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i scrunch my toes up on the
i scrunch my toes up on the bike when i’m concentrating and have to continually tell myself to stop doing it, could you be doing the same?
i was the bassist in Black
i was the bassist in Black Sabbath for a bit
i’ve raced a few crits round
i’ve raced a few crits round the park (quite a steep learning curve there), and a week-long thing in Germany, a dozen or more ‘cross races and over 20 years of mtb racing which comes to more than a few
e-bay
e-bay
i’m waiting for a hedge to
i’m waiting for a hedge to turn up
Lipstick
my Timbuk2 is worse than a womans handbag, it’s heavy with grubble before i’ve even put anything needy in2 sketchbooks, a camera, a handful of pens/pencils and a PrittStick, drivers license, my sisters front-door key, a watch that stopped two years ago, mini-pump, allen-key multi-tool, inner-tube, a Buff, Rapha cap, Kona beanie, 2 cheque books and a paying-in book, 2 tyre levers, 1 American cent coin, glasses case, 4 safety-pins, a plastic-bag, three sachets of sugar stolen from coffee-shops, 1 flat-head allen bolt (bottle-cage size), a little tin of French menthol sweets, the plastic bit off the end of a firework (now binned), a confetti of receipts and pieces of paper with useful things written on
If It Helps
I’ve been running a variety of 32-35mm ‘cross tyres on Open Pros for as long as i can remember without a single problem
Ahem
oddly enough i wrote one of them down on my “Things I’d Like To Test” list just last nighta friend has one and we were quite impressed at how quickly he got it up, especially at his age
It’s The Law
Zefal HPXhad one on my road bikes since i forget when, made out of proper metal so they last forever, and the pump most likely to be handed to a ride companion whose own pump is wheezing into a tube with the smug line “Would you like to borrow a proper pump?”
Grease Is The Word
before you go anywhere on that Singlecross take all the moving parts apart and whack a load of decent grease in there, the sealing in the hubs/headset/BB is really rather rubbishi had one last year and the rear hub packed up after four rides, i did take it off-road though and treated it bad, things should last better if you’re using it mainly for grubby road pootlage
it’s a great bike let down by cheapo components, but for £200 it’s quite bargainlicous