Glad you're getting out on your bike. By the way, here's another kind of bike. [video=youtube;vGGlODF7_RY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGGlODF7_RY&feature=related[/video]
And here's something new on the bike scene. [video=youtube;cPsY2NfPJtw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPsY2NfPJtw&NR=1&feature=fvwp[/video]
Here's a good video on mountain biking basics, and some not-so-basic stuff. [video=youtube;PiQGFX_RlW4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiQGFX_RlW4&feature=player_embedded[/video]
ThK U 4 the videos David!, While riding here in Guadalajara I saw a monument devoted to bicycles, yeah! Not to cars or motor-trigged something, but bicycles... It´s not usual to see such that thing in a city, so I took a photo... Will post it when I am in Madrid... I bet you don´t Know what kind of monument they made!. Cheers!
I´ve recently discovered what it´s called the ajuste fino in Spanish or trimming, (noise prevention) in English. irat Depending on the position of my road bike´s chain, I´ve noticed some noises which came from the chain rubbing against the outer chain guide plate, sometimes may rub against the inner part of the front derailleur as well. In any case, there is a trick that seems to work it out at least in Shimano levers. Sram has also its own procedure, but as far as I know it´s overall called trimming, and according to some manuals it´s possible if the chain is on the large, intermediate or small chainring. If you perform this trimming operation, the odds for the noise to disappear are high. You have to LIGHTLY press lever so lightly that you don´t change gears, just to allow the front derailleur to move until it is no longer in contact with the chain. It´s like a pre-position before the chain goes and change gears. I´ve tried it and well, I think it works. Take a look at this: I guess this is not new to you, but certainly it is for me! Cheers!
Hmmm, I've heard that some derailleurs have more than three positions (one position for each chainring), so they can be "fine tuned" or "trimmed" or whatever. I think that's what you're talking about. Brian's Giant does that as he has a triple chainring, however, none of my bikes do that. In any case, my road bike has a double chainring, and I haven't heard of that for doubles. Today I went to Colmenar and had to fight a strong headwind all the way up there, I should say strong COLD headwind. Luckily I've recently bought neoprene cycling gloves which work wonders: hands didn't get cold. Anyway, I just flew back from Colmenar with the wind behind me, pretty much stayed on the big chainring all the way.
Hello all. I present myself; My name in Jesus, I´m from Villena, Alicante. I study inglish since october. And I follow your post three months ago. I like very much and I learn. Alone i would that you care your writing, because for me it´s dificult (really for google traductor:cunaoo) to understand the writing. Please, I don´t bad understand. My bike;
Hi jessuscar, nice to hear from you. You're bike looks really nice. What kind is it? I can't read the brand. Your English isn't bad for someone who's only been studying English for four or five months. I'll try and write simple sentences for you so that you'll understand it. Well, I'm going for a quick ride now, even though it's very cold for Madrid. Cheers!
Cold up here in Catalunya as well, but a bright sunny day. I've just finished building my new enduro freeride bike this morning, so I'll be off out on that this afternoon. There's some sweet and gnarly singletracks near here which cry out for a good solid hardtail. Why does there seem to be animosity (or at the very best, a degree of off-handed coolness) between road and off-road cyclists? It seems to be more noticeable here than in the UK. Often when passing a road cyclist on the road, I nod, wave or say hola, only to receive a cold stare in response. On our last club outing for the christmas meal, the off roaders joined forces with the roadies to head out to a local restaurant. Some of the MTB riders changed mount for the day, only to be met with shouts of "traitor". All very strange. Here we're trying to get a better downhill/enduro scene going. There's some good rides being created. One local has created a brilliant downhill route close to Vilanova. Unfortunately the walkers have now started to use it, and some get pretty irate when the bikes appear. The walkers seem to think that the path has existed for years, not knowing that it is a new singletrack complete berms, jumps and dropoffs. Maybe road cyclists see offroadies in a similar light. But anyway, enough of this. I'm off out now. Almost salivating at the thought of my steel hardtail, 140 mm forks, Magura brakes and Mavic crosslines. As one of the bike mags in the uk always says, "just get out and ride". That's what it is all about really.
Finally you went riding today? You are my hero!! I took my dog for a walk this morning, and man, was fu**ing freezing! Hope tomorrow is better, El Pardo is waiting for us. :wink:
Great photo from the Basque country Mackem! Noy quite as much snow here, but very bracing. Not a soul out on bikes that I saw. I went off to an area near Pontons, and ended up being warned off the trails by a bloke out on a jabali cull. "Didn't you the signs?" he asked me. No but as I pointed out to him If somebody were to mistake me for a jabali wearing my bright luminous cycling jacket, then shouldn't really be allowed to have a gun. I also asked him to ensure that they picked up the empty shotgun cartridges when they had finished. But apart from that little incident, a good ride over some high terrain, and plenty of new (for me) trails. Plans for summer already starting to form.
Congratulations the man on the bike for your newly built enduro-freeride machine. So it's a steel-framed hardtail. Actually from what you say it sounds REALLY cool. Love to have a bike like that. As things stand tho I have to be patient till I can afford a decent all mountain/enduro bike. Am looking at something along the lines of a Zesty or Rallon, or the Canyon AM 8.0, which even comes with a telescopic seatpost By the way, I haven't really seen that much animosity between off-roaders and roaders (ha ha ha), maybe I just haven't been in the right places. In any case, I actually have a road bike and a mountain bike (and a jump bike and an old hybrid), tho I'm exorably drifting to the dark side: the more technical stuff. Love working on skills like cornering and jumping, and road biking just doesn't give you that. But don't get me wrong: it's a gas getting out on the road bike and pedaling for hours.
Great pic Mackem. I suppose the Sierras around Madrid look like that: there's finally snow on the mountains! But personally I haven't been there. Last Friday I rode my road bike but turned back before getting to the Sierras because the wind was something else. Going out there it felt like my brakes were on the whole way, and it was uphill to boot. But going back to Madrid it felt like my bike had a motor. Just amazing how fast you get going with such little effort.
So went for a ride today in El Pardo with Doohan, and 17 other people! A couple of groups got together. Anyway, I thought I knew the place fairly well, but today I discovered trails completely unknown to me, and let me tell you they were pretty durn technical too. El Pardo really is a great place to ride, and it's right by Madrid: I got there by bike lane (Doohan and Paco too). The downer was that at the end of the ride, a guy I'd just met, Fernando, tried and failed to do a jump. He's been taken to the hospital and it's looking like he has a broken collar bone or something, and he may need surgery. I guess going to the dark side is great, but you can't be too careful. And he was riding a Cannondale Jekyll that he'd bought just two days ago!
Hi! I wanna give a warm welcome to all the new people in here!. Contribution is the only thing which makes this thread great. No matter if English is your mother tongue or you have just been studying it for 4 months, there is a common passion we share on bikes. I hope Fernando recovers soon. Risks on a bike are something not to be forgotten. Some brands like Cannondale are really interested in you to know them. He was riding a brand new Cannondale, isn´t he?. I want you to take a look at its owner´s manual I bet your own manual doesn´t say anything like this: Cheers!
The bike´s mark it´s RADON -race 7-. It´s very fast with only eleven kg, and it has good components, Fork Sid, transmision X9, brakes formula RX, wheels mavic crossride. I love it! Only 1090, of sale only in Internet, in Bikediscount. Thanks very much for your coments about my Inglish, but I have that say that for writing help me a lot the google traductor. And thanks too for do your writing easy. Cheers!
