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Finally got the little bleeder... turns out the brand new left pedal was faulty... fun eh! Been chasing my tail!

Yup as I said has a different rear wheel... I did also swap the skewers out while changing the wheel and caliper. Doh!

I'm having similar fun issues with my commuter mtb! Have a creaking noise only when pedalling. Have changed... Crank Bottom bracket Pedals (one at a time) Chain Cassette Rear wheel (blew the rim couple weeks ago!) Rear brake caliper (madness set in) Still the blipping things persist to creak. I've b...

Well done guys (and bird!)! The joy of the mud bath. I was lucky enough to be able to share a personal jet wash with the team camped next to us when I did my 24hr ride. Super useful!

How was the course? Looked pretty flat from google maps!

Not really club racing but thought I'd share anyway.

I entered a team relay triathlon in Sutton Park today... and won!

Hmmm, interesting... any idea what the course is? Any of the dog/monkey or just fireroad?

Interested yeah, although you can hardly call it mountain biking... it's pan flat!!

This is what I did last weekend.... the mud was far worse in the bits he didn't take pictures of!!!

http://www.robcrayton.co.uk/mm2012gal.htm

Well, that's my first 24hr race out the way. What a mad thing it was to do in some horrible conditions in the boggiest clay mud pits of fiery doom that I've ever ridden in - but it was fun!!!

Did anyone else show an interest in this?

Hmm, tempting. I'm doing the 24hr Mountain Mayhem in 2 weeks time... can provide feedback.

Hmm, I've not had a **flat** on my MTB in aaaaages. Happy days eh! You can get slime rim tape kinda stuff can't you? Goes inside the tyre between that and the tube? Was at Llandegla today. Lush new trails and real quick surface. I'm on Schwalbe Nobby Nics with Maxxis ultralite tubes. They weigh very...

See while you guys were busy riding I was busy using the (apparently) performance spec air intake to suck up as much water into my engine as possible to clear the roads for you... happily the AA chap managed to clear it all and get me started again.

We'll meet again!

Is there a limit on the number of riders, or just don't like starting them after the first rider has finished?

Could always just set people off at 30 or 45 sec intervals instead if it gets a bit crowded...

Paul

Hahahahaha 300km on a bike, it'll never happen... You'll ladder your tights, get 1 more **flat** than you have innertubes, your chainstay will snap, your cassette will fall off... perhaps your gears will go mad... and you'll leave your credit card behind in the first cafe. I'd come... but I don't th...

Hmm, did you pull a tyre of your wheel in at a closed circuit last year too? It's all that speedy cornering you do!

No reason to stick with it no. From a MTB point of view GPX and HTII were more or less the same when I went through them. If you're replacing the whole lot then there's no reason at all to not change the lot. I binned Truvativ Style/ISIS style cranks due to them using bearings which were too bloody ...

Hi all, Just had a mate point this out. It's a hilly 57 miler over starting at Ludlow on the 11th of March. Entry is £10. I was half thinking of cycling the 35-40 miles to the event, riding it, then riding back... anyone up for it? 200 entries only and 76 were gone when I last checked. http://www.ep...

Nice shop, been in and had a poke about. What's the beacon discount??

£40/hr general labour charge when servicing... yikes! I hearby offer my services in the workshop that is my shed, for a mere undercutting £39.95/hr!

I've always found most shifting problems are down to the outer hoses. Imo there's bugger all point changing the cables without doing the hoses too unless it's just frayed dry cables. They get clogged up with crap lube, mud, bits of cable, etc. Sometimes the end caps get worn down and distort, the ho...

Found this while digging around various websites. Mentions a few of our riders in the results.

http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/cycloc ... ionships-0

Paul

Half tempted by this. A bit easier than the last ride we did together?

"cutting the neck off a balloon to wrap around the stem before insertion in to rim hole"

Dear God the mental images...

I'd be interested in this. Are you looking for riders from a certain ability and background style of riding? TT riders, long distance audax riders, roadies, mountain bikers, etc? If so what would be a qualifying level of fitness? I play club level badminton too, would that impact/hinder the process?...

By curious colour he obviously means the fantastic tan I had developed over the day. The physios can again refer to me as The Tan! Was a pretty tough ride and while I enjoyed the really steep bits at the start they weren't quite as much fun at the end. The climb out of Church Stretton was my fave. W...

Graa can't view the route 'cos it's on that $%*£heap bikely website.

(why do people persist in using it???)

The ridewithgps one doesn't go anywhere near the clee hill picture on the other thread about this ride btw -- as it's mentioned as some sort of tempter.

Paul

Saturday (23rd) is ok for me, could do a weekday but need a bit of notice to get the time off work...

Would prefer saturday -- not an option for you Barry?

Paul

I'd be up for that ride. Prefer as a group. Looking at the route there's something a little odd at point 42-44. Is it a cafe stop?? Having just done a MTB event in Church Stretton I can vouch for some of the cheeky hills over that way! I was even in Clee Hill and Ludlow a couple weeks ago too. Ridin...

So who actually rode this? I did and saw your names on the timing sheets...

The weather was awful... some guy crashed out at the mid-point with some sort of spinal injury, few went out with hypothermia and then the long route was shut down due to the weather.

Pretty rough ride!

Paul

Ooer a timely wheel discussion. I'm using CPX22s... about £70 for both of my wheels (stock on the bike) and while they're ok when on the roll and winter they're a bit crap at everything else. I'm thinking of spending about £250 on a set and seeing how it goes. Merlin are doing a sale on Krysium Equi...

I used bikehike for our 12 day (+2 in Orkneys!) route. Worked real well with the 705. Though I now use ridewithgps.com which is proving to be more reliable. The GPS will use about 3/4 of its juice per day, hope you can keep it topped up! We went full camping and took solar chargers attached to the b...

Anyone know of a local place who could polish up/repair chainslip chipped lacquer on a carbon frame?

Cheers, Paul