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Couldn't agree more - I forget how many times I've lapped Richmond Park now, and the only person I've spoken to was an MTBer!
welcome to the first road.cc cock up... all whitewashed now
Matthew Goss. That doesn't even count as pedantry chaps.
I know some vey friendly ones. Tight lips stop you getting flys in your teeth
My experience of Roadies would lead me to think it should be "Can't Communicate"... Tight lipped buggers, I never get as much as a smile out of them.
Need zen power on this one. The more you force them the more stubborn they become. All they should need is a very light, opposable push on each link. Clean the chain to clear out the dirt. It really should be easy unless you've damaged the link.
Will do Dave.
As for the dot CC? On here it stands for Cycling Club… in other places it stands for Chinese Company
If you get notification of anything happening near Warrington, please let me know..... I might even put slicks on the MTB.
(BTW, what does the CC stand for?)
You can commute on anything - and a road bike is for riding on the road after all. Mind you, you might want to be packing a bloomin' good lock for any stops on the way home. And if it was me and there wasn't secure parking at work I'd be parking it by my desk.
Yeah, fair point. We've got a list of things we want to improve on the site and pictures on posts is one of them. We might want to look at giving you different sections: road,TT, that sort of thing - depends what you'd all like…?
Hey SirAlwyn
You got any more races this year? Or is this for next season?
I'd concentrate on over-distance base miles over the winter, at fairly low intensity. So, stay below 75% of your maximum heart rate through the off-season, getting as much time on the bike as you can. Get at least one 2hr+ ride a week if you can.
Then get the intervals in as race-time approaches. So, you need to go into your anaerobic zone (usually about 80-85% of your maximum heart rate), stay there for a few minutes, recover and repeat. You could go to 85% for 5mins, recover for 5-10mins, then repeat. Maybe do that four times - that'll be an hour. Do that session once (or maybe twice) a week for a few weeks to help raise the level at which you switch from aerobic to anaerobic systems.
Plus, use the winter to practise running off the bike, even if it's only 5-10mins, cos that's the important bit. Do that once a week and you're much less likely to get jelly legs in the race when you start running.
The Bowery does look good for the price, but the lack of a carbon fork and guard/rack mounts puts me off.
Besides, aren't these SS things meant to be steel...?
Tifosi is the in-house bike brand of RJ Chicken & Sons - probably the oldest UK bike distribution company. You can check the bikes out here http://www.chickencycles.co.uk/tifosi/ the whole range should be there, well you'd hope. There's a dealer listing on there too and you can buy them online at places like Wiggle and the like.
Couldn't find any recent reviews but I have had people review 'em the Audax and the CK7 are the two I'm familiar with - well thought out bikes. My personal view is that there a tad over-priced, but maybe I'm just tight.
Dolan (www.bikes-dolan.uk.com) and Pearson (www.pearsoncycles.co.uk) make remarkably similar (and probably not too dissimilar from the old Planet-X either...) TT frames for £525 and £599 respectively. The Guess RB2 (www.supercycles.co.uk) isn't specifically a TT frame but it position means it builds into a good TT bike, if you can find it available as a frame only. Kinesis (www.kinesisbikes.co.uk) also make a decent one - the KT-410 - which you can pick up for about £300. It doesn't come with a fork (they make their energy fork in a matching colour for about £110) or a seatpost though...
Winchester's a tad far for me.
Think I'll stick with the Bowery and buy a set of clip-on guards and a 'beam' type rack with the ££s diff..
I had a look around on the web and could not find anyone else giving a discount so I drove down and picked mine up at the Winchester branch. Nice guys and good deals.
That's a great price.
And a bit more flexible (usability) than the Bowery. I'll check who locally sells them....
until I saw this http://www.hargrovescycles.co.uk/products.asp?category=Bikes&product=Tri... and picked it up yesterday.
Going to use it for a bit of commuting and the local 40 min loop I usually do on my mtb
Will there be a roadie type mag similar to singletrack?
good luck with the web site etc looks good !!
moving away from fixed? not in the least... everybody's got one. some street, some track-inspired, one belt drive. there'll be more on that later.
will you be doing an article that combine my two favourite subjects?
(airplanes and treadmills)
See if you can find the Trek "District 96", and ask them the question: "Why?"...
I'm sure I'll get used to this style of posts, but is it possible to re-arrange the day/month element of the date of posting away from the current month/day format.
You could confuse a stupid person, you know.
I don't know where you mean...