Orange San Diago[/url] comes with jelly bean now. Got one from the orange shop for £100 the other day and put a virgin payg sim in. Fast as any dual.

Does this mean a slew of cheap alu frames in the classifieds?

Brimham Rocks?

Would choose the cotic X over the roadrat, also available in green and disc. Salsa Vaya, Kaffenback and Croix der fer would fit the bill, the ones I’ve seen on here recently look nicer than the Kona.

surroundedbyhills wins hands down.

New phone next week might result in better pics.

Disk scrubbing?

Separate, you pay those bills I’ll these.

Joint accounts are a dangerous game.

You would though, wouldn’t you….

Built one of these up from spares when mine was about that age, they are really nice frames: Schwinn Mesa

Weird choice of chainset too

Not really, is fairly standard MTB gearing like you’ll find on a lot of tourers, 29ers (and used to on most hybrids), only works with STIs.

This is a more unusual alternative, Velo-Orange Grand Cru Cranks[/url] 46/30

Ride ur mtb in the middle ring, that’s what its going to be like with a compact, maybe worse with bigger wheels. Recommend asking the shop to fit a triple up front. If it’s flat barred you may as well get a deore mtb and matching thumb shifter and front shifter. If it’s drop bar go for a Stronglight Impact Triple, just fitted one of these to my tourer and its a joy to be able to ride up anything in the Dales without breaking a sweat.

You’ll need to budget for the LBS to do this before you pick up the bike, about £100, but it will be worth it for the versatility.

http://www.york.ac.uk/solar/ 🙂

Days out really are days outside, dogs mean year round picnics, dog sitters for hols. +s outweigh all that though.

Conti travel Contact?

Israel’s defense chief said Tuesday a Russian plan to supply sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles to Syria was a “threat” and signaled that Israel is prepared to use force to stop the delivery.

Israel to shoot at the Russians… That would be the beginning of the end for all of us or at the very least the end of Israel. If it wasn’t Obama in power I’d say the former.

Hayeswater.

Angle Tarn last night & this morning.

9 or 10 I’d say.

Valve caps?

V nice ninja build like the jap maple too.

Deore groupset + wheels in a deal. Frame and forks (immaculate) £40 each off ebay.

@Vapour touring – Wow you training him up for the TDF.

Came out better than expected for a muddy puddle.

Have an idea for rustyness so second that.

Halo Aerotrack or Velocity deep v come to mind.

Build it with breeze blocks and put shiplap on the outside. Or clad the whole inside with corrugated steel and rivet it together?

Junkyard + Europe is generally more progressive and the ‘old boys’ network doesn’t extend that far.

Use a Carradice zipped roll. Large enough for a small camera, light weight jacket, pump tools and squashed cheese sarnies. Small enough to stop you taking the kitchen sink. I’ve a Camper long-flap for tours and a Junior spare if your interested (£20), not used it because it’s bigger than I thought and I just the Camper instead. You need to splash out on a support but they work for all the bags.

Alternatively you can get a bar bag, which are about the right size, and find a seat post adapter to mount it on.

Build your own or buy the parts and get the LBS to .

In action:

I’d a netgear rangemax for years and it was superb. Replaced it with a >£100 Netgear dual band all singing and dancing fairly recently. Routinely drops the signal and has to be factory reset to fix it, port forwarding simply does not work, neither does ip assignment. Apparently Billion are good and Belkin are reliable.

Behind Tan Hill, highest windyest pub in Englandshire.

Peregrine.

Are the new Reynolds 725 CDF frames any lighter?

Kaffenback frame-set is lighter than / bout same as the Vaya.

I second the ‘good view’ suggestion.

First try of the Hamsterley skills loop on Jnr’s new bike.

Safe Cycling – The case for segregated cycle lanes in the UK

Apparently the UK has the fifth worst record in the EU for actively reducing cycling fatalities. We also have a disgraceful cycle rate when looking at the number of kilometres cycled per inhabitant per day when compared to countries like Holland, Denmark and Germany. For more information see an excellent study entitled “Making Cycling Irresistible: Lessons from the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany” published by Rutgers in July 2008, which found that evidence from countries with high cycling levels suggests that the key is the provision of separate cycling facilities along heavily travelled roads and at intersections, combined with residential street traffic calming.

A study by US researchers examined factors which contribute to major differences in cycling levels between the US, UK, and Holland, Denmark and Germany. This included a review of trends in cycling safety. Averaged over the years 2002 to 2005, the number of cyclist fatalities per 100 million km cycled was 5.8 in the USA and 3.6 in the UK, compared to 1.7 in Germany, 1.5 in Denmark, and 1.1 in Holland. Cycling levels have increased in Germany, Denmark and Holland over the past 35 years, whilst the total number of cycling fatalities has declined by over 70%. Fatalities fell by 60% in the UK over the same period, but cycling also decreased.

Judges allegedly get training on probability, cause and effect. Fact is cars and bikes sharing the same road is going to mean accidents, it’s a statistical certainty. More bikes and more cars is more accidents. And the severity of any sentences is just not going to change it. They know this and see most drivers, and cyclists involved, as just unlucky.

The real way way to tackle the problem is proper cycle lanes, not imaginary painted ones, proper lanes with a physical barrier. Like they’ve had across most of Europe for years…

Mine always do but I’ve caught one coming back from school a few times with it tied to his handle bars. The other day out with me he rode into the back of a parked car 🙄 , the helmet took most of the impact.

Not a happy ride today,

First time I manage to ride up Carlton Bank and I’m denied a bacon roll. Although had a decent view of the rain I was to ride back in to…

Just built up a brandx jump frame for my 11 year old, first ride out tomorrow. They certainly look the part. Discontinued on CRC but plenty on fleabay.

Or head north to Reeth, and follow the back roads up to Tanhill and back down the other side via Keld. Alternatively plenty of bridleways inside that loop. Some big climbs and well deserved descents.

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5904955

I’ve an almost mint 456 summer season 14″, Deore crankset, could include some (seen better day’s) bombers.

Is in lemon though. Open to offers.