6.1’s are a miassive pain to get tyres on ime.
Ghetto tubeless is only gonna make this worse!

DT make a dedicated rim strip for it – try that?

I actually bought this on DVD a few months back based on the hype, but I thought it was horrendous. If anyone wants it I will pay you to take it!

Having looked at this weekend’s forecast, I would say take spikes, tear offs and every change of kit you own.
And either park facing downhill toward the exit, or get chummy with someone in a 4×4.

Schwalbe furious Fred 2.2 – big volume, very light, ludicrously fast rolling.

Car gear oil is the ticket, thickest you can get, which, as far as I can tell is Comma EP85W-140 GL-5

Congratulations – you’ve now turned your chain into a magnet for every bit of grit it sees, which will handily turn into grinding paste and wear away your transmission, in addition to clogging your jockey wheels/cassette/chainrings…

It generally takes about 3 months of drought for Delamere to dry up “a little” 😉
Also the DH sections there are really short unless you go on old pale, and at the weekend thats basically inviting hassle.

You were misled.
Lots of the good bits have been trashed, while the remainder is like the somme.

Get a tape measure?

You can’t have a Star Trek director directing Star Wars.
There would be geek civil war.
It would be like making Ian Paisley Pope!

Bit dirty…

footflaps – Member

Nope, Stans Podium MMX rims are sub 290g

But you’re not gonna want to ride too many 6′ drops on them!

Despite owning a bikeshop I ony have one bike.
Merida 0.9
Ride/Race/Commute.

XT 10 speed chains are directional – is it the right way round?
How do your pulley wheels look?
Is the mech/hanger straight?

EDIT – which cog does it jump in?

Carpark was still open til 9 last night, so I’d guess they’re still on summer opening hours.

Recons are TK too, unless you get the Gold RL version.

Mine ran for 3 seasons before the damping finally exploded.
Shame as it is really really light.
Tempted by the new carbon bodied RS to replace it.

XC32’s are Tora’s
XC28’s are Darts
XC 30’s are a newer fork and sit between them.

GW – Member
I didn’t say pedally sections

Then what was the point of your comment? 😛

@GW – which DH courses have 40+ mph pedally sections?

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Missing chainline spacers?

paddy0091 – Member
Bikes of the women and men:

http://www.mbr.co.uk/news/olympic-preview-the-contenders-women/

http://www.mbr.co.uk/news/olympic-preview-the-contenders-men/

Just read that link, and they have Kulhavy as Polish not Czech.
Cant beat some quality journalism…

molgrips – Member

But that might just be cos I have a lot of keys…

I have few keys for that very reason. Can’t understand people who have massive agglomerations of metal weighing their trousers down.

I have a lot of doors I need to open…
As an aside I actually suffered from a broken car key earlier in the year – thankfully I still had my house keys on me and not in the car, so I could get inside my house and get my spare.
So now, all my keys come with me.

I clench them in my teeth.
Why would I have no camelbak if I’m planning on taking stuff with me?
Seat pack. Back pocket of my roadie/xc jersey. Gaffa taped to my top tube.
Anywhere but digging into my leg in a shorts pocket.

muddyfunster – Member

baggies are an image only thing

Where do you put your keys?

Camelbak regardless of if I’m in baggies or lycra.
Riding with keys in my pocket sounds v. uncomfortable.
But that might just be cos I have a lot of keys…

@jota180 – the mark up on outsourcing is never going to be as good as doing it instore – the relative costs there are training and stock holding.

We do!

Pics or it never happened…

*eye bleach on standby, just in case.

I really really enjoyed it, as did the rest of my teammates.
Yes the mud was a slog, but surely that adds to the challenge – perhaps some of the mech breakers could use a little more mechanical sympathy 😛
I did complain to Pat that he took the new off camber section out too early after the thunder storm, as it wasn’t inflicted on 3 of my team, which I thought was most unfair!

One of our team headed over last night. He sent me a vid this morning and it looks bone dry! 😀
Bet it wont last though!

Hahaha, cheers.
I am better with bikes than pc’s 😳

EDIT – fixed!

If you can drag yourself 20 minutes west, might I humbly suggest BikeWorks Oswestry
😉

Decade that do DMR/Kinesis/TRP etc aren’t the same as the ones that CRC own.

You’re thinking of Upgrade, not Decade.

…….

2013 bikes are already out – mainly cos most places ran out of 2012 road ages ago!

I’ve just gone from a Merida 96 to a Merid 0.Nine
Apart from being a good bit lighter (20lbs vs 22.5lbs) the hardatail doesnt particularly climb any faster, and its a bit slower going down.
It does accelerate like a motherhubbard though.

on my next lap i broke a shoe.

at that point i gave it up as a bad job a drank beer/watched.

Best anecdote EVER.

2010 was my favourite from recent years too.

Eddie Merckx looks like Gordon Brown in that picture.

MTB’s
Spesh Stumpjumper (1990 I think – cromo with Deore XT)
Giant CFM2
Giant Monex PS-S1
Merida Matts cromo
Giant ATX 890
Giant ATX 990
Giant XTC (NRS) Team
Giant MCM hardtail
Giant XTC1
DMR switchback
Commencal Meta 4 VIP
Norco Bigfoot
Commencal Ramones
Merida 96

Yes I did work at a Giant dealer for a long time!