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George

Who is riding on the Saturday? In previous years, Steve has worked out a route of 60-70km, which a few of us have done at a leisurely pace. Do you have another destination in mind for this year, Steve? If not, what about this place: http://www.lakeviewtearoom.co.uk/ It's about 41km each way (hill, o...

George

A temperature rise from 20C to 35C would put tyre pressure up from 120 to 126. Ye cannae change the laws o' physics. I'm not disputing the laws of physics, Andy; what I'm disputing is their practical implications: 1. A temperature increase from 20C to 35C between the time you pump your tyres up and...

George

I think weather-related issues are very unlikely. However, what I have seen is people whose tyres exploded due to rim overheating on descents in hot-weather continental sportives. Whether in a car or on a bike, never go down a mountain braking lightly all the way.

George

RIDING OUT: I'm riding out on Friday, probably leaving home about 10am and definitely dawdling through the lanes, via a couple of cafés. About 123km. I'm likely to be meeting John Hitchcock & Dave Hughes en route. Anyone else who fancies linking up en route, e.g. at Tenbury, Ludlow or Church Strett...

George

You're a braver man than me, Laurence -- pretty hairy conditions for racing in a close group!

George

Have just seen elsewhere that Richard Greer is riding.

George

Cod, chips and mushy peas for me, please.

I fear Jane and Tony may be going hungry, since real pollocks would be needed to get within a line's length of the Cornish coast just now.

George

A few years ago, there were several Beacon members who regularly did LVRC events, but Hughie died, Jon went into CX and then moved away, and the others seem to have drifted away from it. It's just a question of there being a few people of the right age and the right disposition. A while ago, we had ...

George

When you click on "My Routes", you will then see all the routes that you have created. Look on the right hand side of the small map and you will see a star and a spanner shape. Click on the spanner and it will give you the option to either edit or delete that route. Cheers ... never noticed that li...

George

Looks very good. Nice clean interface, easy to use, 'manual' mode, different map options, and the segment explorer. A worthy rival to RWGPS. If anyone finds out how to delete a route, let us know. Haha, yes, I had a play with it the other day too and quite liked the look of it, and I like the idea ...

George

Here's another option:
http://www.italiancycleproducts.co.uk/

George

Barry, on my touring bike and on my training bike I have Campag's cheapest off-the-peg wheel: Khamsin, which you can get for a little over £100 I think. I have a minimalist approach to maintenance, yet I've never broken a spoke or knocked these wheels out of true in about 3 years of regular use, muc...

George

Hmmm...

I think this is an absolutely daft idea. So I'll see whether I can fit it in. However, I'll be in Yorkshire on the night of the 4th and suspect that a few others may be as well.

George

Excellent, Stuart! Many congratulations.

George

These ultra-hilly audaxes seem to be enjoying an upturn in popularity at the moment. The Elenith is apparently thriving; you (Phil) have breathed new life into the KK and given it a little brother; and the Saracen are organising a hilly audax from Droitwich, just the weekend after yours.

George

Thanks!

George

Has a date been fixed for LMTT 2014? Is it by any chance 27/4?

(Unfortunately, I gave up keeping an archive of committee minutes after I stepped down from the committee, and there's nothing on CTT site yet.)

George

Thanks, Dave.

George

We missed you George! Thanks, Si. I felt a bit of a plonker, actually. For some years, the dinner's been the last weekend of November, which suits me well, because we often go to Holland in early December (feast of St Nicholas & mother-in-law's birthday). Somehow, in spite of previously receiving (...

George

Wish I could've been there!

George

As Ed said right at the start, I just can't understand how Specialized managed to protect 'Roubaix' in the first place, since it's not 'their' town, and it's been used for numerous cycling products for ages before Specialized came along.

George

Cheers, both.

George

A couple of sort-of related questions: 1. I have sometimes read a) that charging a battery when it's only half-empty isn't good for it, and b) that leaving a battery on charge long after it is full isn't good for it either. However, I find that avoiding those two things often isn't practical. Most o...

George

I always say you're as young as you feel.

I feel 94.

But I'm pleased to say that I still have the sense of humour of someone eighty years younger.

