Hora – saturday, meeting at the layby on the right on the way up to the derwent visitors centre, no idea on pace…..

Back this weekend with a mate from the club Hora – riding with some other forum, MTB Britain Christmas ride or some such nonsense :wink:

9.30 somewhere around ladybower

Christmas pint with the lads this thursday unfortunately, January hopefully.

Feeling left out amongst the Oranges on Saturday Hora!?

I wasn’t saying this was a bad idea BTW, just that I hate misleading statistics!

Also just because all of the recovered bikes has tags on doesn’t make it a 100% recovery rate, how many bikes were stolen with a tag and not recovered?

Ah no, probably here :-)

Here:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=53.370784,-1.697572&num=1&gl=uk&t=m&z=14

I’ll be around by 8.30 anyway, so keep an eye out!

Sounds good to me. Where do you park at Ladybower, and do you know how much the parking is?

I’ll be in an silver E30 325i touring with half a pistonheads sticker on the boot (if you’re the same Hora as there?). Riding a dark blue orange 5.

Cheers

How long do you think you’ll be riding for?

Room for a non native? Was thinking about riding in the peaks this weekend, but struggling to convince any of my usual riding buddies out. Could be in Hope for 9am.

Due to not feeling well I’ll not be out – sorry all.

I’m still in too.

Currently:
Floyd
Saps
NDG
MattK?
Swingbin?

I don’t think we’ll wait around at the bull as long as last time, we’ll be leaving the bull at 7.30 sharp, otherwise I’m going to freeze to death!

Cheers!

So who’ll be there?

Swingbin
Lunge
NDG (+1 probably)

Anymore?

Permit booked, see you all tomorrow.

Orange 5 – check
Mid thirties – check
Audi – oh bugger, BMW close enough?

Like the fact you can hear your heart rate going up on the vid!

Good ride all, we’re definitely up for another, and quite a few others from Godiva seem interested too, particularly in the bull ring spiral stair case….

I was just going to run my normal bar/helmet light combo, you don’t have to turn them on!

managed to convince another Godiva Trailrider to come. Unfortunately his Fat bikes in bits at the moment, oh well. I’ll be on a blue %, he’ll be on a Superfly I think.

Thanks!

I’m coming – any pointers to cheap parking?

I quite fancy this, done Coventry city centre before, but run out of bits to do far too quickly! Where’s a good (cheap) place to park – no bikes on Chiltern trains until well after 7.30…..

My old Rangie (now sold)…..
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700c (29) is 622mm diameter. 650b is not a halfway house, especially as rotational inertia has a squared relationship with diameter.

Just to point out that inertia will go up in a linear proportion to wheel size as the wheel will be rotating at a lower RPM for a given ground speed.

So rim circumference actually ends up being the key feature (I visualise it as unwrapping the rim and accelerating it along it’s length). Circumference is pi*dia, and a 29″ rim is ~11% larger than 26″, so inertia goes up by ~11%.

merlin malt rs?

I rebuilt mine, but had a pair of bushings with them (second hand) and sourced bearings locally, so can’t help on the sourcing side.

You can see the bleed nipple threads in the casing, and the o ring grove has popped out! Looks like alot of material has been lost 8O

Worth a look?
http://www.bike-discount.de/shop/k677/a63922/red-power-29-sl-disc-6-bolt.html

Thanks to everyone organising and marshalling the weekend. And the Shimano/Madison guy’s for sorting my dodgy shifting out for the XC race! I was on my own for the weekend, but found plenty of people to chat to.

One of my best shot’s from the weekend:
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Great weekend!

How long (time or mileage wise) is the XC race?

Did you get sent from that other thread too then….

That looks like one of Aston’s press cars too – oops….

I was there too, got home at 4am, grrr.

Apparently there was also a bunch of buses waiting for pickups blocking the lane.

Cancelled the Paul Weller gig today….

Nothing short of a pelicase is going to 100% protect your kit it you land on it! Problem is a pelicase big enough to fit a dslr is quite big. Mine fits my 35l Lowe Alpine rucksack, but it’s a pain to get the camera out, okay for taking somewhere to set up a shot, nit so good for off the cuff photos.

Thanks!

The Ramblers Association said:

* The Ramblers recognises that cyclists, like walkers, are
vulnerable road users, but notes that if cyclists and walkers are in
conflict, walkers are the more vulnerable.

George Orwell said:

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

:roll:

I wasn’t convinced by the 29Gnar, very heavy engineering to support the alfine, although I liked the concept. The bike for his Mum (white and yellow behind) was beautifully detailed though, as was the frame he had for his girlfriend (I think).

Most of the sections on the B4100 (just sticking with an example I know) are there because it used to be the A41 and it went DC on some hills to allow safe overtaking of slow vehicles. As it’s now been effectively bypassed by the M40/A34 traffic levels are much lower (and safer)

There are some bits of DC on otherwise unassuming road we would be banned from though e.g the B4100:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=gaydon&hl=en&ll=52.123656,-1.402574&spn=0.014202,0.024676&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=7.063324,12.788086&t=v&hnear=Gaydon,+Warwickshire,+United+Kingdom&z=15

My five (2005) used to be tricky to keep the front end down on. Moving the saddle forward 20mm transformed it, even with a 70mm stem. It’s definitely worth playing around with your position on the bike before swapping frames, unless you’re looking for an excuse to change frames of course!

I might have a RP23 for sale if your interested. Hardly used came off my 2011 Five when i replaced it with a CCDB. Email in profile (i think)

No it’s not!