Cycling UK Forum

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rogerzilla wrote:Ah, but if you were riding, you would be. Frame steel is pretty good as a spring.

Yeah. What is wrong with a bit of flex? If you are flexing something that is reasonably efficient as a spring, i.e. the energy put into flexing is largely returned by the unflexing, then outside of Cavendish style sprint situations, I don't see the problem. The idea put forward by the cycling comics that flex is somehow lost energy is completely wrong.

Big T wrote:I transferred most of the bits onto a Falcon Black Diamond frame, which then got stolen!

Ahh... Falcon Black Diamond. Around 1980. Mine got stolen too.

Coffee wrote:Has a single carriage way with a lane for each direction got the same speed limit of 60mph as a single country lane (roughly potholed, road surface a mix of cement,tarmac,gravel) wide enough for one car (+ a foot or two between cycle handlebars) and a few passing bays dotted along it....still 60mph?

I'm used to cars slowing to pass me, head on or behind if we aren't near a bay, it's a lot easier to cycle/drive closer to the verge at slower speeds and give each other space but lately its like a game of chicken at 60mph+.

I ride on lanes like that quite often. You have to use judgement, but when appropriate I do as "Cyclecraft" suggests and keep to the centre of the road until a passing place is reached, or until the car slows right down.

Try Philip's Navigator series, they are 1:100,000.

You can stiffen the suspension by putting one or two jubilee clips around the rubber block.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by "light off road"?

There is a big difference between riding down tow paths, well used relatively smooth off road paths, unmade farm tracks, etc on the one hand, and actually riding over branches, jutting stones, etc in the middle of the woods on the other hand.

There are exceptions, but for the most part, it is as simple as

cross bike = "new" = cool

tourer = "old" = dorky

When I spoke to one LBS a couple of years ago, asking specifically for a light tourer, I was steered towards a "comfort road bike" and away from an audax machine, even though the latter was clearly more suitable for my needs. When asked what was wrong with the audax machine, the only reason given was "it looks like a tourer".

I went to another LBS, because I did a lot of bike riding in my younger days and my bullsh*t detector was activated. Less confident buyers will be swayed by this sort of thing.

I don't mean to imply that everyone who buys a cross bike makes the wrong choice; just that many who do are misled.

What about the counterargument that the rule only applies where there are two or more lanes going in the same direction, and in the absence of a marked cycle lane there is only one lane? So that in those circumstances the more general rule prohibiting overtaking on the left applies?

I am aware of the common sense rules for filtering on the left, but want to understand the legal position better.

The Highway Code states (rule 163):

"stay in your lane if traffic is moving slowly in queues. If the queue on your right is moving more slowly than you are, you may pass on the left "

I take it from this that where there is a marked cycle lane (and therefore two lanes in total), the Highway Code allows filtering on the left of stationary or slow moving cars.

But what if there is no marked cycle lane, and the road is wide enough to allow a line of cars plus a line of cycles? Does the rule above still allow filtering on the left?

I have a problem with a F*CK U attitude to poor (dangerous) driving, regardless of vehicle.

And, well driven or not, there is something of a F*CK U attitiude to many drivers of 4x4 cars - but not all of them (I live in the country). Even if you drive a 4x4 for a good reason, you should be sensitive to that.

So I think a F*CK U message on the back of any car is in poor taste. A F*CK U message on the back of 4x4 is in poor taste twice over.

Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub?

Cheaper than a Schlumpf

glueman wrote:If you are seriously fit, never carry luggage or venture outside your geographical or physical limits, a double will do you fine.
Triples do give better chain lines in lower gears and weigh almost nothing extra so concensus favours them.

An excellent summary. But you missed out one other condition under which a double would be "suitable", namely:

If you think, or would like others to think, that you are seriously fit, even though you are not.

rest in peace

There's really no need for all this maths.

Stand naked in front of a mirror. Jump.

If it wobbles and it shouldn't, you are overweight.

If it is still wobbling after 10 seconds, you are obese.