competitive cyclist are excellent

Pete

The Grove Car Park

Get there about 1145 and there should be a couple of people setting up. Bring a table if you have one!

B&B rather than hotel – slap bang in the middle of Bath – rather lovely:

Three Abbey Green

My Sultan is mahoosively high when I'm not sat on it. a saddle that is 40" from the pedals on unweighted suspension would smack most of you lot under the chin.

Oury for the comfort and black knobbly niceness.

I'm curious – do the inhabitants of stw-world see the annual 2 weeks foreign holiday in the sun as a right?

I never had a foreign holiday as a kid and believe I got a far better idea of the UK because of those domestic holidays. Were my parents bad people for not taking me to a scabby resort and getting whammed on cheap drinks for a fortnight each year? I need to know so I can change my views!

If they were Scottish they would never give it to some immigrant English bloke – that would be careless.

Richard and Nicholas Crane – Journey to the Centre of the Earth or Bicycles up Kilimanjaro. Both real 80s adventures before it was really trendy to do so.

Cycling clothing is made for malnourished labrats – XXXL is something puny like a 46" chest. Large isn't as big as it used to be, XL is smaller and few people even make t-shirts in XXL never mind carry stock. Gloves I have scored on, but the rest mostly don't exist.
The American companies tease us with their 23" bikes and XXL frames on their websites, then don't import them.

YES SPECIALIZED – I'M LOOKING AT YOU!

Cannibal Corpse
Sham 69 (controversial when a certain cockernee lead singer almost incites a riot by being a cockernee throbber – in Newcastle)

Clink – there was a custom 29er builder – but he couldn't make it work. Doesn't even post here any more.

Could there be a half way house on this? Custom made rather than bespoke? A bit like the suit makers – your dimensions get sent off to a factory and it is made up there rather than you dealing with the tailor in his shop.
The factories in Taiwan can make the prototypes that get made for testing etc – could On One / Ragley etc get bikes fabricated along those lines? Perhaps a range of dimensions that could be chosen from? I dunno – seems vaguely possible to me.

Have you thought about magnetic ones so your van isn't a 24/7 thieving scrote target?

So which educational holiday destination are you taking your future binman to then?

Medium size panniers.

Yet if a natural phenomenon like snow stops your kids teachers getting to school, you are there with a pitchfork and 20 feet of rope.

Your kids would have as much fun in a caravan near Skegness as they would on your expensive trip out of the designated holidays.

mudpup junior after all those summer holidays during term time – they stood him in good stead for adult life

Practice with spds then – it is second nature after a while. You did learn to drive a car? Can taking your foot off a pedal be harder than that? Really?

Just get the SPDs with a pedal cage around them. Oh – back off the SPD tension too. Or MTFU.

http://www.ergonomics4schools.com/lzone/anthropometry.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropometry

I'm glad my teachers had to do proper research for my lessons and not just STW a SWAG of an answer.

Crack on – I'm sure junior will thank you for picking the expensive foreign holiday (rather than a cheaper option) over his education in the long run. Yes – that'll be the best for him and no doubt.

I'm pretty happy someone qualified has to transport that nasty stuff:

eg a 2 part colour developer is:

UN 1719 8 Caustic alkali liquid, n.o.s.

HAZMAT Class 8 = Corrosive Substance.

If you want dangerous chemicals delivered to your door, I want them moved safely.

Probably more Carriage of Dangerous Goods, but I get what you mean.

Amadeus.net is good for that sort of thing.

Find a physio that cycles before wasting money on something that might not correct your particular problem. What is comfortable might just be masking the issue and cause other problems. Get professional advice rather than trying to fix yourself – you are not objective enough or, guessing here, trained in physio issues.

The trouble I find with maps is that you need to know where you are – which by definition is difficult when your lost.

Prevention is better than a cure. If you get lost (and you shouldn't), then a dead GPS will have you double-knackered rather than a map and compass and a little bit of awareness.

Karin – you are obviously lucky to have so many trails you don't know yet are marked on a map that you need a GPS to ride them all. I'm not anti-technology(I have and use a GPS), but using a map and riding 'heads up' means I get to know an area much quicker and put it all into context. Then I don't need to refer to anything to know how and where everything joins up.

When you say Pathfinder do you mean Explorer or Landranger map?

Orang – I've had 2 other tall riders from here try my XXL Turner Sultan and neither of them could find that ponderous slow thing you mention. They could feel it a bit on my 3 year old Scandal with old geometry forks. You've tried very much XC and probably older generations of 29er – they have moved on pretty quick what with changes in fork trail etc.

You could always write the route down as a strip map or something similar. Low tech and it works.

When you finish, brush a sand/cement mix into the joints – then use a watering can to soak the joints. Then let dry.

MAP HOLDER

fifteen poonds is a lot cheaper than your gps solution. But that won't be cool enough will it?

Yo do have rim tape on the rims too don't you?

What pressure are you running the tyres at? Also – any grease or anything on the tyre / wheel interface? What size tubes then?

you could, potentially, have a dirtworker

yes, yes – of course you would. Crack on then.

bulkpowders unflavoured stuff – great value and just mix it with the flavour drops or with fruit etc.

Forget 'various guides' and read

http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=75

It will talk you through the limit screws etc. You need to set them for each bike, so it sounds as if you missed that out when you installed.

er, slick tyres? Lock? Lights? Commute bag?

Has anyone else mentioned the inability to multi task? One thing at once – thats not really very good is it? No booting up, but one thing at a time after that. Poopy indeed.

robdob – Member
Typing is the best thing ever, I can type just as fast on my iPhone as I can on a full size computer, almost……

Thats great. For you. On the other hand, I can use both hands and most of my fingers when I type, which means I can use a real keyboard properly. Therefore, no comparison.

I like the unibody construction as a reason why it is of robust construction. That just means it is (essentially) not repairable and another example of poor design to satisfy disposable society. It will sell and lots of people will buy it as they 'need' it. Just like lots of people 'need' an iphone. Clever marketing indeed.

rs – Member

back to your cave tootall

For not wanting something so limited in capability, flexibility, connectivity, interface and overall use? If that is troglodyte tendencies then I'll be in the corner trying to make fire.

Yes – I want something that is a pain to browse on (no mouse), a pain to type on (no keyboard), can only connect to what apple want me to connect to and can only run what apple want me to run and is bigger than an iphone but with the functionality of an itouch and is a wee bit delicate.

Sign me up right now :roll:

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