Ah but oldgit, in those instances it’s to pre empt a slip before a fall.
The pros are doing it to lower the centre of gravity.

Some road pros are experimenting with the dangling leg option A La moto gp stylee.

Don’t fancy it myself!

Cow bell on Pen Y ghent was a nice touch.

You can only ride the bike upto the gate where the race turns right.

Anyone see the kid in the black and white (Genesis?) kit?
Gave him a tube on Pen Y Ghent so he could fix his FOURTH! puncture.
Kept seeing him all the way round at the side of the tracks with his tyre off.

Also big thanks to the guy who gave me a shove on the arse at top of Ingleborough when I missed my pedals! Much appreciated.

Anyone know who got airlifted off Whernside? and more importantly, if they’re ok?
Saw the pics of the big yellow winching the casualty off on Facebook last night.

Oh, and big well done to my far superior(than me) team mates in CROSSTRAX! Well done the boys.

There are issues!!!!

I spent a good hour on Saturday night trying to run a new gear cable down a friends Sram equipped road bike outers.
Would it hell as like go in!! 😥

I kept turning the inner cable, applying gentle pressure, cutting off the slightly splayed end, (again). It just wasn’t having it.

I tried several spare inner cables, then suddenly one just went straight in, no bother at all! 😮

Just as an experiment I bought two cables the next day, one from the place I’d bought the spare that fitted, the other from another local shop.

Lo and behold, one fitted, one didn’t!

On close examination, one was just slightly thinner than the other, but it made all the difference.

When it came to running new inner cables through her Shimano equipped road outers, anything and everything went straight in, no bother at all.

Aha! I had (have?) the exact same problem on the exact same crank!

Are you running spacers between the bottom bracket shell and the external bearings?
I found I had to play around with the spacing. Took me ages to work out why it kept coming loose.

Originally ran this chainset on my FSR with no problems, switched it to a Stumpjumper hardtail and it worked loose during a race.

Tightened it up afterwards and rode it without incident for about a month.Then I could feel play when I stood out of the saddle. Tightened it REALLY tight and loctited it. A week later it started to work loose again.
At which point I took the whole BB assembly to bits, got out the micrometer and all the BB spacers I owned and set about the perfect set up.

So far, two months down the line I’ve had no further issues.
I’d make sure the crank is as far on the splined axle as it is possible to get it then threadlok the bolt and tighten it up like your life depends on it.

Holy thread resurface batman!!

Was up there yesterday and noticed that new signs have appeared at Dick Hudsons gate entrance, Burley and Bingley moor gates also, stating no cycling!
For the purposes of my ride though….I never saw them.
I figured I was less invasive than the hordes of walkers sweeping round all the puddles anyway.

The three burials of Melquiades Estrada.
Hobo with a shotgun

and my current head mess of a film “Rubber”.

and if you like your new country to sound like good ole country then may I suggest Jamey Johnson, in his words, “Somewhere between Jennings and Jones”!

” He’s got the whooooole world…..in his hands, he’s got the whole wide woooooorld in his hands…………”

But two abreast riders are only as wide as a horse and everyone slows down and goes wide for horses…don’t they? Oh they don’t? hmmmm…….we don’t stand a chance then do we.
Single file on roads, pah! Indian style is the future! 😀

mikewsmith – Member

Yeh, go past the visitors centre and park jsut off the road on the right hand side at the end of the North Loop descent

Do not do this (Local Perspective here)
The Verge is getting Knackered
It’s dangerous – I have nearly taken out far too many half knackered bikers/stupid kids/idiot families up there who step out into the road
The money is what helps the whole thing going and not get the forests privatised
Meet in Braithwaite/Keswick and go up in 1 car

Ride from Keswick
Ride From Cockermouth

buy a years pass??
£50 including Grizedale so only 10 visits

by all means park on the right after the visitors centre, there is actually a parking spot at the end of the north loop for about 6 cars to pull off the road and park.
I was up there earlier in the week and the FC are starting to ticket cars with advisory no parking notices.

I’m not sure wether it’s entirely the mess that’s being made of the verges, the traffic chaos or all the six quids ebbing away that is bothering them the most!

It may be private land but the owner doesn’t mind! 😉

But they haven’t, so I dont!
Much in the same way I don’t think teddy bears are dangerous, probably because none of my family have ever ingested the fur and choked.

Just about anything can be dangerous,just as it can be perfectly safe also.

^^^^^^^^
Ah! at last the start of the organ donor/Reckless biker thread, took longer than I expected!

Such a shame, I actually like the front end!

Oldgit…..are you a Hobbit?

I know that Endura rider Scott Thwaites does 100 miles on a single “Trio”! (other small chocolate biscuits are available) and midwayround the Etape du dales it’s a bacon and egg butty!

Wouldn’t expect to eat too much in a domestic road race.If you ate right the night before and something well before the start then you should get round on a couple of gels and jelly tots (again, other sugary jellified sweets are available).

