Don’t eat.

Nuts & fruit

Shit load of water

and my student staple – rice, chopped toms & an egg on top

Raw frame 2011 – where’s mine 😀

I found that on the back-country pyrenees tour the trails were just like UK stuff – lakes, peaks, whales etc on steroids – just longer, faster, looser with switchbacks thrown in!

Various Leftfield essential mixes on soundcloud – have been doing for the past month

Try using a couple of pieces or something on the cable perhaps.

Helitape, should be used on every frame

Shame – but i keep getting drunk and spending all my money.

Terps – jam jar – overnight. Requires so little effort I should do it more often

Then in to Congleton to be greeted by this.

Ha. Another Congleton unfortunate
This is mine on the way to Cong.

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Great-grandad Banks used to design/manufacture/races his own bikes WWI onwards – Sign on the house was his shop..

Echo what others said. Doug/Basque mtb has set the bar very high for riding holidays imo – just hope he’s got some better cd’s in the van than what i had to put up with 😀

Refreshing to ride with someone who seems restless and admits there’s more to found, usually i get ‘my trails are mint, everywhere else is shit..’

Foods pretty good too

Eh? Do you think they have special Fox-friendly mud at trail centres or something?

Both sets of Talas forks I’ve had (32mm but same basic tech) have worked fine at both settings after years of trail centres and real-world riding. Sounds like there’s something wrong with yours OP, I’d get them looked at again.

Lazy post. They were awesome in a trail centre style setting i.e smoother ground, bigger transitions between hits etc whereas natural trails with constant mid-range hits they would dive throughout their travel and other shit.

anyway convert them into floats – awesome!

Not buggered I’d say. Same problems with mine – talas are awesome trail centre forks but rubbish out in natural style trials. Fwiw loco – conversion into floats. Awesome forks

Adrien Belew
Reg Smithies & Dave Fielding
Gary Moore & Scott Gorham

+1 staring at the sea/live & dangerous

Joy division & new order – substance

*runs to the nearest branch of Topman.

Won’t be going anywhere fast in skinny jeans 😉

heh heh, I’m a big (& long-time) Cocteaus fan – am I allowed to enjoy other stuff too?

ha, yes of course but as long as it’s good but that was terrible, kind of music you’d hear in topman. Not often i’ll turn music off and this is coming from the guy who’s listened to Space – Magic fly over 600 times

Like a crappy whiney version of the cocteau twins

FWIW its worth zee is almost all black so looks better, get zee

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2.4 ust RQ. On the front and stick the 2.2 on the back!

Fine, found forks without travel adjust sit in their travel more. Didn’t miss TA at all

Not much around that way. Maybe a bit wet mind but mostly rocky trails

Also, wound my windows down to tow a load of old boys up winnats pass before after one cheekily asked for a lift. Shame bastard reached in & robbed me tunnocks caramel!

At least your not worrying about whether you’ll have q job at the end of the month.

Oh and buy a map

I’m 23 but probably too hardcore for you 😀

Tbh, still Marple just me own place with land – preferably steep. But plenty of holidays

Doubt it. Get a clutch mech – bloody brilliant. Usually big big with the mech almost at full stretch then let all air out of ze shock to check nothing will go snap

+1 if I told you I’d have to kill you

The buyer is aware that the gear levers can be moved independently from the brake lever and they can be spaced differently to how the magazines show i.e. brake inboard and gear outboard (or vice versa)???

Probably not..

Best thing to do to improve the reliability?

Bin ’em. Best thing for them.

Couldn’t help but think how good Guy Martin would of been in the Lancaster. Still snow is bloody lucky, did very well to keep the commentary going

@therag used to rely on talas a lot until the covert – loco – floats and a loco’d rear shock HG as transformed the bike!

Join a club. Rob’s ride peak district is mint. Manchester mountain bikers if you drive. Over other side of the hills often

My Easton havoc stem never survived its first crash. Go Renthal purely as they amazing customer service & are UK based.

Hayfield campsite perhaps?

18″ is a medium in transition sizes. Best fitting frame yet. I’m 6.1 with 33″ leggy’s

Hopefully this will work. Oh and shame on all of you with clean coverts!! 😀

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Now sporting a 30t ring up front & deore brakes instead of the hopes

Love mine. Despite its weight it rides very light… Whatever it means.

I’ve not been out on the bmx or jump bike since getting it either.

Could try mine out for size if you want, providing your not a midget or fat fcuker

Could bang on about it all day but its just fun, make every bit of trail fun again.

Cutgate is spot on. There’s a few puddles & 3 big puddles. Yes I counted as I went otb 3 times. Otherwise its running the best I’ve ever known

Just get fitter. Get a decent build which will hold up to regular rides in the peaks and a bike which makes who want to ride anytime any day.

Oh and as much shimano kit as possible.