Though you could dare question how much energy exactly can be lost in a stiff shoe. Must be miniscule.

Buy £100 worth at a time so qualifying for 50% off with CRC off the next £100?

Oh I see…

That shit at the top of each thread…

Hang on then…..

DONE!

lol

I must be so old and out of touch I have no idea of what you mean by tag?

er.. what tags?

…I can barely use my mobile phone…

It’s windy for Reading, Berkshire here..

But nothing like the wind I grew up with on the Norfolk Coast by the North Sea….

I don’t like cycling in the wind.. unless it is pushing me..

You could get inventive with some double sided tape…

I have an original magicshine battery (2s2p and 4.4ah) that is still going strong 2 years and over a hundred charges later. I get 3 hours on high with the P7 C Bin (original magicshine). However, if I put my Gemini (Bikeray) or Sub66 P7 D bin lighthead on this battery I get significantly shorter run times. For the D bins I use the (2s3p) 6.6Ah battery packs I got with my Sub66. Perhaps irrelevent. Sorry.

So, er, yes. Your battery sounds bad.

Thanks aracer and others..

I shall try some arch support insoles. Also I will try to move the cleats back like my links suggest?

Plantar fascitis makes you hobble like an old man…. 🙁

These are interesting..

http://www.livestrong.com/article/192414-cleats-foot-pain/

and

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/cgi-bin/gforum.cgi?post=2640227;

I might try an insole and maybe try moving the cleat backward..

http://www.jimlangley.net/crank/cleats.html

Wiggle used to be a good alternative to CRC.. then I percieved less bargains and an upping of prices such that they never seemed better value for pretty much everything… and I have rarely visited since.. that was about 8 years ago?

I have the Shimano DX pedal in the picture. I like them but I wouldn’t want to ride them with trainers for long or if I had drunk a pint!

The support aspect is overrated since the stiffness of most cycling shoes doesn’t really allow you to benefit from that extra support imho. I like my Shimano 540 pedals just as much as my DX pedals, and they are hard to tell apart in use with a typical pair of shoes ime. The difference is 200g.

I think the problem is with the stiffness whilst riding. I do recall seeing a medical paper online (bookmarked somewhere…!) that did set out to explore how stiff cycling shoes put undue stress on the plantar/arch of the foot.

I think it’s because the shoes offer very little arch support and don’t allow the natural flex of the foot, hence large pedalling loads can flatten the foot.

I’d love to know the real weights, not with gear, actual bodyweights of the flows’ users.

Six stone twelfty.

I prefer to drink a can of K cider before my bike rides on the road. T’is illumniating as to the depth of my hatred for people and cars.

Though I will slow down for pigeons.

blah blah blah flows

flow fanboys

My EN521 makes the flow (little f) look like an ickle starter bike, with wheels without eyelets and flobba dobba spoke tension. Great, if you are nine stone twelfty.

Hype.

lowering rent = lowering property value = less collateral for raising loans and gambling on the stock market lowering rent = lowering property value = less collateral for raising loans and gambling on the stock market

Since banks can and do lend 10-500 times what they actually “have” in reserve (aqs deposits by depositors), we can see that is only part of the horror story.

Banks lend money they do not have. You pay back that money (they never had) plus interest. The majority of money in circulation is actually debt money created by private banks. Only some 4% of our money is cash and coin created by the government.

We are all slaves to private bankers.

It is most certainly a tenant raping world (in the UK and elsewhere) for most of us. We have generations that will never own a house even a 1/3 or half the size of their parents’ house. And we make **** all. Some of us with jobs will sometimes pay £3 for a cup of coffee though, from the many coffee houses that moved into the lots vacated by real shops.

It’s also a world where if most of were made redundant tomorrow, most of us would still be without employment in six months time.

MADE IN CHINA

Interesting video

I like how that fat bitch is still squawking about ‘where were you?”

I did appreciate the chap who caused the accident stopping and making it clear he was in the wrong.

Cycling on our roads is precarious.

Can I assume we have the right to ask for insurance details in an accident where a driver is in the wrong? Like a lot of you, I spent a few k on bikes.

The roads freak me out. Drivers freak me out.

Yep.. sky high rents are forcing lots of businesses out of business…

That’s the problem with an economy like ours that makes jack shit and so just buys slave labor Chinese made stuff. Our economy for over fifteen years was mostly powered and propped up by ever increasing house prices and rents. And the banks that lent money they never had…..

If you are having to make £300 to £1500 per week just to pay rent….. where does the profit come from?

Raleigh Shopper.

Or maybe an Activator in Orange. Or one of those M-Trax’s with a titanium front triangle or one of those fancy Saracen Killi sometings.

Is this joke funny yet?

Raleigh TomahawK?

Is thwre a right answer?

Nurse!

Eyelets maybe a good idea, but if you weigh eleven stone perhaps not necessary.

