Cycling Related

I know someone who had been taking his carbon bike to Majorca for training camps every year, until the frame got broken in transit (on the way out, even more unfortunately). After that he never travelled a bike on an airline again.

Lullabelle wrote: ↑

5 years ago

I am drinking wine

Maybe we need a wine thread?

Lullabelle wrote: ↑

5 years ago

I have bought a smaller book.

Good solution! Small books are best for holiday reading.

Markymark wrote: ↑

5 years ago

But if you say you can’t brake using the drops then won’t an adjustment help or is it set perfectly fir the hoods and you just never use the drops?

Sorry, is that not what I said?

It’s not just braking to be on the drops although I find it helps, but I get better control of the steering, grip and can move my weight around easier on faster turns to get my grip. Are your brake levers too far out as you can sometimes adjust them? The brake levers on all my bikes are adjusted ju...

Isn't it funny how styles differ? I always brake from the hoods, even in situations where I need to brake hard, and find braking from the drops next to impossible (not that I ever really use the drops anyway - I think they're just there to attach a banana to).

Dunckel wrote: ↑

5 years ago

Or just put the whole thing in my bag and get me to carry it.

Ah, you've moved the goalposts now! I got the impression that wasn't an option

Lullabelle wrote: ↑

5 years ago

My suitcase is packed ready for next weekend. I bought a Stephen King book to read on the long flight but it is too big to fit in my cabin bag..doh!

Cut the book in half down the spine and put the other half in Dunckel's bag?

Well, I did my trip to Cambs last week, and cycled from Royston to St Ives as planned. The track I was asking about is the old road, now marked as a bridleway, and I would have explored it except that it was raining at the time and I wanted to get on. The main road was busy but not overly so compare...

Me, riding a friend's Surly fat bike on a Scottish beach. It was fun!

Send our best wishes.....I hope FoL improves soon and the procedure is effective. We are just waiting for the results of a PET scan of the pancreas for my mum.....I'm trying not to think the worst. Getting old is a real bore. Amen to that, and best wishes to all indisposed Olds. (Years ago a friend...

Thanks Rocky! I was happy to think I helped him, although at the time it was a bit nerve-wracking as he clearly thought I was some kind of bicycle expert which I am very much not. I just wanted to get the wheels turning, and let Halfords deal with the rest of whatever the problem was (which I suspec...

While I was walking back from the shops today I met a young man looking very flustered and a bit exhausted, carrying what turned out to be a brand-new Apollo mountain bike that he'd picked up from Halfords earlier and on the other side of town. Apparently as he was nervously trying to ride it home h...

Reduced for quick sale in Tesco, London Beer Factory Berliner Heist, raspberry and blackberry Berliner weisse. It's pink! Also quite sour and delicious.

I'm waiting for a train in Salisbury, having bailed on a 300km audax. My heart started racing for no apparent reason, even when descending. Seeing 200+bpm when my maximum is 185 was disconcerting, to say the least. Still, 200km done and I had time for a pint, so not a total disaster. You weren't a ...