Lol at Martinhutch!

What’s the best way to deal with roadies?

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Yes
No
With reservations.
I ‘be been riding on a pair for about a year and they’ve been really good- no punctures, roll well,don’t go soft as quickly as latex.
I also had one in my winter/utility bike’s back wheel. The other day I went to put the kick stand down and must have caught the valve stem with my toe as it snapped off. Tube now useless which is £30 to replace.
However, for best bike use, worth a go and cheaper than setting up tubeless.

Alloy nipples are gash.

When landowners start using permissive access as a stick to beat cyclists with I lose interest in retaining their “goodwill”. We have a local landowner with a terrible reputation for refusing access (even where it legally existed) who allowed a charity event to use some tracks. The next thing we hear from the organisers is that they are threatening to withdraw permission because people rode the same tracks at other times. Therefore the charity would not get the money. I’m all for advocacy and keeping channels of communication open, but being a dick can apply just as much to landowners as users.

They will be much the same. Broken spokes are often down to lack of tension which allows them to move in the spoke holes at the hub, causing fatigue. A re-true may help but it may be that all the spokes have suffered fatigue.

Cut down on the caffeine.

Good god. That’s the Malvern knocked off the list of places to spend a weekend.

The clue’s in the name. I’ve marshalled on the last two. I’ve seen some broken-looking riders.
Brilliant!

Open access to cyclists and work on users getting along and being courteous would be a lot more beneficial all round.

It would help if the Ramblers Assoc. didn’t object by reflex every time somebody tries to get bridleway rights recorded over footpaths.

I asked them on twitter and they said “only where there are bridleways”. When I asked why they made vague noises about erosion.

People who don’t like cyclists sharing the trails with them for whatever reason should still have that space they can go.

Which is what open access gave them in spades but I don’t see many using it.

I’ve been working with the British Horse Society on Project 2026 to record lost or under-recorded rights before the cut-off date. So far we’ve submitted 60 formal applications in County Durham with no sign of the supply of work drying up soon.
A large number of these routes are currently classed as footpaths but should be bridleways or restricted byways.
It’s a nonsense to say footpaths are only for walkers- the sub-clause which is so often omitted is “unless higher rights exist “.
Of course, all these hundreds of hours of research and form-filling could be saved by changing the law to make all rights of way available to all users.

To answer the OP’s question, I made a snap decision to ride a shooters path along a ridge in the north Pennines, just to see if it was worth the trouble. After a hundred yards it was clear it was bobbins so I turned back. I hadn’t made it back to the gate before a Land Rover pulled up and an irate gamekeeper got out.
So – earful of grief for no gain (apart from the pleasure telling him his boss is a ****).

Oof…banjaxed.
Let me think about that…for a year.

Looks good!

Carlton

Tommasini

Since therealhoops took a week to make his decision, won’t his season ticket have expired?

Ta

My Genesis Tarn

Hola! Been around since I bought my Orange Evo2 in 2001. Still nobody will talk to me.

Shoelaces

If you are an Important Person and a Bad Thing happens to you, the least that should result in is a change in the law.

I had an amazing discussion with a man in Durham today. He was wearing a union jack bowler and holding a sign saying “we must leave the EU. It’s God’s will”
I couldn’t resist this. Let me summarise his argument as “Nazi/Catholic conspiracy to put Germany in control. Book of Revelations predicts the EU and tells us we must leave”
Cue arrival of a little old lady. She says to our man;
“Have you got a form I could sign? Because I’d sign it. I agree. Mind, it’s for the grandchildren I’m doing it”.
Me: “Do you think they’ll thank you for stopping them from being able to live or work anywhere they want in the European Union?”
Her: “This country’s over-run with immigrants.”
Me: “So here I am with two leave supporters. One delusional and the other a racist.”
Her: “I’m not a racist!”
Him. “What’s wrong with racism?”

I mean, I know it’s funny, except this level of thinking is dragging us by the nose. Help!!

Parliament is sovereign. You should be pleased.

Just emailed my MP again to flag up the contrast between the petition and the numbers who turned out for the Gammonball Run last week, right here in the supposedly solid Leave North East .

A word to the wise. Making plans to up and leave when your head is the way it is now is a normal response. It’s the old “fight or flight “ reflex telling you to do a runner. Trouble is, when you get there, your head will still be in the same place and you will be carrying the same baggage. Plus you will have a whole new load of stress to deal with.
Speak to your GP about how you feel, get the support you need to get you through the bad time and consider the plan with a clear head.

The Tarn is as slack as a slack thing with 120mm fork.
Give it a go and report back!

As ridden by Sean Kelly.

Has anyone had Seven Sisters?

Sven, apparently.

Monument. In my pants.

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Longer.
The first one looks at full stretch.

Like pineapples voting for gammon.

Not only does it hurt, but it takes longer to cover the same ground so it hurts for longer.

I’m very much looking forward to voting in the next European election!

Yesterday we announced we would take back control of our borders by not having any border controls with Eire and not having any border in the Irish Sea.

This.

Reba on mine

Have people forgotten the LibDems propped up Cameron’s government, thereby getting us into the current situation?