It’s just sit bone width. The marketing makes a binary division, but the biological average of women generally having slightly wider pelvises isn’t absolute. “Women’s specific” saddles will tend to be a bit wider, but there are people of all genders who’ll get on better with those saddles and others who’ll get on better with narrower ones (my gf and I seem to favour the same saddle widths).

Fabric (formerly Charge, but they changed name so they could sell finishing kit to other bike companies) would be a good company to start with, they do 134, 142 and 155mm wide saddles with various profiles. If there’s one that’ll fit you both, it’ll almost certainly be in their range.

Not singlespeed or cheap, but if you really want the belt drive, a Cube Hyde Race ticks some of your boxes and comes in under £900.

After failing to find any good ones, I went to visit a guy with a CNC and injection molding workshop, made a mold then injection molded a heap of PPE hooks (it was years ago, afraid I don’t have any spares, and they wear the pegboard after a while anyway). They’re okay, but for this kind of thing you’re still much better off making your own tool holders:

I drive once a year for a particular job every June. I’m hyper-critical of myself, often tell myself off for being out of practice, but after fifteen minutes this time, had seen three people driving on their phones, and realised no one else was really driving well or paying much attention. Outside of driving in central London, it’s the first time I’ve felt I had to be as alert and paranoid as I would be on a bike.

**** the statistics, bad driving isn’t being measured by starved police forces.

Last week a guy on his phone rolled over a zebra crossing in front of me as I was walking over it.

Me: “[word that is a colloquial term for masturbator]”
Him: “**** you!” as he gunned it away.

Croft Mill if they’re free. I do an event in HB, and anyone who’s come and stayed there has said it’s excellent.

I bought a dozen of these, and four months later can I find any of them? Can I ****.

fairly short 10-15 miler

Depending on how fit you are, this probably won’t be or feel like such a short ride around Hebden Bridge :D

Ituo seem to be gradually filling a nice mid-range gap between cheaper lights and known brands. Roughly 3 times the price of a cheap setup, but 1/3 the price of an expensive one, with a warranty and UK sales via Bright Bike Lights. Only doing the Wiz20 for now, but external battery versions showed up in Fresh Goods[/url] last week.

In terms of batteries: Any decent brand you buy (xtar, nitecore, etc.) will be rewrapped Panasonic cells, which are among if not the best available. [something]fire branded 18650s are a roll of the dice. Anything claiming more than 3400mah per cell will generally be fake and only have about a tenth of that capacity.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/titanium-carbon-or-vibrocore

Afraid not. I met him in person and asked.

noltae – Member
Is Vibrocore just expanding foam squirted inside the tubing – like how people customize tennis racquets?

No. I mean, believe what you want but I asked Mike from Spank this last year. He said they experimented with lots of different foams for two years before settling on one that attenuated vibration and also wouldn’t separate from the surface inside the bar. It also increases the strength of the bar: their aluminium bars last about 400K cycles on a testing rig. Vibrocore bars went for a few days straight and, at 2 million or so cycles, they had to turn the machine off so it could cool down.

I’m currently running Spike 800 Vibrocore on my HT and Sixpack carbon bars on the FS. Both good and have eliminated any hand problems I used to get from riding.

This looked awful when I caught a trailer in the cinema last week. That Vanity Fair review, oof!

a dull chore steeped in flaccid machismo, a shapeless, poorly edited trudge that adds some mildly appalling sexism and even a soupçon of racism to its abundant, hideously timed gun worship.

Yeah, I’m impressed that after three winters my nanos are still running just right. Not as grippy compared to others, I might put longer pins in them.

Needing a heat gun to service the Titans was a bit annoying, but apart from that they’re not difficult to work on.

There was one in my hometown that was really friendly for a while, but then it pulled in some confrontational arseholes. I stopped going after I ended up at the pub afterward talking to a Free Man Of The Land who wouldn’t shut up about it, and a massive racist bellend.

After a childhood spent mesmerised by BBC nature documentaries, I was very pro-BBC. Until I started paying attention to their news outputs commitment to some perverse ritualistic sense of “balance” while fielding reporters and presenters with very clear axes to grind. Nowadays they don’t seem much better than FOX in that respect and can go whistle.

oldtalent – Member
It’s an utter non law. I understand why they are doing it, but until you need a username and password it’s utterly pointless.

Which is exactly how the prototype, BBC Redux, worked for employees. Or ex-employees that hadn’t had their email addresses deleted even years after they left (*cough* not me)

I could definitely see the BBC’s model turning into something like Netflix or Prime.

Not just you.

kerley – Member
2.4 is not plus is it? Not many 26″ plus tyre options, Surly Dirt Wizard 2.75 and that is about it isn’t it?

Yeah. WTB have been showing some 26×3.0 tyres, and apparently some 26×2.8s that I can’t find photos of, but not much else yet. Vee Rubber have been all over other odd tyre sizes more quickly than most, so I hope they mess about with 26+ too.

