Looks like a crossbred pinarello/wilier cento, but made of scaffold tubes. Mind you, i'd have one! 🙂

Nasty bit of mastic/jointing up the side of the window.

Bikes nice though.

No problem. That weekend could be good if it doesn't clash with anything. New Forest sportive is the weekend before, so i'll be knackered.

We are indeed, no finalised date yet as neither of us has slept for a month (new dads club).

Happy with my mtb cheers. Not spending that sort of money to then chuck it into a gorse bush and grind it to bits in the sand down here. 8)

There's always someone to ride with in the Purbecks if you're down this way.

You've got no chance! This assessment i based purely on the fact that i've just read that you shave your nuts and chest. Freak!

At least you're not carrying too much timber! Well unless you've been on the pies all winter. 😉

Might be up home next weekend, so i'll give you a call then, although i dont reckon i can squeeze a bike in with 2 kids.

Can't even be bothered to shave my face, let alone anything else. I may re-assess this if it all goes grey though – the old chap will look like father xmas with a big nose 😕

'is it always sunny down there' – no, but it has been today – i've got the shorts on in the garden for the first time for months 🙂 Still needed full length bibs on for road ride though.

No problem for a man of your calibre! Good excuse to ride loads between now and then if nothing else 'sorry R, i've GOT to go training' then don't bother doing it :wink:.

Meet you half way between mine and yours if you want, then ride home, i need to rack some major miles up too.

Fish back with Marillion for me please. They did 1 song together the other year at some little festival, but a full reunion would do for me.

Dorset roads in about half an hour. Sunny Sunny. 🙂

only from Boardman and Planet x and ribble really. Put a couple of hundred quid with it and you can get a carbon scott with decent shimano or wilier mortirolo with campag. Entry level colnago also at a grand if you want a flash name.

Get to £1400/1500 and now your'e talking.

I've got a BMC elite, built up for trail use rather than racey superlight. Rebas, crossmax, xt, slx, carbon bars/post, juicys 3s etc. About 25lb in current build, reckon i could knock a fair bit more off with lighter brakes, pedals etc as i haven't been that weight consious with it. Not too harsh on the way down and good on the way up.

CTI, the knee brace people do a really nice brace if its really damaged. Costs loads though, so i've got a similar one for about 30 quid. Doesn't stop it aching but hopefully might prevent too much damage in future crashes. Gives a bit more confidence and peace of mind too.

Van Summeren for being too tall, Gilbert just because, Millar despite the previous, Ballan not sure why.

Whereabouts is the shop Charlie, Swanage way?

on a similar note, will a 10 speed chainset be ok if run with 9 speed cassette and shifters? or is the chain the wrong width?
Also, if i change my chainset, does it matter what brand i get, e.g. will a campy chainset work with shimano shifters and cassette?

Sorry for hijack

Nicky – ages when it's both arms! My wrist had no plaster, just a titanium contraption holding the pins in place. Tends to get you some odd looks walking around with that on your arm.

As above, if it's plastered, then recovery can take a while. The year before i did the wrist, i dislocated and broke my thumb and had it in plaster for 6 weeks or so. It took a fair while to get the strength up and stop it looking like a thin twig. Laying bricks again about 3 months after doing it and riding bmx (cautiously with wrist protector) about the same.

3 years or so here. 9 months off work, career ender (hence the trowel being rusty). Mind you, i made a proper job of it – dislocated 90 degrees, radius in small bits, broke end off ulner, 3 operations, bone graft from hip, ex-fix for months, broke other elbow at the same time. Bl**dy bmx's – took up mountainbikng after this for a safer alternative (yeah right!).
Apparently in a few years when technology and research allow, they might be able to do a replacement like with hips, but it'll have to be hurting a lot more than it does now for me to go for that.

I got a BMC elite, £250 for frame off ebay, built with xt/slx, juicys, my old crossmax's and carbon bars and post from classifieds and CRC/wiggle. Under 25lb and pretty cheap all in. Feels great, not too harsh, and looks pretty too.

No wonder we're all on a diet! This months baddies have included: rice puddings at midnight, maryland cookies, value gammon, quavers, discos………… may explain the lack of weight loss.

Well done, same weight as or little fella last week. Less than an hours sleep last night (partly down to a 3 year old waking up at 6). Agree about the first few weeks being a bit of a nightmare, but well worth it in the long run.

Good luck to you all.

I love the way that if i see a friend for the first time in ages, rather than kissing him or hugging him like other nationalities would, i'll most likely call him a wa***r and take the mickey out of his lack of hair or expanding waistline. ..or does that just happen around here?

For a limited budget, i put together the following. BMC Elite alu frame (£250 ebay), rebas, xt/slx, juicy 3s, my old crossmaxs, tubeless, ritchey carbon bars, syncros carbon post. 25lb with heavy breaks and slx bits, not too shabby and not that harsh either.

660mm carbon risers on an xc hardtail. Was running 685mm on previous 456.

If it's single skin brickwork, you're looking at approx 500 bricks to go up 3ft (cost dependent on where you buy/borrow them from). Then about a day for a brickie to build it (£200-£300 labour only per day), half a day to strip the roof and clear the mess away and half a day to put a roof back on. Other costs would be a skip, roof materials, sand and cement, door/floor security and any tools you may have to hire.

If it's a 9 inch thick wall then double the bricks and labour time. Not sure what a chippy would charge to do the roof if you can't do it yourself.

Somewhen at the weekend Dr. Although, if your misses is like the other aneathetists (sp?), she'll be a few hours late, and her drugs won't work!

I'll call you.

Thanks eveyone, i can hear him crying upstairs, should i go up and help or stay on here whilst watching the footie from earlier? Oh, quiet now, that's all right then.

Not sure Hairy, i had a motocross bike when i was 4, so anythings possible (except singlespeeding, i hope he's not that strange).

Purbecks will be April probably

That last lap was mental. Not sure why they hit Albert with a Flemish flag and not Stybar, put their own bloke off.

Reminds me of all the Belgian, Luxembourg and Dutch motocross GPs i went to in the 80s, before the tv ruined it all by sanitising it.

Sod trying to out brake someone on ice with those tyres.

In the classroom, workshop and office and formerly for years on the scaffolding or in a trench.

That's crappy, i'll keep my eye out. Are those nixons off your old fisher?

Ran them for 3 years in gritty sandy Purbecks conditons, never serviced them once and they were still working as new when they left with my 456 a couple of months ago. Only thing i had to do with them was re-tighten the plates on the front a couple of times.

Not yet C_G. It sounded like i was having one with the moaning i was doing when i got home from a run this morning! Still a week to go.

nothing, it's a bike

Well done again, the misses says when can we come and see?