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Front brakes are always more effective than back. IIRC about 2/3 of braking force is supplied by the front brake & only 1/3 by the rear.

"Swift, precise and wrong" - a favourite of an old development boss of mine.

"Step by step goes a long way". My Audax philosophy, lifted from a novel about the Cathars - pas à pas, ça va leung.

You can see his 5 o'clock shadow in the trailer.

mercalia wrote:MAN OF STEEL is the best Superman film?

good soundtrack

I find myself wondering how he shaves - Gilette Kryptonite blades?

https://www.tredz.co.uk/.Giant-Surelock-Air-Loop-Combination-Cable-Lock_68329.htm?sku=206271&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=google_shopping&gclid=CjwKCAiAyrXiBRAjEiwATI95makFsF5mWfJZoflgu99hruftZV0C5ovInMcdrs6uWWRQqTgGH_jighoC0jgQAvD_BwE Any views to how effective the...

If your bike is a road bike: Get yourself a pair of Lycra cycling shorts, the kind with shoulder straps. Wear them without underpants - the shorts are designed for cycling, underpants aren't and have all kinds of seams in the wrong places - and provide yourself with some kind of skin lubricant, e.g....

I am very much a rhythm type rider, the first 100 yards of any ride seems to determine my speed for the rest of the ride.For example I started a ride last year that went straight into 1000ft of climbing in the forest of Bowland, I crawled up at about 8mph and was delighted every time I got up to 10...

charliepolecat wrote:Audax67, It looks magical.

Thanks! I wouldn't change it. Here are a couple more:





Not to say that there aren't ugly industrial bits as well, but they're easily avoided.

He has a lovely nape, though. Paging the Headsman of Calais!

Yoofs buy Lps just for the kudos or art work but never play them as they dont have a record player. We've got a loft full of records - LPs, EPs and singles. A few dating back to the early 60s when I first started buying them. Well worn and tired, but we've not had a record player for twenty years. ...

slowster wrote:Obviously if it's new from a shop, you could take it back and ask them to fix it.

This above all. If you touch it they'll be all "ah well, if you've changed it..."

Long may they stay your side of the Channel. Though we do have our own thieves, of course.

I suppose we're rather spoilt around here: the nearest city is Strasbourg, around 50 km away. We live on the edge of a thickly-forested conservation area that stretches over 100 km end-to-end: quiet roads are easy to find, cycle paths are common and the Vosges mountains are within easy distance on a...

Two points:

1. Offered one of these I know which one I'd take, and it wouldn't be the $1000 effort
2. Last time I developed a constant 300W on the flat Shimano hadn't discovered indexing

I greatly enjoyed this:

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