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The Lounge / Re: TAH
« on: July 29, 2015, 04:00:05 PM »
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The Bike Shop / Re: Chris Froome; Doping?
« on: July 29, 2015, 03:55:39 PM »
Cool, that makes sense. Would be funny to see how many BMX kids installed them at the wrong angle if they ever took off in our little world.
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The Bike Shop / Re: Chris Froome; Doping?
« on: July 28, 2015, 01:34:04 PM »
Nice to see some intelligent threads on BG over the last few weeks.
Hey G, excuse my ignorance but what are elliptical rings? Oval chainrings? What advantages do these offer and if there is a significant difference why don't we use them in everyday cycling (or BMX for that matter)?
He also openly uses a sitting pedaling style and elliptical rings, both of which have the potential to really help.
Hey G, excuse my ignorance but what are elliptical rings? Oval chainrings? What advantages do these offer and if there is a significant difference why don't we use them in everyday cycling (or BMX for that matter)?
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The Lounge / Re: free rent
« on: July 28, 2015, 01:18:58 PM »
Come to England and continue your scrap dealer/vagabond ways in London!
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The Lounge / Re: Discussion: US 2016 Elections
« on: July 24, 2015, 11:18:23 AM »Corbyn 4 prez!
This gem got lost in the madness. Corbyn is awesome, the US would probably think he is speaking a different language though seeing as they perceive Obama as left wing
For real, although I fear middle England would agree. Amazing and depressing that neoliberalism is now so entrenched that the moderate left wing views of yesteryear are now perceived as hardcore socialism.
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The Bike Shop / Re: Odyssey Clutch Teardown?
« on: July 23, 2015, 04:20:32 PM »
Looks really well thought out G, nice one.
Although I don't know whether any of the kids ride trails any more
Although I don't know whether any of the kids ride trails any more
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The Bike Shop / Re: Ugly Parts
« on: July 23, 2015, 03:31:57 PM »
Rasta stuff, any parts or clothes with weed leaves on, white parts (made this mistake), any parts that aren't black, raw, red or British racing green, nine piece bars with a really skinny box, coloured pegs, leopard print seats, stem stackers on top of a stem.
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The Lounge / Re: BF doc
« on: June 30, 2015, 04:14:53 PM »
Some fucking enormous 360s over some horrible looking sets in this. Great watch.
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The Lounge / Re: Bicycle messengers of BG.
« on: June 23, 2015, 04:51:42 PM »
That was really insightful chaps, thanks. Read a few bits and pieces in magazines and so on about couriering but your answers were way more comprehensive.
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The Lounge / Re: The last Ride UK cover
« on: June 20, 2015, 05:55:32 AM »
After leafing through the final Dirt (yes that's done as well), I let nostalgia get the better of me and got hold of a copy. It was disappointing to be honest, they'd obviously rushed it - I guess the decision to stop the print edition was quite sudden. Two decades of history had been reduced to a few badly written and atrociously edited articles about favourite pictures and covers.
I don't know whether any of you guys will even read this, and if you do I expect to be roundly mocked for being so earnest, but Ride really did change my life. I started reading when I was a naive 10 or 11 year old kid and it opened my eyes to travel, alternative lifestyles, overlooked areas of cities, and, of course, incredible feats on a bike. For better or worse I was (and still am really) horrendously middle class (I went to the cricket last night for heaven's sake) so BMX felt like something genuinely countercultural and thrilling to me. Alongside real life local riders this was because of the way it was portrayed by the magazine.
I still have a stack of copies at home from the early 2000s when Mark Noble was editor, Pill and Lard produced 90% of the content and Jeff Stewart occasionally contributed mammoth essays about roadtrips through forgotten parts of America. Often the best stuff hardly mentioned riding at all - thinking particularly of his trip with the Gonz and his pieces about Denver and Austin.
I don't think I'm looking at this through rose tinted glasses. I'm a words person, I've always read prolifically and now work with newspapers. In my opinion there was some real gold back then - there was a lot of dross as well but at least there weren't many spelling mistakes or grammar errors. If you want to be taken seriously as a magazine the basics like this are paramount. Someone, presumably Noble, had an English GCSE which is more than I can say for a lot of the recent editors and contributors. It felt like it was written by adults, for adults (although the censoring of f--k always amused me, especially as it appeared so frequently. I still pronounce this differently to fuck in my head).
