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The Police in this instance don't even know the Highway Code: Rule 163 "give vulnerable road users at least as much space as you would a car" i.e. they should pass you as though you were as wide as a car. If you could reach out and touch the vehicle as it passed then the driver is clearly ...

Contact the legal department at CTC HQ, it's what you pay your subs for.

I once bought a pair of Schwalbe marathons at York Rally and found that the beading didn't bed against the rim properly, I was lucky I was going uphill at the time when the tyre was trying to get off the front rim. We have a pair on our tandem (26 x 1.5") and I currently have a 700 x 25 on the ...

Good idea but silica gel becomes saturated and then needs to be dried out or replaced.

I've heard that framesaver is, basically, a thinner version of waxoyl.
I've used Waxoyl in the sills of a Maestro and it's pretty thick stuff and vile to use too. With a bike frame how much weight is it going to add?

Until this year I have been able to keep my bikes in the house but now I'm having to keep all but one of them in the garage where it is naturally damp. I have three with steel frames which have had no treatment. I know about framesaver in an aerosol can which is used to protect the insides of steel ...

I saw you three hurriedly getting ready at the start. You caught and passed me at the first control, Ravensclose and I never saw you again after that. I can do the miles so long as I get fed at regular intervals, beans and/or egg on toast, crumble and custard, fish and chips but not necessarily in t...

Well, not just for chips there was a rather large fish as well! Yes it can be tough going on the Northern Dales 200k. On Sunday the first 57 miles into the wind was a softener, then the heat combined with climbing. There are some steep sections on the climb from Langthwaite to Tan Hill but it's not ...

At 8am on Sunday around 26 cyclists set off from Arnside Youth Hostel into the wind. About 7 or 8 miles out I saw one rider returning whence he came and he was one of two who abandoned in bizarre circumstances. I felt that I was making good progress and I had let the bunch go right from the start. G...

There's a place in Bolton, I think, called Nob End and as I'm from Bury I will make no further comment!

I went out on Wednesday and did 105 miles, v hilly at first then just hilly and finally rolling. 105 miles in 10h 55m. I think the heat got to me a bit in the afternoon, it was helmet off for some distance but with 7 miles left the blackcurrant pie and custard I had 25 miles out seemed to kick in as...

On my 90 mile test ride I stopped in Settle after 70 miles and had fish and chips, the cafes being closed by this time. It certainly seemed to work, should be plenty of carbohydrates in the chips.

This is excellent advice but I know what I am letting myself in for routewise as I have done this ride several times in the past and the map is in my head. Indeed, I have been referred to in the past as an A to Z on legs! I remember doing the Fleet Moss 200 several years ago when the main pack went ...

In a word, no!
I ride on the road and our tandem came with the Schwalbe's fitted which are nowhere near to being replaced yet.
"mountainman531" refers to climbing ability, I'm doing an audax next Sunday which includes 3,000m of climbing in 200k.

I have foun dthe Continental Gatorskins to be a very tight fit on my drc 700 x 25 rims so having ridden Schwalbe Marathon plus 26" x 1.5" on our tandem with no punctures in over 2,000 miles I am now trying their 700 x 25's on a solo.