I have had the week from hell on the roads this week, Tuesday I got bashed up the back side by a dirty great big wagon on the motorway (M40) lucky it was fairly slow, but all the same I went into a little shock in the afternoon of what could ...

... needed to see people at specific times at various parts of town, WHAT A FECKING NIGHTMARE... North East to Central to North West.... at least the road works on the North Circ have gone, they were getting on my tits.... Really is it getting so bad, and what's with the 20mph signs everywhere, bloody ...

Jack wrote:trying to stay calm , first round of the season this weekend and I am away in the morning to Brands , but feeling unusually hyper - not a good sign for my PTSD , I'll be OK once I'm on the road but I doubt I'll get much sleep tonight

Try and do a bit of mindfulness jack it will really help

What sort of twot would have a brake lever guard on a road bike?

trying to stay calm , first round of the season this weekend and I am away in the morning to Brands , but feeling unusually hyper - not a good sign for my PTSD , I'll be OK once I'm on the road but I doubt I'll get much sleep tonight

:( Pointless, stupid and dangerous for a road bike, IMO You should be in marketing (giggle) All joking aside that's probably the appeal to some muppets. Very true.: I have a brake guard on my (mainly) trackbike, and due to my occasionally "overly ...

:( Pointless, stupid and dangerous for a road bike, IMO You should be in marketing (giggle) All joking aside that's probably the appeal to some muppets. Very true.: I have a brake guard on my (mainly) trackbike, and due to my occasionally "overly ...

nsr500 wrote:Pointless, stupid and dangerous for a road bike, IMO

You should be in marketing All joking aside that's probably the appeal to some muppets.

Pointless, stupid and dangerous for a road bike, IMO

... onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Is that the same thing? Do you happen to know if it's easy to put on / take off for road / track duty? Yes, that's airtube protector I've got on mine, in a crash the steering can get violently thrown to one side and the impact breaks ...

Kwacky wrote:I imagine a few carbon companies are already designing some for road bikes.

Exactly what I was thinking

I imagine a few carbon companies are already designing some for road bikes.

Ducati love them and Yamaha toyed with them last season and it now seems Honda have joined the party.

How long before we see these on road bikes

If you've never been down the Usk/Chepstow/Raglan route you really are missing out !!!

If you want to stretch further afield than there, Llandover-Llanadog-Upper Bryaneiniemenienmnmnene is also a brilliant road over the Black Mountains

... onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Is that the same thing? Do you happen to know if it's easy to put on / take off for road / track duty?

... and of course rear sets look great away from the track. All crash protection is geared around what you intend doing with the bike and where, road is mainly engine covers and bar ends, track is everything, most people fall somewhere between those points have to think carefully about what their ...

There are some dickheads on the road.

You sir, are in the league

My team are a load of berkeley hunts!

... frame spar they bolt through. This makes sense as if you look at bsb bikes with crash bungs they are much shorter than the R&G offerings for road bikes. I assume this is because race teams know they are likely to have large crashes and would rather replace some race plastics than have an ...