Weston Super Saint

Brad Bobley?

Nice pics! No, definitely not the cleat position as the knees ache when on the rowing machine in the gym, when walking and even sat on the sofa! Plus my mother has now had both knees replaced due to arthritis. Her mother suffered with arthritic knees as well. My money's on the arthritis being the issue but have to go through the whole process of xrays and scans first.

To be fair, I'm sure the average fan won't begrudge not earning any interest as most of them stumped up the cash with the best of intentions to save the club - fair play to them. The presidents on the other hand....

I finally cracked today. After two years of pain, I went to see the doc about my knees! I can just about manage the pain - through the use of copious amounts of 'deep-heat' - whilst out on a ride, but that wears off after about two hours. After the ride is even worse and somedays I can barely walk after riding. The doc is booking me in for an X-ray, but his cunning plan is to stop doing exercise!! His logic was that if I don't do any exercise then my knees won't hurt! Talk about lazy doctoring! I suspect I shall spend the next six months being shunted from one doctor to another before one of them finally decides to try some treatment. The doc also seems to be missing the fact that I have recently had two enforced breaks from any sort of exercise - one when my hand was operated on and the other when I broke my arm - and both times my knees didn't magically cure themselves during the time off!

That's obviously because Michael was the gunner in Markus's tank

Hmmmm. I wonder if the scouser would jump at the chance to move closer to home??? Still, every cloud as I'm sure Jose or Pep will be banging on the door the day after he goes.

Because they're a Mickey Mouse club?

Did someone say ground share?

Surely the genreal [sic] consensus should be that you don't want to get promoted and even if you do, there's no need to worry about finances as long as you spend within your means and continue to be a fully funded, debt free, sustainable fan owned club playing real football in a real league, trailblazing the way for other clubs to follow your example? Unless of course you've all changed your minds and are no longer following the mantras that have been trotted out ever since this iteration of the club existed?

Don't they have 2500 'shareholders' at £1000 a pop who make up less than 50%? Looks like at least £5m to pay back all the 'shareholders' and the 'presidents'. That doesn't seem like good value for money...

Tough ride today! I normally check all wheels are running smooth, tyres etc before every ride but I stripped the bike down on Monday, re-lubed everything and put it back together. Somehow, the rear caliper had been moved and the block on one side was wedged 'on'. I did a few hills early on so didn't really notice, plus my GPS screen was only showing average speed not current speed... It was only when going downhill [brockley coombe] that it felt a little strange as I switched the GPS to current speed as it didn't seem too fast. With pedalling I was hitting about 25mph and should have been doing 30+ freewheeling. After 2000ft of climbing I just assumed that my legs were knackered but still couldn't figure out why I couldn't hit more than 72-73rpm on the flat! Eventually I got off the bike and checked the wheels to find the brake block, but it took me about 30 miles before I did that! Good workout though! As well as the hills I did, my estimate is that the brake block was like adding +1-2% slope on to the 30 miles - no wonder I was dripping with sweat this morning!

I've just assumed they were referring to their IQ....

LOL. They're holding a flag that says 'were on our way' [Top Left corner]. I guess they were on their way until the child maimer decided he was taking his ball and going home. 'Est 1898' needs to be corrected as well

Not sure what the problem is! She's clearly just about to put the kettle on and make a lovely cup of Nescafe

To be fair, I think Bournemouth have proved that you don't need to have massive crowds to stay in the prem. The amount of TV money given out every year far exceeds the income from gate receipts.

Is it possible to lease a building [for 30 years], then assume that you can knock it down to make the car park bigger?

Anyone fancy pointing out to the deluded skate numbnuts that most 'normal' football clubs do exactly this! They generally call it the club shop / store / megastore and in them they sell their own brands of merchandise! They don't go as far as selling cornflakes or baked beans as that would be a little bit mental. Some clubs even go so far as to sell financial products

Can someone not be consistently hypocritical?

Not to worry, I've found the bit I'm looking for https://www.evanscycles.com/shimano-road-crank-arm-clamp-bolt-EV174938

Truth? Meh. Portsmyths are much more fun.

Anyone know if you can buy replacement bolts for the pedals - the two bolts that attach the left / non-drive side pedal to the crankshaft. With my obsession for cleaning and greasing I like to take the crank shaft out of the bottom bracket bearing and then re-lube the inside of the bearing. However, to do so you need to undo the bolts on the pedal - from memory I think they are 5mm hex bolts - and those things seem to be made of wax and are quite prone to being chewed up! I asked at my LBS and they didn't think you could get replacements, anyone know any different and if so, where from? Pedals are Shimano - Tiagra and Ultegra - but I think they use the same bolt...

I was going to ask if you guys have used a wax lube in the winter. However, after today's ride, pretty sure I've answered my own question! The winter bike is not ready as I still need to change the rear wheel so I took the summer bike with it's fresh coat of wax on the chain. Sadly, although it wasn't raining when I left, the roads were so wet all the wax washed off in the first ten miles! The chain then got progressively more squeaky as the ride went on with me arriving home like the local chav on one of those mountain bikes with a fully rusty chain! Two hours to strip the bike, clean it off, re-lube everything and put it all back together. Another hour spent with the bike hooked up to the laptop to do some fine adjustments on the Di2! Still haven't done the rear wheel on the winter bike so I'm hoping the rain stays away overnight!

Is that the same clothing entrepreneur with seven whole items on his website that is sponsoring them?

Any recommendations for some decent bib shorts? I've previously only had 'cheapie' shorts that have served me reasonably well - Muddyfox from Sports Direct and Tenn from Amazon - which are fine for shorter rides up to about 30 miles but I'm planning on some longer rides this year. Probably won't be doing centuries every week like certain nutters on here but aiming for 60-75 miles on Saturdays so looking for something that will be comfortable. I ordered some Caratti Bib Shorts the other week : http://www.caratti.cc/cycle-clothing/caratti-sport-bib-short which cost £40 plus postage. They are immensely comfortable in terms of the fit, no rubbing and therefore no 'sores' after the ride, however, the padding is pretty thin so after about 30 miles they do become quite painful. So, any recommendations? In terms of price, I'm happy to cough up a 'sensible' amount of cash - can't really justify £120 on a pair of shorts unless their performance is guaranteed! - but also not keen to go for more 'cheapies' as the fit isn't great and the material tends to be pretty thin.

I love having fresh new tyres on the bike but HATE putting them on! Took about an hour - and a couple of layers of skin off my thumbs - yesterday to fit them on the new wheels and that was after leaving them in the sun for a while to heat them up! I even tried the fairy liquid tip that someone was recommending on the innernetz but that just made the tyres slippery! Then I took the cassette off and gave it a good clean - bucket of hot soapy water and a brush I find the most effective combined with some good old elbow grease - before taking the chain off and cleaning that as well. Three hours in total and I've only changed the wheels on one bike Took it out this morning and it felt very smooth. Would have enjoyed the ride if it wasn't for the wind!