cynic-al – Member
I’d say for your £3k bike you want high end carbon sole road shoes, which means 3 bolt pedals

why? i’ve got shimano a600 pedals and normally ride in my carbon soled giro guage shoes. I reckon in a blind test you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference between that and a three bolt system. The shoes are more than stiff enough for me to ride 200miles in without any hint of hotspots.

Of course none of it is real.

The bridge was clearly made of steel clad in bamboo (I’m hoping it was built at that location for a reason and will be left for the locals to use). The bridge didn’t deflect at all!

gwaelod – Member
20p a mile travel allowance!!!
FFS – is there anybody getting that for travelling by bike??

I used to (working for a walking and cycling charity) but now get 5p per mile. Claimed £2.10 for a 42 mile round trip the other week. I’ll be a millionaire before you know it.

there’s this amazing thing called google – http://store.nike.com/gb/en_gb/pd/fan-jersey/pid-1475106?cp=EUNS_KW_PL_UK_Nike_Fan_(IIHF)_Men%27s_Jersey&cagpspn=pla

someone who lived near me used to put cones outside their house to mark out their spot when they left, i used to delight in driving my ratty mark 1 clio over the cones and leaving it there (normally for weeks at a time as I cycle to work and only used the car occasionally). I’m not sure anyone who lives in Bristol could actually survive if people parking outside their house upset them…

where i live now is used for parking by people who work locally during the day and to be honest I couldn’t give a monkey’s

Royal mail enjoy using my food waste bin for leaving parcels in at the moment. I’m slightly torn as to whether this is better or worse than a trip to the delivery office, but some of the parcels can be pretty funky by the time I rescue them.

I had a similar issue with a Rab event jacket delamination, and similarly they told me I hadn’t washed it enough. In the end they offered me a cheap replacement which they eventually didn’t charge me for. Not sure there’s a practical way to solve the delamination though, sorry! Their explanation that it happened because it was dirty seemed like a sack of crock to me though!

i think tracking down a wider washer is my next step. I only said it’s 1mm as that’s what’s shown on the hope exploded diagram. Am also going to ring hope later – it’s a bit of an old hub though so well out of warranty but they might have an idea of what’s wrong!

nope, the non-drive side one has a flange so can’t get the the wrong way round – good idea though!

yup, independent chalets have some good deals on late availability. I’d heartily recommend: http://www.alpineethos.co.uk/prices.php (who also advertise on here as http://www.mountainbiketrailholidays.co.uk/%5B/url%5D )

Edric 64 – Member
This seems to go against the ethos of such events which are supposed to be as simple and lacking in red tape as possible

This ethos being to organise something and then to deny that it’s organised? It all seems a bit naive on Wildcat Gears part to me… I think they’d be in for a wake up call if something happened to someone taking part who happened to be in the area on the un-organised day.

i can actually understand the jury in this case. Criminal law states that it must be beyond reasonable doubt that his wing mirror hit the cyclist and I can understand where there’s doubt in this case. doesn’t stop me being angry about it though.

the middle one is fulfilling the duty of care to both the workers and the road users.

other two, it is much much cheaper and safer to do the work offsite and bring it onsite. working on the ground is much cheaper and easier than working at height. In terms of the rail bridge, railway line would’ve probably only been shut for a week max to put the bridge in and if you were building in situ it would have been more like a year.

with the power line, how else would they build it without access? if they’re building the access then not building it with proper drainage would potentially mean the works couldn’t be completed due to programme due to bad weather and would’ve held up other parts of what is likely a much bigger project.

cabins are to fit in with duty of care to workers – need to provide so much canteen/drying/welfare/wc etc space per employee.

45ish when training and about 25 when racing – running tubeless so no pinches but can normally feel the rim a couple of times a lap!

In some cases I agree however the majority of the time this has happened to me it seems to be a simple case of just not thinking ahead, rather than deliberate. Or maybe I’m being naive in trying to give people the benefit of the doubt, I prefer stupidity to sociopathy.

I think you’re right, but the big issue with roads at the moment (imo of course!) is that it is socially acceptable and defensible in court to be stupid and drive with out proper care/attention. You just need to look at the way driving offences are dealt with to understand this. The fact that people’s bans are shortened because they’re of good character or show remorse is one example – why should this make a difference to whether they were or were not paying proper attention to the road?

