Out of interest do people go I wont stick to the speed limit as x has a faster car, drives more dangerously and is not slowing down? I use the disabled parking at supermarkets as everyone else does? Do we drop litter in the countryside, make fires and leave a trace as plenty of other do so our effor...

A more expensive hub will have better freehub bearings seals and we could all ride on single buted spokes etc. Granted I wont be buying king hubs or paying £500 for a carbon rim to save 50 grams but generally more expensive kit is a higher quality ( law of dimishing returns) Even the cheapest of hub...

Apparently she offsets it ( read bizarrely in An a article about her suing someone who lists her jet movements. Iirc it said she does the same with her tours ( debates about the ethics and usefulness of offsetting aside) Point is we all can find people better than us or worse than us. Neither is a r...

Yet more rationalisation about why you don't personally have to change . We all have to change and I would no more base my behaviour on them( egotistical avaricious soulless types) than I would base it on Trump. I don't know why you think bezos or musk lecture on this ( I don't really follow either ...

you need to back wind energy up with gas powered stations which can be switched on quickly if the wind drops during peak demand. I always thought use themntonpumpnwatwet up to a pressie and the use water for on demand hydro. Having lived off grid and with a turbine the issue is both not constant ou...

No I got that, it's just daft cycle hating to say it's not green(er than car use)

The environment will be our generations slavery. Future generations ( we won't wipe us all out but lots of people live near the coast and are in big trouble.) will wonder, rightly, why we did it.

I have 2
One an altura triathlon one so pretty small
Another is a fairly large alpkit one ( flops a bit but does work)
Still free to you ( one day you will take something )

read a criticism of cycling once, saying it wasn't green because we all eat more food so we have more impact

FFS we all exhale CO2 so no animal is neutral BUT a bike is clearly way better than a car ( even at just a single production cost analysis never mind per mile used once made

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124183993500 ... media=COPY

£3 eBay you won't lose it in grass or woods!

We only have one planet, and it's definetly finite, and everyone can create an excuse/ reason/ justification for their choices. Basically we have to change how we live* or we seriously damage our home, all of us can justify why we don't do anything/ enough/ go all in.( Even this non flying vegan who...

Amen to that (. I get there a whole 6 weeks earlier than you)

Happy birthday Phil.

I am glad he was kinder to me than you were to him ( hate water crossings in summer never mind winter)
Next week for me ( just swapped out the commuting wheels for my proper road ones) weather looks like standard winter bit damp but not horrible.

I forget the stage but I have seen pro road riders doing it to get up steep stuff.

Ride and top up till it stops weeping/ going down and seals ( and be grateful its not tan sidewall so won't show mould where it seeped)

Nice effort and looks perfect: wish I had the skills ( or eyesight) to be able to make my own.

Absolutely love my Ti one and the steel is very cheap ( about same price as frame alone) .

32 x 51 mtb ( 29+) 34 x 46 cross ( loaded) Also depends if multiday or one day. If one day 'happy' to red line at walking pace multi day I am off and walking to conserve energy. Its all personal if you want lower get them as we are not all equally strong or indeed enjoy low cadence torque spinning (...

Make sure you know the actual length required and thread pitch or it won't work. The dt Swiss are good but their only real advantage over another is the Allen key is attached ( which comes at a weight and price cost) but is very convenient and easy to use. ( end " handle" can be pulled up ...

Close enough for me to get there as well.

I think tubeless are just rubberised to be air tight and tubeless are not. I don't think the tyre is structurally significantly different ( though that assumptions a total guess so happy to be corrected) Did about 3000 miles on my commuter ( non tubeless used tubeless ) without issue. I forget how l...

I have used plenty of tubeless tyres without issue. sealant will eventually make them tubeless

Bargain bike though, would have had one but the sizes were all too big for me

My somewhat belated write up for the 30/01/24 Finally got the weather window between storm and freezing and just got freezing and after all the talk about bivvies i dragged mine out -its ok if its not wet [and it was not ] as I dont have a tarp Headed out to local spot at about 6 miles away and not ...

https://www.bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/ ... ndshields/

Dear leader sells them ( not Ti)

You can also drill the windshield at the sides and push cut spokes through it, and the cup rests on them.