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snailmale

I haven't bought Cycling Weekly for years, although I thumb through it in Tesco's whiloe the Missis is shopping. I shall now stop thumbing altogether and thumb through Private Eye instead. I hope CW can live with that.

snailmale

Thanks all, for your comments. The Ribble doesn't sound as good an option as I'd hoped. I've had dealings with the guy who took over Trevor Jarvis, Philip, he's based over at Abberley, quite a reasonable bloke. The frame will take me through this season without disintegrating, although its appearanc...

snailmale

My 20-year-old Reynolds 531 steel Trevor Jarvis frame is developing rust patches on the top tube, the worst, worryingly, being around the cable stop nipple at the headset end. This is the second time I've had a rust problem so I'm now considering buying a new steel frame. With my present mileage bei...

snailmale

Fish and chips for me please.

snailmale

I have the retro bike.

Unfortunately my retro legs are proving impervious to all attempts at refurbishment.

snailmale

Fifty-odd years ago there was only one club run and that was generally conducted to suit the pace of the slowest rider. Yes, there were little contests for unofficial KOM points, and there was often a tear up for first to the tea stop, but by and large the rides were well within the capabilities of ...

snailmale

Well done, Amarjit. The H/cap 20 was the first event I ever rode, aged 15, in 1952 on the old K36 Alcester Road course. That was the last year that the RTTC rule of 'dark and inconspicuous clothing' applied, and most people competed in black jerseys and shorts. I had a long sleeved black shirt and t...

snailmale

I did about 8hrs in the Mersey RC '24', sometime in the early 60's. For some reason the ride is not recorded in my little book... I don't think I was knackered, just bored. A limited attention span, even in those days.

snailmale

The closure was still in place last week.

snailmale

Put me down for marshalling, Lower Broadheath for preference.

snailmale

Many thanks to Jane, Tony and all for a great weekend.

snailmale

Fish and chips please, Dave.

snailmale

Many years ago I rode from Brum to RAF Compton Basset every Sunday for eight months. My route to Cirencester was; Evesham Winchcombe Corndean Lane then past Brockhampton to A436. Turn right, Cross the A40 then, after abt 1/2 mile turn left to Withington then down the Whiteway to Cirencester Pretty d...

snailmale

Stick me down, Jane, please.

Cheque is in the post!

snailmale

I have a pair of Campag 'Mexico' rims, built up with Mirage hubs towards the end of the last century. I had new hubs built in about three years back at Echelon Cycles, and the rims were pronounced to be perfectly good. Must have done about 40k now. Still use them as winter wheels.

snailmale

This should keep the wet out, but is probably only borderline breathable.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oRQVYzgS414/U ... t+suit.jpg

snailmale

Th course details state:

"Finish in line with TP 10 on right about 0.75 mile before start point. 10."

The map shows the finish much closer than 0.75 miles to the start.

One of these has to be incorrect.

snailmale

Well done everyone. Nice to know Concorde are still promoting. I won the 42mile Concorde 2nd cat race in 1958, finishing at Dodderhill Common, near Hanbury. The main event, a real 'showcase' with many of the country's top riders participating, was won by Dave Bedwell, past winner of the 'Daily Expre...

snailmale

Can't help, I'm afraid. Contracted to ferry wife and her associates to a restaurant.

snailmale

Very well done, everyone. Nice to see a Beacon tradition restored, albeit at a wimpish time of year.

Plan now for next February !!!

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snailmale

I have been reading with interest the recommended preparation for the forthcoming ride to Weston and back. In the old days the racing season would finish around the end of Sept or early October. That is except for those who competed in hill climbs or cyclo cross. This heralded the start of the soci...

snailmale

The publisher offers 'Need to Know' books on pretty well every subject you can think of, all at a tenner a go. I hope some of the advice is based on personal experience. One or two of my writing associates have published books of this nature, but I know they are on subjects on which they have some k...

snailmale

Neil Compton wrote:Was there any particular reason why Saturday was chosen and not Sunday?

Or June chosen, in preference to February?

snailmale

George wrote:Yes, John, I take your point. It started out very well but, by the end, it seemed to have lost its sense of direction.

Should have used a Garmin

snailmale

The toughest is the ascent of Belas Knap at the start I thought. In 1955, I came DOWN Belas Knap, every Saturday afternoon for five months, on my way home to Brum from RAF Compton Bassett in Wiltshire. I did, of course have to go UP Belas Knap every Sunday afternoon for five months, making the retu...

snailmale

How sad. 'The Boot' was a legend, even while he was still riding. As the article says, his sub-4hr ride was achieved on 84" fixed, although I seem to recollect that he used a Sturmey Archer 3 or 4 speed fixed hub gear for the RRA record. I cant remember that he was ever beaten over 100 miles and the...

snailmale

I usually help out, but I'm in Suffolk for the weekend, sorry.

snailmale

Andy Terry wrote:http://snailmale-chezlescargot.blogspot ... again.html

You beat me to it! A,rather belated, marshals take on things

snailmale

Oscar wrote:Strange I have had similar problems and the bike has only done 30,000 miles.

