I got this after doing hard interval sessions.

Cold shower for 1 minute seemed to help.

PP if you do reply you could just use the last line from what you wrote above, i.e.

” I would have probably made an offer on it, but you were such a prick you can keep it.”

cool

I got a £3k bike for £1.6k. Happy with that. Just have to do the training to justify having it.

Andrew I saw that as I was standing with you and it definitely wasn’t in the spirit of things….

Also my mate had a nice bike taken off his roof rack on the Sat night. Cable cutters through the 1/2inch cable lock. Still if you leave a nice bike on a roof overnight at bristol you might expect it to go.

Anyway apart from these niggles it was a bit of a classic bikefest in the sun. Loved my laps and the atmosphere at our bike down the bottom straight was excellent.

Rickon don’t forget I’ll be wanting a few hot laps out of you on the sat as well as your sunday solo. You’ll be getting a bash of your own encouragement stick if you’re not careful! :D

also bike, car and toolbox now pimped with loco tuning stickers…

Hi Scott
What happened to the Cairngorms? Anyway Aberfeldy is a great place. I know some peeps up there so can put you in touch.
cheers Jonny

Stevey W, YES!

Definitely worth waiting for.

haha, “or so”……….

Yes was a good event that had a little bit of everything.

I think the marshals did really very well. Signs were being moved as the ride was in progress and they were having to react to the changing situation with riders getting lost on golf courses and on main roads. For someone to give up their Sunday is one thing, but to have to deal with all of the problems is something else. I’d like to say thanks to the organisers and all of the volunteers as I really enjoyed the riding despite the problems.

The course was quite old skool in nature, lots of fireroad and country lanes and tracks. Cupcakes and lucozade at the finish was appreciated!

Try to get some bars with a bit of sweep then. Should be able to get some 2nd hand from the classified for not too much cash. I might have a flat set with a decent sweep on them in the shed somewhere which you could have for a tenner – I’ll check.

what did i tell u?! :D

pdf?

10 minutes if you ride the dyfi

When i started biking (1995) i had zero degree bars, and then later 5deg sweep bars. These days most bars have a bit more sweep on them, so that the angle of the bars is more in line with how your wrists sit relative to your arms.

Grips/bars/gloves/bar height and distance from the saddle all have an effect so you need to experiment a bit to find out what works for you. Personally i think bars with a bigger sweep back would help. Grips like ergon or cheaper specialized equivalents effectively let you hands sit at a more natural angle. Old skool bar ends did this too.

weather won’t be that bad i’m sure….

Does HONC course mean fast and furious?

Ok good, so it is a decent course. Any idea how long is a lap and how much climbing per lap?

Yes Knights of the Jaguar – good call! :D

Making my sunday afternoon working much more bearable.

Booka shade, body language album

and

Laurent Garneir, the man with the red face

Pantha du Prince,

I rode a GT recently and was pleasantly surprised. :D

Better choice for the OP than something like a prince albert which is more of trail bike than an xc machine?

the best GT you can afford. The triple triangle is good and makes for a comfy ride but still sharp up the hills.

So what brands does Diageo own or brew?

[checks website]
Bloody loads of nice whiskeys
http://www.diageo.com/en-row/ourbrands/categories/spirits/Pages/Whiskey.aspx

and beers are guiness, tusker, harp, redstripe.

oooh nice bike munrobiker!

you could try drilling out some of the excess material from the components. Like the cranks and stem :D

no where has rock quite like the Dyfi though!

CRC Selkirk round is a great course too. And there is one at marshbrook soon which may or may not be an awesome course (new for CRC marathons)

loose headset?

Not good.

Catch up soon with you and z

Jonny

For eating, I use a mix of gels and solids like nuts/rasins + nutrigrain elevenses bars (loads of carbs, low fat, tasty) or soreen malt loaf (again carbs, low fat, small).

Interesting about making your own drinks. I haven’t done it yet but know i could save a small fortune doing it.

I tend to do longer endurance type races, not the shorter xc stuff.

For carbo loading, in the 2 days leading up to a big race I will have a big pasta meal and another meal with lots of carbs (like rice or potatoes). Also will eat some porridge or more cereal than usual for brekkie.

On the race day morning, I’ll have porridge, or cereal plus some beans on toast (no butter). If it’s a long race, I might have some meat, like trimmed bacon, for the protein content.

Normally, I just try to eat a well balanced diet, not too many fats or sweets, and not too many carbs either. have lost a fair bit of weight recently by doing this and doing lots of cycling. Plus have got a lot faster on the bike.

yeah would be good for a few.

shortest questionnaire i’ve ever done!

Hosepipe for washing it

Well i was thinking we could save money by some of the following:
– only taking broadband, not phone line or tV
– taking an 18month contract and paying it upfront over 12 months
– because I had it before, the line is installed, so therefore I don’t need the installation fee and they should take that off

This is my mate Dougie, who does a lot of outdoors type photography as well as the wedding stuff. Sure he can be flexible around packages:
http://leadinglinesphotography.net/category/photography/wedding/

His blog is well worth a read as well.

Stupid aussie/kiwi macho inbreds, innit!

I’ll be doing the 12 hr – my first solo.

Nice warm cabin waiting for me.

I’ll be riding afan tomorrow morning and margam (the surrounding valleys) all day Sunday.

Fortunately they’ve cut down most of the trees up afan.

What chain guides do you lot use?

Don’t on-one have a nice basic one that attaches to the seat tube?

Yes. I’m entered for the 12

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