How do you live with such tragedy in your life.

If it's an external bearing b.b get it faced, it should only be £10 -£20 if you take the frame stripped to the shop. Otherwise don't worry too much.

Shackleton – Member
Why do some people around here assume that it has to be one or the other and the people opposed to their point of view are wrong? It's not wrong, it's just different. It's riding bikes and having fun yet gets turned into a political/religious style argument every time.

Dam right it's all **** bollocks.

All of this 26" vs 29" bike argument is boll0cks. It's just different types of bikes with different compactnesses.

This is the internet if you can't take a little ribbing, **** off yourself.

miketually – Member
Slightly more the two experienced senior nurses (band 6) – but hay we don’t do it for the money…. apparently
It's also double what two teachers at the top of the pay scale earn. But they only work six hours a day and have huge holidays.

troll or ignorant ****?

best: proper headset press.
Ok: theaded bar + washers + care and attention adjusting if no pulling in square
if you really have: hammer and wood. Being as threaded bar + washers can be had for a few quid there really is no reason

built a couple up, took one for a little test ride. Felt quite good. Pretty solid bike, tougher than some other cyclco cross bikes I've seen.

I ran a 26" tube in a 20" BMX for about 6 months. During that time I did not have any punctures, but do remember having a nasty cold during this period.

pk-ripper – Member
Speed categorically is not a killer.

The inability of a driver to select an appropriate speed for their ability, conditions and environment can be.

To make that decision requires you to have more information than is usually available to us. Hence the idea behind a speed limit, it's also there to help keep egos under control.

You also forget that other people will be expecting you to be driving at the speed limit and if you're driving along faster than the speed limit then they may be acting in a different way.

No sympathy. If she has so many points and needs the car for work she should take more care.

Penrod Pooch – Member
Shorts on a man say something to me about where you see yourself in society. I stopped wearing shorts after infant school personally.

So that was just before you disappeared up your own arse.

I rode the SSUK09 course bar one very steep short climb near the end of the lap. I had drunk way too much the night before, thrown up at 07:00, taken about three shits and been unable to eat. I'm no racer and if I can manage it running on empty super hung over like that anyone should be ok.

All of you people using the pavement should get some cycle training and learn how to ride a bike in traffic with confidence and competence. You maybe the raddess off road rider but it's a very different skill.

Sounds like the x-men

I miss read the title of this thread as "tireless tea bagging". I was slightly confused.

I personally have problems with some below the knee shorts catching on down tube bottle cadges when honking out of the saddle up hill, to you may need to experiment. This may just be a peculiarity of my riding style though.

This sounds a lot like the behaviour of people who "commuter race".

I do miss riding- its not the same here, though I do have my bike. The level of hassle you get out on the bike can be frustrating.

What kind of hassle?

Get off the road you cyclist type hassle, or some other kind of hassle?

Dont't wash stuff in streams, take away water from streams, wash then tip water on ground that way the water is filtered rather than dirty water being directly placed into the water course.

Also take a trowel for pooing, a plastic one is light and tough, burn toilet paper or carry out don't bury.

1. In Scotland and other high country parts of the UK as long as there has been recent rain, you are a bit up a hill and the stream has a good fast flow I've never had a problem drinking from stream direct. I would not pick water up if in a valley or if it's been dry e.t.c.

2. Porridge + milk powder + sugar + dried fruit in morning. Anything for evening meals.

3. As above, although I would suggest not using padded shorts if you can get away with it. Much cleaner on tour. Unless your planning on massive days you should be ok. (Well I know I am, I suggest more people try and ween them self off of padding except for the biggest rides)

4.As above. Just make sure your stuff looks ramshackle too, less appealing.

5.As above.

This guy makes a good light that works with a dynohub or battery. I think he uses a dynohub for 24hr racing with a battery head touch.
http://www.cncdelite.com/

Sam – Member
although I've found Schrader valve 29er tubes harder to find than Presta
I know of none – why on earth would you want Schrader valves though?

I'd say why would you want presta if your rim are wide enough for schrader valves?

The only advantage of presta is you can deflate them faster. Stupidly fragile design.

So yes is the answer you are looking for.

"urban freeride" is that the new marketing mans term for street riding?

