Hi Fergal,

To be honest we would normally just ride the loop I put up earlier, the descent down from the eastern summit to the road is superb and fast. You can make the start of the descent more technical as there are a couple of steep options.

If you don’t feel the need for an actual route you could spend a couple of hours dicking about on the eildons, I did this and it’s quite good fun. what I did was park up in Eildon village, there’s a track that’ll take you to St Cuthbert’s Way, from here I basically went up each of the hills; small one first, then up the middle one this was a push. Going down the other side there is a very steep rocky path. Then up the eastern hill and down again…

We’ll all have different ideas of technical, mucking about like this gives you the chance to try the trickier bits. The loop I posted, has it’s technical bits – one being a rooty climb for example..

hey br nice one

fergal
Bellerphron that looks good, any tips for a loop taking in all the best bits, the more technical the better.

I’m thinking… whilst watching Die Hard 4

some eildon pictures:

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I’ve quite often started at Innerleithen and up the XC route to Minch Moor; along to the Three Brethren; down the Merida route; into Yair Forest – and back along the quiet back road to Innerleithen

Yep, that’d do it buddy.

Coyote – nice video

Here are some in the Cheviots:

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I have another Tracklogs (can make pdf) of ride from Selkirk to the Three Bethren and back, also one that is the 2005 Merida, which is basically Selkirk –> Three Bethren –> Minch Moor –> and back.

Oh here goes, just to expand Ton’s list:

The Magnificent Seven
Rock The Casbah
This Is Radio Clash
Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Straight To Hell
Armagideon Time
Clampdown
Train In Vain
Guns Of Brixton
I Fought The Law
Somebody Got Murdered
Lost In The Supermarket
Bank Robber
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
London’s Burning
Janie Jones
Tommy Gun
Complete Control
Capitol Radio
White Riot
Career Opportunities
Clash City Rockers
Safe European Home
Stay Free
London Calling
Spanish Bombs
English Civil War
Police & Thieves

Seems I’ve just listed the tracks from ‘The Story of The Clash’, but to be honest any of those could be the best, can’t pick one above the others….

It’s my birthday today, only interesting as next year it won’t be a thursday and you’ll have to ask on saturday

mine was an attempt at irony; you see Bellerophon is the God that rides on Pegasus, see here:

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But I’m not a riding god, and my ride isn’t a horse, see; but I was in the paras.

Nah, you want to go the other way, eat more shite,roll about in the mud, get every cold\bug thing going to boost your immune system :lol:

Seems polite enough up here, I’ll acknowledge a thank you, just seems right

Well, if you make these things public…

Yeah I know…

The guys a legend , if you can catch him with The Alarm on the now running Sound and Fury tour you will not be dissappointed.Seen him many a time and with Big Country, always takes me back to a great period growing up in the 80s.Good value tickets , what you waiting for.

That’s more like well said. I’ve seen him a good number of times and what come across to me is his enjoyment and enthusiam for what he does; I think it’s his eyes, really smiling if you know what I mean.

pee on my parade why dontcha :|

Other tips are welcome!

You do know you can ignore the highway code?? Use advanced stop lines etc :lol:

Aahh just re-read your post you passed the CBT not the test, maybe wait a bit before using the code for bog roll :lol:

On a serious note – enjoy yourself

Is that Ascii or Ebcdic?

ebcdic

My friends revs came withoput manual, I’m sure we found it on the web, just can’t remember where… :oops:

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as far as Fox servicing goes, here’s a trick – buy enduro upgrade seals ……

Yep that’s defo a solution, however given that I don’t have to do that with other forks, it seems a bit much to have to do that with fox forks given their price

I’ve got Revs my friend has Sektors, both are v good forks and didn’t take much setting up at all.

Maybe it doesn’t apply to the Vans, but the service schedule of Fox forks would put me off.

Here’s mine:

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Framed weighs in at 5.5lbs, my build weighs in at 31lbs inc pedals; basically I transferred all the components from my Genesis Abyss, not sure how you get it down to 26lbs??

I ride every thing on it; cheviots, local trails in Scottish Borders and trail centres.

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Dunno really, maybe coz it’s orange, maybe coz it’s steel made by a bloke called Mike, maybe coz it’s new – whatever it is I bloody love it!!

Personally, I’d love to do a heli drop!

I hope they drop from the chopper on their bikes and ride off :twisted:

to make it more niche it should only be open to those with Raleigh choppers :lol:

tbhTJ that photo does not really look like there’s much to hit. Say you went to a bmx track, a dh course did something like that, then a helmet would be required.

and if I understand TJ’s position he’ll probably agree, remember he has already said he’ll wear a helmet at trail centres, in fact I’ve seen a picture of him wearing one, he’s not anti helmet wearing, I think he’s anti COMPULSORY helmet wearing, and so I am

BTW I wear a helmet, most of the time

The fork might be an odd sounding choice I know, but it’s what I’ve got and it’ll keep the handling sharp

Nah not that odd, I’m going to experiment with dropping the travel in mine down to 120mm.

got my 19.5 down to about 27 lbs

That’s pretty good, but like you say a tough build and probably a few pennies as well….

