both my nike and powercaddy ones didn’t whem i used to play and the course was on a hillside and very exposed to the wind so they got well tested

DOT5.1 has a much higher boiling point so might help. If the fluid in there is old then just fresh DOT4 should make a difference.

DOT standards are just a minimum, some DOT4’s like i used to use in my track car(motul RBF i think it was) had a higher boiling temp than any DOT5.1

I did similar to Seriousrikk, swapped out the 29er rear wheel on my Mondraker Crafty for a 27.5 and used an offset bushing to raise the BB – no flip chips on that bike. I’ll caveat this here by saying I’m a short arse – long torso, tiny legs standing at a massive 168cm. 29ers for me are great on XC stuff, but when it gets steep and rowdy I always have interference with the back wheel.

Before going MX I didn’t really like the Crafty, it felt slow and slugging and living in South Wales, I was struggling on the steep corners and trails where my 27.5 trail bike absolutely flies.

i got a Crafty about 4 months ago and straight away it amazed me at how lively and flickable it wasd through the tight steep twisty stuff but unlike you i’m just over 6 foot with fairly long legs.

@Blazin-saddles

how do you find the  36000?  had my 24000 for at least 15 years and while its still a good saw been thinking for a few years i need to replace it as its just not big enough

it’s sounding good from what i’m hearing from mates. gutted about not going this year but my wife has only just got home from quite major surgery so having to stay home and look after her.

planning on getting back next year,

chapel house is a 5 minute drive for me so in there a lot, i’m in that vid near the end showing him where the track used to go before felling as i’d bumped into him at the top when i was checking out the damage they’d done. it did get sorted again after that.

few issues with forestry up there now and they’ve fenced of all that lower area(with cameras as someone cut the fence)

it was getting to busy up there really.

they haven’t bothered about the tracks of the top, he does 2 of them in that vid and there is several variations to them so its still good for a ride in there, ideally suited to an ebike(recently got one) as the slog up the road or up through the field from the bottom of those tracks is a killer.

Root Run just above the bridleway is still there as well.

also using a Ratio cage after crashing and destroying the 2 week old one on a rock slab, just incase it isn’t the hanger

think i’m with esure at the moment, nearly up for renewel. covers bikes up to a total of 10k as long as they are specified. i just go on the comparison sites and know i have changed companys a few times over the years with the same cover so plenty must do it. never any mention of if it’s an ebike or not unless things have changed since last year.

didn’t even bother using the DHF/DHR’s that came on my new bike, got a argotal/kryptotal fitted before i picked it up. as it’s an ebike went DH casing SS on the front and DH soft rear.

normal bike has a pair of kryptotal enduro softs on.

it’s a running joke about maxxis and punctures on our thursday night ambleside rides and just about everyone is on conti’s now. far fewer punctures. the conti’s also wear much better.

as abovr tiles are the best for heat transfer, although they are still limited to a max temp of only a degree or so more than LVT/engineered wood.

i would also be very cautious about laying tiles over a joisted wet UFH system. the flooring would need to be solid then overboarding with backerboard and then a decent decoupling membrane. also with adding the initial boards over the joists you are in effect insulting the tiles slightly so will loose some of the benefit.

LVT works well on a job i was on recently but that was a solid screeded floor.

if you went enginered which i what i’m doing at home in one room which has wet UFH and joists it’s best to put a thicker structrual rated enginered floor down straight onto the joists to limit the insulating effect of timber.

mate i was riding with on sunday who’s lad was meant to be taking part said there’s a hell of a lot more to it than money and that things have been needing to change for years.

so cancel it and when all episodes are avalible sign up for your free month trial and watch the whole series 😀

do that every year in december for the football and catch up with anything else on there i want to watch at the same time, leaving it running for an extra month this year as my wife wants to finish watching a longh series but normally theres not enough to make it worth it.

or panasonic, at least it was 3 years ago when i got mine but research made it between a sony or panasonic as the best for PQ, wasn’t bothered about gaming so lg’s better gaming features didn’t come into it.
panasonic’s smart stuff isn’t as good but picked that over sony due to how good my previous 2 plasma’s had been, the 12 year old 50″ is still in use on my bedroom wall and the picture still looks better than a lot of new tv’s for HD content.

