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Post by Humph on Jun 19, 2020 6:47:33 GMT
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Post by WDB on Jun 19, 2020 9:04:28 GMT
Yes, I think you’ll need a Single Transferable Vote approach to get anything this summer. That has a decent spread of gears and name-brand brakes and tyres to push it up the preference list. It would cope well with the bridleways round here, and run all right on tarmac too, once you’d got it up to speed.
You’d need a Small, though. Think you could cope with that? 😈
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Post by Alanović on Jun 19, 2020 9:20:21 GMT
Sizing is an absolute pain in the arse isn't it. I can be 5'10" on a good day.
Anyway, link says out of stock.
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Post by WDB on Jun 19, 2020 9:36:05 GMT
Your sporran would still prefer the smaller size if you’re taking it off-road.
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Post by Alanović on Jun 19, 2020 9:51:31 GMT
Depends what you mean by off road. My off-roading is just going to be unmade paths, forest trails, tow paths, that sort of thing. Not mountains and fields and the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Think Swinley Forest paths.
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Post by WDB on Jun 19, 2020 10:07:31 GMT
Just bear in mind that tracks tend to have ruts and potholes, which mean that the ground, when you suddenly need to put a foot on it, can be several inches below the level of the wheels. Sorry to keep hammering goolies-on-top-tube but better I do it now than you do it out there. 😣
You can always adjust a bike to be slightly bigger for comfort — stems and seat posts are easily swapped. You can’t go below the basic size of the frame.
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Post by WDB on Jun 19, 2020 10:19:32 GMT
I've never actually felt the need to delete a post on here, but if you put up a photograph of your helmet... 🙈 Well, the first one’s here and I’ll probably cancel the second because, although it’s more expensive, this one seems ideal. Size XL (the old one was an L, as is the other new one) and I don’t even have to wind the adjuster out as far as it will go. It’s a Giro Synapse MIPS if you want to look it up. I feel no need to post pictures here.
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Post by Humph on Jun 19, 2020 10:49:04 GMT
Wow, M and L were in stock about 8.00 this morning Al, selling like bog rolls aren't they?
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Post by tyrednexited on Jun 19, 2020 10:55:54 GMT
Wow, M and L were in stock about 8.00 this morning Al, selling like bog rolls aren't they? ....and they say we're heading for a recession.... Add the fact that caravan/motorhome vendors can't obtain stock fast enough to meet demand (staycation anyone?) and the leisure industries'l put that right in a trice....
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Post by WDB on Jun 19, 2020 10:57:07 GMT
Not just bikes. Boy2 yesterday evening asked me to order some home exercise kit he’d found in stock at Decathlon. I got one in my basket, then he asked me to make it two, and in the time it took me to do that, it flicked to ‘no longer available’.
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Post by Humph on Jun 19, 2020 11:04:30 GMT
My helmet is a Giro somethingorother, if I ever clean the mud off it I might be able to give you more detail. Funny old thing though, and I've had this conversation with many an MTB rider, we wear them now mainly because people scowl at you if you don't, and a lot of the trail centres insist on it. We part company with our bikes more than most, and on a depressingly regular basis, and in my case I've been dismounting rapidly, randomly, and involuntarily for 50 years or more in the most obstacle strewn environments.
But, I've never ever managed to land on my head, or indeed ever use it as brakes. Knees, elbows, wrists, fingers, and even my derrière have regularly come to grief, but despite countless attempts to prove a man can fly, without even the benefit of a red cape or indeed, ever wearing my underpants on the outside, I've never used my head as the first point of contact with terra firma, flora or fauna.
But, it would feel at least odd now not to wear a helmet.
Haven't checked recently, but last time I could be bothered to look, there had never been any conclusive study to prove or disprove their efficacy, but I guess it's one of those things that sounds believable, and maybe of course, it does help, and if people say things often enough they become true.
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Post by Humph on Jun 19, 2020 11:31:12 GMT
Not just bikes. Boy2 yesterday evening asked me to order some home exercise kit he’d found in stock at Decathlon. I got one in my basket, then he asked me to make it two, and in the time it took me to do that, it flicked to ‘no longer available’. Is that the one who's been checking out the availability of wigs too? 😉
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Post by EspadaIII on Jun 19, 2020 11:56:39 GMT
I do wonder how many of these bikes that have ben bought in the last three months will gather dust and grime by this time next year...
Espadrille's bike bought from Rutland Cycles in the middle of April has been used oooh... three times? Maybe four? Once to the park and three times to the office. In total? 10 miles.
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Post by WDB on Jun 19, 2020 12:07:14 GMT
Mine gathers more dust when it’s being used. Our shed is pretty clean — probably more so than the house. 🤭
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Post by WDB on Jun 19, 2020 12:25:04 GMT
...I've been dismounting rapidly, randomly, and involuntarily for 50 years or more in the most obstacle strewn environments. But, I've never ever managed to land on my head, or indeed ever use it as brakes. You don’t hit your head until you do. I’ve had fewer unscheduled dismounts — two in recent years that I can remember — but in both my helmet has made contact with the ground; once gently, once hard enough to crack the foam of the helmet — hence the new one. I reckon that if there was that much energy to dissipate, I’d rather the helmet did it than my head. Anecdote is not evidence, I know. But the arguments against helmets at a population level (Bromp is on that side, I know) are mostly based on the idea of risk compensation, which is something I’m fairly sure I don’t do as an individual. I’m seldom even aware of the helmet except when the old one (more MTB- than road-shaped) cut into the back of my neck when I used the drops on the blue bike. It’s just part of my cycling kit.
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