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Maybe I'm just a selfish so-and-so who simply doesn't like to share the pleasure of my chosen hobby, but all things considered I think I'll stick to my own company when I'm cycling - give it a go, Claire - you might like it! I missed the train to join a group bike ride yesterday and went for a slow...

I'm a lightweight (well actually quite the reverse) as I consider anything more than 40 feet per mile of climb to be hilly

I must admit that I am quite insistent in being able to take my Brompton anywhere and everywhere. When it is wet I do get quite embarrassed at how filthy it can be. It doesn't stop me taking it indoors though

These are mere numbers to me I'm afraid. From riding both bikes I made the assumption about geometry from the point of view that the Clubman was regarded as fairly relaxed by the standards of a full on road bike and that the Croix de Fer is fairly aggressive for a cross bike/potential tourer. In say...

Clairesmurf, i've just realised you are from cardiff, my wife and i live in maesteg. i would be happy to take you out on some rides to help build confidence, either with my wife, with a freind of yours or just you and i (my wife will depend on off duty). if you have an off road bike i can do skill ...

Two comments in this thread that I have written have been ignored, one I have been told I am wrong. Since my last post in the thread I see a member has made a fatuous comment about gender diversity. This thread is pushing me away not engaging me
Claire

After a couple of weeks of chatting readily he has gone quiet as he often does. A couple of texts and a Facebook message ignored or unread. Bike...you can't give them away apparently

Woman's hour is an anachronism and is an irrelevance to discussions as to how to engage women on this forum

Edited to add that is a bit blunt sorry

I've taken to locking my hardtail fork out for almost everything now and may yet buy a rigid fork. The gut wrenching part was probably not being used to the bike and turning in a little too quickly and feeling the fork compressing and the bike run wide.

johntea wrote:

keyboardmonkey wrote:
http://htrc.co.uk/2013/10/24/freewheele ... ns-report/

I like that

Great idea. Would love some video footage

Would this be a different outcome if it was Joe Public on the bike not a copper?
http://road.cc/content/news/107764-taxi ... -face-jail

I REALLY love freewheeling past people whether downhill or on the flat. A lot of people I know ride mountain bikes and heftier hybrids and are so dismissive of road bikes and tourers. To freewheel past them is a joy

It was changed last winter temporary to start for forestry work then floods but I think it is now permanent as there are new signs on the new route I have no idea where the new route is then as I have been using what sounds like the older one the 3 or 4 times I have done that section in the last ye...

The test I did around the car park wasn't that slow and the turns weren't that tight. I was trying to replicate the sort of turns you would need to do at many roundabouts, on shared paths etc. I live at the top of a 1970s estate that is on a fair sized hill and has a very twisty road going through i...

To balance out the technical stuff, could we do with encouraging more sharing of routes, including the files, more about bike friendly facilities etc.? I do appreciate technical stuff in order to learn more about the basics but I don't need to know more than the basics I ride gents' bikes as I am ta...