30-35PSI. WTB Exiwolf or Weirwolf 29er on DT rims and a careful 140lb rider.

So many variables you are best getting out there and trying yourself.

Next question…

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Molegrips,

That was Rudi Nadler on his MCTiFab fixie…he did twicwe as many laps as me despite running the same bike and gear ratio! Fast little blighter :)

Damn good artist too…I have three of his prints on the wall at home.

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I am working on my own “Alex’s Great Escape” except I will do it properly, ie all my own work, insulate the roof, fit windows properly etc.

Infact I will do it so well the production company won’t be able to find me or their money :)

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I have just done my Montane jacket in the Nikwax Techwash and TX Direct re-proofer. Came up lovely :)

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More satisfying than sex

What a lot of pumping and huffing and ends up with white spooge everywhere?

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I guess that would be one of Sheldon’s head badges? He has had some done for Singular Cycles amongst others.

I’ll point him towards this thread….

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Another vote for Sealskinz….esp the Thermal merino ones.

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No weight limit as I am aware but i am pretty light.

I have a 180mm BB7 on the front and there is a little movement but not as much as the Pace forks (or some steel ones I have had!)

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Trident racing in Silverstone do it for very little £. Google and give them a ring :)

The stuff on Becca’s bike has been there 3 years, no clouding, no scrapes and only coming away at one corner where the bike rack caught it.

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Well done Shaggy! Beer’s are on me :)

ALex

Aren’t all bike shop customers the same? Bitter old roadies and ignorant young kids on DH bikes trying to screw you over the price of gear they will go and buy on the internet having picked your brains for 3hrs then expect you to fit / warranty for free? Shame really, I can remember MTB before the internet was invented where a customer of a decent bike shop was polite, non-agressive, liked looking at shiny things and bikes they could aspire to afford. What’s more they were sociable places where they knew your first name and didn’t treat you like dirt, brought you doughnuts when you helped them out beyond what is expected and thanked you for the cuppa you just made them

Happy days…………

Sorry a very busy day in the shop, made worse by agressive customers and down right rude people…they would make the Dalai Lama punch them!

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The Mrs and I are off for a 60km practice for the HoNC tomorrow. Luckily we have just bought a BOX each of the Liquorice and Apple Strudle flavour MUEL BARS…..yumm!

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Ohh can’t wait to see it built.

My new forks are due @Tuesday as the guy is picking up an un-built hub for me so he can keep the one in the 26″ wheel ;) I have the 29er kit and fettling instructions ready :)

Mango chutny? Lime pickle is for real men!

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I’ll have to catch it on iPlayer unless its a repeat of last weeks? What day is it again?!

Wish I could drop everything and move to somewhere like that!

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Stu was first but Sheldons pics are better :)

Any ETA on the frame Don?

Mango is great, I have a pint of mango juice next to me at the mo’

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I would say that 175’s would be fine, and had been pointed out crank lenght should be based on height…not fashion!

I am 6’2″ and have long thighs and have been running 170mm cranks on my singlespeed for 5 years with no issues, infact the shorter cranks lets you spin faster on the flats where a singlespeed is at more of a disadvantage!

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Nugget is selling a Speccy Myka disc 15″ on the classifieds here, and its in mint condition :)

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Wow, do everything a normal bike does but look a c0ck doing it.

Great

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Now where did i put the trail diversion materials !!!!

Becca could set up a compulsory cake check-point to knobble the competition!

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Haven’t got that much control, any tips?

A spicy curry and cycling shorts you don’t mind binning ;)

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Scottish? yes, party? hell yes, socialist? Nope…

:)

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SiB,

It can be done but its a black belt fixie rider trick…real muscle control needed :)

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I will be available for the Knights of Niche too…how much fixing does a singlespeed really need? :)

We will be taking a Gazzebo of Niche (formerly the Solitude Cycles Corporate Hospitality Marquee) for fettling, food and tunes :)

Polishing armour is fine, just not Sheldon’s helmet ;)

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I loved the grafitti I saw in B’ham.

Some idiot had sprayed BNP on a wall in Digbeth.

