Thought 1917 was excellent. Couldn’t work out why they didn’t send a carrier pigeon though 😳

Is the chain new? If the chain rings are worn, the new chain will slip over them.

What tyre pressure are you running, a road bike with tubes should be up around the 100psi mark.

I run both my road bikes at around 70psi (25mm on one and 28mm on the other). Neither bike feels slow.

Advice on here has been to run 23mm tyres and increase psi to 100. Are we still in the 90s?

Short and long sleeve gabba jackets (which became the perfetto) are my go to jacket from October until March. With a variety of thickness base layers, arm warmers and/or a gillet gets me through daily rides in all winter weather.

Probably the best piece of cycling kit ever designed IMO.

I’ve got his dealers name and details, and a few others so straight to the plod with that. Need to somehow regain his trust as he’s not talking to me.

Shopping his dealer will not help to regain his trust.

Only bargain in my Christmas whisky selection was the Laphroaig- 23 quid from sainsbury’s.

Literally cannot stop watching Don’t f with Cats.

Dreading getting to the other side of Christmas as it will be the second anniversary of my brother’s suicide.

Go and see him. Make a nuisance of yourself. Be persistent. Don’t be the one saying “if only I’d…”.

Good luck with it.

Not a Netflix production but is now on Netflix. I downloaded the Death of Stalin for my Eurostar trip home on Thursday. Very good fun and well worth a watch.

When I first started road cycling again I used to regularly do over 50mph in the Surrey Hills. Think the fastest I clocked was 57 coming down to Dorking off Leith Hill. Had a bad crash in 2015, lost quite a kit of skin and rarely go over 40 now.

Coming down off mount semnioz to Annecy in the summer I managed to convince myself that my pads were melting. Was pretty sure I was going to go over the edge at each hairpin. Stupid really.

Running tubeless on both road bikes. GP5000 28s on the canyon. Fantastic tyres and have put over a thousand miles into them without a puncture.
Running Mavvic yksion pro on the other bike as they came with the ksyrium wheelset. I’ve had them on since the middle of summer and again, well impressed. Doing 30 miles a day in and out of London, with no punctures – again I’m over a thousand miles so far on them. They’re also fast and grippy.

The continentals went on without levers and the mavics came already fitted so I can’t comment on ease of installation.

Actually, just checked my strava gear page. The continentals are at 1400 miles and the mavics at 1800. Very impressive puncture resistance on both.

So very dull. Found myself reading threads on here instead of watching.

Haven’t got time to address all the points, but just wanted to point out that I hit him until he was no longer a threat. I didn’t follow up with anything more and he did not hit his head on the pavement.

Interestingly it turns out that a colleague (who frequently moans about cyclists to me) witnessed the whole thing. My memory of the incident appears to be very accurate and he felt it was understandable and justifiable self defence. He also remarked that once the guy went down I was perfectly restrained.

Was this chap really a threat that couldn’t be walked away from?

Well, he did have hold of my bike until he started trying to push me off it, so walking away was not an option without being pushed over.

Well this thread has taken an entirely expected turn

Indeed.

Answers to random questions:

Yes, as I clarified in the opening post, I am aware that cycling on the pavement is “illegal” but grabbing the bike, sticking your face up against the offenders and shouting abuse at them is a slight and ill advised over-reaction.

Would we think differently if it was a moped? Yes.Riding a motorised vehicle down a pavement is not really the same thing is it?

Reversing a car down a one way street and up on to the pavement is not really the same thing either is it?

Push him away? That is actually more difficult when you are half clipped into a bike – I really didn’t want to get into a shoving match and give him the opportunity to grab hold of my helmet straps etc.

How could I tell he was drunk? Alcohol smells and as previously mentioned he shoved his face into mine whilst shouting.

How did I walk while clipped in?

mainly I clip in with one foot and just gently roll down the pavement at a slow speed

epicyclo – thanks!

Sweepy – hasn’t thought about that to be honest! I’ll sleep on it.

Riding on the cycle highway down the embankment tonight. Saw a cyclist come out in my lane ahead with no lights on. As he got closer I realised it was a chav pulling a manual. So he was riding the wrong way, with no lights and pulling a manual so he couldn’t see anything in front of him.
Had to shout in the end and he dropped the front wheel and missed me by millimetres.

Smoked it almost daily from 14/15 through to my late 20s. A day without a spliff would guarantee a sleepless night.

I wouldn’t be too happy with either of my boys smoking it (my eldest is now 14), but would be more ok if it was the lighter stuff than the super strong skunk – which I think leads to mental health issues.

Being involved in the drug scene always carried a risk, but I just get the impression that it is more so nowadays. More sinister people behind the average dealer and less tolerance for people knocking out a bit of drugs from their homes.

You’re never too old. My two sisters in law are both in the 100 marathon club and I’ve met a lot of people they regularly run with. Many of them didn’t start until similar ages and they are running marathons each week now (which I personally think is some sort of weird addiction).

Just start off with short distances and work up. I did my first one at 38 = after 20 years away from running.

