Thanks Donkey
My commuting hack has colarado brakes (which come with the bevel washers like on v-brakes) - maybe I should swap them over (or get some tektros)
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Thanks Donkey
My commuting hack has colarado brakes (which come with the bevel washers like on v-brakes) - maybe I should swap them over (or get some tektros)
I bet the colarado brakes you have are the re badged tektros
do thay look blike theses
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/tektro-cr-...item1e671eae1c
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Originally Posted by monkeynut
think so (without being at home to look)
Ooh vote now - shall I swap? or do the froglegs give extra required mud clearance??
Landcruisers are going back onto the crosser, then a little ride on the hills on it... Mountain Mayhem 24 hr solo out of the way, training for PPPCX has officially started... :)
800' of hill reps with my bike yesterday mean a very bruised shoulder today, but training has officially started!
Need to learn to carry my bike properly though, or am I just a wuss?
Are you using pipelagging? I put a length of pipelagging all along top and seattube for carrying... Just fitted it but am short a couple of cableties and ducktape, which is in the car, which is still in the bodyshop :(
The cross bar levers are also still in the car but I can do without those for now...
Managed to find a couple of the right size innertubes... so at least I can put the landcruisers back on... My mate still has the other cross tyres and tubes :/
Once they are fitted, I shall be off for my first ride/carry of this year :)
Good point! I've got pipe lagging but haven't built my cross bike yet, so I carried a road bike with the cable mounts under the toptube - that's what was digging in!
Must put pipe lagging on the bike I'm actually carrying, and must get cross bike built this weekend...
Technically, in true 'old skool' style, you should only need lagging on the front 2/3 of the top-tube, none on the seat tube.Quote:
Originally Posted by marty mcfly
Learn to carry with this section of the top tube on your shoulder. That way you won't have the front wheel 'drooping' and hitting the ground in front of you on the climbs. If you can get hold of a copy, it's well worth reading "Cyclo-cross" by Simon Bourne .... he was manager of the Peugeot Cycles UK team, back when Tim Gould and David Baker were their stars.
Some of the fast folk and people with no pain receptors scoff at pipe lagging, but I quite like it. As above though I think it's an easier carry with the bike more horizontal and the shoulder further forward in the triangle, rather than dangling vertically with your shoulder wedged into the seat cluster. Try wrapping your forearm around under the downtube to grab the bars. Tall people sometimes come right around the headtube with the arm. Quick search - a bit like this http://videos.parentdish.com/the-bas...ike-484150652/ from about 1'30 on.
I use three ways of shouldering the bike, to release the pressure of my boney, ropey, injured and inflamed right shoulder... horizontal, further forward on the top tube, arm around downtube, or diagnoally, resting on the shoulder with the corner of the seat/headtube, or for Simon's Fell I actually carry it like I carry my MTB, right accross the shoulders... for this I need pipelagging all along the top tube, or otherwise my neck gets bruised, so hence having a piece that covers the whole top and seat tube :)
I bruise easily and am very boney, no fat... 5'10'' weighing 58 kilo's :-O
Entry list is out...........https://www.sientries.co.uk/list.php?event_id=751
Started. 1100' of reps. Starting to trust the bike a bit more in the slither. Onwards!
Thanks for the tips! I'll be getting plenty of practice at it so these are helpful. Bike build coming along nicely. Just can't get the rear derailleur to fit the dropout. Grr.
A record number of women enytered :w00t:
Also, quite a few of my MTB enduro nemeses [sp?] there :w00t:
Well, I did my first training session yesterday. Carried the bike streight up the side of the Blorenge... Much longer than Simon's fell and at least as steep towards the end... Then rode for another couple of hours or so off road. Took some getting used to being on 35 mm Landcruisers on a very light and skippy Ti CX race machine I had never taken out of a muddy field before :w00t: VERY different from 29er wheels with 2.25 Nobby Nics/Racing Ralphs on it and suspension and flat handlebars... But we will get there! Just need to get more careful with my lines again...
Shake, rattle and roll!
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Originally Posted by stevefoster
How's everyone's training going then?
I'm doing a bit of road riding and a bit of running but very little offroad riding or carrying. I'm making the schoolboy error of failing to train my weaknesses so need to sort it out asap!
I have been racing MTB endurance events all summer... and just started adding some road speed work to get a bit faster for the rather 'short' 3 Peaks race...