The next day someone else had added some letters vertically under it so it read: Bald No Penis

:)

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Topeak Pocketrocket pump
Topeak Hexus
Tip-Top Patch Kit
Tyre boot
Electrical tape
Gaffer tape
Big zipties x3
Chainring bolts x2
Chainring bolt tool
Tube
Leatherman Super Tool (to be changed for mini one)
Chain links

2x Dressings
Strip of fabric plasters
2x Antiseptic wipes
Dressing tape
Bandage
Needles + floss
Tweezers
Scissors
Water sterilizing tabs
2x Rehydration salts
Safety pins x4
Latex gloves
Vitamin N (Ibuprofen)

That all fits in 2 little Alpkit ditty bags and in a large Topeak seat pack with room for some £££ and food bars.

For longer trips* I add:

4x Spokes and nipples
Brake pads (disc / canti)
Brake inner wire
Extra tube
Savlon
Syringes + selection of hypodermic needls (#2 and #4 IIRC)
Hand wash
Sun cream

Normally carried in Carousel Design Works frame bag along with Montane jacket and trousers, Buff, Merino beanie, glove liners, arm and leg warmers and AA’s for the GPS / Lights.

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* ie India!

I thought it was a rather good monster movie. Not an Oscar winning, ground breaking must-see, just a good film.

Guess if they ever release a Donnie Darko / Cloverfield double DVD it should p!ss off 100% of the population :) Both seem to polarise people….

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Becca will be racing under the SolitudeCycles Ladies Solo Singlespeed Team (ie just her) But bear in mind she is undefeated…ok, its her first but she’s still never been beaten in a 24hr race yet!

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I wold go mellow post-rock.

Labradford
Godspeed! You Black Emperor
Explosions in the Sky

Or possibly some minimal soundscapes thanks to:

Stars of the Lid
Final

Save the fast metal and punk for the start / end of the race. Listening to G!YBE on the dawn lap at SiTS a few years ago was amazing…shame I was so knackered!

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The Salsa’s have a little flare but nowhere near the Midge, a good compromise.

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MentalAlex,

Yep still fixie off-road :) I do have a freewheel bike now for easy days!

JAM29er, I have found the Exi great in everything but really claggy mud (in which case I use the Michelin AT)

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WTB Exiwolf (special offer £19.99!)

Williams Cycles 01242 512291

Alex

So, we play with semantics a little with the big bang. But even so, surely a reasonably intelligent person would struggle to believe that the entire universe was compressed into a singularity?

I have a background in Physics and Cosmology and I would say I was reasonably intelligent and I have a hard time imagining the entire universe in a single point. What matters is that the observational data supports the theory that is was all at one point a long time back and did expand violently. Star life cycles are widely observed and the heavy elements scattered by the super novas all goes to make nice Shimano gears, hard to believe but there you are :)

So as I don’t believe the bible but do believe that killing people is wrong does that make me a christian? Surely not coverting a neighbours ox is the supression of desire and thus a Buddhist idea and so all christians are buddhists.

Glad we sorted that one out.

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No no no, you’re getting mixed up. You can be Christian but not believe the Bible.

So how are you a christian with out following the will of god? And how do you know the will of god?* Is there a separate “Even Newer Testement…no, this is really the real one, Honest” that has come to light?

Genuinly interested on this point.

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*”Just knowing” or “through messages relayed by my cat” will do nothing for the cause!

as I understand it a point of Christianity is that God doesn’t want it to be obvious – hints and clues but not absolutes.

Christianity – the worlds first viral markiting campaign?

Otherwise we’d all believe right?

Surely the idea? Everyone lives nice lives, goes to heaven and is saved. Or is it required to have some heathans to look down on?

See my previous comment about a capricious god…

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NOTE: I never advocated the banning of religion, just to clear that up.

When my wife had cancer and despite my knowledge and the doctors knowledge, it was our faith and prayers that really made the difference.

I’m sorry your wife had cancer but to believe that your prayers made more difference than highly trained doctors and the most advanced medical care? I am guessing you can offer no evidence to prove this hypothesis then I am sorry that is delusional. Glad it worked, but its still not how it happened.

My point was that for those who have faith death is not the end and also it really made a difference in being able to cope with something you have no control over.

If death is not the end and a better life awaits you in heaven with god, why are so many religious people afraid of dying? I don’t believe you should “cope” with anything, you should accept it and then work with it or arround it. Throwing up your hands and putting it down to a devine plan is as much a cop-out as burying your head in the sand.

