Another Lezyne flow user here and like above never lost a bottle. Infact I had to stop using a pair of elite bottles as they where too tight in the cages.

What do you call a man with a sea gull on his head? Cliff

What do you call a man with a car on his head? Jack

What do you call a man with a spade on his head? Doug

panaracer gravelking SK or SS (semislick)

Stock up on tubeless plugs if you’re using Gravelking SK

I lie on the road end of the spectrum too, mainly for the pockets

I’ve been using Apex x1 for around 14 months, I’ve covered 4000+ faultless kilometers so far a mix of on road and off.

There’s a sign on a farm entrance in the Yorkshire Dales that says:
Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.

Welcome to Yorkshire.

There’s a sign on a farm entrance near Haigh Hall that says:

No entrance to field
unless you can out run a bull

I know 2 people that have had a recently. Both mildly, infact one of them dropped me last weekend towards the end of a 5 hour road ride after isolating for seven days a rest week

My current dog is a ball of anxiousness, he’ll only respond to people calling him if he knows them and actually likes/trusts them otherwise they get completely ignored. My last dog would listen to anybody as strangers which just friends he’d never met.

So, Russia are closing in on a couple of nuclear power plants in the south of the country. Theoretically, what would happen if they were targeted by missiles, would they go up or are they fairly safe from that sort of bombardment.

The Russians wouldn’t be closing in on them if they wanted to destroy them, they would do it from a safe distance. Most likely they want to capture the power stations

As a young wee whippersnapper I got a lift fishing from my mum, I obviously wasn’t that careful putting my fishing tackle in the car as by the time I’d reached the lake and set-up my pint of maggots had somehow become a half pint of maggots. Apparently half a pint of maggots when hidden under the lining of a car boot will happily turn into casters and then into flies in roughly a week and when the car boot is opened the flies will, en masse, take the opportunity to escape in something resembling a biblical plague. I got in a world of trouble for that.

I seem to do a mix of everything suggested.

I carry a bottle of isotonic energy drink for sipping when eating isn’t an option. At the start of the ride I tend to eat more complex carbs like cereal/breakfast bars, flapjacks or rice cakes. Towards the end of a ride I eat more sugary things so stuff like fruit, jelly beans and jelly babies. I always take a caffeine gel as an emergency get out of jail free card.

Most of the rides from my door that feature major sections of tow path or gravel path I’m quicker on my gravel bike than a HT but who cares? Is it a race? If I have 3 hours to ride and the bike I’m riding is quicker I go further and if the bike I’m riding is slower then I don’t go as far but I’ll be having happy fun bike time for roughly three hours regardless of what bike I’m on.

I can’t deadlift 5×5 it’s simply too much for me and I don’t recover well, so I do just one working set but warm up well for it. I also struggle to deadlift when I’m doing any kind of cycling intensity or big hours in the saddle it’s just too much.

For my lower body, when cycling lot, I prefer to to pair front squats with stiff-legged deadlifts on the same day and do them twice a week. I also find it easier to recover from high reps with two working sets than doing 5X5. I tend to follow a pattern of adding a rep a week and after five weeks increasing the weight by 2.5kg if I make all reps, if I fail just one rep then I repeat the cycle at the same weight. So something like

100×8 x2
100×9 x2
100×10 x2
100×11 x2
100×12 x2 then

102.5×8 x2
1025.5×9 x2 etc

Upper body I tend to bench, row, shoulder press, chin-ups and rear delt fly following the same reps. Again twice a week.

If it’s proving a struggle to keep up then I’ll drop to one working set or a heavy day and light day.

In the winter I use a tool keg in one bottle cage and carry a 1L bottle in the other. In warmer, drier conditions I tend to take two bottles and a use a saddle bag. Food, keys and phone are carried on me

$250k

Hmmm, shall we start a Gofundme page?

Have a look in the geometry and see which fits better Linky.

I bought two pairs of sealskinz waterproof socks in the winter of 2017 and I’m still wearing them this winter and they’re still waterproof. Expensive but I’ve had warm, dry feet for five years whilst out riding in winter.

Another hexus fan here

On my ride today I was forced out of the cycle lane and onto the road, potentially blocking the road to emergency services, by cars parked in the cycle lane. Would kate.dennett be interested in my story?

I’ve been using 32mm GP5000 on the rear and a 23mm on the front.

But why?

Road bike mullet. Aero at the front comfort at the back.

Running GP5000’s with tubes. Grippy, fast and a surprisingly tough tyre. I’ll get a puncture today saying this but I don’t get enough punctures on road to make tubeless tyres worth the hassle.

My feet when measured are EU 43. My summer shoes are Northwave and a 44 but my Northwave winter boots are a 45. I did try a 44 in the winter boots but they where just a hint too narrow

Viruses are competing for hosts in order to reproduce, think on a population level not an individual level.

Have you tried smaller meals but more regular?

My current boxer is a fussy eater but once started he’ll eat well. He eats dry food but often needs a little something on top to get him started so I add things like kippers, chicken, tuna, raw tripe etc. Variety also seems to be key

I only ‘stockpile’ consumables so in stock currently I have chains, brake pads and rotors, cables, bar tape and set of tires. I tend to operate a one in one out policy

I listen to a lot of radio 4, either live or more often podcasts.

Spacehopper – you couldn’t really do anything on it other than shuffle around

I crossed the Alps on a space hopper

I’ve been using one of these and apart from the cheap bar mount, I ended up buying one of these and using the light with the supplied go-pro mount, hard to fault.

Ahh a government trying to protect it’s citizens, bastards.

If anyone thinks that what is happening in Austria at the moment is a good thing, then you have certifiably lost the plot

The surge in Coronavirus cases or full nation lockdown or mandatory jabs or the likely protests against mandatory jabs?

Care to offer some more information rather than an ambiguous post?

EDIT
Took too long

This?

Sweet spot intervals

Years back a mate would fly to the US with an old cheap set of golf clubs. Once in the US the clubs would be thrown away and a brand new set of clubs would be bought and brought back to the UK. As far as customs where aware one set of clubs left the country and one set came back.

I’m an eu size 43 with a relatively wide foot, my current cycling shoes are by Northwave in a size 44 and they feel like they where made to measure.

If it helps; according to the back of a pack of 16g CO2 cyclinders I picked up at the weekend a 28mm tyre will reach 87 psi.

I use the Decathlon ones with a flip lid, does a decent enough job of keeping the crap off. Cheap and available in different sizes too.

I’m a happy decathlon bottle user too.

I use these and I hate wellies too. I find them comfortable to walk in, completely water proof and really warm.

They’d let us back tomorrow but it would be without the rebate and we would have to join the monetary union

Can someone explain spare money please?

Money that’s not spent on bikes or bike related stuff

Yes wiggle do cut the steerer, the last bike I bought from wiggle was supplied with 20mm below the stem and 5 or 10mm above the stem.

You could ask them to be more generous