Keep em coming, really like the look of those banshees.

If anyone has a tracer 275 I’d like to see it, or a knolly warden. Although all things considered!

Mulling over an alloy tracer 275 as not sure I can justify the carbon one.

Got a link? Had a look but couldn’t find it.
Cheers

As bigjim says – that comment was directed at the Lycra clad humans, not you!
No idea how you lads kept going that quickly, so impressive.

Also finished with about 4 minutes to spare. Good feeling. Loved having the XC boys overtake you on the climb and then pass them on the floor on the way down!

Is that the Fox 34 CTD fit? You probably aren’t going to get ground breaking performance difference, especially if it’s this years fork.

I like my Pikes. I really like them actually. If I was in your position would I change forks? Probably not.

If you don’t think there’s anything wrong with them then why do you want to change them anyway?

It boils down to the fact that for less money (maybe not quite £500, but still less) you can get a fork that is fundamentally better. Either the Pike or one of the X Fusion offerings. My only real issue with fox is the ridiculous price. Aside from the fancy looking gold coating, which offers debatable performance increase, they bring nothing to the table that you can’t get a cheaper fork to do just as well, or arguably better.

The pikes are obviously directly comparable to the 34’s. The 32 in shorter travel guises might be just the ticket for XC riding – I don’t ride a lot of XC so don’t know. Again, the 36’s might be a good choice for your big bike. Most people ride trail/enduro/am/whatever-you-want-to-call-them bikes that take a mid travel fork like the 34/pike/sweep. In this category, Fox’s fork is poor.

This is assuming your buying new, as the second hand market for fox forks is huge at the moment.

Is that not a bit of a joke?
£40 entry fee and I have to pay parking?

Good thought, how would I stop the maxle squeaking ?

Doing it on my usual 150mm bike with big tyres, though I might pump them up a bit. Not expecting any records to be broken in fairness.

Not as much at Mabie now due to harvesting/Larch disease and wind blow over the winter
For a longer ride a trip through Troston/Shambellie over to New Abbey, up to the monument and back is good

Yeah, unfortunately true though still a load of good stuff on the other side of the hill and found some promising looking stuff over by the old dark side the other week. By contrast loads of new off-piste ‘enduro-type’ trails appearing at Ae.

New abbeys good for a blast, monument trail and a couple of tight ones in the trees too.

Yup, in. First time doing it so looking forward to it.

Both Mabie and Ae have cracking off-piste stuff. Perhaps not the in the same volume as inners but of equal quality.

30% sag is fine.

Wind the LSC to fully off. Add more if you feel your forks are diving when braking or on small hits. I’ve found you don’t need a lot with the pikes, though I tend to add more for races/DH runs. It sounds like they might have had some dialled in from the factory. This would explain the poor performance on smaller stuff (Low speed compression) and better on bigger hits (high speed)

Rebound, I don’t fully understand what you mean above, but I have a feeling its too slow. I’d go roughly in the middle and then adjust either side. Bounce the front wheel off of the ground, the fork should just extend as it leaves the ground – too slow and it will extend in the air, too fast and it will buck you up.
Then take it out and ride it. You should be able to tell if you need more or less. If you feel its bucking you back up after hits, then slower. If it’s packing down, faster.

Token wise, my pikes came with none (150, 650B) and I added one. I doubt this is your issue.

I own a zesty 427. Same frame as the spicy. Unless you ride with your heels in like a duck then you won’t clip the chainstays. They were worse on pre-production bikes I believe which is where most people get the idea that they are huge.

RaceFace Flank knee/shin, or they also do a knee only version, no idea the name of it. D30 job, light, comfy, going on two years and no real sign of wear. And ive landed on them a good few times as well. Don’t even seem to smell as much as some others i’ve seen but that could just be luck.

Head to the three brethren (I assume that this is the MBUK route), keep on the SUW for a bit then turn off and head for the northern side of foulshiels hill. Descend down to Broadmeadows. Go through Yarrowford and then turn right back up to the top of minch moor. Then rejoin the red route. Saves you riding over stuff you’ve already done.

The paths marked on an OS map, so that would probably help you.

The start of five was bordering on the edge of not being fun on practice day – I couldn’t actually move the back wheel after riding it. Seemed to go better on race day though.

Other than that a cracking (and steep!) two days.

