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it is reassuring to see there are still many people with a good dose of common sense on this forum.

may be worth starting a list in a new thread as they are hard to find

and even those who actually ride the bikes are not powerful sprinters (in fact they probably never sprint and just ride their bike casually for pleasure, the idiots.)

sold for £10,000 to the highest bidder

Mongoose were never that good in the 70's/80's either. They were hardly Hutch...

How much is offset on Thom layback?

16mm according to Thomson website (which is an average amount, 25mm being higher end)

(more measurements in the specifications section that you would find with most other manufacturers)
http://bikethomson.com/seatposts/elite-seatpost-series/

this is why we need more 4x4s on the road. He could have just dusted himself down and got on with his business.

Should have more than eyes checked at age 76. A questionable age to be driving given reaction time, physical speed to be able to avoid accidents, mental speed to assess situation etc,.

Seriously?

Yep

Before we list the many stalking/surveilance/crime/employment related reasons, can you offer some reasons why users should use real names on Strava?

as proof that you are not paranoid?

If you take the physical health side away from the accident then the premiums have to be low based on amount of damage you can cause to your bike or other vehicles. Very different from cars and car insurance due to lower value of vehicles and amount of damage they can cause.

Would different bikes be put in different groups, i.e. fast race bike group 20, sit up and beg town bike group 1, would they track mileage, style of riding, likelihood of accident etc, etc,. Would seem over the top for cycling.

Although if I can get fully comp for £20 a year I would take it as it would cover damages caused by my sloppy off road riding...

Perfectly normal, even if you look after your chain, they'll wear out in the end.

I only do around 2,000 miles per year but change my chain each spring. It gets muddy, gritty, wet all through the winter so having a nice new chain in the spring going through summer and autumn is nice.

here you go- the biggest driver of helmet compulsion
"and insurance companies now refusing to cover skiers who don’t wear one, the debate is moving on to the slopes. Only two weeks ago, the brain injury charity Headway announced the findings of a study using crash test dummies to examine the potential benefits of helmets for skiers and snow-boarders"
thread fucking ends

insurance companies can do what they want. If you went for bike insurance I would like to think they wouldn't insure you if you rode brakeless for example. They are protecting their interests.
But as you don't have to have bike insurance then no it is not the end of the thread.

I am running a 25c Marathon plus (in off road mode) in the track fork with room to spare even more room at back of pre cursa frame if wheel towards back of track end but mud guards would be questionable fit (especially at front)

Looks very much like the doctors comments were pure speculation that is misleading and far worse than pointless.

Any comments that contain "if he were/were not wearing a helmet" are pure speculation and never help.

One day tests will be done with robots, that simulate the reactions of a human and the same tests can be done with and without helmets in a myriad of circumstances. Then you will know the true benefits and in what circumstances.

And to be fair to the doctor if he has reasonable idea of the speed of crash, the helmet's qualities, the helmet's condition after the crash and has seen lots of head injury deaths he may well be able to say with a fair degree of confidence that the helmet probably saved his life.
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Unless he is a specialist with many years of research in ski helmets then he is guessing as much as anyone else.

So, a different kettle of fish perhaps, but Schumacher's doctors say his helmet saved his life. Considering the speeds must be similar to bike crash speeds, is the consensus that this is a correct statement?

same as a doctor making the statement that a helmet saved a cyclists life. There is no way they could possibly know and are just guessing.
It would only be a correct statement if the crash was re-enacted in the exact same way but without a helmet on and he died..

(3) There was the whole thing about his fitness and I'm sure he needed to be fit to do it... but how much was down to fitness and how much simply down to how fast the truck was going? To what extent is the record anything to do with being able to pedal and to what extent is it simply preparation and team and balls of steel?

To get the record they did was more about preparation and balls of steel as Guy is not the strongest cyclist in the country, I doubt he would even be the strongest cyclist in his town.

For the record to be beaten under the same circumstances it would take a stronger rider as it appeared the limit was with the rider.

**In the case of Americans buying Taiwanese product, there is a double benefit as making Taiwan rich enough to carry the burden of her own defence costs would make it easier for the USA to stop subsidising them.

There is no place for logical and reasoned economics when it comes to the gung-ho nationalistic types you know - foreign = bad

I know MDCC-tester is a well-known person on this forum, I need to speak differently, otherwise he will eat me ?

not sure he eats the people that cross him. I would like to think he hangs them up in his hallway so he can sigh and pity their lack of knowledge each time he walks past.

looks like you may need to find another forum now so you can warn people about this one where people didn't agree with you for a second time.

Careful you don't run out of forums....

then we will ALL be riding bicycles, with great happiness.

not quite that simple. What about the cyclists who hate all the other cyclists and start Facebook campaigns that are seen by up to 23 people.

yeah, it is the interface that is the problem.

I don't race but over 50% of my riding is off road and I am happy with 63GI on a brakeless fixed track bike. Still allows me to go 30+ mph off road and can still do all the climbs (although I live in the undulating but not overly challenging New Forest which is compact stone rather than much mud letting me get away with road/touring tyres)

As I said, I was guessing it may not be good to have a single speed fat bike. Just looks like it could turn into even more of a slog than single speed can be over varying terrain and hills.
I'm over it now any way - think I was just missing riding off road. So have just squeezed some old Marathon + 25c tyres onto my brakeless fixed which is satisfying my needs - gravel track bikes.

I have always been happy to buy bikes untested as I know what I will be getting but fat bikes are a different story. I have always wanted one but they are the opposite of what I go for usually. Even when I have had MTBs they up being weight weenie things with narrow fast tyres and I also prefer single speed which I am guessing would be stupidity on a fat bike.
So why do I want one?