Your subs have just gone up by a factor of 10x. That’ll learn you…

Not sure I can afford that, might have to tender my resignation…

Oh, and I take part of it back. The kit is a bit gopping, but then I always thought that was partly the point of it…

@clubber

Hmm, I find the club you talk of to be entirely unfriendly and the committee (all two of them who have access to the club group email) to be entirely self serving. Also the kit is gopping 😉 nah, not really!

I’m in the same boat as big dummy above, almost literally. Although I find myself less inclined to ride with the road club as the size increases and the discipline decreases – have been taken out a few too many times, maybe I just need to push myself to ride with the fast group…

surely everyone knows where Ongar is from the greatest headline ever. When the library shut, Private Eye (i think) ran with “Book lack in Ongar”…

and that map is missing the Strand station for one…

Did no one else spot Martin Hawyes on the rollers?

second one. i think this is a good place for this video

molgrips – Member
Yeah I’d have grumbled. When there’s a traffic jam it really isn’t fair to queue jump like that.

so, overtaking someone who’s stupid enough to stay on the main line when there’s more of the course inside of the tape which isn’t blocked is not fair? do you not understand the point of a race?

In the western league anyone in the top ten of the league standings gets gridded (plus Oli Beckinsale when he races) and then the organiser calls for anyone in the top ten of other leagues to join the grid before the baying hordes. shouldn’t matter if you’re bc or not.

the teaboy – Member
It was also a nice round number. People like zeros, not 99.99s!

I’d always thought it was better to go with really un-round numbers – makes the vendor think you’ve really worked out what you can afford and won’t pay any more.

Another vote for mission workshop here. Get a shed and I’ll be amazed if you ever fill it.

Have you tried going full gas for three laps of a velodrome? Also, because it’s best of three you can only do that once before you get found out.

The best of three thing also means that in a day they might be doing a timed lap for seeding, and then at least 6 more laps in competition in quick succession. Going from the gun in all of those will knacker you completely.

The kilometer time trial used to be a world cup (and Olympic) event which was just people doing that against the clock. Hoy was the master of that event.

How could he have put them behind a spoke? Surely if they’re for balancing the wheel they have to go in the position shown.

https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/93182/Team-Striking-Bikes-Cyclo-Cross/Western-League-Round-6

There’s not a lot more to know than above really – entry is on the line and seniors race is at 11:45. Should be £11 to enter (plus a day licence if you don’t have a race licence).

if you’re racing and running tubeless why do you have 35-40 psi in there?

I’ll be there in the Seniors racing for Bristol CX. Was a tough race last year so expecting more of the same.

to put a positive spin on this, I ordered some wheels through my work which have a trade account after the new price list was published (and supposed to be in place) and hope still charged the company the old price…

this is palisade fencing. I’d be looking for a full cage with a roof though.

I just wanted to get it over with early in the thread.

i run crests on my disc cross bike. let some air out before the start of today’s race and when i went to pump them up after found i’d been running with 25psi in and no problems. heaps of grip though!

i’m not sure what you were expecting to happen tbh. the stans crest rims i use on my cx bike have a recommended limit of 55psi with 1.25″ wide tyres when run tubeless…

yeah there have. some of Geoff Barrow’s recent output (Beak, Quakers etc all on his Invada label) has been quite good imo.

it’s good, but it’s no tardis outside earls court tube station.

for me it’s all about the taylors avocado. just like the barber shop shaving cream it’s different to all the other ones in the range 😉

yeah, i gave up on seeking out cheap fuel years ago (apart from not filling up at motorway service stations)

teamhurtmore – Member
Very simply, the US has a legal limit on the level of debt outstanding (the debt ceiling) and a legal requirement to pass the budget by 1 October. Lots of fudging and politics around both (ceiling breached despite usual creative accounting) and especially horse trading over Obama’s healthcare program. Brinkmanship taken right and over the brink.

Last happened for nearly a month under Clinton.

almost, the US is near it’s debt ceiling, but that can and will be extended when it’s met (early November) what’s going on with the shutdown is more subtle than that. US federal budgets are set once a year have to be agreed by both the house of representatives and the senate to become law and be implemented. Without an agreed budget there’s no mechanism to pay most (not inc armed forces for example) government employees. What’s currently happening is that despite Obamacare being passed as law two years ago the republicans (who have a majority in the house of representatives) are blocking the budget as this includes funding for obamacare for the first time. Until the entire budget is resolved then government employees will be put on unpaid holiday (or until smaller bills for specific services to be paid are passed) which is going to take one hell of a compromise between obama and the republicans.

Wiper and True seconded. Lovely beer. Even better from the cask which Luke sometimes has in the Bag ‘o Nails.