IIRC the Dales MTB centre do an organised 3 day trip, 10hrs hard riding each day, with endurance racer legend Rich Rothwell as the guide.

One hit will be one hell of ride.

Was it King or Evolution that warrantied it?

To be fair, when mine failed after only 3 months King replaced it.

Unfortunately Evolution (my first port of call) didn’t want to know and I had to send it to King directly off my own back.

I now won’t have anything to do with any of the brands Evolution import as it left a nasty taste in my mouth.

If its the one I’m thinking of the Magura one doesn’t mount to the bosses but links the two calipers together instead.

£15.99 at crc for geniune shimano hose including olives, inserts and tool.

If the front does turn out to be too short you can always use the redundant rear, but you'll need to buy new olives (inserts can be cut free with care and re-used).

Factor in a bottle of mineral oil too.

Autosol is better on chrome, it's too abrasive for aluminium hence it leaves thousands of tiny scratches on it.

Amen to that 😉

Sorry to tempt you Hora, but PHD have their summer sale on 😉

Logistically how would they ferry 600+ bags along to the next station if everyone is riding at a different pace? There will be hours between us towards the latter stages.

Plumbers PTFE tape works great for the rattly cleat. 5 second simple job and a roll is about 20p

I found with my pair they were too low cut at the back when sat on the bike for any period of time. They also needed altering as despite being the correct waist they were far too baggy to wear over lycra. It was only a 2 min job on the sewing machine though.

Not bad for the money but very much prefer my Altura one's which were about £45 iirc. Just a lot more comfortable for longer days out.

Out of interest, if it hadn't broken and for some reason he sold it, would he offer you more than 50% of the profit without being asked?

Personally, although I think I would probably do the same as you, I really do think the mate is being unreasonable. If he wanted warranty he should have paid the higher prices that include warranty.

I paid about 1.5K under the going rate for my VW van, 6 months in and it needed £2K spending on it. Buy 2nd hand and the risk is there.

Torchbearer Pair. Newnham Newbie.

In or on??

If these things matter the 62a Exception 2.1 Advantage is nicely light at 525g (actual weight) for what is quite a solid tyre. I use this on the rear with a 60a 2.35 high roller on the front and find it good combination for general riding. The High Roller is nearer 700g but I like it.

Racing Ralphs for racing mind, which aren't that much lighter than the Advantage but roll better. The 2.1 Exception High Rollers are indeed very small and don't share an identical tread pattern to the 2.35's. They are light at 495g though with quite a meaty carcass compared to the Racing Ralphs at 455g.

Yeah mine works fine with an XTR chainset on a Lynskey Ridgeline SS! (I have to use a full length gear outer zip-tied to the frame as there are no cable bosses) Common as muck eh!

Torchbearer as a pair. I'll look out for you

Just to confirm, I'm talking about putting the chainring back in the right position, and spacing out the guide.

Personally I wouldn't worry about the chainring bolts though (unless the Noir has carbon tabs like the race face one's featured on http://www.bikefix.net). I would however spin them around so the female part comes through the ring, spacer and hopefully most of the tab too to resist any possible twisting.

My MRP always rubs in either extremes of gearing but with it being plastic you don't notice it.

I now actually run a 9sp cassette but with the smallest cog removed, and a spacer behind the biggest cog to take up the slack. I get a better chainline and with a larger chainring I find the gear spread perfect.

Hope you get it sorted. I wouldn't bother with B&Q though, you need a washer that is big in size to help keep the cage stable, but needs to be M4 so any off the peg are likely to be too small and made of metal so difficult to trim. I lost my spacer but found a lid off a ice-cream lid is much better as you can shape it to fit around the sliding tab.

Is that a lynksey built frame? If so you won't be the only rider at Bontrager who usually rides a SS Lynskey but has swapped the dropouts to run 1×9 specially for the event using a MRP 1×9 chain-guide! Shimano cranks all the way for me though, simples 😉

If the chainline is only 1mm out then the 3mm chainring spacers you have added are OTT.

I presume you have fitted it next the bottom bracket cup, ie. no spacer in between?

Your still only looking at taking up an additional 1mm on top of the 1mm supplied spacer, the sliding tab on the back is more than long enough to stand another 1mm. Try using plastic like a margarine tub as spacers, you can craft one just using scissors. Be careful to check the bolt is long enough to engage the nylock section of the nut as they are close for length.

Good luck.

Are you sure the EC90 is ok with lock-on grips? IIRC they are quite particular with what sort of bar-end clamps are suitable to use on the ends.

