Australian Athletes Stay Cool Under Pressure PDF download available on that page.

Merino wicks better than petrol based fabrics, however it then holds onto the moisture more tenaciously. It provides better insulation when wet than petrol based fabrics. in hot weather this property works like the magic thermos that knows to keep your ice from melting in hot weather, and stop you’re tea going cold in cold weather.

Theres a PDF somewhere from the Sportwool people that explains all this

Thank you for all the wildlife related lessons. they’ve been my favourites. Though I did read it as “The Badger is slow in singletrack” and wonder when the Internet lawsuits would start flying.

I can hear the squeaking of all these old Marins in my nightmares

You are Gary Klein and I claim my £5

Garburn & Nan Bield are pack horse routes. There’s a horse racing track at the top of High Street. There are bridleways across the River Lune that if you attempted on a bike would require you to pack raft or get very very wet.

Footpaths? Five bar gates are “doable” 😉

I find that the bridleways I want to ride a horse on are not the same as the ones I want to ride a bike on. Give me open enough so I can get into canter or gallop on the horse, but tight and nadgery on the bike. So I rarely cause or encounter the hoof print problem while cycling. TBH if my horse is sinking that far into the mud I’d try and ride elsewhere for the sake of my horse anyway, but in some places the bridleway network is so small that is not an option. I used to curse the bloke who rode his horse on Longridge Fell until I met him and we chatted and he bemoaned the lack of anywhere else he could ride. That’s why I’m for a more open RoW network with more freedom for everyone (yes, including 4x4s and trail bikes).

Yes they are OK to wear when it’s hot. The Australians used merino in their jerseys for the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpar, where it’s hot and wet. (cue Goid Morning Vietnam references)

or crud claws

Wot no DCDs?

You’re never as good as you think you are

+1

Though this is something you tend to be reminded of, not learn.

Control Stix bar ends from 1991.

Onza porcipaws grips have moved to my main bike since 1994. Nice and slim for small hands. As one person remarked on seeing them “I’ve got all the suspension I need in my grips”.

Other old stuff such as original SPDs (525s and 737s) are still in use on retro bike.

Clothing? Karrimor gilet and polartec 100 base layers are twenty years old. the stitching has just gone in my Orange Pertex shell. That’s the black one covered in lots of Oranges. Not sure of the age, 1996?

A Flux will get down the black at any trail centre these days, but a Five Spot will get you down it with more confidence.

if you are the type of person to ride along the ridge get the flux, if you would ride off the side get the 5

^^ What sefton says. If you have a gravity bias to your riding go with the Five Spot. If you have an XC bias (“moving stuff across from XC hardtail”) go with the Flux.

Disclaimer – I’ve only ridden TNT and Horst versions of both these bikes, can’t comment if the DW versions are as different from each other.

This rivalry ( between Manchester and Liverpool ) is a bit unnecessary, let’s be honest… I mean between Manchester and Liverpool, what is there? I’ll tell you: Warrington… and no one even knew about them lot before the Swede’s opened a store there

Oakley Flak Jackets

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That saddle angle is well out of the approved range of +/- 3 degrees fom article 1.3.014 of the space corps directives UCI big book of silly rules

Issue 5 of The Ride Journal is out soon.

Issue 6 shaggy. Do keep up 😉

WTB Phoenix

/vic reeves
…strokes thighs…
/vic reeves

Yep, I’ll fess up to brand snobbery, not wanting another “me too” bike.

In the end I chose a Hunter cos I’d already met Rick, and wanted to give my money to someone I knew rather than a corporation. That and he could do wishbone stays and Black Cat dropouts instead of an EBB or the fugly Paragon sliders.

And this quality of brazing…

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Edited to add: love that DeKerf above

so show us something nice then klunk

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Choice of paint colour and pattern (or not) is also a personal thing on these sorts of bikes.

I don’t get the twin top tube thing myself and I don’t expect people to understand my liking of curvy top tubes either.

So I might not buy one, but I can still appreciate the craft that goes into a bike with a “towel rail”, and the owners pride.

I’d deffo like to see some Potts on here

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that Raleigh image counts as silliness. the bicycle equivalent of skanky

spot
turner
dave yates
hope
velocity
phil wood
specialized shoes and helmets
sram

Mighty proportions, wonder if it still rode well!?

Only on early 90’s style head-down arse-up friendly XC style race courses. There’s too much weight over the front end with that Dave Yates stem. A shorter (80mm) Bontrager quill stem has made it a bit more comfortable. Fat belly gets in the way these days too. The brakes were better than the available options at the time, but TBH even V-brakes outperform them.

you’re still superior because you have the “skill and confidence” to choose/buy something else

Have you visited a trail centre lately? Some of them need all the help they can get.