So you find it hugely amusing that a large number of people choose to believe in a devine being but are happy to believe that suddenly, like a Paul Daniels magic trick a couple of atoms mysteriously appeared into the cosmos (which of course didn’t exist at that time) and exploded with such a mighty bang that we have a universe that is trillions of miles wide and still growing and filled with all manner of gas and rocks and minerals. Right. And you think Christians are a funny bunch? So which of these can be conclusively proved? The universe started with a big bang or God doesn’t exist?

1) You can’t prove a negative as Mr Bush and Mr Blair have found out in Iraq.

2) The Big Bang Theory is just that, it is the best model scientists. physics bods and cosmologists have been able to come up with so far. It is open to pretty fierce peer review and additional data from new experiments. And it wasnt a “couple of atoms” it was the entire universe condensed into a singularity. I have had the good sense to investigate religion before giving my opinion on it, please extend the same courtesy to science.

As Richard Fynman said in the forword to QED:Quantum Electro Dynamics, “It can explain how things work, not why” Lets get the ToE sorted and see what happened before the Big Bang (if that is even a valid question)

The experiment in question is not a valid test of prayer – not sure what would be as if something like prayer is real then by it’s nature it’s unlikely to be testable – for instance God is part of the process and will know about the test and alter results as he sees fit. Not saying that God exists but if you want to test prayer and God you have to be open to the outcome.

If it can’t be tested its not a theory it’s merely an idea. I am all for testing the power of prayer in a scientifically stringent, double blind test with a large sample size. I have a feeling that it just won’t happen and if it does many people will provide the “defense” that you just have. If any god/s would alter the results of the test to prove / disprove / void the test they are not the sort of beings I would p!ss on if they were on fire, much less worship. That sort of capricious, insecure and vengeful god belongs in the Old Testement…oh hang on…

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Having said that the whole “if you don’t belive in X your life is lacking and somewhat dull” strikes me as rather rude and it makes the assumption that you are right.

No ruder than thinking all religious people want brown people to have AIDS, have sex with choirboys, want to blow up Stuart Lee, believe in a six day creation and are against stem cell research…

I don’t think that so don’t put words in to my mouth/post. As I have said before it’s the liberal, nice congregation that gives the powerbase for the objectionable nutters who carry out and propergate those crimes. Infact the nice liberal people who believe same texts / book / interpretation as the nutters they just choose to leave bits out which I find rather half-hearted and hypocritical. If you are going to cherry-pick there is a whole world of religions and philosphies out there to browse for ideas, why restric yourself.

Be nice because you are nice, not because a bloke in a funny hat says so or that you might get bu66ered for all eternity by the devil if you don’t.

I also never said my way was right or that I have the FSM on my side (so watch out!) Its my own belief, relient on nothing but me and probably not that great for other people as we are all different. The Dalai Lama said that with 60billion people on the planet we might need 60billion religions. One size does not fit all.

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So where can your hope be found? Where do you find your peace if disaster should strike? There’s a better life to be had but it requires faith and reading some of these replies, it’s seems that it’s sadly lacking – no offence meant, just an observation.

I find solace in my wife, friends and family, in riding my bike and fettling things. If disaster strikes I will use my knowlege and skills to overcome it, I do not relly on out side help to wish it away.

Is there a better life? I don’t think so, you have one and its up to you to make it what you want. Again, wishing that on the next go it all falls into place is not how to spend your limited time on this planet.

I have faith, but its in people. Normal everyday people who do the most amazing things for each other. I have seen this, I know it happens and I try to do it my self. No god needed.

Having said that the whole “if you don’t belive in X your life is lacking and somewhat dull” strikes me as rather rude and it makes the assumption that you are right. Which damages my faith in people…ahhh bu66er.

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Christian Voice is one bloke with a photocopier and a mailing list, who somehow gets an awful lot of airtime.

He should get a lot of therapy and an unlimited stay in an institution. Makng fun of people with mental health issues is not allowed in any other part of the media :)

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Religion is of great value to a lot of decent intelligent people. So who are we to say that it’s rubbish? What would you gain by persuading people to see the world the way you do?

Its the fact that its the nice, decent, polite religious people that give the platform for the out-right nutters / extremeists / fundamentalists to flourish. With out organised religion these people would be receiving therapy in a padded room, not running a fair proporion of world affairs!

Personal religion is fine, its when it gets “out there” and organised. Shame really.

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Tyger,

If it turns out that evolution is wrong (unlikely, but it stands) scientists will change their views to fit the new experimental data that has come to light….not just stone people who disagree! Thats the difference.

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