How long have you been running the Hope Baznav? What kinda time/mileage dio you get out of a set of bearings?

Cheers

where was the crack in that video?

I heard that KS have updated the post and existing users will get a free upgrade. No idea when that will be though.

Thanks for all the replies.

A quick google says I can get a set of XT’s for £130 from Merlin and a set of Zee’s for £160ish from tweeks. (Anyone spots any deals, let me know!)

However based on what’s said above, the XT’s are much lighter and have more than enough stopping power. I’m leaning towards them, thoughts?

Has anyone worked out how to buy them?

Cheers fer this, also bought one!

EDIT: or trying to anyway…

Just entered this a minute ago, so definitely spaces left. First time doing it but looks good!

Got home tonight, took the tubes out of both tyres and both went up without a hitch – not even soapy water needed!

Sealant in both now, seems to have dealt with the leaky valve so after doing my ‘panning for gold’ act for a good 5 minutes on each we’ll now play the waiting game.

Cheers for all the tips.

Not the greatest angle but you get the idea 🙂

Solo air.
Lighter, less to go wrong. I see no reason to drop the front of the bike.

Also I think dual air only come in white.

Yeah mate, got a couple I think. I’ll stick em up when I get home from work.

Ok.

I got it at the start of december and have put a good few rides in on it. It’s been taken down mountains, trail centres as well as pootling around the woods. I actually like climbing (mostly) and have found it’s perfectly good at this, faster than my old hardtail. I tend to leave the float ctd in Trail for climbing and find there’s no issue with pedal induced bouncing. Also the rear wheel tracks well on technical climbs.
Point it down and it’s yet to dissapoint. Smashes through everything I point it at.

It’s worth noting that I swapped the 32’s for a pair of pikes straight away, which almost definitely adds to it’s ‘smashing through anything’ ability. The tyres it comes with are, in my opinion, awful so you’ll want to swap them, but then most people would anyway i’d imagine.

As for do-it-all it will be my year round bike, it will be coming to the alps in the summer and i’ll be racing it at the scottish enduro series all year (if not overly successfully).

Plus if your going to Kendal for a test then it’s worth it just to get some lakes riding in anyway. I’d go and try it.

Yup, I do. Looks lovely, rides lovely. What specifically do you want to know?

Not had a probelm with heel rub, but I also heard that it might be an issue so taped the chainstays. Can’t say i’ve noticed it being more of an issue than any other bike in the 2 months i’ve had it.

A ‘bikes’ day would be nice…

Spaceman, any chance you could point me in the direction of some of this tweed valley stuff?
Obviously a lot of potential there and would just save me some time if I knew where to look 🙂

yeah, I took the fox’s off straight away. Pikes are so much better!

I’ve had my zesty AM fer about a month now (same frame for this year) and it’s a beast. I put some pikes on the front, then point and shoot.

Looks nice as, will be interested in what you make of the EI as I didn’t go fer it.

Cheers for the replys

Stupid question, how do I know whether I need the tubeless tape or not?

These are the wheels:
http://www.raceface.com/components/wheels/wheels/turbine-27-5-wheelset/

Had them about a week and put three rides in. I’m running 75 PSI with no tokens, and LSC dialled right out. WIll probably add a couple of clicks to experiment and then put a token in as well. Might end up taking them out again as I don’t find I use all of the travel. I think it rides high in it actually.
Great forks so far, eaten everything I’ve thrown at it with no issues at all.

Its on a new zesty, and I weigh about 83kg

Did both at the weekend.
Inners is fine, couple of trees on the way up to walk around and a few branches on the trails but nothing major.

GT is worse, we tried to go up the fire road to the spooky wood climb as pennels vennel was closed but the whole forest appears to have fallen across it. We went back down, up the blue fire road and climb and then headed back down the rest of the red. You basically miss spooky wood and the one after it.

Cheers for the responses.
– I doubt it’ll be dirt in it etc as its brand new
– I’ll check the seat clamp, though I’m pretty sure its just ‘tight’ and no more if you get what I mean.
– I also might increase the pressure slightly as well and see if that works

Cheers

Did Innerleithen red today and it was fine. Two or three trees down on the way up and a few branches about but all avoidable. All the downs are good to go.

Sancho, I might be keen for that bike, depending on the definition of cheap. Email in profile 🙂