Hi knottie are you are asking whether its just me ?

I do know some others who might want to come, but if the guide was a fairly quick rider I’d just come on my own, as im not too slow (i think) so I would nt put them out too much.

Hi tricky thanks for the offer of a lift. But I dont want to get in anyone’s one way. When you have to pick up someone you dont know if becomes a real faff.

I mean I have my own car so I could drive down if I wanted.

Really I just want to use my free train ticket and I thought that maybe I could meet up with someone, but it looks like most of the best riding is in the north which complicates things.

Hey sharki cheers for the GPS if I cant meet up with anyone that exactly what I need

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cheers for the info DJ. I had a feeling some of the good riding is in the north. Shame the steam railway doesnt run a decent service straight from Taunton would be easier to do it north to south.

Hey tricky. Would be interested in meeting up with the group, but Im fairly constrained in my times. I want to use my train ticket as its free (and helps makes yearly ticket seem more worth while).

Which basically means I arrive at 10:50 no matter what in taunton. What time will you be riding from and where do you meet ? Im reasonably fit so happy to ride on road to meet you first.

I think njee bike on a treadmill was a good example.

If you stand by the side of a treadmill and lower a bike on to it. You wont feel any force pushing you backwards. As the wheels will turn.

I suppose it would theoretically be possible to run the treadmill so quickly that that enough friction builds up in the hubs that the wheels cant match the speed on the treadmill and then you would feel the backwards force.

I think you need to go to a physio really or do a lot of reading online.

I dont think I can help anymore.

Basically Im just suggesting as some point as the sciatic nerve passes to your legs something affects it.

This could be piriformus, back, sacroilliac, anything and it may or may not effect you legs in many ways.

Its not so much how you sit at work.

Its just that some of the muscle which are meant to help support our pelvis and back might or weakened or you might not be activating them leading to less stability in your core.

It may be you need to do some exercise make sure these muscles are used.

some people use them by default and some people dont and some people stop using them as they get older.

well you asked for advice. Based on my previous experiences. Im guessing its not actually a hamstring problem, but a core stability issue.

You suggest otherwise so go to the pyhsio and see what they say.

If it really is JUST a hamstring problem all you need to do is rest. But seeing as there is knee pain as well and the injury see to be somewhat amorphous with out a specific injury that unlikely.

figure of 4 streches, strech the piriformis muscle. In some people the sciatic nerve passes through the piriformis muscle. If it gets too tight it can cause pain futher down the leg.

Ie reffered sciatic pain.

And this is a good place to start but the sciatic nerve may be being affecting in other parts of the pelvis/lower back so a complete program of core exercies/streches would be advisible.

Problems with sciatic nerve can make hamstring tight too.

Not sure it’s sciatica, as I’m still feeling it in the hamstrings (or whatever is sore) today – site of soreness is just down leg from sitbones.

But does it actually feel like there is anything wrong there ? Ie if you prod it does it hurt more. Do you think the hamstring muscle or the tendon that connects it is actually damaged ?

If you prod it and it does nt hurt more it might suggest the problem is else where.

When you say high up.

Are you actually describing pain basically on one side off your lower bum crack ? but are too polite to say.

This is likely sciatic pain.

Pain in my hamstrings is really high (at the join with my aris, basically)

Are you sure this is hamstring pain and not sciatica ? (ie pain from sciatic nerve near hamstring)

When I first got sciatica I thought it was something wrong with my hamstring. It quite obvious to me the difference now between nerve pain and an actual muscle problem.

Might explain the tightness in hamstring. This leads to problems further down the kinetic chain ie your knee.

Again as others stay the stationairy position could be making an underlying problem worse.

Could try some core exercises/pilates type thing before. Ie contracting the Transverse Adominius while doing various movements. Also do sit up.

first stage of zombification ?

The hope floating seem to have held out for me, but time will tell. A wet gorrick can be a nightmare for your brakes.

