A switch to the dark side.

[dubber68]

I will check out the recommended books, thanks. I read all types of travel books and must confess quite a few lately have been cycling related.

[videoman]

Good luck with the new bike, don't think I've ever seen one of those.
I'm the same as a few others on here, only ridden my motor bike once this year and wonder why I am keeping it at the moment sitting in the garage doing nothing and I was just about to buy another motor bike as well. I joined a local cycling club a couple of months ago which I used to be a member of forty years ago and I have just returned from a ten night cycle tour from Caen to Calais clocking up nearly 500 miles with ten others staying in some nice hotels.
At the moment I prefer pedal power to engine power.

[dubber68]

I don't think I will/intend to stop riding motorbikes but you never know. I would be gutted if I did as I have just rebuilt my Sertao with upgraded suspension. Probably just do smaller trips on my 4 days off and the odd longer one.

[Nigel]

I will check out the recommended books, thanks. I read all types of travel books and must confess quite a few lately have been cycling related.

http://www.josiedew.com/my-books/the-wi ... the-saddle

[anagallis_arvensis]

Nod at the bikers still it really confuses them!!
You havent lived till you have done a sports bike on the brakes coming into an alpine hair pin on a push bike!!!

[johnnyboxer]

Seems pedalling is becoming more attractive than a throttle cable ?

[Nigel]

Nod at the bikers still it really confuses them!!

You havent lived till you have done a sports bike on the brakes coming into an alpine hair pin on a push bike!!!

Many,many years ago in the Alps coming down a mountain road with a group of MTBers after climbing the mountain off road I was at the front hitting 43 mph (knobbly tyres!) overtaking cars around corners hmy: cars were all blasting their horns and I thought they didn't` like it, only when I stopped at the bottom that the guys behind said they loved it and were all cheering, got to love the French :laugh:
Did occur to me if I had come off wearing Lycra gear the gravel rash would have been spectacular hmy:

[Trevor Twobikes]

Check out the books by Anne Mustoe. At the age of 45 she gave up being a headmistress at
a girls school in Southwold and rode round the world - A Bike Ride - which took her a year
to do. After, she built up a new career cycling to far off places with her trusty 'Condor' and writing about her travels. Sadly, she became ill whilst in Syria and died - 2009 aged 76 - in Aleppo. A true adventurers way to go.
Trevor

[Biquad]

I was recently camping up in the Dales and a guy set up alongsde me with an amazingly technical bike, made in Switzerland. It also had a belt drive with something like 16 gears in the hub! The belt had broken and he was trying to source one. No joy. On my way home I called in to as many bike shops as i could and none had any knowledge of a belt drive or anywhere to get a spare. He mailed me a few days later and he had ordered the sprocket and chain conversion for his bike.
The belt is tiny and very rare, cost is about £60 to replace.
There are plenty of spares for chains around but belt drive!!!!!!!!! not so sure on this one.

[anagallis_arvensis]

Sounds like a Rohloff Speed hub not seen one with a belt drive in the flesh but I think Shand do a few if your feeling flush!