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Trikes are mental at high speed through corners. Especially on a rough road. Mental. And anyone who says otherwise is also Mental😉

In almost the words of David Sylvian: Whatever gets you on the bike, Just keep on ridin'... Whatever gets you on the bike Just keep on ridin', babe... Basically the rougher the terrain, the wider the bar and shorter the stem tends to be. And the faster you want to go, the longer the stem...

Drops draw you into an efficient position, and the arm orientation allows more upper body muscle use and generally greater long distance comfort. A wide flat or riser bar gives more control, but suits a more upright body, less efficient. The flared drop bar implies greater control on the...

Well if he's registered as a business on ebay then he's probably fully legit. There's no VAT number though so he must keep his turnover below £90,000 Can't sell that many explosif frames then🤣

Maybe they put them out there at a crazy price, then "do a deal" with a build or another explosif, at "only £400" Is Granniegear a one- man band in his bedroom or a taxpaying business with premises?

Don't understand why he hasn't got one already. Had they been culled in East Sussex or wherever it is he lives?😉

My friends work in food import /distribution and they tell me environmental stress is raising most food commodity prices fast. Corporate greed often then raises profit on a rising price - I think the joke Musk blue plaque wasn't suggesting he had a duty to feed the poor, but that he could...

There were also a lot of tandems in the postwar period - I think one reason was that disposable income was increasing, and yet the motor car was still beyond reach of a working man. I think there was a much stronger bike cult in those last days before universal motoring. Sidecars...

Seems I spend most of my money on food. Food used to cost 1/3 of household income- i think ours still does. National average is under 10% https://ahdb.org.uk/news/consumer-insight-how-much-money-are-uk-consumers-spending-on-food-since-the-cost-of-living-crisis Being old can have the benefit...

I've done quite a lot of accounts Bob😉 the minimum wage is £12.21 https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates In 40h full time work, £25,400 per annum take home works out at £21,800 That's £10.48/hr Let's include workplace pension, (which would be 5% of £18000 employees contribution)...

Snow on our hillside this morning, so Minty and I went for a ride on The Beacon It was good snow, quite grippy but not sticky. Riding on the forest paths was odd, as if the Gravel was coated in ice so like riding on a layer of ball bearings! You forget how easily ice packs into spds, but...

Is the height and angle correct, and the cage not bent? Post a photo! Front mechs are famously fickle - I call them a 4 dimensional object ( as there are four planes of adjustment to get right) they are a lot harder than they look.

I don't think good food is expensive, if you're cooking from scratch. I don't eat much meat, but recently bought 350g of fillet steak from a local farm, whose beef cattle live and graze outdoor on small fields - so £45 a kilo - but that £15 fed 4 of us! Delicately cooked and thinly sliced -...

Surely the AI bots are just going to start arguing bullshit between themselves - like people really, just consuming all our electricity and therefore natural resources.

How's the chainline? Middle ring should line up with middle on the cassette. Some frames weren't built for a triple, pushing the chainset out to clear the stays. And around octalink time, shimano moved chainsets out to allow for wider carbon and aluminium stays and fatter tyres. The earlier...