If you want to learn a few decent 2hr loops around the Hudds area, then turn up at Lockwood lights at 6.50pm on a Tues evening and join a Hudds Star Wheelers ride. There’s usually 3 or 4 groups of differing pace, so you can pick the one that suits your ability. Noobs get to ride with the Steady Eddies first up, which is the group that I take. No one gets left behind and we tend to average just either side of 14mph, depending on group composition and/or route. Once you’re comfy riding in an organised ‘train’ and are happy with the shouts and signals, then move up to a group that suits your pace better. We’re a friendly bunch and there’s often 40+ there each week, so a great way to make new riding buddies too. This is an open invitation by the way, and any reasonably fit rider will keep up on their mtb if they want to give it a go before splashing out on a road bike.

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I’m in Huddersfield and just setting off now. I might even get there before the start if the traffic’s ok…

Bin it. Please.

I agree with RD’s sentiments. I work for a trade supplier in the bike business and a lot of my time is spent on the phone taking orders or dealing with inquiries from bike shops. There’s some proper miserable buggers out there in customer-facing positions. It doesn’t take much effort to f/take a bit of interest in a new customer and if it were my shop then there’d be a metaphorical boot up the arse for anyone acting in the way that RD was treated.

I’m with Binners on this. Some of you lot don’t know what principles are. In the words of Jim Royle “Deliver the **** Sun in Liverpool? My arse…”

I’m still clinging onto third spot after a shocker in May. Just as I was starting to get to grips with some extra speed work I slipped on some wet steps and badly bruised some ribs. That cost me a fortnight, and I missed a full week due to the CVMBC too.
Was back on the club run today and managed a quick hundred out to Knaresborough and back. Things will drop again at the end of the month though, as I’ve Mayhem and a local MTB challenge last 2 weeks of June, followed by Le Tour first week of July.

Edit: yeah, what McMoonter said too.

Young Diggers has too much of a look of a ginner Terry Christian for this to be anything other than karma…

Well, at least that’s one potential rotational injury avoided…

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Blah blah etc

Hope Vision lights (not sure what the latest reason for mine failing again is)

Not being Toutified?

A previous girlfriend of mine used to follow my progress ‘live’ on Endomondo, when I first started long road rides. Not only would it have shown roughly where to come searching if the signal stalled in one place for an uncomfortably long time and any subsequent text/phone call went unanswered, but it was also useful for her to judge when to start getting ready to go out as I neared my return. :-)

Thanks. Perhaps I’m getting a bit too hung up about cadence and worrying about my potential to cramp.

I just wanted to understand why the difference, that’s all.
But how is a 42-11 bigger than a 44-11? Because of the wheel size?

Looks like Phil Clarke has taken a huge wrong turn?

I’m not claiming to be particularly fast (I’m sure there’s a few on here that will confirm that), but when I do ‘race’ I give it everything I’ve got and compared to most I spend a considerable amount of time in the big ring. I’m not trying to wave my willy about that fact, it’s just how I ride. The more spinning I do then the more susceptible to cramp I am, so I’ve developed a style that seems to suit me.

But, if say the events that you do are around 50/50 on road/off road and you want to maximise speed/time on the flat/easy bridleways/tarmac, then once you’re rolling the lower gearing would/could be considered a negative? Remember, I’m by nature a big ring masher and prefer a lower cadence. I know it sounds a bit specific, but the 44t already feels very low sometimes when I switch from road riding to the mtb.
Climbing is climbing, so I just find a suitable gear for the occasion and grit my teeth. It’s kind of irrelevant as long as I can keep going hard.

Cheers MSP. It’ll have to be a suck-it-and-see job then if I go down that route. It’ll be doubling as a CX bike too, but mainly round school playing field type courses where I’ll be expecting to be on the big ring quite a bit.

Edit: missed the next two replies as I was typing. Thanks.

A mate of mine always ‘baggsies’ No69 for the CVMBC each year.

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Brilliant just had a email from a guy who wanted a new road bike, again after sorting out size for him as he didnt know anything about road bike sizing, I get an email asking to price match chain reaction who have the bike reduced (but not in his size)
I cant match their price.
this is taking the edge off a great day yesterday

I work for a parts supplier to the bike trade. Occasionally I answer the phone to a bike shop enquiring about price/availability of Schwalbe tyres (for eg). I’ll check stock and quote them a price and they’ll say ‘Oh, so-and-so do them at £x.00’. I ask if the other company have got them in stock. The answer is always no (otherwise why would they be ringing me?). My stock reply is that our tyres are the same price as the other lots when we’ve none in stock too…

I had a genuinely awesome fortnight in Squamish/Whistler for my 40th.

I’ll be at my old school (Colne Valley High) for the next round on my MTB. As usual it’ll be bloody hard graft, but still lots of fun regardless.

Please:

Arrive early – parking is all on road and it does get tight.

Bring an already completed entry form and the correct money

Have a great time!! :D

I’ll be one of the expected 50,000 up Holme Moss, and I’ll be riding there.

Parking is all on road, so the earlier the better. If you can also bring an already completed entry form and the correct fee (£22.00) in cash then that will also save a lot of time too.

Don’t forget – we NEVER turn anyone away. If you want to ride, turn up on time with an already completed entry form and the correct fee in cash and YOU’RE IN!

Hey Sefton – if you’re doing the summer cx series at Colne Valley or New College then I’ll check if I get any spares left over!!

Bugger! Thanks.

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Schwalbe Durano Plus.

Well done Sefton – 50th is a top effort fella. I just failed to scrape in the top 100 (102nd), but I didn’t get lapped by a clubmate, which was my main objective.

No mate, an all black Kinesis Maxlight with rigid forks.

Great event this evening. It was tough going on the MTB though.

I’ll be riding as it’s also my ‘home’ event too (Hudds Star Wheeler), although I’ll be near the back on my MTB – black, rigid, Kinesis Maxlight 26er if you want to say hi. My sole aim is to avoid being lapped by a club-mate and I’ll be grafting like buggery in the process. CX is good fun, but by hell it hurts!

The Mission & Fields of the Nephilim double-header last December.
Would have been at NMA in Holmfirth on Thursday night but for work.

I wish my bikes were as ‘filthy’ as that…

Surely the limits and constraints of the space available will shift the focus from out-and-out speed to racecraft and tactics? It doesn’t have to be sheer speed that makes a race interesting.

Now now, nbt, jealousy is such an ugly emotion…

There’s no such thing as an ‘average’ Yorkshireman! :roll:

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/will-my-bike-collapse-and-kill-me-or-am-i-just-being-a-big-girl

Is this turning into a thread about who can come up with the most obscure bits of history, or do you REALLY think that some of these suggestions are worthy of the effort, and speculative investment, involved? I’m not convinced that a potential world-wide audience of one is enough for the industry’s movers and shakers to, erm, move and shake.