When it pops up on an iPad just refresh the page and it goes away.

Just rebooted my work laptop, no problems at all.

I run Thomson carbon bars, they feel just like ally bars to me. Wifey has some 3T carbons, the first time I leant on them they moved about half an inch.

I use them with SRAM shifters on my bike, Shimano shifters on wifeys. I got the best setup results using Problem Solvers Travel Agents and Kool Stop Salmon pads. I’m not a rider than can hop on and off at 20mph so a CX brake that almost works is quite handy.

wysiwyg – Member
I’m waiting for the guy next week who said its the governments fault, the shops and the manufacturers.

No it’s not. It’s your fault.

Is it though? For years the advice was fat is bad so food manufacturers went low fat. To try and get some taste back into food, fat was replaced with sugar, and still is. If you can spare 1.5 hours this video is well worth watching.

jim25 – Member
After much deliberating I’ve ordered one of these

Good choice (I’ve got one with white instead of green).

Wifey bought a new Specialized Fate Carbon Expert last month, does this mean I can get a Yeti carbon arc frame?

Can I recommend changing your Google account to two factor authentication as well.

Get your feet measured for width. I went from being able to wear anything to a wide fit in a very short space of time.

70 – 80% of max heart rate? Have you properly worked out what your max is or are you using 220 minus your age? If the latter then do it properly.

Take a look at training zones, 70% is just above a recovery pace. Work out what you need to achieve, long ride on a Sunday, recovery on Monday, intervals on Tuesday etc. Get some decent music going and imagine you’re winning the Tour de France.

Where are these short top tube frames? I’d love to replicate the riding position I had 20 years ago with a carbon 29er, bar ends and everything. (Wife’s Specialized Fate is pretty near perfect, is it OK to ride a girls bike?).

brianp
This forum is now completely unusable for me on my iPad. The watch advert is ridiculous. Could a site admin say if this is to continue or not. It does not happen on my laptop, which is old and slow, so Impresume the administrators do not actually want this horrible advertising to be happening. So a technical solution needs putting in place for iPads pleae.

If this is not to be done, simply will stop visiting the site. Shame really, I enjoy the banter.

Brian

The only way I’ve found to clear the ad is to refresh the browser.

Congratulations on the purchase, everyone should get a quick car at some point. I thought I’d use this as an excuse to post a piccy of my current runabout.

A carrier bag. Use a Waitrose one to impress your colleagues.

I moved from North London to a small village outside Bishops Stortford in Herts 14 years ago and it’s really pissing me off. There are pluses but commuting 40 miles each way for work isn’t one of them. I’ve been trying to talk wifey into swapping our current house for a flat in London and house the country for the last two years. I almost made it too, the house was on the market last year but she got cold feet so it came off.

The main plus sides for me are, great road cycling (wifey is a keen rider as well). Good circle of friends we’ve built up.

The negatives, crap off road riding. The commute to work. The cost of commuting.

Things that don’t bother me, the local pub is OK but I rarely use it. The nearest shop is five miles away.

welshfarmer
I must be getting old. I thought it was utter tripe tonight for some reason.

I agree but I think it needs stronger words than tripe to describe how bad it was. Normally I don’t mind Top Gear but that’s an hour of my life I won’t get back.

Broke the one on the outside of my right foot. Definitely get it looked at, then spend three months walking around wearing a funny looking sandal that’s higher at the front than the back.

Chocolate biscuits straight from the fridge have zero calories.

Something simple and made from titanium.

http://www.tredz.co.uk/.RSP-Lightweight-Titanium-Bottle-Cage_44257.htm?sku=113558&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=AdwordsProductAds&utm_campaign=Adwords&gclid=CNm8hY74vMMCFWTHtAodQD4Acw

I bought a pair when I had my varicose veins done. I wore both on the same leg, much better than the compression sock from the hospital.

The inventor of predictive text has died.

His funfair will be hello on sundial.

Edukator
Etre limogé is the French equivalent of being sent to Coventry. It’s an area I often travel through to get somewhere else. It’s bland, Francois Holland comes from Tulle. There’s no sea, no big hills; it’s la France profonde. If you like getting away from it all and like pretty villages you’ll be away form it all in pretty villages. Would you take a holiday in Leicestershire?

The area is great for road cycling with plenty of big hills. I’ve never taken the mountain bike but have passed plenty of waymarked trails and would have liked to explore them. It the least populated part of France and also the wettest, that said rainfall is less than the driest parts of England. It’s very quiet outside the French holiday season and if you’re camping you can often be the only person on the site.

If you’re in the area one place you should make the time to visit is Oradour-Sur-Glane, in fact it’s worth making a special trip for this alone.

