Left alone for most of the day.

when and how long?

if you are getting a pup this isn’t really achievable.

a 2 month old pup will want to piss/shit about once an hour…

3 HUGELY differing breeds there. need to think about your requirements a bit more IMO.

nobby +1.

standard behaviour for my lab.

lovely dogs. like a big shaggy labberdabber really.

i don’t buy into the different colours of dogs making them more/less intelligent.
my yellow lab (working lines) was born to two browns… so how would that work?

one thing though…

hence the want for a small

have you seen many in the flesh? our lab was/is MASSIVE for his age, but was dwarfed by a labradoodle (same age) at puppy training classes.

i’ve never seen a small one. I’d expect 30-35kg+ at a rough guess.

cheers team. have sent mtb batteries a mail via their website.

some lads int he states have done similar to what i want…

http://forums.mtbr.com/lights-diy-do-yourself/disassembling-niteflux-photon-max-battery-653436.html

but they rebuilt the old pack,and i’d rather a whole new one…

No they have to get it in from orange. Orange charge 50 for a days hire and i have to pay the £20 carriage

and then the LBS’s blame CRC.

Very nice, I hope they didn’t leave it on the shop floor for long though, the amount of muppets I see pressing Di2/EPS buttons on stationary bikes in shops makes me cry

if pressing the buttons is gonna break it then i wouldnt want it…

Given the amount of time and effort involved to produce the magazine and site on an ongoing basis, the cost of a 1/4 pint of beer per week is one of the best deals that most of us will ever see.

i fear we are all possibly missing a major point.

if a magazine needs to charge £9 an issue then they need to walk down to their advertising dept and kick some arses.

the meeeeja distribution model in its ideal format would almost allow free subscriptions (to boost circulation numbers), as advertising is (or should be) the main income generator.

this is how it has worked for newspapers for generations… seems much more logical than pushing towards £10 an issue!

i wouldn’t want to associate my business with it.

whether you agree with CM or not, a good percentage of your punters may not…

bosh. where was that pic taken al? too late to change flights?

For the sheer heck of it.

manly and reckless

double swoon

I always enjoy it when someone much younger on a road bike or mtb passes me on my commute having written me off as a slow ponderous MAMIL. The nervous checks over the shoulder to be sure they’ve dropped me, which they haven’t, the cranking up through the gears to escape, which they don’t, the honking to make a break, which fails, the subtly relaxed body language on the downhill as they open up a bit of a gap when I hit max rpm, and the decidedly tense body language when I pass them on the next climb still doing max rpm.

swoon

I love it how people who’ve never ridden one have such an issue with them. Going up hill is never really a problem but man alive does it kill you on the way down. Bloke in my office who I sometimes ride home with rides fixed through the winter – 35 miles each way. Watching him go down hills is an art form, 160rpm plus is something to behold….I couldn’t walk properly for days.

this. to say fixed is no harder than ss makes me think folks haven’t ridden fixed.

going down/lack of coasting just tears you to shreds!

It does nothing for your fitness that riding singlespeed doesnt do. When going downhill your leg muscles are more often than not, REacting, not Acting. I’ve watched the heart rate monitor, I train with power on the geared bike. I know when effort is going in and when it isn’t.

i’ve heard some crap on here, but this is impressively nonsensical.

as was this…

“Eddy Merckx won the Tour de France in the 80s like six times on a fixed-gear.

a man spent a lot of time, effort and money turning his garden into the ideal habitat to encourage rare songbirds

I’m not enticing them,

ummmmm

i have no idea what that post means.

p.s. Top Tip, chant “Pedal, Pedal, Pedal” constantly for your first few rides.

ha! no need. the epic fear of the first time you forget will mean you never forget again!!!

If the cat was doing what came naturally, it would be chasing mice in North Africa, not killing goldcrests in my wood!

and where would the birds be if you hadn’t enticed them in?

hero.

get a dog.

Fixies make sense to me when all corners are banked (i.e. on a velodrome). Everywhere else they seem a bit of a liability!

