we are still in off season mode... and those races are not the so called "interesting" ones for me... maybe might watch some classics in a month or two... but mainly it won't start until May for me when the grand tour season goes into full swing...

also make sure you don't "snake king" both at work and on rides...

we got an eagle eye contender here... miao... you got a challenge...

100 dollar question, is there any reasons not to?

i guess it's still acceptable a risk... if it blows once and the puncture mark is near the area of the cut, then you should consider changing it...

just be more careful and ride not far from home or car during this period... if you are safe, most likely you will be quite safe for some time more...you should see my tire... it has more cuts that look more gnarly than that.. not necessarily on the sidewall, but it looks an even uglier cut than yours...

wah... missed by 1 number wo.... pao also got no use rite?

it's a bet... but the last layer should be a wire mesh which will be quite tough unless the wire meshes are already damaged in the process... you get a puncture with this new cut or you just noticed a cut....

if puncture, then there is likelihood that there is some damage done to the casing all the way through... it's just a bet... go get one of those tube patches and glue it up... .

the birzman patch kits even has a piece of plasticky material that is used for the tire in case of holes like this... i have used mine for quite some time on an ugly cut and it lasted me quite a while... still riding on the same tire now....

the piece with a lot of wording can hold small tire rips in place...



i used to buy tube patches for car tires to patch the insides of a tire after a puncture during mtb days... work well.. . not sure bout road bike...as pressure increases, a small abnormal surface bulging out causes some bumpiness..

haiihhh.... different people different luck lar...

some have bad experiences on 1 tire and rule it out for the rest of their lives...

punctures are just a part of cycling...if you hate it, habis...

yeah... like me... i have quite a good run on everyone's bad luck self detonating tire maxxis while most people is cursing the shit out of it...

can't gripe about it for the price i pay...

that's overkill....

http://www.bikeradar.com/road/news/article...rst-look-36425/

http://www.bikerumor.com/2013/02/13/wahoo-...-bike-computer/

another pointless invention...

Dedicated cycling tracks

think so...

think gay porn is a better gauge... there might be people and quite a lot that wants speedplays

the day you start paying bicycle tax, maybe

This post has been edited by butthead: Feb 14 2013, 07:27 PM

so does previous winner "mr. i'd cut your head off"

and defaulted giro champion and "mr. 39 seconds"

the should just call it tge suspicious pedal, not speedplay

trained properly means driving like "ah pek" and "ah poh" which i doubt 70% of the driving population is fond off when they are still asking to raise expressway speedlimits

furthermore, if everyone bikes... not accounting the money a certain someone makes from the automotive industry... many would be out of a job if this were to happen, imagine p1 and p2 cutting jobs up and dowb... bad for rakyat as well...

dude, don't be a david walsh

armstrong is already a basket load of off season bs

if you presume everyone is not on a level playing field, you might as well not watch the sport starting today cause it ain't gonna happen or you'd be watching A1GP if you know wat i mean.... no more "fingerboy" or alonso fans and scratching your nuts is much more interesting than the next overtaking move

the usual way, go to gym lots for upper body training and ride lots

or the extreme way... ride hard for long hours without single drop of water... dehydration is weight watchers best friend...5kilos in 1 session easy as chicken chop

serious, it depends if your weight is body composition of water, muscle mass or fat? then where is the part where you need to shave off?

with that, you target your workout on that area, no point working endless hours on your hamstrings if you have several michelin tires on your belly if you get the point

all tat is the easiest part, how to maintain the post lost weight will be the toughie

It's something we have to assume that we or the sport will never get to the bottom of...

2 question lies ahead from a spectator point of view

1) did wiggins (doped) win against a totally clean field, whether or not someone you think should have won and yet raced clean against him?
2) did wiggins (doped) win against his rivals who have also doped?

Question 1, i would understand if you have any issues with the team sky dominance. Question 2 would be somewhat pointless to doubt him and in some ways dopers vs dopers equals a somewhat a level playing field.

At the end of the day, to us... this is always a show / entertainment. Whether if someone played some cards up their sleeves or not is not for us to judge and neither is it our duty to expose. We can only joke about it and why it so seriously?

The journos on the other hand have a job to do and whether they are writing facts or their opinions. It is partly their job to write or cook up some stuff to sell the newspaper their working for. It is also their job to manipulate readers into believing certain things that whether true or not, helps them sell stories. In that respect, they are as good as the lying dopers.

As i mentioned. If the sport is going to be so clean and so fair with all the UCI rulings from doping to bike technicalities to ensure every rider has a fair chance at winning. It will become the A1GP of the cycling world. It's fair and very un-predictable, but it is also god darn boring to watch.

er... after you make him think he just wear the heart rate belt like it's some magic belt and he can automatically lose weight...

the word "drama" is spot on....every sport has to have controversies right... even a frigging boring sport like golf needs to cling on to tiger woods extra-marital affairs as they have nothing to talk about...