Look at the distance to work and the distance to the Dorking train line. Tooting would be quite good location. Not fare to SB and not far to get on the Dorking / London line plus not bad price wise.

Also regarding cycling in London don't be too proud to do some cycle training, you could be a cycling god off road / BMX e.t.c but cycling in heavy traffic is very different and many people do so very poorly. Modern cycle training is not like cycling proficiency. Being a good cyclist in traffic is not to do with being a master of bike control / speed just like being a good driver on the road has little to do with being a master of drifting.

I build a fair few wheel for people (if any one is interested let me know, currently living in London) so buy a lot of spokes. Off of the top of my head.

cyclebasket, parkers international, cyclesportsuk, spa cycles, outspoken cycles, sjs cycles.

Sam Smiths pubs. Good ale at decent prices and not rammed with asymmetric haircuts.

Cougar – Member
http://wheelsmfg.com/
Again, doesn't list current products, newest thing on there is 2009.

Did you take off you hanger and compare it to find the one on the site? Just because the listing of hanger x fits bike y is not upto date does not mean it is not there. Hangers get used on lots of different bikes.

Take off your current hanger and use the pictures e.t.c on the wheels manufacturing website to identify your hanger. Take code to local bike shop and they will order one for you. The code will be something like WMD020 (giant OCR I think).

http://wheelsmfg.com/content/section/4/27/

thebikeshow has some good podcasts in the archives. Take a look. http://thebikeshow.net/

140 mile round trip! The solution is move house or change jobs.

To the OP if you have access to a car for other trips it's a no brainer. People forget how much of a cost a car is to run.

On the short driving commute stories, a guy at my girlfriends work drives about a mile. He is in his mid 20s and looks a strange combination of weedy and chubby. Nice guy but I find it sad that someone of that age looks in such poor physical shape.

Too late!

pual's thumbies from paul's components. I don't know any uk stockist I'm afraid.

Over the past 10 – 20 years larger and larger proportions of the countryside have become "extra-berbs" meaning that more and more people are commuting greater and greater distances to work because it's "their right".
I have a theory that due to the increased traffic volume on these minor road, the fact it commuting traffic rather than working traffic and traffic that it is coming on and off of major roads more hence accustomed to higher speeds has resulted in more people driving like ****.

In general though people are stupid and selfish this is just a manifestation of that fact.

My girlfriend is a teacher and this is what I have gleamed off of her.

You need to want to teach. Teaching is a mixture of, in no particular order;

1. Imparting of knowledge.
2. Administration.
3. Crowd control.

You have to like kids, this is the bit that put me off of teaching. I agree that you do not get as much holidays as people think due to preparation time. Plus the hours are long. My other half usually arrives to work at 07:00 and leaves 17:30 at the earliest frequently not until gone 18:00. School is shut at 19:00 but most evening involve marking in front of the T.V until bed time + work over the weekend so summer holidays is the only real off time.

Pay is quite good I think, maybe everyone on STW are all bankers but I think the money is pretty good. If you are complainant you can rise up very quickly. Five years can get you HOD which in London is £50k. Your wages will still increase further, there are a fair few of teachers on £60k +

You can be lucky though and get a cushy job, my girlfriend works in a rough S.E London school, hence progression is faster and there is more work. Her friend works in a school in Stirling, and get home for 16:30 most days and starts later, but she has been teaching for 2 more years and has not progressed as much.

The worst thing about caravans is the insistence of manufacture / it's cheaper to have them all in white / cream. It makes them an eyesore on camp grounds for miles. No white does not make them cooler. Otherwise they are pretty good idea. My Parents just bought one of these small freedom caravans.
http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=freedom%20caravan&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1600&bih=1065
Perfect for two or with a awning you could do 4 and can be pulled with a small diesel car. I think my dad was on about high 40 mpg even towing.

http://www.dmjwilliams.co.uk/flying-costs.htm

My dad does some gardening work for a guy who has his own plane. His wife has several fingers missing after an accident with the propeller.

I remember vaugly seeing a program on t.v about a guy that built his own plane (you can buy kit planes), I think the engines of choice were out of large petrol 4×4. So even that can't be cheap, running at the top end.