For sale carbon frameset

Another plug to sell some more gear, this time its a carbon frameset for a bargain £300 see the link below for further details
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320468884292&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

LED Mountain Bike Light 900 LUMEN Lithium battery UK seller

Lights!!

I have been selling these on eBay

http://tinyurl.com/ylx2dsr

For sale here is a brillaint Brand new mountain/road/touring bike light set. It is very similar to many of the top end lights in design but has no band name. The output of 900 lumens is by far enough for off-road night riding. Similar lights from well known manufacturers will cost you £250

I have been using this set up for 2 months now, off road MTBing up around Leith hill, It's LUSH nothing comes close to it for the money. I was using a dinotte L200 before, This light is streets ahead.

Burning times are
3hrs on full 900 lumen's
4.5hrs on 450 lumen's
Comes with USA plug

These lights are great, If you are interested get in touch ronniegallacher"AT"googlemail.com

£85 which includes special delivery postage, Can usually post the next day.

Winter Training

Winter starts again today, Took the titanium out to windsor and back tonight, Decent long, slow ride. stats are
distance 71km
ave speed 28.9
cals 2300
ave heart 153BPM

Great bike handling

A true bit of skill, many other riders would of dropped there bikes. This guy manages to keep a well focused and clear mind on the job in hand
Chapeau
http://www.youtube.com/watch?eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbikesnobnyc.blogspot.com%2F&feature=player_embedded&v=AUFiowOcnIw

Guilty pleasure

I went out on the mighty DPNC ride today,,,, Its a mixed bag for me, always a really friendly bunch, plenty of banter, get to ride with old friends, And burn off a shit load of calories,,,,Then on the flip side, a 4hr ride means being out the house for 6 hrs, normally takes about 1hr to get over there and the same to get back, sometimes I ride back, but its a shit ride back via croydon, sutton, cheam all in the mid day traffic(chavaramma),,,, Its a slow ride never more than 26/27kph ave, lots of junk miles ,just sitting in the bunch talking shit, low power output, low heart rate etc etc,,,,, But I can't knock it, I really enjoy going out on this ride as I have made many friends . And sold a ton of cycling gear to half of them!!!!

Todays stats

99.7 kms

26 kph ave

1100m elevation gain

Power ave 169 5min best 313 10min 276 30min 212 1hr 199

Dropped quicker than a size 16 model

I decided to have a shot at the Dulwichparagon womens/beginners chaingang last night!!!! What a kick in the balls, no women or beginners,,,,, ideally I was hoping for a load of size 8, early 20's decent fanny.

Even with the lack of quality fanny on show I thought fuck it, I will still go out and ask some of the younger lads if there sisters might come along next week.

We set off at a steady pace, after a shocking 20 minutes I was fucked, after 32 minutes I was heading home!!!!! I truly have no idea what went wrong, Just never had any gas in the tank, ?????? I have done very little riding over the last 6 weeks and picked up a wee bit of weight????? So basically I'm a fat fucker who needs to ride more

Stats for the ride are
14.2 kms
power ave 252
weight 89.2kgs

I will have another bash next week, Try and get a bit further, and get a few more digits/stats from the ride.

Its been a busy 6 months

The last 6 months have seen many changes for me.

From 16st to 13st yes that's right 104kgs to 87kgs.
From one peaceful little baby bear to one peaceful little baby bear and one naughty little toddler yes that's right 2 baby's bears now.

From a slow fat fucker on a flash bike to a slow fat fucker on a flash bike yes that's right no change.

From 261 watts 20 min ave power to 321 watts 20 ave power.

From working 60 hrs per week to watching Jeremy Kyle and homes under the hammer.

From struggling to change brake blocks to having a small cycle workshop.

So what next ???? I always said if I could get under 87kgs I would start to race, So my main plan is to pick up a couple of KGs!!!!!!

No I'm going to take a couple of months off then hopefully start training then racing the winter series at hillingdon with the view to doing a few more races and the Marmotte 2010


1st wheel in under 1hr

Mia is getting big and cheeky

16st 4lbs August 08 more chunk than hunk( still got the wife up the duff)

13st 8lbs March 09 training in Wales for the dragon ride(I'm the good-looking one in the middle)

2 baby bears

Winter training

Ok I'm back for real this time!!!

Ok 2009 is almost here, the last couple of months I have been back in the saddle, Its been slow,,,really slow 23/24kph ave speed sort of rides.

2009 and its LEJOG via Ireland for me!!! 19th July I will leave Lands end and make my way to JOG via Ireland, its looking like almost 2000kms in 10 days.

I have also signed up for the dragon ride, and planning to get a few other events in before LEJOG,,, La marmotte would be my first choice but at 102kgs, 5000ms of climbing is a pipe dream

Keep reading I will be posting this year!!

www.rosesgift.org

I'm back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well I've haven't posted in ages, been a busy year for me, Baby, pram,breast pumps etc,etc

I can honestly say I didnt miss the riding, It was great to wake up, scratch my balls and turn back over and not have to worry abou keeping up with that fat fucker GT

so whats the plan??????? not really sure, try and get back into some sort of shape, plenty of long slow rides over the winter, then plan my 2009,,,,,,,,,,,,, Thinking GF Felice Giamondi, GF Campag, maybe a bit of touring"route des grande alpes" would love to spend a week with the bike in the great lakes.

And I'm still as good looking x x x x x

The end

Cycling is so last year!! Gardening is the new rock n roll

http://fromseedtoplate.blogspot.com/

Funny Week

I just cant be arsed!!!

All the bollocks with the tour, the weather in London, tons of DIY, busy at work, Asthma and hay fever, no dynamo or dulwich this week

I have still managed to ride 5 out of the last 7 days

3 x 45kms commutes
2 x 110kms solo surrey hills rides

nothing very fast, ave around 26kph for the whole week, but i have burnt plenty of cals around 9000.

