One of the virtues of racing is that it takes you out of your comfort zone. Racing is hard, it hurts and it can be intimidating, but one thing it is not, is dull. Riding for pure enjoyment is great, but staying in your comfort zone all the time would, for me at least, become boring. It's good to sha...

ctznsmith wrote:Singular don't make the Gryphon anymore sadly but there will be second hand ones out there.

May also be of interest Drop bar 29ers – Gryphon or Swift?

...even 10 days after finishing, with my Training Stress Balance numbers (derived from Power Metrics, empirical and estimated) indicating good 'form' (and both ATL and CTL indicating relatively low fatigue / high fitness), it just doesn't feel like that. Only my opinion, but I think there could wel...

I'd never met Mike and was only vaguely familiar with his achievements. But I had been reading the news updates from the IndyPac and was stunned when I learnt that he'd been killed. To have his life cut short like that is just tragic. I can only imagine what his family and friends are going through....

If you want to try some Midge bars, I have a set in black that you are welcome to for the cost of postage.

R.a.p.h.a's financials: http://leanluxe.com/raphas-12-year-financials-just-landed-in-our-inbox-heres-what-we-learned/ Pre-tax profit margins reached their height in 2012 at 5.4%, and touched a low at in 2015 at 1.31%. For 2016, the pre-tax profit margin was 2.3%. Production costs accounted for 51% o...

If it's of any use to you, I have a black CK 1 1/8 headset that's surplus to requirements

If you're heading from York to Harewood, you can pick up this a mostly off-road route from Spofforth:

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/19122566

"When I got to the top, I double pumped my fist in the air and screamed Hell Yeah! before diving down the dirt road in the back forests of Canada"

GregMay wrote:Dunno, just felt like the sort of person I'd struggle to spend more than 10 mins with....

Not just you who felt that way!

Can anyone tell me which of the C13, C15, C17 models compare to a Charge Spoon or Knife in terms of width? Charge Knife: 145mm C13: 132mm C15: 140mm C17: 162mm I looked into this a while ago and the C15 shape / profile (front to back) is closer to the Knife than the Spoon - see below (Knife, C15, S...

40C Nano's are nice tyres, good on gravel, but they are not good in mud. Schwalbe X-one is 33C is a good all-round / mixed conditions tyre, but even they can get overwhelmed by lots of mud. I ran them tubeless at the 3-Peaks at 50 PSI and will do so again, given the chance. Maxxis Mud Wrestler is al...

The run that finally led to a stress fracture. Oh, that's not a good start to the new year. Having recently come back from having a stress fracture, I know how frustrating it is to miss so much running and how much it can take to get back up to the prior level. I hope it heals quickly for you and y...

Not just you... In the race to the bottom, being the cheapest is all that counts... Unfortunately it's not just confined to Black Friday or any other sales period. So much is now free, virtually free or not worth anything like it used to be. When you can have anything, at anytime, anywhere, is it w...

Fizik Performance Tacky tape - I gave this a go on my CX late last year and now have it on my road bikes too. I really rate it.

Ian wrote:My lightest set up for a single night out looked like this

The Bahookie is undoubtedly a lovely bike with plenty of up to date features, but that Shand 29er just looks so elegant...

Apologies for going off topic.

I have a Race Face XC 70mm stem (6-degree).

I can post, or I'm near Knaresborough, if you venture up this way.

I rode a route that last December on the CX that included the Nirvana Killer loop in the Surrey Hills and a lot of it was a sodden mud bath. I then did 200k of the Smoke Ring route in March on the CX bike and the Surrey Hills section was again absolutely soaking wet. I'm sure it would have been quit...

I hope it goes well. Good luck.

Hi, You should be able to configure your Edge 800 to give a beep alert with your HR goes over a certain level - go to menu / training / alerts. That means you can use any HR monitor with it that you like. I've only tried one wrist monitor; the MIO Link. I found that it was highly position sensitive,...

Glad you had a good time Ben.

The steepest way out of Pateley Bridge is Old Church Lane, which takes out back over the moor to Kirky Malzeard. It's one of several good climbs to do in the area if you do come back with your real bike.

Kirkby Malzeard moor is only a short distance above Masham and very quickly feels remote: https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8409/28946446172_7f1ed625cc_b.jpg Riding over the moor would drop you down into Nidderdale, as per Chew's suggestion. There's no way out of Nidderdale though without riding up hill.

CyclingTips.com podcast on Everesting and multi-day races: http://cyclingtips.com/2016/06/cyclingt ... me-racing/

Everesting and High Rouleurs Society discussion starts at 46-minutes

Having done the Fred Whitton and La Marmotte, which was over 5,000m of climbing, I think the Whitton was actually tougher. The correlation between nominal height gain and route difficulty isn't one.

MiffaeMuir wrote:Did you sell the cow chipper 3?

Yes, I'm afraid they sold on eBay late last year.

I have Auto-Pause set to "when stopped". If I were to find it pausing during long hike-a-bike sections, I'd then just change the setting to "Off".