do you ride a singlespeed zippy?

ebay has a few, not the new style but tbh i prefer the look of the one before it. hecklers are the most versatile frames ever. they won’t do out and out DH or XC, but they’ll do everything in between very very well. I’ve got one and i love it.

i can see the second hand market becoming more expensive in the not too distant future. people like me who build their bikes out of second hand parts are going to face a lot of competition!

razzle ;)

I’ve got the older BB7s but i can see your problem. Have you set up the caliper so that the pads are dialled all the way out and the slack is taken up with the barrel adjuster on the brake lever? I’m just wondering if you can get the pads to bite the rotor before the cable clamp even reaches that bolt. If this is the case then you should be setting up the caliper using the avid video on youtube
You shouldn’t be using the barrel adjuster to take up too much cable slack – the way to get an early biting point on the lever is to use the pad contact adjusters (per video).

If this isnt the issue, you could just do what alexxx says. take off the clamp, put it in a vice and file it down. after all that bit of the clamp dosen’t actually do much. or if you’ve got an old mech with a smaller clamp on it you could try swapping them over. you could also try filing down the edge of the bolt – as long as you don’t take off too much its not going to compromise things too much.

Hope that hepls

Dogs can make their own vitamin c

We went to Coed Y Brenin last month when it was minus 5, everything was covered in a sugary layer of white frosty goodness like someone had dusted the whole place with icing sugar through a giant seive. Barely a soul in sight, i’ll never forget it.

anyone know where i can get a few litres of TFR without paying 8 quid for postage? do they sell it at halfords or motor garages? We used to use it at work for valeting second hand beamers, you should see what it does to an engine in conjunction with a jet-wash! I should think it it eats bearing grease though. where can i get me some (checked on ebay and its all high PnP)?

i once owned a dog with bombers. used to beat the f*ck out of anyone who kicked him in the face

My 2004 heckler is 31 pounds and thats with a 32 talas and heavy-ish wheelset. Other bits are a mix of hone/xt/xtr/thomson. think that guy was talking mush. cant see how it’d be less than that with a vanilla 36

felt virtue sorry …

sorry, MBR is the one i was surprised about, not WhatMTB. sorry…

I like Dirt for the pictures too Mr Agreeable. There’s always some really nice shots of riders going flat out in it, naver fails to inspire me even if it is a bit more hardcore than my stlye of riding. You also get nice features like that hardtail issue and people who have built their own bikes. just grass roots stuff as well as glam and glitzy.
Last issue had a selection of “alternative” mountain bike races like the Downieville Classic where it showed a picture of a guy on an orange five pinning it round a turn and not a full-face helmet in sight, just shorts tshirt trainers helmet and a pair of sunnies.

Singletrack i buy now and again and theres often some good articles in there but sometimes i can find some of them a bit pointless, as though they struggle for material and have to make something up to pad it out a little. A lot of it is relevant to round here where i live though (halifax) and they do no-nonsense product reviews which i like. I think they drink too much coffee in that place. come on boys, less coffee more pictures/travelling!

mtbr is OK once in a blue moon, i think its aimed more at kids to be honest. The product reviews are marketing orientated so can’t really be trusted imo, they always give everything at least 8 out of 10. but they do have all the new shiny gear in there and its quite a thick mag. what makes me chuckle is the “cool” lingo they use (man). also the articles like “how to nail a dropoff” that basically tell you to roll up to the edge and drop off are a bit of a laugh.

The one i was really surprised about was What MTB. they seem to do more than their fair share of product reviews and aren’t afraid to say when something isn’t very good (so like singletrack in that respect). They also have some really good detailed route guides and the articles that go with them are very well written. Its a mag i could pick up and read even when i think i’ve read everything.

well, thats my little round-up! :)

The Santa Cruz’s have it for me. Gooner, how does that heckler ride with a lyrik up front? do you take it on all day rides?

here’s my Cruz :)

thats good, you want someone who’s done it a few times before and has professional tools etc. Like taff says, you don’t want to botch it

there seems to be a lot of problems with singlespeeds here, i thought one of the reasons to do such a tw*ttish thing was because they were simple and reliable through the winter? Just goes to show it dosen’t pay to be different ;)

not sure about the new shape, but mine’s a 2004 and its got a 200mm i to i with a 50mm stroke. 57 is ok too as nodrog2 says

lucozade sport

i’m not surprised he broke his hand the nutbag

I preferred the way that on the old site you could click on a forum and the threads would be arranged in the order they were made, and not by most recent reply. I like to look on the classifieds a lot but all i see at the top of the page are threads that i’ve already looked at – just that someone else has replied to. All the new (and potentially interesting) threads get pushed into oblivion. where do they go??!

having said that i don’t mind the ads. i don’t think this site would exist without them.

Superior in every way to a Santa Cruz. Properly welded, properly finished, properly thought out.

nothing wrong with santa cruz.

Hecklers are luuurvely! well mine is anyway….

i was thinking after a day at stainburn i’d quite like some longer travel forks with a through axle, maybe a lyrik or pike for the big squishy stuff. It does very well as it is though so until i win the lottery a shiny new lyrik is out of the question! climbs like a dream. Point is, you can build a heckler up HOWEVER you want.

white grips have a habit of getting dirty quite quickly. white saddle would look cool… perhaps white bars – spank do some nice ones

Fizzer, is that a yeti in the second pic down?

I can’t believe this thread. Why do you think they’re still left? because nobody bought them! Does that mean they’re broken? Haven’t you ever seen pictures of unsold cars in big car parks? Do you think if you bought one of them and took it to a garage they would say “sorry sir, that cars more than two years old – i’m afraid we don’t stock parts for that model any more”?

come on guys get real, MOJO still has parts for my 2004 talas. Its called a warehouse.

I think its the LBS community come to get their own back..

Playing with these might strengthen your wrist…

how do i go into the settings?

On the plus: It’s better that when you scroll down and click on a thread, read it and click “back” to the main page it brings you back at the thread you picked, possibly halfway down the page instead of dumping you at the top.

On the minus: I don’t like the way it automatically puts the “just replied to” thread at the top of the pile. Call me old fashioned, but i like to see fresh topics/items for sale at the top of the page. If someone else is interested in a topic/classified ad and replies to it it dosen’t mean i am and therefore i don’t necessarily want to see that thread at the top of the page. The old forum had the option of “sort by last post” for those that like it this way…..