Did you get those wheels for free?

I just like the strength and stiffness of deep section rims/short spokes compared to wider rims. I’ll freely admit they are a bit weighty though, especially with Phil Wood hubs. They work really well in deep mud though.

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Not custom. Skill compensating (or enhancing?) suspension that worked even Back In The Day. Porn? you decide.

Ha ha…need to justify your choice? Steve Peat needs skill compensation then?

Ha, your inferiority complex is showing.

At least I have the skills and confidence to make that choice. I don’t have to justify it to myself never mind Internet keyboard warriors. And indeed, sometimes I do ride wide bars and longer travel. My world is not black and white.

Steve Peat uses those things to enhance his already not inconsiderable skill. I remember him riding and beating people in a narrow barred Kona hardtail though. What a fatuous non-sequitur you raise.

Obviously what floats a persons boat is totally subjective, but these bikes strike me as being akin to a jag e-type replica in a world of ferrari 458s and 911 turbos.

More Lotus 7s in a world of Monster trucks. Many of these bikes are the result of years of riding, and while they may not be as flash and expensive as an off the peg full susser built up with bling parts the “performance advantage” of which you speak depends on the use to which you’re putting them. And some of the riders don’t need skill compensating travel and wide bars and stannah shorelift trails to get their kicks.

porn doesn’t all have to be all brash Jemma Jameson in perspex heels.

Seeing as we’re allowing custom fillet brazed British steel, here’s a ’94 Dave Yates Swamp Donki. One of his Donkis Nobs with longer top tube and custom mounts for the old Hope mechanically actuated disks. 2×8 gearing and short cage mech another future prediction.

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These days I mainly ride this

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2012 – 20 = 1992

duh!

want to make any other baseless allegations of criminality?

Zero points Nick.

Fair do’s. A career as a detective still eludes me. Yes I can remember gates on the roads. The trip to Kettlewell was all day of a trek back in the day. As was visiting the World Trials Rounds at Bainbridge.

thought Foxup was off limits anyway??

Unfortunately these days. It didn’t used to be. A lot of my 20 year old marked up copy of OS 98 showing the higher access rights on top of the footpath/bridleway is probably irrelevant these days.

Neither, most often sat in front of a computer.

No need to worry about their mockage then

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.

/Sherlock Holmes
That’s actually a very interesting and revealing statement. I presume you’re talking about Wilkinsons. They have a long history of trials riding and in the 70s and 80s were one of the “go to” places for trials and other off-road motorcycle bits.

Now although the Dales covers a large area it has a small population and people from miles around know each other. Any Dales local knows the Wilkinsons.

So if you didn’t know that I can take it that despite your claims to be a Yorkshireman you are what the Dales folk would call an “un-comed-un”. Together with your other posts – you’d know that Foxup is popular with the Trail RIders because it leads to the Queens Arms in Litton, which is a handy lunch spot, and (a few years back at least) the landlords wife was a bit of a looker.

This lack of local knowledge (despite a worryingly anal knowledge of the rules and regulations of lettering size on motorbikes) would suggest to me that you are in fact someone who has moved to the Dales to enjoy what you perceived to be a rural idyll. You were then disappointed at discovering that it’s actually enjoyed by lots of other people doing a hobby of which you disapprove and you have turned into a NIMBY.

/Sherlock Holmes

So how many of my points were a direct hit?

if those that ride MTB choose to align with motorised offroaders and maintain the disorganised (politically speaking) stance then those walkers with more extreme opinions will win through

-1 antigee

Not only have you fallen for the divide and conquer approach, you’re helping promote it.

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Nick, it’s somewhat ironic that you think people who want to campaign for green lanes to be free only for walker, cycles and horses should be ‘marked down’ and loose the ability to post!

A stack exchange style system wouldn’t allow an individual to prevent others posting. It would be the community based on the stuff said by the originator. So no, not ironic. more access for everyone on the trails IMO

haters gonna hate

Just confirms to me my fears that some MTBsrs are as selfish today as the ramblers were in the past.

This forum needs a block list or a stackexchange style reputation system so commentards get downvotes and lose the ability to spout rhetoric

In the interests of balance for anti green lane activities people could visit LARA GB

Not saying I agree with everything they say – they have an agenda to push as much as GLEAM.

London you say? Where’s elfinsafety when you need him to point out the silliness of an outmoded business model of a bricks and mortar shop where he can try stuff on for “nowt”* only to go and buy it cheaper online.

* I can understand the colloquial accent but not the need to type in one.

+1 for persimmon