Lock on’s on all my bikes, comfy, grippy and all you need is one of these.

loblocks, they have a life span of 60000 hours. At 5 hours a day that equates to 32 years. Not bad and on par with LCD

See it here

I didn’t realise it was bollocks (well it wasn’t, the first plasma’s did last 5 min), some manufacturers claim a 100,000 hour life span now.

Foam grips! No wonder you think these “grippy” grips are a revelation.

Why the **** would you want foam grips?

Skywalker, are you 12 and get all your info from car magazines?

Lots of us on here are grown ups and we actually own and run cars. Me in my own stupidity has owned over 30. From Morris to Porsche, petrol to diesel.

Come back in 10 years when you have passed your test.

I’m 39, been driving since I was 18 and have definitely owned more than 30 cars. Currently drive a TVR Cerbera and a Focus RS.

Come back when you have some experience, boy.

and providing better grip – which is a grips primary purpose – not how you get it on and off the bar.

Ahhh, because lock-ons aren’t grippy.

with most stems, brakes and some shifters haveing a clamp on stystem now days, having to remove grips is a rare thing, maybe once a year?

All Shimano shifters need to be slid off the bars don’t they?

What happened to Plasma TVs?

No one bought them because they died within 3-5 years?

Not as good as decent lock-ons then, except saving a measly 50g.

WTF are you on about? Who said anything about isolation and compound movements?

I said if you use enough weight to go to failure in 5 reps, you are more likely to get injured than if you went to failure on 10-12 reps because you have to use more weight.

The amount of weight you need to lift is relative to ability

Errrrr, no.

If you can bench press 100kg 10 times to failure, you will need a hell of a lot more weight to go to failure on 5 reps, obviously.

Don’t bother with 5×5, you have to use a lot more weight and the chances of getting injured are seriously increased.

Stick to 10-12 reps, nice and slowly, 2 seconds up, 2 seconds down.

Also have a thorough read through

http://scoobyshomeworkouts.com/

i do wish that cars manufacturers would try to lighten their cars a bit more. i feel there should be a bigger version of the aygo. cut most of the dash away, slim down the seats, use more composites, smaller engines with big turbos, remove carpets minimize the amount of windows (as glass is pretty heavy) and maybe get rid of electric everything as motors are pretty heavy too. maybe a golf at under a ton?

Errrm, they did that in the 80’s, things have moved on slightly.

Yep I have, still don’t know what your talking about. In fact unless you completely burried the accelerator into the carpet it was absolutely no diferent as the ECU was presumably programed by someone sensible who knew you didn’t actualy want 200bhp and half throttle so untill you floored it, it felt just the same.

So a 125bhp car at half throttle will be as quick as a 200bhp car at half throttle?

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuullshit.

No wonder you don’t know what I’m on about, you don’t even know what you are on about!

Lols Skywalker you are correct of course, i mean how could anyone drive a car with 89bhp/t. It must struggle to get up to 40mph and no way could it drive along a road with more than 1 person in it.

PMSL

Have you ever driven a car with more power than the equivalent of a hamster turning a wheel? Maybe you should try it one day and report back, it won’t take you many miles to realise what I’m on about.

The problem I find is that you have to spend a lot of time with the boot to the floor and then economy suffers.

Exactly. You have to rag the tits off it to get it moving which kills the mpg, and over time the engine.

A smaller engine is not necessarily more economical for this reason.

Whats wrong with it? I didn’t know it was still possible to do 0-60 in double figures.

PMSL people these days have no flecking idea, 125bhp it twice what the car needs to drive at perfectly repectabe speeds.

It has 89bhp per ton and does 0-60 in double figures (11.4sec), what a ridiculous statement. Clearly you have no ****** idea.

Rubbish. Drivers are shit on fuel, not cars.

Really? I think you will find if you compare them to other marques they are worse, they always have been, but being a Ford driver I guess figuring that out would be a bit difficult for you.

The old Focus ST170 for example, 22 mpg urban from a NA 2 litre, are you ****** serious?

Fords in general are shit on fuel.

Hopper – crazy Australian dude who **** everyone up.

Try walking 8 miles a day, swim 2500m each lunch time and mountain bike 8 hours a week…..

It works………

It will, but its still possible to eat more than your TDEE and not lose any weight, or get even fatter.

Crunches etc will strengthen your stomach though (obviously), which will reverse that pot bellied/bloated look that some people have due to extra relaxed stomach muscles, effectively reducing your waist size.

As already mentioned, you can’t choose where the fat comes off, your body adds/removes fat from certain areas at different body fat percentages.

Work out your basal metabolic rate and total daily energy expenditure here[/url], then subtract 20% from your TDEE giving you roughly the amount of calories you should eat a day.

Download a calorie counting app such as myfitnesspal, add the foods as you go and don’t go over your calories.

By the end of the week you should have roughly a 3000 calorie deficit at -20%, 3000 calories equates to roughly 1 lbs of fat.

You need to eat low calorie nutritionally dense foods and your carbs should come from fruit (in moderation), vegetables, and brown grains.

Cut out as much processed food as possible, also no white bread, rice or pasta etc.

You should also drink plenty of water.

You can have up to 3 planned cheat meals a week, no scoffing your face just because you feel like it.

20 minutes a day of cardio will help, even if its just walking the dog etc, it doesn’t have to be intense.

For accelerated fat loss (and not so you don’t look like a twig when you lose all that fat) add a resistance training routine.

They also have pretty short top tubes so not for everyone I guess.

This is worth a watch.

Neither, get a Blur LTc

That would be my choice, or maybe even the Blur TRc.

Double post

Looks like your typical STW rider if you ask me.

you can’t get to 1400m anywhere in the UK….

No shit Sherlock.

Pretty cool that, certainly different.

Purchased a saddle from them yesterday afternoon and it arrived this morning. Now that’s service. Free delivery too.

Well done Royal Mail.

But you only ride through the medium of other peoples videos

Yawn.

Can I suggest you come back when you know for sure?

No.

The Rocket is of comparable weight to al alloy full sussers designed for similar use, whilst being stronger and stiffer where it counts. Explained at length elsewhere on here…

Weight – 7.6lbs for the 16″, who you kidding? That’s a pound heavier than a 16″ Five and I doubt its much stronger either.

So like someone else said, a pointless niche.

The Rocket is of comparable weight to al alloy full sussers designed for similar use, whilst being stronger and stiffer where it counts. Explained at length elsewhere on here…

How much does it weigh?

Why are you trying to convince us? I think you know what you should do.

Measuring the success of a product by volume sold, how stupid of me to think thats logical.

there is, in my mind, little point in buying a 140mm trail bike. it’s not going to be more fun than my DB Alpine. i can and do ride everything that all the 140mm trail bikes i see ride.

Have you tried one?

If I lived where you do I would probably be looking at an Alpine 160 or something similar, maybe even a Five. Not to heavy (well not 37 lbs anyway) and still fun.

Yeah really took off they did, sold how many?

Still, pedaling that thing up hill anywhere will be nasty.

Like he ^ said, looks like you bought the wrong bike. I very much doubt you will need 180mm of travel for anything in the UK, or enjoy riding a 37 lbs bike up hill.