What's wrong with an L200?

Mine hasn't got bullbars or leather though. Isn't a Warrior or Trojan either actually, just the basic 4Life. Lashed some waterproof seat covers in, made a bike rack for the back, suits me fine. Haven't tested it out round a trail centre carpark yet though 😉

Work van, about twice a year (usually when I can't see out the windows to look at the mirrors, does about 50k miles a year so gets pretty filthy) but clean the inside every couple of months, gets full of pasty crumbs etc.

My car, maybe once every 2 months, in and out, depending on how muddy it gets green laning.

36t Middleburn unramped ring and Paul Components Chain Keeper 🙂

36T front ring and 11-34 rear casette. Works great for me 🙂

I run 175mm on one bike and 170mm on the other, doesn't feel any different at all.

Superstar Components sintered for me, have ran several sets over the last 2 years.

Ditto, mine have all seemed to be fine and wear well.

I run X.0 on both my bikes. Tried XTR but I think the X.0 stuff is loads better.

So, advice please…

If I'm switching to a 1×9 set up I need:

A chain guide + what type of mech? Long or short?

I use a 36t front ring, short cage Sram X.0 mech, Pauls Comp Chain Keeper and 11-34t rear cassette. No problems with this set up 🙂

😆 Mine just drags it arse everywhere

the hustler – Member

I love the 4×4 haters, here are a few good reasons why i drive a navara

😆 Seconded

I drive an L200 though (awaits L200 bashing) for similar reasons. A 2wd car would struggle to pull nearly 1500kg of boat and trailer up the sandy slipway at Conwy. I can lash all my sandy wakeboarding stuff and muddy bikes in the back, and jet wash it out when I get home. I drive mine carefully and courteously, I've had 4×4 training and have to do advanced driver training through work. Not every 4×4 driver is a f*+ckwit.

Many "2wd f*+ckwits" have been thankful of my 4×4 the past couple of weeks when I've been pulling them out of ditches and up snowy hills they've got stranded on. And during the summer on the beach at Colwyn Bay, when they try to recover big boats on soft sand, on an incoming tide and get stuck upto the front bumper.

It'll never be as good as a Defender or Disco etc. offroad or in this snow, but its got a low range box and difflock and it suits me fine for what I use it for. It's also cheap to tax and insure. As for the fuel economy, I don't know you get with your Navara hustler, but I get between 25-30mpg with normal driving/towing, but I didn't buy a 2t pick up for fuel economy 😉

Not mine, but work gave me a Peugeot Partner 1.7 diesel van for a few weeks. My god that was the slowest, most uncomfortable piece of rubbish I've ever had to drive. If it even got near a tiny slope on the motorway it'd be down to 3rd gear revving the nuts off it to keep it moving.

I run a 36t front ring (no pins or ramps) on a normal 3 ring chainset but used the shorter Middleburn chainring bolts. 11-34t rear cassette and a short cage X.0 rear mech. I run the chain fairly short so the rear mech holds a bit of tension in the chain. I had no problems with the chain skipping off, fitted a Paul Comp chain keeper though just to be sure.

are thse actually needed for a 1×9 cross country hardtail?

just curious because thats my next project

I used mine for a while without one with no real issues. I put a Pauls Components Chain Keeper on just to be sure though. Looks alot tidier imo than the chain guides above, but I'd have the MRP out of the 2 in the OP.

Aye, we went down in the end, road was clear enough to drive up without touching 4wd and had been ploughed on the way home. Had a good blast 🙂

Went there again today and it was snowing quite heavily at times. Pushed a few cars out stuck in the carpark.

SDG Bel Air SL on an I-Beam post for me. Light, cheap and comfortable

I'd seen your photo's from One Planet but hoped the Horseshoe might have been slightly less effected. Ahh well, might do something else if its as bad as it sounds. Thanks for the replies

The gf got me a DX light 🙂 said she spotted it in my favourites last month, sneaky. And a 6D Maglite with the 700 lumen terralux LED drop in, proper beast of a torch.

Got money, clothes and chocs off the fam.

Was just about to post that link to Merlin!

Been using the Ashima rotors (160mm and 140mm) for a few months now and they're spot on.

I've got 175mm on my bouncer and 170mm on my hardtail, I can't tell the difference.

Anything but a L200.

Why?

Take it back to the shop, I got one for christmas last year. It broke in September, had a brand new model one at my door after a couple of weeks.

Stumpy FSR
Front: 2.3 Conti Vertical
Rear: 2.2 Conti MK
Type of riding: Anywhere really

Kinesis Maxlight XCPro2
Front and rear: 2.0 Conti RaceKings
XC whippet, mostly used on my local loop

I used to use Wiggle alot, but found CRC to be better priced, better stock and have equally good service (up to now anyways).