Heading back to France in a few weeks, not planning any major rides, just want to get up every morning and get out for 3-4hrs in the morning sun

I was in Nice in march to watch contador win Paris-Nice,I was really impressed with his breakaway on the final day, But there is just something about the tour this year that stinks of shit!! I just hope for the sake of cycling he has kept his nose clean!!

Roll on summer

Ronniethescot

www.xacd.com.cn finished bike

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Where to start? I really fancied a custom made frame but no way i could afford a go for a serotta,seven,moots,roberts, setavento I had heard about xacd on the web, £350 for a custom frame seemed like a bargain, if its shit some fool on ebay will buy it from me!

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I emailed XACD around the last couple of days in May 07, Porter got back to within a 24 hrs, not the greatest command of English, but pleasant enough, Told him what I was looking for, roughly a 56cm audax frame, semi sloping top tube,clearance for mud guards and 32mm tyres(for cyclo-cross) bosses for touring racks, Emailed me back with an engineering drawing of a frame, I swapped a few emails over the next couple of weeks changing and tweaking a couple of mm's here and there, Got a final drawing which I was happy with, Told him I was keen to go ahead with the purchase, Sent me the bank transfer details and final price, £302 including shipping, I sent the money via my current account, halifax charged me £25 for the pleasure, 15 days later the frame was in my hands, no problems with import duty, customs, shipping.

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The build

frame,shipping,bank charges £327

10 speed dura ace triple from ebay £320 (no brakes, bought it bit by bit)

frogs legs canti's from ebay £32

Bonty race x lite wheels 2nd hand £200

Bonty carbon stem,bars 2nd hand £75

ITM vista cross fork wiggle.com £80

odds and ends wiggle.co.uk £35

stickers (see link) great service £12

seat,post,pedals from my spare box

total £1081

total bike is around 8kgs

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Still over a grand, but surely at least £1500 cheaper than anything from one of the custom builders.

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Not done many miles on it yet, but so far my thoughts are,, mega comfy, really easy to ride on the drops, BB area is a little flexy, back end is stiff no brake rub when out of the saddle, so far so good, rest assured if something goes wrong, I will post the details.

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LINKS

http://www.xacd.com.cn/

www.wiggle.co.uk

http://www.anothercyclingforum.com/

http://www.bikenames.com/

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I hopefully this post will be useful, I'm no way connected to any of the company's, Just a tight arsed Scotsman in hunt of a cycling bargain.

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DISCLAIMER

If you purchase from any of the links provided and your not happy, tough shit

UPDATE 4/5/09

After almost 2 years and 10000kms the bike is still going strong, No problems.

Update 5th December 09

Still going strong, I had it custom painted, and stuck some Sram red on it

To join or not to join????

I went out on the London Dynamo park ride on Saturday, Which is a lot closer and easier than getting over to Crystal Palace to join up with guys from dulwichparagon, Not sure what to do!!! unlike Dulwich they are not to keen on people turning up regularly without joining (£40 membership) which i guess is fair enough,,,,,,,, I might go out with them again next Saturday, then decide when the fat fucker GT gets back from Nice, reckons he is beating all my times on a the climbs around Nice, So i have just booked a flight, I cant have that fat fucker giving me grief for the rest of the summer, Not only are his shoes more BLING than mine, he can now beat me up the madonne and col d'eze.

Ride facts from Saturday

Out on the chinky import(need to buy some sensors for the polar) so very few digits!!!

Distance kms 42.1
Ave speed 29.7kph
Duration 1hr 24mins
Cals burned 1570
ave heart rate 171 bpm-max 194bpm

Heart rate is mega high??? I didn't feel too bad, Almost 30kph ave speed on the chinky import(pleased with that) , short but enjoyable ride.

Great to watch the tour today, roll on Tuesday,,,, when the fuck is summer gonna turn up?

The building has started

So far so good, I'm building it up with a dura ace 10 speed "shock horror" triple groupset, using frogs legs brakes, have gone for an ITM vista cyclo cross fork, Bars n stem are bonty race x lite, seat post is a spesh carbon, and a Ti flite saddle, No problems fitting anything yet, frogs legs are much easier the second time, the same goes for Nokon cables, Waiting on some cable stops from wiggle, Royal mail have lost my parcel!!!!! More like some work shy cunt still has it in the back of his van.

Cracking tour so far.

Ronniethescot

Its here!!

Its here!! well packaged, No problem with import duty, Thanks to the guy's at XACD marking it up as $30 bike frame parts, " Ah right touch"

I plan to build it up over the next few days, Its going to be a "one bike does all" club runs/cyclo-cross/touring/commuting/sportif's

Its in England!!

2007-06-29 16:53:00
UNITED KINGDOM COVENTRY PF
Released from Customs

It has left China

Timing
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2007-06-25 19:00:00
City of Xi'An
Posting
　
2007-06-25 22:39:39
City of Xianyang
Despatch from Sorting Center
　
2007-06-25 22:49:39
City of Xianyang
Arrival at Sorting Center
　
2007-06-26 23:13:53
City of Beijing
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2007-06-27 02:46:49
City of Beijing
Despatch from Sorting Center

Chinky for Mr Gallacher

Keep checking !!!!!

I have ordered a xacd custom frame!!!

Paris-Roubaix

Great ride by the aussie....But what about Boonen? Looked to me like he had shit himself, Poor fucking soigneur, Some jobs are just plain shit!!

Arctic monkeys new album

I will have a listen tomorrow

Fill yer boots!!!

http://www.sendspace.com/file/73kd0u