There was a time when wheels were a lot cheaper, and less reliant on maxle, disk sizing etc…

But even if any of those other bikes were available, why look any further than the genesis?

Sorry for your loss OP. I lost my mum at the end of March after a short battle with cancer, and just a year after losing my brother. It’s a tough old ride and the pain doesn’t seem to ever go away. You just find ways of living with it. I visited her house yesterday and it was easier than previous visits.

when you do puncture and then need to fit a tube it’s a horrible messy faff

I always hear this one rolled out in tubeless discussions. I’ve had to do this a number of times on road and mtb. It’s really not much more of a mess or a faff compared to changing a tube.

The feel and rolling resistance of the tyre is far better – for similar reasons that people run latex tubes.

I’m also with the OP. I didn’t expect a review as it’s obviously a press release, but the “road tubeless finally comes of age” headline is ridiculous.

Found the previous pro one tyres were excellent for both grip and rolling resistance, but complete crap for strength and longevity. I’m running the TL5000s now, which I think match both the grip and rr but are also much stronger and long wearing.

Also running tubeless yukons on the other bike, which are also excellent.

Regarding loose headsets damaging headtubes.

When I took my canyon frame to them to check a crack they said the headset was loose. They explained that rubbing it loose would cause it to knock back and forth under braking, which would eventually flare the headtube.

The headtube was actually fine, but the headset had written through the steerer and as they found the headset had been badly fitted in the factory they replaced the forks.

@twowheels – no, I got that off road.cc. I think someone exports all the results each year.

You’d have to bear in mind it starts and ends in different places.

Starting at 8 would make being held up more of a possibility which would be frustrating when you’re 150 miles in.

Has the spreadsheet been shared on here yet?

No medals at the finish either (not the end of the world but it’s not cheap so you’d think they could sort it)

To be fair, didn’t a pallet of medals go missing? I heard they are getting replacements by the end of the week.

I’ve never felt the need to throw litter onto the road during a ride. Just gets put in a pocket and emptied at the end.

But then I didn’t see any intentional littering yesterday either.

I do think that people carry way too much stuff on sportives. For yesterday’s 100 I had a pack of bloks and 2 bottles of water. That saw me through to the end. Looking at some of the riders coming through later on, you could be forgiven for thinking they were crossing the Sahara.

4.5 hours, weather dependant.

Rolled in at 4hrs 27 mins.

Felt that.

I have a very small rucksack that is easier to carry from my car park to the start, which I’ll put the rider bag into, and then at the start swap them over so the rucksack’s in the rider bag. I don’t know if they’ll take your rucksack directly.

They won’t. I do similar to you. I ride with a rucksack to the start. Usually change my top at the start, put the rucksack inside the RL bag,do the ride then pick up the RL bag, put that inside the rucksack, ride home.

5.52 start time.

Assuming for 4.5 hours, weather dependant.

My (non smoking) mum was diagnosed with lung cancer at the end of November last year. Her main discomfort was that it had spread to her bones which was extremely painful.

She was admitted to a hospice in March to manage the pain. The intention was to have her home after a week or two to begin chemo.

Her condition deteriorated quickly, and towards the end of the month she had a lung infection. They asked me and my step father about draining the lung, and we took the difficult decision to ask them not to drain it but to give her enough drugs to make her comfortable. She died a week later.

A very difficult decision to make, knowing we were effectively ending her life, but we had to weigh up the fact that draining the lung would have prolonged both her life and her pain and discomfort.

I feel for anyone who has to watch a loved one go through that and a DNR is the right choice at times like that.

Yeah, I can get just as much pleasure from a long road descent as a mtb one. Terrifying but very exhilarating.

There are a few that I say hello to, and a couple of us follow each other on strava after having a chat on the way in or out.

There are others that I always see who I recognise – large castelli man who runsd red lights and requires overtaking again, also a small guy who rides an old dawes and wears full waterproof high vis and full face helmet every single day – regardless of whether its 30 degrees. He pushes to the front of all the lights and then spins away in a really low gear very slowly.

Used to regularly go over 50mph on descents when I first started road biking. Came off at around 30 on a gravelly corner about 4 years ago, which was extremely painful. I’ve never really got my balls back properly after that – rarely going much over 40 now. Did the Etape Du Dales with a couple of mates back in May and resigned myself to being the last at the bottom of the descents (although not really by that much). Could always catch them on the flat afterwards though.

Anyone got a link to the vivioactive 3? Its Mrs Mcavennie’s birthday next week but I can only see new from £187

Ah – found the link and the music version is £238 now – must have only been yesterday.

From 2012 to 2014 I rode nothing but singlespeed. I had a NS Surge which I ran singlespeed – mainly over the Surrey hills. I also had a Gensesis Day one which I used for commuting and long on/off road rides in Surrey/Sussex. I did London to Brighton off road on that a few times.

Mainly did it for simplicity, but it did teach me to love gears again. I entered a few off road duathlons in early 2014 and knew I would struggle maintaining speed on the climbs and spinning out on some of the non-technical descents so I put the gears back on. By 2015 I was fully back into gears.

Makes you stronger, but also makes your knees hurt!