Oscar, Can't you ask Nita to get a part-time job so that you can buy some top-of-the-range replacements?

snailmale

Trawling through the Audax UK calendar in the hope of finding something suitable for my ageing legs, I was troubled not to find an entry for our Cotswold Audaxes in June.

Have I missed something?

snailmale

I allus said we'd come to regret it when we abandoned the Cyclo Benelux 4 speed

snailmale

I am the unlikely owner of a Polar heart rate monitor, which, although of apparently minimal value in my desperate quest for eternal youth, now needs servicing if only to continue in it's recent role as an expensive milage recorder. The instructions state that I should return it to Polar at Warwick,...

snailmale

These days I'm down to 28/38/48 with 13-29 and thats just for fetching the newspaper. I only use the 28 for the Sunday supplements though.

snailmale

Eddie, that's really hard luck. You must been really cheesed off after all your hard work. Still. look at it this way, you're still in one piece and you'll still only be 79 next time round!

snailmale

Eddie and I were juniors together, so he has to be 75 now, give or take a month. He'll do himself a mischief!

snailmale

I've just had to change a Campag mirage BB which was beginninng to show a minimal amount of play,although still running smoothly.It had only done 27,500 miles. My Mirage BB on my triple kept going for ten years before I went to a 'compact', so must it must have done in excess of 30,000 If I got thr...

snailmale

The famous quote:- With a freewheel you RIDE the bicycle. But, with a fixed wheel, you are a PART of it. PS: Nearly February, it's time for some 66inch work in fixed, which will warm those winter chilled leg muscles towards greater fitness. Get twiddling!! . Exactly, Albert! I've been riding fixed ...

snailmale

My Brooks Professional has been giving me armchair comfort for the last 15 years and will probably be doing so in another 15 if I last that long. It drew several admiring comments from quite young people (under 50) in the club audax, no doubt seduced by its copper-rivetted charms. Not entirely aesth...

snailmale

Thanks for the advice gentlemen. George and Ringo have just confirmed what I suspected was the case, just wondered if I was missing something.
I was obviously foolhardy to bin my traditional cape c1975

snailmale

Can anyone recommend an adequate rain jacket? I got completely saturated returning from the Country 20 on Saturday for want of adequate protection. My present jacket, a 'Beacon' one, is a brazen fraud and is imbued with the water-resistant qualities of a string vest. All I ask is something breathabl...

snailmale

Not long fingered exactly, not even gloves, but way back in my youth when the winter winds tore through my then frail body, and my cycling activities were financed by the £1.00 a week mother allowed me from my wages, I resorted to the use of old woollen socks to keep the frosbite off my fingers. My...

snailmale

Not long fingered exactly, not even gloves, but way back in my youth when the winter winds tore through my then frail body, and my cycling activities were financed by the £1.00 a week mother allowed me from my wages, I resorted to the use of old woollen socks to keep the frosbite off my fingers. My ...

snailmale

spider wrote:I really like the writing on the label of a tin of Pedigree Chum,

Floss.

Philistine!

Why cant you be pseudo-intellectual like the rest of us?

snailmale

My two Penn'orth (or two rubles worth, in fact): Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita Not read Tolstoy or Dostoevsky for years but they are still on my shelf. Salman Rushdie,(Satanic Verses, Midnights Children etc) Peter Ca...

snailmale

I had a pair of bamboo sprints which some 'do-gooder' unloaded on me, cheap, when I was a gullible and poverty stricken junior. I believe they were quite commonly used for grass track racing pre, and immediately post, war. I think I only used them once, riding to an inglorious DNF in the club '50'

snailmale

Chris, you say you like the look of Brooks saddles, so you're obviously not bothered about being categorised as geriatric/eccentric. I was on my Brooks Professional for 8hr + on Sunday, and I can honestly say that my backside was completely pain free. This saddle is in its 15th season now; I stuff s...

snailmale

I think it's good to see him back - I think it's sad that people seem keen to kick the most successful - e.g. Michael Schumacher - on the basis that they are boring. To be fair - he must have some b@lls to step back up to the plate!!! I'm not kicking Lance on a personal basis, or questioning his su...

snailmale

Lance boring. ! No way, not compared to some of the riders in recent tours. Just curious to who you think were exciting riders during lance's reign and recently.? agreed, the 2003 tour was the best i've ever seen. it's not lance's fault that he was so much better then everyone else. I thought that ...

snailmale

I thought road racing had become more interesting in the last couple of years. I dont dispute his talent, but for me he rates a '10' on the bore-ometer. I think we should have a whip-round so that he could be paid to stay at home.

snailmale

Hate to say it but I spend Â£25 per tyre - on Continental GP4000s. They are expensive but they are excellent. Parker knock these out for Â£19.95. I used Conti 4 Seasons 25mm last winter and for general riding this summer without any problem, though some people think they are suspect in the wet. Sam...

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