Any question answered...

is it actually possible to make money from doing online questionnaires?
i'm not on about millions, just the odd few quid here and there..

no

What day and where is he coming from.

Hi Lynx - Saturday the 26th, and M40. Is there any sort of park and ride thing you know about?

http://velobase.com/ViewComponent.aspx?ID=80651FD6-F3A2-4295-A0D9-6E0C8B22F2FA&Enum=107&AbsPos=35

So, I've got a pair of those. One on a maillard hub. Both Tubs.

What sort of price is a good price? Who wants?

Who wants?

Nobody. Mavic Route was the bog standard rim, Maillard hubs were cheap and didn't always have the best reputation for reliability, the bearing races being made from soft French cheese. Realistically, you probably need to freecycle if they are in your way. The rims are worth about £20 each NOS, but you'd be doing well to get £5 in that condition.

What's a good website for mapping out rides for those of us without GPS who instead rely on storing route data in our brain?

Google maps is driving me nuts. Reliability/ease of use is top priority, and I need to be able to save routes. If it can give me any other info above mileage that would be a bonus.

Nobody. Mavic Route was the bog standard rim, Maillard hubs were cheap and didn't always have the best reputation for reliability, the bearing races being made from soft French cheese. Realistically, you probably need to freecycle if they are in your way. The rims are worth about £20 each NOS, but you'd be doing well to get £5 in that condition.

Could be a bluff to get them cheap...

Could be a bluff to get them cheap...

Could be a double bluff....

Could be a bluff to get them cheap...

I'm pretty sure there's at least one pair in my dad's shed if I were minded to lay my hands on some cheap old tubular rims, but as I also have access to GL330s and CX18s, Mavic Routes are the last thing on my shopping list.

What's a good website for mapping out rides for those of us without GPS who instead rely on storing route data in our brain?

Google maps is driving me nuts. Reliability/ease of use is top priority, and I need to be able to save routes. If it can give me any other info above mileage that would be a bonus.

eh? Pete i am dissapoint.

Bikemap.net
ridewithgps
bikeroutetoaster
bikely

there are others, or have I missed a trick? I can't store that shit in my brain either. Either write out a route card - or - if you can deal with the glitchyness of bikeroutetoaster - it will create one for you based on the route you map out.

what are the best/ your favourite websites for mapping routes?
ideally:

• will plot a route, with info about roads and cycle lanes (like cyclestreets)
  
• can modify the suggested route (like googlemaps)
  
• can draw your own bits eg. for when the website doesn't know there is a cyclepath there
  
• elevation info
  
  
  

I use http://ridewithgps.com
It does all of the above and you can log miles done (or complete lack of in my case). You can also log rides to the site with GPS data from fancy Garmin devices apparently.

What's a good website for mapping out rides for those of us without GPS who instead rely on storing route data in our brain?

Google maps is driving me nuts. Reliability/ease of use is top priority, and I need to be able to save routes. If it can give me any other info above mileage that would be a bonus.

My personal preference.

Thanks again Pifko, I am getting quite into ridewithgps despite not having GPS!

eh? Pete i am dissapoint.

Bikemap.net
ridewithgps
bikeroutetoaster
bikely

there are others, or have I missed a trick? I can't store that shit in my brain either. Either write out a route card - or - if you can deal with the glitchyness of bikeroutetoaster - it will create one for you based on the route you map out.

Your dissapoint is misplaced, cos I did write a route card - which worked amazing well actually considering nearly all the route was new to me - but I didn't map it first. Now I need to map it. I don't want glitchiness so bikeroutetoaster is out. I want to know your favourite!

ridewithgps sounds good though, thanks Pifko.

My favourite is bikemap, although I think rwgps and bikemap are pretty similar. I've got quite a few routes in bikemap so I keep using it, but were I to start over I might use ridewithgps. They all export gpx so they do the same thing.

In fact I think RidewithGPS will create a routesheet for you. That's one advantage of googlemaps but as you say it's glitchy. So go with ridewithgps I say.

is the forum going really slow for anyone else? Pages keep failing to load, now the bar at the top has broken.

Turn off Redtube?

The whole 16 tabs of it.

I haven't turned off my laptop in about a month, maybe I'll try that.

If I want to leave my flat and go live in a new one, I have 4 things to do: tell my agency I want to assign tenancy to someone else; find that someone else; tell my flatmates I am going; and find a new flat.

Which order should I do this in?

And where can I find a new flat? (looking online at estate agents' websites is surely not the way to go- the audience is too large so I will never find a good deal).

I liked ridewithgps, very quick and gives me everything I want, including a route sheet which is good because I've trashed mine (again).

How do I embed the routes though?

just paste the link, pascal's magic code should see to the rest.

http://www.cycle-route.com/Cycle-Route-Planner.html

Used to be good. You have to turn off the 'road only' facility if going, a-hem, off- road.

just paste the link, pascal's magic code should see to the rest.

Hmm, I did that before, it didn't work, tried again and it did. It's trying to make me look hopeless.

Wiggins uses a rolls on the track

What about a concor?

I'm using some old Shamals with 8spd campag block, dura-ace rear mech and 7spd shimano down-tube levers mounted on shimano bar-end lever housings on the tri-bars. The levers have an "extra click" for the 8th cog. Seems to work....

Can you not use campag cassettes with shimano setup? This is something I've been meaning to ask...