Disc brakes, Road bike.
Not sure what you mean this is all new to me , guess road bikes don't have disc Brakes then ?
Or should I have said "endurance bike "
I'm all ears If you care to explain
Your ride today....
- Thread starter gbb
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Not sure what you mean this is all new to me , guess road bikes don't have disc Brakes then ?
Or should I have said "endurance bike "
I'm all ears If you care to explain
Racing roadkill
Guru
Don't worry, I was just extracting the urine. There's a whole 'hoo haa' about road bikes, with disc brakes. They spend gazillions of pounds making the bikes lighter, then stick a heavy disc brake set up on them
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Nice bike welcome to the Giant owners club mines a 2012 model same colour scheme though .
Disc brakes are the future , purist don't like the look of them .But they work extremely well
Racing roadkill
Guru
It's not the look of them that's the issue. It's the effect in a pile up. You don't get the pile ups in off roading.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
First outing for a week so up and out before 5.45 am this morning for some miles and testing of the front light I have been asked to review. Review of Basecamp cycle lamp model bc-403
Ended up with 12.5 miles and a couple of nice pictures.
Ended up with 12.5 miles and a couple of nice pictures.
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Stonechat
Guru
- Location
- Staines, Middlesex
Will do
Jon George
Mamil and couldn't care less
- Location
- Suffolk an' Good
Yesterday was a wonderful slow pootle of 15 miles North-East of Ipswich, that involved a lot whistling, cheery hellos to another cyclists and dawdling. I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to find a quiet spot as @ColinJ suggested and have a think about events over the last few days. Have found a likely place near Great Bealings, I sat on the verge of narrow lane atop a hill, listening to the skylarks and enjoying the quiet. Just as I was thinking my late mum would have loved the tranquillity, there came two retorts from a nearby shotgun - very near - so close the sounds were preceded with a Crack! She would have laughed - as did I.
There are certainly a lot of pheasants out and about at the moment, and I saw a couple having a fight near Grundisburgh. Maybe they should think about turning that aggression onto the people with the guns.
By the way: thanks to all who have expressed condolences at my loss - it's been a comfort.
(Oh, my Tour De Cochon ridding buddy's lack of maintenance resulted in his bike, Concord, suffering a major failure on Sunday and I have leant him Patsy #4. It seems I will having to adopt my Bicycle Repair Man outfit soon. I dread to think how much damage there is - it sounds like the rear derailleur cage collapsed and broke the wheel ... )
This between Playford and Culpho, yesterday.
There are certainly a lot of pheasants out and about at the moment, and I saw a couple having a fight near Grundisburgh. Maybe they should think about turning that aggression onto the people with the guns.
By the way: thanks to all who have expressed condolences at my loss - it's been a comfort.
(Oh, my Tour De Cochon ridding buddy's lack of maintenance resulted in his bike, Concord, suffering a major failure on Sunday and I have leant him Patsy #4. It seems I will having to adopt my Bicycle Repair Man outfit soon. I dread to think how much damage there is - it sounds like the rear derailleur cage collapsed and broke the wheel ... )
This between Playford and Culpho, yesterday.
Not my ride but @thegravestoneman tackling the cobbles of Halifax in the Ronde Von Calderdale Sportive.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I'm sorry about your mum, Jon, but I'm glad you were able to get out and clear your head on a nice ride.
That shotgun incident reminds me of my dad's funeral - LINK!
It was raining this morning so it was a delayed start to my usual 53 km circuit. I saw two swallows on my travels, my first sightings this year. Also a short-eared owl flying over the cycle boardwalk on Burton marsh.
View: https://www.strava.com/activities/542141940/embed/b8818467f30712dc39ebf371ea2c14f6687c4acb
View: https://www.strava.com/activities/542141940/embed/b8818467f30712dc39ebf371ea2c14f6687c4acb
Elybazza61
Guru
Three rides to report,but no pics again.
