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Save yourself a load of trouble and ditch the terious. Those things are terrible. It's almost impossible to get the right amount of pressure on them for smooth steering and even when it is done they're rough as a cheese grater and prone to debris getting past the seals. If you do stick with it, I go...

I'm 44, stroke survivor and average less than 10 mph having cycles all my life.
I wish I was as fit as you
Good going sir!

Richard Ballantine made a point in his book that we are safer when keeping up with the flow of traffic. A rare case of being safer the faster we go. I'm a sedate cyclist averaging less than 10mph and I do find that drivers get impatient with my snail like progress. I've given up riding on a certain ...

There was a thread on here some time ago asking how often our cables get changed and why. Someone (I can't remember who) thought it odd that I and others did so roughly once a year because I (can't remember the others reasons) feared a cable failure anywhere along its route where it was hidden. I wa...

Seems like no matter which option I'd clarified you'd have skewed my statement.
I'll leave it there thanks.

Why is it dangerous for a dog to be off its lead? I'm genuinely interested as most dogs I meet are perfectly friendly and not violent. Where are these large open spaces you speak of? There's country parks of course but not everyone is within walking distance of them. If someone isn't a dog lover th...

You'd have to ask them Rob. Maybe they like the control they have over their dogs. Maybe they're training their dogs. Maybe they're not too confident with their dogs. Maybe their dogs are nuts. Or more stupid than others. Who knows. We as cyclists expect the bigger, faster moving vehicles (cars etc...

Not quite the same, when I'm cycling I don't expect cars to take so much caution so that they can avoid me in case I decide to randomly swerve randomly all over the road, without looking or indicating, or cycle across a junction without looking, or from the pavement onto the road, or to chase cars ...

You'd have to ask them Rob. Maybe they like the control they have over their dogs. Maybe they're training their dogs. Maybe they're not too confident with their dogs. Maybe their dogs are nuts. Or more stupid than others. Who knows. We as cyclists expect the bigger, faster moving vehicles (cars etc)...

It's a shared use path so one would expect users to share the space. Letting your dog off its lead is not sharing the space as it is not only dangerous, it's annoying for non-dog lovers. If people want to let their dogs off the lead then they should find an appropriate large space where they can sa...

Fellow dog owner and cyclist here. Someone once said that accidents don't just happen. Someone is always to blame and on that view, as a cyclist you have a duty to be on the ball constantly. Expect the unexpected as they say. Dogs should be treated in the same way you would treat a young child. They...

Personal preference I suppose. On the easier breathing claim I would agree. I can't say I go threading the bike through trees. I'm as likely to hit the things if I was riding a razor blade such are my bike handling skills, but on rocky/muddy/loose surfaces I definitely find it easier to control the ...

I've never understood that shoulder thing.
How does that work on on a flat bar bike such as a hybrid or mountain bike?
I deliberately went for a wide bar to facilitate a bar bag and for more control over rough ground.

As above, one bar may be OK for one but hell for another. However, I've been very happy using these for the last year or so.
https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m9b0s90p344 ... I-Speciale
26mm and up to 460mm wide.