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The Bike Shop / Quick Questions

« on: July 02, 2012, 08:13:44 PM »

I have been having problems with my hands going numb or hurting while riding my Bianchi San Jose. I am riding the stock stem and bars. I was thinking of trying a shorter stem and cutting my bars to bull horns instead of drop bars. Any other advice would be appreciated.

Are you new to road biking? I found I had this problem when I first started but it went away after a while.. try moving your hands around more or maybe try some specialized BG padded gloves, I've heard they can help. I almost always ride on the hoods on my road bike, never seem to get problems.

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The Bike Shop / Quick Questions

« on: July 02, 2012, 11:43:04 AM »

What are the best pads for black/worn down rims? Can't afford or justify getting a chrome one at the minute. My brakes are shit at the minute. The caliper is just a cheap Rush one as well, will I ever get it working well with that?

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Riding Photos / Wild Trail setups

« on: July 02, 2012, 06:01:49 AM »

Dunno where this is but it was just posted on the woburn facebook group

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Riding Photos / Wild Trail setups

« on: June 25, 2012, 06:34:13 PM »

New stepdown has been built at Woburn, someones already backflipped it haha

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The Bike Shop / What did you do to your bike today? (v2)

« on: June 24, 2012, 05:33:23 PM »

Achieved 30mph on a flat/slightly uphill bit of road thanks to a big tailwind, overtaking a slow car. Felt like a boss.

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The Bike Shop / Quick Questions

« on: June 24, 2012, 06:49:00 AM »

With road bikes is it best to replace the chain when its stretched past 1mm (according to a chain checker) or just keep running it til the cassette needs replacing due to slipping anyway and do them both? Cos my chain seems to be stretched but I've only done about 700 miles on the bike, not sure what a good mileage is for road bike drivetrains.

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The Bike Shop / What did you do to your bike today? (v2)

« on: June 23, 2012, 12:25:26 PM »

Cleaned them all. mtb derailleur bits are such a faff to clean, too many little tight spots that collect shit.

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The Bike Shop / 22 inches

« on: June 21, 2012, 06:05:15 AM »

That Standard looks nice.

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Riding Photos / Wild Trail setups

« on: June 15, 2012, 04:28:21 PM »

Found some nice pics on pinkbike..

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Riding Photos / Wild Trail setups

« on: June 14, 2012, 07:43:11 PM »

This place looks like heaven. Shame Cornwall's a bit far away

The Track

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Riding Photos / Wild Trail setups

« on: June 12, 2012, 04:56:15 PM »

I love dusty trails.

edit - Crabapple Hits chestcam video. Looks mental this year. I didn't even get the balls to do all of them at full speed last year haha

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The Bike Shop / What did you do to your bike today? (v2)

« on: June 09, 2012, 01:28:58 PM »

Took it off some sweet jumps and got it muddy. It was fun. Probably going to end up rawing my cranks soon as the paints already looking tatty from rubbing.

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Riding Photos / Official Table photo thread.

« on: June 08, 2012, 07:55:04 PM »

2nd one is so good.

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Riding Photos / Official Table photo thread.

« on: June 08, 2012, 02:15:33 PM »

They definitely seem easier on hips than straight jumps.

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Riding Photos / Official Table photo thread.

« on: June 07, 2012, 04:35:11 PM »

haha yeah I'm just a shit rider. I always have to ride with my brake lever covered (some kind of weird safety blanket thing I have) so it makes pushing the bars into the armpit harder cos I can't rotate my hand round. And I end up doing them bow legged. I would post a pic but it'll ruin the thread ha