I am not very in touch with cycle racing. I used to find it more interesting to read about it than watch it. To illustrate my ignorance, I am watching O Gran Cumino, and I noticed the race bikes all had disc brakes. How long has this been? It is probably a good safety thing. Beloki's crash when his tyre came off, partly owing to the heat generated by his rim brakes, makes me wince whenever I think of it.

Well today's planned 30 mile and 4000ft ended up 35 miles and 5000ft due to the bloody council closing the road for repairs.
If I'd known I'd have gone a different route 😠

I think it's important to have something to complain about 😆

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Hill Wimp said:

Seasonal depression has hit.

Click to expand..

Sending you and

[Part 3 of the thread originally started by Mondobongo - http://www.cyclechat..ciation-part-1/ + http://www.cyclechat..ciation.39458/ ]

If you listen to Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie of an evening then you will already know what this is all about. For those that don't you start with a song another song is then linked to the previous could be as simple as same/similar words artist in a different band or you could really go off on a tangent. All the songs..

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There's a little thing that doesn't bother us at first, like a little foible we find endearing in a loved one until it grows beyond tolerance and makes you want to plunge a red hot poker into thei....but then becomes a MAJOR annoyance.

I'm going to go for the trivialest (is that a word? It is now!) thing that causes the most annoyance; i-pod and i-pad. Not the items themselves but their words! They are TOO similar and inevitably lead to you saying one when really, you are trying to say..

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Bent the front mudguard on my commuter bike recently so just fitted a new one using the fixings from the old one which had already been bent around to suit the disc brake.

This was achieved using:

Tool kitKitchen as workshopMug of teaRock and roll on the stereoMinimum swearing

I'm currently at some indeterminate point through an enormous mid-life crisis and as such have a new-found interest in dressing "well"; having been exclusively a "T-shirt and combats" kind of bloke for as long as I can remember.

As such (and being one four-pack of Kronies deep currently) I'm intrigued to hear of what all you blokes like to wear - and of course what the ladies like to see us in

I'm currently flying high having sourced a couple of pretty nice charity shop suits and..

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Oasis. Yawn. Two nasaly Mancunian brothers who are a bit full of themselves, but managed to sell a few records in the 90's..
Thirty years later, and they must have received a tax bill or something similar. Because every time I turn on the TV news or the radio, there is something on about their reunion concerts. Followed by another of their tunes, in the case of radio coverage.
Are we going to get this for a full year in the lead up to the concerts? If so, my Spotify subscription is going..

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The latest series of '7 Up' has made me wonder what other forum members were doing at seven year intervals in their lives. This is what I was doing:

7 - I was a happy child at a very good school on the Welsh Borders.

14 - I was now at an extremely unpleasant school in the Midlands full of nutters and freaks. The pupils weren't much better. I stopped being rather prim and proper and started to follow the punk movement. It would have a detrimental affect on the rest of my life.

21 - I..

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Hello. One thing I have found useful during lockdown is building Lego.
I found myself suffering from anxiety and this helps! I got myself a Classic Lego set and I am now building lots of different models.
Does anyone else on here use Lego? I always loved it as a child. There's loads of ideas online.
Please post some pics fellow Lego modellers!

After a couple of hours on the bike, my neck and shoulders hurt.
What do I need to adjust to correct it?
A bike fit is expensive and nobody round my way does it anyway so it would involve another petrol expense too.
I would be grateful for any tips you could give me.

I find two-way zippers a fight to do back up once they’ve been unzipped all the way. Which gilets have a one-way zip? Or is it de rigueur for today’s cyclist to have a two-way zip for sartorial acceptability?

I've been very kindly gifted an expensive bottle of single malt. I'm generally a rum drinker and never really tried a whisky that I like. Should I keep it for value, see if I can exchange it or do you think being a very good one I might like it?

Life long cyclist - Audax and club rider : tours to France and a gravel adventurer..
But never a fixed ..
Can someone tell me if a 46 front tooth and a 17 or 18 tooth rear is easy for flats (spinning) or a good point to start on ?!?
I am looking at the Dolan FXE with a flip flop single speed same 17 or 18 on rear
Thanks

Salmon steaks with new potatoes, broccoli, peas and asparagus, a sprig of parsley and a squeeze of lemon.

What did you get up to in the kitchen?

As @Drago has his Volvo thread, l thought l’d start this, as l’m sat here in our self-catering ‘cottage’ (stone terrace)

We’re in Felton, which is part-way between Morpeth & Alnwick
It was on The Great North Road & not bypassed until 1981!


‘Background’ aside

This is how many there are here
(the black Kodiaq is mine)


Plus;
Superb estate out of shot, to my left
2 x Yetis up the road

A house with a Rapid & Fabia in the yard

Skoda City!!!

A thread specially for 'persons of leisure' and independent means, or those with aspirations.
How do you while away those lazy days?
How do you cope financially?
When did you retire?
Is retirement what you expected?
How long did you take to adjust?
Etc.

Tell us what you are up to today or what plans you have.
Or just have a bit of silliness to while away those lazy hours.

I've been busy today. Hilly 15 mile ride in North Devon, took dog for a stroll along Saunton Sands, cut the front lawn..

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I will start the ball rolling.

Lily, our ginger long hair. (She has currently got 3 male cats after her one jet black, one pale ginger, and one black and white. The black and white one hass actually been inside the house).

***** ColinJ's forum rider tag list *****
Fellow forum riders, I am planning another ride!
@colly, @neil_merseyside, @Sea of vapours, @Domus, @Julia9054, @Spiderweb, @Slioch, @EasyPeez, @Kestevan, @Venod, @Soltydog, @NorthernDave, @Buck, @si_c, @videoman, @FrothNinja, @Vantage, @Dadam, @Jameshow, @Pennine-Paul

If anybody wants their name to be..

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Mod Note:
Opening post slightly modified at the request of @ColinJ.
Hope I did it correctly

The object of this game is to identify where a photograph was taken. It should be taken on a public road which you have ridden in the UK, or somewhere very interesting that you would like to ride one day. (It's not that I don't like seeing photos from round the world but we really don't stand much chance of identifying (for example) a dirt road to a small temple in Vietnam!)

It would..

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2008 sees the cycling institution that was the Cycling Plus Century A Month Challenge moving to Cycle Chat and you and your bike are more than welcome to participate. Simply stick your name down in this thread. Any questions not answered by the rules below, post them here

The concept is simple:

Ride at least one century in each calendar month through 2008.

The rules:

-A century is a single ride of at least 100.0 miles as measured on a reasonably accurate..

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I am in my sixties. Annoyingly Strava age brackets are 55-65 which seems crazy to me - how on earth can I compete with a 55 year old me? that guy was pretty damn quick!

But there is a popular segment near me which is tasking me. I have started back up with Strava and noticed last week that the fastest time is just under 3 mins for the over 55s - I had a crack at this last week from a standing start and was 7s off the pace.

How I can get faster (I think)
- First and foremost is some..

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