I want a chainring tattoo

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Calf hurts a lot less than thigh.

Got three tattos and planning my fourth* so certainly not a hater. That said portraits very rarely come out well IMO. You only need to look on tattofailblog to see that a lot of them are portraits (the garden chair being an exception and particular fave). YMMV. etc

* Sorry to hijack, but any recommendations for a good tattooist in Herts/Beds/Bucks area appreciated.

That would be as unlikely as bouncy pop by The Fall

Dig out “Life just bounces”.

I love you all my drug filled beauties! Ride like the wind! I am ready to be heart broken

Needs to be said in Brian Blessed voice for full effect.

Phil Ligget would make a shit Bladerunner. Can’t even run the (Jens) Voight-Kampff test properly. pffft.

Spinergy Rev X Roks

I have a photo somewhere of me gurning through the remnants of a rear wheel. TBH it is the only spinergy composite collapse incident I know of.

metal wings and ribs

don’t let mere facts get on the way of a good scare story though, eh

Probably the easiest way to level the field is to just simply allow doping.

You wouldn’t be the first to suggest “stock” and “modified” classes.

cyclists only look particularly weird

no, for misproportioned you want to find pictures of Zac Efron.

you need an lbs

+1

Ordered some bars from my LBS on Monday. Out of stock – have you tried getting bars for a 25.4 mm clamp lately? – but they had them on their shelf yesterday and offered to post them to me.

Post? LBS?

They’re 150 miles away, “local” is relative. Going to go and see them on Saturday to pick them up in person instead. While I’m there I’ll probably spend some more money with them on other shiny nice things.

It’s a shame so many LBS have struggled to compete with online retail in recent years as people see bricks and mortar as “an outmoded business model”. Yet these nay-sayers are happy to go in to try on the shoes (try that over the internet) then ordering from the cheapest online retailer. pffft.

c) Use but don’t abuse. Take good mechanical care of it, take a bit of care about where you lean it and how you car rack it, and ride it hard.

+1

in the past some of the pro trail rider/off roaders on this forum have suggested that if i object to the noise/erosion/aggression of off roaders on byways that I stop riding them and choose other routes

My emphasis. They have a perfectly legitimate right to be on byways.

Seeing as 98% of the trail network is closed to 4x4s and trail riders, as someone else on STW has remarked “a blind chimpanzee sticking a pin into a map could pick you a suitable trail where you could avoid such conflicts.”

How slowly do you drive?

I’m not saying anything that could be used in a court of law 😉 The biggest saver on the motorway is to use cruise control.

It could have been worse. – Recent Italian case involving piano wire

I reckon I’ve less in common with you than I have with walkers to be honest

Good. I’m happy to be more like the trail riders on here than those who affiliate with the ramblers. Ramblers have more in common with those who would seek to remove trespassers forcibly or booby trap legitimate trails. As often as not they are ignorant of the rights of other people to be there and often ignorant of the rights of way classification of the path they’re on. I’m going to add to all that ignorance by ignoring you too in future. That way we’ll both be happy – there’s room for everyone on the forum just as there’s room for everyone on the trails.

Fortunately this thread has restored my faith in MTBers as not all in the pocket of the red socks.

I’ve said it before – you need to be careful what you wish for, there are people out there who are even more short sighted then you………….

+1

I can imagine the apoplexy if I rode my neddy over Foxup. Perfectly legitimate right to be there but you’d soon find the NIMBYs poring over legal documents to try and find some excuse to stop me.

Interesting and possibly related fact.

Littondale was the inspiration for Charles Kingleys tale “The Water Babies”.

Some folk might like to consider the personalities of Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby and Mrs Bedonebyasyoudid.

I don’t think it’s surprising that the only person you quote as liking offroaders is a guy whose spends all day on Sunday selling petrol to tourists.

I still think this sounds like someone who doesn’t know or support his local businesses and has a slightly sneery tone.

The first time I meet someone who tells me I shouldn’t be on a trail I try and make my case. If I meet them a second time and they try the same thing I ignore them and simply ride on rather than beat my frontal lobes into a bloody pulp against their stupidity and intransigence.

I’m the same with internet fools these days.

Actually just made the mistake of filling up at Tesco. 34mpg urban, 45mpg on yesterdays motorway run. WTF.

So motorbikes apparently created bridleways

aP. when cyclists gained the right to use bridleways in 1968 the above list of trails werent given bridleway rights. The TRF researched historic rights on these and used these to claim vehicular access. Without this effort and use they might still be footpaths so even though we’re allowed on bridle ways we couldn’t use these. As well as paperwork you need evidence if use to have/keep them open.

