Cycling UK Forum

You won't go far wrong with Alpkit. Best performance to price there is.

Slow moving vehicles are supposed to pull over 'where safe to do so' and let traffic behind pass when the queue becomes bigger than around 15 vehicles.

This means, on double whites and bends, the convoy should continue as they are until a layby, wide section of road or similar presents its self and allow traffic to pass, then continue on.

I think the support car would come under this directive. The cyclist would then continue alone for a while until the support vehicle caught up again.

Not doing so simply alienates more drivers against cyclists and cements further animosity with those drivers already anti cycling.

I would say if the LEJOG rider is capable of riding 100 miles a day, they are experienced cyclists capable of riding a mile or so unsupported. Or have they done every mile of training also with a support car right behind them

What a beautiful reminice.

I miss those days 'when I was a lad', riding on warm summer days on country lanes, little traffic, butterflies everywhere. 5 speed racer (not light) - 10 speed if you were lucky.

Enjoying the ride.

Not thinking whether the drivetrain needs tweaking or wishing you had this years Ultegra 10 speed instead of the 9 speed Tiagra you have to 'put up with'.

The last charidee ride I did was the Great Yorkshire Bike Ride 10 years ago (near Leeds to the east coast, approx 75 miles I think). Just too busy. Not my thing now really. But in the early days it was a good ride.

Not everything was better 30 years ago. But the outdoors, walking, climbing, cycling, seemed to be so much more stress and kit free than it is now. Sure we have lovely bikes now (I love mine) but the sheer simplicity of getting out of bed, putting on an ordinary pair of shorts, T shirt and simple leather shoes, grab the bike and gone. Couple of mars bars from the first open shop.
Yet the enjoyment was just as much as it is now, more so in a lot of ways.

The above just brought it all back to me and the reason I started riding as a kid in the first place. Especially riding and seeing the butterflies in the hedgerows traffic hassle free.

Sorry for the off ish topic but my prose here is the very reason I don't do the big organised rides anymore. For me they have all morphed into the opposite of the intention of the relaxed enjoyment they were set up to provide, whilst raising money, in the first place.

Peter

I prefer getting out a bit more with girls.

In winter i regularly use Mc D for breakfast. Whats wrong with it?








Quaker porridge oats, freshly made, 99p. Gets my vote.

^^^^^ Wot E said

'Pr0stitute' sauce has chilli and usually anchovies in and is tomato based.

probably why planet x are knocking them out at £7 just now

My question above refers to Boss bike stands.

Ribble do the aluminium stand for £50 ish

Ribble also do a fixed steel stand for the same price under the Boss brand and more importantly
they do a folding Boss stand in steel for £62, similar design to the aluminium stand.

I would have thought the folding steel stand would be stiffer and strongre than the ali stand so unless you need the lightness of ali to transport it, the steel Boss stand for another tenner would be a better bet.

Can't find any reviews of this Ribble Boss steel stand anywhere. Hence the question has anyone bought one or seen one?

I think everyone buys the ali stand and are unaware the steel stands exist at more or less the same price.

What about the Boss stands from wiggle? The steel folding one is £10 more than the ali version but would be stronger I would have thought, £62

Anybody have one?

bike trailer

New chain, new chain set (cranks, chainrings, fixed sprocket), New wheels (hand built by Colin 531).

Chain line is spot on to a millimeter.

Maybe the maestro might have an idea. I know some chains do run noisier than other brands, perhaps Wipperman is one of them?

Forgot to say to ferrit (op), nice cheap idea to give chains a good clean when they need it. I like a bit of thinking to save money!


I've a wipperman on the fixie, 1/8 because the chainring is 1/8, all new stronglight chainset and new wipperman connex chain (£9 one). it's really noisy on the sprocket. tried it with 1/8 and 3/16 sprockets, slack, medium, tight. No difference. The rest of the build is silent but the chain noise ruins the 'silent cruise' out on the flatlands of Sherburn in E etc.

Do you think it's worth trying a different brand?

I know 1/8 can be noisy but my last fixie I had for 20 years (nicked recently hence the new build on an old 531 frame) was 1/8 yet silent. it's the fly in the ointment on an otherwise lovely ride.

Thanks for the info chaps. Interesting product. I'll have to try some.

So just to clarify, you don't use any cleaning product, just continually use the lube above with occasional wipe with a rag to clean everything up and keep excess away to stop attracting dirt. Nothing else, no separate cleaning?

531colin wrote:......................

.......................is the easy way!

Colin, always listen to what you have to say ( and you've built me some smashing wheels over the years, the latest 36 spoke fixie set didn't even ping and tweak when I rode the first 100 metres and haven't murmured anything over 1000 miles. Rock solid )

So I take it the above product must really work! I just find it hard to believe that applying fluid will properly clean and keep grinding paste away from the pins without cleaning. I can see the wax paste theory but only with a cleaning regime as well.

Is it really that good? I'm not convinced.