Cycling UK Forum

I think you meant something rather than some thing
(Perhaps there ought to be a grammar sub-forum/ghetto)

Not being a motorway does not mean, however, that cycling is always allowed on a road. The official term for motorways is "special roads" and there are a few special roads which do not have M classification. AFAIK, at least part of the A55 in North Wales is a special road. Otherwise, cycl...

A pet peev is the bicycle trade needlessly metricising imperial measurements. It's even more infuriating where it is done inconsistently: "Ah, you'd like to buy a stem. Do you have a 1 inch headset or a 1 1/8" headset? Are your bars 25.4mm or 31.8mm?" Tyres sizing is particularly rid...

A pet peev is the bicycle trade needlessly metricising imperial measurements. It's even more infuriating where it is done inconsistently: "Ah, you'd like to buy a stem. Do you have a 1 inch headset or a 1 1/8" headset? Are your bars 25.4mm or 31.8mm?" Tyres sizing is particularly ridi...

A possible solution to this is in horizon's own hands... He could also manually save each of the listings once evey month using the Wayback Machine. I can see how an archive might be useful but I think the benefit might be outweighed by the costs of having ancient small ads filling site searches an...

Every where you go you’ll encounter bag rats but some of them aren’t so bad. :D l What is a "bag rat" A countryman’s term for hikers ( often seen with a little pack on their backs) usually used by farmers who have well used paths running through their land. Not one I've come across in all...

Maybe this is the start of a new trend; thread titles telling you what the thread isn't about. Could make the For Sale board very entertaining: "I'm not selling a Dawes Galaxy, IGNORE THE TITLE READ THE LISTING"

Even a bell could reasonably be classed as part of a bike rather than an accessory. In the UK a bell is required to be fitted to every new bike sold and a bell is one of the international requirements for bicycle traffic under the Vienna Convention

It's been a while since I've carried one regularly but seeing this topic did make me google to see whether the small UK business I bought thermos cages from still existed. I'm glad to see that they are still around http://www.bikebuddy.co.uk/shop.asp and I'm happy to recommend them for your thermos ...

Slightly laborious but if the blogs are still online (or cached) it wouldn't be impracticable to copy and paste the text and reinsert the photos. I'm slightly surprised that you don't have these all meticulously archived.

s1965c wrote:Isn't the default answer to this Schwalbe Landcruisers?

+1

Tangled Metal wrote:There's some schwalbe marathon tyres with a bit of a nibble I think.

Marathon Mondial, Marathon Plus Tour

Anything else?

Schwalbe Silento & Hurricane. Conti CountryPlus

I've been looking for a rack pack for the Airy for years and this is the closest I've come to finding one. I really like the rack, but find even very small panniers too big and I like the solidity of a rack rather than a saddle bag Designs like the AIry are really not designed for a top bag, so as ...

I've yet to see a B&M road light without German (StVZO) approval. I also think I recall that the F marking denotes French approval. In the highly unlikely case that the light is French but not German compliant, the legality of the setup all depends on your interpretation of the laws. There is no...

I wonder if there might be something about the way that cycling tends to be a sport or a hobby in the UK. Deciding not to paay a premium does rather depend on knowing what you need to buy online, knowing how to fit it and being willing to spare the time. I'm guessing this is more true of keen UK cyc...

( and they were not wearing h*****s ). Why should pedestrians have to wear helmets to protect themselves from irresponsible cyclists? I'll remind you that walking is statistically almost as safe per-mile travelled as cycling is and we wouldn't dream of telling cyclists to wear helmets to protect th...