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- Sun Dec 17, 2023 6:58 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
- Replies: 21
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Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
A long post but it's got pictures to help you through if you can face it : ) This July I made it out to the Alps again after 4 years. I just missed the mountains. It felt so good to be back on French roads, simple solo road touring again. It's not epic, it's not hardcore and it's barely worth report...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 1:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: How to insert pictures
- Replies: 249
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Re: How to insert pictures
(just checking)
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 3:53 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
- Replies: 952
- Views: 115595
Re: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
^ 'El Camino' .. Very good.
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 12:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: East Devon Trail
- Replies: 13
- Views: 628
Re: East Devon Trail
A "third way" is something I really enjoy - looking out for suitable old buildings. I've kipped in old barns (supremely comfy in the hay!), caves, churches, doorways, disused caravans, hen houses, industrial buildings, anything with a roof. Or part of a roof. We each have our own "mo...
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:31 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 11576
Re: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
it also looks utterly f*****g miserable, as do most of the competitors :shock: Big difference between 'tired' and 'miserable' .. though they might look pretty similar! Lael Wilcox in particular always amazes me by how happy she is out there. Good luck with it all Sam. Must be a fascinating line of ...
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 12:04 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 11576
Re: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
It's a good website too.
+1Good luck to the lad.
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:48 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 11576
Re: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
'it's just like riding a bike'.. so we tend to just learn and improve as we go. Most sports or activities involve some coaching to get better though. Fitness coaching should boost mental strength in an event if only because you're able to cope better physically, which helps mentally? If the training...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 2:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: For the cyclist who has everything else?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10345
Re: For the cyclist who has everything else?
This was never a problem when we had bar ends... "when we had ..." ? Some of us still have :lol: This was never a problem when we all had bar ends... :grin: I sort of still do - loop or H-bars. I had Scott AT4s BITD. It was a close call really, almost developed a liking for aerobars. You ...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:04 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: For the cyclist who has everything else?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10345
Re: For the cyclist who has everything else?
This was never a problem when we had bar ends...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:43 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: 2023 Highlights
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6342
Re: 2023 Highlights
Nice idea. -Inspiration of the year (media/person/object etc)* - Can I mention a place, a very general one, as well as a person? The English lanes in autumn. Since being back in the Cotswolds and finding my way round again I've had sunny autumn days on the bike that just make me feel inspired and fu...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:21 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Films to watch while isolating
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60854
Re: Films to watch while isolating
Sheesh .. Kanye Lemmy-Tempwest, that's the chap, you know who I mean right?
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Films to watch while isolating
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60854
Re: Films to watch while isolating
Wasn't a big fan going back a few years, but anyone with that level of creativity and life story is interesting.
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:13 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Films to watch while isolating
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60854
Re: Films to watch while isolating
Haha yes sorry - Life of Kai .. Kai Lemmy the surfer
A quick google and I see.. Kae Tempest docu will be worth watching. Personal and artistic change since I was aware of their work last. Thanks!
A quick google and I see.. Kae Tempest docu will be worth watching. Personal and artistic change since I was aware of their work last. Thanks!
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 9:37 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Films to watch while isolating
- Replies: 291
- Views: 60854
Re: Films to watch while isolating
I saw that on Red Bull TV a while back, incredible surfing footage. The wave at Nazare is jaw-dropping.
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 1:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Pls keep an eye on your carbon forks/frames/bars!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4276
Re: Pls keep an eye on your carbon forks/frames/bars!
Even the Cannondale CAAD 12 and beyond (lightes alloy frame on the market I think) frames are probably on the higher probability stakes of failure due to the ultra thin walls of the alloy used. Just a reminder to keep em checked over. 1 thing worth remembering generally is how metal bike parts tend...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 11:56 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The man who cycled the Americans
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2239
Re: The man who cycled the Americans
It is, despite my typo in the title!
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 9:24 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Pls keep an eye on your carbon forks/frames/bars!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4276
Re: Pls keep an eye on your carbon forks/frames/bars!
To be fair to Planet X they source from suppliers who make frames and forks for a lot of brands. But yeah, inspect stuff from time to time. The topic came up on STW and there's people saying essentially 'anything can break' and it reminded me that in the summer I found a 2″ crack on the bend of an A...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The man who cycled the Americans
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2239
The man who cycled the Americans
On BBC iPlayer now. Think it's quite an old documentary but I'd not seen it, enjoying it.
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 7:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: made possible by advent of ‘fatbikes’
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7108
Re: made possible by advent of ‘fatbikes’
*insert another facepalm gif*
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:33 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4900
- Views: 1191585
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
the discount was only taken off the bar bag
Ah well, thanks for the psa anyway. It didn't work on the bar bag either when I tried it at first.
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 1:08 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4900
- Views: 1191585
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Ah well.. saves me buying something I don't really need. I wanted the Roadrunner Jammer bag that they seem to have based the bar pack on but that's £160.
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 11:44 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4900
- Views: 1191585
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Hmm. Not working here - tried on a couple of barbags at checkout. Anyone else?
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:24 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Press fit help?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1703
Re: Press fit help?
What bike, out of interest?Instructions say use grease unless there is a possibility of creaking, then use a Loctite bearing compound.
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 4:25 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4900
- Views: 1191585
- Sat Nov 18, 2023 4:16 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Are you analogue?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 19805
Re: Are you analogue?
Ooh yes. Nice lug work or shaping, Rivendell style, always works for me.I must admit I quite like a touch of artistic embellishment to enhance the pleasure, maybe a bit of scrolling or something.