19, commercial and industrial refrigeration and a/c engineer

Yes

Another noisy Mini here too, not as spec'd up as votchys, but was bloody loud. If I gave it some down a street in 2nd gear it'd set a good few car alarms off then pop on the overrun. Used to love hammering it through the Mersey Tunnel 🙂 Had it from when I was 16, rebuilt it, learned to drive in it, drove it for 12 months and sold it when I started wakeboarding to buy a tow car for the boat. Neighbours never moaned as I kept it sensible in residential areas (especially post 7/8pm). Never got stopped by the police once, only time a copper spoke to me when I was in it, was to chat about his Mini.

Roads like this is when I really thrashed it, couldn't beat a sunny sunday out around welsh B-roads…

Mine was the white one, mates is the yellow.

We live in a fairly quiet corner of our town so don't really have any problems with loud cars, get the odd idiot on a loud motorbike on footpaths across the fields though 😕 And live within a mile of an army training camp, so sometimes end up with choppers flying stupidly low over the house and live firing on weekends and the occasional night each year, now they do keep you awake.

I'm just finishing building my bike running 1×9 (just been out on it for the 2nd test ride 🙂 ). Decided to do it for the same reason as you, its flat as a pancake round here and I found myself sitting in the middle or big ring and just flicking through the rear cassette.

Built mine up with mostly 2nd hand bits from here/eBay and a few new bits thrown in aswell. Running a 36T single front ring on normal triple chainset with short bolts instead of the normal ones. I use a 11-34T rear cassette, 9 speed chain and a short cage X0 mech with an X0 trigger shifter. Not got a chain guide as of yet, has been running fine and the chain hasn't popped off, but got a Paul Components Chain Keeper on order from here, which should be here by wednesday. Company is in the UK and it's cheaper than the MRP too – comes to £35 posted.

More pictures. Still got Eggbeaters and the chain guide to go on, but pretty much done…

I put one in my maglite with a clicky tail cap, mine looks alot brighter than the one in the picture above 😕

Use mine in work alot, tis' bloody good I think, cost me about £20 all in though as I got the torch for a couple of quid.

I pay £25 a week, saving for a house though. £100 a week from £250-£300 sounds steep to me. After all my bills (phone bill, car insurance, petrol, keep, etc.) I put abit into a savings account for a deposit, which then leaves me with not very much to do anything else. If they took £100 of me then I'd have no chance of getting my own place in the next couple of years.

But in ten years time you may be earning the equivalent of £20k still but they might be earning the equivalent of £40k+….

I see what you mean, and that will be the case with some jobs. But at the end of my 4 years, I'll be on minimum £40k – plus any overtime I do, most of the people who I work with see well over £50k a year. After that, I've then got the scope to move into the managment and planning side of things.

I can understand university if you know where you want to go with it and have yourself set on a certain career that requires a degree/whatever. But I really can't see the point in just going because you're unsure what else to do, there are plenty of other options other than uni that can lead to high paid jobs.

I bought a 2D Maglite and one of these bulbs. Can put the torch on a tight narrow beam and picks up stuff over 200m away. And it all cost less that £30 as I picked up the torch on some website sale for £12 🙂 Standard Maglite bulbs really are pants though.

In general I don't think young people have high enough goals.
Certainly alot of my mates haven't got a clue what they want to do, and more than happy just plodding along. I think university is partly to blaim for this as there are just so many useless courses which hide you away from the real life/world for just that little bit longer, then there are masters…

I couldn't agree more with this. Out of all my mates I went to school with, I'm the only one who left school to get a job and not go to uni. Most of them didn't know what they wanted to do, so went to uni and are currently doing some useless degree. I didn't have a clue what I wanted to do, but got a job and I'm 2 years through my 4 year apprenticeship now. I'm earning good money considering I only started this time 2 years ago (on course to do £20k this year), whereas most of my mates are going to be leaving uni with over £20k of debt and no job to go to.

Abit off topic from the OP but hey 🙄

Leisure Lakes have them on their website for £36, not sure if they're in stock though. After one myself, so might pop into one of their shops and have a look one day next week

I work alot of overtime, but definately not unpaid. Time and a half after 17:15 and before 8:45, double bubble at weekends. If they stopped paying overtime I would work my basic contracted 37.5 hours per week.

Teng.

Can pick the set of 9 metric allen keys up for under £10 aswell.

I recently sold all my kiting gear to fund some new wakeboarding stuff. Used to buggy and board alot. 1.2m isn't going to be big enough really. I started with a 3m Flexi Blade, then bought a 5m, 7.2m and 8.5m for different wind ranges, but the 5m got used most on windy days because I'm not exactly small…

Never had lessons myself, it isn't all that hard to pick it up to be honest. Just remember to stick a lid on.