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- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:13 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New (carbon?) wheels
- Replies: 24
- Views: 730
Re: New (carbon?) wheels
My choice would be DT Swiss hubs the ratchet is quieter( near silent) than the pawls.( not a hope but can be heard). I dont like the noisy freewheels /Hope types. Alloy rims but i am 63 kg and dont break them. Carbon just seem more expensive for limited gain. I build my own wheels so not loyal to an...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: OT: Camper van European route planning showing elevation
- Replies: 3
- Views: 174
Re: OT: Camper van European route planning showing elevation
Garmin connect will give you elevation data and ypu can your own route or upload a gpx ( and others) file and it will follow roads when routing Can do whole world as just did a route in france to test. Cycle. Travel website does same ( with ability to select via points) and you can export file to ga...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wheelset choice
- Replies: 4
- Views: 225
Re: Wheelset choice
What wheelset?
I have a Prime Baroudeur Disc Rear( Wiggle) about 2 months old running a 38 mm tubeless without issue. Freewheel ia not the quickest to pick up but its fine. Not overly noisy nor is it silent.
I have a Prime Baroudeur Disc Rear( Wiggle) about 2 months old running a 38 mm tubeless without issue. Freewheel ia not the quickest to pick up but its fine. Not overly noisy nor is it silent.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:29 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wheelset choice
- Replies: 4
- Views: 225
Re: Wheelset choice
Both will work. We iuaed to have 19mm rims witj mtb tyres.at 2.3 and above.
Realiatically do you want hooked or hookless
MHO ( though I ride road) inwould het narrowwr as they wojld alsonwork with narrow ish road tyres)
Realiatically do you want hooked or hookless
MHO ( though I ride road) inwould het narrowwr as they wojld alsonwork with narrow ish road tyres)
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: They have finally arrived
- Replies: 8
- Views: 482
Re: They have finally arrived
It's not like any outset stuff looks good but boy does it work
Pricey though and lightweight would be better as otherwise I think it will be too warm ( esp for summer storms)
Pricey though and lightweight would be better as otherwise I think it will be too warm ( esp for summer storms)
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:01 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WTD: hope QR end caps
- Replies: 5
- Views: 193
Re: WTD: hope QR end caps
DM me your address and cover the postage
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:56 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WTD: hope QR end caps
- Replies: 5
- Views: 193
Re: WTD: hope QR end caps
I have some ( front and rear) that come from a pro2 evo set ( rear 142 swapped out fine from a 4 to a 2) but not 100% certain they are swappable and only have 2's so cannot check.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:32 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3543
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
My point was, poorly expressed, he is against many green/renewables whether near him or not.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:16 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3543
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Idiot ( and a petrol head iirc who did a weird rant on electric vehicles as well )I liked the DM pictures of lycra louts... Daily Mail never knowingly honest
Think he is more detached from facts than a Nimby
Think he is more detached from facts than a Nimby
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3543
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
I just have in mind a certain local TV celeb
Who?
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:06 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3543
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Not really sure nimby helps the the debate( why not convince them its a good idea which will be considerably harder than using a pithy label for objecting ) and I don't know of anyone or community volunteering for the waste to be buried where they live. Saying the waste is " vanishingly small&q...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3543
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Your use of the word nukes shows you are already biased against nuclear power I used it as my dyslexia was kicking in and forgot if it was nucleur or nuclear so went with an abbreviation ( but yes I have concerns of what to do with the waste. Which I see as a legitimate question and you as bias. Fr...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:03 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3543
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Indeed NW and the same attitude leads to the Amazon being chopped down ( to grow soya (protein) for animal feed! ( protein)) so locals can benefit. ( allegedly but not as much as multinationals) Humanity cannot just keep putting our ( short term ) needs first at some point we have to see the bigger ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3543
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
When you have your storage solution for the waste material we can discuss nukes ( not to mention the colossal concrete costs.) it's at least 10000 years of safe storage we require with no solution so far.. Burying it is likely to be required but who is volunteering. for that in their area. Nukes are...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3543
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Depends how long it is before we start trying to save things ( all of us having something worth saving even if it's just yourself)Like I said earlier ... how long before there's nothing worth saving?
We won't reach a point where humanity collectively throws in the towel and we all go to dignitas.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:30 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3543
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
[quote the real key is reducing demand, t. [/quote]
In the future cars and heating are going to be electric so that reduction is going to happen. Green renewable energy is the only solution and it's going to be built where it's generally windy.
In the future cars and heating are going to be electric so that reduction is going to happen. Green renewable energy is the only solution and it's going to be built where it's generally windy.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3543
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Yes it will be awful and yes some flowers and animals will become extinct but if the alternative is for my children and grand children to become extinct then I'm afraid the plants and animals will have to go. Its not quite that binary but at some point humans have to learn to live in partnership wi...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Alternative Winter Ride Event Thing - Pentlands edition
- Replies: 14
- Views: 971
Re: Alternative Winter Ride Event Thing - Pentlands edition
Should have asked nicely then Phil Well my attempt lasted 4 miles ( and a walk home) Rear mech jammed chain locking wheel - chain slipped between cage and a jockey wheel I think - and removing mech from hanger and bent beyond repair the mech Thankfully it was a slow uphill and not flat out so no dam...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4932
- Views: 1230974
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Got two of theirs and like them both and think the ethics are genuine and better those that try than Amazon or Planet X who don't even try / care.
I suspect this is just to reach a bigger audience and clear some atixknrather than anything to worry about ( hope so as not many ethical brands about)
I suspect this is just to reach a bigger audience and clear some atixknrather than anything to worry about ( hope so as not many ethical brands about)
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Narrow-wide chainrings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 511
Re: Narrow-wide chainrings
Some of the newer mechs ( 12 speed xtr) the non clutch mode is very floppy and really exists for wheel removal. ( tend to have sram* so no on off option)
* not loyalty it just seems to be on the bikes I buy.
* not loyalty it just seems to be on the bikes I buy.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Narrow-wide chainrings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 511
Re: Narrow-wide chainrings
Certainly don't drop chains now but had one bike, forget which one, that needed a chain guide with narrow wide
They do work well though
They do work well though
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:43 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3543
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Mid Wales was never worth savingdo sometimes wonder how long it'll be until there's nothing left worth saving.
Realistically we all need to reduce usage( plane flights, car drives, new shiny bike bits etc) and hardly anyone is prepared to do it at the level required to save things.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:37 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 535
- Views: 30651
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Got out last night. Sneaked out late ish ( after 10j to the only hide I know near here.. Was up early to avoid the dog walkers and won't repeat as the birds were noisy ( it's barely a lake.) Fell asleep listening to pod casts to drown out noise and flattened the phone so no pics. Would have been les...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3543
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
not all proposed locations are ideal true but they have to go somewhere and every area will have objectors. They tried to frack locally to me* I get both sides of the argument but reneqbles are a bit more essential than more fossil fuels ( but I was an objector) * they did till they had earthquakes...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3543
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
[SARCASM] WELL YOU ARE WRONG AREN'T YOU [/SARCASM] Problem is we can preserve(save) a planet or that view Energy reduction is also part of the issue but the townies won't do that as no one wants the changes we need to do to save the planet not you not the dishwasher using twomy with an 8 ft TV. Two ...