Cycling UK Forum

Bicycler wrote:People went mountain biking before suspension.

People went down bridleways and canal paths on road bikes, before mountain bikes came along.

How far back do you wanna go with this?

If you put a 32/36h wheelset on and something like 25c Marathon Plus (that have an all purpose tread) I can't see why going down trails would be that bad, you'd just have to learn how to handle skinny tyres on a trail. Handling will be harder but damaging the bike or being bumped around, I wouldn't be too worried about.

My only concern would be the wheels not having enough spokes, mine are only 20/24h, but why are the potholes along canal paths and trails any worse than English roads anyway - they aren't! There's potholes not even 100M from my house that will just bend the rear wheel if you went over it too fast. On my street there's a grid running parallel to the kerb as well. I have never in my life seen anything that dangerous on a canal path or bridleway! Yet there it is right on my street.

Some parts of the UK's roads are just ridiculous. Like riding over a load of 1cm cubes or something, except the cubes are stuck there... they call it "tarmac" lol. All peeling away in layers.

The fact that people are still talking about politics in the same way as they always have done, with the amount of information now available to us in 2015 showing how corrupt these people all are, shows the effect this bunch of crooks have had on people over the decades and the effect the media can have when presenting these people in a certain way.

You could replace the Government with random people and it would run smoother.

What about all the secret societies these people are involved with?
How come that never gets brought up when these people are on Question Time?
Why would you even consider taking their policies seriously knowing this about them?
What about the fact that every single one just lies?
Does anyone even care anymore?

People almost LAUGH at the fact that our politicians are lying to us. Maybe because we have to. Most things people can't deal with... they will try to laugh off. Doesn't make the problem go away though does it.

People say absurd stuff like "Yeah they are all lying, but what can you do, I'm still voting" well that makes you just as bad as them, you deserve to live in an awful country with huge debts and no jobs, because you don't care about voting for these criminals and liars. For example Tony Blair is a war criminal. I challenge anyone to prove to me that he isn't.

Put "None of the above" on the voting slip and I would be in that voting booth before my feet touch the floor, but there's no way that would ever happen, because it would be ticked by far too many people.

If people like Edward Heath can sign us into Europe and never get prosecuted for it, what chance do we have.
Politicians can commit treason and sedition, yet aren't even being prosecuted for it. They can literally give the entire country away and people will still vote for them.

"People deserve the Government they get." - Henry Ford.

He didn't realize how right he was.

That is, if you never wake up to what these politicians are really doing and what their agenda really is (which is very easy to check now we have the internet) then maybe those naive types need to suffer a bit more, the more they suffer the more chance there is they might actually wake up and notice it.

Iceland had the right idea, they just marched into their Government buildings and physically threw out the politicians, job done.

Most people these days think it is normal to have a Government that tells the public what to do! Hang on a minute because at its inception it was exactly the opposite way around... nevermind, whats the point. Its all just a silly conspiracy theory, right, I got it.

For this, surely the caliper bolt came almost straight out through the front with the frame undamaged?

If so it has to be the head/lip of the caliper nut breaking right off. Could have been overtightened.

Could have been a million to one where those jagged washers weren't tesselating but tightened up to go "pop" and cause a (very) loose caliper bolt. Loose enough to make the brake shoe turn into the rim all unaligned and rip it off as shown, not that I am saying this happened (just covering my own a*se).

Its not salvaging the whole thing that gets me but getting hold of impossible to find parts as well. Even a rear mech broken in half still has limit screws exactly made for that mech, or a barrel adjuster, or a b-tension screw, or jockey wheel bearings, or the swingarm.

A "successful economy" is one that makes, breaks and throws away everything. This is an economic model that grows because people have to keep on buying stuff, no other reason.

Some of the people I respect most are "tinkerers" like some hillbilly in the middle of nowhere still using some radio he got in 1948 and has fixed himself 20 different times over the years. Compare that (what's possible in terms of resourcefulness) to the endless garbage we get flogged, that just breaks.

If you want the best of anything, its a second mortgage. Like a car that works properly. Decent tools. Its endless. I am sure all this stuff used to be way cheaper and had the same build quality. Now all the working stuff is promoted to "the best" while they fill in with several tiers of inferior quality underneath it. At one time stuff only worked, otherwise it wasn't even put on a shelf for sale, its called standards. Back then "planned obsolescence" was a mere twinkle in some greedy tossers eye.

Brucey wrote:well that is interesting because AFAICT there is no set that contains both types of transfer at the same time, so either you never had a matched set to start with or the forks are a little later than the frame. Those fork transfers can be seen with the rest of the set here;

http://www.equusbicycle.com/bike/reynolds/Reynolds-transfers.jpg

cheers

It wouldn't link to it so...

http://i.imgur.com/qs3HcUY.jpg

661-Pete wrote:It all amounts to denying that the problem exists, if you don't have to look at these people they'll simply disappear off the face of the Earth...

