vickster
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Sounds like you need to reset your sleep patterns 👍
you said you cycle for 4 hours, so you can get far out. Otherwise get the train somewhere out, do a circuit and get the train back
What does your significant other think of your cycling hobby?
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you said you cycle for 4 hours, so you can get far out. Otherwise get the train somewhere out, do a circuit and get the train back
oreo_muncher
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So what brands do I buy?My daughter is at Nottingham Trent Uni.She went back there a few weeks agoShe's doing everything online at the mo' but is in her 2nd year accommodation with three friends from Uni.She prefers to be there than here
Re the Rapha and Castelli stuff...don't be fooled by the "sale" prices.Their stuff is waaaayyyyyy overpriced and made in the same place as cheaper stuff
A friend of mine has just visited the factory in Lithuania where Castelli is made(hardly Italian now is it) with a view to them supplying our cycling kit.We can have an exact Castelli Gabba/Perfetto copy jacket,in CC livery,for around £65 each.Bear in mind we might only order 70-100 of each item too.Assos/Castelli/Rapha are charging 2 or 3X more for a badge basically
Save your money
vickster
Squire
Cheaper ones
for base layers and stuff, you don’t need to buy cycling specific at all
What ever fits.
DHB stuff from Wiggle is very good.Endura,Altura,B-Twin(Decathlon)Planet-X,Pearl Izumi,Halfords basically most stuff is pretty good.With Shorts/Bibs just get those with a decent Chamois.Really good Biblongs needn't cost more than £50-60,a decent Jersey £30-£40 etc.Of course you can get good stuff for half that price even
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I got a Raleigh (steel but then everything was) 10 speed racer for my 18th birthday a couple of months before University. It cost £30 which according to the Bank of England inflation calculator would be £97.15 these days. I had no cycle specific clothing at all. No water bottles. Just a rear rack and crappy panniers mostly used for my student shopping.
Other than rent, food and beer, and University society payments I had no other outgoings. We would put newspaper down pool table pockets to play indefinitely for 10p.
I didn’t work but also had no expectations of building savings or buying nice things. Savings didn’t begin till I was in a job post university.
I went everywhere by bike or foot unless hitch hiking further afield.
I got a Raleigh (steel but then everything was) 10 speed racer for my 18th birthday a couple of months before University. It cost £30 which according to the Bank of England inflation calculator would be £97.15 these days. I had no cycle specific clothing at all. No water bottles. Just a rear rack and crappy panniers mostly used for my student shopping.
Other than rent, food and beer, and University society payments I had no other outgoings. We would put newspaper down pool table pockets to play indefinitely for 10p.
I didn’t work but also had no expectations of building savings or buying nice things. Savings didn’t begin till I was in a job post university.
I went everywhere by bike or foot unless hitch hiking further afield.
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biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
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As long as my other half can access the chest freezer in the garage in ok 
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Here you go, me and my 10 speed racer on my 18th birthday. I’m wearing all the kit I’d wear on the bike back then. It’s a poor shot of the prints via my iPad so excuse poor colours. Note lack of cars blocking every spare bit of road.
BoldonLad
Not part of the Elite
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- South Tyneside
Is that a Mk1 Ford Fiesta? Early 80's, perhaps ?
oreo_muncher
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When cycling to Winchester- what places do you usually cycle through- I want to avoid A roads as much as possible, not pleasant cycling in lots of traffic and it feels colder.Hmmmm, well I'm very much a night owl as well, so I can't criticize that bedtime. Well, not too much anyway...
I do most of my best writing in the evenings.
Looks like SW London, so what about getting on a train to Winchester or Alton and riding home? I love cycling around the Winchester area - I do the odd cycling awayday, but not this year for obvious reasons. I've stayed much closer to home.
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Is that a Mk1 Ford Fiesta? Early 80's, perhaps ?
It is 1984
oreo_muncher
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Good looking youngster.
oreo_muncher
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What bikes has she gifted you
RichardB
Slightly retro
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- West Wales
Well worth a read. It explained a lot to me about myself which, even after 60 years, I hadn't quite worked out. Stuff that I thought was a fault in me turns out to be just the way I am wired up, and once you understand that it makes life a lot simpler. All noisy, hearty, party-animals should read it too, even though it's not about them.
