I’ve got a 2016 Five and I’ve got 2 bolt holes for an e2 type front mech. Looks like yours is missing them. Bought mine December, looks like they’ve been forgotten, the website picture shows them. Time for a call to orange on Monday ….

Its easy to thread brake cable front to rear and use a bit of garden wire to fish it out at the inside hole.

I used a very old brake pipe threaded front to rear and then pulled the new one through with this

Tool

My charger is for robcolliver who plans redoing the Tour Divide. He is travelling as light as possible hence no cache battery, no phone only spot tracker. I’m sure he’ll provide details of his setup.

I charge an etrex by drilling a tiny hole in the back cover and wiring (and sealing) directly to 2 tagged AA NiMh 2600mAh batteries. The (remote from the GPS) charging circuit is a bridge rectifier, over voltage protection and 2 charging circuits. The ‘slow’ charger will trickle charge from about 6mph if the batteries are less than approx half full. The ‘fast’ charger takes over at about 10-12mph.

2750 miles divide 16hrs day@ 8.5mph = 20 days.

I’m working on a solution where overnight recharges are not possible, the dynamo is the only power source for 20 or so days and the GPS will be powered for 16+ hours / day.

Dynamos produce AC which will need rectifying, smoothing and then regulating. The SON28 hub produces at least 40V at high speed with low load (which a GPS is) so you’ll need some resilience.

I have (for Rob C) a working solution whereby I charge the AA’s directly inside the etrex and do away with the external cache batteries. Works on the bench and charges from about 6mph upwards.

A sensible sized capacitor is not enough storage to power the GPS for more than a seconds.

With a USB cache battery the problem I found was that they charge at 500mA (2.5W) at slow speeds (less than about 13mph) the hub can’t produce 2.5W so what happens is the cache battery is charged in pulses as it trys to charge, the dynamo voltage collapses and the charge ends and repeat.

QECP at the moment is dead slippy, the only jumps I can think of aren’t really on straight track apart from the 3 table tops.

The routes out the back are too slippy for me at the moment.

Maybe wait until its dry and concentrate on the approach and landing rather than worry about loss off traction and the bike being clogged.

QECP is perfect on a hardtail.

My Son has just gone through 3 Russel Group interviews in smart casual, Chinos, smart fleece top and clean trainers.

Even did Oxford in the above.

Fizzy Orange and spend the £100 on upgrades

Charcoal grey with orange decals looks good as paid for option, or for free Fizzy Orange / Black decals.

Any deals going at the moment?

their are no lemons in the range

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I bought a £9k list Rav4 from a Toyota main dealer, got £500 off, bumper scratch repair and it was already freshly serviced with a prior main dealer service history. The £500 was really hard to get had to nearly walk away. The salesman was very slimy and old school

I’ve got 2.25 Maxxis Ardents on a 650b ARC 30 and the profile is spot on.

A bit of a pain to tubeless tape because the centre channel is quite deep but the tyre seats really easily with just a track pump.

I’m thinking about using Airbnb to book accommodation for the USA 2017 eclipse (and holiday thereon).

I am nervous that nearer the time the host will cancel my booking and relet at much higher price leaving me without accommodation.

I use talkytoaster OS GB and they’re fine. Go for the paid for £10 ones and give the guy some credit. Colours and legends are very similar to OS GB.

alternatively try
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etrex 20 or 30. End of story!

This one … Sorry Rob!

Rob Colliver – Southdowns Double Double

chestrockwell — ygm

Yeah I got most of one for sale.

I’ve taken the 650b plunge so I’ve got
2011 18″ Five, Passion red with RP23
Hope headset
Fox Float 140’s or Rockshox Revelation RCT3 150
Hope hubs with Mavic 819 / 821 UST Rims
Maxxis Ardent Tyres
80mm Stem

All in decent condition. Its fully built up at the moment so a test ride is available if your local to the Petersfield area.

Yes all the trails are open, just buy a lift pass and join the queue.

Will be busy expect 30min queues at Morzine and Les Gets.

Usually when you pay for the event you get a voucher for another days lift pass.

Been 4 times so far worth doing but can be very wet early in the season.

A number of Orange dealers are offering similar 20% off deal and some may still honour it till tonight.

Found this shop.

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20% off ends today. Sorted. Great spot ladies and gents

Damn, missed that Five frame offer, going to give Sunset a call and see what they can do …

I use Real Time GPS Tracker on android. Works well for me, doesn’t flatten the battery much, tracked myself over 12 hour rides with plenty left for use on the train home.

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Just checked the JRA website and they’re doing polished 26″ Flows for £19.99. Got to be wrong surely or is 26″ that much of a dinosaur!

JRA Flows

I’ve got a Etrex30 and use it all the time for MTB riding / navigating. Can’t fault it.

Thanks for that zelak999, yes I’m aware of the SJS stock, but they charge full list plus a build charge unlike Merlin

zelak999 – Member
I’ve just bought a pair of ARC 27’s in 27.5 flavour.

I’m looking for exactly this wheel, can you tell me where from please?

I’ve ridden 46mm and 51mm offsets on a 120mm Trek Stache. Go for the 51mm offset, with 46mm the steering was sluggish and the bike wouldn’t corner anywhere near as well.

Easton ARC24 or ARC27 would be my choice of rim at the moment.

Edit : Or even ARC30!

Exactly the conundrum I have right now. Having a 2011 Five which does all I need, I’m coming down in favour of a new Five. Five has a Fox shock, Hecker a Rockshox, no idea which shock is better.

Love my 2011 Five, going to get a new one in the spring. Never had any noticeable problem with the rear brake geometry and I ride any where from XC to Welsh trail centres to the Alps. Very much a Marmite bike so you will get lots of hate dislike on here.

Used to have a Stumpjumper, 12 bearings to change. Orange Five, 2 bearings.

Do what the door card says its probably correct. As for RFT / non RFT I’ve run both on the same car and mixed front / rear and simply followed the door card pressures.

Here you go Rob

Found it

Got a Garmin Nuvi with lifetime maps. Just works. Simple.

You can plug it into your PC and manually add points of interest.

So we say ,”Yeah its fine” and you have a spill, the helmnet fails and your brain us hurt, how do we feel? are we liable?

Make your own mind up or replace it!

Shimano SLX brake pads are £6.99 from Halfords. I don’t call that expensive.

Halfords

Do the upgrade. As an owner of a 1985 Cyrus 2 which has been re-capped, I can vouch that nothing newer for less than £750 will come close.

Southdowns MTB

http://www.southdownsmtb.co.uk

Let them (us) know your going and we’ll try and ensure someone is there to guide you. If its chucking down it will probably be a poor turn out!

Google Nexus 4 or 5 or Moto G

Plain unmessed with Android. Works for all in my Family.

Edit: just re-read the original post can’t buy outright. So Moto G 3rd gen @£5.68

Many many times watched. Very good.

I rate my Chromebook, Toshiba full HD one. Genuine 8-10hr battery life and use microsoft onedrive (15Gbyte) as my storage space, this launches Excel and Word in the browser and is nearly as good as the real thing but free!

I use a 64G SD card for storing music and movies. This fits nearly flush and is not intrusive.