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Wow, that’s unique! Hurts my
Wow, that’s unique! Hurts my back just looking at it though!Recycling at it’s best…
Recycling at it’s best…To be fair, lightweight rain
To be fair, lightweight rain jackets are known as boil-in-the-bag for a reason. The Aldi one might be more susceptible to over-heating – I don’t know.Asoss is very well-regarded, although when in that shop all I could think (as much about the bikes as anything else) was “lovely, but would I really pay that much for that spec?”.
Nope, antidote. See the
Nope, antidote. See the thread “Antidote”, posted by Nostromo.http://road.cc/content/forum/84327-antidote
Indeed it is also an anedote, but something positive intended as an antidote to all the negative crazy stuff that gets (rightfully) posted in the news section; hit-and-run drivers, cyclists killed etc.
Nice!
Nice!@Speshrider, it would be
@Speshrider, it would be useful to know what your foot positioning is like. Sit on a work surface (one that’s too high for your feet to touch the ground) without shoes on, relax completely, then have a look at how your feet (specifically the forefoot) hang. A sizeable proportion of people have the outstep of the foot hanging a little lower than the instep. This is called varus tilt (opposite direction is called valgus tilt) and is why you can buy all the Body Geometry insoles and wedges that Specialized do.http://www.bikefit.com/Images/images/WhyWedge/ForefootVarus.JPG
However, Specialized also build 1.5mm of varus tilt into the Body Geometry shoes anyway, so if for example your feet were completely level laterally, then perhaps Spesh would not be the best choice, since you would need a pair of valgus wedges just to cancel out the basic tilt in the shoe itself.
Is there someone in the shop that knows about bike fitting? That could massively help in minimising the risk of buying the wrong kit to start with.
Well they can’t not report
Well they can’t not report it.Anyway, there’s a forum. We could always make a concerted effort to redress the happiness balance by using that.
Yep, but it is funny!
Yep, but it is funny!Do you ever get saddle sores?
Do you ever get saddle sores? Pain anywhere? Shoulder or neck tension? Aches/pains after long rides?If no to all of the above, then maybe a bike fit can’t help you. Even if you’re just ‘reasonably’ happy, you probably have the fit sufficiently close that you won’t buy the wrong size frame, which is the key thing.
Ok, don’t think I want a
Ok, don’t think I want a comparison of handling in the wet.farrell wrote:No, really, I
No, really, I was deadly serious about slashing his wife and sleeping with his tyres.PS – For those too busy to understand, this comment and my other one, aren’t really serious.
PPS – I also understand that the tyres and wife are the wrong way round the second comment, this is intentional and was to add to the humour you have utterly drained from it all.
At least you had the good grace to top it up again.
Are his tyres better looking than his wife?
geargrinderbeard wrote:”f*ck
”f*ck his wife, slash his tyres, f*ck his nan” etc – are people serious??If you’re not sure, I suspect your sarcasm detector may need a servicing. The needle on mine was off the scale.
Charlie96 wrote:Does no one
Does no one ride in their club colours? Looks way better than anything you’ll buy in a shop!+1. Even when not in full club kit I use the club gilet.
geargrinderbeard wrote:Or
Or stop being such a bell, you’re as bad as he is with your vitriolic rant about car drivers….I’m really not keen on the whole cyclists=good, drivers=bad rhetoric that is sometimes spouted on here. HOWEVER, it doesn’t seem that the OP is guilty of this? Are you reading some of the comments in the Tweeting driver article instead?
This is one of those
😀 This is one of those situation where you genuinely won’t be able to bridge the gap to his train of thought – kinda like the whole ‘arming teachers’ thing in America. All you can really do is point out that his view (cyclists should pull over) is opinion, whereas the cyclists view (they didn’t have to) is fact, and backed up by law. You could add something about ‘most cyclists’ using helmet-cams (blatant lie, but white in nature) to try and deter him from pulling such a manoeuvre in future.Displeased – who would have thought, indeed?! :O
