What, like be waterproof, a tiny addition on the stem, battery that’ll last all ride, workable with gloves on etc. etc.?

lol.
breath easy right enough ;)
I have a wired computer tinier than any bar mounted Garmin I’ve seen which never needs removed or charged.
My phone’s battery lasts well over 24hours with Bluetooth and GPS on and plays music and receives/makes calls to to my bluetooth headset without ever having to remove it from my zipped waterproof back pocket.
I don’t wear gloves.
What are all the etc. etc’s a Garmin 200 does?

Fair enough if you love your Garmin but it seems to cost over £200 to get one with basic features you’d find on any cheap £50 android phone such as a colour display or touchscreen. it’s frightening how much they expect you to pay for anything fancy like Wifi etc.. Like I said, I just can’t see what all that money is actually paying for. As for the cheaper Garmins, they just seem a bit clunky and backwards to me.

Capra but stick 26″ wheels and 155mm cranks on it. keep the supplied ones for when he grows.

Lucky boy BTW

Emmelle – whatever happened to them?

Emmelle was the cheap bike brand of MooreLarge and Co. The exotic sounding name “Emmelle” simply came from the owners initials “M” & “L”
Moore large used to also distribute other brands such as Diamondback and Barracuda. Nowadays I think Haro is their premium brand and “freespirit” seems to have replaced Emmelle as their cheap one. leaving Barracuda somewhere in the middle.

ha ha… That pic is ace! luckily someone thought to build a nice big house at the top of mine :lol:

the two chutes at the top of Dunkeld are well over, but the short blast through the trees from the start, wee pedal across the felled bit, the long rock gardeny traverse and the rest of the singletrack to the fireroad are all pretty flat.
Bottom half of Dunkeld is flat as ****.

Quarries are good for 40+ chutes but if you want to ride slopes of 45+ head to the coast. I grew up on a cliff and rode plenty short but mega steep trails from my door.
it’s why I’m not phased riding steep stuff on ropey bikes.

I don’t know the exact gradient. I just ride enough steep trails to know.

trails steeper than 40 can generally be found on similar hills to the ones you’ll have found but for the average gradient to be that high they’ll straight line top to bottom instead of traversing.. not all that interesting. and I’ve no idea if any I know have names or are on Strava.

the top and bottom of Glencoe are flat.

Yes there are trails steeper than 40

buy a new phone.
I can’t understand why Garmins are so expensive when a £50 android phone will do everything a Garmin can and way more.

I hate the Beatles sound. just can’t stand their voices and am not a huge fan of their musical style. lyrically they are great and I really like a lot of what John said but if a Beatles song was played in my house I’d turn it off quite quickly. If a band I actually do like covers a Beatles song I’ll usually like it.

Meatloaf was good as Bob in Fightclub. his music sounds even worse than The Beatles to me though.

no idea what he wouldn’t do.

Tenacious D.. they’re the new Meatloaf aren’t thay?

them

have a coffee ;)

Thanks Yunki.

can you wait for me at the door and walk me to my bike so these horrid bullies don’t get me?

thanks Jim.
Haven’t really looked at Ghost bikes before.
shorter shock (E2E) with the same stroke, yeah?
what shock are you running?

all of the above is 100% true. you want me to lie and say it isn’t because you have trouble believing any of it? how odd :?
Just incase you’re not clear, the “Only” 20mph was in comparison to my fastest 10min average.

likewise with my thoughts on every comment you direct towards me, why not just accept you might be wrong and move on?

What’s your current trail bike Jim?
and do you mean similar sagged or static?

lol. what in your opinion is “utter shit” about anything I’ve said?

and WTF made you the umpire of the internet?

Please stop asking Njee. your stalkiness was originally just a bit creepy but it’s now beginning to get tiresome.
I couldn’t actually care less whether you believe me or not.

riding mtbs on dull roads and bridleways can still be fun. Wheelie up all the climbs, manual all the descents, hop about on and off verges, kerbs or anything vaguely interesting along the way. You don’t have to just sit like a sack of spuds pedalling a smooth cadence you know.

Thank you Mike, I’ll print that out and wear it with pride :)

all my bikes have concessions to climbing and XC riding, even the Patriot, so that probably helps.

helps with what? I’ve ridden my 37lb short travel DH bike 15miles to a local DH track for a couple of runs and then ridden 15 back. and my BMX back and forth to the local BMX track 12 miles away. it’s all just riding.. You can make as many excuses for them as you want but it seems to me a lot of folk simply aren’t fit or strong enough.

