As long as you’re honest about what you’ve ridden then I can’t see any issues with enjoying yourself.

What he said!

Online entry CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

You can still enter on the day if you like – we never turn anyone away. If you arrive in time then you’re riding!

You’re welcome.

Course you are Simon – you don’t have to go eyeballs-out to enjoy the ride!
Online entry still open all day today!

Hi Gary. I’ve rung a local supplier on your behalf and he’s happy to order some Finesse Grease Buster on his next order for you.
Contact Craig at Fix My Push Bike (Cheltenham) on 07581 588371 and tell him Jonny passed on your details, he’s expecting your call.
Hope it all goes smoothly for you. Any problems you can contact me via the details on the CVMBC website at http://www.cvmbc.co.uk Cheers.

Plenty of new bits since you last entered, Fieldy. Online entry still open all day Friday.

Hi. By sheer coincidence, I work for the distributor that owns/supplies Finesse products! The good news is that Grease Buster is alive and well, and available from all local bike shops – as long as they have an account with The Cycle Division. NOT to be confused with Cycle Division, who sell to the general public. We don’t.
Post up on here whereabouts you live and I’ll check for your nearest shop that we deal with for you.
You’re right though – it’s bloody good stuff. And so is the Stop disc brake cleaner too (which was reviewed in this very magazine a few years ago).

Online entry still open, best be quick!

Don’t forget there’ll be a professional Sports Masseur available to sooth away those aches and pains. Only a £5.00 donation to charity for a great rub-down.

This weekend – don’t miss out.

Lousy weather keeping you indoors? Great time to go to http://www.cvmbc.co.uk and get your entry in for next Sunday’s CVMBC.

I ride almost exclusively road these days!

Garmin.

Seems Shane Sutton has multiple log-ins on here…

Bacon butties – STILL ONLY £1.00!!!!
It’s worth turning up just for one of these!

Don’t forget to get those entries in, folks.

Now with free ‘goody bag’ containing great products from OTE Sports nutrition and TF2 cycle lubricants.

Great value event with room for everyone.

There was a similar thread to this a few months ago. It was resolved when folk asked to see pics – and the chap had fitted his cranks offset and misaligned…

So in your world anyone that gets annoyed by someone else being arsey is a bit of a dick? The arsey copper stopped the cyclist to give him the ‘benefit’ of his opinion. The cyclist didn’t want to either be stopped unnecessarily or listen to the copper’s opinion, neither would I, and neither would most other folk. Coppers are public servants, paid to uphold the law. If the cyclist had done something illegal then the copper could have reasonably decided to do something about it. As the video shows, he backed off because he met his match when trying to throw his weight around.

*edit for autocorrect typo.

v8ninety – Member

probably says more about your own internal bias than anything constructive about the video, TBH. I’m sure I’m slave to my own biases, but they both acted like pig headed dicks in my eyes. Neither listened to one another, and both repeated what they wanted to say without accepting or even acknowledging the others perspective.

No, it says more about my view of what the video shows. Without the copper being arsey the bloke just rides home without incident and there’s no footage on YouTube. I’d quite rightly be annoyed if a copper stopped me for no bloody reason too, and especially with an attitude like his. And before you imply some kind of negative bias towards HM finest, I lead weekly road rides for my club that include several coppers – none of which give it the ‘big I am’. They’re riding mates that crack on like everybody else.

The only ‘attitude’ I can see is that of an arsey copper who just wants to throw his weight around for no reason. I do thousands of road miles a year, but commuting by bike in a city like that London just looks so shit that I doubt I’d bother. I’d rather take my chances in the traffic than plod along getting frustrated by all the nodders in the bike lane though.

Don’t forget to get your entries sorted and don’t leave it all til the last minute. Plenty of room for everyone to ride if they so wish.
Online entry available on the website (see link in post above).
You can also find us on FaceBook.

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Now with added Online Entryness!!

Go to the website –> This way to CVMBC online entry and sign up in the comfort of your office chair!

http://sportlemon.net/boxing

bikebouy – Member

“Ere’ dat Touwer T’ Blouddeh Yikshyr” more like.

Whatever that sounded like in your head, it didn’t translate into Yorkshire dialect when you typed it!

Schwalbe Durano Plus.

