MegaSteve
Tour Winner
That all plastics used in, consumer items, packaging are not yet recyclable...
Random Irritations
- Thread starter Blue in Munich
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Smiffy
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You're wasted on here mush
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ScienceBoy
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Parents who don’t set up a child’s bike properly, their knees hitting their chin as they pedal...
clubchamp98
Journeyman Pro
Not just kids .
I find most women and some men (but it is mainly women don’t know why )are like this .Saddle is far to low.
I did try and explain to a few but I gave up because of the bad language.
Not mine I hasten to add.
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
It drives me nuts. You choose to ride one of the most efficient means of transport ever invented, and then make it less efficient by having the saddle stupidly low.
Slime
Tour Winner
Just how high should a saddle be?
I've never been told or shown, I have no idea whether mine's in the correct position or not.
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
Roughly high enough that at the bottom of the downstroke, ball of your foot on the middle of the pedal, your knee is just about not straight. This is a good start. There is a more technical answer, but this is a start.
greenone
Active member
Rough guide, put pedal to bottom dead centre and put your heel on pedal. Your leg should be straight
ScienceBoy
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Advice I got was to be on toes when seated, or in other words almost straight leg when pedal at lowest. Apparently parents want to set up so feet are flat on the ground when seated but this hinders pedalling.
I set my kids bike up like this before teaching him how to ride. Hopefully teaching good habits from the start.
It didn’t affect him much, no issues falling off or getting going.
I just saw a kid his age on a bike the right size but wrong setup! it was really cringy to watch the poor kid try to cycle.
drdel
Tour Rookie
And they rarely keep the tyres pumped up hard enough...
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
As an aside to that, I was on a cycling holiday in Italy, and we stayed in Padua. Lovely city. It really bugged me that every bike I saw had really deflated tyres. All of them. I thought how flipping lazy are Italians.
Then it struck me how much easier they were to ride over the cobbled streets. They weren't so stupid.
AmandaJR
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For sure a fine line between comfort and speed! Some of our roads around here are pretty rough so I tend not to fully inflate as when I do I feel my teeth are being rattled out!
Slime
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AmandaJR
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Can't you take them out before you start?
Cheeky monkey!
Cheeky monkey!
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Smiffy
Grand Slam Winner
When I was younger, my bike didn't have a saddle ????
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
Yeah, but you decided to take it off.
GreiginFife
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Sky Golf website for renewing Skycaddie subs.
30 mins to do a simple renewal. Slowest and worst user interface I think I have encountered.
And I used to use mIRC ?
30 mins to do a simple renewal. Slowest and worst user interface I think I have encountered.
And I used to use mIRC ?
Crazyface
Tour Winner
A load of people having an organised (bibs on) game of footie on a footie pitch this morning. Could have been 11 a side didn't count them.
How? Why?
How? Why?
williamalex1
Money List Winner
I hope the shaft was professionally fitted
Dando
Q-School Graduate
I hope the shaft was professionally fitted
It was certainly professionally removed
