So who’s the rider found in a bad way on the Pennine Bridleway near Rochdale today then?

I’m all for proper risk analysis rather than scaremongering. It takes no effort to wear ID, no more than wearing a watch, and costs very little, less than a watch. In an accident it may be invaluable. seems a reasonable trade to me.

Endura Stealth

Paul Darlington at Smith Jones Solicitors.

01282 855400

cynic-al – there’s a time and a thread to be a contradictory arse. this is not that thread.

MTFU ?

Hugo Boss Black

retrofit black cat dropouts

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old bikes

you’re joking right?

’95 Turner Burner is a top notch XC race mount. Modern (ish) parts mind. Circa 2005

There’s an old Ogri cartoon mating the front of Malcoms moped to a tractor tyre. Looks like someone took it literally

6,200 meters in 30 minutes

MTFU

2nd hand Concept2. Get a PM3 module at least.

So where is it? Austria?
I thought it was going to be sweaty northerners from the title. Maybe it was. My German isn’t up to much.

Northerners haven’t worn clothing that lurid since the rave scene round Accrington died in about ’89

+1 for RoadID

A true STW bike needs

risers
bar ends
dropper post
crud guard
silly front mudguard
home brew lights cos they’re mot “paying that rip off”
rider who spends more time on a forum than on two wheels

real food to a point. if it was good enough for anquetil…

at top level the sciency stuff can help

+1 for Leatherman Wave even if it is outside budget. 11 years old and going strong

The Apple app will only use location services/drain your battery using GPS when your wife logs in to check where you are

Just put it in a pocket.

float – Member
so, out of all the people saying just put it in a pocket, how many of you have entered a race?

me. your point? oh, that’s right. there isn’t one. -10 internets to you.

it’s inexcusable and I like the banned if caught idea.

in a race less than 2 hours you won’t even have exhausted your glycogen stores and needing a gel FFS

Still, at Mayhem I usually end up with a years supply of inner tubes from Kenda picking up other peoples litter.

Always preferred Kentmere to Troutbeck myself.

breo

strap will eventually fail and snap but they are cheap, comfy and also surfing proof

disc brakes on tandems are dangerous.

That theory is debunked by practical experience.

After sintering some HS33s on our tandem bringing it to a stop from just 40mph and nearly sailing through a Give Way we went out and got discs (big ones) for ours and it’s the best thing we ever did for it. Never touch them to see how hot they’ve got though. ooyah

Salter Fell is close

your son has also learnt a harsh lesson on privacy

gotta be the DMX or 808

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I did it on a tandem. but that was back in 2001 so not relevant to today’s track. we bottled the jump at the bottom. quite scary hauling it round the bends at the top and seeing Boxxers twist.

I used to go to university at Lancaster,

all the best people did. oh, and me too.

why are you whispering?

how do you even do the small font thing?

What you have to ask yourself is “at what point am I cycling between Glasgow and Fort William and not actually doing the WHW?”.

I plan on doing it as part of an end-to-end so cycling between Glasgow and Fort William is all I’m doing anyway. Being able to ride a chunk, even if not all, of the WHW would be a nice bonus. TBH even if I started at Tyndrum I wouldn’t be disappointed.

Anyway I’ll be carrying more than that ^^^ though not much; a Viscacha and handlebar harness. No Camelbak ‘cos it’ll just get wearisome over the two weeks I have available.

Did I say carbon already? Can’t wait for Messier-Bugatti-Dowty to get involved…

They are efficient and offer high performance: … maintaining a constant level of efficiency whether hot or cold, at both low and high speeds. Its absorption capacity is between two and three times greater than that of steel, making for substantial savings in material and representing gains in weight.
…
they are lighter (around four times lighter)

…Carbon/carbon beats all records for endurance, increasing the longevity of the brake discs and lengthening the intervals between replacements.

My emphasis

Just to say I’ve found the iPad and Apple wireless keyboard is great netbook replacement. There’s less compromise in screen and keyboard size. Use both at a desk for productivity, but on the train I just revert to using on-screen keyboard. And the keyboard pairs up to the iPhone* too, which I admit I’ve only used a handful of times but has been handy.

The increased screen resolution on the new iPad is going to make RDP into remote servers so much more usable too. iPad with iTap is the only non-Windows RDP client I can find for some servers as I can’t find an RDP 7.1 client for my OS X or Ubuntu ‘pooters 🙁

It’s not just me…

“Shameless” is a comedy not a documentary.

See also “The Royle Family”

There’s also a mad recumbent where the stoker faces backwards – looking at the cars coming up behind you. Scary.

Sideways isn’t local to me.

Worth a trip out though. It’s my local bike shop even though it’s now 100+ miles away.

Is it rideable to Inversnaid on a singlespeed loaded with bivvy gear?

Planning on getting the ferry to Tarbert from there and continuing by road to Tyndrum myself.

@b r

I hope the Freelander ain’t towing a horsetrailer. That just pulls the transmission apart on them.

Just bought the wife a 2001 Jeep Cherokee Sport

That the one with the auto box that self destructs and the chassis that unpeels if driven off road?

Shimano and avid sorted boiling brakes years ago with two very different braking fluid. Magura to have it sorted from word go.

Ahem. You could boil HS33s.

It was a demo bike, so you’d like to think there was some thought in the choice of components.

It was his (poor) choice.

You don’t put moped brakes onto a sportsbike – that’s effectively what he did.

If you want thinner depth rotors you need to increase the diameter (see Buell). Small diameter rotors are wrong for lots of reasons such as frame loading, torque required to provide a given decelleration, heat dissipation.

I like Endura.

I also like Morvelo.

Morvelo have a more road/cx look.

its like the old style tandems were the lady was allowed on the front, but not allowed to steer.