Mine ! 🙂 Loving the orange owntastic bombers StuE

Cheers for advice on coils folks..

think is gonna be coil.

StuE cheers for that..
i don’t expect to get much help from the guys at mc as i bought it off crc.. oh well, however, one of the bikes they take round trade shows does seem to be sporting fox kit.

i quite like riding with stuff that looks old or past it..
long as it works that is all the gratification i need.

Thanks for that Scienceofficer. Further to that i’ve had a response from mojo who say the van r is discontinued.
The RC takes over effectively. Bit miffed in a way as it’s a price hike as well for a compression adjustment i don’t really want.

right, so.. the hub which is oem crapola would cost 20 quid to change like for like, bearings will cost say 14 quid if you get them off ebay.
Just pay for it. Thats what everyone else has to do. Also, Specialized don’t hide what the warranty covers. It’s available to read online or in your local dealer.

I’d be inclined to argue that the more a person drives.. i.e. the more miles per day etc the more desensitized to speed they become, and also the danger of the task.
And they pay less attention..
Be honest those of you who do drive fairly frequently.. do you really check your blind spot every time? your mirrors when it’s advisable to be doing so?
Course you bloody don’t. Everyone is complacent.

Bad road, complacent “professional” driver.. and rotten bloody luck for the cyclist.

ally tubes, 4 years of riding at least… and you don’t know how hard it was ridden before you had it.
Also, the 4’s were shortish travel xc bikes so cracks will surely occur eventually.

The smart half watt is a stupid design.
Anyone who rides in real “weather” will experience the water ingress problems. They’ve put the switch right in the line of fire of most back wheels.. fair enough some folks run a mudguard.. but not all of us do.

Way round it of course is just a piece of tape over the switch every time you change the batteries as it is an effective bright flasher.

thats a proper bike.

What do you have to hide? Just fill it in like every other sap does.
We’re all numbers so don’t go all patrick mcgoohan on us. 🙂

I’ve yet to use tf. mates use them for stuff like fox shocks but, i’ve never had any great problem doing home servicing on zochi and rockshox stuff.

Working on the likes of rebas/revs is pretty straight forward and there are plenty of how to guides on the world wide weird.

wonky star nut/ or crown race not flush..
strip her down and check her out.

Wonky star nut sounds likely.

my mate usually finds the seal kit on the bay.

little bit of google trawling came up with this.

Possible ?

caves have slippy walls so it needs to be tacky soft compound?

I buy the cheapest sram/kmc chain i can find and run that till it no longer wants to shift.

Typically i’ll run 20 quid cassettes, 8 quid chains, 8 quid steel rings.

12 months of riding is typical for my full sus which gets ridden on weekends and riding holidays.

I don’t subscribe to the nonsense about weight, and shifting ‘crispness’ as the first bit of mud puts that out of the window anyway.

change the bearings.
It’s not hard to do.

pisstard pub ride crash. Ouch

Git.. you had better weather than we had when we were there mid summer.

Lovely pics.

Ax3M4n you sir.. are a hero and a git.

Does it count if your bike has gone out of production?

I’ve got some reasonably up to date kit hanging off a mountain cycle fury frame, but, it’s not cutting edge. It’s a simple single pivot and it could even be regarded as being slightly agricultural but i love it.

Love is blind.

several pairs of 20quid sports direct air walks.. 😛 rotate them on the drying schedule..
a poor mans vans…. they last about five minutes however.

well yes mr dog.. but i don’t class staggering home from a pub with a bike attached to me as a night ride.

My first was last tuesday…

Took a quick snap with my crappy mobile.
It’s blurry but i’m pretending it was intentional 😛 More than anything i think the areas illuminated look cool. Can see my mates ahead of me.

Ax3M4n think you’ve got me mixed up mate.. and if you do know me.. don’t take it too personally i love you still.

if your henley based then i defo don’t know you.

A mediocre point and shoot down the local riding spot..

Leave it out for the rats to read..
“what tyres for sewer riding”

I’ve had frames that have needed it doing before.. usually following being blasted/powder coated.

Must confess last one i just rammed a file in there and smoothed it down that way.

niceeeeeee

Singletrack is the only riding magazine i go near now.
I used to read Mbr etc. but as time wore on i realised i don’t really get anything in the mags i won’t get online for freeish anyway.

I’m rarely influenced by a magazine such as mbuk saying something will be rad to the power of woop, and, like to think of myself as a marketing persons nightmare…. although ultimately we’re all fools for the marketing.

So mondeo mag for mondeo man is pretty much the answer. I work with a guy who is best described as anal. He talks about riding in a very clinical way like he’s doing a review of everything in an mbr style tone of voice.
It’s amusing to me anyway. He always seems to have a copy of what mtb on his desk.

Point and shoot and trust in your bowels, essentially you’ll do some falling off finding the limits so pad up.

I’m sure folk will be along to impart Alec Guiness in Starwars style sound bites of rad wisdom.

should be fine, but, you will sweat buckets in a pisspot.

Just had a lovely gentle bimble.
Just stayed close to home, despite the rain it was good to be out. It’s done my hangover the world of good!

Mine is a commuter/xc rig.

Chainrings should come with a grr-manly rating.

I'm waiting on a 456.. i'm an impatient bugger i admit it.

317…
although it depends on who built each.
A good build on 117 versus the 317 on a poor build… etc.

The people with old ones are probably out riding now fully rigid cleaning Jacobs Ladder in one go.

I have actually had one before.
They're fine.. very spinny when new, so, i'd advise packing with extra grease when you receive.

the most innocuous of trails can cause pain…
i lost my footing on a bridleway and skinned my shoulder on monday.
it hurt a lot!