Started carrying as well, but got waylaid by MTB races so better pick up with my weekly carry session tomorrow :w00t:
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Originally Posted by marty mcfly
Mix of 1-2 hour road rides, hill reps running and biking, and a little cx hill loop that's about a 3' run/carry, 3' undulating and 3' descending. Try to do laps of that once a week. A few fell races, not much actual 'going for a run'. I'm short on long stuff - there's a big gap between my 2h rides and 4-5h Peaks will take :)
As with you, lots of road as that was my downfall last time,will still be riding my 35 year old Alan though (very light frame)Quote:
Originally Posted by marty mcfly
:thumbup:
Are we all fettled up and got the gubbins sorting out ont bikes ready fer 30th
Not exactly... I need my wheels re-building with new rims, the current ones are worn through... I hope I get that sorted in time :w00t:
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Originally Posted by monkeynut
Just need to slip some new canti pads in, bung the 32 cassette on and see if those new legs have turned up yet. They've been on back order for ages.
getting real "I wish I was doing it again" pangs reading all of your posts... but then my sensible side kicks in and I think thank god! Hope you all have a blast and not too many punctures!
Come on Nik, you know that you'd love to:). I lent you my mates spare rear wheel (he'd already descended and obviously didn't need it) as you were heading down Horton Scar Lane ( off P-y-G ) in 2005. I think you were testing a Crosslight Evo ( plastic back-end ) for one of the bike forums.
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Originally Posted by nikalas
Pads changed (salmon kool-stops - I can even lock the wheel now!), big cassette on. Still waiting for legs. I have no clue why I'm doing this horrendous event. And it'll rain!
I am having my wheels re-built on Wednesday, talking about cutting things fine :w00t:
You're in then?
There is hoping!
Went out on the crosser Friday eve and Saturday morning, couple of hours easy and a good hr easy, seemed ok, but was easy with short carries. MTB ride yesterday in grim conditions, seemed to be ok. Ultimate test tomorrow eve on the hard route with Simon's Fell type carry and Pen-y-ghent like descent so the verdict is still out there... Ligaments still a bit inflamed but haematoma's seem to have cleared enough not to cause bother now...
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Originally Posted by idler
OK bike serviced and landcruisers fitted, now I have to test it.
No Dennis the Menace tomfoolery this time as I don't want baggy shorts that keep catch on saddle during on/off!
Watch out Rob and Nick, I'm wearing proper clothes and taking it serious this year, heh heh!
i think the ground may be a tad - how shall i put this - damp!!!!
Ha, that brings back painful memories.. First time doing it before I moved to the Peak District and had only London training in my legs.. was a long day Not testing that day though, on old faithful Condor.Quote:
Originally Posted by wheezing donkey
Postponing my 3 peaks readyness test till tomorrow. Winds too high, I'd be blown streight off the side of the Blorenge :(
Blorenge... always makes me chuckle, sounds like it should be a dessert of some kindQuote:
Originally Posted by Hanneke
I had to google Blorenge!Quote:
Originally Posted by shaunaneto
The weathers looking like things may be a bit wet and windy at the weekend...starting to get a bit nervous now.
Hope your shoulders ok Hanneke
wet ground
wet weather
20mph wind (in horton in ribblesdale)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2646544
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yorkshire dales mountain region weather <cry>
Sunday
Perhaps dry to start but clouds thickening with hill fog and rain soon moving in. Southwesterly winds will be strong to gale from the start.
I am not sure I want to do this now... shoulder not 100% at all, weather forecast atrocious and I lost my nerve on Sunday, out on the MTB, as I was lifted up 29er MTB and all by strong winds and dumped trailside about 20 metres lower than the trail. Thankfully a young pine tree broke my fall. However, I am really prone to being blown over by the wind. This has now happened multiple times fell running, multiple times on the road bike, twice on the cross bike and now even once on a whopping great big MTB :w00t:
NOT happy, especially not after last years situation where I could not see a thing on top of Ingleborough and had to shuffle around glasses and bike in hand, literally feeling where I was going. NOT funny! Seriously thinking of giving this a miss... I don't want to go the way my rescue victim went, fracturing her ankle in front of me coming off Whernside... I would love a helicopter ride one day, but not by courtesy of MR :w00t:
Noooooo!!! The 3 Peaks is my annual holiday! :thunbdown:
I might have to go anyway...
Bad news Hann:thunbdown:
You taking photo's Dom? Although looking at ratfinks's weather forecast you won't see much.
Never done this in bad weather, till now, can't be any worse than the drenching I've had tonight.........can it:rolleyes:
Be reet, soldier on:thumbup:
Ive been full of a cold since my drenching 35 commute on monday
but hopefully be ok for sunday, real shiity weather is a good leveler for us bog trotting types
walshies and toe clips again this year ,slower on the road but safer on the fell me thinks)
Walshes and toe clips sounds like an idea...
Well, at least I have my wheels back, with new rims and new spokes in the back as well... Only, the front isn't true so need to go back again tomorrow morning to have it trued grrrrrrrrrrrrrr... Nothing seems to be going smoothly at the moment :(