Cycling Forum / Country Specific / UK Cycling / May 2007

Oh dear.  Despite my best efforts, a colleague ordered two BSOs from the
above emporium of tat for the bargain price of £100.  One of them turned
up at work today.  My God is it awful!?!?!?  We needed to borrow a
forklift to unload it from the lorry (not really, but it's might ...

Video footage of me riding along coronation road.
Please not this is not my usual standard of riding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od3HYf4_GwM

Well at last the winter/spring planning period is over. The maps are marked up
.
The seat on the Bike express ( totally full) is booked.
Insurances up to date!

I wonder could anybody recommend a suitable rack pack for the Tortec
Expedition rack.  At 13.33 cm this is a comparatively narrow rack,
causing my old rack pack to topple over to one side.
Are there any packs of a similar width out there?  I would be

It needs to be...
700 x 23
Good for going fast
Good in all conditions

I know that all regulars on here will know Helen "wafflycat"
Her son Nathan was badly injured on a closed circuit race at the Lotus track
last night when he locked handle bars with another bike.
He is now in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital with a broken shoulder bone and

G-day all,
I am in Australia and I'm looking at getting a Pacific Steel kiddie
trailer for my push bike,
I have a Question to any one with any info on these sort of trailer's.

[Apologies for non-technical terms used]
The chain on my bike keeps jumping down a gear
automatically. That is to say, it seems to want
to be on a smaller back-cog than I set it on.

Found a letter addressed to my when I got home from work this evening,
send from my mp.
Dear ....
New Highway Code

Traffics Cops is on BBC 1 now.
There's also programmes such as "Police, Camera, Action", "World Wildest
Police Videos" etc.
Are there any naughty cyclist programmes? Probably not.

Why is it so cheap at St John st cycles?
£20, used to be £44.
Anyhting wrong with it?
TerryJ

I'm looking for suggestions for tyres to put on my cheapie MTB, for use on
streets and fairly smooth trails (loosish compressed shale type of
surfaces). Don't want to spend lots of cash, but would like good puncture
resistance. Not so bothered about longevity if it costs extra - ...

Gah!
Spotted some come complete twunts on bikes today, one decided that cycling
across the road in front of a car was a good idea, then another decided to
attempt to open the emergency door of a bus (from the outside) while

When pilfering parts and replacing a bent Sora spider with an unbent
one, but not bothering to swap the left hand crank, make sure that you
don't end up with a 170mmLHS and 175mmRHS.

Anyone got any idea what a triple conversion would cost for an old square
taper BB raleigh banana road bike? It's got down tube shifters and I'm not
especially bothered about swapping them...