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any more votes here please? 66 is not really an effective mechanism...

to spend time with my 10year old. Rather that is why I started. Now I wanna cycle cause it makes me feel like a kid again. I want to feel that feeling of invincibility we used to feel as kids. And cycling is part of that I think. I am sure it will progress from there. But for now. being a kid with my kid is what keeps me ticking.

I realise the geo would change. but it may work? Maybe a small front triangle will be like a medium once mated with the 29 swinger, or vice-verca. Would be nice to know if it will work. The 26inch carbon frame I have may make a nice ride for not too much moola

Ok. Maybe really silly Q but can this work? I realise that the wheel base will increase but woudl you be able to make it fit? I have soem older anthem swing arms around and the geometry seem to be the same. Sure the layout of the support have changed and the actual linkages changed but it appears the 3.5inch swingarm and 4inch swingarm are interchangible. Does anyone have one to try this with? Would be really cool if it could. Buy a 29er swingarm and change your bike to a 29er. Am pretty sure the 29er fork will work on the old front triangle.

I agree. try the 40. You have nothing to loose. I did the Argus after plottering around town with my kid for a while. I did one 36km flat training ride before and that was it. Sure I cramped like I have never cramped in my life, etc. but then again it was 42 degrees when I crossed the finish line. It is mostly about what is between your ears as they say. I cramped half way and asked myself I must decide if I wanted to finish or not. If I was gonna bail I would bail at that point. No way I was gonna cycle with cramps and then bail. Decided to finish. 2nd half of race took over 4 hours. 1st half under two. The human body is capable of strange things. Unless you try you wont know this... So if you are generally in good health (the fact that you could do a 20 suggests so) then go for it. Just use some crampstop or simular before the time. Without it your body will rebel if you are not used to the exercise.

To give an idea of BMI. We have an onsite sister doing yearly medicals on all the staff. She is probably running a BMI of 19 or less. mid 40's with a very athletic build. Does endurance running. Anyways. I am 1.77 and was way over 100kg's at one stage. At one of my checkups she said that yes I should loose weight but she is not too worried about my weight as I am very muscular. Go figure... She is pretty happy about my current 87 though which is going to stop at around 80 if I have my way BMI recons I am fat I am slgihtly yeah but can never get to my ideal weight. Just not enough fat to get there.

can do. there a second on Androni's option?

so... no pro's yet?

nope, broad shouldered and big boned...

then I would like to take you for coffee

I agree BMI is not accurate at all. I cant get to my ideal weight either. I look like I am from a concentration camp in the 2nd world war. However it is an indication of some sorts. Even if in this case it only serves to proove that it is not a correct measurement.

If I were 1.9m then my one leg would come in at that Imagine the cranking I could do

I thought I would keep the red's out of the equasion... If we have on the forum then they have no need to be singled out above orange...

yeah. fixed. copy paste a typo and it will happen

yeah sorry. only nice pic I had.. Pounds ( 1kg = 2.2 Pounds) and feet. 1 ft is 30.48cm and one inch is 2.54 cm

OK. a poll given the weight and height thread. I think this can give us some good info and we can draw a graph afterwards to show the trends. Attached a pic of BMI ratings. Please read your BMI and pic an option from above. Social Rider does not compete in races. Social Racer competes but only to finish. Amateur Racer is the guy that races, but is amateur. Pro Racer is the chap that "competes for the podium". I am expecting a bell curve here with a spread of Pro's sitting low in BMI and social sitting high in BMI Pounds ( 1kg = 2.2 Pounds) and feet. 1 ft is 30.48cm and one inch is 2.54 cm

will start a new poll with all's approval

that is the idea. have the underweight BMI < 19 Ideal BMI 19-24 Slightly overweight or big boned 25-29 Overweight >29 I think we can leave the obese one out and have it as part of overweight. This will leave us with 16 options?

mmm... atm 1.77 @ 87kg. Medium to large. Targeting around 80. Any less and I start looking anorexic. (I weighed 74 once and it really did not look good - That is what walking to work and back did, living in vredehoek and working in the foreshore . I look at some of the ratios and I would be put in hospital at those weights. Probably too much paddle-skiing as a youth for me. bit broad in the shoulders. This threat however is a little difficult to muster. How about rather using BMI ranges. would be very interesting. Maybe add to that your riding aspirations? somthing like. "social, enter races but just to finish, amateur racer, pro" as part of the poll. That way one can get some meaning full ratios here

maybe he cant decide whta size he is? small or large?

unless on the wheels I cant see the 300grams making any diffs?

looking at it a third way. This is a cycling site not a mensa forum ... Reading it a fourth way: if you suck at DH, I may beat you on both

you two should maybe meet halfway somewhere on the drakensberg and settle this with the mother of all downhills, once and for all...

Thanks.Trust me no one is as glad as I am. I did not breath for a days after that. All I could see in my minds eye is what what could have happened.

After reading tunariaan's post I just realised we somethimes need to think and teach our kids what to do and not to do. I have a 10y old boy. We ride regularly but most of our riding is in town. We ride Mtb and ride on sidewalks etc. Safe right? not always! I always look out for him and we have a code for when we get to cross roads etc. All works well. However for a portion of our ride we ride on the sidewalk next to an extremely busy road. People race up and down with no regard. I realised what was going to happen before it happened, as one usualy does. My son was riding in front of me and we were a couple of 100m from home after a great ride. It was "bin day" and one of the people's bins were still out in front. The bin was standing close to a telephone pole. I think you know where this is going. I saw him hesitate and realised because he does not know he is likely to make the wrong call but I was to late. He went around the road side of the obstical and because it was so close to the sidewalk he went to close past the obstical and the handle bar caught. with the geometry of biclycles and the way they work you will always fall oposite to where your handle bar turns to. Hence the bike ejected him a meter into the road. Layin on his back, head end in the road looking straight into my eyes a car's wheel went no more than 20cm past his head. I felt my whole "life" in peril and andrenalin made me pick him up with one hand and his bike with the other lifting it out of peril. I can only thank HIM for blocking that car to have it swerve out and miss his head. Felt sick for days afterwards Moral of the story... Please for heavens sake explain to your child (and yourself if you dont understand how it works) what will happen if your handle bar gets caught on something next to the road when you are pass road side. Your front wheel steers away from the road ejecting you into the road. He never passes an obstical road side anymore. Always the other side. And if he is not sure he stops, gets off his bike and pushes it past. May seem like a wuss. But he is alive and that is more important than anything else.