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beesonthewhatnow said:
Have you ever ridden a modern lightweight carbon machine? You’d fly :eek: :D
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People may be surprised to learn I do indeed have a lightweight (aluminium-framed) road bike. But riding it make me feel guilty.



weepiper said:
Looks from your map like you're going up the Devil's Beeftub one way and over the Granites the other. Gears are your friend.
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Yep.

One of my best ever cycling memories is the climb up the Devil's Beeftub during LEL in 2013. It was pitch dark and slightly misty. As I ascended above the mist I could see the lights of other riders below and in the distance. Very Bright LEDs were the order of the day and I could see the shadows the hills cast from riders who were miles and miles away. And you could see the shadows move as the bikes illuminating them moved. It was a truly astonishing sight.

Oh, and I was riding a recumbent with lots of gears. Which helped.
 
Rear tyre finally gave up the ghost after a couple of nasty punctures on Friday, think because I let it go down over winter and its now just completely deformed - got a new shiny inner tube from local shop but tyre no longer fits at all after pumping up.

Trying not to use Amazon so ordered a tyre from Chain Reactions (Schwalbe Land Cruiser) on Friday - had it cancelled on Saturday morning because that tyre appears to be out of stock more or less everywhere. Went with a Hurricane Addix from Tredz instead and its going to take best part of a week to turn up. Bit annoying - especially after making the mistake of checking Amazon and knowing I could have got the LC cheaper and faster.
 
BigTom said:
Wow, I saw a promo for that posted on reddit and assumed it was basically just one guy and would be no bigger than the critical mass rides. That's crazy and brilliant :)
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It was absolutely stunning. Several thousand turned up, young and old, literally from every background you could imagine Birmingham has. Riding everything from road bikes to bmx’s, cruisers, trikes, shoppers, scooters, skateboards, anything. The atmosphere was as good as anything I’ve ever been to. Glorious.
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
It was absolutely stunning. Several thousand turned up, young and old, literally from every background you could imagine Birmingham has. Riding everything from road bikes to bmx’s, cruisers, trikes, shoppers, scooters, skateboards, anything. The atmosphere was as good as anything I’ve ever been to. Glorious.
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Who needs drum and bass when you've got bagpipes.

New video by nemo anonemo
 
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beesonthewhatnow said:
If only we had a poster who could ride a bike AND play bagpipes…

Come on weepiper, youtube glory awaits!
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There is nothing new under the sun.

www.mentalfloss.com

The Late Movies: The Unicycling Bagpiper of Portland...The "Unipiper"

Portland, Oregon is well-known for being weird. Driving around town, you see bumper stickers saying "Keep Portland Weird" and indeed, you often see weird activities like tall-bike jousting, nude mass bicycle rides (bicycle rights!!), and even Santa Rampages. But my favorite Portland weirdism...
www.mentalfloss.com www.mentalfloss.com
 
weepiper said:
There is nothing new under the sun.

www.mentalfloss.com

The Late Movies: The Unicycling Bagpiper of Portland...The "Unipiper"

Portland, Oregon is well-known for being weird. Driving around town, you see bumper stickers saying "Keep Portland Weird" and indeed, you often see weird activities like tall-bike jousting, nude mass bicycle rides (bicycle rights!!), and even Santa Rampages. But my favorite Portland weirdism...
www.mentalfloss.com www.mentalfloss.com
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Yeah, but you live in Edinburgh. Don full highland regalia, wheelie your way up the royal mile whilst banging out “Flower of Scotland”, and you could probably retire for life on what the tourists would throw your way :D
 
It is just advertising for Red Bull.

Chemicals in water. Just chemicals in water, ok?
 
I went to Critical Mass (London) last Friday - my first since 2006. I was a little worried it had stopped, since internet searches / Twitter was showing nothing but no: Massive, great fun, anarchic, loud and glorious.

Already looking forward to May's except... the whole thing might be toast? The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is all grown up, with royal assent, and will surely be in force by next month. Can anyone who's read up on this predict its impact on mass bike rides?
 
Geoffers said:
I went to Critical Mass (London) last Friday - my first since 2006. I was a little worried it had stopped, since internet searches / Twitter was showing nothing but no: Massive, great fun, anarchic, loud and glorious.

Already looking forward to May's except... the whole thing might be toast? The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is all grown up, with royal assent, and will surely be in force by next month. Can anyone who's read up on this predict its impact on mass bike rides?
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I've not been on a Critical Mass for years - glad to hear it's still going and hope it continues!
 
Geoffers said:
I went to Critical Mass (London) last Friday - my first since 2006. I was a little worried it had stopped, since internet searches / Twitter was showing nothing but no: Massive, great fun, anarchic, loud and glorious.

Already looking forward to May's except... the whole thing might be toast? The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is all grown up, with royal assent, and will surely be in force by next month. Can anyone who's read up on this predict its impact on mass bike rides?
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Key question is whether it's a protest or just a bike ride. Precedent will already be set with the arrest under PoA 1986 of the critical mass riders outside the 2012 london olympic opening ceremony. I can't remember the outcome of that, did anyone go to trial?
Essentially this an extension of the S12/S14 powers of that act so courts will take it into account I'm sure. I just cba to search right now to try to find out what ended up happening with that - it was the largest mass arrest in history at the time, beating out the fortnum and mason ukuncut arrests from the year before.
 
I have since found there is a large Facebook group but didn't think to check :) Join to watch videos of the mayhem, plus reminders of upcoming dates, and the occasional 'where are you?' as the ride is happening.

Where we met there were three or four vans of police but once we'd set off, not a single bobby. Even when we blocked a crossroads and were setting off flares. Reading reports of the new Act (not fully published yet) I fear that is all about to change...

We could be construed to cause 'serious annoyance', were probably noisy enough to cause 'serious unease'; and that example above might be 'serious disruption to the life of the community'. All of these carrying a threat of up to 10 years in prison. Cycling UK seems to think it will be a problem but that's the only place I've seen looking at these two things specifically.
 
Discovered a new cycle route today nr Three Bridges, Sussex, (?Worth Way) ,an old disused railway track.
Always good to do new routes, keep it fresh. Have been training for the inaugural EssexRide100 and finally had that feeling of yeah...i can do that :cool:
 
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MBV said:
Nuts long read about a Walter Mitty pro cyclist:

cyclingtips.com

Exposed by a Strava KOM: The many lives of a fake pro cyclist

Cyclist, scholar, CEO, soldier: who is Nick Clark?
cyclingtips.com cyclingtips.com
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Yeah, came by to post this, 'good' read (I mean it features harassment, don't feel entirely comfortable describing it as 'good', but sure people get the meaning)... One of those ones that just goes deeper. The guy who wrote it (iain treloar) also did a good piece (or couple of pieces now that I google) on Turkmenistan's authoritarian leader (and cycling fan decorated by the UCI) Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.
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DJWrongspeed said:
Discovered a new cycle route today nr Three Bridges, Sussex, (?Worth Way) ,an old disused railway track.
Always good to do new routes, keep it fresh. Have been training for the inaugural EssexRide100 and finally had that feeling of yeah...i can do that :cool:
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It's part of NCR21 from Greenwich down to Eastbourne. I've done bits of it but still haven't got at far as the Worth Way or Forest Way (EG to Groombridge).

There's some nice bits near me but to get to the Worth Way part I'd have to cycle the stretch by Gatwick Airport and that's not too appealing.
 
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