Of course, it was inevitable that it was going to stop at some point. I'm partly to blame - I stopped subscribing years ago, as the quality slid and the content became increasingly gimmicky to appeal to a generation of kids with short attention spans. For a while it looked like The Albion might take up the mantle as the publication of choice for more mature riders but of course this has gone now as well. (And really, as much respect as I have for Banners, Benson & co, those guys could benefit from some lessons about brevity. Hope I'm not being hypocritical here!).
Anyway, excuse my ramblings, it's just a shame that we no longer have a coherent, interesting and reasonably educated outlet to reflect our eccentric little subculture. RIP Ride, you had a good run.
I don't know whether any of you guys will even read this, and if you do I expect to be roundly mocked for being so earnest, but Ride really did change my life. I started reading when I was a naive 10 or 11 year old kid and it opened my eyes to travel, alternative lifestyles, overlooked areas of cities, and, of course, incredible feats on a bike. For better or worse I was (and still am really) horrendously middle class (I went to the cricket last night for heaven's sake) so BMX felt like something genuinely countercultural and thrilling to me. Alongside real life local riders this was because of the way it was portrayed by the magazine.
I still have a stack of copies at home from the early 2000s when Mark Noble was editor, Pill and Lard produced 90% of the content and Jeff Stewart occasionally contributed mammoth essays about roadtrips through forgotten parts of America. Often the best stuff hardly mentioned riding at all - thinking particularly of his trip with the Gonz and his pieces about Denver and Austin.
I don't think I'm looking at this through rose tinted glasses. I'm a words person, I've always read prolifically and now work with newspapers. In my opinion there was some real gold back then - there was a lot of dross as well but at least there weren't many spelling mistakes or grammar errors. If you want to be taken seriously as a magazine the basics like this are paramount. Someone, presumably Noble, had an English GCSE which is more than I can say for a lot of the recent editors and contributors. It felt like it was written by adults, for adults (although the censoring of f--k always amused me, especially as it appeared so frequently. I still pronounce this differently to fuck in my head).
Of course, it was inevitable that it was going to stop at some point. I'm partly to blame - I stopped subscribing years ago, as the quality slid and the content became increasingly gimmicky to appeal to a generation of kids with short attention spans. For a while it looked like The Albion might take up the mantle as the publication of choice for more mature riders but of course this has gone now as well. (And really, as much respect as I have for Banners, Benson & co, those guys could benefit from some lessons about brevity. Hope I'm not being hypocritical here!).
Anyway, excuse my ramblings, it's just a shame that we no longer have a coherent, interesting and reasonably educated outlet to reflect our eccentric little subculture. RIP Ride, you had a good run.
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The Lounge / Re: The last Ride UK cover
« on: June 14, 2015, 06:28:42 AM »
Saw him riding at my local (Vicky in east London) yesterday, definitely lived up to expectations. Method seemed to be: pootle around the bowl at a sedate pace, then from nowhere BAM! enormous air.
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The Bike Shop / Re: big boys bike advice.
« on: June 08, 2015, 03:18:31 PM »
Close to impulse buying one of those Fairdales, such a bargain.
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The Lounge / Re: Annual who still posts on BG thread.
« on: June 08, 2015, 03:09:45 PM »
OK I was going to post a snide comment but that crash was horrible.
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The Lounge / Re: Garrett Reynold - Red Bull 2015 section
« on: May 19, 2015, 12:22:29 PM »Never understood the fuzz about Dak based on his vids and contests. Then I met him in person and saw him ride and am still amazed how people think he is amazing. He is mediocre at best I would say.
I like him because often his riding is actually quite smooth and simple, just on really massive setups. His wallride ability is undeniable and he hits really awkward/scary spots as though he's sessioning a driveway at the park.
Haven't seen him ride in person though admittedly - I'm sure all his videos just employ really clever angles...
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