Talk about compacting the penile nerve..i was riding to the shops for dad to get some milk , i would have been 13, sun was right at eye height so i kept putting my head down , looking up every few seconds. Bad move. Bam! Right into the back of a parked car..whole package met the gooseneck at high speed. I dropped like a deadweight and crawled up the gutter, couldnt walk , and it felt like my gear was in my mouth. I half crawled, half stooped over up into whoevers carport at this house and then had a look below, you know when you dont want to look because you realise it isn't going to be pretty..yeah. First time i saw the inside of my man bag.

Never managed to get that milk but i did make it back home under my own steam. Dad was pretty impressed and insisted on looking at my injury. I knew when the blood rushed out of his face that it was possibly worse than i thought

Regarding the last two posts: The only time I ever want my undercarriage to go numb is if I split my ball sack open. Fact. Reading that is enough to put you off cycling, anyone want to buy a bike? Didn't realise you'd been forced to quit Mace, that sucks. Especially being in such a nice part of the country for it.

Just done a proper first ride. Not much in the way of proper hills around North London, but there's a decent short, steep one not far from home. Gets a bit repetitive, but 2,500' of climbing without being more than two miles from my front door is pretty convenient. My HR max was certainly not 231 bpm, it seems to have problems registering properly until I'm sweating. Either need some ECG gel or to shave a funny looking patch in the middle of my chest.

Also, hitting speed bumps at >30 mph on a bike you've just built... Nervy. Fortunately it seemed to hold together ok. Trying to resist overtaking the cars that have to slow down to 20 for them was difficult.

Not sure if I've posted it before, but this is my day-to-day bike. Despite the lack of components it's slightly heavier than the new one, but feels reassuringly bomb-proof in comparison. Even built the wheels myself on this, amazed they've had almost twelve months of (ab)use and hardly needed any truing.

Very rides nices Brun! A couple of years back I had a pretty high end mountain bike. It got stolen sadly. I think I have gotten more than 10 bikes stolen in Copenhagen, really crappy.

Single speed, you sadist lol

Yeah, had to pack it in Brun as was doing really long rides and was getting worse and worse. Had done mountain biking before being a roadie but with that you are out of the saddle more than in it but had to pack that in due to not having a car. Actully did use to ride to Hamsterley Forrest on my full-sus XC bike (about 15 miles), ride around for some hours and then ride back. I was out for about 7 hours lol. Riding on the road on a mountain bike is no fun and wore the tread from my expensive tyres lol.

That sucks. Bike crime is definitely a problem in London, but a lot of people are very careless when it comes to securing their property. See lots of stuff like this around the place...



I always use two decent d-locks, avoid places I know to be a problem, and never leave it outside anywhere overnight. It's worked so far [touch wood]. The road bike will never be left locked anywhere, even if you secure the frame and wheels, it's far to easy for some #%&*$# to strip expensive stuff off it with nothing other than a couple of allen keys.



Not just single-speed, fixed-gear as well. Might as well make going downhill as awkward as going up.

And a coaster brake to boot. Rely on that front on a downhill run and you`ll be going endo in no time. Been there,done that.
Mountain bike rear brake cable snapped on a really technical downhill section. All you have left holding you back suddenly
throws you over the bars since your squeezing them just as hard. Those rocks really do hurt when the bike flips you into them.