Not impressed!

steelfan – Member

Its an old school pump peg.

Ok, but where does the other end attach??

**** me, this dudes has the same wee nubbin?

Big image here:

http://www.on-one-shop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/p1010428.jpg

Never use route on a gradient greater than 20%, have a grade reversal every 20-40yards, always route the trail to the high side of large trees…

If that alone doesnt give a nice twisty flowy feel you may want to think about Berms etc to help keep the flow going at a sticky point for example.

I've written to TNT to ask them to quantify the £15 charge and break it down to me how they came to that figure.

After doing a bit of digging on the net there appears to be quite a bit of fighting back from the consumer and not paying the £15 theft

I'll happily pay it if they can justify it… But in saying that, they already got $20AUS to deliver the items, so they can GTF in their demand for more

That looks really nice fella.
A colour scheme I haven't seen elsewhere. Works well I think.

Some people hit their legs off their big rings, where a Bash ring would have done so much less damage!

If all you ride is trail centres – you do not need a bash ring.

Andy – I have a SLR body with lens I don't use.
Bought it of JC.
Its a Dynax.

Interested?

You could make the drop outs for the Roger Musson stand using a good hardwood either.

Fail at taking photos?!

t-p 26 – Member

Optimistic aren`t you? Building it with Swamp things on….? Or do you live in a bog

Its swampthing season here!!
They've been moved over from the old bike. If you can pedal them to the top of the hill then why not enjoy the extra grip back down :wink:

Lovely build Luke!

My Mate at Ballinastoe, County Wicklow:

The wife taking the "racing line" on a local bit of singletrack

Myself as Darth Vader

Here Simon – I'll swap you those Dull grey strokers you flogged me for your white ones.

Obviously my bike is gonna look a hell of a lot nicer with more white bits on it to contrast the green and yours will look far stealthier with matching grey brakes…

PS – You need a garage/shed if you're being forced to build bikes outside. Or just tell her to STFU when she nags at you in the kitchen

And yea, the picture of JC – its a tribute to the great man and his many feats :lol:

rs – Member

whats the thing on the wall with the cable coming out the bottom just left of the seat?

Its a picture of the big JC!

Lionheart – Member

Notice on kitchen cupboard not straight. tea towels need folding….

Its a Gym class timetable, I was in a bad way when I put it up after a hard spin class.

Tea Towel needs incinerating before wife sees it, as I dried my hands after washing Post Bike Build and I only got half the filth off and never noticed before drying in said towel.

Leave my kitchen alone!

First ride will be in the Mourne Mountains on sunday.

I love the colour, I wasn't too sure what it would be like – But my first word when i opened the box was "Wow"

Computer screens and crap photos by me don't do it justice.

Sitting looking at it now, I think the BB looks really high though, but Have nothing to compare it too. It may be because I have been staring at it for so long.

Need to get new white brake hoses and Gold QR skewers :P

It's tipping down here – so no outdoors shot until tomorrow, or more likely Sunday after looking at the forecast

FSA Orbit XL11

Cheap and lasts and the bearings will keep going smoothly when it looks knackered, as i have just discovered.
Been in for 4 years in two frames and going into a 3rd tomorrow

Dialled alpine?
Mine is in the post And I can't bloody wait!

Where's my green pompino!

You have to laugh at full on roadie mentality.
They won't wear a helmet with a peak on it. They sneer at other riders who do wear the peaked helmets.
Yet they go and stick a gay wee cap with a peak on it under their helmet, just so they can have a peaked helmet without actually wearing a peaked helmet?

Belfast

My new shimano winter boots are waterproof even with a powerhose on them after riding to clean them.

I have great hopes for them!
Haven't done a wet out of the sky ride with them on yet though

Excellent advice lads, thanks.
I wasn't sure if the On-one hubs were fixed only or not.
I'll get some of them then and build them up on some cheap rims :)

This is an old granite track up into the mourne mountains. The rail track is long gone, but is now replaced with steps all the way to the top. This picture is taken nowhere near the top!

