just pray it’s not a creeker like my LTc was, also if it has the collet type pivot bolts get them out and lubed every couple of weeks or they WILL seize followed by santa cruz refusing to sell you the 1 bolt that strips and insisting you buy a 120 quid pro-pack 😕

about £800 would be my guess, better off splitting it i recon.

the links to pinkbike suggest the dude is 16 years old, being illiterate is common among young folk even the ones with university degree’s.

on current form froome will walk it, contador is a shadow of what he was without his personal “butcher” making his steaks.
probably a sky 1-2 on the cards with porte on the second step.

am i the only one that found it a bit underwhelming after the 40 minutes of boring build up videos?

wonder how long it will take for the first surrey IT consultant type to complain at the appalling service because they had to drag the box an extra hundred yards from the check in desk to the out sized cargo hatch haha

piss easy, you just weigh it in then pop it through the outsized luggage hole at the airport, they often come out of a different place to the carousel at the other end though.

if its the fuel pump prepare yourself for a £1000+ bill 😥

organizers preferred to have the Olympic golden girl as the winner simples.

roverpig you are talking nonsense, it s physically impossible to make a larger wheel stronger and stiffer than a smaller one with similar components. they are called the laws of physics and they can’t be changed with any amount of marketing or advertising.

what is not good is the expanding collet pivot, i had constant trouble with them on my Blur LTc, they sieze all the time and are made of cheese, its not even hard cheese either its more like dairy lea.

oh and no reverb stealth routing either, makes my strive look awesome value, a heckler to a slightly lower spec than my AL8 would cost over £3900 thats jst a piss take.

even wheels weighing exactly the same will carry more inertia and therefore accelerate slower and want to turn less in a 29″ size. most of the weight is in the rim and tyre, its the old holding a bag of sugar at arms length effect.

AlexSimon you are spot on, the rolling diameter of my 26″ wheels with hans dampf 2.35, was within about 5mm of a 650b wheel i offered it up to, 29ers have their place with these folk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ8qj86D-eU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

but the whole 650b thing is snake oil for the easily led.

after snapping countless spokes and dinging more than a few rims in the alps i cant imagine the damage i would do to a 29er. ive seen at lest 5 people in the last few months carrying their big wheeler’s down the mountain with pringled wheels, in fact the very first 29 i ever saw (about 5 years ago) was a chap that asked me how difficult the “black run” on whytes level was, i told him it was pretty simple apart from the rocky bit towards the end and let him go, a few minutes later i set off to find him dazed at the side of the trail with both his wheels bent in half, poor guy was down for the bank holiday weekend too and it was only friday evening.

i’ve tried many 29ers and still haven’t found one i like, the last one i tried was the second worst bike i have ever ridden, tried 650b too and could not notice any difference at all from a 26″ didn’t notice visually until i spied the size on the tyres either.

do not under any circumstances buy a vivaro or traffic, they are unreliable to the point of being not fit for purpose. expect at least a £1000 per year on repairs and thats if you get a good one.

4 years ago it may have been a contender, now its just a bit of bling for brand whores, cable = problems.

almost certainly the clamp, takes hardly any pressure to cause problems

i thought box hill was going to be a nasty climb but tis just a little tump.

if they are 2013 X0 trail brakes make sure the pads are not jamming in the caliper, i had the same issue but it sorted it’s self one i freed the pad off.

hard to compare MTB to road, totally different workouts, road riding is more steady sustained efforts whereas MTB has a lot more short max effort bursts and a lot more upper body efforts.

nope, the whole spring assembly drops further into the lowers on talas type forks.

the rough ride maybe?

@MoseyMTB the overall width of 142 vs 135 axes is the same, the difference is 142 rear ends have 3.5mm notches on the dropouts to make fitting the rear wheel a bit easier. the whole its stiffer because its wider is just more marketing bull.

why all the love for penmachno???

its 19 miles of boredom for about 1 mile of fun.

well at least they’re honest, no one would be able to tell the difference between 26 and 650b if the bikes and tyres didn’t have 650b emblazoned all over them.

fell off mine too, ive left it bodged it seens to shift smoother.

carbon fibre is farvfrom innovative we’re not in the 80’s now.

odd how santa cruz didn’t get slated by the STW crowd ehen they released their oh so innovative bronson and solo.

orange should do a STW special edition with Cotic stickers on, it would immediately become innovative and great value and be the best option for 24 hour marathon/redbull rampage type riding. 🙄

a new crankset so i can finally get rid of the worst bottom bracket design i have ever seen, really e*thirteen what were you smoking when you designed your bottom brackets.

i’m still yet to see a 650b bike in a shop let alone a selection of them.

same shock, used it as a spare.

never seen so many bike mag word count filling cliche’s quoted in my life, fives ride just fine with 36’s on. i’d suggest if you have trouble climbing on a 160 equipped five you’re either very unfit or need to be taught how to shift your weight about an inch.

ive had the same shock on an alpine 160 and a blur LTc, the CTD made quite a difference on the alpine but seemed to make no difference at all on the blur.

if you weigh more than a 7 year old you’ll probably need volume reducers in a 2013 CTD shock.
you should get full travel in climb mode the platform is simply more low speed compression damping to ease pedal bob.

thats the strava leader boards rendered absolutely pointless then.

having no mechanical aptitude must be a terrible thing.

5:10 freeriders are great shoes as long as their dry, when its wet they absorb a phenomenal amount of water and take an age to dry, shimano am41’s are better in my opinion simply because of the water issues.

pedantic thread is pedantic.