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dweben

Cracking turnout of 24 people tonight! Really good times and the top 3 super close. Name Time Edward Silverton 00:21:34 Martin McGowan 00:21:38 Peter Blackwell 00:21:44 Carl Williams 00:23:08 Phil Richards 00:23:20 Rhys Richards 00:23:22 Colin Williamson 00:23:24 Andrew Sweet 00:23:37 Phil Gameson 0...

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Except that one fan on Zoncolan who pushed the chap in 2nd place straight into the rear wheel of the 1st placed chap and made him unclip and stop. The chap threw his arms up in dismay but not 5 minutes later he was spotted again right next to riders getting in the way... I love getting right up clos...

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Meh I'd have to sprint just to get to 35mph... nutz

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Ha -- my glamorous assistant last night was my girlie, Annika, not Helen.

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Evenin' all! Bit of a wet one but no rain during the actual riding and not much standing water around the place. Good solid turnout of 13 bodies. Scott **flat**d on the warm up so couldn't start and Richard snapped his pedal on the second lap. Also less people this week so managed to get some split ...

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Matt was on a standard road bike... not sure about the two above. Top 4 definately on TT bikes. Scott was on a fixed singlespeed TT ... obviously!

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Hi all, 30 people turned out which was fun to keep track of! Thanks to Chris for pushing off and doing the starts when I had to go to the finish to take times (so many people!) and my other half who won't see this msg board. ;) Name Time Scott Povey 00:20:55 Michel Ondred 00:21:20 Martin McGowan 00:...

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I'll try and be there so I can collect the stopwatches/numbers/whatever for the next four events.

Paul

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Well done people, some good results in there! Big respek Mr Regan!

At my mtb race today I bumped into a chap who recognised the CX kit and mentioned it was the first time in 28 years he's missed doing the LMTT. Didn't catch his name but he's done it 27 times!!!

dweben

Make like modern MTBers... lose the front mech altogether!

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You say that, but they're resurfacing quite a lot of roads around here... basically ones that didn't need it really while that mess of a road is left as is.

dweben

Odd distance between the top and the bottom of the pattern. Not the size of a clamp, but more the size of a shim or something. Was that bit inside the tube, or above where a bike shop clamp would go?

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Went for a wander today down Scotland Lane... looking awesome!

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Huh, I did wonder if I saw you today on my way back in! Some roads in the area have been done recently, including a roundabout which didn't need doing. I had my car MOT done last week and the mechanic there said an Audi TT drove in with a snapped bit of suspension having just fallen into a flooded p...

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Clearly the council read our msg boards. Scotland Lane was closed today for resurfacing! (or my repeated constant moaning, whinging, whining with predictions of the apocalypse and rivers of blood littered with car wrecks, through their website worked) I was down there last night and the flooded sect...

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Worst surface out there is Scotland lane by Frankley reservoir. A few months ago I went out there, took photos and stopped counting at 200 potholes along a 0.7km stretch of road. In the last couple weeks one of the potholes, I say pothole -- it's several metres long, has disintegrated into a ditch a...

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I'm in --- rider 1028. Quite a few.

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Nice nice much better, although I can see a distinct lack of a proper chain cleaning device there. Grime in the links... exactly this sort of total lack of maintenance that leads to chain links breaking I imagine!

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That cassette looks like it needs degreasing, not your usual standard!! Or if you were Moss then buy a new one!

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I filled the frame with lead when he was taking a leak...

I'll leave the location of the sloshy biosolids to your imagination !

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Wonder if they came off the back of...

http://www.icenicam.ukfsn.org/articles4/art0066.html

Brum based bike company before expanding to motorbikes by in the 50s. Surprisingly little on the net about them!

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How long is it? 80 miles or so?

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Come across this review of an iPhone app (blaaergg!) but hopefully out on Android soon.

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/10/auto ... ign=Buffer

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Middle lane sometimes works! I was doing that today and the driver looked right at me, then simply pulled out! Made me bang the brakes on and swerve into the other lane. Suprise suprise... BMW.

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sounds like it's simply worn out, either bearings or spindle or whatever.

dweben

Had a fun moment on the way home today... While cruising home on the 16kg mtb commuter with panniers a roadie pasted me a red light and blew through it. Charming I thought! Started chasing him along... then another light comes along and woom he goes through again. I give chase and catch up again. Th...