Its just shy of half a mile from the start of the descent to the bottom and goes from 627 feet to sea level.

Best ridden flat out so your wheels cruise over the corners of the steps, but its not that safe as its a popular walking route. Let go of the brakes when you can see there is noone coming up towards you.

Intended to get one a while back but i have plumped for a Pompino frame now, so looking for a suitable shifter for a sturmey archer 3 or 5 speed set up instead now.

Cheaper BB's

Ordered one yesterday so will let you know what I think.

I have a SSC ceramic one in that has lasted about a year, except i only have been out regularly for 4 months of that year.

Between the tape is my favourite current film.

But this is the one film I genuinely have been excited about and anticipating for a long time:

Break the cycle

nodrog2 – Member

If you are into epic technical singletrack descents then you'll love the place. Much quiter and more relaxed than Morzine/Les Gets area. The one proper DH track is pretty good but the area is generally more about singletrack than full on down hill.

Trail addiction well worth going with if you want to ride all the cheeky stuff. You could easily just buy a map and go out and explore on your own though.

Make sure you ride La Varda, a truely epic technical 40-50 min singletrack descent. Here's a teaser.

http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=la+varda&init=quick#/video/video.php?v=648673870811&ref=mf

Are there many complete trails that are smooth like that?
I wanted to go sometime, and the wife wants to go too, but she'd be out of her depth on steep technical stuff but would fly along that sort of smooth twisty trail

davidrussell – Member

Granted it did snap off because of Screwdriver use to push pads apart (incidentally why has no-one made a tool for this)

National Aviation museum is good and cheap for a walk around if you can work out the transport to it. Its not too tricky to find.
Its a bit all over the show but some class old planes to get up close to. We did it on the last day in Krakow in the morning just to kill time before heading on to Budapest.

Auschwitz was something I think everyone should experience.
Saltmines were ok, some of it is pretty amazing.
If I were going again i would spend a day or two in Krakow and then head to Zakopane, my mate from out there says its superb.

I enjoyed walking around the old Jewish Ghetto across the river. Schindlers factory has a display up, and is supposed to be fully opened as a proper museum soon i think.

we stayed in Flamingo Hostels, a room for 2. Was very cheap for the standard to be honest. Clean and private, shared modern bathroom, I'd use them again, after all, when you're there you'll be only coming back to lie down and sleep? Flamingo also have hostels in Zakopane.

Why does everyone want to achieve "full travel" on a normal ride?

I want to achieve full travel when i hit something fairly big fairly badly and be happy that the suspension saved my bacon.

The roger book is quality. I am sure Sheldons guide is too.

Sorry if i repeat what anyone else said, but for me, the important bits to make it easy are:

A Nipple Driver
Tape stuck to the desk to stick on the spoke you last were at when you got interuppted and always have a number one spoke with a bit of masking tape on it so you always know when you have gone round once
Oil the threads

Its easy

bike radar

Never understood the logic of facing a BB shell
Unless the threads in the shell are crooked on either side (And its the same thread the whole way through anyway) then the BB cups will be perfectly inline with each other, there is no way they couldn't be even with a smidge of extra paint on one bit etc.

Just get a bloody road bike and MTFU

Commute to work on it and keep pedalling past your house on the way home before turning around

It unfortunately clashes with the world famous epic blast

Unfortunatley the £139 price on the page about rock shox fork pushing is old pricing and the actual cost is £169 – which makes my mind up for me.
Total cost for me being in Northern Ireland would be £195 – Absolutley no way.

Leaving them into CRC tomorrow to get the bushings done

email the address on the main Kineses website, I was emailing the one on the Kinesis Decade site for a while with it constantly bouncing, but the other one works

If its the model with the mini sd card slot in it, you can use it as a USB memory device.
Plug it in to the USB cable and on the GPS menu look for the INTERFACE option (I think) and turn on USB Mass Storage. Voila.

The Garmin software works too.