If it was mine I'd lop off the ends and just run 'normal' grips.

Yeah Evolution are great with warranty.

NOT. Although to be fair they might be prompt with letting you know they aren't going to warranty it.

Be aware that Co2 doesn't always work for popping on tubeless tyres. I suspect on average over about 50 cartridges 10-15 have failed. It is still a good idea to get one side of the tyre seated with an inner tube and still use plenty of soapy bubbles on the remaining side.

(I only have experience of Stan's Flow, Olympic and 355 rims with a variety of non tubeless tyres)

For tubeless we had poor results with both Topeak and Specialized. Weldtite Jetvalve one prefered now. http://www.tyreinflators.co.uk for Co2.

Windproof jacket or gillet is specified.

Sram PC89 or KMC 610HX in 3/32". The Sram is a lot lighter if that floats your boat.

If your using an orbital sander like above then be careful to spread the sanding over a larger area of about a foot or more. It's very easy to tip the sander onto edge to get rid of the mark very quickly, but the dip in the surface of the wood where you have sanded will be quite noticable.

The above Metabo with it's orbit set at 1/4" to start with using a 60g paper will be done in about 5 mins. 2 more mins with a finer paper on 1/8" orbit to get rid of the swirls and job done. Stick the hoover in the dust port and you should get very little dust too.

Smicken, I used to use hair-spray on foam grips and also find it works equally well on ESI grips too.

120mm in 100mm Lynskey for a few months and it rode a lot better for it.

It's important to note what SprocketJockey mentions, there is a big difference between the T4 and T5. My current T5 1.9 103ps pulls a lot stronger than my previous T4 2.5TDI with the same fuel economy and is nicer to drive.

The older T4 2.5 non-turbo 5 cylinder was pathetic power wise in comparison to either.

They all do that sir. I've dropped my two smallest cogs and run the cassette 7 speed but spaced it to sit in the middle of the freehub. I now run a 39T front ring. Works ace.

Edit, Whoops sorry posted wrong advice.

BETD for shock bushing rather than CRC. My custom length ones took only 2 days for them to be made and posted from them. If you can measure the length of the old ones or measure the width of the linkage plates in the frame they will sort it for you.

Have you measured both freehubs to see what the difference in length is?

If your looking for a mirror finish don't use Autosol on aluminium. It's really meant for chrome and as such is too abrasive for softer metals. It works, but it leaves fine scratches. 'Belgom Alu' for the final buff is more suitable and leaves a wax protectant as it goes.

One advantage of drill mop kits that the polishing-shop sell is speed. Once I'd stripped my cranks back to the bare metal it took about 5 mins with the drill to get them to a mirror polish with very little effort.

Screw the nut on as far as you can then firmly attach a pair of mole grips to it, pull as hard as you can to help the shaft dig in to stop it rotating.

MRP 1*9 user here with no problems from XC racing to big days out in the Peaks. It comes with chainring bolt spacers too which is nice touch.

XTR Cranks, 37t E-thirteen guide-ring, X0 mid-length mech, 9sp 12-32 cassette (I actually run it 1×8 as I removed the 11T ring and added a spacer instead behind the top side to help chainline), chain as short as pos.

About 750 miles in and I love it.

Consider contacting local joiners/cabinet makers to hand-build you one. A lot depends on size but I know I can/have produced handmade kitchen for considerably less than £15k.

It takes more effort on your behalf than just picking one out of a catalogue but it is much more rewarding. Plus, your supporting local craftsmen.

It does look awesome well done. I would have prefered a proper 1.5" steerer though. The reduced headset always looks puney inside those big Ragley headtubes. Oh and if it was mine I would have stripped the paint off the frame for a more bare industrial look.

I have both with 355's and I can't say there is any noticable difference in flex. I do however tend towards the Pro2's for the bigger tyre type rides, just for peace of mind.

Fontmoss, it was from Winstanley's. The customer service was appalling and I'm not using them again either!

Captain Pugwash, if you have had no issues with King stuff then how do you know the warranty service has been great?

Well done Boatman, it's me it's me 🙂

Mine did exactly the same after 3 months. I argued my case with the importers Evolution including taking advice from trading standards and they basically didn't want to know and argued it was my fault.

I sent it back to King in America and they were happy to warranty it for me. I did however get stung for £15 import duty and it took about 6-8 weeks.

Have owned King hubs, headsets and the bottom bracket but I have since removed them after it left a nasty taste in my mouth. I thought I was paying high prices for good quality kit backed by a decent warranty, turned out not to be the case (UK end of things anyway). Hope get my money now.

Good luck.