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    Test riding a true racing recumbent

    I have been on my midsoles for about 10 years. Then Larry had to try it. The only way he could catch me.
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    It finally happened

    I never have a problem with my muscles or my bladder, and I am 55. I think it is because my lungs won't let me make enough watts. So, a reason to be glad to have COPD.
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    Test riding a true racing recumbent

    I agree with jond. I should stop shooting my mouth off. British police are unarmed. There are specialist firearms teams with their guns in a strong-box in the car.
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    Test riding a true racing recumbent

    Man in the middle of cycle race wants a drink. Man grabs wrong cylindrical object from wrong cage. Man blows his brains out. You could mount it on the boom of a Cruzbike and look over the top of it like the Red Baron. The wireless gear trigger can have a fire button.
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    Test riding a true racing recumbent

    Cyclists who shoot. Shootists who ride. Drivers - be polite!
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    Test riding a true racing recumbent

    That is why you won the competition.
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    Test riding a true racing recumbent

    With my lungs I am never going to get any KOM, but even I am slowed down by traffic. And traffic lights. One day I am going to go through a red and get run over and it will be entirely my fault. Red light - red mist. And on the track you are less likely to hit a hole.
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    The quick and the dead

    Not hearses this time, but horses. And carts. And that is plural, not singular. A bloody enormous peloton of them. This is a long steep hill on which I have done 40mph in the past. So there I was, doing 6mph. So I overtook. I had just enough space between them and the oncoming traffic. I...
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    Crash due to sand on the trail

    He was looking at my bike. He asked me "Ith it thafe?" I asked him what hapenned to his teeth. "I went over my handlebarth and thaw thtarth." He was disqualified from asking me if it is safe. The usual scenario.
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    It finally happened

    Disabled? No, apart from the bladder problem. I had to make a comment of some kind, what with my username.
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    Test riding a true racing recumbent

    At least it wasn't Walter Matthau.
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    Test riding a true racing recumbent

    Did Stan Lee write this? Mild-mannered ed72 on a Chinese MTB gets passed by an investment banker on a carbon Trek. Mild-mannered ed72 disappears into the back of a van, from which emerges... Superbikeman! Faster than a speeding Froome on dope! Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
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    xD free hub options (9-32 cassette anyone?)

    You have the XX1 driver body, which is what I have. I have a 42-10 cog and a 40t ring. I do not spin out at 40mph. On those rare occasions. With your double clangers, as we used to call them, you will be good for 50mph. If you can find a long steep downer. Turn round and try to get back up...
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    Test riding a true racing recumbent

    After 5 minutes on a DF the elbow starts to hurt, so no more UCI races, but Lords made a rule just for me.
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    650B's S40 Conversion

    Jolly convenient to have Jeeves to pick you up when the bally thing gets a puncture.
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    S40 on gravel?

    I feel sorry for your back wheel.
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    650B's S40 Conversion

    I actually had a good idea! I know more about material science than I think I do.
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    S40 on gravel?

    Eat more pies.
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    650B's S40 Conversion

    I read that candlewax cracks and flakes off. I had a full bottle of vaseline so that went in the mix. It probably all evaporated. But it is such a quick, clean process go remove the chain and drop it in the fryer. When I can hear the chain I do it. I give my earwax to the cat. She really...
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    650B's S40 Conversion

    The hand-position is ergonomic. I like that. What I do not like are the mis-shifts, and the time it takes to shift, bit it is no worse than the Sachs Huret I had on the Claud Butler. When I got the Grasshopper I decided I loved the Rohloff would never again submit to the ordeal of Disraeli...
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