Simon told metadpole were getting excited about the ion. I have been hovering over the ac for some time, now there appears to be a big gap between 120 and 160mm travel though? Kind of think 160 is too much for almost everything I do, apart from the occasional alps trip I suppose….

Oil is less efficient as gas boiler technology is greatly superior due to a far bigger market. There’s nothing good about oil, very high carbon emissions and very expensive. I looked at a school once who were on gas. Would cost around £1000000 to put them on the gas main, payback was under 5 years!

I disagree, people who are just getting into bikes aren’t going to watch it though are they, as it’s even less interesting to them.

Those are great ideas

People who only commute or are interested in buying a first bike are NOT going to be interested in watching a whole hour of TV about it.

running commentary on their headcam footage!

Another one for interviews, some of the writers who’ve done books about touring would work, as they have stories to tell

Jedi Jedi jedi

Also (thanks Jedi!) if you don’t already ride with your brake levers angled so there is a kink in your wrist, do so, it will stop you feeling like you’re going to go over the bars, and will stop you going over the bars. They want to be somewhere a bit below horizontal, but most people have them way too far down.

Right, I’m moving to Holland. They have mountains there right?

Yes weldtite tubeless repair kit, around £5 from crc, I used it to repair a nail hole, worked a treat

I’ll mostly use it for bbs which are 6805 bearings, hubs are superstar ones, and possibly Royce but I would hope they won’t need replacing! Frame an intense spider.

The blind removal tool only removes them, so I’ll need something else to press them in. I have a cyclus headset press which is e right kind of thing, does anyone know if you can get alternative size fittings for that?

I don’t think they change shape as the air will just come in/go out the bottom. Additionally it’s the volume which would change by a tiny amount, so the linear distance (you’d be measuring) would only vary with the cube root of that change, pretty negligible. So get a ruler, hold it at arms length, measure your arm length and the apparent balloon dims, if you know the actual balloon dims its just some trigonometry

I left mine out, I assume it is there to lubricate the wiper seal? As long as you change the oil fairly regularly and oil the seal I can’t see removing it as a big problem. I don’t think all their forks have them either.

Sounds like rubbish to me, surely all rotors are made out of similar stainless steel, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was all exactly the same, and if they needed to warm up before working hten you wouldn’t be able to stop for the first few goes in a ride until your rotors had warmed up!

Clean thoroughly with IPA and make sure your pads are bedded in

Are you sure you can’t use UST anyway?

Thanks chaps. For the record, I checked the book and it says that the nipple length does make a difference, though how much depends on the nipple design

I have read the wheelpro book. However I can’t remember how he suggests you account for the fact that you can’t get spokes exactly correct, only to the closest 2mm or 1mm at absolute best, so there must be some variation and the nipples must take this up.

It does if you use DT Swiss spoke calc?

ahh Rose! forgot about them! Otherwise someone on ebay is selling 32 sapim for about £14 posted which seems reasonable

Yes I’d say they were worth it, I have the 44s

+1, an excellent cycling book and I thought he did come across very well. The rider by Tim Krabbe is also worth reading.

No, sounds like a bargain

sorry bored myself

well said BruceWee

God have mercy on my restless soul, I’ve spawned a monster

Yeah I agree with the thing about cyclists saying they had done as much as they could, but that is 100% their choice

My point has been missed by some – forget the helmets or not, we need to make the roads safer, saying cyclists should wear helmets is putting all blame squarely on cyclists and missing the point completely that we need to design roads safer, not be completely car-centric, and use the roads and cycle lanes safely.

The fact that a cyclist suggested helmets were the answer angered me somewhat.

There was a study which showed motorists treat cyclists differently if they are wearing a helmet, they drive closer. Certainly they help, but they are definitely not the answer to road safety. Driving and cycling safely are the answer, helmets should not come into that equation and are the last line of defence.

I always wear a helmet and always will, that is my decision though and should not be enforced.

Superstar reckon these rims will do it
http://superstar.tibolts.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=49&products_id=350
I haven’t tried it though

£60 for some extruded aluminium? Seems a bit much to me.

Roger Musson’s book has an interesting view on pinned/welded rims, ie that there is no difference once you have the spokes pulling the wheel together. Which is true.

Thanks, I have tried the old ghetto tubeless with non UST high rollers and some WTB tryes before, without much luck. I could get them up, usually, but they tended to burp air. After trying stans and 2bliss and being able to pump them up first time with a track pump I’m deffo sold on the rims which are designed for it. That said I wasn’t using 2bliss tyres before, so that may have been the problem…

Ahh ok, yeah I guess you can because that bit doesn’t do much. Pics would be great though thanks, my email is in profile.

Thanks Phil, You filed down the cylinder behind the piston then? I’m not sure how thick it is before I start doing that, looks like I need to take 1-2mm off

might this work?

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=13736

how annoying, I’ve emailed on-one to see if they have a list of compatible brakes!

Unless its pouring out I wouldnt worry too much, it’s just the Lubrication oil.. As long as it doesn’t all empty out!

You’re going too fast, that’s the problem.

Great, thanks