anybody know what adapter I would need to convert it to a 180mm rotor?
this one http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/hope-post-mount-to-is-disc-brake-adaptor/rp-prod13737 possibly, but 183mm or 180mm??

Hmm, 180mm rotor idea might work. Didn’t think of that.

“There’s really very little that’s at all rough at Llandegla.”
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I love when people rag on the difficulty at degla. Here’s a tip; you’re not going fast enough.

llandegla is like heroin for people who get a kick out of jumps. If no sooner have you gone over one than you instantly need a “fix” of air again, from another one – then it’s great for you.. And another. And another .
OK, have a few jumps, but llandegla is absolutely incessant.
It would actually be the sort of trail that I like if it hadn’t been ruined by bowing to the commercial pressure of what most of the kids who go there want.

Are you really telling me that you could watch one of your mates disappear into a bush, at speed, and not nearly fall off yourself as you’re laughing that hard?

well, ok – true.

Think you need to either rethink what your chosen sport is or perhaps learn to read OS maps.
What you’ve described in the opening post is not mountain biking that many riders would recognise as being. Sounds to me like you’d be happier pottering round forestry roads or canal towpaths.

Or just MTFU

my ‘chosen’ “sport” (if you can call it that) is road riding. I’ve just got a mtb sitting in the garage so I might as well either find a reason to use it once in a while or admit that I’m not going to and sell the bloody thing.

Someone on here coined the phrase “off road roadie”.
That’s the sort of rider I am. I haven’t got much interest in technical stuff, I’d rather actually go somewhere on my bike.
As others have said, Sustrans and tow paths are probably what you’re looking for.

yes, I totally agree with that…

To be honest although a bit of tow path is ok, it’s not really my cup of tea for a whole ride to be based on it, as it’s a bit straight and flat.
I do like some of the elements of ‘stereotypical’ mtbing – bends, hills, etc, it’s just the excessive rock gardens, jumps and sheer drops I can’t stand.

This. I don’t think he was looking for non-strenuous routes, just non-technical. For experienced mountain bikers, I think it’s common to conflate the two.

Correct, I’d prefer routes that ARE strenuous!

The Verderers trail in the Forest of Dean would be RIGHT up your street. Off road, but fast, swoopy, no jumps, no claggy mud and really good fun. For what it’s worth I feel pretty much the same as you about mtbing.

From what i saw of it on youtube – YES. Would be absolutely perfect if it were about 5 – 10 times as long. Could do laps of it i suppose…

Thanks for all the replies so far, I’ll probably have a look into what there is in yorkshire dales and scotland a bit as quite a few people have mentioned those. AS well as probably some of the other places others have mentioned.

May I be the first to suggest joining the RSF, or just get a touring bike and do some long back road tours.

http://www.rsf.org.uk/

very interesting, cheers, that’s the sort of stuff i’m looking for.

there’s a million miles of what you want in Scotland.

:idea: Where abouts in scotland :-) Anywhere near any train stations?
I could make visiting scotland a habit as long as I didn’t have to drive.

I suppose it’s a matter of researching but that just reminds me of one of the massive reasons why I always choose my road bike over my mtb. With natural stuff, there’s no way of knowing where to go or what’s a good route – a bridleway could be anything from an unrideable quagmire to a private farm track to something that peters out or doesn’t even exist at all. By contrast, most roads are pretty much guaranteed to be at least ok to ride, and are all included on a variety of *routable* maps.
By contrast, with mtbing, for every hour you spend riding some enjoyable track, you could have spent five discovering it. I don’t mean to whinge – but I just wonder how anyone else works out this stuff.

sorry, I’ll remove it, I suppose it is a bit cheeky. Was thinking of making just one post but couldn’t decide which section to put it in.

left.

I opened the electric door on a train to find a middle-aged lady on the throne. I don’t know who was more mortified. Kids waiting outside thought it was funny.

:lol: especially since you have to wait for the mechanism to fully open it, slowly, before it can start shutting, slowly! :lol:

i’ve ordered things before and the order’s just got lost – it’s as if I didn’t place it at all. No confirmation email, no money taken, nothing.

pointless bothering even looking.

couple of reasons, just my experience so I could be wrong.

