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Howdo, how is everyone?
Some of you may remember me, others may not, used to be on here way too much, got a job, a renovation project and a daughter which took my time away from biking and then drifted away (sorry)
been looking at getting back into biking, should be getting a child seat from my parent's for my birthday (I borrowed one a month ago to see how we got on) and am considering replacing / upgrading bikes ready for us (wife, me and little un) to use them more.
Plan at the moment is for the wife to have a couple of changes made to my mountain bike and me build something new but what on earth has happened?
when I was still paying attention 26 inch wheels were mountain bike size, 24 inch for playing about and 29 inch if you wanted to be different and could find the parts that fitted together, now there seems to be about 8 different sizes!
having gotten confused and scared I looked at replacing the road bike instead (it's past pensionable age nearly having been made around 1964) as the brakes are simply not up to the Lancashire hills in the same way they coped with Coventry but I can't seem to find a steel frame for under £1000…
I'll probably ask specifics about building bikes when I get around to it - have to use what we've got first!
back to the original question, how are you all and what's changed in the world of cycling?
Some of you may remember me, others may not, used to be on here way too much, got a job, a renovation project and a daughter which took my time away from biking and then drifted away (sorry)
been looking at getting back into biking, should be getting a child seat from my parent's for my birthday (I borrowed one a month ago to see how we got on) and am considering replacing / upgrading bikes ready for us (wife, me and little un) to use them more.
Plan at the moment is for the wife to have a couple of changes made to my mountain bike and me build something new but what on earth has happened?
when I was still paying attention 26 inch wheels were mountain bike size, 24 inch for playing about and 29 inch if you wanted to be different and could find the parts that fitted together, now there seems to be about 8 different sizes!
having gotten confused and scared I looked at replacing the road bike instead (it's past pensionable age nearly having been made around 1964) as the brakes are simply not up to the Lancashire hills in the same way they coped with Coventry but I can't seem to find a steel frame for under £1000…
I'll probably ask specifics about building bikes when I get around to it - have to use what we've got first!
back to the original question, how are you all and what's changed in the world of cycling?
) and that's about it. And most of us don't ride our bikes very seriously at all.
That's where she's gone ... (yes, I did know Arch is a 
) 
), bigger, better, faster server, updates to forum software ... not much change there, then. Shaun still doing a brilliant job ... CC the biggest (and bestest 
) cycling forum ... 
back ! Now 