I’ve got some of the light ashima rotors on my race wheels. I only use them for gorrick races.

Even so the front seems to have bent easily, they lacked a bit of power (which I wasnt that bothered about at the gorricks) and they seem to wear down the pads easily.

I’ve changed to hope floating rotors even on my race wheels.

Did hopwas woods as my first solo night ride a few years ago.

Heard there’s been a bit more building there but when I did it, the place still felt quiet natural. (At least on the east side)

So was definitely the scariest night ride I’ve down. As I entered the trees/darkness just seemed to swallow me up and I was sure there were goblins and wolves round every corner.

I’ve done more night riding in swinley forest now but it feels so man-made its just not as scary. 🙁

just generally helps during mass.

Normally light the candles before hand.

Bring the host and wine up to the altar for the priest to bless.

rings the gong during the concercration.

Just general moving bits and bobs round the altar really

Thats what I meant just tell him that place doesnt exist.

No one is actually giving the bloke a reasonable answer. Except maybe the guy who mentioned ealing.

There are two questions the OP needs to answer are you buying or renting and do you expect to be able to cycle in the evening ?

The truth is the best riding is too the south of London. Hence most of the people recommending surbition,croydon,esher etc etc

However this does nt tie in with you wanting to be in the north of london to drive back to yorkshire ?

But the north of london doesnt have train lines going straight to victoria in fact as mentioned most of the trains to victoria tend to come from either the south or south east (not even south west). But these areas will be very difficult to get back to leeds from again.

Also do you expect to be able to just get in your car and drive somewhere say at 11am on saturday morning ?

If so I would say you need to be nearish the edge. I lived in Battersea for several years and if you left it late to drive somewhere you just had to sit in traffic for ages. (not all the time admittedly)

Also if you want to be able to cycle in the weekday evening. You need to live a fair way out. For instance I lived near clapham junction but getting a train out in the evening to go cycling was almost impossible due to the number of commuters. Also I would nt have driven out because its meant to be relaxing !

The best option really is to cycle out and I did do this a couple of times during the weekend, but you’d have to be pretty fit to cycle out from say zone 2 and manage to do a decent bit of MTBing of a evening.

The perils of multiple tabs have been exposed

4 miles is almost the perfect cycling commuting distance.

I used to do 2 and a bit miles and no sooner had you got cycling than you’d finished.

so i have scaled back and now work about 3 days a week

The substitution effect happily ignored by the high tax rate apologists

I dont really understand what the author’s are trying to say here.

Are they just suggesting that the government doesnt actually get the 50% off the worker ?

To me this shows one of the benefits of the higher rate of tax ?

The worker has cut back to 3 days a week allowing some one else to work. Which leads to a more equal society. It also might mean some one further down the line isnt been paid benefits.

which would be financially advantageous to the state.

How do people know seagull/Stickler are closed till the 12th of october ?

where is this information published ?

It could at list be put up on the Swinley Facebook page I think some one called Dan hodge manages it.

I’ve been thinking about this and I agree with Seth. If your going to go to the bother of having a front mech/shifter you might as well have three rings.

And if you have 3 rings you dont need 10 gears out back in fact you dont need 9.

8 or 7 would be enough do.

If you have to keep the weight of the mech/shifters you could lose it out back on the cassette by having a really light weight cassette.

Say 11-28 with 7 gears. Actually lose weight on either end is better than losing it in the middle.

I have one bike as a 10 speed 34 * 11-36T I find this ok but at times I would like more gears both ends really.

I reckon 33 * 9-36T would probably cover about 95% of my riding and I believe hope are developing this ?

So overall I reckon

22-32-44 * 11-28T (7 speed)

or

33 * 9-36T (10 speed)

My english is terrible myself.

but I rarely have a problem reading others.

In fact I read at first read, I would nt have noticed any difference between coyotes translation and the original.

Im sure this has happened before.

TJ has sided on some argument about environment impact. Then used some extreme case such as the caingorms plateau.

