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I’m a very big fan of the
I’m a very big fan of the courier bag, very good access and some can be massive, but compressable and with the correct straps, stable. And pouches can be added to the strap, utility belt style.
Timbuk II were a favorite, but their present range seem wanting. I have yet to decide which bag to get next, I sort of need one.
There is not the sense of
There is not the sense of community on Singletrack and Off-Road.cc is not even singletrack.
I’m a utility MTBer, this is so much more my home.
That just seem to be a bit of
That just seem to be a bit of paint wear on that, when a chainring wears it gets proper pointy.
They are “ramped” to enable the gears to change.
I got a very old and faded 90ish purple middleburn big ring. Ebay, it was purple. All the teeth are the same and there is quite a knack of getting the chain onto it.
Just looking at the front of
Just looking at the front of the lorry, I see that the driver has chosen to obscure his already limited view out of his huge front window by placing a hard hat right in the middle.
The Royal Mail was forced to
The Royal Mail was forced to have to accept bulk mail from rival companies and lose money doing the last part “to door” delivery.
That was never the “Free” market.
Set up to fail.
Lots of talcum powder will
Lots of talcum powder will make everything a bit slippery and helps get the bead on and get in place.
Also meant to lower rolling resistance.
It doesn’t hurt it at least…
I’m still going to hold on
I’m still going to hold on and wear them under long sleeved jersys, just in case. We could still get another little burst of warmth.
Might put my thinnest summer gloves away though, there only really good for the mid twenties up.
Bit spendy I will admit, but
Bit spendy I will admit, but this trick stem featured in fgf in singletrack last week. Notice the built in trail bell. And yours for only £260 .
As I understand it the trains
As I understand it the trains in this country have become incredibly safe, leaving the road model and adopting the aircraft level and need for safety. Until the unfortunate deaths caused by the landslide in Scotland there hadn’t been any passenger deaths caused by crashes for ages. Trying to find exact numbers, best I could come up with were 10 years without passenger or stall deaths in accident in 2017. The search also came up with NO passenger deaths on the massive Indian rail network in 2019, which is very impressive.
But until Boeing’s wonderful new airliners flew themselves into the scenery I don’t believe there had been a jet crash for over a year, Trump claimed the safety thing of course, but the 737 crashes obviously had nothing to do with him.
If you ride upstream on the
If you ride upstream on the Kennet, on the NCN 4, from Reading, you go past both Burfield Farm and Aldermarston Warf and Lock, don’t know how it’s relevent to this discussion, as my OS map shows absolutely nothing there, but there are some big fences, and security notices and some amazing lighting at night.
Ebay for NOS cassettes, it’s
Ebay for NOS cassettes, it’s where I tend to source my 8 speed XT and 9 speed XTR. You have to keep your eye on it and expect to pay premium for what are becoming very rare consumables.
I happened upon this site today
They seem to have been hoarding box fresh goods from some time ago and are charging rather a lot, or stuff he picked up a little while back when relatively cheap. Lots of very colourful 90s mountain bike candy.
Sometimes it seems like a quest, lots of google searches, and going through many pages with different search phrases. Get an exploded view and there may be a few single cogs out there if you don’t need the whole thing.
There does seem to be more parts available in the US, and mainland Europe.
I have never chanced second hand cassettes or rims.
On chainsets and chainrings wear is much more obvious.
Bonus points for removal of
Bonus points for removal of any human agency from the reporting?
As I understand the most
As I understand the most crashed into rail bridge in the UK.
From the picture, that looks
From the picture, that looks as though someone has decided to protect a signpost with two seemingly effective metal bollards.
Needed too…
When they finally start to
When they finally start to put the same level of thought and adherance to quality that they put into new by-passes, large junctions and motorways.
I’m with HP, if they are noticable and quality I might start thinking about using them if they provide me with some benifit, but it will take me a few rides past them to want to give them a go. And if they mean constant halts, having to give way at juctions, being delayed at what are actually pedestrian crossings, changing sides of roads or even just seemingly pointless short stretches that seem like an sfterthought, then probably not. Maybe if that stretch of road or particular junction terrified me. But then that’s the advantage.
We have been given such crap nfrastructure for so many years, we may have come to expect them. The road generally has a better quality surface if nothing else.
The ones in Bracknell were alright as I remember, but lacked signposts and being below normal levels less abilities to locate yourself.
Same with the canals in Birmingham, wonderful way of getting about, but if you lack local knowledge you are riding blind. With the road network it helps if you have local knowledge but there are easy ways of navigating, especially on the bigger roads.
We have seen from the objections to low traffic neighbouhoods that motorists want unhindered access to every tiny bit of the road network, they cannot stand being directed onto the larger through roads.
I love the NCN and have given to Sustrans for too long to even remember, but I’m glad I ride mountain bikes, and even some of my summer tyre chices for them are sometimes not quite enough.
On my route to and from the train station there is a section of cycle path over a bridge, no detour on the way to the station, but there might be pedestrians on it, and it throws me out at an entrance to a roundabout, for which I will have to give way, if I had stayed on the road, much less so. But it can get me past a queue of traffic. On the way home, to avoid the big roundabout and it’s dangers, and from the angles it is, I will get off, press the beg button, cross the urban 4 lane racetrack, push the bike along a short stretch of pavement, observing motorist phone use, nice!, cross another small road and finally get on the bike on the bridge cycle route.Yes, hastle, but for me and my quick mental risk assesment, a benifit, It is also bumpy paving slabs rather than the smooth road, could have pedestrians on it, white line seperates a pavement, and suffers from build up of ice on colder nights in the winter, it is a bridge therefore gets colder having air underneath and as if it would ever be gritted like the road is.
