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Fresh Goods Friday 711 - Crisps on the Radio edition
Jun 28, 2024
Two bikes this week, plus the best crisps you will ever eat direct from Morzine. Plus Benji advises on how not to measure your vital statistics when getting a good bike fit. Hannah goes on about how she hopes guide dogs can poo freely when they are on holiday.
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Hello! We're back for Fresh Kids Friday 7-11. 7-11. 7-11. Yep. I am properly disappointed
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that we haven't got giant fizzy drinks or iced teas or Slurpees or other 7-11 products
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at this point. Okay, I've never been to 7-11, I don't think. Do they have them on the continent
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No, I don't think so. I think they're purely an American thing and so they were on the
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list of tourist things to go and do. Were they? When we went to the States and my kids
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were like, we've got to go to 7-11 and buy, you know, self-serve drinks. And this sort
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of spotty teenager in 7-11 was like, what the hell is going on? These English kids were
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walking around like, this is really exciting. Was it? Yeah, because you get a big cup and
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you serve yourself and you choose and you can pick and mix. Put iced tea in with your
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blue squash. Good? 7-11, fresh goods. Are we going to do... We do have plural goods
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let's just leave those there. Okay. Just for a moment. We have a very, very Italianissimo
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Gravellimissimo by Veloci? Veloci? I don't know. Velocio. It's like a gravel race bike. Basso
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What that was? That was more Spanish. Maltese? Maltese? Maltese is niche. 4,349 euros for this kind of level spec, which is Campagnolo... GT
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Ekar GT. Yeah. Which is a slightly one down. One down from Ekar, 13 speed. So more metal, less
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carbon. Gravel specific. Good. Fully carbonia. It's tucked, look at that. Oh yes. With two T's
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So what's the 45 mil 700 C max? Foot, yeah. Capacity. Tyres. Yes
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Relatively sloping for a basso. So not massively, but a little bit. Tall head tube-ish. There you
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go. Gravel. So it's like not full on head down into the wind roadie, but not quite pedal along
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and eat an ice cream either. That, yeah. That does it. A gravel race bike. You get ice cream
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up your nose with this. Yeah. So here, I... Very Italian. You know how when you buy
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particularly a budget bike, the pedals come with like a green and red sticker for left and right
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Yeah. Blue and red. Yeah. Why is it blue and red? I thought it was green and red. Well, so that's what I thought was going on in this bit of the fork when you turn it. But Benji
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you correctly spotted that it's got a white bit. It's red on one side, green on the other
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Where is this bike from? Turn it a bit further and there's a white middle bit. It's got a secret
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whatever you call the Italian flag that isn't the tricolor under there. Or if you're that way around
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it'd be someone else that I can't remember. Bulgaria? I don't know. Anywho. Good
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Have you been watching football? It's been on. Yeah. I've not... Good noise. It's a bit like when you used to be able to listen to cricket on the radio
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just put it on as noise. Yeah. Cricket on the radio. So cricket on the radio is one of my
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arguments in favor of more downhill coverage, because if we can listen to days of cricket on
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the radio and there'd be enough coverage of that, you know, like enough interest, then we can manage
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to watch downhill. Even Enduro. We could probably listen to Enduro on the radio. I know. Yeah
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Well, you want this. You want loads of numbers. You want like loads of shallow interest numbers
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go for it. Or serve the people who are really interested very, very much. I can't think of the
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word. So cricket on the radio is like the soundtrack to sunbathing as far as I'm concerned
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We're going to do crisps on the radio now. Are you familiar with crisps on the radio
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That sounds awful. It's not. It's on Radio 6. Is it? Yeah. That sounds awful as well. People
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send in crisps. Right. Right. Right. Stuart McHugh. They send them crisps and then they eat them
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I've heard of Stuart McHugh. I had an interview with someone from Cannes, a German group
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So we're going to do crisps. Not a job interview. Crisps not on the radio. These are from Morsin
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I like this, which is the Natur. The Nutri score. Nutri score. It's just got a C
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Just quite middle. So they're kind of middling. I wonder what takes them into A or..
