Simon123

I'd rather give up cycling than use Bontrager tyres again on an Ebike. I've never had to plug tyres as much as those absolute piece of **** *** tyres. Was recommended by Gear Change in Tokai (needed a 27,5 x 2.6) when I couldn't just get the usual Maxxis DHRII Exo+. Not a SINGLE issue on multiple DHRII tyres, yet every single ride without failure that rubbish Bontrager needed to be plugged or the like. And it was R1650 fitted. Trek can shove those rubbish tyres up their bum.

Holidays are about sleeping in. 😛

I thought you said you were on holiday Chris.

RE: connectivity. I've never enabled the SIM on the phone, I dont want to take calls on my wrist and look like a knob doing it. It's handy every now again though (was on roof recently and phoned my wife to throw me a hat 🤣). But I've disabled all notifications unless from "VIP" in my phone book, and all WhatsCrap notifications. My smart house (all running Apple Homekit) has certain things come up like the front doorbell intercom (can see video feed and reply / talk off watch) and control lights / alarm etc... I no longer take remote when riding and use watch when close to home to open gate / garage. It's the 90% of my life that it just does better in every single respect than the "sports" watches that makes the difference. And to be honest, there's not a single feature (maybe if I was doing an Ironman I'd be worried about battery life) in sport that I found the Garmin better at. Especially since Apple has drastically improved the built in cycling app. BUT DO NOTE: if you use ANT sensors, you may need a Wahoo or similar heart rate monitor strap to bridge them to the watch. I just use the watch these days and leave the strap at home. Because everyone knows, only Garmin boys love strap ons.

Do you use an iPhone? I'd go Ultra. For the 90% of your life you're not excercising it's just such a better proposition it's laughable. The Garmin fanboi's on this site are laughable though, so they'll basically praise anything Garmin. I tried, I couldn't. Also dropping a watch onto a wireless charger every two or three days barely registers (I dont sleep with a watch on, I'm not a serial killer). The built in cycling app syncs immediately with Strava and has all the screens you could want, or run the (admittedly shitty) Strava one. But what you can do is put on very specific apps and tailor them to your use. But the off-bike or not excercising usage is so much better. Takes a while to get notifications to your liking, but the fact that I can do a few other things when wearing the watch, I'm happy. I cant think how I ever tolerated a Garmin on my arm, looking back it's like a 1980's casio. EDIT: I managed to scratch up all previous watches pretty badly, but despite building and other things this one still looks mint new. Even hitting rocks in Morzine crashing (that broke the same wrist it's on) - nothing.

You told me he was a clever boy!

Commencal Meta AM

EVOC. Use for my road bike, DH bike and enduro bike.

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doesn't mean you cant still bang her. 😛

Strangely I would have thought they'd have their cooler designs? I see their stuff regularly on Instagram (the concepts too) and then they do this? Could be a Rapid Sport kit. Give us the cool stuff!! And the male "model"... y so srs?

No wonder you want to change that, it's uglier than a bag of dicks.

what about cooking oil or baby oil or sex oil?

Really? 😁

Maxxis Assegai front and back in DD casing no smaller than 2,4.

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Clearly he needs to be trained better. This is on you. 😁

One day you'll come and shuttle with us again, kont. That dog has ruined you.

Evoc without a doubt. Boxes and **** are cool, but wheels and a handle and it's just miles easier. I use an Evoc bag, but my friend bought a bag off Takealot for our Morzine trip this year and it was basically an Evoc rip off for R4k. It was perfect. Only difference is that the wheels were spaced a little closer together so in our run through Geneva airport it tipped over on high speed corners. But I think this was a unique usage scenario. LOL https://www.takealot.com/outdoor-elements-bike-travel-bag/PLID53118705 Here they are together in a pic.

I saw that, but only getting in around their finishing time. Afterall, I am taking a break in the middle of a Morzine mountain biking holiday to check out the TdF earlier before my meetings, and we all know Morzine > TdF.

Been great watching today. Also purely by chance work drags me to Paris the day after the Champs Elysses finish, so I'm going a day early to go and watch the finish. Quite stoked as then I've seen the end of the Giro and ToB and TdF. And I'm not even a roadie. LOL

Would, but need EV-Spec II.

Maybe okay on a road / commuter setup, but awful off-road. Also thought they would be amazing, but one ride down Tokai and I swapped back to the normal SH 51.

Afrikaans edition? 😛

Only problem is then you're stuck with all those SRAM parts. yucky! 😛