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Now I’m interested in pro bikes!

Anyone who’s not very Christmassy in the north might want to know Farmer Johns bike park is open. Pay at the shop or farm house, no need to
Book.

These are brilliant bikes, my son races on one of these and it’s been great, super light and tough and no stupid fiddle dropouts, disc mounts etc like some higher end frames.
Buy this, be a rad dad and have hours of fun on pump tracks and bmx tracks

100% this, he’s suggested he could do it enough times! He does or did ride some pretty hardcore stuff at chevin and stainburn when he lived at home but that’s not quite the same!

Turns out mine doesn’t have the stem which is the issue, but I had to ask canyon 3 times before they confirmed this, they apparently were t going to tell me I was ok to ride!

That actually sounds ideal with kids, fewer grown ups barging in grabbing bottles is good

Has anyone been to watch the women’s Tour de France in person? I’m curious how it is as it’s a maybe for us during the summer holidays, maybe see it a couple of times near the start with a mid stage watch and a start and or finish.
We went to the vuelta which was great but relatively low key caravan and all the riders dived straight in the bus and were off within minutes.
Worth dragging kids to or not?

He’s a fierce competitor but I do wonder about who he surrounds himself with and if maybe he’s softened a little now he has cash, girlfriend, manager etc. but hope not

Do Q36.5 get invites to all the big races? They aren’t world tour are they?
Maybe they offered him a chance to ride downhill world cups too and put his money where his mouth is

Thoughts on new kits as they arrive?
Inneos looks basically the same but for some reason they have white helmets for some riders, maybe just for training.
Cofidis I’m not sure I like just cos Cofidis should be red and white.
Lidl is pretty good I think, it’s growing on me each year.
Soudal quickstep whatever they are now are busy ironing a few more sponsors onto their jersey.
Q36.5 to have a white rose on their back?
Will anyone do a dramatic change?

Possibly can’t confirm where he’s going if it’s a team that was full and is now trying to make a space?
I still think Bora Red Bull would be great but that’s just cos I like the Specialized xc bikes

Farmer Johns in Stockport if you fancy some nicely groomed, good jumps, that can be rolled on most trails and a couple of low level terrifying drops, bridges and gaps!
The drop isn’t as bad as it looks, though it probably looks huge when you’re ten, and you can go round it to start the jump line

Yeh I assume that’s a given on any cheap full sus but given the hammering the boys give their bikes I’m open to the idea that most moving parts need some love regularly!
I’m going to hire a Saracen downhill bike when we go to Antur Stiniog as I’ve never ridden one and I can see that will open the door to more dh bikes!

Not new kit I’m sure, some is even 26 inch but that’s ideal for looking for stuff for my lad who’s still on smaller bikes. This Saracen isn’t ancient and it’s well under £1k which makes it feel like something he could have if he keeps riding downhill regularly.
Some of the e trail bikes on show today are ridiculous £££, I stopped googling those!

Am I missing something or are downhill bikes fairly reasonable second hand? After a day at our local downhill track I just had a curious look and it seems what I thought would be £1000s worth of bike could be around £1k or less.
I assume they’ve have a tough life but some look cosmetically ok.
Am I missing something or are they just low tech, small resale market?

Bike sadly no longer with me
Trying and failing at not screaming triathlete , no wonder nobody ever waved at me round Cheshire

Well done everyone, no dig no ride right

I did wonder about the front tyre. I think that’s a sign I need to get a life and work a bit harder!

Not sure they’ve quite nailed this but I love the Santa Cruz blur style salmon paint and the no effs to give double discs

Where’s the brake lever?

Anyone else had a stop notice email this week?
Some e mtbs and Speedmax tri bikes I think affected. Bad week to be canyon

Use this as a warm up, then head to farmer johns park and youve a good day out

We’ve had some big help locally from Josh Robinson ground work who lent John the 3 ton tipper that’s been used to move most of the material across the park, Wright Hire lent him a newer digger than he has and Farmer John has done at least 10 days of free work on this now, what a champion.
So far no issues with park users or the car park and we now have Harris fencing round all the new features whilst they settle and are finished.

Yeh sorry lots I forgot to post.
More MOT came and got shifted across the park, last few bits levelled out and weeds cleared, and now we’ve started trail building which is going really well.
Last weekend we had the first volunteer work day rather than just John and his machines.
Top surface has also arrived last Friday ready to start laying down this weekend by a few people whilst the more skilled builders carry on laying out the last features and levelling.
Finally got my son digging a bit last week so he’s well pleased that he’s built a bit of trail himself and moved about 2 tons of stone with a bit of help from me.

Is there anything like best bike split that will let me work out what power I might need for a set time on a set course? I found best bike split wildly underestimated by half Ironman power so either I’m insanely un aero (possible), my power meter over reads (likely) or I’m using it wrong.
I’d like to know eg what power I might need for a local course to do 2-4 mins quicker than last year to have a little motivating goal through winter.
I guess I could just go and ride the course and work this out myself but that won’t work for longer or further away courses?