Cycling

[gerrykeegan]

Lads, just picket up a 26 x 1.75 tyre  in Lidl this morning. The size on my bike tyre says 26 x 1.60

Will I be ok?

Should be fine

Thanks MD

[gerrykeegan]

I going to pop in to see if the chain cleaner they have advertised is any good as it looks a bargain for under a fiver

I got the Chain cleaning kit looks grand. the tyre and tube for €14! Cant be bad

[gerry]

Nothing worst than arriving for a cycle and your chain is bogging and everyone else chain looks like than it was just bought.

[gerrykeegan]

Nothing worst than arriving for a cycle and your chain is bogging and everyone else chain looks like than it was just bought.

I have my bike six years (cycle to work most days, winter and summer) the chain got its first clean and oil about a month ago!

[Orior]

Thanks to those last two posts, I now realise that Gerry and GerryKeegan are two different people.

[muppet]

Thanks to those last two posts, I now realise that Gerry and GerryKeegan are two different people.

[gerrykeegan]

Thanks to those last two posts, I now realise that Gerry and GerryKeegan are two different people.

Are you sure?

I could just be chatting to myself!

[maddog]

Thanks to those last two posts, I now realise that Gerry and GerryKeegan are two different people.

Neither of which you would want to assist putting their chain back on.

[bennydorano]

Nothing worst than arriving for a cycle and your chain is bogging and everyone else chain looks like than it was just bought.

I spray my chain with WD40, give it a wipe with a babywipe & then lube it again, shifts some dung of the chain & a lot less footery.

[gerry]

for £4 a bargain

[Mayo4Sam]

Anyone doing any races?
Had the first Mayo cycling race there a week ago, my first race, some speed. One bad crash with a dislocated shoulder and a busted eye. Must say I really enjoyed it.

Back out this Wednesday for the second one and Tuesday for the Connacht TT league, can't wait.

[gerry]

Fair play to you for racing, I am the wrong side of forty to start it now.

[bennydorano]

Dan Martin wins Leige-Bastonne-Leige. A huge victory in the final Classic of the season. Rode a superb tactical race. After his Tour of Catyluna win  the world's his oyster.

[gerry]

great ride by dan today, he is looking good for the tours.  nico over 4 minutes down and contador fell back big style after showing good at the start, andy done well to finish this one

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Dan Martin emulates Seán Kelly with Belgian win

Ireland's Dan Martin of the Garmin-Sharp team won the Liège-Bastogne-Liège Classic on Sunday. Spain's Joaquim Rodríguez was second in the 261.5km hilly one-day race, with Spain's Alejandro Valverde in third.

After a late attack by Rodríguez on the final ascent, Martin caught the Spaniard then broke away with 400 metres to go for a lone win. Martin is the second Irishman, after Seán Kelly, in 1984 and 1989, to win the race.

The first breakaway came when Lotto Belisol's Bart De Clercq opened up a lead of 14 minutes alongside Vincent Jérôme (Europcar), Jonathan Fumeaux and Pirmin Lang (both IAM Cycling), Frederik Veuchelen (Vacansoleil-DCM) and Sander Armée (Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator). However, after the group hit the climbs towards the end of the race, they were hauled back with just under 40km to go.

A succession of riders attempted to break clear with Garmin Sharp's Ryder Hesjedal gaining a 20-second lead at one point, but the peloton kept hauling any lone riders back in.

Rodríguez made his charge when a kilometre out but Martin went with him and used his fresher legs to attack when 400 metres out to claim his first major one-day victory.

The win bridges a 21-year gap to the last Irish classic triumph of Kelly in San Remo in 1992.

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/dan-martin-emulates-se%C3%A1n-kelly-with-belgian-win-1.1367553