*bump*

It’s down to trust. You don’t trust him and it’s really shitty working in an environment of distrust. To be fair, I’d have had at least one ‘difficult’ conversation with him before giving him the bullet though.
You’ll also feel bloody awful if you get rid of him and the petty theft doesn’t stop…

Went to see Half Man Half Biscuit in Holmfirth last Sat.
Been to see Frankie Boyle in Bradford this evening.
New Model Army in Holmfirth in May.
PiL in Holmfirth in June.

nuun tablets – they are anti-cramp magic.

Mary Towneley Loop is worth a potter round, possibly as part of a PBW day.

11-32 with a 34-50 compact? Are you planning to ride loads of proper steep hills every ride? Part of the benefit of road riding is increased strength and fitness. I reckon you’ll be better off with an 11-28 and you’ll adjust pretty quickly.

That’s happened to me 4 times over the years – all whilst riding and all rears! Bodged the first with zip ties and rode (slowly) back to the car. Close enough to walk home from 2 more, but the other one happened just outside Skipton and I live in Huddersfield. Someone finally took pity on me after I’d walked for an hour and a half, they picked me up and dropped me on the Hudds side of Halifax, from where I managed to get someone to collect me. I’m obviously over-optimistic when it comes to working out how much life is left in my rims…

thecaptain – Member

CVMBC, 17 quid, with decent support and marshalling.

Thanks for the mention.

What does your £17.00 entry fee get you?

A choice of either 20 or 30 mile scenic route on local trails, bridleways and lanes that is fully waymarked and loaded with marshalls.

Legal access to ride land that is otherwise private and out of bounds.

Vehicular recovery in case of mechanical/mishap/exhaustion.

4 drink stations stocked with energy drink, bananas, biscuits etc

A T-Shirt.

A free goody bag – this year with sports nutrition products from OTE Sports.

A certificate of achievement.

Food and drink both before and after the event back at the HQ.

We even had Elvis singing to the riders in a quarry and a bagpiper en route on our 10th anniversary event! (check the website http://www.cvmbc.co.uk for the video(s)

Most folk see this as pretty good value for their entry fee, yet I still get comments about “paying £17 to ride stuff I can ride anytime for free”. Fair enough I suppose, each to their own. All the money raised goes to a couple of local worthy causes too, none of us make a single penny out of it personally. It was my idea originally and I just want as many folk to come along as possible and have a great time, whilst helping us raise some funds.

I’d have been out of the bloody door whether she was stood there or not. In the same way that I played football and cricket for years before I turned to bikes. She’s got you by the bollocks and she loves to squeeze them – it’s time for a talk.

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Regardless of the thread title and WCA’s protestations, inevitable bellendery is inevitable.

Think I’ve tried to watch them all over the years, and doubt I’ve got past half an hour of any of them. Utter bobbins.

The alcohol obsession is also prevalent in many of the magazine articles. You’re telling us about the riding – we don’t need to know that you had a drink every night and had to pedal off the effects every morning. It’s almost like the riding has to be rubber-stamped by the drinking and the drinking has to be justified in some way. So what?
I don’t have anything against drinking at all, I just choose not to very much these days. I think I’ve had two pints since NYE. It’s also been implied before that ‘it’s a shame you aren’t drinking, you won’t be able to enjoy yourself’. The same folk are happy to get a lift home in the car that I’m driving though…
The club rides on a Sunday morning already have me on the rivet for 80 miles or so and there’s no chance at all that I’d stay on board if I’d had a few drinks the night before.

‘Mad Man’ Moore
‘Bummer’ Pearson (allegedly)
‘Daddy’ Ford
‘Death Breath’ Hoskins
‘Buck’ Rogers
‘Cozy’ Powell
‘Shakespeare’ Hughes
‘Bobby’ Branch
‘Farmer’ Webley
‘Granny’ Pearson
‘Billy Goat’ Robinson
‘Noddy’ Horne
‘Willy’ Rishton
‘Jimmy Tarbuck’ Pitchforth
and ‘Aspirin Annie’, the school Matron.

More downhill speed? Just change the front ring for a bigger one – sticking a 42 on the back isn’t going to make the 11 any smaller!

No worries, was a bit of a long shot. Good luck this year – keep us updated on your results, it’s great following someone’s progress like the ‘Credible 4th Cat’ road race thread last year.