‘proper’ (as in designed to be) fixeds have higher BB.

dont see the point in fixed offroad. i predict pedal strikes and crashes.

tracknicko +1

Same as anti-cycling motorists who always go on about the Lycra wearing Red Light jumpers endlessly, whether that’s representative or not

cheers. it just seems very ironic for mountain bikers to take the piss out of other cyclists on the basis of fashion.

have we (collectively) taken a look at ourselves recently???

glass houses and all that.

its a legitimate training methodology for winter road riding, with a simpler bike and much more tiring riding.

or.. it offers simplicity and ruggedness for couriers, commuters etc.

or.. it’s bought into by a few ponces that wear ridiculous kit, ride their bike twice a year, and push it round the rest of the time.

and yet option 3 is the one everyone jumps on. but what aspect of sport doesnt have ponces? in fact option 3 could describe downhillers, 90% of the riders at glentress, ‘pump track’ builders etc. etc.

they interviewed some of our local residents about the new LED lights on look north.

i hung my head in despair when hearing their thoughts on the matter.

it worries me that half of you lot ^^^ are on their side.

less light pollution, (they claim sheffield will no longer appear as an orange glow from the peaks at night) better directional control, reduced energy consumption, increased lifespan.

what’s not to like?

smeeee

heeee

bad for the chain otherwise

totally inconsequential mid race. when snot is crying out of your eyes, you just keep jamming through the gears. if i had to knock it into small ring and down the block then it would be game over.

agree with what you are saying in terms of wear rate, and angle of chain is grim for triples. but i regularly use either end of the block in either front ring when using a double chainset. – no ill effects so far.

And let’s face it, if you’re using the bottom 2 cogs of the cassette on your outer chainring, you REALLY need to shift to the inner ring and drop down the block a couple of ratios on the back!

FIRMLY disagree with this.

also… if you are genuinely struggling with 34/27 on hills then I’m sorry to say you aint Joe average!

up until not that long ago the old boys i ride with were rocking 42/23 and riding winnatts, monsal, and all the other character-filled hills we have round here.

EDIT: that sounded unnecessarily harsh, and i didn’t mean it to be.

i agree 11-28 is the way forward for the OP. particularly in less-gappy 11spd formation.

tamper sheffield.

now opening early morning and sundays for brunch.

starbucks round the corner just had to close due (i’ve heard) to business loss to tamper.

staggeringly good coffee. (try the flat white) lovely, interested and keen staff.

if you’re in sheff. head there.

*i don’t work there or owt. just when something good pops up, i think people should support it!

damn you people… this is golf! go back to your shanties!

oh hang on. it’s not. get over it.

SS is the obvious answer.

front mech trim is my problem with triples.

wider width at front means you cant run the entire length up and down the block, requiring more front shifts.

just not a very neat solution IMO.

i was touring it would be triple all the way (range and minimal gaps as you say) but for racing I can’t see them working too good.

as i said before. a grown man on a light bike should be able to handle standard 53/39 no bother when paired with an 11 or 12-28.
particularly if 11spd takes most the larger gaps out.

not buy new brakes ;)

nah i dunno mate. undercutting the competetion (and having stock) is what is making crc thrive.

I would agree with the above that more than a tenner a tyre to take off/refit is too much.

a tenner per tyre is too much.

£40??!??

edit: ahhh multiple cars.

ah well. such is life.

hmm. tis a bit more than 80 but i’m sure they would have sorted you a deal if you’d rung.

ah well. CRC win another one.

now where’s that letter fro the aussy bmx lad?

didn’t ring mtb-direct then?

shamesies.

one day it will just be tesco and crc left.

cut over strines and the other resis to get back to penistown.

LOADS of tracks out that way. pick up a map and go mad. nice to get off the well trodden routes…

not shit, but not as good. deffo worth waiting for new ones or sourcing elsewhere.

give col a ring at mtb-direct. good prices and UK based (levers right way round for a start)

no

good film. bit dark.