

I’m going again next year so perhaps see you there!

a nice little ride around Surrey’s finest

Surrey Hills history lesson part 1

Surrey Hills history lesson part 2

I never get any trouble

there’s a lesson there somewhere…

Oi!

I just use it as a way of recalibrating my lack of faith in humanity

good stuff. I tend to load on vimeo as it loads full HD better but 720 is good enough, no real need to go to 1080i.

I too had the same issue with vented MTB lid, here’s where I put my mount (admittedly a different cam) but you get the picture – pun fully intended :wink: