Soul 09
PX alu winter/ commuter 08?
Chinese ebay road 10
Bianchi Oltra 12

Recently sold my 2010 parlee, and a C59 disc is calling.

God, never tease a hand wringer, eh.

How about taking your blood sugers and heart rate over say, a 130km ride, and chart them out on some graphs. You should then be able to map out your refueling slots for MAXIMUM efficiency. You could also check you hr zones and work out when you to breath more or put down more power. It may be useful to over lay this over a map of the terrain, so you can see how your hr zones stack up. I would also recommend cramping a massive poo off before you start. On reflection only one of these things may be of use, but i get the feeling you would enjoy them all.

Livin’ the dream there smell_it.

I’m just warming the oven for the apple pie 8)

Fell asleep in the sun on my back yard after a glorious road ride; woke up a bit damp, nippy and starving. Popped inside grabbed my hoody and raided the fridge for cold pizza, chilli prawns, veggie sausage roll, 2 boiled eggs, stilton and pickles accompanied with some rather hard chilli bread, cheese and onion crisps and 2 cans of Stella. Was lush, i’ve got the wind of Satan and can’t quite decide if i need a magnificent dump. If the stool materialise’s, i will then engage some apple pie with custard. Then be into the shower, and onto the wine for an evenings lazing, before some ‘internet research’ and an earlyish night.

roadie_in_denial – Member
Jacob, I must offer my sincere apologies to you and the entire mountain biking population for accepting sub standard quality…………

Funniest post I’ve read in ages, at least my tears were those caused by laughter.

Just MTFU and come to Crumpsall.

I’m in crumpsall so will keep an eye out, and fb this thread so riding mates also see it.

I always find it quite perplexing how some of my fellow meat eaters get so angry and defensive about people that don’t.

I would have jizzed on her car, and then set fire to it.*

*the car that is, last time i checked my jizz wasn’t flammable. But if it was, that would be super cool.

😀 @ bearnecessities.

ut only works out at 5p a day over conventional crap

God, i thought the first hour of my day was arduous, but at least i haven’t descended into cereal cost benefit analysis. I’d also rather polish a tramps cock, than eat any type of muesli, it’s one of the devils foods.

Very, i need to to feel true discomfort and have a ‘final vinegar stroke’ expression for me to feel like I’mreally riding, and if i don’t finish with a thousand yard stare i feel like i’ve let myself down. I love it.

I just had to Google sheldon cooper 😳

I have the metabolism of a field mouse on speed and have to generally eat something substantial every 4 hours or so. I wake religiously between 5, half 5 nauseous and light headed with stomach pains. I get up and cough till i reach, and on a work day will head to the spoon around the corner from me for my staple 2 fried eggs, beans on 3 toast and a mug of tea. Then return home produce a tremendous stool, have a shower, another cuppa and get on the bike to work. On a none working day just shovel as much cereal in as i can eat without vomiting, have an unsatisfactory stool and head out on the bike. Once the food is in my system I’m a new man.

I’d rather be whiney and homesick than a whiney liar, just tell the truth.

Oops, just 6 posts for the op to get shoved of his high horse. Seems like he will just have to accept he is a bloated throbber like the rest of us.

Je James are selling 2012 100mm magura during x’s for 230quid, saving 300 on the rrp.

‘established middle class’ – yay! I think this officially makes me the King of Crumpsall! I’m off out to claim my lands 😀

If others describe you as mad crazy about cycling, you are ‘keeerrraaaayzeee’; if that’s how you describe yourself then ‘tedious with a love of novelty socks’.

I rarely contribute anything serious, but in April last year, the same thing happened to my brothers wife who was only 37 and died out of the blue leaving my brother with their now 3 and 9 year old girls. I’m a psych nurse specialising in self-harm and suicide and thought i’d be set up for this but i wasn’t.
cruisebereavementcare[/url] could be of use to your mate, they have been great to my bro. A call to the local social services call centre may help with signposting to any local services. In terms of what i’ve done, I’ve really just done practical stuff and been there for them all. I was lucky that initially i was able to get a some unpaid leave off work and virtually moved in at my bro’s for 3 months, i live in Manchester and they in Edinburgh, so just popping in wasn’t really an option and have then gradually backed off as they have found their feet again, but i still spend a lot of time up there when needed. I’m family, so I’d be willing to do whatever, but l’ve also been amazed at the support he has had from friends and work colleagues etc it’s all helped hold them together. A year down the line things are better, but there are still rough patches, these sorts of losses are total game changers.

Sorry to be more of a STW’er; i think you need to stop reading tales of 90’s carbon bikes, and be less of a ham fisted monkey 😉

I thought pretty much any stem, i think it would be the exception rather than the rule that current stems couldn’t be used; and no, i can get my steerer bungs out.

Friday, Saturday and Sunday have been sunny chilly back to back road ton +’s; hard, hilly, beautiful abduction fast, certainly not stopping for photos types of rides. But today my friends, i shall be drinking, really drinking.

66kg here, and i love the slr’s and aspides. Prologo scratch i found ok, but not good enough for it to nearly be twice the weight of my slr’s. For comparison i can’t stand spoons and those sdg things that mtb’ers love, both have way too much padding for me. I doubt mind the specializeds in 130mm width, but don’t like the 145mm ones. Never tried a fizik saddle.

I am not reading 15 pages so will someone please give me a sit rep as to what is happening in hear?
It looks like its about speeding.
My view is if you think saving time on your journey by speeding is ok then you are a selfish prick.
I come to this conclusion as you must think saving a little time in you own life is worth ending someone else’s.

+1 but i expect the other now 16 pages are resplendent in the finest bellendery arguing to the contrary.

Lots of different places

Whilst i can understand you were raised in lots of different places; being born and living in lots of different places makes you Dr Who or homeless?

I picked up some 38mm carbon clinchers on novatech hubs from carbonzone for about £380; use them as fair weather training wheels and have been going for about 18months with no fuss, including some hot weather euro trips. I tend to race on the c35 dura ace tubs, and they certainly don’t feel £900 worse.

Sticking to the op’s criteria;

Bergen
Wirksworth
Crumpsall

And yet i’m still smiling!

bencooper – Member
Here’s a typical scenario – and this is pretty much verbatim:
I’m in the workshop….etc,etc,etc,etc..

No, seriously bro, I feel your pain.

How dare a punter want to get himself a good deal, it’s not like he may have worked hard for his money and wants to get the most bang for his buck. Whilst the most appropriate response from those trying to do business here, in no doubt challenging times, would be to congratulate the op in getting himself sorted, and then explain the economic reality of trading over here and then to promote the added value the distributor and lbs network brings to the customer. What we get is a sneering response from a distributor and the usual bitter STW’ers, says a lot really.

Still trying…..

Devils advocate- maybe a walker(s) had a close shave with some mtb’ers or MX riders and decided to ‘get even’?

🙄 yeah, a car cut me up on my ride into work, so I’ve cut all the brake lines on all the vehicles in our car park. That’ll learn them. Nothing justifys putting wire across a trail, no matter how hard you try and troll.

I think a lot depends on the context op. If you buy on line and keep your bike in order it can save you a lot of unpleasant trips to an LBS, and saves an LBS monkey the mental anguish of having to deal with your unreasonable/ robbing intentions.

Anything else will just continue the argument.

I’m all for this option.

Edit – mtg comes back swinging!

I don’t like them as they obscure my beautiful face, and stop others from being able to share in its marvel.

I just find it easier to hate everyone; it saves me the trouble of having to generate some self created, and self restricting rules, which i can apply to others (without telling them) and feel relaxed sneering at how much better i am than them. In fact, i don’t know why i am telling you this, bellends.

Recently had a suit and a couple of shirts from cadandthedandy [/url] and was very pleased. It’s hard to say reasonably priced, but priced well against other London tailors i’ve used.
But being a Manchester lad, i would also recommend frank rostron and Charles Campbell in Clitheroe.

Looks like you can still bid on them….and looking at his previous sales he is not new to this. Bring back the birch!