In reality most of us ride in the outskirts of Birmingham,London,Bristol,Manchester,Leeds etc

Im sorry but there is no way a banana plant is going out grow the native plants found in these parts.

And if its chucked in a bush no one will even see it.

I though banana trees were really difficult to grow anyhow and need to be grown from cuttings, I though the seeds stopped working once domesticated.

“Cultivated bananas are parthenocarpic, which makes them sterile and unable to produce viable seeds”

Also in most of Mid to lowland England maybe not scotland of the high peak/lakes. The banana can not possibly alter the soil to any great extent.

The roads round Hyde Park are covered in horse poo too. I agree with the OP in the city (or any concrete path) you should have to clean your horse poo. Or alternatively the horse should have to wear some kind of nappy.

Salzburg is the best city in Europe I’ve been to. Very beautiful you could get train to munich too.

(I suppose I should list the other cities I’ve been to which I rate Salzburg as better than Munich, Vienna, Budapest(good), Barcelona(good), Heidelberg (this is really good too), Paris, London and St. Petersburg)

Could maybe even get a bus from Salzburg to Wolfgansee if your staying long enough.

Cant see there’s any need to make XC races more techinical.

I’ve been doing the gorrick’s for a few years. Still in the open category but starting to get near the top ten.

If I dont fall off during a race I count it as a success.

If its been raining a little then general by the third lap its difficult to stay on your bike.

I did the course at heath warren wood near eversley this year. First lap I was flying round no problem, but by the last I tired and kept falling off on really easy stuff just because I was tired.

do you like having sex ?

if the answer is yes, then subconsciously you want kids.

Also surely better you get her up duff than you end up bring up someone else’s kids.

Also what is the reason you dont want kids do you not think your genetic material should be passed on ?

My commute is 30 miles each way and I currently pay £2800 a year for my train ticket.

I’ve been considering whether an e-bike would be usable for 9 months of the year or so. I dont think I’d fancy it in mid winter.

But I would nt really want to commute for much more than say 1 hour 15 mins. My current commute is one hour if everything goes right.

I reckon you’d need to have an selfconverted bike for a commute of 30 miles. The legal ones like ton points out above are limited to about 15 – 20 miles an hour.

I reckon you need it to get up to 30mph or slightly more for it to be useful.

The BMC V3 motor you link to on you tube seems the best motor. Lightish and apparently the gear mechanism (rather than direct drive) allows reasonable efficiency if you need to just pedal.

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Regenerative braking and all that is apparently pointless at the moment and as it will shorten the expensive battery life.

Another problem is most of the motors use a screw on freewheel. If you stick a 9 speed screw on the axle width ends up about 139mm. So you need a steel frame with a bit of bend.

I reckon an on-one 29er might be good frame to try to convert.

For a 30mph commute I reckon a 48v14-18ah battery might do it with a bit of pedalling (assuming you can recharge at work)

Endless Sphere is the best forum I’ve read.

Second battery is obviously a great idea but I think its the most expensive bit of kit.

If you can understand the what is actually happening it give you a much better idea of how to fix it.

At heart it is a simple biomechanical problem not some complex biological process.

If you dont want to read the whole thing go here
FIX LINK

Do the SELF-TRACTION SUPINE and plenty of sit up afterwards and do what ever core exercises your physio recommends

THIS IS THE LINK YOU WANT IT EXPLAINS ALL

The only thing he does nt really mention is I reckon tight quads can be a problem as they encourage the front of the pelvis to drop, so they need to be stretched while engaging you abs/butt.

And a lot of cyclist have tight quads because they are needed for cycling but your leg doesnt fully extend so they are not streched.

Link

Ah here is the guy who came up with the corrections website. This is the only really explanation of the mechanics of the SI joint I’ve seen that doesnt seem like mumbo jumbo. Also he’s given the self corrections out for free and ask for donates rather than keeping them to him self.