It’s frusratingly little studied, but an old study that (probably) led Schwalbe toward the ideas they put into Procore showed lower tyre pressures reduced rolling resistance (they only studied down to about 20PSI though). Given what I’ve heard from people riding plus tyres in most conditions (skating over slick mud being an exception), and seeing a friend suddenly get much faster on descents with plus tyres on a Cotic Soul, I suspect good 26+ options in 27.5 frames will be a real sweet spot for many riders.

Mooch and Organic House are both good cafes, that latter only just reopened after the flooding.

I heard one story about a village in Cumbria or something. The upgrade was meant to happen in one place, but someone very rich moved to a nearby village and that one mysteriously got the fibre upgrade instead.

GoPros are the only thing I’d recommend to film makers or anyone with those kind of ambitions, due to the external mic port and higher bitrates/better encoding than other cameras. If you’re just arsing around and uploading to youtube though, those things are probably not such a worry and you might be better off with something cheaper.

Pretty much what jam bo said.

There’s no wildlife in the UK that’ll hunt you, and muggers hang out in cities and right near built up areas where there will actually be people to mug at regular intervals.

hexhamstu – Member
http://ksr-video.imgix.net/assets/013/050/612/0dbf1a5cfa893d7704c6da8e17e65dca_h264_high.mp4

8O

This thing belongs in a parade or something maybe, but nowhere else.

If this can get funded, I’m starting a kickstarter for luxury tallbikes.

I’ve seen staff at a gate hassling someone for having a helmet strapped to their bag, even though it didn’t push it over the size limit, apparently it had to fit inside it. Might depend on the airport or how jobsworth they’re feeling.

Years ago I met someone at a conference whose first language wasn’t English. Within a day or two they left me voicemail that began:

“Hello David, I would like to touch your base”

A coffee cup Stirling engine:

STATO – Member
What exactly are you going to do with a downloaded segment gpx? cant work out what the use would be.

Spend an hour or two getting GPX files, import to Viewranger, and you then have an OS map with all the nearby trails you’ve been meaning to explore.

If you can withstand how all-American-TV* this is, watch from 1:30

* It’s just missing eagles, the flag, and some Springsteen.

maccruiskeen – Member
I only joined this forum because I’m such a close and avid follower of the Bush-meister. I’m still trying to work out which forum-member he is.

Obviously Jambalaya.

Jamba you are George W. Bush and I claim my five pounds.

aracer – Member
The sole on those looks ace – why has nobody else done that?

I know right!? I think they might be a bit UK, maybe Europe specific.

I wanted something like them a lot the winter before last, and was about at the point of approaching Lancashire shoe manufacturers, or taking a hacksaw and some barge cement to existing shoes. A couple of similar designs popped up around Eurobike last year though. There were the Vaudes, and these OWN things:
http://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/eurobike-2015-own-only-whats-necessary/

I have a pair of the Vaudes. I’m not a great judge of shoe stickiness because I’ll tend to stay on pedals even with most of the pins missing, but on the few climbs round here that are steep enough you have to carry the bike, they’re way better than the Vans or AM41s I’ve ridden in previously.

maxtorque – Member
Lets face it, if British Cycling can’t even be bothered, despite the fact Brits (boys and girls) regularly fill all 3 of the podium steps at a world level

Yeah, I thought it was pretty weird and grim for BC to be tooting about DHWC victories on twitter this weekend, with videos bearing their watermark, given they seem to have contributed sweet **** all to DH.

binners – Member
Life too short to make your own pastry.

I asked a few chefs about pastry when I started making pot pies, and they all said the same as Binners.

CaptainFlashheart – Member
Just remember that you only need to make enough pastry to make the lid.

:lol:

Vaude Moabs. Made for flat pedals, dry fast and they’re great for hike-a-bike.

I found out the longboarder on the previous page “hit a rock, but nothing serious” (It’s the end of this, and the poster put that in the comments). While looking, I also found this:

lapdog – Member
Ming the Merciless got it right. Money no object there is only Syntace Titan 9 pedals.

Yeah. After a year mine spin a bit too freely, but the bodies are the toughest pedals I’ve had (and the lightest).

Nanos lasted me okay but got quite dented, and I’ve known loads of people swear by Vaults too.

Get some decent knee, shin and elbow pads. BMX tracks can be pretty unforgiving when you fall on them.

Custom Riders site is a pain in the arse when it comes to sizing and stock, but they usually have some heftily discounted bikes.

Not me, but someone I know drifted off then absent-mindedly made an enormous horse whinnying sound. After a brief pause, everyone carried on as if it hadn’t happened at all.

Spent a couple of weeks on a 5010 around Hebden Bridge/Tod and it was ace. Handled everything, including the steeper trails, and at points had me wondering if I really needed more than 130mm travel.

The line following on the Edge 25 is alright, but I’d prefer something with maps if I was navigating somewhere new. The Edge 25 has some small but not dealbreaking annoyances, like letting my bars turn when I stopped seemed to confuse it occasionally until I started moving again.