Chin meets rock, rock wins.

Not sure I agree with religion being amongst the worst things.

I think you’ll find this is now a thread of “random things people happen to dislike”.

ever tried it?

Strangely enough no, I haven’t tried dying of an easily cureable disease. Have you?

started inventing stuff.. farming.. money.. industrial revolution.. the internal combustion engine.. television..

Life would be so much better if we were scrabbling around in mud huts dying of easily cureable diseases eh?

At least the tyre wont rub on the front mech.

Has it changed recently, or have I been wrong for years?

You’ve been wrong for years, it’s a common misconception though.

Seems unlikely, as you don’t need a licence for iPlayer.

Arrh, thanks to the organisers and all the marshals, top stuff. Will be having nightmares about the endless slog across that boggy field…

Is it not only X0 mechs that you can adjust the spring tension on?

At 500 quid a rim they are going to need alot more than a 2 year guarantee to make them anything other than a very expensive option! Unless you are trashing rims on a monthly basis.

Why would someone ask for a discount

Presumably because they think they might get one?

The new tech calipers have smaller bleed nipples than the old brakes though.

I have got a brand new pompetamine fork that I don’t have a use for, let me know if you are interested.

HL2 is genuinely one of the best games ever,

Genuinely one of the most tedious and overrated games ever more like!

i can’t keep it up for any length of time

FNARR!!!

The evidence in his favour is scientific and empirical.

The empirical evidence proves that he has not failed a valid drugs test. It’s not empirical evidence of lack of doping, you need to have an estimate of the effiacy of the testing. Given the number of proven dopers who have never failed a test the effiacy is certainly less than 100 percent.

I don’t believe there is a TDF winner ever who was not doped.

You can believe what you like but this is clearly not true. There were no restricted substances in the early days, hence it was impossible to dope.

Therefore at the moment he is NOT lying and has NOT been cheating

Legal rulings don’t define reality! If he is lying then he is lying, whether or not this is proved doesn’t change that.

Mine are great! If I had a bottomless pit of money I’d put them on all my bikes. Well, maybe not the road bike, but you get the idea.

You say some things sell in droves but they don’t actually work. Like?

see: Brothers, Crank.

letting a van do the tiring work would make it all much safer…

Hang on, I thought we had established that uplifts are just as tiring as riding xc. Keep it consistent!

New hopes are great!

People who like riding bikes in “Not paying money to spend half their riding time in a minibus” shocker.

I don’t believe there has been a clean TDF winner ever. They are all at it.

What do you mean by “at it” ?

Hope tech4’s are great, easy to set up and require minimal maintenance.

The test was drivel, I’d certainly not make any decisions based off of it!

Yep. Really, really dull.

No Country for Old Men … massively tedious.

Not really. Weight, strength, price, tubesets, finish are all objective. Handling and feel are subjective as are looks and arguably heritage.

So it can’t be objectively better then! It can be lighter, or more expensive, but better is an overall value judgement that has to be subjective.

Which is why objectively it’s better

How do you objectively compare bike frames? It’s all subjective.

You seem to be confusing cheaper and better. Objectively a 456 has everything beaten in those terms!

I’ve been trying to train mine, the damn thing just sits there though.

You can indeed, I had one on mine for a while, a definite improvement over the on one chaintug.

You don’t have to wear stupid glasses to listen to stereo audio though…

Unconvinced based on what?

I’m not convinced you have scales that are accurate to 0.01 lbs.

If it’s incurable and you’re tossing it out, I’ll have it

Heh, nice try! It’s still in use, just on the commuter bike now.

i hthat have been told a company who runs a hire fleet of alfine mountain bikes have never had a faliure

Mine has got incurable bearing play in it after a years riding in the peak.

I’m unconvinced by those weights! You’ll also need to carry a 15mm spanner, so that’s another 200 grams or so…

Legally perhaps – morally tho it is the right thing to do

Again, this is rubbish. The fact that you personally like using a bell does not constitute a moral imperative.

because you don’t have a bell. That puts you in the wrong.

No it doesn’t! There is no requirement for a cyclist to have a bell.