[webbo]

i think when it says compatible for ergopower/sti that means campage/shimano.you should spend more time cleaning/looking at your bike than drooling over catolgues.

[Norton Sharley]

Cheeky fuck.
At last I've got a flat stomach eh ?

Not the one you were wearing last night though eh? 

[Fatleg]

Have we all stopped going on our bikes

[chappers]

winter ride.

question: brakes are a bit shit because when pulled, one pad stays against the rim rather than springing back. how do i cure this (dont suggest buying new brakes!!)?

[fatdoc]

no still riding fatleg,

 but i've had a piss stinking cold for 5 days, spent 2 of them i bed and I havnt climbed for a week either  

going XC MTB with slimfast and his brother in law on saturday.... that's UKB XC..... not "just XC, but full on easy hill climbing and true DH inspired XC" ( not forgetting the M&S music for that bit), and the full face helmets and leg armour - he's from surrey, and I think he's going to die  

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

question: brakes are a bit shit because when pulled, one pad stays against the rim rather than springing back. how do i cure this (dont suggest buying new brakes!!)?

Tricky one. Strip them down remembering where each washer goes, clean and lube them, make sure the rear inner most arm can pivot ok. There's not much chance to adjust most old-school side pull calipers, I always liked the old centre pull calipers, even though some people though they juddered more, I always found they were much more powerful. Why reluctant to change them?
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/ProductDetail.aspx?Cat=cycle&ProdID=5360030385&N=Shimano%20105%205600%20OE%20Front%20Road%20Brake

[webbo]

winter ride.

question: brakes are a bit shit because when pulled, one pad stays against the rim rather than springing back. how do i cure this (dont suggest buying new brakes!!)?

i think you can slacken then off by fannying about with the nuts at the front off the brake which might help.mind the last time i had brakes like that robert millar was still a bloke.also given the length of stem you have out of your frame,either you've a bad back or the frames too small for you.

[chappers]

hey hey i never said it was ideal, but for the money that it has cost i am happy. slowly but surely i am going to build a very nice winter bike.
ill try my best with the existing brakes but maybe next month i will get a set of 105's
ta

[webbo]

the cheaper shimano dual pivot brakes work well.i had some soras on my old winter machine,never felt i wasn't going to stop.

[Fatleg]

Webbo thats a nice old machine. Did you buy it recently or have you had it ages a just done it up. I'm looking for a similar old machine to save my nice carbon bike from all the winter road shit about.
Fatdoc are you saying he's a southern poof then?

[fatdoc]

yep.

[Dolly]

Ti frame delivered yesterday, today taken to Butterworth's on Abbeydale Road to be built up /swapped with kit off other bike.  He's got nothing else on but will be ready on Saturday ! 

[fatdoc]

oooohhhhhhhh........

suits you sir....


very nice

[Percy B]

Bugger. Due to the a warehouse burning down a week or two ago, my bespoke track bike will not be ready for another two weeks - until the frame comes from Italy. I hope it will be worth the wait.....

What am I saying, I know it will be worth the wait, but I am getting very impatient!

[Percy B]

I'm getting into riding on rollers instead of going on a turbo trainer on the dark wet evenings when I can't face going out, and its infinately more interesting than the turbo scene. The fact that you don't have to fanny about locking the back wheel of your bike into a machine and can get on a ride in a far more realistic way makes it much more 'fun'. Initially desperate to use because you have to learn to pedal smoothly, balance well and relax so you don't ride off the side of the rollers its a far more useful way of winter training if you are going to stay inside. There might not be as much resistance, but i reckon it is great for improving your general riding style and pedaling efficiency, and its particularly spicy riding at 30+mph in an enclosed space like my garage! They are also awesome as a warm-up facility on cold mornings... I got one of these
http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/pop.asp?Code=TACXTRAI0300

[webbo]

i used use rollers in t'old days before they invented turbo trainers and while they do improve your balance and pedaling technique.they do jack shit for your fitness and power.as for fannying around locking it in to the turbo,it takes me longer to put my shoes on than fit the bike to the turbo.

[fatdoc]

Ive had a cold the last week, not ridden or been on the turbo... not climbed either, went to wrks last night and all my skin came off in chunks!! lasted 10 problems max (good fun the new purples though)

to add insult to injury (and avoid getting up at 6:30 to commute) i'm out XC nightriding tonight. the guys i go out with will expecting some fit roadie.... i'll be burnt and dropped on the first tech climb I'm sure!!

it's amazing how you can go from a work commute PB to a total spaz in 10 day!! 

[webbo]

i'm out XC nightriding tonight. the guys i go out with will expecting some fit roadie.... i'll be burnt and dropped on the first tech climb I'm sure!!

i too are being groomed by the yorkshire gristone bouldering mountain bike team for cannon fodder.theres talk of a quick session at the wall then the red circuit at dolby,night riding at dolby and even a weekend in wales.i ask my self is it worth the pain and humiliation,never mind the dozens of spiders who will be made homeless when they are evicted from their retro titanium home.

[saltbeef]

it's amazing how you can go from a work commute PB to a total spaz in 10 day!! 

its amazing how you go from being a beast to injured in a second. you'll bounce back.

[Dolly]

you out XC tonite then FD ?
was thinking of works and beer , but...
who you going out with ?

[fatdoc]

jerry, then beer.... c'mon it'll be a larf, jerry wants out early, I've delayed him till 7, can you make it?

I got a new light to show

[Dolly]

not that early mate.
8 is earliest.

Works for me - which pub after ?

[fatdoc]

i'll speak to jerry and luc, i'd be keener for the palais - for the abbott. i'll ring you after work. there's some cracking purples to fail on at the works, brush them well! really slippy y'day.. but not too hot. either desperate or very starightforeward...

[Bubba]

dolby

I think they mean Dalby

[webbo]

dolby

I think they mean Dalby

i should know that having ridden,raced and even climbed up there.i must be traumatised by the thought of mountain biking again.