I prefer the rack to be bolted solid to the flange, it just feels more secure to me. Having the towbar fitted is much cheaper. There seems to be a wider range when buying a rack, more options normally means cheaper.

yeah but you don’t NEED it to be a flange type.
I’ve got a swan neck one and a rack that clamps onto the ball.
It’s perfectly secure enough. It might not be as strong a fitting as bolts, but it’s secure enough. It never falls off. How much more secure does it need to be than ‘never falling off’?

How do you actually remove the rack from one that doesn’t clamp onto the ball – do you have to undo all the bolts every time you want to take the rack off?

22/32 is what i use, you don’t need a 36 unless you’re going to be on road a lot.

I worry that he can just do this whenever he wants. I think we need to get a proper shorthold tennancy agreement sorted out

as far as I’m aware they can’t just put it up whenever they like, there’s a certain limit (and the tenancy agreement cant’ override the limit.)
It might not be this, but it’s something like 10% a year. But if he doesn’t put it up for 3 years, he can’t then put it up 30% in the third year – so any years he doesn’t put it up he’s effectively lost the inflation for that year.

if you’re constantly worrying about sudden death, then it won’t be your life that’s ruined by your fear of sudden death, but your sudden death.

it’s idiOt. learn to spell. :roll:

I’ve long believed the concept of a tv detector van is physically impossible, in the same way that it’s impossible for a tree that falls down in the forest to know whether anybody heard it.

put a lot on bets at the bookies that are dead certs. Say, 8/10 ON, something like man utd against skegness town. You will hardly make very much on each one, but keep doing it a LOT and the profits will mount up.
Only do it on ones that you are personally sure that are dead certs, but that the bookies are (just) still taking bets on.

if i were you I’d get a shit hot lawyer and sue the tits off her.

I’m beginning to prefer the french method.

oh, so a normal mtb wheel is 3″ less in a diameter than a road bike’s wheel, not 1″ then??!

i’ve had a steel granny ring on my mtb for ages.

they’re called c clips

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/c-clips-where-to-buy

Helped by recruitment agents who will quite happily recruit a new manager for a company and then try to recruit his new staff off him back out to a different company.

As far as i can tell, a strike of the olympics would be great, since it would achieve the best of both worlds. It would achieve its objective, to cause inconvenience to the government, but instead of disrupting normal people’s* everyday lives as a consequence, it’s only really (or mainly) disrupting the interests of those rich and bored enough to attend one specific sporting event, or better still, those hoping to make money by sponsoring it.

*(for instance parents with schoolkids, people whose house might catch fire, people travelling on tubes, people who need coal, etc etc)

New zealand’s not bad but it’s apparently quite rainy and is miles away from anywhere, even australia. I know a bloke who’s emigrated there, he says he quite likes it. Well he hasn’t come back, so he must quite like it.
America and australia have more than their fair share of natural disasters for my liking.
If I could work there, I’d emigrate to france.

Wouldn’t fancy riding a horse down that

You’d be surprised.

Apparently there is a massive underestimation among non-equestrians about what you can and can’t get a horse down.

Think it was a radio program where a horse woman was saying how it annoys here how people perceive that you can’t take a horse on anything more technical than a tow path. Probably the equivalent of people who baulk at what we would quite happily ride a bike down, but that they would consider impossible.
Guess it probably also depends on the horse, and rider – just as mtbing so much depends on bike, and rider.

they’re absolutely fine.

As the sky at night is mainly black, space can’t be infinite, otherwise it would be all starry white due to the infinite number of stars.

Not necessarily, because less bright stars are in the way of, and block the light from, brighter ones further away. :P

Regarding flashing lights.
When i got knocked off recently it was become some daft bint ‘thought’ (for some reason best only known to herself) that I was turning left, into the road that she was pulling out of.
Now, it was dark, and the only front light I had on was my ayup which is bright, and non-flashing. I don’t know this for sure, but the thought has occurred to me that she assumed I was a motorbike, and therefore the only reason I would only be going 15mph on a NSL road is because I was turning left (even though I wasn’t indicating).
The point being that although you shouldn’t have to, a flashing light marks you out as ‘obviously a cyclist’.
I wouldn’t have a light as bright as the ayup on flashing, but in the future, on the front, I plan to have the ayup on constant and a secondary, backup light (e.g. a smart) on flashing.

it’s only skanking ebay, not other buyers.

ebay have only got themselves to blame for encouraging the practice by not allowing the seller to hide the fact that a reserve is in force. They know that the text ‘reserve not met’ puts people off and it’s this that deters sellers from using it, not the fact that they might have to pay a reserve fee. So, sellers use this as a way to implement a reserve without having to advertise the fact.

if anyone bids higher than they’re actually willing to pay because they assumed it wouldn’t go up that far and then finds that it does, then it’s their own daft fault.

bid what you’re willing to pay, and if their shill bid comes in over that then they won’t have sold it and you might find it gets second chance offered.