SI joint correction

This video shows the method, again I would get my foot right in by my butt though and put alot more force in. I think this is because I dont actually have a problem with the ligament round my pelvis it just lines up incorrectly due to muscle imbalances.

Avoid breaststroke Bending backward

Surely you want to able to do these movements eventually ?

What you need to do is get the SI joint back inline.

Then you should be able to do all movements with out the nerves which run through the joint being affected.

The difficult bit is keeping it in place once you’ve done this, thats the point of all the core exercises/streches.

Im never completely convinced by the hamstring streches although tight hamstring are a sign of SI joint problems. Ie the sciatic nerve becomes inflamed and hence the hamstring tighten.

In theory the tight hamstrings should help pull the back of the pelvis down just like a strong butt will also.

Although having tight hamstring is nt a great idea presumably once you’ve sorted the SI joint and sciatica they will begin to loosen by themselves. Stretching them after the SI joint is sorted also will be more effective as the sciatic nerve will do longer be inflamed.

What you need to do correct the joint first here is a good description of how to do it.

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Personally I cant get the first 2 methods to work, but the one shown in the third picture works for me.

I can hear/free the SI joint realign when done properly.

Not quite along of traction is required though and you wont do it first time. Unless the ligament across your pelvis are very lax then your screwed.

You need to keep practising to get the right movement. you need to make sure you buttocks/abs are tight as you do it as they will help pull your pelvis up at the front and down at the back as realign it correctly.

you can normally pick up an XTR rear mech on ebay for £20-30 is 70g lighter than XT.

I got some switch hubs with Crest 29er rims seem good so far. Build quality is also good at the moment but I’ve only taken them out 2-3 times.

Mind they are crest rims on a rigid bike and Im 70kgs so I dont intend to hammer them.

I noticed alot of reviews saying the build quality is awful, I added a note to the order asking could he spend some extra time on the build so I would nt have to say nasty thing on Singletrack. Dont know if they made any difference but the wheels seem fine to me.

Also if he really is a one man op then prehaps his wheel building skills have improved by now ? Shame about all the people who got dodgy wheel builds.

If it really is your Sacroiliac Joint its possible to work them back up your self. Buts its quite difficult to do.

You might need to do it several times as the sacroilliac joint is a bit like your knuckles together so you can work it up back up over time.

This is one video of how to do
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But I think that would only work if the ligaments holding it in place are very stretched. In my case the ligaments are still quite strong but it can work down during football if I do I a certain shot. If I leave it out of place I get the sciatica a few games after and my hamstrings seem to become tight.

I had it really bad for a few years on my right before I learnt home to sort it.

I think in my case the main reason is my quads were very tight and it tended to tip the front of my pelvis.

If you can work it back into place you need to do loads of sit ups to strength your core to stop the front of your pelvis droping. Stretching quads and your lower back will help too.

Its important to do this right. IE stretching quads you need to engage you butt and stomach before you stretch or what will happen is your pelvis will drop and you wont actually stretch your calf your’ll just rotate your pelvis which will make it worse.

Again stretching your muscles on your back you need to anchor your pelvis with butt and stomach first before retching your arm round to stretch the muscles on your lower back.

These exercises would be good for SI joint and are kinda how I work the joint back up. But I use alot more force and put my foot right up to my butt.

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Like I say once you have it worked back up you need to treat the under lying causes to stop it slipping again. Ie core exercies + strenght butt +strech quads and lower back muscles (not the spine the muscles this is quite a difficult movement you dont want to be putting pressure on the spine so dont bother if you think your going to hurt you back

are there no innovative, realist thinkers out there with workable ideas?

In reality everybody knows that change takes time. I would say the world is a better place than 1000 years ago, our country is a better place than 100 years ago. Most of the West is better than 100 years ago, even China + India are probably better places to live than 100 years ago.

The only real answer is for the world population to start to level off and then hopefully we will start to be able to get a grip providing a reasonable standard of living for all.