Used to have this in the garage, now that’s a blade!

We did Bladerunner for A level media studies as our text.
How lucky were we! analised it (!)pulled it to pieces and put it back together again. It has to have the voice over! sets all the tone,

“They don’t advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer”

Right from the outset everything is past, “EX”, there is no future, the clue is there right from the outset.

They’re not overly warm, the mesh front does a decent job of letting water in too.

The only problem I have with them is that the tongue tends to slide over from the middle and ends up down the outer side of the shoe.
this seems to happen most if I run in them. I have to make sure the tongue is over towards the crank side when I put them on, though this could just be a sock/tongue interface issue.

Very grippy in just about every condition off the bike. They’re the best shoe I’ve used on the 3 peaks by a country mile.

From the End of the gasworks at Silsden right through to leeds most of the towpath is hard packed.
I regularly ride from Rodley through to Skipton on the cross bike. Even when it’s wet in winter the semi knobbly cross tyres are fine as long as you slow down a bit on the rooty uneven grassed sections.
The area around Silsden is particularly nasty in the wet.
I’d opt for the cross bike every time. They’re designed to be used in slippy gloopy mud, lighter than the mountain bike and much faster on the hard packed sections.

Just watch out for wet paving slabs around locks, the ones at Hirstwood in Saltaire are notorious for having folks slide off in the rain.

You’ll be needing the Berghaus Vulcan then!!

Tyler Hamilton fractured a shoulder in a crash in the 2002 Giro D’Italia yet managed to finish second.
In the 2003 Tour de France he cracked a collarbone in the first stage, and stayed to finish the tour.
That year, he rode one of the Tour’s most memorable feats.
He won Stage 16 with a 142 km solo breakaway, and placed fourth overall.

Erm…..you need to man up a bit matey! 😆

I should be, I have a guaranteed entry for marshalling at Bradford way back in December.
Edit: Just checked on phone, I’m in!

Ouch, I know that crash looked bad yesterday but that’s nasty!! Hope he continues after the rest day to finish the tour, that’s gonna be painful for some time.

Well obviously it will have nothing to do with Beadle, how can that be perfect set up? one brake lever would be far too close to the bar compared to the other! 😳

True Grit- which I would go as far as saying was slightly better than the original even?!

The other film I’ve watched recently is “Rubber” about a killer tyre….it’s just weird…….I really can’t say anymore…just….weird! 😯

I’ve just got these and cant fault them so far.
Time carbon.

I loved the jump of doom, rode it every lap it was out there, throwing down some quick cross ups too.

Just remembered, did anyone lend the Salsa rider a pump on the first lap about 100yds after the start? He was at the first gate shouting for someone to lend him one,before the straight run to the Kenda climb, I just tutted and carried on, schoolboy error on his part! 😀

I have to say, all the kids on the course were brilliant! All shouting encouragement, and the ones lining the straight before the Kenda climb giving high fives to all the riders were great.

There was just enough little bits and bats supplied by teams and spectators to stop it being a serious flat out suffer fest.Especially liked the little wooden jump down by the lakes.

I hope the two guys who fell over on the start run in front of me are okay. It reminded me of those wildlife films with the wildebeast crossing the crocodile infested rivers. 😆

p.s, I was wearing Crosstrax kit if anyone saw me/got passed by me (shouldn’t be many of those!).

Always turn out like that?
I’m not convinced.
When Titchmarsh was with him in ” All the queens horses” he opened up and was very relaxed, talking informally about many of his interests.

Maybe they should have had Alan down the pub doing the interview?

If he has the same grip he had t’other day on the first lap and a half before he said the grip went a bit, he’ll be on the top step of the podium Friday!
He’s guilty of thinking too much at times, needs to just think lines and throttle.
Even at race speed silly things enter the head, ” am I pushing too hard?” ” can the bike stand six laps at this pace? ” “will I throw the chain if I land a bit harder/further next lap?”

I still think he missed his best chance when he dropped his chain in the pits the other year.

Val Kilmers greatest hour

Or according to MBR, he prefers boring out engines to women!

Ah, the back lash has started! Wondered how long it would be.
Congratulations Rocketman, you’ll be forever remembered as the one who started the ball rolling! 😉

I run mavic Aksiums on my cross bike, done 3 peaks 3 times now and the summer series and various other races as well as some Yorkshire mountain bike rides. Never trued them but they are on second set of bearings. Bomb proof.But not light!

The road bike has been running on Halo mercury’s for 6 years now. On my second set as I wore out the rims on the first set.Fantastic wheels for the price but not on the radar of most roadies.
Approx weight; Front: 650g Rear: 975gHalo wheels

North Oxfordshire.
Get down to Rolfs lake near the water perry gardens next Friday and I’ll give you some info and you might be able to get regular help from the locals and find out if commercial carp fishing is your thing. Either way you should see some big fish landed.