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I don't have a TV (although I need one pretty soon as I'm getting Sky installed next week so I can watch Le Tour!) and my tunes are muted coz my girlie is trying to sleep.
Sad huh?

buddha: I liked to think they were impressed..
But then I think about the face the greets me in the mirror and I'm sure they were thinking about dicing vegetables for dinner or something equally mundane :D

I'm a bastard.. wanna put money on it? :P
Cast off already? I thought it was 4-6 weeks usually? Hairline fracture?

I wish I could find the photo from my last job where 3 out of the total 5 staff had broken arms/broken collarbones. All three done in one week!!! Lucky (hmmf!) we work in IT and can continue our jobs :S

WHERE exactly are you sticking your bars 31trum? :S

Couldn't stop myself.. geddit?! couldn't stop.. ah.. try the fish..

No.. oh wait this is a brakeless thread.. my bad. :P

I've done a few spin classes. They can be a novel change from riding outside.
All the 'real' cyclists will laugh (roadies, I'm talking 'bout you) but that's because they are afraid to stray outside their little realm of hardcore.
There's plenty of totty viewage at spin class too. Mmm Mmm. :)

My SS MTB was 32:15 for the road (now THAT makes you spin!) and 32:17 for dirt 'n' hills.

31trum wont

Damn, you're quick on this thing!
Not as fast as me though! Heeya! Hasan Chop!

31trum [quote]hippy Don't overdo it. You don't want to slow the healing process or do MORE damage.

yes mum[/quote]

Clean your room!
(I was just speaking from experience.. injured, go back too early, result = injured for even longer)

http://www.roadcycling.com/training/victory.shtml
http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=1030
http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/index.php/t-69430.html
haha: this came up in google: http://www.londonfgss.com/discussion/120/pedalling-technique/

just google for pedal technique, spin, spinning, cadence, that kind of thing.. tonnes out there.

I bought a whole Miche track groupset (inc. hubs) in Oz for $500AUD. That's £200. What are they here?

Random polo links (for mallet ideas), no tools here Chop:
http://www.bikepolo.com/equipment.html
http://www.axlesofevil.org/main.php
http://www.pimpmymallet.com/
http://www.madbikepolo.org/
http://www.boxwoodbicyclepolo.com/mallets.html

http://bikepolo.larrymite.com.au/ AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!

This is a fixed gear forum. Grammah and speeling arentuh hi on my prioritees leest. :)

The door is sick of me punching it when my keys don't work and decided to take revenge. It just happened to coincide with the brakes that won't brake thing..

My life is just full of complex twists and turns ain't it? :P

Don't overdo it. You don't want to slow the healing process or do MORE damage.

100k on a track bike.. ooh this is gonna be fun.. :)

I definitely prefer the 69 to my previous 46/17=73?

So the Aztec brake blocks I bought from cyclesurgery are sh1te. One of the frickin nuts is too small so you can't get an allen key in deep enough to tighten it up.
Grrr.. £10 and I have to refit the old ones and take the Aztecs back. On top of that the door took a piece out of my achillies heel while fitting the stupid things..
Double Grrr. mumble better bloody get an entry to this brit cyclosportif thing grumble..

Guess what I bought tonight?

GAZPACHO SOUP!!!!

No sh1t! I've never seen it before but there was some on special in Waitrose and given this RD revival I had to try it..

Served Cold!

Rattlebag Possibly my all time favourite scene from Red Dwarf is at the begining of backwards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOb459bpVpY

And I love how the "time hole" is in fact just water going down a plughole

Awesome!! Have you ever listened to the 'backwards' dialog reversed? It's a pisser.. :D

the-smiling-buddha [quote]hippy I swapped my 73" 46/17 for a 44/17 to spin faster around town. Some guys are pushing silly-large gears through the city but I personally prefer to spin.
Lower gearing makes skidding easier and it's just easier to relax with lower gearing (until downhills) :)

I haven't really got into the science of spinning yet, can you go the same speed as you would on a harder gear...?[/quote]

Definitely. Silly as it sounds.. you just pedal faster.
It's good to have a wide ranging cadence (pedal rpm) so you get the jump on people in races when you are already at speed.
Spinning also encourages use of your cardiovascular system (heart and lungs) more so than your hulking leg muscles. So if your legs get sore lower the gear, if you run out of breath spinning your arse off, increase the gear.
There's always tonnes of chatter on bike forums about spinning, optimum cadence and shite but I can't be bothered with too much explantion.
I used to grind, now I spin with a hint of grind. Personal preference brought on by reading about pedaling technique, practising it and then racing with it.

I've seen some guys running quite low gears fixed around town. Who's running stupid low gears on here I wonder? Me: 44/17 = 69"

With that amount of Metro gear on he couldn't be a fakenger! :)
He was quick through traffic too.

Who rides the light blue Argos?
Thanks for the 'nice frame' comment.. although I really should do some upper-body work.. ;)

Also, who's the grey-haired guy in full Metro kit (riding a celeste(ish) frame).

It gets warm and all the fixers head west..

I swapped my 73" 46/17 for a 44/17 to spin faster around town. Some guys are pushing silly-large gears through the city but I personally prefer to spin.
Lower gearing makes skidding easier and it's just easier to relax with lower gearing (until downhills) :)

CAT: An orange whirly thing in space!
LISTER: It's a time hole. That's where they are. We're goin' in.
CAT: Are you crazy? You can't go in there!
LISTER: Why not?
CAT: Orange?! With this suit?!

:d