Mt15s are the safe bet. You know exactly what you’re getting with shimano stuff and I’d be buying new so no danger of them being trashed. I guess the question should be why shouldn’t I go for the mt15s at 78 quid a set

Cheers Eltonerino but I’ve got most of the kit, just need frame. Thinking a 16in 45650b is gonna be my best bet, just gotta wait for a painted one to come up in the classifieds. Maybe if I’m very lucky a carbon on one might pop up

I’ve got a set of forks with a tapered steerer so I’m going to have to go down that route

Yer I’m on it every few hours. What I’m basically after is an alloy 45650b. A carbon 456 would also do the job i reckon, if it was for a good price and wasn’t trashed. Had been looking for an 16in mmmbop but they never come up as just frame in reasonable condition

Plus i need a tapered steerer, them voodoos look like they’re 1 1/8

I saw the voodoos on ebay, shame I need a 16in.

The whytes a fantastic bike, I’d take a 805/901 if i could find one.

@Jaymoid yes i do.

When you get towards the 3 ton mark you can get a carbon 456. It’s going to be used by her indoors once or twice until she falls off and never goes out on it again, so don’t want to spend a fortune on it.

You’re right, it’s not just the weight. I’m worried it’ll screw up the geometry running it with 26s and all the inbreds I’ve ever seem have been covered in rust. I’m guessing a steel with a lower chromium content is used by on one to keep the price down. My whyte hasn’t got a spot of rust on it and it’s 3 years old

I’ve used the plastic nukeproofs and have shimano dx on my bike. Plastic makes much more sense in my mind. It bounces off rocks rather than bending or cracking

+1 for the Pauls cycles/pedalon giant trance. Awesome bikes. (Trance owner and I’d get another tomorrow if something happened to it)

Switched forks this evening. Was disconcerting straight forward.

Should be ok, mine was the x1 with fox fit rls.

Happy days. Take it that means the forks I’ve taken off are standard tapered as well.

I’ve got a boxed htc one, warranty replacement, never opened etc if that floats your boat. It might be locked to ee but maybe not as it came from htc not the network. 300 quid plus from a quick Google I’ve just done

i know they fell apart but

Loved the big monocoque mountain cycle growing up. They were probably less bike than my trance but they looked like absolute brutes at the time. Equipped with some zzyzx forks obviously.

Works fine. 650b compatible velvets on a whyte 19. No issues at all.

That fireeyes nice, some sort of crc own brand? Could be just the ticket tho

I bought a steel whyte 19 a year or so ago on here. That’s been great, would get another if they still made them

Shimano MW81 all day every day. Best 120 quid I’ve ever spent on anything bike related. Make sure you buy a size bigger than usual though

Do you think that orange could possibly be made from bits of several bikes aquired through dubious means?

Good. god.

I like the look of the reign, it seems like a risk free upgrade from my trance which has been faultless. I’m not going to be the first one to say that you need to get yourself to a demo day. Spending 3 grand blind could turn out to be a little reckless

Find a new set of velvets for about 280 and go for them. Mine have been great. Either that or some sektor coils. They’ll be about 250 and will be lovely and plush

I’m going to take one round llandegla black for a bit of a demo, hopefully compare it to something like a yeti 575 or maybe a 5010. The problem I’ve got is that my fitness is never what it should be, I’m rubbish on the climbs but respectable on the downs. I’d be gutted if it’s no quicker than my 2011 trance on the downs but 4lb heavier on the climbs. I took a nukeproof mega am out on a demo, i loved it’s stability etc on the downs, but buying one would mean hating every climb i came across. I’d be gutted if that was my experience with the heckler

I hated all drama, music, art in school from the age of about 5. Hated it and always considered it so much worse as i loved the science and technology lessons we never did enough of because techers love a good Xmas nativity etc. I’m now an aerospace engineer, still think all that singing, painting and prancing about pretending to be a shepherd or a tree or whatever was nonsense.

electronic travel adjust along with super strong, super lightweight frames, wheels etc will give you a 28lb bike with 0-160mm travel with real geometry changes throughout the travel adjust, 1× ??? hub gears, electric brakes possibly i guess. Can see anything else other than carbon fibre disappearing as a structural material. Reckon you’ll be able to plug them into your laptop or whatever and tweek brake sensitivity, suspension feel, dropper movement etc.

if skys anythiung like virgin you never actually own the box and have to return it after the contract. virgin will sting you for a couple of hundred quid if you dont send it back within 6 months of the contact finishing

The nicest brakes I’ve got on any of my bikes are the juicy 3s on my old rockhopper. Granted they’ve not had the use the others have but still.

They’re meant to be the elixir trail calipers with a new high volume lever, so if a bit of air finds it’s way in it has less of a problem

ignore that previous post. i read ‘on one 456’, not ‘carbon 456’

i really wouldnt worry about it. ive had an alloy seatpost in my whyte 19 steel for a couple of years without any issues. just make sure you smear a bit of grease on the seatpost before you insert it. it’ll keep the water out and provide an ammout of insulation between the post and the seat tube.

The museums worth a look, take the bus tour round the parks etc, jump off at the museum for a couple of hours then back to the city centre. The old town area where sixth sense was filmed has a good selection of nice bars and pubs. There’s also the liberty bell of course

I know my x fusions on my other bike are compatible with both.

sweet, cheers chaps

yeti 575

nukeproof do demo days round the country, i had a go on a Mega AM in llandegla and loved it. it was a bit of a beast for all day epics tho if thats your thing

The post was in bits and the gas strut was in my hand. The gas pressure is still good, but the button on the top of the strut made no difference whether it was depressed or not. The strut had effectively turned itself into a damped gas spring

The Marins always worth a visit, bit longer than llandegla and more climbing

I’m running 2.25 nn evo front and rear. Seems a pretty nice balance between grip, weight etc