F1 has spygate, crashgate, max mosley SM episode, liegate... it is just another way to repackage the sport for the thrill seeking spectators..e

even roller coasters have to be built higher, faster and scarier than the last one or everyone will be like Mr. bean on a roller coaster



This post has been edited by butthead: Feb 15 2013, 04:04 PM

in theory, yes... it is up to who has the bigger balls to take in more banned substance and endanger themselves... but until the day that the sport itself find ways to effectively police the use of drugs short of invading one's privacy...no one will ever know if everyone is racing clean...

same situation as F1 years ago when they got fed up with teams hiding traction and launch control software within their ECU softwares... they could not tell or find who has it and who hasn't and the best they could do is "not to ban it" as it causes some teams to be furious when they suspect rival teams of having it while they have not (or have it but still wanted to complain) by analyzing off the grid launch videos and engine noises during corner entry and exits...only until recent years that they have found a brilliant way to standardized ECU units across all teams did they re-ban it again...

not an argument to say let riders dope as they like as that is not the very healthiest thing to do... but, there isn't much point to get unsatisfied (from a spectator's POV, unless i am andy riis) at who's who is suspected of doping because this is solely the reasons this guys exist in the first place...because of some humanly impossible feats we choose to believe in, or in other words feats that catches the our attention as we ourselves could not do it...

would i say over the years i have not cast doubts over alberto contador's 2009 verbier ascent? lance's comeback 2.0 at the age of 38? efforts of team astana controlling the 2009 tour peloton almost day in day out (which i think is a harder act than team sky in 2012 for the fact that other big threat teams exists and a more jagged parcours)? lance's attack on pantani at hautacam (with the shaking of the il pirata's bald head when he realizes he could not follow the accelerations) having drawn him into a crazy mano-a-mano combat over 100K's away from the finishing line (yes, proven to be drugs. but still made you question his performance during those days), not to mention how le doper manage to ride everyone off his wheels after giving "the look" and many other le doper incidences, lemond (even) during his final TT against hinault to win his grand tour title by a measly few seconds (can an aerobar really prove that much difference?), "the cannibal" which we can't leave out come doping? winning many multiple races in the same year while winning the tour or even the triple crown of cycling of double grand tours in a single year (not once, but 3 times in his career... it must have come down to some magic potions)? almost unheard of nowadays when winning the giro-tour combo is admitted to be almost impossible...

yes, wiggins tone on the doping stance might have change from years back like kimmage states, but he has also came into the limelight since 2009 along with the increase of pressure as team captain... but i think to be fair, anyone is gonna get offended being asked the same question repeatedly year in year out... would anyone say mark doped because he too went berserk at some journos when they kept asking lance related or doping questions at press conferences...

if come 2013 team sky can repeat the same act with saxo and radioshack in the play, then it would arouse my curiosity...

having the media manipulating how the spectators think by throwing proven / unproven and facts/theories around and working yourself up is not the best way to enjoy the sport... if you are against wiggins because you were rooting for cadel in 2012... i would have understood a whole lot more the reasons behind it... but just because of some nut jobs trying to prove themselves right and show that they have been abused by armstrong publicly over years of tormented media life is just no reason to... which is why i treat it as an entertainment or else i would have flown to france, camp by the road side for days waiting for the peloton to pass which ends in mere minutes year after year...

having all the bikes at the same weight is also not really making every bike the same... one bike might have a lighter set of wheels with all the ceramic bearings and techno whistles and a chunky frame while the other might be saving watts with an aero shaped wheel at the expense of lightweight while still staying within the same weight limitations... the bikes have already grown to the point that it could be so light that mechanics have to start adding leads to their bikes or use heavier parts just to meet the UCI weight limits... it's a matter of throwing weight around nowadays...

This post has been edited by butthead: Feb 16 2013, 12:17 AM

me no phd in economics, but i think the only way to get people to reform is by force... if that is ever gonna happen... i think the best way is to not subsidized petrol and increases import duty and sales taxes of cars by folds to the point that even the rich and famous have to think twice buying a proton saga... rakyat will grumble and mumble... but it's for the bigger benefit of the world rite?

it's just that human being chooses the easiest way out and would rather drive a private car they own than take public transport or any other stone age means of transportation...

whether wiggins did what he was speculated of doing or not... i wasn't at all surprised at what he did in the 2012 tour... it was a heck lousier field in my opinion... his only real opponent was his team mate and that was non existent due to team orders... his supposedly rival, cadel evans was a sack of shit due to chronic fatigue and some infection of some sort that he claim was fighting all season (if you have seen him towing the main group in chase of sister schleck in stage 18 of 2011, you would have sworn the 2012 cadel was a different man)...liquigas didn't mount a tough enough challenge to give nibali a chance and the rest was practical there to fill in the gaps...

if sky were to whack the heck out of BMC Racing (in top form), Radioshack (with Andy with or without his xipamide induced brother) and Saxo... then i'd be impressed and confirm that 2012 was no fluke... else... it's just another 2009 for wiggins...

much like how the majority sees armstrong going into the 2000 tour as the 1999 defending champion... the only way is to repeat it against a tougher contender to seal your status as a true champion...

should recommend him to throw your name around... maybe it will get him some special treatment

i think the straightforward answer is to hire you as full time consultant... much more effective

i guess a lot of people have rooted for the wrong rider for x amount of years... which is why you should treat it less seriously than you would, say playing super mario?.... why invest so much emotion into supporting someone and later to find that you have been betrayed all this years.... i mean, to joke about the doping stuff is one thing... but to be agitated, angered, furious about getting conned is totally another... and, i don't really get it... you might be bashing your controller if you can't get pass a stage in super mario because that directly affects you... but flinging your remote into the TV and breaking it upon the moment Lance confess that he has dope on oprah is totally numb nuts...

i think the people from all this years who have the right to be mad as shit about any certain rider would be the floyd supporters who have supported or even donated money to his fight to clear his name when he had lied all along... next comes lance who have convinced people into donating to livestrong although arguably has nothing to do with his cycling team...

anymore suspense and dramas... i think we have to all switch into watching curling as that would have less suspense and take a lesser toll on my heart...

This post has been edited by butthead: Feb 17 2013, 09:31 PM