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[THE ANORAK]

another 20 miles done this morning, starting to head for the bigger hills now, going OK, recovery is much faster

[Brawlyrox]

Did 100 miles this weekend (thats why I am never on TMF atm). Nice weather for it. Well I did get a bit wet.

[THE ANORAK]

Did 100 miles this weekend (thats why I am never on TMF atm). Nice weather for it. Well I did get a bit wet.

wow, was that an all weekender or did you knock them off in one go ????

[Brawlyrox]

Well I did 55 miles on Saturday and 50 miles on Sunday. Its just building a base for next season, when I can race.
You just got to build up to it. My best long ride was 85 miles at an average of 18.4mph. The advantage of being pulled around by a pro

[joe_m]

off for a ride today, curently eating pasta and chokky bars. and the porage. then some cirial.
going to try out the home made energy drink to.

going to vid the biggest hill of the lot, so you guys can see how bad i fail at hills haha

[joe_m]

Or not, to cold and windy

[E.L.M.O]

I did 25 off road miles on Sunday to the Thames and back. Got dam wet and muddy!
Had my XTC SE serviced and it feels great now!
I am planning on doing the London to Brighton Bike run 2009. I really need to get in shape!
Will post pics of bike up soon?

[mighty mini jack]

Sounds like a good ride, there isn't really any interesting route round here, and no hills!

Be sure to post some pics up !
Plonk some pics in the MTB thread too if to like (links in my sig)

[joe_m]

going to the bike shop tomorow.
might have to do an anorak

[THE ANORAK]

I'm an all weather rider. snow, rain, sun everything, apart for frigging wind grr

off for a ride today....

Or not, to cold and windy

ha ha PMSL !!!!

(actually, its flipping snowing here now )

going to the bike shop tomorrow.
might have to do an anorak

that's more like it

anyway, we need more pics in this topic so..... after another free day at Coventry transport museum, here's their selection of road bikes

[E.L.M.O]

Sounds like a good ride, there isn't really any interesting route round here, and no hills!

Be sure to post some pics up !
Plonk some pics in the MTB thread too if to like (links in my sig)

really wanted to get some pics of Sundays ride. I wish I did.

Edited by E.L.M.O, 28 October 2008 - 04:19 PM.

[Mark@IR]

Just like to add, before i used to have a little bike forum going on, covering all styles of riding.

After reading the fair few bike threads that are going here, i decided to pull my weight and get it going again.

The link is

www.mrange.co.uk

Like i said, theres a space there for all styles of riding, plus workshop help etc etc.

Its only been live a few days, so might find a few errors and what not but post them up and i'll get it sorted.

Cheers ta me!

[nurseholliday]

After 8 years of BMX I'm branching out, picking up a 5 month old one of these tomorrow...(technically today since it's 1am):



I've wanted to build my own fixie for about 4 years but never had the time or money, and every time I saw a decent '80s Peugeot racer that would make a good starting point I lost out on actually buying it. So since my phone went for a decent amount of money on eBay, I've decided to buy a stock bike then hopefully upgrade it over time.

My initial plan is to overcome the initial difficulties with riding a brakeless fixie, then the 1st goal is to reduce home-uni time of ~15 mins on my BMX by about 50%, after that I'll start terrorizing pedestrians in town.

[erica]

your keen riding one of them through town. i raced them for about 4 years, and although a lot of people do ride them on the roads, i couldn't think of anything worse.

[THE ANORAK]

just done a very cold 9 miles with puddles of ice where the trees had stopped the sun from warming the road !!!!!

was hoping to do at least 20 miles but i just couldent get any warmth in my legs and didnt fancy sliding the new bike across the road, so headed back home

got back to a nice little parcel though my Co2 pump

i went for quite a fancy design (sucker for a bit of bling ) with a saftey lock. its compatable with threaded and non threaded cartriges and fits easily into my saddle bag. just hope i never have to use it







think i may sacrifice one cartridge just to test it out

Edited by THE ANORAK, 29 October 2008 - 05:27 PM.