My MTB experiences in France have been a bit hit and miss. If you can find a local guide then you’ll get the best out of any area, by myself I seem to miss what everyone says is a great area. I’m not into the Alpine uplift and long technical downhills, much of it is outside my skill set and definitely outside my wifes. I’m probably going to give the Ardennes a go this summer, if that doesn’t work for me I’ll stick to taking the road bikes to Provence.

I use the Fitbit pedometer. It’s small, clips onto the pocket of whatever trousers I’m wearing and does exactly what it’s supposed to do, count steps.

A few people at work have Fitbit wristbands, they do seem a bit unreliable. The people that have them are mostly chubsters, but if it encourages to move a bit more then it’s worth having.

Someone mentioned the Basis Peak. Bloke in my team wears one, I’d take the numbers it produces with a big pinch of salt. The lights on the back are for the HRM function, for this to work the watch needs to be very tight on the wrist and even then it only work 75% of the time. His walk to work is 15 minutes. Apparently he burns 150 calories on this walk, so 600 calories an hour, he never arrives drenched in sweat so I assume he’s walking. For me 600 calories is an hour of very sweaty spin bike or turbo. Using the watch he’s calculated that he needs 2800 calories a day, he’s put on a few pounds but can’t work out why.

Google seems to be working:

disbelief, ignorance, misinterpretation, mistake, misunderstanding, physicality, stupidity, unsoundness, block, discouragement, hindrance, insanity, charge, indictment

Sony do a waterproof player for about £60, you can wash it if you want to. I use one in the gym, the only cable is the one that connects the ear pieces.

A woman I work with has done this. Her mum died early last year, her dad went to a Caribbean for a few weeks to stay with family and when he got back asked her and her family if they’d like to move in. The house is quite big, too large for one person, and she was looking for a larger property but given London prices this was not going to be cheap. She, along with her husband and two kids moved in at the start of December and so far it’s all going well.

She has one sister who has been siphoning cash from the old mans bank account, when he found out he made it quite clear she’d had everything she was going to get and wrote her out of the will.

The scooter rider had already fallen off when he hit the pedestrian. I’m guessing the bloke started to cross the road, the scooter rider saw him and panic braked. The roads are salted and quite slippery, so lost control of the bike and dropped it, bike slides into ped followed by the rider.

I used to park on a industrial estate 20 miles from work and cycle from there. I got so fed up with car drivers I went back to driving the whole way and using a spin bike in the gym every morning.

I went for VMware Fusion instead of Parallels, does this make me special?

If you’re going from Android to Apple it’s very easy. Your contacts will sync straight away, download the apps for Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs etc and you’ll be up and running in no time.

The advice I’d give if you get an iPhone is to use all the Google stuff for contacts etc rather than the Apple stuff. This makes it very easy to swap back to Android next time you need a phone, or just as easy if you swap iPhones.

There are a couple of things that Apple do well if you have other Apple devices, the ability to send texts from you Mac for example. There are a few minus points as well, apps that are free on Android often need to be purchased for example.

Having had both iPhones and Androids and being the owner of a Macbook and iPad, I prefer to use an Android phone, mainly because I can’t tinker around with a iPhone.

The thing that really, really annoys me with IOS is the app icons can’t be positioned in the same way as Android. Nexus for me every time.

MacBook air is designed to be quick light and portable – only keep what you need on there and use a storage drive on a network for larger files.

How much does data weigh?

My opinion is buy the best spec you can, it’ll last you longer.

Doom, Hexen and Heretic http://www.xgenstudios.com/play/doom

I liked how it was always overcast and raining in Bridgend and sunny in London.

I run an Elise as a daily driver, no problems at all.

I was wondering the same thing this morning. A good DIY fix to use an old rear hub and QR skewer, it’s on the Park Tools site. The proper tool is £12 on eBay so I bought one rather than bodge it..

Sadly, my mum kept all my toys and dumped them on me when my parents moved house. In the loft I have suitcase full of Action Men and associated paraphanalia, most of it broken. The original Action Man has plastic hair and his hands that don’t grip, they’re a sort of pointy finger thing.

Christmas Day – Thetford forest
Boxing Day – club road ride
Saturday – road ride
Sunday – short road ride in the morning
Monday to Wed – turbo
New Years day – club road ride
2nd Jan – spin in the gym
3rd – short road ride
4th – club road ride

Don’t forget to dress the wheel before you start.

The Uzi looks nice but is bigger than many G-Shocks. My choice would have been a G-Shock 5600.

Spiderpodium. Stick it in an air vent, works a treat.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Breffo-Spiderpodium-Flexible-Mount-Suits-iPhone-4-5-Samsung-S4-Black-/141494334556?pt=UK_Holders_Mounts&hash=item20f1b8345c