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If anyone knows of any decent
If anyone knows of any decent ones in Bristol please do share. Only really Leigh woods that I know of and they definitely aren’t gravel.
It’s very easy to join. I usally do so as I live in Central London and the route effectively seals me in for the day. My advice is to turn up early (6-7ish) and join the faster riders (and then gravitate to your own pace) as some of the riding standards are pretty low: especially when cornering at speed and descending. I set off later last year and saw a spectacular crash a couple of years ago on one of the Surrey descents …. way too crowded.Bound to be if there are a load of people gatecrashing it!
Biggus-Dickkus wrote:
Battery cars: I wonder where the materials to make all these batteries are going to come from in the first place, and that is apart from replacements that will be needed in the future. Batteries only have a limited number of charging cycles. Personally I think we need to look at a different way to get propulsion in vehicles because batteries are not the long term answer…
Pre-pubescent boys in Sierra Leone are going to get the raw materials from unsafe mines, someone in the far East is going to turn them into batteries and a dirty factory and then we’ll chuck em underground when they’re knackered.
I have a Kinesis pro6 mostly
I have a Kinesis pro6 mostly for commuting on and it’s a hoot to ride, takes mudguards, bigger tyres are reassuring when it is pissing it down. Maybe a tiny bit slower than my endurance style road bike but if I were only to keep one then the Kinesis would be it. Only tried off road a few times and I’m by no means a mountain biker but I wouldn’t like to push it too much.I’d maybe look at an Orro Terra with 105 for £1200 or a pinnacle arkose or something. Or a Kinesis if you have the brass.
Single-track world forum has tonnes of gravel/adventure threads which might be a good perspective from a MTB side
Rim tape for those running
Rim tape for those running tubes and who buy wheels that come without it.YouTube
Childhood – 3 different rigid
Childhood – 3 different rigid mountain bikes, think they were all 3×7 gear setups.
First was some lurid tricolour fluorescenct thing that was pink, yellow and green – proper explosion in a Stabilo Boss factory paintjob. No idea of the brand. Would have been about 1990
Then I had a Giant and then a British Eagle Zero Rock – my dad bought one exactly the same in a bigger size which I now have in my bike shed. Doesn’t really get used but still works, got it going to take to the Isle of Rum with me a few years ago.
Then while I was studying in London I bought a second hand road bike, think it was a Raleigh, from a guy who was about to move back to Canada, can’t remember the model but it was a 7-speed with a double chainset, Shimano downtube shifters, brakes with suicide levers and stainless steel rims that were pretty much frictionless brake tracks in the wet. Got hit and runned by a black cab which pushed me into a parked car which saw off the forks, sold the rest of it for about £40.
Moved to Bristol, inherited my dad’s old Raleigh Record Sprint made from Reynolds 531, think it was a 1994 model, 6 speed & double chainset, all black glossy paint job. Had it for about 4-5 years for commuting and got into leisure cycling on it including my first 100 miler. The seat tube then just sheared between the band-on mech and the BB one day as I was on a climb putting it out of action for a while (see next entry), although my dad’s mate welded it back together which held for about another 9 months before it was stolen.
Bought a Canyon Roadlite AL in 2014 (the drop bar version that was very similar to the Endurance, before they changed Roadlite name to a flat bar fitness bike) with Ultegra 6800 & Aksiums. which is still my best bike.
When the Record Sprint was nicked I bought a second hand Kinesis Crosslight Pro6 frame from someone on these pages (thanks if you are reading) and built it with 105, TRP hy-rds and Aksium discs up for commuting duties, bit of off road stuff, nasty winter rides and carrying child #1 on the back.
£90 on some shoes
£90 on some shoes
£40 on disc pads and a new rotor
£60 on new chains
£40 on a rear light/camera from Aldi
£15 gloves
£30 on a cassette
Hoping to find time to do a full strip on my commuter over Xmas which will probably use about £50 of stuff I have in the shed.Total = £325.
I’ve got a vulpine one which
I’ve got a vulpine one which is thick kinda like a scarf sort of material. Not sure if they still do them. Not super long but bunches up less than my merino Buff ©I have had rub issues before
I have had rub issues before when the pistons themselves get a bit sticky, TRP advised me to clean/lube the sides of the pistons with a mineral oil-soaked cotton bud whilst going through cycles of retracting and over-extending the pistons.
You can successfully run standard Shimano cables with these brakes, may not be as good as compressionless, but you can get them working well.
The pads are the same ones as fit Shimano Deore , can get them cheap from superstar components or uber
Also I strongly recommend doing the overfilling thing if you have too much throw. Took me 18 months of fettling and then riding on lacklustre brakes, now I’ve done this they are excellent.
Orro Terra looks good, 105
Orro Terra looks good, 105 and TRP Spyres.
I thought that they were terrible, but then I saw the Alpecin advert on Eurosport with the shouty guy on the team bus.Now that is an all time low.
They really are focussing on their hair above all, that’s why they’ve got absolutely bobbins results this year!
Not bothered by the advertising as such but I keep getting a problem with the page scrolling up/down against my will. Had it on both chrome in windows 7 and chrome in Android on a mobile. I think the page seems to be auto-reloading on the former, the icon on the tab keeps flickering.Hmm there is an ad that’s been complained about that forces the page to scroll down to it – for Shell Diesel (or something like that) not heard to the site doing it by itself before though.
How often have you had that happen?
Only in the last week. Pablo probably described the issue better than me for the mobile .
Not bothered by the
Not bothered by the advertising as such but I keep getting a problem with the page scrolling up/down against my will. Had it on both chrome in windows 7 and chrome in Android on a mobile. I think the page seems to be auto-reloading on the former, the icon on the tab keeps flickering.
Something else to note that caught me out both times having just installed a set of 5800 and 685 shifters. If you have the hood peeled back so you can feed the cable through, more often than not it stops the shifts from working ie the levers can feel like they’re in neutral without pulling or releasing cable. As soon as you peel the hoods back into place the levers will start shifting up and releasing down again.Think I had this problem combined with the one above about being in the lowest gear when I built up a mate’s bike for him. Fucked about clicking the shifters about with the hoods up before I begun, then was baffled as to why I couldn’t get the cables in properly even when I thought I was in the right ‘gear’. The bit where the cable end sits rotates as you click through, should be a nice gap for it to sit in if you are in the correct gear.
Yeah the outer plasticky
Yeah the outer plasticky outer bit of my lizard skins started peeling off about 15 months in (riding it about 5 miles a day for commuting, year round). Bit annoying for £25 tape, however the cushioning on the 3.2mm is darn good so it is still on the bike as it is only cosmetic really.