Irvine Welsh said this about parts of Scotland.

I predict whichever guy the media shoved in our faces the most beforehand will "win".

What about Google Earth?

You'd find those places faster than any of us could.

I laughed when I saw a bike computer at £4.99 then stopped laughing when I realized it is better than the £9 Bogeer one I got from China. If it doesn't work, you can take it back to Aldi. The Aldi near me is like a Black Friday sale sometimes with old ladies grumbling because young uns got there first and bought multiples of an item.

I am sure Aldi doesn't make a sausage out of it. You cannot have a bike computer for £4.99 with a 3 year guarantee. They have to be making a loss.

I got a heart rate monitor watch thing from there for £8.99 that was the same, decent quality and has a 3 year guarantee, made in Germany. Enough said! This was the exact same one the local chemist had on their shelf at £19.99.

That's a nice way to treat sick people, exploit them.

Maybe Aldi could branch out and start opening some of their own hospitals. Does any country in the world even care anymore about making quality stuff thats affordable? Yes Germany and Japan, thats about it.

Homeless people can put a bit of plywood over the spikes and carry on sleeping there, good on them I say.

The company he is camping outside of probably makes millions and millions in profits per year. Is he hurting their bleached clean image awww... its far more damaging IMO for them to have those spikes there, I mean in terms of their reputation. If they treat homeless people like that, how are they treating their clients?

I hope they get sued when a child falls on them. The dizzy buggers even made it the perfect height to trip over, probably on purpose.

Bicycler wrote:Ditto. Nothing heroic about knackering your knees

I have got a 24t granny and a 23t low sprocket, which gives a lowest gear of 27.5 gear inches. The outer is a 52t.

So then even on 8-speed you can have a cassette thats 13.14.15.16.17.19.21.23 and still get up all the hills.

Of course I wouldn't advise it since the tooth difference should be 22t or less and is now at 28t. One day I might even try a 53t outer with it but for one tooth its not worth it lol.

Having the gears like this also means you only have two overlapping gears on the granny (two smallest sprockets) and three overlapping gears on the big chainring (the three biggest sprockets) which are all gears you'd never use anyway.

So I have 24 gears but lose 5 of them due to overlapping on a 13-23t. Compare this to a 11-32t where you'd have nine overlapping. In that case you only have three sprockets on the outer that are higher than gears on the middle.

Some guy said in the TdF instead of messing about with compact chainsets and MTB cassettes, they should just use triples with a close ratio cassette and be able to get the right cadence. I think he even figured out there would be a weight saving with a triple lol. I guess, if you're chopping the cassette down from 11-30t to 11-23t. Do they even make Dura-Ace triples now.

We can't have people too old but I don't agree with how young any of these "leaders" are going back to Blair in 1997. I said back then he is too young and the current mob look even younger than he did then. Miliband looks about 22 or something lol. You should be 50 or over to even be doing that job, what a farce it really is.

Road bikes are getting more like MTB and MTB is getting more like road.

But its a bit unbalanced in that road bikes are changing more than MTB are.

Is cycling dead when we have heroes like Wiggo using a 28t low sprocket? It removes some of the heroics from it! Its just not as impressive as it used to be now they all use MTB cassettes. Look what people like Eddy Merckx used... probably his biggest sprocket was a 23t and I bet he preferred the 21t to that.

I wonder back in the early 1990s when "touring" rear derailleurs took off, did anyone in the TdF put an XT mech on with a MTB cassette? I would love to see a pic from back then showing a Deore XT rear mech like a M730 or something, it would change my life if I saw it. Well, the guy doing that would be approximately 20 years ahead of his time, is all. If there is such a guy he should be given a special award for innovation or something.

The BNP themselves proved the pre-conceived bias people have of them when they showed people their policies, over 90% of people agreed, but as soon as they knew it was policies of the BNP they didn't want to know anymore. It is an ingenious way to stop real people having any real voice. I mean I am sure there are people that voted for the BNP that aren't racist, they just want something to change, let's have a normal human being there for once instead of some guy with a heart of stone.

If we are blaming parties for this and that I certainly wouldn't start with ones that have never been in power.

Farage is a funny one because he used to be a banker and now he has magically become working class with a beer in one hand and cig in the other - or more like he got "advised" to be that character he now is. So the guy went from banking to the Government but its OK we can all trust him? What seems to have happened then is the banking world sent this guy in to be a political leader from the outset. They knew a guy like Cameron won't be trusted, so they give us this "working class" guy, that isn't working class, he came from a banking background.

Kids would be the easiest to tax as well, just tell them its fashionable to pay it.

I'd vote for it. They can afford 20p a week that's for sure.