recently had the wet belt changed on my custom, ford say 140k, mine was 83k and it turned out the old belt was perfect, no signs of delaminating and the pick up pipe was spotless. cost me about £360 in labour and the parts i supplied where £300 inculeding 10L of oil, all genuine apart from the cover. also included a new sump asthey often bend removing them.
also the custom didn’t go to a wetbelt until about 2017

Can you watch full race replays on-demand with Discovery+?

yes, it works wellfor me as i can very rairly watch live. also they are available virtually straight after the live coverage finishes, not something that used to happen with redbull tv.

my dad lives in staveley, they had about a foot and think windermere was similar

I’ve never seen so much snow in the uk.

about the mid nineties, was living in staveley at the time and we had over 2 foot one night. didn’t cause as much chaos though as everyone just got up and thought **** that i’m staying at home.

near newby bridge and got about 4″ but its still coming down last time i looked. walked to the pub at tea time and A590 was at a standstill heading east, people came in that had taken 2.5 hours to do the normal 25 minutes from barrow. someone else ha been to grizedale for the rally and ended up walking most of the way to the pub to wait for a lift home.
a mate who went to the rally last i heard he abandended his van and started walking from brockhole to windermere for the train to kendal.

’m tempted by the Heatmiser stuff as we have a mix of UFH and radiators as well as HW and currently have 2 control systems. Anyone got Heatmiser experience? https://heatmisershop.co.uk/

just fitted a neohub last week, not done much with it yet as its just connecting to 2 neostats contolling upstairs rads and HW(oil combi), hopefully in the next couple of weeks the downstairs UFH will get connected up.

bloke i was working for last week hasjust had it setup and reckons its better than the hive setup in his other house.

I’ve found myself looking at Morimoto projectors for my van headlights yet again this year (Transit Custom rather than VW, but equally poor headlights). Definitely the preferable to slapping some LED bulbs into standard headlight units.

good quality LED bulbs like xenons online supply work really well in the customs, loads of people run them and unlike some of the cheaper LED’s the light goes where it should so they don’t dazzle and they don’t give any fault codes.
beam patton being correct and them being out of sight behind the projector lense probably helps with passing MOT’s, some people on the custom sites swap them out for MOT’s but most don’t and they pass.

had mine for over a year and never been flashed or had any problems.

as above unless theyre really dirty the autoglym fast glass is quickest and easiest way

had similar when i went AXS and also swapped to a 52 tooth cassette. set length as per sram instructions and was very slack, ended up taking 2 links out to sort it. removed shock to check it allowed full travel in the 52 tooth and its been fine for the last 10 months.

i have the evoc and use the bladder, i can then get a jacket in one of the bottle holders, it does need to be a very lightwieght jacket though.

had them seize with grease before, never had it again since using blue locktite

whats the point of bagging it before putting inthe bin? our cat is a good hunter inculding the ocasional rat, everything just gets chucked straight in the grey bin.

only time i’ve had one not come out i cut the axle as close to the crank as i could then used an angle grinder until it got to the pedal washer, without the tension on the threads it then came out.

i always put a bit of proper anti sieze compound on pedals since then and never had a problem removing since.

we had a big boiler/stove log burner ( think about 25kw) when we moved into the current house. soon fitted an oil boiler and replaced it with a small log burner.

it wasn’t plumbed in very well with the pump just being on a switch with no stat on it so may have worked better if done right but for our use was useless.

takes a lot of wood and from cold takes a long time to give much heat into the room due to have to heat the water as well. ours was lit coming home from work at 5/6 and only on for maybe 6 hours, when we were at home over one christmas and it had several days of being lit for 16 or so hours a day it did work much better but got through loads of wood.

was good for hot water though bujt at the time we had an electric shower so didn’t actually use much of the hot water it generated.