So buying a FSA BB30 chainset 175mm 104/64 reduced from more than £200 to £60.. only for the 3 rings to go on my Shimano SLX at some point..

Not a silly idea. Total compatibility right?

Don’t need to. I make people hate me (and cyclists in general) by approaching with the march of the Hope Pro2.

Though I used to have a Cat Eye dinger.. it wasn’t a ring, ringer.. just a pull back and dinger….!

Come on it’s the truth.. just turning left or right at a roundabout on a bicycle.. even if you follw every rule, drivers will not treat you with the respect they give other vehicles. It is British to use the car to intimidate. It is British to get angry in the car.

It is something about the British psyche, particularly at the moment.

A significant number of British drivers are anti-bicycle and so use their car as a means to bully or intimidate cyclists. Some of the insane traffic calming methods like ‘pinches’ also make commuting dangerous. I have realised that it is pointless to be militant about cycling (it’s you who will come off worse in any accident that results) and pointless to expect a change in attitude from British drivers. I have also realised that I wouldn’t be able to commute to work safely were it not for my illegal use of the pavement. The pavement is there when dozens of cars are not budging an inch on tiny narrow roads. The pavement is there when I need to catch my breath. The pavement is there when I need to recover my senses from a near miss or just get it together after the sheer madness of rush hour. The pavement is there when I don’t feel safe.

I live in Reading. Cycling to commute here is **** SH1T. Really dangerous with virtually no cycle paths and crap cycle paths.

The car is king, a really fat oafish selfish **** of a king who wants to brake your bones with his BMW or VW Golf and the government allows it.

I used to enjoy riding with Wheely Good Bikes, Uxbridge. They were a great laugh and a real interesting collection of people. Not seen or heard of a club like that since that shop closed… so I is on my own innit.

Become very popular to knock Avids yet the Juicy was probably the best brake of its time. It’s testament to that formula design, that the Juicy is still with us, what.. 8 years since it first appeared?

I am still a fan of Hayes, from the Stroker Trail onwards they offer lots of power and a lovely firmness with the right bleed.. having said that, with time I became fond of the slighlty less firm feel of the Avids, though I am def interested in the new Avids with the repositioned bleed port that supposedly does away with the slight inconsistency in bleeding and feel of previous Avids…

I too would like a Hope brake to add to my collection of British bits.. but I’m waiting for the M4 to evolve into something with a little more power.. when it is Saint like, I will be interested.

I think the magicshine/bike ray (titan), and clone lights from china are a bargain. I have several. Only one of the chargers has gone belly up out of four, which is accepatble to me. The magicshine charger I have has done a hundred charges for sure…

I once rode, for a stretch, in Acle, at 42mph. This was on a 1992 or 1993 GT Outpost weighing some 35lbs or so.

Pity the Sanderson’s aren’t in the sale…. 🙁

Could do with another project…

I would imagine the whole idea of green oil vanishes when you use no tubes and the gubbins that squirts over the trails..

Hey can anyone help me identify which adapters I need to run the new Elixir X9? I run Pikes up front 20mm and want an 8in IS on rear.

Is an XML T6 about the same brightness as a D bin P7?

Hey can anyone help me identify which adapters I need to run the new Elixir X9? I run Pikes up front 20mm and want an 8in IS on rear.

I just this minute pulled the trigger on a D bin P7 Gemini (Bike Ray 2). Lighthead only. Only £33 inc delivery from the USA.

It will be my 3rd P7, two D bins and a C bin. I don’t need that many lights, but I have bought several battery packs and light sets and lightheads for the price of one supposedly German or UK made light. For this money the Chinese lights are a bargain. I should add an XML T6 at some point. Quite like the look of the 2 x XML Inton.

I should add I splash a lot of money out on UK made bits. But on lights you’d have to be seriously rich to buy several again supposedly UK or German made lights.

Another question perhaps where one of the answers is that you don’t have to restrict yourself to one bike. Having an AM Full Suss has made me better on the hardtail I ride most of the time again now. I love both, but the hardtail gets monday to friday use and the full suss is now just weekends.

Have at least two bikes I reckon. If I could afford six or seven I would.

I have a 3xXPG Magicshine lighthead only (frome Ebay) that I pair up with one of several batteries I have lying around. That light is a big spread, not much of a spot.. nice light.. I have a P7 C Bin light that looks exactly like the original Magicshine, in same box, but no Magicshine logo anywhere… that has been great for 3 years of a lot of use.. I also have a light sold as a Sub66 that is a D bin P7. This light is noticably brighter than the C bin Magicshine? clone? I have no idea which factory this light came out of but I got it from that torchythebatteryboy on ebay who is a very fair and good seller who backs his items up.

Anyway.. they have all impressed me.

So normal to go two sizes up sometimes?

I was thinking of going 2012 X7 or X9 instead….