Cranked Up Really High

Toronto_Ted

Can't remember if someone posted this up, no idea how to ... TT in the 2nd World Messenger Championships ...

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Travis_Bickle

Toronto Ted wroteCan't remember if someone posted this up, no idea how to ... TT in the 2nd World Messenger Championships ...

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Great stuff.
Look at those bar ends.....bigger than my f***ing bars ;-)
Good job you were on the flat as you'd need a fair distance to stop with those cantis.

We've done 'Line of Sight' before I'm sure? Gore was his usual pro-cycling self if I remember right. He's got a bike now you know......

Full film pops up on youtube from time to time.

Toronto_Ted

Three months later the bar ends were gone - 12" handlebars and the bike taped up black.

Dread to think what I did back then. Getting a tow from black cabs was the easiest by grabbing the petrol cap, not so easy and damn foolish was grabbing on to the strapping down the side of wagons. All the way down Pentonville Rd the wrong way through oncoming traffic, racing the OB through Hyde Park ... very much fun days

Harvest

All these fancy bike pictures and I'm yet to see a decent one of someone on a Raleigh racer on Christmas Day in a Harrington, white socks and bike clips.

Harvest

Cuts

How long did the mudguards last?

Travis_Bickle

Cuts wroteHow long did the mudguards last?

About as long as that spoke protector.....

Harvest

Not very long. My dad put some short ones on and when I started using it for school - a bike rack. I was like Eddie Mercx's sensible younger brother.

Harvest

Great though, went everywhere on that thing. Freedom.

Travis_Bickle

Harvest wroteFreedom

I'm 46. They still give you that.

Toronto_Ted

Being a courrier / messenger was the free-est job I ever had.
Still know lads who are doing it as they can't face anything else

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos

Far more bottle than I've got TT. Fancy I can still get up and down, but not like them lads.

Cuts

I'd love to know when they found The Brooklyn Bridge so quiet. I've been in foot traffic jams at midnight on there.

I reckon you're the quiet hard man of OMJs cycling Young Marxist. Although some of these lads set the bar pretty high.

Why do these people insit on putting such shit music to bike videos? I've only seen one that had decent music, Doves at Hebden Bridge.

scootay

Cuts wroteI'd love to know when they found The Brooklyn Bridge so quiet. I've been in foot traffic jams at midnight on there.

I reckon you're the quiet hard man of OMJs cycling Young Marxist. Although some of these lads set the bar pretty high.

Why do these people insit on putting such shit music to bike videos? I've only seen one that had decent music, Doves at Hebden Bridge.

Hi ha I think that on nearly every video. Start to watch it and have to turn the volume off or the video off. Apart from that one further up with the byrds

Quality

Travis_Bickle

http://singletrackworld.com/2016/02/fresh-goods-friday-279/

This your lad's Charlie?

CharlieG

Travis Bickle wrotehttp://singletrackworld.com/2016/02/fresh-goods-friday-279/

This your lad's Charlie?

Aye. Well chuffed with it. Says it climbs unbelievably well for 160mm travel bike. And when you point it down..........
:D

Travis_Bickle

Can you ask him about the tyres? I've got Schwalbes on at the moment that came with the bike. They're utterly shit in mud which isn't great as we have a fair bit of it. Would normally go back to Contis as I've always used them but loads rave about the new WTB tyres.

Cheers

CharlieG

His tyres are WTB Vigilante 2.8's(!) - says that they seem pretty predictable and decent, so far, after 2 rides in Calderdale. He says the Contis (Barons?) reviewed in ST 103 are the office "go to" tyres for local riding.

Travis_Bickle

You can tell they get 'em cheap. The Der Baron Projekts are £55! A tyre!

Up Saddleworth way yesterday...
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Marsden Moor descent. We took the road to get there after the first descent as the trail over the tops was a mudfest.
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Finished with Boat Lane. One of my favourite descents. Really quick, rocky as fuck, rattle the fillings out of your teeth.

Happy days....

uppercut

Did this over the weekend:

Day #1: [url]http://sg.mapometer.com/cycling/route_3237243[/url]
Day #2: [url]http://sg.mapometer.com/cycling/route_4242315[/url] this is the route 1 way.. we did that, had lunch and then turned round and went back to the start… fuck me.. long day.. hardest I've done in years.
Day #3: [url]http://sg.mapometer.com/cycling/route_3246918[/url]

Day #3 is Day#1 in reverse.
Longest I've done in ages… bloody hot in the Malaysian sun… got it by cramp a couple of times. But chuffed with myself. Long, steady; unrelenting climbs.. I was sloooowwww… but steady cadence got me there in the end.

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