Excellent work Adam. Always gives me a warm feeling when you hear of stories like this.

What happened to the guy trying to sell it?

Love the bike, just always get a feeling I’m not doing it justice. Then think, sod it, it’s mine, why should I ride to other peoples perspectives?!

In fairness, unless you’re a pro racer than very, very few people do their bikes justice. I know that in the hands of a truly skilled rider my bike would be capable of loads more than I put it through. But I enjoy riding it so frankly couldn’t care less. :-)

I’d have to agree with dobo as I can see more detail on the ground in the first pic rather than having half a field lit up for no benefit

That’s probably because the camera’s having to squint with that thing on full blast. :-)

That’s Filip Polc. Rides for Evil. One of the best Urban DHers in the world. Awesome stuff.

why is that GW?

do you think they are too wide?

I guess the suggestion is that, assuming everything is in proportion, the shorter you are the narrower your shoulders and shorter your arms, meaning that you’d be relatively more stretched out on wider bars.

Nice gnome. And is that a meerkat?

Someone tried to do the red on a hardtail, when everyone knows that you need 160mm of travel at both ends for UK trail centres.

Hoping that the rain holds off so I can convince the GF to come out for a pootle along the river. If not, a quick thrash around Richmond Park is as much as I’ll manage this weekend, sadly.

Superstar Nano Techs are a popular choice. A bit of a bigger platform than the V8s and thinner too, which helps (a bit) with pedal strikes if you’ve got a low BB. Pretty reasonably priced, too.

If you want to go all-out bling then the Point One Podiums are really highly rated – light and ridiculously thin, but spendy.

Other than Google and Yahoo Mail:

STW (obviously)
Bike Radar
Pinkbike
BBC Sport
Facebook

Then FT.com most days, but not every day.

EDIT: MB – you look at all those DAILY? 8O

Nice. Really nice.

I thought this was going to be another Wiggle bargain thread.

Oh, and for comparing SRAM to Shimano groupsets, Deore is equivalent to X5, SLX to X7, XT to X9, and X0 to XTR. I think!

The environmental benefits are obvious and any boost to the economy would of course be welcome, but let’s face it, we’re only interested in one thing: MORE MIDWEEK RIDING TIME. That’s a compelling enough argument for me. :mrgreen:

XTR brakes and pedals next month when i have some money

What brakes do you have on there at the moment? It looks like you’ve got a pair of Formula The Ones? If so, is it really worth splurging £400 on some XTR brakes when you’ve already got one of the best brakes on the market, particularly if money is tight?

You can still ride that. See: 59 seconds.

Really sorry to hear that.

I’m sure you’ve already done this, but you should set up some email notifications on eBay just in case any of the items are listed. Also worth regularly checking Gumtree, etc.

Really hope you get it back. Good luck.

Yes, the Ardent 2.25″ is larger than the HR (or Minion) 2.35″. I asked this on here myself a few weeks ago, and apparently the way to tell for Maxxis is that anything 2.25″ is the new, larger casing, anything 2.35″ is the old, smaller one.

Lots here.

the world still has harry browns

Sounds ominous. You been owning yoofs with bombers jedi? :D

What’s he going to do… own you with a set of FOX TALAS RLC FIT 120-150 (£849.00)?

:lol:

Are the frames not £499 or am I talking bananas???

Nope, they’re £399. Almost all of the prices on that listing are considerably inflated.

Don’t think I’d be spending a minimum of £2,500 on that, myself.

Naked and unpolished.

Actually, the ’29UST’ design on those rims looks quite similar to the logo on American Classics.

No bad thing, mind – they’re handsome wheels.

That’s looks a lot better than I expected. Particularly the decals. Surprisingly clean and professional looking, for an On One. Nice. :wink:

the sunline v-one stem is 144g anyway? lighter than the thompson

That’s for the 50mm – it’s 173g for the 65mm. It seems they’re about identical weights, so just go on which one you like the look of better.

Or, if you want really cheap/light, how about £12.25 for 114g?

Or go for the Renthal stem as it’s about 50g lighter than the Thomson.

True, but it’s £20 more. I was trying to stick as close to the £155 freeride pack price as possible. Either way, there are plenty of options at that price.

Nah. Assuming you’d be paying the £155 as listed on the site, and that you already have some pedals you like, I’d go for this instead:

BARS: Race Face SixC (725mm wide, 225g)
£107.

STEM: Thomson Elite (c.160g)
£52

Comes to roughly the same price, and both are lighter (and nicer, IMO) than the Sunline parts, if you’re looking to lose weight.

EDIT: Alternatively, you could get the three V-One bits for about £120: here, here, and here. :wink:

Who would ride a frame like this?

The sort of person who would own a rug like that.

The ‘standard’ (if you could possibly use that word to describe them) XX Revs aren’t stupidly light. The World Cup versions have the carbon steerer and are less than 1500g IIRC.

If money was really no object, RS Rev XX World Cup. Undoubtedly better VFM forks out there, but those would top the list for me.

He’s meant to be that colour

So is your bike, so go get it muddy. :mrgreen:

I think “bigger” casings are the new generation that they released more recently, sized 2.2 and 2.4. The 2.4 Ardents come up bigger than 2.5 High Rollers.

So 2.2/2.4 = big, 2.35/2.5 = small. That’s what I was looking for. Thanks Shandy.

Thanks Andrew, but I mean within the Maxxis range. So I know that Minions and High Rollers are small and that Ardents are big, but what about the others: Crossmarks, Advantage, Larsson, etc?

As already pointed out, it’s Schmolke. Purveyors of stupidly light (and breathtakingly expensive) carbon finising gear.

I’m curious as to who would spend €260 on carbon downhill bars that are 850mm wide and weigh 150g, though. 8O

Stopadoodledoo
Should I stop braking with my middle finger?

Looking at that photo, the answer is a definite no. It looks like you’re screaming down, casually sticking two fingers up to the course.

“You call this tough? Yawn.”

Rock and roll.

Race Face SixC might be worth a look in that price range…

They are substantial and represent a good many man-hours of work, involving lots of digging and including innovative use of timber left unharvested from the recent felling.

While the Hurtwood has been happy in recent years to let mountain bikers ride on the land, use the existing trail network and has also let trailbuilders maintain and upgrade trails, this has been done with the express permission of the Hurtwood.

The new trails that have been discovered recently were not permitted and will be put beyond use.

I don’t ride there (in fact I’ve never been to the Surrey Hills), so I’m not coming to this with any agenda, but surely there is a better solution to this?

If the landowners are happy with people to build trails and ride on the land, then surely trashing what you admit is an ‘innovative’ trail that has taken considerable time to create, just because someone didn’t ask the ranger, is an overreaction? Surely what’s needed is for the trailbuilder(s) to sit down with the ranger and the landowner to apologise, then firm up a defined set of rules for the land to ensure this sort of thing doesn’t happen again?

Perhaps that’s already happened and the trailbuilders are taking the p*ss. Just seems a shame to take away what sound like good trails, that’s all.

Pretty sure you can get Mavic 717s in silver. Remember seeing a post on MTBR a while ago where some guy had polished them up (with orange spokes!).

Would’ve thought it would be a nightmare to keep them gleaming though. Polished cranks on a MTB are one thing, but wheels…?