32sixteen falling off bikes since 1975 tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9428755 2005-10-24T18:55:42Z Blogger
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 true Nick 2005-10-24T19:53:00+01:00 2005-10-24T18:55:42Z 2005-10-24T18:55:42Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9428755.post-113018014257051072 Normal Service Will Be Resumed
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 false Nick 2005-10-24T19:50:00+01:00 2005-10-24T18:53:21Z 2005-10-24T18:53:21Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9428755.post-113018000186692597 Feeling Low
I've just had a dose of man-flu.

Combined with my withered lungs I've had a peak flow this last week of just 350. That's compared to the norm for my age of about 700. And my mountain biking peers of even more.

Still, it coincided with some of our worst weather this year, more like Summer 2004. At least I've had an excuse not to ride in it.
 false Nick 2005-10-21T20:54:00+01:00 2005-10-21T19:59:17Z 2005-10-21T19:59:17Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9428755.post-112992475728610855 Jihad Training
I get to see the search terms that bring people to this website. Perhaps the strangest this week has formed the title of todays post.

I know what tags and posts on this website might have triggered a match in the twisted algorithms of the search engines. But will the Special Branch? When we live in a country which proposes long term holding of prisoners without trial under anti-terror legislation, and at the same time uses that legislation to arrest an 82 year old heckler of our dishonorable foreign secretary for his illegal war on Iraq maybe I should be more worried about that knock on the door.
 false Nick 2005-10-20T22:19:00+01:00 2005-10-20T21:25:07Z 2005-10-20T21:25:07Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9428755.post-112984350749377463 It's Singlespeed FFS
Some jerk was posting ona forum today about running two rear sprockets with some gash home made spacer and asking what he could use to switchy between them and still get tension.

FFS!!

Either it's singlespeed or it's not.

And if it's not just go the whole hog and slap a full 9 speed block on the back, a handy thing for maintaining tension in any of them, and how about a handy handlebar control for switching between them on the move.

I love my singlespeeds. Heck, I have three and I'm not unknown to sneak a ride on my wifes. I'll admit it's totally impractical sometimes. Which is why I've got a Turner and a Yates.

But this gash faux-singlespeed reliving of pseudo-thirties shonky mechanisms choosing betweeen two impractical ratios is a half-way house too far.

Don't let me catch you. Or I'll beat you to death with your own chain tensioner.
 false Nick 2005-10-16T21:36:00+01:00 2005-10-16T20:43:22Z 2005-10-16T20:43:22Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9428755.post-112949540217523099 MLC I went over to the Cheek Republic today for what was billed as the MLC ride.<br /><br />SteveM has gone and bought himself a long travel burly hardtail and it needed christening. Dave_A has got himself a long travel Orange instead of his one-speed. And me? Well the Turner has a new Pro-Pedal Fox shock to try out after the Alps 4R ate its seals. And I've just fitted MLC handlebars.<br /><br />I nearly didn't make it to forty when my front tyre let go on the very first downhill. Think slippery and steep stone-slabbed pack-horse trail.<br /><br />We had four hours of fun, including several photostops for <a href="http://www.danbarham.com/preview/20051016/HebdenMLC/">Dan</a>.<br /><br />To top it all off, to celebrate a ride in Yorkshire we had Yorkshire Pudding for tea.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.32sixteen.com/yorkie.jpg" alt="yorkshire pudding"><br /><br />I haven't had so much fun on a ride in a while.<br /><br /><strong>MLC</strong> = Mid Life Crisis false