Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Make Me Smile (Come Up & See Me)

Dire Straits – Telegraph Road

Big fan of Advantage, very predictable, excellent side-knob grip, fairly light, seem to be OK in mud…

Where are they on offer?

Actually no it’s not twaddle it’s my actual experience you dimwitted muppet

You’d have to be riding on glass, with 180psi and hemorrhoids… Get well soon 😉

not great on a road bike where you can sometimes feel the Park patch whilst riding.

Twaddle! I suppose you can ride over a crisp packet and tell what flavour they were too… 🙄

I just ordered a few of these, £5.99 each and free P&P off of the ebay.

They’ve not landed yet, but they look up to the job…

I get massive flocks of them in my garden, they turn up like a flash mob then disappear just as quickly.

They’re quite bold – I’ve had them feed of the seed feeders while I’m standing right next to them, literally inches from my face.

I have lots of nest boxes and they seem to investigate them at this time of year – possibly roosting in them – but I’ve not had any nesting in them yet.

Fingers crossed though, they’re one of my favourite visitors to the garden.

My X2 developed a fault recently, a quick email to Danny (Neninja) and he’s sending a new one out to me complete with a post-paid envelope to return the faulty one.

Can’t argue with the customer service, second to none. And apart from the recent fault, the light is a pleasure to use…

You must be disappointed you got the one named after a 1990s Ford… Unless the other option is “Probe” 😯

FuzzyWuzzy – Member

That’s not actually UK legal to carry about though is it?

You always get one… 🙄

I use an Ontario Rat[/url].

Brilliant blade, excellent quality and dead easy to open one handed…

Should have bought her a sqweel. Free up more time for you to ride your bike. 😛

I have white shorts – they accentuate ones tan*… And I have black and white ones that make my thighs look like a brace of killer whales racing through an ocean of manly thighness.

*Doesn’t work with full length tights…

Pro Tarmac NPU+ for me, they’re awesome. had 3 winters out of them and they’ve not torn or worn at all…

Obviously a hater nikxi, a bit envious of people that can ride such lovely bikes perhaps? 😉

I like riding my winter bike for some reason, I think because it’s built with old kit, there’s something familiar about it, like an old friend! But yep, with mudguards it weighs well over 10kg.
The difference I felt going back to my Giant racebike was phenomenal… Floating up climbs I normally grind up. Can’t wait til I can try the new Cervélo – less than 7 kilos!! Need to wait for them to stop flinging salt all over the place – I got gritted twice last night!

You think they pay retail?

No, but they’ll need replacing. That’s how insurance works. Doesn’t matter if they got them all for free, they’re an asset of the team and as such would be insured for a full replacement value.

It’s not the responsibility of the sponsors to refurnish them with a full compliment of bikes and equipment!

no warranty on a cervelo you might as well.

My R5 comes with a lifetime warranty! And Cervélo are one of the best for honouring warranty issues. But then, I didn’t steal it.

A few of them ride Project Californias… They’re around £8k for frame and forks. Build one of those with 3T Ltd and Dura Ace with Cosmics and you’re heading towards £15k per bike. Plus 60 pairs of wheels AND tools?

I’d say €250,000 could be quite a conservative estimate…

Surely you bang slash your knees/legs to ribbons on that front one constantly

I hate “fixed it for you” posts, but what the hell, I fixed it for you…

Like you, my evening sessions are good.

I rode my carbon racebike last night as my winter bike was injured – absolutely smashed all the Strava segments on a regular ride, so the Time Crunched plan is definitely yielding good results!

I felt strong straight out of the traps, the only limiting factor was that I ran out of lung in the first 15 mins, but that’s pretty normal when I start straight onto hills.

I’ve got a big ride planned on Saturday so I might just try doing some gentle pyramids on the turbo on Friday evening, see if that helps. I think I just need to rethink everything now I’ve gone from riding 2-3 times a week to riding 5-6…

This is my niggling worry Tony… The thought of 5.30am starts fills me with a nameless dread! 🙁

I probably ride my big weekend rides every 2-3 weeks with a group and I ride with a mountain bike club once a week in the evenings.

On the evening rides I’m always pushing the pace but on the early morning rides, I’m always hanging for the first hour!

However, I’m always on the front towing the group back when we’ve got the hills out of the way. I seem to be able to maintain power at threshold when I’ve got a lot of miles in my legs.

I could just do to work out how I can make my engine frap up a bit first thing!!

Got a 2hr turbo sesh tonight that I’m not looking forward to… 3 x 10min over/under intervals… Pain AND boredom all rolled into one!

