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• #2
Gonna be SO busy. Too mainstream pour moi. I knew andy when he did cross b4 it was cool.
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• #4
Have to sign up again beforehand and all that jazz.
Perhaps if I am to race CX this winter I should obtain BC membership. What's the minimum level I need so I can race?
Yes, I know I should Google it.
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• #5
Anyone know the size of the numbers? Are they 20x20cm, i.e. same as the ones used for TTing?
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• #6
Plus. Will I get moved up the grid if I turn up in my skinsuit?
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• #7
18 cm x 16 cm.
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• #8
No you won't. Gridding is based on previous results, not how pro (or not) you look.
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• #9
Thanks! I have sewn tabs into my skinsuit for teh aeros, plus avoids a) putting a thousand pinholes in it, and b) forking out £55 for a Nopinz number pocket.
I will have to engineer a solution.
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• #10
Pin it to a tri-belt rololololol
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• #11
So, my job today seems to be sort out the bloody gears on the CX bike once and for all. I think I must have rusty outers, the cable hasn't been pulling through properly for a while. Powerwashed the bike last weekend, and now it's completely buggered.
What wally would have Campag on a CX bike?
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• #12
You washed your bike?
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• #13
I better sign up this morning.
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• #14
You dried and lubed it after washing, yes?
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• #15
See. I told you. The start of it....
Anyway, entered.
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• #16
Yes. Yes.
When I say, washed it, I've had the bike almost two years and it hasn't seen a sponge or brush yet. Hose or powerwash just to get the worst off.
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• #17
Sorted. The outer where it entered the shifter was mullered. The cabling that surrounds the inside was poking out by 3-4mm, while the plastic sheath that the cable travels through was sticking out almost 10mm. No wonder my shifting had become extremely random. Almost a free fix, have loads of outer and inner cables knocking around, but I couldn't unravel the bar tape without it ripping.
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• #18
I might try and stop my front brake squealing.
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• #19
I tried that before the Penshurst round last year. I made it worse.
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• #20
Is there a suitable meeting point I can find you guys? I was planning to get there early seeing as it's my first race and I need to pick up my transponder etc, but as the train times don't work I'll be there just after 10:30!
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• #22
Ok, cushdy. I'll be the nervy one looking like Mr Blobby in a Grump jersey. Last nights curry, four beers and half a bottle of red doesn't seem such a good idea all of a sudden!
Thinking about it, once I've signed on I'll hang around near the entrance.
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• #24
I had a nap. It was nice.
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• #25
I followed Andy's advice and got up higher in the grid, had a good start, nobody around me shot off, had some good laps, had a race, shouldered someone as they tried to push me off line (just held my line really), lost the sprint with the guy i was racing just as we got lapped by the winner as he finished.
Winner has a vw transporter. I was not surprised to discover this.
One for @Demeaux, @Sam and maybe, just maybe, @biarittz.
Round 5 of the London X League is at Herne Hill on Sunday, who's racing?