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Well you don't see all those Tour de France riders with bags so it must be a bad idea

Put your weight back I spose... i've done a fair few endo-type emergency stops and I stopped damn quick and kind of safely - more luck than judgement I imagine; main lesson for me there was that I was cycling too fast for the situation/location.

Be more assertive with the front brake. But not on corners.

I suppose this is good in as much as it reflects that there really is a popular cycling resurgence in this country. However to have that resurgence reflected by bicycles now becoming a designer must-have for materialistic fools to hang on their walls is a real shame. Bikes in all their shapes and forms are for a lot of us quite simply a means of going on rides of one sort or another, hence most of them still being in the realms of affordability, whilst maintaining their utilitarian desirability.
Turning the more-or-less everyday cycle into hugely expensive materialistic commodity is rather off putting and to me devalues the great thing that is the bicycle - I'm sure Witcomb's frames are lovely, but they don't need design-consultancy research and development, as after all they are steel pipes and lugs brazed together; carbon-ally mix frames for racing professionals may need constant r&d and the resultant prices, but maybe that's the market they're hoping to get into?
As someone who makes bespoke stuff for a living I can understand all too well the need/desire to increase profits and to have the occasional price and range rethink, but a hike of this size coupled with a load of website shitespeak seems not to reflect a mere wage increase for the Witcomb boys.
Errmm... don't really know what my point is though....

purrverts

I think that website is some sort of internet gateway for people who have been doing and who intend to do unnatural things with cats

Well that's that I spose - global warming can't possibly be happening because a famous bloke somewhere told some porkies about it. Thank god for that.

Overshoes are the business. If you have them overlapping whatever you're wearing on your legs water will run down into them, but not very much at all in comparison to not having them.
I wear waterproof trousers when it's lashing down and then the water doesn't run into them - when I got home today the only wet parts of me were my head and my hands!
The advantage of overshoes is that your shoes don't get wet, which obviously they do if you are wearing waterproof socks.
I bought BBB brand from Parker International, and they seem OK.

breglis:
You know Indian bike brands ? are you da bikepedia ?
One was named 'Hero' (mine) the other was a 'Royal' (g/f)

:-) No, just a dyed-in-the-wool bike nerd I'm afraid - my bike nerdism was heightened by doing shitloads of cycling whilst on trips to India - I love those bikes, they're the nuts. Especially going downhill really fast, dodging cows and monkeys

Oh and cracking tale too, I'm deeply envious

Atlas Goldline Super's or HeroJet?

fakelyst - someone pretending to ride a bike, or worse, wearing lycra whilst going about their daily business

The Miche should come with track nuts - although they aren't stainless. The different threads really aren't a big deal at all (I think Miche do it just to give forum people something to talk about)- if you want versatility you should get the flip flops.

Sorry - the Euro-Asia Imports sprockets - from http://www.hubjub.co.uk

Apparently the thread pitch on Primatos is non-standard (or something like that) - however, you can easily use the miche sprocket system, or just don't swap your sprockets over all the time if like me you use EAI.
I'm certainly happy with my 36h Primatos, and would recommend them.

A bent top tube suggests to me that the frame has been through the wars a bit - possibly headtube being bent one way or the other. I'd never be able to ride it for fear of it going tits up at the exact wrong moment.
If you want to some people like Argos will replace tubes for you, but it may be a expensive solution to an unnecessary problem.

I like the way it says 'advanced design' on the stays. No shit.

Hmmm... it'd certainly be a bit special in a side-wind. Kind of looks a bit like a pretzel too.

yeah... that video was cool. I'm amazed he didn't die. Or did he?

"Coasting's a sure-fire sign of a rank amateur. :-)"

Quite right. If he could do that fixed then I'd be mildly impressed. Mincer.

...unless the only wheels you have are tubular ones and you can't afford a set of clincher wheels. In which case it's fine to persevere with the tubs, as they aren't actually that much of a hassle, specially if you've got decent road tubs on.

Sounds like you need a new cassette - however shortening the chain may help for a while; remember your new chain shouldn't be the same length as the old one, it should contain the same number of links.

That's kind of comforting - aside from the total hassle getting nicked wouldn't mean that much to me, but if they just nicked me and left the bike behind (alone and defenceless!!) I'd be fuming... in fact that's the main reason I avoid run-ins with that lot.

I always wondered what do the chaps in the funny helmets do to your bike when they've nicked you? Do they take the front wheel off and spend 10 minutes trying to fit it in the boot, or do they just leave it lying in the street where they nicked you?