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A place to get Lumicycle lights at the best prices? Can't seem to find that many vendors! Prob gonna go for this... http://www.lumicycle.com/product/222/10000001/led3si-pro52-bag-system.html The fact my brother is an electronics egineer made me sway away from Chinese made stuff. His company has had ...

Great watch, if only it was still this way eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyz5d3entBw

I think during the day I'll be fine, but when your in the valleys around 7pm my knees start to ache a bit with the cold.

Ian (28 going on 68)

Went for a 40miler last night north of Leeds up around Otley and Norwood Edge. All I can say is that it is definately the last time I'll be wearing shorts for this year!

Time to once again don the frogman outfit

Very busy in Aldi around teh biek section today. Reckon anyone wanting anything should head down there ASAP!

Can I just say that I am actually quite shocked at how cheap a decent set of hand built touring wheels cost. I was expecting to have to pay in the region of £200 plus.

All this talk of spoke fatigue etc has given me the fear. I think I'll just get some built by Harry afer a discussion with what my requirements are, with his advice and experience thrown in I think it'll be well worth the money

Any idea how much he would charge for a set of touring wheels? Just a rough ball park would do

Couldnt find this in the forum so thought I'd post it up.

http://www.localgov.co.uk/index.cfm?met ... &id=106737

No shock to me, which is a shame

Hi. If it is a long term, high mileage set you are looking for then please consider Terry Rowland. I bought a bike with them already fitted and have been sooooooo impressed (and Ive had a load of bikes and cycle a long way each year) They are incredibly well made, solid and smooth. Where would I ge...

That's horrendous. Glad you're OK. Give em hell!

Thanks for that thirdcrank. I think the question probably can be changed to 'a good set of strong touring wheels'. The 501 hubs are very nice but I doubt I will use them as all my current bikes are cassettes and I'd like to continue the theme. There is a bike jumble near to me in a few weeks so I'll...

It'd be 700c x 32 tyre. I could cold set the rear triangle but I'd rather just fit a 130 in as it's currently a 126. Not sure of the rim width but just standard (?), can go and measure in a few hours if required. I may wish to go a bit bigger on the tyres in future depending on terrain but I'm stick...

Well basically I'm after a hub which has a cassette rather than screw on but had these in the draw and thought I would ask people's opion on using them for touring. When touring I usually have a full Super C set of panniers and a tent on the rear rack also, this puts a fair bit of strain on the rear...

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Wish I'd seen this post yesterday, just wrapped my bars!