Do you get many road bikes Frankie. I spotted a couple in the last photo. You do get road bikes, probably not as many as track bikes, that last pic cold have been when we there was quiet a few guys from tvam & rapid training ...

5 mile trail run tomorrow night after work, the meet point is only about 5 or 6 miles down the road so I might cycle there too if I get home from work in time. Made it home in time, and it was just over 5 miles... Frickin knackered today, the legs are really feeling it ...

Do you get many road bikes Frankie.

I spotted a couple in the last photo.

18 miles on the push bike this afternoon, it's starting to feel quite comfortable now..

5 mile trail run tomorrow night after work, the meet point is only about 5 or 6 miles down the road so I might cycle there too if I get home from work in time.

The only difference I noticed was the sprocket wore out much much quicker, but at 600 miles a year that's never going to be a problem.

Personally I will never put an alloy sprocket on a road bike again but only because of the mileage.

As part of an overall weight saving exercise and on a well maintained and low usage road motorbike I can't see why you wouldn't do it IMO

... will be knackered faster than a decent aftermarket item. The race spec 520 chain Im looking at has the same tensile strength as the recommended road 530 chain so it won't wear any quicker. Plus it will still be even better than the oem chain specification and I only do about 600 miles a year ...

Personally I've never seen the point for a road bike. I've asked in the past when I've been changing move but on both occasions I've been told it's not worth it unless I'm going to be swapping sprocket sizes around - there's supposed to be more choice in 520

... back onto my side in between a couple of cars. Bloody hell I thought I was a goner!! On the way back (in a national) I was riding through a little road and a little bridge was in front of me , hit it a tad quick, managed to get air! Both wheels straight up felt like a little bunny hop, I was impressed ...

Fortunately there was a run off (almost) so could have been a lot worse, especially on a road circuit with walls and telegraph poles etc. Hopefully not too badly banged up.

... hill 8) and left at the bottom, through Buildwas to Much Wenlock. Take a right onto the busy A458, take the second left, to Church Stretton. Great road over Wenlock Edge. Go across the lights with the A49, and just keep going up - it's signed The Burway. WARNING - it's very steep, about 30 - 35% ...

Absolutely nothing....
Doing the family holiday thing in spain (just up the road from Valencia circuit).... Love em but would really love to get my bike out...

... you can shorten it to whatever you want, for example you don't need to go through Ruthin and Denbigh, you could turn left at the roundabout (nice road down to the A5 at Corwen, and take a right onto the A5, cuts off a long detour through Ruthin and Denbigh). Or stop over some place, Shrewsbury ...

The road from Newtown to the Cross Gates is horrible. I say that as a biker. I avoid it, even though it's not that far from me, as the last time I rode it I had FIVE near-misses with morons on bikes going far too fast, underestimating ...

... are similar to pedal cyclists but I bet the police are not focusing on pedal cyclists who in my experience can be a real hazard to other road users. Looks like bikers are becoming a target again which is not good to hear as barring a few idiots most people are sensible safe riders.

That's the road to Newtown from Craven Arms I believe.

Agree will be a high police presence especially at weekends and probably in unmarked BMW.

Tragic news though and thoughts and prayers with family and friends of the fallen bikers.

I think it's easy to argue that a bike is over geared when they're hitting 70mph in first, so the other 5 gears aren't needed on the road. As you say, changing the gearing is a quick and easy fix so it makes it possible to have the bike running the way you want. We ride bikes differently. ...

The only criticism they could level at it in sboty was it didn't have a quickshifter and was over geared but a quick £45 sprocket chain fixes one of those straight away and tbh although I would like a quickshifter I can't say I'm missing one on road riding duties tbh.

Seeing as a couple of you have asked for my thoughts. Perkle's has what he calls his Test Road. It's got a couple of decent straights and some sharp corners, one of which is banked. So as we had a change of route today we headed for that road so I could have a go on ...

... proper deep clean you notice all the little bits of corrosion (nothiiing major - cleaned and polished) and little dinks from stones and other such road crap.... most annoying (swear) but what can you do (gah) Anyway from this http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/dd388/frankiek7/Image2_zpsjzubxisr.jpg ...