jagwil

I have done this one 3 or 4 times.It is a really good race. The hill just after the start is a bit tough but after that it is a great ride.

Fox is the one to go for.

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Extra virgin Olive Oil.

BigBen I also use them ON RISERS. They are great.

http://www.canecreek.com/images/other/ergobarends.jpgThese are pretty comfortable.http://www.canecreek.com/component-other?product=ergo-control

All is OK EVEN WITH Riser Bars.

I wish.

Thanks cat-i.

PS I hope you shave your legs and under your arms even at 71.

wellll if you look at the votes, the option with smooth legs & lots of scars is going for a 2/3 majority ... and that's WITH oupaH's vote for hairy legs ... seems like the people has spoken - you gonna have to get smooth, slave. And this means what? Other polls have also almost received a 2/3 majority. Doesn't follow that it is an intelligent or informed decision. Majority or no majority I still WILL NOT shave my legs, my chest or under my arms. I however hope that the females will shave their legs and under their arms. Hopefully none of them need to shave their chests.

Shimano XT or even better XTR. Still the best.

I agree. Next thing you know they will be shaving their chests too. Scary thing is when you know a guy who waxes his whole body' date=' he has less hair than i do BIG H, shaving for females is also unnatural Au Naturale, we'd have hairy legs and armpits[/quote'] Females with hairy legs and armpits !! Yeeeeuuuugggghhhh !!

I agree. Next thing you know they will be shaving their chests too.

This is scary. A moderator in PINK with SMOOTH, presumably PINK legs.

Hagreed.

Stop waffling and just go for hydraulic disc brakes. Hayes preferably.

They all look totally FUGLY.

At present I have 3 Mountain bikes. A hardtail with XTR V-brakes which I rode for about 5 years before getting my first full suspension bike. This bike had XT V-brakes. These were changed to Hayes El camino Discs in France about 4 years ago when my son was using the bike. At that time I had a full suspension bike with Hayes El Camino's. My son was NOT scared of the descents but still burnt out about 7 tubes on the first day of mostly fast, twisty, single track downhill riding. No one else in our group of about 9 riders had V-brakes. Three years ago I traded in on a new full suspension bike with Hayes El Camino's. So, the bottom line is that I have been riding with Hydraulic disc brakes for the past 5 to 6 years now after having ridden with top of the range V-brakes in the past. Experience with V-Brakes and hydraulic discs ( nothing to do with any technical expertise , which I do not profess to have) tells me that I believe that hydraulic discs are far superior to any V-brakes that I have had. I have not had experience with cable discs. So, my advice, for what it is worth is, buy a bike with hydraulic disc brakes. The extra cost is worth it.

Well' date=' wheels do get hot from rim brake use, but not to the extent that it is a problem. It is prevalent on tandems where poor teqnique has the captain drag the back brake to scrub off speed. This easily overheats the rim and the tyre bursts quite easily under these conditions. It can be remedied by using the more effective front brake (more stopping for less heat) and only using it in short bursts instead of dragging it. On a road bike you can also burtst the tyre - again by dragging the brake whilst slowly going down a steep mountain. On mountain bikes the margin of error is larger and bursting a tyre through heated rims is neigh impossible. The tyres are too soft to start of with and their volume is much more forgiving than a 23mm road bike tyre pumped at 110 PSI. [/quote'] This is not impossible. On a mountain biking trip to the French Alps a few years ago we had 1 bike with V-brakes. On the first day that particular bike had no less than 8 flats. We discovered that the rim was heating up so much, on the mostly down hill riding, that the rim was burning through the tube at the valve We had to replace the V-brakes with disk brakes at the end of that first day. Problem solved. No more flats. It was quite an expensive repair as a single Hayes El Camino Disk brake cost the equivalent of R2800 in Morzine, France at the time.

Read this thread. It might be what you are looking for. https://www.bikehub.co.za/forum_posts.asp?TID=48805