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Is it like a health thing, I'm assuming? For French governmental advice
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What is it? Savory sauce, I think that is. Chips flavour. Are they fluted? Fluted? Is that what you call them? Crinkle cut. It's quite a fine crinkle cut
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We have to describe them for the viewers on the radio. Quite buttery. I like that. Oh, they taste like Jersey Royals. Like a little bit of, yeah
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Like some posh Jersey Royals covered in butter and sugar. Not sugar. Something on them as well
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Somewhat on them. It's a kind of vinegary kind of taste, I think. They are like
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poached potatoes in a nice way. I am, yeah. Yeah, I haven't put them on there. Eight
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Eight? What's yours score? What's mine score? Oh, I think they're pretty high up. I mean
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they're not quite as good as a lime and salt tortilla chip. They're a bit grown. I'm a child
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I like like crisps made of maize and things that aren't really real. Oh, like monster munch? Oh, like something in spirals
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Right. At this point, we have to do some sort of like cut. Oh, on trees, everyone
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Gravel no more. What should we call that? XC Mega Mega, isn't it? Cannondale Scalpel One
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Like race winning type XC. Yeah. No more XC. Yeah, but it actually looks nice and it looks good. Like every other bin race bike out there
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It's disgusting. Well, I have ridden this. I went out to the launch where they launched both the
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Motero Neo SL and this. So I'd kind of gone for the Motero Neo and then
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Bonus ball. And then got the bonus ball of this and kind of looked at it and thought, I am going to hate that. It's got an integrated
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stem bar thing. It's going to kill me. It's going to be stiff and racy and hateful. And
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I eat all my words because it was loads of fun. I did get them to swap out the tyre
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to like a Minion or something because it was absolutely bogging it down with rain
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And that looks terrifying. But we now have the right conditions outside with this tyre
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So I'm going to go and ride it again on Moors and such like see if it makes me fast
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120mm, 120mm. Yeah. I think is it? Yeah. Lefty. Classic. I love a lefty
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There are others in like the range that aren't lefties. So this lefty
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Get a scalpel and you don't get a lefty. Go away. Mental. Not in a good way either
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So this has a fork lockout, but it's a twist shift. So you still get a proper dropper with
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it, which I think is important. There's not that much going on the left. That's all right. Yeah
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It's a spanky dropper. It's up or it's down. Very low effort on the two position box transfer SL
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You go down very easy. Oh, yes. And it comes up very. I'm also saying nothing
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So. Uh, bottles. No, look cool. Nice. Looks very good and carbonated, don't it
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Yeah. So this is the like eight and a half ish thousand pounds. There is the Lab 71
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which is what Charlie Aldridge is out there winning races on at the minute, which is like
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the slightly fancier carbon. But this is the top of the normal carbon rate. Right
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It has proper brakes and it's designed to be fast on descents and stuff like that because they
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reckon that you can win on descents. Quite a good off trend, long rake on the lefty. So it
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puts the front wheel just a little bit further away, kind of mimics a head angle. And it looks
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like it's quite slack also, which is a good thing about lefties. It makes people's eyes go wrong
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They don't realize your bike's gone slack. Freak people out. Look at stem on that. That's quite
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a radicals. Not that keen on the rise of the bars, but it works. Yeah. So I looked at it and I thought
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that is going to hurt and it didn't. Yeah. So it's designed to have like the right amount of
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vibration, e-flex and stuff in it, in the bar and the stem. Like they did lots of measurements
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before they made that particular layout. Yeah. But the sweeps are weird. Yeah. I thought it
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was weird, but it was fine. It was when I rode it before. I'm going to ride it again and we'll see
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Well, let's go on then to questions. Right. Go on. It's probably like questions, questions
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questions. Okay. Somebody has helpfully started a random questions thread and I like this question
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Do guide dogs get a proper holiday, an annual period of not being a guide dog
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not just going away with their owner? I don't know who asked that question
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Sue asked that question or T T Hugh. Okay. Asked that question. Does anyone
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Some people suggest that they do get. Would there be guide dog users on the forum? There could be
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I suppose. Don't know. But I really like the idea of guide dog holidays and like, like they get
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you know, activity clubs, balls in the morning, rolling something dead in the afternoon
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like, cause they have to be really well behaved. So somebody has said about guide dogs poo on
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command and in a certain way that makes it easy to pick up their poo. But maybe that's, so maybe
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there's like poo at will is one of the holiday clubs activities and then eat it obviously
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Cause you're a dog. Is Rick Deckard a replicant? That's by Harrow the spider. Yeah. It was ruined
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when it, in Blade Runner 2049. I haven't seen it. It wasn't the first one anyway, cause they had
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the folded unicorn thing. It's like he, the only new one was in his brain somehow. And my question