It’s a wind up. And I thought a pretty funny one. Not his first either.

Good work fella

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/front-mech-tensioning-device

er… excuse me, just for the record, that’s real!

you might think it’s a leg-puller if you got the wrong end of the stick and think it’s to be left in there while riding. It’s only for use while fettling. But it’s a genuine tool that comes with mechs and I posted it in response to someone asking about it.

Bonj/Beej….what do you guys do? I’m a Telco guy and have equipment to do such.lol.

I’m just a jobbing software programmer, but my boss has got loads of hare-braned schemes to conquer the world with texts :-)

Bonj , a bit harsh to still knock Canyon based on your bad experience from a couple of years ago.

well, i’m only reporting a factual account of my experiences.

You’re perfectly free to ignore that if you want.
They *might* have sorted the problem I had out, then again they might not. Doesn’t hurt to check, if it’s something that concerns you.

It’s all about giving the op as much information as possible in order to make the decision. I’m by no means saying ‘don’t ever get a canyon they’re absolute crap’.

@beej: no, it’s not spoofing or anything, all he’s done is totally legal, all I mean is he’s got a way of plugging SIMs into a ‘gateway’ and programatically sending texts from them.

My idea would rely on doing it without the network’s consent or even knowledge. In other words you would have to give/lease your subscribers some sort of mini-gateway (some sort of SIM-reader with a USB connection on – the hardware-specific bit’s the only part I don’t have a clue about) that they have to plug in to their computer and connect to a web service you deploy in order to earn the money from their minutes.

Obviously the more subscribers you had the more uptime you would have, as people can’t keep their phone next to their computer all the time.
It would also help to have subscribers in multiple countries if you wanted to use it for notification-based services as well as just marketing, but it would be fine for marketing as it probably doesn’t matter when it goes out as long as it does within about 24 hours.

be careful if a sram shifter’s cable is getting stiff, I have had one (the RHS/rear one) snap off before when doing a downshift. SS time, just hope you’re not in the middle of nowhere at night in a hilly area.

with shimano the distance from pivot to where you press it is longer. plus they seem to get issues with upshifting long before it gets stiff enough – problem with sram, it’s *too* precise.

Write some software to enable anyone like you who has unused texts to use up to be able to sell them for a fee. Sort of a bit like groupon.
You sell the texts wholesale to companies who buy them in bulk to use commercially, e.g. for text marketing, notifications, etc.
You then take your cut, and pay your subscribers with what’s left.
There are already companies that (re)sell texts wholesale, and all have different pricing structures. You’d be competing against these. But you’re different in that you’re buying ‘second hand’ ones off Joe Public – ones he’s not going to miss anyway, rather than straight from the networks, so you’ve got the chance to driver a much harder bargain.

I’d do it myself if I had time and knew the protocols, in fact I know a guy who does know a bit about the protocols so I might put it to him.

I personally wouldn’t have it. Get them to get you a new one.

impossible to change swing arm bearings. Used to have one and swapped it for a hustler due to the fact the bearings had worn and they were held in by a sort of proprietary bolt/rivet thing that you couldn’t remove. Get something user serviceable.

also I found the sizing thing is more comfort-oriented than handling-oriented, i.e. it will recommend on the large side. I had a large canyon but my hustler is only medium and it handles so much better.
For enduro or even xc race however i would probably rather the large however which is probably where canyon are coming from.

great, cheers.

No only one pad moves when you pull the brake lever. The issue you seem to be worried about is no worse than in hydor brakes as the BB7s inner pad is set nearer to the rotor during installation.

ok. not near enough for rubbing to be a problem though?

are they fairly “rub-free”?