Sharing means leaving something in good condition for the next purpose. A lot of mtbers have experienced the reults of mxers ripping trails to shreds – hence the reluctance to wholeheartedly welcome them.

wwaswas went back home for the first time in two years yesterday and can’t believe the damage MTBs have now done on my old trails. Careful using that argument lest it is used against us.

ChrisE – you. known NIMBY. So, in the same vein, Not In My Thread. Off you trot elsewhere please. see how you like it.

Man up and try harder

yes. back in the north for the morning (currently sat at Keele in a blizzard) so rode on my old school trails. lots of forestry work going on on Longridge Fell with commensurate loss of secret trails.

On the main sections it was a case of what tyre for a thin layer of snow on sheet ice? Elsewhere the peat was mostly frozen and rideable, but when you went through you went through. Must have been a silly wet last year.

We have BWs and FPs on our land. We like cyclists

yes, shame you’re a NIMBY when it comes to other trail users

farmer may be a tenant not the landowner

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Bar end cursed by this thread.

9 year old CLK 270D. 42mpg urban. 60mpg on the motorway.

Biro in the knee doesn’t hurt and the stitches make great eyes for a smiley face.

Do wonder if there’s a better alternative to steel shoes, something that grips on tarmac

Ask your farrier about “spatter” or road studs. Makes a big difference, especially studs. Neither of them cause any more damage to the trails.

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Magura did a road hydraulic brake years ago

Not integrated with the shifters though was it so irrelevant to this mass debate.

Brakes don’t need to be the best they just need to be good enough. Dual pivot caliper brakes on a racing bike are (subjectively and objectively) “good enough” once you get to Ultegra level, so discs are overkill. Mind you I haven’t raced a road bike for over 20 years now so WTF do I know.

Disclaimer: I lust after Campagnolo Deltas because they look “the shit”. They work like shit too, but hey, performance isn’t everything.

Rohloff

This is supposed to be porn not the sort of fetish you should never admit to.

He was simply quoting the horsey types who were behind the “upgrades”

“You are all individuals”

“I’m not”

MiniMaglites. The single AAA cell version. Yes LEDs are brighter but show me your working LED torch in 25 years.

Oh, and hankering after my Rapidographs after reading this. Engineers use them too, not just graphic designers.

i was then reminded the the Buffalo’s thong strap is not best suited to out of condition 43 year old backsides

I’m chafing just reading that sentence. Unfortunately I know *exactly* what you mean

I prefer the before pic of that bridleway whether on four legs or two wheels.

I used to ride a bridle way which was a farm track. At the farm, the track turned into a footpath,even though it still looked like a jeep track. Farmer Giles would stand by his door when he saw you coming and make you walk.

We have a bridleway like that. We got stopped last summer by the displeased looking farmer as we rode our bikes through the farm for the umpteenth time. I removed my cycling glasses so he could see my face instead of his own reflection and we ended up talking about whether or not we should be there, and the silliness of the bridleway just dead-ending. It ended with him wishing us well and asking us to be careful round the harvesters.

I wish. Within spitting distance of London.

Just to clarify, that’s a typical weekend. The trail riders.we met on horseback were on the bridleway, a reread made me realise that wasn’t obvious.

I don’t think that is to keep the wings lovely and snug and warm.

I know that. You know that. You know I know that.

It is just electric heating fitted to the leading edges to prevent the build up of ice

I’ve double checked and I’m sure I called it an “ice protection system”. Yep. In fact it’s there three times now now thanks to your full quote and further clarification

I’m not aiming my language at aerospace engineers but trying to couch it in language a Singletrack forumtard* would understand and hopefully “get” the basic principles. I see I have carelessly used at least one 5 syllable word that may undo my efforts. Shit.

* Another word chosen deliberately and carefully for it’s connotations.

I suspect not – aren’t the new Boeing wings made from it?

Yes the new Boeing Dreamliner has carbon wings.

But, and the’s always a but, to avoid it getting too cold the wings have an ice protection system, imaginatively called WIPS. Basically it’s an electric blanket that keeps them warm.

The electric blanket control work was done by a company in Britain – yay. That’s the end of the good news.

The WIPS was one of the big reasons for the delay in flying the Dreamliner – oops. IIRC Flight International covered the fact that Boeing were sending lots of top level managers to a poky little electronics company in Cambridge to sort them out.