This ^. It’s awful and I hate it.

Whack 60psi in your tyres and don’t use aggressive soft compound tyres in the first place unless you’re racing gravity events. mtbs don’t have to be all that slow on road.

I think you’ll find a few years spent researching and writing a dull study into something only slightly different than many many others have before you is in no way indicative of ones aptitude to hand out a decent insult.

it’s not really the words you need to be wary of ;)

*far far more likely to say “STFU you sanctimonious prick”

it’s good advice. ;)

CBA reading all that.

how many ice creams did he manage?

occasionally I’ll wipe the aluminium dust off the rims before fitting new pads.. depends how clean they were when the pads wore down to the hard plastic.

Your car sounds rubbish ;)

I’ve been known to ride 15-20 miles (each way) to get to the start an off road route even though I have trails in both directions starting from my front door.
kinda hate driving to ride my bike.

as with all difficult tyre/rim combos, remove the rim strips and replace with one wrap of insulating tape.
this will give you a slightly deeper central well for the bead to sit in allowing you to remove tyres slightly easier.
also, when you do remove them make sure to let as much air out of your tubes as you can.
fit new tubes/tyres with the tube uninflated.

I’m assuming decent tyre fitting/removing technique in the first place here.

that tick of yours seems to be getting worse ‘chach

with your ability to take such issue with my opinion and resort to unsubstantiated insults I’m now wondering if your’s is short for premenstrual?

I read your name as flange.

pay my fair and I’ll happily ride it for you live Mike

You really have taken my comment about your gravel bike riding capabilities to heart CFH haven’t you?
Oddly enough, I met up with a bunch of friends this morning for a 60 odd mile group ride. One of the guys was on a disc braked 37mm slick tyred, drop bar bike. funnily enough, neither his wider tyres nor his disc brakes opened up any new genre of riding or even the ability to ride the rough, mud strewn roads any faster than the rest of us. it simply offered him a more comfortable ride and from the momentum I still had compared to him after each corner I’m in no way envious of either his brakes or wider tyres. Being a decent well rounded adult he wasn’t in the slightest flustered by my views on such things.

Everything in Mike’s XC race vid looks completely straightforward to ride, the little rock chute in the pic certainly isn’t a highly technical feature for a half decent rider. it is indeed awesome that these XC racers aren’t getting off to walk down it though.

it mistracks, stops mid ride, etc which spoils it a bit. Might be my phone, might be strava, makes no difference.

in wet tree covered steeps perchance? that’s GPS rather than Strava.
stopping mid ride? try turning off Autopause.
If my phone connects to wifi during a ride it often stops the ride for some reason. I think that’s just lack of free memory and too many apps kicking in at the same time on my phone though.

dirtyrider

only ever done local Audax’s as I don’t really see the point in driving my bike anywhere to ride roads, but I do ride 85-120 mile loops fairly regularly solo (day and night). 1 bottle and pump on frame (as always) tubes/patches and multi tool in one pocket, phone, money and keys in another. food in the other is all I ever take.
Don’t see why you’d want anything more just because it’s an audax. not for upto 200km anyway.

Tea? don’t mind if I do. Earl Grey. no milk or sugar for me.. put the milk
I don’t use straight in the saucer for young steven.

Atomlab are somehow still going. churning out shite products as ever.

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Before folk like Spooky came along we used to just use 14 and 16″ XC frames and snap them a lot.

small XC hardtail geometry was very very similar to old skool DJ hardtail geometry. As you can see, the stays weren’t even very short on DJ frames back then and HA were very steep as a lot of the designers/riders were ex BMX riders.

Nope.

I feel a swoon coming on.

:lol: lucky someone got the smelling salts out I see ;)
just checked the segment and I was wrong :oops: it’s only 4.4miles and my best time is 9:31 :(
that’s still an average of very nearly 28mph though.
My point (as I believe NJee’s first post was) is that 5 miles is not exactly indicative of a sustainable average over any sort of decent mileage.
(I’d actually agree that 20mph avg on the flat on the road using an mtb is not all that difficult over a short distance as well).

Our local chaingang’s fastest group Avgs 27mph over 3 laps of an 8 mile circuit with 12 tight turns and a few rises per lap.

Very rarely ride my roadbike for less than 20miles but there happens to be a 5 mile Strava segment of the a flat road between my house and my daughters. A mate challenged me to do it in under 10min which at first seemed out of reach.. That was about 2 years ago. I’d have to check but I think my PB is now around 9min 20.
Average for a 2 hr ride is only about 20mph