The second issue of The Ride, from avid cycling brothers Phillip and Andrew Diprose is a collection of sympathetically written journals from the cycling fraternity mated together with great illustrations and photography. What makes this a great book to own is that it is about the love for bicycles, cycling and how they become a significant part of our lives. There is no prejudice for what you ride, just a common love of riding. The Diprose brothers have put together another collectable edition that makes an inspiring bedtime read. I went along to the issue 2 launch party and hooked up with a bunch of likeminded souls who could talk about bikes forever and that sort of passion is beautifully delivered in this book.
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Here's the image from the bag review that makes that a bit easier to understand.
The bag needs to have an 'upside-down pocket' that slides over the inverted U bar on the mount, so other (non-InLock) bags are not going to work.
Doesn't appear to attach near the dropout, but one of the three thingies is to attach it to a suitable point on a rack stay.
Maybe I'm being a bit thick here. So this is a side panel that attaches to your current rack and costs 25 quid per side? I assume it also attaches to the frame near the rear dropout but I could not see any details on this. Does it work with any panniers or just select Thule panniers?
@AidanR More cool, clearly looked at the course and thought it's a TT, the weight saving is going to be more important than braking. We know who beat whom!
@mdavidford Reminds one of a very old comedy sketch – Not the 9 o'clock News, maybe? – with a racehorse owner whose horse had come last coming into the stables after the race and apologising to the horse for giving him such a rubbish jockey and sticking the jockey in the knacker's van.
Its strange to budget off of money you never had. There is no way they could ever know how many of those cyclists would have otherwise visited the town. In fact many may of visited precisely because they could cycle and not be burdened with extortionate parking charges. In which case they probably made more money in the town from visitors paying into the local economy. But they fail to see that side. Better to have money trickle through you economy benefitting businesses than just a parking tax.
"Adespoto accused Traffic Scotland of “garbage messaging”, telling the body that “drunk, drugged, unlicensed and speeding drivers are killing people. Delete this shit.” Adespoto is right: it's shit. But compared to the Saturday Night Live, or Like (sic) sketch it's not bad. Maybe I'm an out of touch old git with a cycling dependency, but that wasn't funny. Nor was it amusing, not so much as the hint of a smile. Just very silly, inaccurate and absurd. To call it drivel would be a compliment. Still, at least now I know what not to watch on Saturday nights. The US version is infinitely better.
I think the tie-breaker is Gomes' ankle-length sock look out-cools Cá's regulation mid-calf choice.
@chrisonabike Some say they went extinct, but in reality they just moved off-world.
3 thoughts on “The Ride Journal”
I bought Issue 2 as well –
I bought Issue 2 as well – it’s a thing of beauty, with some really good writing from across the spectrum of cycling.
My colleague Dave and I have
My colleague Dave and I have taken Ride into the lab and conducted a series of experiments.
In our first experiment we concluded that at £7 Ride represents excellent value set against a bike mag like C+ that’s about* £4 and has about a quarter of the information.
In a later experiment we measured the thickness of a copy and then compared that to a the thickness of a copy of Rouleur – £9. Our data suggests that Ride is twice as thick.
Next, we’re going to read it
*about – that’s a scientific term that is
I bought it on the back of a
I bought it on the back of a recommendation on the Singletrack forum. But I am saving it for my holidays so wont be able to review it until July.