I’m not too worried about the weight, I haven’t even ridden it properly; I’m interested in what kit people have used to get sub 30lbs.

One thought I did have, is that my fork is OEM and might well have a steel steerer, how much heavier that’d be over an ally one I don’t know??

I’m still loving it… in fact me a riding buddy have made a real effort this year so far, with weekly night rides and a saturday morning ride every two weeks.

I’m just about to build up my Prince Albert frame that arrived today, so loving it even more.

Hey All, thanks for all the offers of help and the info provided so far. I’m now busy checking all this stuff out and working when I might be able to get a ride in.

Defo be in touch later :lol:

molgrips –
3 minutes makes a lot of difference. Try shaving 3 mins of your fastest time, you’ll see what I mean

Yeah, when you put it like that it does seem a lot, heaven knows how I’m going to get back down to my fastest which was 52mins!! Mind you that was on a different bike, which as we all know is what really counts :wink:

I’ve turned my bike computer off now as I was constantly trying to beat my time resulting in a sweaty broken mess when I got to work, trying to pace myself now..

Funnily enough I’ve just put my computer on the bike in an effort to slow down :? today I made a real effort to take it steady and what a difference; my first checkpoint (usually 14 mins) I was down 2 mins, my second checkpoint (usually 32mins) I was down 3 mins and by the end I was down 3mins on my fastest this year.

The big difference not being anywhere near as gubbed as normal, can 3 minutes make THAT much difference, or was is the carb (beer) loading over the weekend??

I’ve just started again this year, well 2 weeks ago, my commute is 16.5 miles each way. This is my 4th year and I’ve started adding extra days, I used to ride in on just tuesday and thursday, last week I did tues\weds\thurs and have to say really felt it on the last ride home.

I think the main point up above is related to the speed, I have this horrible tendency to treat each ride as time trail and really need to take it steadier on some of the rides. I’m planning on adding mondays as well, but this is also the day I ride at night so we’ll see how that goes.

Oh, I ride a flat barred road bike with spds. I have a porridge breakfast (usually) and on the bike I have a protein shake with milk. I buy bananas for mid morning and just before leaving, lunch is quite often a baked potato, and I have a protein shake when I get in.

Whoa, hadn’t expected that….. anyway,

So will this one, if he plays his cards right. Gifts of UK bike jerseys go a long way toward encouraging my participation.

Just sayin’…

This sort of thing:

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plus waymarkers from some trails I look after:

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quite excited if this can happen

Hey, thanks for the replies, really good info. We’re going to be in San Fran for 3 days, doing all the usual stuff, but your comments have confirmed that I should seriously look into this properly.

I’ll probably have half a day at most, and as this isn’t a biking holiday for me I think I’ll try and get the best out of Mount Tam, mainly to say I’ve done it – soppy maybe.

So for those offering to help I’ll be in touch once I’ve a thought a bit more about it, we’re not going until end of june so I have a wee bit of time.

My biking buddy has that combo; prowler on the back, stout on the front. Seem good so far.

I carry:

on frame:
pump (blackburn airstik)
water bottle

small saddle bag:
1 tube
2 levers
topeak chain tool that has 5mm allen key

in pocket on shirt:
phone
money

I wear MTB helmet with peak removed; endura mt500 in nice weather, endura cycling tights in cold weather.

I think around 30 min or 20mph for a 10 would be a great barrier to beat

Yep, ^^this is usually the first target, I think it’s known as ‘evens’. If you can do that the next BIG BIG target is 20 min or 30mph for a 10, or if you’re like me getting as far below 30mins for a 10 as possible, I got stuck at about 25 mins :o

A sunny saturday morning:

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The majority tbh. Only a few I really appreciate.

Pretty much sums up my view

Yep I’m in this boat

Eddy Grant :lol:

V-brake stuff like Speed Dial

Yeah, they stayed shiny and nice for the whole 10 years or so I had them on my old Marin. Probably still being shiny and nice somewhere now

On my Marin?? :D

Obviously not but my Marin road bike (flat bars) has Avids on and working and looking fantastic 8 years on… in fact so are the hubs,mechs,shifters,bb with very little attention, I know it doesn’t get as grotty as an mtb but still…

My C2W voucher, especially frustrating as this months payment came of my salary……

I raced a tractor home today dropped him big styleeeee :-)