Cycling UK Forum

Breakwellnz wins. One bearing cage utterly mangled.

Nah, I unshipped the chain before I started investigating. It's a Raleigh hardtail, front sus only, for the record.

Son #2's bike - turning the pedals backwards is fine, turning forwards is stiff. It's (in the normal way of putting 40 year old tech on kids' bikes) a cup and cone; I shall probably just stick a cheap cartridge in there. If I can find a box spanner to remove the crank nuts (yes, nuts, it's one of th...

Had it when running and cycling but when it happen on a long distance kayak race my paddle partner was ex special forces got out, chased them down and threw two of them in the river in March. I doubt they fired catapults at anyone for a while. I know it was probably illegal but it did give a warm g...

Wasn't that Topic and a hazlenut in every bite? Also true of squirrel poo of course.

I have a 14 mile each way commute and don't bother with a drink except in the very hottest weather. Not needed. The bottled water culture has made us think we'll shrivel and die if we go half an hour without a drink but it just ain't so.

That is a spectacularly bad piece of driving though, isn't it?

I'd be requiring a retest.

I daresay smoother shifting would be nice, but I'm not willing to pay an extra grand for it. And that's the problem; marginal gains costing several times the price of my bike. Possibly worth it for racing where seconds over a hundred miles matter, but otherwise no.

So if I buy a £2000 Mercian, Bob Jackson, Dave Yates, etc. I am being ripped off? Or perhaps I am paying a lot for the experience, good materials, quality crafmanship? :wink: I'm not even suggesting Btwin is the answer for the chap. But don't get out of context here. A Btwin 500 series is a lot of ...

Nice that she wants to ride. My gut feeling is ride on the path but that does have issues - legally whilst your daughter can ride quite legally there if her bike has 20" or smaller wheels you can't. Don't know where this "20" wheel" thing comes from; I've heard it before, but it...

Many road schemes e.g. the Holbon Theobald’s Road /Bloomsbury Way bus lane. This scheme ban cyclist in the bus lane because it was too narrow even though a similar scheme further up the road in New Oxford Street was narrower and did permit cyclist. They did not carry out road safety audit on the al...

That road's fine for cyclibg if people drive bearing their responsibilities in mind, as didn't happen there. That driver needs banning.

Tot up the cost, then write to her outlining the costs and the negligence alleged (ie why it was her fault), together with the suggestion she pass it on to her insurers.

You let your preoccupation with eyeing the first driver get the better of you; the second incident was easily predictable; the driver probably took the view that you shouldn't have slipped in front of the stop line and should be made to wait. Yes, I know, but it's human nature. Try not to give the i...

It's because there are sub-£100 bikes, and in virtually every other field - toasters, kettles, cars, tellies - the cheapest ones are actually perfectly adequate for most people. The only other field I can think of with lots of cheap tat that's not really fit for purpose is smartphones, where there a...