I hope he manages to stay at the pointy end all the way round.

May the gods of racing and bicycles and weather and mechanicals smile on everyone :D

Liam's going well

Haven't Planet X got silly cheap helmets in lurid, I mean, bright colours?

Or are they on the banned list?

nagasaki45 wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 1:47 pm The weather this weekend doesn't look that promising. Heading down there today till Thursday instead. One of the benefits of being a PhD student I guess... I assume no one is up for joining, but if you do better to drop me a private message.

How did you get on?

The Valley and Peak ones do look nice. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts if you do get one

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+1 for TF it's a large

50 to 54 seems like quite a jump. I'm off to check out the geo

Enjoy yourself. Rackham Hill is my goto spot on the SDW, I normally go from there to chantry but you're headed in the other direction.

Chanctonbury ring is another favourite spot too

Was that after some fairly ordinary conditions?

Wow, blown away by all the input, thank you. Very interested to read about the lights. I have a magicshine clone bought 8+ years ago that has been amazing. I upgraded the lens to a wide beam pattern to spread across better and it does everything I need it to. Not too long back I bought a trustfire b...

I have some anker soundbuds slim.

Less than £20, 10 hours playtime for 2 hrs charging. Usual anker no quibble guarantee. My little lad hung off one till the bud popped out of the housing and as it was less than a year they were replaced.

Lawdy! I have a ton of stuff that might be useful to some. Once the house move is done I will start going through it all

Great idea

Well. My eyes have been opened to a very spendy little corner of cycling I knew nothing about! Due to a very limited budget my current thoughts are Dynamo hub - talking to richpips about his love mud juice/SP jobby B&M usb-werk to charge everything Cache battery - probably something Anker made L...

That sounds very tempting Rich. Is it QR?

I'm off to do some reading up on the juicy hubs!

No probs

There's a portion of the Downslink closed at the mo, but for the life of me I can't remember where. I'm fairly sure it's navigable around but not signposted so

Someone posted up a while ago about BB7s on aliexpress. 40ish for a pair delivered iirc..

It's my birthday in a couple of months, so I thought I'd see what's out there in this little part of the world.

Im after either a disc hub or a front 700c disc wheel, suitable for mostly road and touring but probably a bit of the rough stuff too.

TiA

From one Bob to another, I can only apologise.

I'm desperate to see the route too

thought i might stick my head round the corner and see if anything had moved on?

signing in for updates :D

Here's the MRI scan for reference. Quite scary and sobering to have been walking around like this for 2 years

Thanks for the reply Shaf.

His other suggestion was do nothing surgical

Both options included lots of physio

Has anyone on here ever had kyphoplasty? If so, what was your experience and more importantly, recovery time? Had an off back in 2019, and they missed a fractured t9 vertebrae in the xray (apparently not uncommon). Recently discovered and the MRI shows its still bruised and surrounded by fluid, so i...

You have pm, sir.