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  • You can keep it at mine.

  • That doesn't make training easy. I'd also rock up and find it covered in mud...
    "nah hippy, i ain't touched it bro!" :P

    I do have two singlespeed MTBs - anything's possible with a low enough gear right?

    Shit, imagine hike-a-bike with my Inbred?! It weighs more than I do.

  • Or it's missing the groupset. And I have a shiny new groupset on mine. Awkward.

  • I have no idea what's happened in MTB groups since about Deore LX 20 years ago. Erectric XTR should be a hoot. Shit I want a new MTB now.

  • I think Nelson said the route might be kind of doable on a cross/gravel bike, though maybe stupid.

  • http://rtw2007.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/lake-issyk-kol-and-kyrgyz-mountains.html

    10 years ago, I spent the summer crossing central Asia in a van. Loved it, and would love to go back one day. Met some lovely Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Kazakhs and Uzbeks. If only they were allowed in Scrabble...

  • I'm sure Scrabbles rules don't prevent any nationalities playing.

  • Ah that’s cool. I dread to think what I was doing 10 years ago.

  • Running around the playground in shorts?

  • 10 years ago I spent most of my time posting shit on Internet cycling forums, not doing enough cycling, and eating/drinking too much.

    oh

  • We had to wear a suit to 6th form. Like the business men we were to be. Fat lot of good that did.

  • Me too. Smartest I looked in my life, with the exception of my wedding day and the occasional job interview.

  • I do have two singlespeed MTBs

    Given you made Mal do Henley Hilly Hundred on singlespeed, it would only be fair for you to do this with one gear...

  • Still got excluded for 'losing' my tie every week. Worth it.

  • "Made"? She picked it. I warned her. She insisted. We rode it.

    She went back for more a week or two later so it didn't do much to her.

    I am tempted but I struggle to keep tyres inflated on the road. Off-road I've got no chance. If I took the Inbred (god it's heavy!) I'd definitely want new brakes. If I took the Kona, I'd need new suspension. Both would need different bar/stem combos and saddle swaps. Then there's the luggage/bikepacking shit.

  • Suits and being excluded for not wearing ties?

    No wonder all us immigrants took your jobs...

    oooh topical burn like sunburn which is what this place doesn't double points irony burn

    #ineedcoffee

  • There's a 1000km semi-supported mtb(/gravel?) race starting today in South Africa, https://mtb.themunga.com/

  • Registered my application for SRMR... exciting stuff

  • The Kyrgyzstan thing

  • Ah, Silk Road Motherfucking Race

  • much much tempted.

  • Do it! Registration is closing the 31st. From yesterday on they will take all applications until then and give you an answer by January 15th. The cap is 80 riders

  • I'd like to do that it lots of ways. Would be really interesting to go out there, and fun to be a pioneer in the first event before it gets too mainstream. The cool guys are doing it this year instead of TCR for those reasons, but it just looks a bit too hard core / MTB for me, so pretty much certain I won't try to get a place. I also prefer here-to-there routes, like TCR, TABR, IndyPac, etc.

    But I expect I'll hugely regret not entering it when it comes round, especially if I don't get a place on TCR. My heart wants to do it but my head says you haven't got the right bike, that massive climb on the first day would be too much, you'll get eaten by wolves, etc, etc.

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