Had planned to do the Velominati London/Chilterns gogal on Saturday but a migraine put the end to that but was ok on Sunday for a couple of rides
First a little spin with the other half before lunch and a run out solo heading down south of Newmarket.
Both nice rides although the wind had got up for the solo run.Other half progressing nicely with another increase in the average and rolling nicely up the inclines now too.
Only downer was the HRM playing up on both rides so they both look harder on Strava than they really were;
https://www.strava.com/activities/541092913
https://www.strava.com/activities/541425398
So a good 100+k for the day.
And today a last minute decision to ride in to work as it was such a nice morning,left a bit later than usual so a bit busier traffic wise but nice to clear my head after a few beers last night watching Paris-Roubaix.
https://www.strava.com/activities/541997341
Had planned to do the Velominati London/Chilterns gogal on Saturday but a migraine put the end to that but was ok on Sunday for a couple of rides
First a little spin with the other half before lunch and a run out solo heading down south of Newmarket.
Both nice rides although the wind had got up for the solo run.Other half progressing nicely with another increase in the average and rolling nicely up the inclines now too.
Only downer was the HRM playing up on both rides so they both look harder on Strava than they really were;
https://www.strava.com/activities/541092913
https://www.strava.com/activities/541425398
So a good 100+k for the day.
And today a last minute decision to ride in to work as it was such a nice morning,left a bit later than usual so a bit busier traffic wise but nice to clear my head after a few beers last night watching Paris-Roubaix.
https://www.strava.com/activities/541997341
thegravestoneman
three wheels on my wagon
- Location
- Castleford, Yorkshire
thegravestoneman
three wheels on my wagon
- Location
- Castleford, Yorkshire
Troopers and the bitter end only 10 mile to go, I did get back on later honest!
A bit of forethought before turning a pedal this morning. Not like me at all.
The maze of Holbeck took me to Office Lock for the second day in succession, in fact the same route as yesterday to the Ring Road at Lawnswood, but this time round I turned left onto Otley Old Road and managed that long climb up to the water tower. This gave me delusions of fitness at my sandwich stop, more later. From the water tower I kept on the same road and instead of turning off for the side view of the airport, I carried straight on to Bramhope, turned left and followed the A 660 into Otley.
Across the River Wharfe, up Billam's Hill and turned left for Weston, wondering if I could still climb that sharp little shocker that rears up just where the houses end. I could and did . . .
While munching, and recovering from that little climb, delusions of fitness returned and I decided to return home via Pool Bank, so back to Otley, along the valley bottom to Pool, and point the bike uphill. If you look at the RSPB site for Red Kites it tells you they mostly eat carrion. After my second stop up Pool Bank the Red Kites were circling lower and lower from the tree tops . . .
I did not stop again. All the way to the A 660 and then home to complete 33.5 miles with that slight diversion through Kirkstall. A very satisfying ride.
The maze of Holbeck took me to Office Lock for the second day in succession, in fact the same route as yesterday to the Ring Road at Lawnswood, but this time round I turned left onto Otley Old Road and managed that long climb up to the water tower. This gave me delusions of fitness at my sandwich stop, more later. From the water tower I kept on the same road and instead of turning off for the side view of the airport, I carried straight on to Bramhope, turned left and followed the A 660 into Otley.
Across the River Wharfe, up Billam's Hill and turned left for Weston, wondering if I could still climb that sharp little shocker that rears up just where the houses end. I could and did . . .
While munching, and recovering from that little climb, delusions of fitness returned and I decided to return home via Pool Bank, so back to Otley, along the valley bottom to Pool, and point the bike uphill. If you look at the RSPB site for Red Kites it tells you they mostly eat carrion. After my second stop up Pool Bank the Red Kites were circling lower and lower from the tree tops . . .
I did not stop again. All the way to the A 660 and then home to complete 33.5 miles with that slight diversion through Kirkstall. A very satisfying ride.
Donger
A.K.A. Buster Nuvverbike (componentry destroyer)
- Location
- Quedgeley, Glos.
... Just wondering how you get close enough to measure their ears?
