[webbo]

when you said 100 hours of turbo i thought you meant non stop not over a winter. :thumbsdown:come on man up.
 

[Yossarian]

A shot of lignocaine to the ringpiece and I'm there...

[Yossarian]

If the English ends up black then I might have to go for a pair of these bad boys...

[tlr]

I can't decide if those are lovely or horrible.

[chappers]

nice...with no stickers on. 'kin horrible with stickers!

[Yossarian]

The Corima 4 spoke that I've bought for Project Lo-Pro should be rolling up today...  Corima stickers aren't very nice, and I think they've been removed.  Just a small Wolber sticker.

I don't actually mind the Madfiber graphics, but they wouldn't look right on the English.  I'm either going to go for the gold paint job, or black with black graphics. If it's the latter then black stickerless Madfibers would be cool. 

I think I'm going to have to quit work and train full time before this bike arrives - otherwise I'm going to look like an utter arsehole...

[soapy]

..and you think training's going to change that..?

[Yossarian]

I think it will have an ameliorating effect...

[fatkid2000]

See where your local council comes.
http://www.fillthathole.org.uk/league-table

[chappers]

commuting on the cross bike. loved it. deep snow on the fallowfield loop. 22miles of great fun every day this week!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47853324@N08/5224266796/#

[fatkid2000]

Does your cross bike go through 2 foot powder?

I've thought of getting one for the commute - but I can't ride into work this year, something I need to rectify when looking for a job next year.

I'm dragging out the turbo much to my displeasure but I need to do some exercise having not ridden for 4 months or so.

[chappers]

powder snow is no problem, was blasting through it yesterday on the way home. way over my feet whilst on the bike so that must be about 2ft?? good times. cross bikes are amazing, but the canti brakes suck, big time, i think i will upgrade to the new avid mini v's on this bike.

[Percy B]

Number Two in my occasional series of gnarly pictures of cyclists legs. This time, Sean Kelly gunning for the line. 

[Yossarian]

I think this is the podium photo...

[Palomides]

A belated happy 90th birthday to Fiorenzo Magni, the "third man" of post-war Italian cycling. He raced against Coppi and Bartoli, and still managed to win the Giro, Tour of Flanders, Giro del Piemonte and Italian national championships three times each.

I only really know about him because of the 1956 Giro:


He broke his collarbone on stage 12. On stage 13 (Time trial) he held a piece of innertube in his mouth to make up for the weakness in his left arm.

Then he rode all the way to the end, TAKING SECOND PLACE (apparently he tried to attack Gaul, the leader a few times...).

Unsurprisingly he had a successful business career after retiring - I say unsurprisingly because I can only imagine that people working for him would only have taken sickies after losing at least one limb.

Bigringriding describes him as "the king of HTFU".

He's 90 years old and looks like the fucking Godfather:

[jfw]

cross bikes on saturday on houndkirk - primarily too deep to ride (was expecting compacted 4x4 tracks after reading JH's post - but just deep snow  )



rode out through ecclesall woods ok

this about my third cyclocross ride - with 1 being race at myrtle park, and 2 being race in graves park in the snow  (for which i put flat pedals on and wore fell running shoes - its gets super technical in the woods!!)

for turbo - i would definitely recommend forking out for a sufferfest download vid - makes an hour fly by. 

[mr__j5]

Number Two in my occasional series of gnarly pictures of cyclists legs. This time, Sean Kelly gunning for the line. 

From this, I hope you are following http://www.bigringriding.com/

[Percy B]

Yep - BRR is always a good laugh. Also velominati.com is amusing.

Yos - you're photo of Sean Kelly's legs (taken during a skinny phase) beats mine, and then I found this bulked up one.....



Makes you feel sory for the bike....

[fatdoc]

*Steriod legs*
 

and before I get in bother again... i"m NOT calling anyone a wanker.. it's just TOSS that these blokes get away with it...

Ok?
 

[Palomides]

Ok.

[Percy B]

.......and I'll raise you Nelson Vails....

[Yossarian]

And I'm spent...

We should organise a group UKB road ride next year.  I could do with some Peak hill action pre Marmotte.  Maybe late May / early June? A hilly century?

[SteveM]

I'd be up for getting dropped

 

[Percy B]

An early Christmas pressie for roadies.



A Sunday in Hell.

Enjoy

[Yossarian]

Did a bit of roller racing last night...






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