Was watching an MTB vid the other day and one of the riders goes up onto a skinny way up in the trees, if he falls I reckon it's all over, anyway he stops at one section and his mates on the ground are thinking..uh-oh he's dead... then the guy pulls a no-hand track stand before riding off the huge drop at the end.....

HD, i reckon you may need to show me these trails one day soon?

Oh, my forks are gone to get serviced, blew a seal!

sure, if you want to od a morning run id be up for it if you met me at epping? its not real exciting though, otherwsie i dont getm much time in the day to ride and at night i tend to focus on coach derived torture.

oh, and im v v slow....


gee, couldnt you have paid the $100?? oculd have been worse and been a walruss i guess!

also, turn your front wheel towards your favoured foot ( that is forward ) on about a 45 degree angle, for some reason this makes it easier....

And getting podiums at the dirt crits..?

meh dirt crits, road riding, anything non tech is fine. add in tech, esp drops (over 1, 1.5 ft) and i cry like a school girl....

Thanks to everyone who responded. The problem is, my friend's LBS just flat out said it couldn't be done didn't say anything about axle to crown length or lining up the V brake posts. Or maybe they did and it just went over his head.

I mean, my first response when someone says it can't be done is "Why not?". But then my husband will tell you I am a difficult female.

Anybody waste hours of their life trying to get ashes tickets? I started at 8:50 (before they went on sale) and quit at 12, hammering the website and the phone line constantly. Didn't even get close. What's worse on the SMH blogs all the pommies bragging they got tons. I'm taking up baseball...

Mmmm Im pissed off I dint hear about pre ticket sale ballot thing for tickets. Nothing like going down to the cricket. Would have been a great day.

there will be plenty on ebay soon enough.

A biking related problem due to my noobness:
When changing the stem drop (its adjustable yes I am going to change it out) obviously you have to rotate the bars. What position should the bars be in? ie should the bottom straight bit of the drops be parallel to the ground?
I guess its kinda a philosphical question.

I love how the poms think they will win again. It will make their disappointment so much more enjoyable when they dont.

The Aussies should never have lost the last series. Even with stupid tactical decisions by Ponting and the team playing below par they still almost got over the line.

nah Gabe, line it up so the hoods and bend at the top are in the most comfortable position for riding. My drops are at about 30 degrees off flat, and the tops are pretty much perfectly flat with the hoods running in a straight line off the tops.

Being an MCC member pays off when it comes to hard to get cricket tix!

when did this hoods and tops level idea become mandatory? or even fashionable? I've only just graduated to my first ergo setup and flat was never even remotely possible on my old bikes. I've got the new bike set up with the tops/ hoods reasonably horizontal, but it sure took some getting used to and to be honest I've had more wrist soreness lately than I had with the hoods a good quarter of the way around the bend on my Cinelli Giro D'Italia bars on the old bike. The pain could be trade related more than bike, but still, whats the reasoning here?

whos gabe?

Thanks anyway.

The guy next to me at work picked up about 8 (1 at a a time) took hm about 2 hours....

Prolly not wot u wont to ear!

Hey, any you lot seen this?

https://www.graysonline.com.au/catalo...ALE_TYPE=THUMB

Come on, look at your handle https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072582/

wow that shows you how much I know about my own nickname of 6 years.

If those bars are like the ones I had on my OCR, then they're a bit of an awkward shape... ie: if you make the hoods horizontal, the drops point below the RD - or if you make the drops horizontal, the hoods slope away really badly.
In the end, my drops were pointing just below the rear caliper... 'twas the only semi-comfortable compromise I could find.

haha, you need to search for some bittorrent downloads and watch some episodes of the show

let me think..... https://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.p...postcount=6466

You have a keen eye Wattsy

I don't like the camel thing for road riding, I find I can't get enough water through the damn thing in one go. I chuck an extra bottle in one of my back pockets for more than a 3 hr ride.

I only do the camel thing for MTB riding, then I have less weight on the frame.

Why not just jump off and find a tap?

If you go for the camel pack whack it on under your jersey. then you can claim aero effects on a training ride

I am thinking you are right. The list for pbk just gets longer and longer
Did you have any luck with the seatpost? Mine comes loose every once and a while, no matter how hard I tighten it, serrated edges are ok though.


On a positive note I am liking the compact geometry, yeah it isnt the prettiest thing, but I enjoy the handling characterisitics.

Yep, mine used to slip just about every ride. Take it out, clean it and the inside of the seat tube and give it a hit with hair spray. When you refit it, just push it straight in, don't wiggle it side to side. Mine never slipped again.

If the seat post is carbon, make sure it and the seat tube are squeaky clean, no grease. If the post is aloomenumb, ya gotta grease it or it will eventually oxidize and seize.