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It was our first real bike ride of the year, and what a windy day it was. Even though it was not cold, around 10c the wind sure did make it feel colder than it was.

We left Keighley around 10:15 and got to High Wind Bank near Kilnsey at round 10:45.
We stopped off at the same spot as we did last time (when we went to Kettlewell) which is in the middle of a field. Surprisingly this time round, there were no cows trying to mount each other.
A lot of this ride was on road and uphill the first part was from grass parking area between Kilnsey and Harkswick to Halton Gill, just under 7 miles which started off as small incline.

The 2008 World cup date has been announced for the 6th to 8th June 2008 anyone interested, should we see if Andy can book the house we looked at for easter?

My bikes been parked up for a couple of months now and I do find it a crying shame.
Been looking at the website http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/sun/ukmap.php which will tell you when then sunsets, and at the looks of things am looking forward to March/April as the sun does not set until at least 6pm.This means I can start going on my bike after work and I will be able to cycle to work and back and not worry about the dark.
A lot of you may ask why don’t you go out and buy some lights and yes, its something on my list of things to do. But every time I decide to get some, something else more important comes up and I end up not been able to afforded them that month.

Take a look at my new bike.

This is a present for my 4oth birthday next September and is cheaper than Gym membership as I wouldn’t use that even if I had spent £500 for a years subs. My lovely wife managed to get this at just a little more than half price (it’s a 2007 model) and I’m very please with that.

I’m told that it is fairly rare as these were only produced for one year as FELT decided to only use this frame on their more expensive bikes. It has a carbon fibre rear triangle engineeered to flex in only one direction so there is also some interesting techie points for me to bore trail mates with - something for you all to look forward to………….

Anyway, let’s have a ’show us yours’ thing going on. Any comments on the size of my tubes or the weight of my frame will be met with much mirth!

Andy P

For a while now I’ve had this very annoying squeak/vibration coming form my back disc brake.
I know the guys at work are getting sick of me moaning about it, but it’s very annoying and it sends horrid vibrations right though the bike frame. At first I thought it might be uneven wear on disc pads, and this by itself was causing this disc to vibrate as there was uneven pressure on the disc.

My second line of thought was, when coming off my bike as I do on many occasions, I’ve gone and knocked the disc and put a slight kink in it,so I swapped the front and back disc around, expecting the vibrations to start on my front. With no such luck the vibrations continued on the back.

I have had a few suggestions:
1) There could be an airlock somewhere along the line, causing the pads to clamp at different times.
2) When I dismantled the brake a while back I didn’t tighten the unit back onto the frame correctly.

No matter what I do I can not stop the back brake from vibrating.

Thinking about buying a good new bike and its too expensive?
That’s just what I thought until I came across this website http://www.cyclescheme.co.uk

The idea is to get a tax free bike paid though work.
Each moth you will pay a set amount though you wage for 12 months.
During the 12 month period the bike will belong to employer, and it will be your responsibly to keep the bike safe and make sure its insured but you are free to use the bike outside of work. The only catch is that SHOULD try to ride into work as much as possible. After 12 months the bike is yours to do as you fee fit.
If you wish to buy a bike over the cost of £1000 your employer will needs to apply for an individual consumer credit license which costs £335 and lasts 5 years.
If you work for a company that can’t claim tax such as the NHS or a charity you can still save up to 33% and if you work for a company that can claim tax you can save up to 43% of the RRP of a bike.