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is why does so much AI art look like the cover of a Yes album? And when was it decided that
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the airbrush is the art medium of the future? Yeah. AI reminds me of like early
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ambient album covers from future sound of London or something like that. Just like
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what are you doing? Why is that smooth? Why is that bending? What was the question? Why? Why does it
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I don't know. Probably because I think a lot of it, they look quite weird because they're obviously
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getting lots of images that people putting loads of filters on when they take selfies and stuff
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on. So people make themselves look like. Have you seen the local fake tourist boards
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account that uses AI? No. It's like a, it's something like Welcome to Hampton Bridge
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All right. And the real Welcome to Hampton Bridge put out like a warning. Like it's come to our
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attention that there's a fake one. But they're using AI to do it. And I don't know how you get
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AI to be that good at putting like realistic people in Hampton Bridge scenes and stuff like
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that. But it is really well done. No, I will link below. Yeah. Right. I can't find Welcome to Hampton
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Bridge faux tourist site. So we should move on. It can be an election next week, is it
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Is it next week? So hang on, let's figure this out. So next week, when we're filming this
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it will be the day. We won't know the result. But by the time it goes out
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we will know the result. Does that mean we need to do two endings next week
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Like one where we look really depressed and one where we take off all our clothes and celebrate
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We just think people probably had enough and just talk about bicycles. Maybe
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I know what I was going to ask you about. Oh God. Magic triangles. Oh, geometry thing. Yeah. Since we've got to talk about bikes
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Well, magic triangle. No, because it wasn't one of them based around the saddle position
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Yeah. So anything off road that's based around a saddle position is a bit daft in it because
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you're never you're not never in it. But when you think you're doing the most interesting
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you're not in the saddle. Let's rewind. Let's rewind and explain the theory of the magic
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triangle. So the magic triangle, airbrush, magic triangle theory is that there's a triangle on your
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bike, on any bike in which you are approximately you'll be comfortable. And that triangle you
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could measure between your basically between your grips, your bottom bracket, your saddle rail and
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back to your grips again. And that you could ride all sorts of different bikes and the ones
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that you find most comfortable are going to be approximately the same distances on that triangle
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But if you go on a geometry chart on a bicycle website, some of those measurements
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in fact, none of those measurements are generally there. Yeah. So how do you find
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the bike that fits you? If you are, that one was really comfy. I'd like another one a bit like it
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or is the magic triangle irrelevant? Yeah, it's not irrelevant, but it's quite similar to reach
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I mean, people used to talk about bottom bracket to the end of your grip. Used to be some really
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helpful. I'm supposed to apply that when you're looking for a bicycle. There's a like feet to end
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of grip thing, like a kite shape. Fine. Well, you know, where your front tire is, where your rear tire is
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where your feet are, where your hands are. What shapes that? Is that a rhomboid
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I just thought I'd personally bleep out. Lee likes bikes, horseshit face. Just talks about
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formulas and you put on all your things. It turns out you should be riding handlebars that are three
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inches wide or something. The whole triangle is fine if you're like a 2D cartoon character
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You know what I mean? We live in three dimensions. Some people live in four dimensions. Four? Yeah
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I feel like I'm in a fifth at this point. So yes, it's kind of useful, I suppose, but you should know
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you know whatever you like, but it's fine. You could get to know your reach and I would also
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learn your bar height, which is a real thing to learn because it really reduces how much you faff
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around with the bicycle. When you drop a plumb line from the end of your grip to the ground
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if you know that, you get rid of a lot of faff. Okay. Particularly if you get bloody headsets
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like we are on everything these days, where you can't move it up or down for love nor money
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You could at least get respect with the different rides handlebars for your test ride
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Triggered Benji. We've talked about bikes. Mission accomplished. See you next week. Bye. Bye. For seven and twelve
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Imagine if we had had fizzy drinks to that. We'd have been a wreck. Seven eleven. Is that when it opens? From seven to eleven? I think so
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Wish our shop opened at seven because we always need milk before eight o'clock
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I know the milk man a lot of money. Oh my God. He never f*****g comes does he? And just like sends you a message. Oh he is, you know, too. All right. I suppose we're doing it
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A rich for the off bottom and every time Benji opens his bag, I thought my fingers were going to snap
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I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it
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I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it
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