Or £17 on ebay 😉

Is it just me or are all these moaning ****$ missing the point that its all about the BEER & CHEESE FFS!!!! (with a bike ride at some point)

No one interested?

Gram counter gear solo lighthouse. around 1k with poles (sold seperately) single skin. basically like a big posh bivvy. I got mine for £80 unused rrp250

Is this any good, owned by leeds uni. they have something simmilar nr Settle too.

http://sport.leeds.ac.uk/page.asp?section=239&sectionTitle=Dalehead+-+Lake+District

Like this

No, internals all slide out in one lump then get dunked and popped back in.

Same advice here too, the World Cup course is just passed Dixons Hollow jump park, off the side of the field opposite. Gee is right about the wet, you can do a set of pads in a wet lap of the red! still fun tho 😆

ANT- Anthem
ALF- Alfine hubbed Ti Van Nic
SPANKY- Racing Ti Van Nic
MARINE- Marin
CROSS- Tricross
ROAD- Ti Airborne
MORRIS- Wife’s Marin

I too was ‘taken out’ out on 5th Jan, white van man didn’t see me, stopped at jucntion then pulled out with just enough time for me to do a rolling stoppie into the drivers door, fortunately i joined Brtish Cycling purely so i was covered by their lawyers whilst commuting, I must say they have been spot on. Bike wasn’t too bad as I overtook it so 300 quid damage to a £2500 bike and £300 quids worth of cloting trashed. What you can’t put a price on in my mind is the fact I have missed out on playing with my kids and changing nappies/bathing them etc as well as 3 months of training and longer term problems which could mean this year is a write off as far as competing goes. Defo keep a diary, i did and when i went for the medical this monday i could clearly pass on my problems.
Although i suffered no broken bones both knees took a twatting along with head/neck aches, dead arms etc. I thought I was getting over it and getting back into training when my right knee flared up last Monday, another week off sick and a week of desk duties (I’m a chef)and loads of greif from work!! My knee is still like a tennis ball so with next week off the bike as well I’m gonna miss more North East and National events meaning I won’t score at enough events to qualify for league points and any chance of getting the title i won in 2009 is well and truely gone…..What is a fair ammount of compo for that??

Rant over.

(I too was happy to not be badly injured at the time but as the injuries go on I want to hurt that man more!!!)

Keep a dairy
Get a good specialist solicitor
Join British Cycling ASAP
Good Luck

Sweet. ta

Cheers Steve, anyone else mail any routes to rickyinmickyATyahoo.co.uk

My mate just spun the axle 180 deg and had it pointing backwards with a fair sized loop on the gear cable?

Wouldn’t know as I still have not got the bloody mag (I live in Micky down the road)
Plenty of locals on here to do giuded rides in the area though if anyone fancies a ride :o)

2 yrs, 3500 miles, one service (more to have a nosey than owt else) no missed gear change, 2 chains and 1 chainring, can even change gear mid trackstand. Scottoiler fitted, all i do is wash off the road salt once a week, thats it, job sorted.
Prob only drawack id the weight all out the back, other than that, do it.

Put slime in mine and never got a flat. loads of hawthorn hedges round here too.

A mate was talking to the trail warden and he reckons the trails won’t be open for a few more weeks due to all the trees that were brought down by heavy snowfall.

Another one in the club here in Leeds, made worse by the fact that you guys were teasing me by selling them at the picture house last night!!
Cheeky bu??ers 🙄

By the time they can get their head round using the brake they’d be ready for the next size up IMHO

Bailed today due to blizzard conditions, heading out in the morning again, got my Schwalbe spikes on and they rule.(5.45 commute so not many cars in Leeds to run me over hopefully)

Spikes….it’s the future!

Gary_M some of us live in villages with hardly any public transport, especially in this weather, I can use the car the odd day but I wouldn’t be able to get it off the drive. I do my 11mile commute almost every day, What you to do, walk??

Micklefield, far enough away from all those tits in cars stuck in Leeds city centre today!!!

I fell down the stairs and somehow managed to rip the bottom off my big toe as I also twisted my ankle!

Just put some flats on to go with my walking boots for the commute tommorow, why not??

Simply suppliments

Glucosamine sulphate, less than 9 quid for a years supply. All my joints used to click, wrists ankles the lot, been on this for a few years following advice from the doc, no clicks at all now, job done.
May take a month or two to kick in.

Another vote for Manchestooor!!

Another for tireinflators here, 30 work out about 60p each last time i got some!

3041 miles (3/4 off road)
278 hrs
201,048 cal
and I've already had the cake.. most of my daughters birthday one to be precise, and now I'm gonna have to lug it round the Kielder 100 this weekend!!

Mine's still running smoothly at 190,000miles(touchwood) sound a bit sus to me.

Dales biking centre is a good stop, i got there in 20 hrs from St. Bees, soon after bailed my one hit attempt (solo,unsupported), it's now back on for 2012. 😯

Yes, i know of someone who is a paramedic, they have seen a little one killed by sticking something in a socket, put safty caps on them all and try to teach them it's not a good idea, honest!! Lil RT has always been good but it only takes one time..

I was the one 'pedaling in circles' thanks for livening up the night guys, there wasn't many out this year.

No12?
Giant Anthem,Black/white cyclesense jersey??
rickyinmickyATyahoo.co.uk
many thanks anyone who can help
Rik

Nice one, Lil RT is upgrading from a Likeabike to a Cnoc shortly, she wants 'a bike with pedals just like daddy'!

I loved the course, a nice mix of fast twisty singletrack and tight and twisty stuff, As i was solo i knew the best lines round and it was funny to see some of the others lines (especially where the saplings were)but all in all spot on, sooo different in the dry, nice one Pat and crew.
Rik-Team Cyclesense/Flat Roof Co.
25 laps
8th place 😯

Solo here, hoping to better last years 23 laps and (hopefully) 4th place. Can't see it tho as i'm not as fit this year.
2x full sus and 1 Alfine 1.5 tired mud plugger!

Van Nics are just Airbornes with different stickers following the split of the company a few years back.

Van Nicholas??

I have 1 set of lightweight ones with barends
2 sets of normal ones with bar ends and
1 set without bar ends on both flat and risers, love em and 24hr races have never been the same since. just get ya dangle right.

I have a full gpx file for the ride, tried it in one go earlier this year unsupported and trust me, carrying a bike and a 17lb backpack is not funny, especially up black sail. Read more at enduranceracing.co.uk, some pics on there too. It's the reports by Rik and not Rich as he was doing the Welsh C2C. You'll enjoy it, just be ready to push/carry as when i did the recce rides it was really staring to get on my t1ts!! I too used some pipe lagging, works a treat.
For more info read Rich Rothwells report but it may scare you a bit!

I had 2 issues with that, both times they were crackrd frames on thr top tube joint, 1 marin fs and 1 Ti hardtail, have a closer look!