If I do my turbo sessions in the morning, I’m same as you – I feel sick and heavy for 10 mins but that’s my warmup. I get off after 40-60 mins feeling fresh as a daisy. These are done on empty before breakfast…

This is why I think the heavy carb load at weekends might be crippling me…

Seriously though, what are they made of? Looks like ally sheet or something?

I have the Crud ones that have soft rubberised edges so they don’t slash me to bits in a crash.

Chief after gently brushing his calf against his mudguard whilst dismounting…

I like the Endura FS-260 ones, they have a more durable panel around the knee so are better for off road.

I like to wear bib-knicks most of the time but got sick of shelling out 60 quid every time I ripped a knee, so now I wear the Endura FS-260 shorts and knee warmers. Problem solved!

I agree, I must have missed the post where you mentioned 90 milers.

Sorry, I mentioned 5hr rides on the first post… I wouldn’t feel the need to fuel specifically for a shorter ride – I treat them the same as you do anything around the 40-60 mile mark, using PSP22 and gels.

To be honest, having enough fuel to see the ride through is kinda secondary to the problem of being sluggish in the first hour. But I’m starting to think that by fueling so heavily on carbs, I’m actually causing the lethargy/heavy legs.

I was hoping others might have experienced similar things and could offer solutions.

In the back of my mind there’s also this niggling feeling that it might be due to my sedentary work Monday-Friday meaning my metabolism just doesn’t want to do any hard work during the day!!

Solo, I tend to do my evening rides on empty but if I think it would be suicide to set off on a 90mile winter ride on empty! do you eat during your rides?

I always start the day with a double-shot espresso… I’m going to start experimenting with big carbs the night before and a lighter breakfast, see how that goes… And maybe more coffee!!

I’m wondering whether dumping a massive amount of carbs (that I’m not used to) first thing in the morning is overloading and making me feel lethargic… Similar to that sluggish feeling you get after a stodgy lunch!

I agree that a gentle spin with some ramped efforts the night before might help… Going to try that…

Interval sessions tend to be followed by a rest day. The most I would do the day before a big ride would be an easy “endurance miles” spin or recovery session…

Emsz, I’m feeling better than ever, faster on all climbs, sleeping like a baby, far more energy throughout the day… It’s just those early rides, legs feel like lead for the first 20 or 30 miles.

Once they’ve opened up, I’m absolutely fine… And no problems at all riding at night…

Sorry Drac, hadn’t checked that email account. For the record though, I’m a bit disappointed that the thread was pulled before I got a chance to defend myself and completely own the tool… 😉

Keep up the, erm… Good work… 😀

thx1138 – Member
If you’ve nothing more intelligent or constructive to say than calling someone a ‘bell-end’ etc simply for having a different opinion, then you invalidate yourself as a person capable of rational and sensible debate. And you mark yourself out as a bit inadequate really. People resort to abuse when they’ve got nothing left.

Your complete lack of insight amazes me Adrian. You openly accused me of lying just because I was reluctant to name a client on a public forum – hardly surprising given the number of bell-ends and mischief makers on here…

YOU are the only person that looks inadequate! You made a bit of a tit of yourself, and compounded it by trying to discredit me! That’s why the thread got pulled! Quite disappointing really, I had a metaphorical pair of bombers that I wanted to use to siphon my own urine into your shoes. 😉

I’ve never driven a 12 cyclinder BMW engined car, but I have driven the V10 in an M5. Accelerating “hard” in any gear is something you only did in a straight line, in the dry and preferably on the track! 😯

You wouldn’t be able to pick your bike up with wet hands!

Funniest… Thread… Ever! 😀

Woody2000… Genius!

Would have been far better to just say “fair enough, you’ve pwned me there…” rather than try to accuse me of making it up!

thx1138 – Member
Funny smell in here, sort of…bovine.

It also makes me laugh how childish a poster can become when he’s been left with egg on his face. Run along now THX, there’s a good chap. 🙄

It’s bloody good fun though… I blame the fact that we’re all cyclists so we get a bit stir crazy sitting at desks…

That wasn’t the question I asked you. Which was ‘what magazine was that’. Which you haven’t actually answered, just given some mumbled reply to.

Mumbled? I’ve told you exactly. I’m not about to start naming the companies I’m associated with on an internet forum, but it wouldn’t take a rocket surgeon to work it out from the information I’ve given you. Suffice to say, unless you’re an Aston Martin owner, or have visited a dealership with a view to purchasing one, you’re very unlikely to have read them.

However, if you stayed in a Marriott or De Vere hotel between about 1999 and 2008, you might well have read one of my pieces. 😉