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29ers already rule in the US. In the elite world 29ers in XC already rule unless it's tight and they go back to 26". Downhillers don't use 29ers at all really but do mix it up with 650b and 26" depending on the course. I own a Whyte 19c 26" from 2012 and looking at their site now they don't even do ...

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I have a 705 and did a firmware update which ruined the unit. I took photos of the unit when it was mid-death-throws and tried a few things before contacting Garmin. Sent it off, they had it for a couple days and I got a new one back no hassle at all. Good for me 'cos the screen was nicely bashed up...

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No no no... speed is your FRIEND on a mtb, and cleats stop you dying when descenting on rocky stuff at speed. They also force you to keep pedalling and not to bail cos it's too hard.

Pedal pedal pedal!!

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Woo, at least two people on real bikes!

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I had a similar problem with this light though a different flashing of the light. Then it wouldn't stop flashing when unplugged until it ran out of charge. Sometimes while riding it'd just shut down and not come back on.

Needless to say I sent it to Lezyne and got two mini-drive as a replacement.

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Phil -- sounds like a fragment of truth in that... getting a little excited at the thought of being caught??

Would love to marshal but plan on doing a blipping race if something else doesn't go wrong

Happy to help with the clearup operation though.

dweben

YOU HAVE FAILED ME GARY.

Despite winning overall... (well done!)

Oh well, don't think I could eat an entire slice of that pudding anyway! I shall pay my debt whenever your upcoming sproglodite allows you to escape on a Sunday and we're in Evesham.

dweben

I'll see that, and raise you a slice of Evesham pudding.

Err, on Gary winning.

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Roger that! Fun times for the locals..

Didn't like running that railway sleeper bit so got some hop practice in before tomorrow. What could go wrong?!?

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Went to Pitcheroak today for a wander around and came across the Halesowen club on a practice ride! Turns out on top of the 3 collarbones last week another chap cracked his pelvis. Looks good out there, not sure where all the cars are gonna park? Doesn't look too technical out there but pretty frick...

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New helmet arrived! Can't move my neck to the right but as long as we don't do any right turns in round 2 then it's all good.

dweben

Have to say it was alot of fun, wasn't sure if it'd just be boring fields or a pile of mud (that'll come later...) but either way really enjoyed it despite stopping 'cos I was hurling post crash. Was on one of them bumps in the left picture where I just went a bit quick, forks compressed and catapul...

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So first event is Henley... looking on Google only place I could see for the event was just east in an area with a lump in the middle of it. Is that it? Not seen any details from the organisers about locations/courses/etc at all

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Nope, not even a BC member... the WM CX site said all I needed to be was a member of the league to get 'league' points, which I guess is their own internal scoring system and nowt to do with BC

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Well I've entered... gonna give it a whirl on the mtb.

I don't have a race licence any more -- anyone know if that matters for the league points, or does it just apply to BC regional points which I won't get anyway

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Yar my Garmin 705 can only go upto 100 track points

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Hmm, I use shimano shifters and sram cassettes on my two mtbs. They work just fine. It's the bloody shimano front shifter on shimano chainrings which causes me issues!

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Arr pretty common and actually makes no difference whatsoever to how it performs. I've run Hopes on my MTB for 5 years or so and each one has a touch of this on it (even to where I couldn't get the cassette off!) but once it's indented to a point it's ok. The more annoying problem I had was ripping ...

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Ah ha -- fail. It's public now

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My route

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2805255

My competitors route

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/2805764

MTB vs fell runner... who's gonna win???

All shall be revealed thursday night!

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Generally they're in to stop braking ruts appear at steeper sections and to slow people down on the exits of sections -- oh and they're FUN

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Why would you run a disc hub on a rim brake rim anyway? That way lies insanity!! The brakes are the thing I dislike on road bikes. Having been brought up and raised on hydraulic discs I almost crashed into a roundabout when I got my first road bike 'cos they were quite frankly totally useless at sto...

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No no don't buy a new bike... not one of them faffypants wannabe off road roady bikes!

I'll be taking my ultra manly mans bike with REAL handlebars and proper tyres!!

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i have bb7s on my commuter bike. they're pretty nice... hope you can tolerate the wet weather screeching from sintered pads in the rain...

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