not sure how well they integrate with other systems. our oil and log costs are now similar to what we were spending just on logs but we have a much warmer house.(adding insulation and new windows has also helped there)

got the original, don’t see any need to change it.

first ride out i kept going into an easier gear at the start of descents, so now have it top easier, bottom harder

mine all have seperate bezels on them which just turn slightly to release and remove so i can just remove those and paint.

makes life easier for the sparky as well as if a customer decides to change there mind on bezel colour it’s an easy swap.

doesn’t seem to matter how many parts you change, i’ve done 2 complete rebuilds no problem on the same key so in effect 3 pc’s.
think the original key was an OEM windows 7, since upgraded to 10 then 11

not just the cheap porcilain, i fit a lot of quite expensive italian/spanish stuff and that can have quite big bows in it, can even be flat for 3/4 of it’s length then dive of a mm or 2.
always try and avoid doing 50/50 if possible and sometimes it even states on the box not to.

s it on TV anywhere?

discovery+ and i think eurosport are showing it live

looks like bbc1 are showing it if you don’t have the above options

was happy enough with the repack, using it for a good few years. i drink a lot so needed the bladder full for any decent rides so was a tight sqeeze getting everything else in and no room for a waterproof.

now gone onto the evoc and prefer it. bladder is better and there is a bit more space, i can fit my waterproof into one of the bottle holders.

i’m a small 34 waist and like mentioned above there is a lot of excess strap on the evoc that very occasionally needs tucking back in( very rarely like once every 15/20 rides so a non issue really)

if the weather was better I’d probably have grabbed a couple of bikes to demo on the Sunday but conditions were just too grim.

got the dirtiest i’d been all weekend demoing an orbea wild on sunday, didn’t care about the conditions flying about in turbo with a grin on my face. it could have done with a mudgaurd on it though, even after showering at home later on was still finding bits of mud in my eyes.

now where can i find 9k for a new bike.

its generally done fastest first but doesn’t work that well due to booking with group names to ride together so some groups have slow and fast in them. previous years i’ve been fairly early but this year despite putting top 10% down on the entry i was vertually at the back although i went 45 minutes early with a mate.

part of this years problem was somebody hurt themselves on stage 1 fairly early on which caused all the backlog on 1 and 2.

i was lucky going into 1 being behind a group of fast lads but did catch and pass 4 people on 2 again luckily between the tight section with the netting and before it dropped down towards the end so didn’t lose to much time. passed a few more on 3 and 4 but werent to bad.

theirs always been loads of people racing that are way out of there depth doing it just because of the kind of event it is, go for the festival side of it and also do the race. they should really be doing the sunday race but probably prefer to race saturday and get pissed saturday night.

i treat it as a race but less serious than other races(not that i treat any races that seriously at my level) and just enjoy the whole weekend with mates, if i lose a bit of time behind someone it doesn’t really matter although if i got stuck in a train through hecklers wood or other similar bits it would be annoying.

burgtec on mine, been on about a year and can’t fault it so far.

if each room is it’s own zone from a manifold do you need trv’s on the rads? systems i’ve seen done have had stats in each zone.
usually there is seperate manifolds for UFH and rads due to differnt flow temps needed but possibly as yours is from a heat pump, flow temps will be low anyway. the job with a heat pump i was on last year had them on seperate manifolds but that may have just been down to the size of the place.

have a look at heatmiser, seems to be the most common i see going into jobs i’m working on, one of which was with a air source heat pump.

i’ve got a couple of neostats at home controlling the upstairs rads and the hotwater(oil combi’s still need a time clock for HW) but when i get downstairs finished there will be 3 more for the UFH zones and they will connect to a neohub for app control.

the stats themselves aren’t smart but once connected to the hub it becomes a smart system.

Looks like they did a low pass over Lake Windermere. That should be worth watching 🙂

talking to a bloke in the pub tonight who works on the steamers and he saw them go over while they where out on the lake. i never saw/heard them working in ambleside but the jets have been busy the last few days.

apparently took some trails bikes as well.

we where commenting on saturday night about the amount of people who still leave bikes on show locked to bike racks on there cars, makes it to easy for the thieving bastards