George

Of course it's your business (and everyone else's business) if he's riding like a dickhead on a public road! He's annoying/inconveniencing and maybe even endangering other road users. He's feeding the negative perception that many non-cyclists have of us. And he's adding another pebble on the increa...

George

Well done, Phil.

George

Thanks for the info and congrats on completing the ride, Phil. I think several Beacon people did the event 2 or 3 years ago, but for some reason it's slipped of the collective radar. Never done it myself (although I've ridden a lot of the roads independently), but think maybe I should.

George

Clive wrote:I started the day at Wythall and rode it as a 200km ECE. Started a little late, and along with patchy fog I thought I was going to miss the start, but didn't.

Impressive effort, Clive.

George

Well done, all.

George

Tough route, especially when you're struggling to keep up with stronger riders, but it's marvellous scenery and it was a beautiful day. Good to chat with everyone, too, during the odd spells when I was close enough. Tried to get a snap of Alan shouldering his bike over the ford in the woods near the...

George

Les Ladbury wrote:There is a story behind this but in view of the fact that I don't want "Lawyers R Us" knocking on my front door I couldn't possibly comment.

You drive a hard bargain, Les. I'll buy you half a mild at the Dinner.

George

Les Ladbury wrote: ... those who know the true story ...

Come on, Les. Stop teasing us.

George

Very well done, both.

George

Thanks, Alan.

George

Alan, when I click the route link that you posted, I just get BRT's page headers with ads underneath.

George

Great stuff, Anne!

George

Just by chance but a friend of mine has just mailed me saying his Garmin Edge that was worked without any issues at all, will not turn off now!! Guess what, he had just done a firmware update...... :evil: I put mine aside for a couple of days, partly because I was p!ssed off with it and partly beca...

George

Thanks, Alan. I will certainly do as you suggest. However: a. What, besides a technical fault, can have made the thing suddenly start corrupting its 'history' files, after a year of faultless performance? (Given that that happened before the firmware update?) b. If, as you suggest (probably correctl...

George

In 2010, I bought a Garmin 605. Right from the off, it did odd things that I couldn't understand. However, I was new to GPS and feared that at least some of the aberrations might be due to naive operator errors. What's more, the odd behaviour was different each time and between incidents the device ...

George

Thanks, Andy.

Some friends of ours have recently taken a two-year posting to Bratislava and there's a good chance that we'll visit them, maybe next summer. If we do, obviously I'll be taking the bike. Hence my interest in using GPS in unfamiliar parts of Eastern Europe.

George

Thanks. I would have been slightly hesitant about using an OSM-based map in e.g. Eastern Europe, where one tends to fear that coverage might be patchy. So it's particularly interesting to know that you've used them successfully in Romania. How do you go about identifying the best OSM-based map to us...

George

What is the "Worldwide basemap" like Andy? Do you use additional maps on a MicroSD?

George

A handful of snaps from Sunday:

https://picasaweb.google.com/GFBarchive ... JO6vdn-9gE

George

I want a device that I can put a location into and go. I'm probably a few years out of date but I'm not sure cycle GPS units are good for that unless some of the latest models feature cycle friendly routing in preference to shortest or fastest (by car). Various Garmin models do do that, but the way...

George

I have recently retired one of those Ribble tourer frames (albeit an earlier version, but broadly the same thing). I agree with Alan: the geometry was weird, and I never felt totally stable on it. Being a cheapskate, I've had several 'bargain' alloy frames and my experience is that they vary enormou...

George

Errr ... why are there two threads on this?

George

Yes, well done Gary ... but also everyone (especially Martin) who made it a real contest this year.

George

Many congratulations to Sean!

Great to see a big turnout on a day that, if not the washout we were fearing a day or two back, was not the most cycle-friendly of occasions.

George

The thing about horner is, where's he been for the last 20 years? I know he has done some good stuff before ... but stuff that suggested that he was capable of winning a grand tour? A dramatic improvement in your early 40s is a million miles from being evidence of wrongdoing, but it does make you wo...

George

Good riding.

However, I'm afraid I don't really understand the results. Gary and Gareth were in the same category (V40); Gary was 2.5 mins faster, but Gareth was 6th and Gary 26th?

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LMTT 2014 date?

Why always me?