hora – Member

Ok I’ve checked the steerer serial number these are the 2015 middle (evolution?) model.

If I run the fork on the ‘D’ setting the fork can unexpectadly drop/spike down into its travel almost washing out the front. So if I run more air in the forks become really firm/stiff feeling.

I’ve ended up using the trail setting 99% of the time with 180psi. The fork tends to be overcome on multiple/repeated hits even if I run lots of rebound or more damping. It still pogos out.

There is no air loss. It does leave oil rings on the stanchions- this is after 5+months of use if that helps?

Yesterday I dropped the BOS air shocks PSI down below the recommended psi for my weight as it was too firm- and this made the shock but it also really showed up the front- just how stiff and unwieldy it feels
Reckon you may have a proper problem with them. Mine are Float rather than TALAS but presumably similar design for the most part. I am about 85kg fully kitted and running 80psi rather than the 180psi you are running. FWIW a couple of days ago I did the Ciaran path – lots of steep multiple rocky hits on that. Forks were pretty near faultless

Yup, that’s exactly the problem I had. Either the right pressure for normal riding but they blew through all the travel too easily, or the right pressure for reasonable hits but then far too harsh for flat trails. The Push cap sorts that by reducing the air volume so it ramps up properly. As per the previous post, now running 20psi less but still holding up nicely on the steep stuff. You get three different sizes so you can choose which works best, rather like the Pike tokens. Best £40 I have ever spent on the bike – transformed them from mediocre to really good

Stick in a Push air volume cap from TFT. Can’t link to it as for some reason my iPad is playing silly buggers but Google TFT and go into fork parts. It’s £40 and transformed my CTDs so I am now running 20psi lower without getting any blow through the mid stroke but plusher in normal riding.

For such low cost I can’t believe Fox has not done this themselves seeing all the criticism they got for these forks

The classic lollipop route has to be the best one day loop in the country IMO.
The Beinn Damph circuit is a nice half day, and the climb is probably 70% rideable on a dry day. Definitely start at Annat so you finish with the descent
Up and back to Loch Coire Mhic Fhearchair is great if you like rock, and the corrie itself is simply stunning. Top half round Sail Mhor is mostly a push/carry
The loop round Liathach is a total march of doom and not worth it IMO.
Another nice half day is doing the Annat descent by taking the path up by the Ling hut to Coire Grannda and turning right
Out and back from Lower Diabeg as far as you want to go towards Red Point

haggis1978 – Member

Youve got a Bronson Carbon, the frame alone skint you around £2.5k and youre worried about shelling out £40 for a tin of paint on your own?? Sort it out man FFS lol

Fair point, well made. Probably comes from living in Scotland and not liking to waste stuff. I will go that route if there aren’t any takers within a day or so

I work for a company that sells “Big Data” stuff. FWIW a few points that we tend to make, and I am not technical so don’t know any of the geekery

It’s really four “V’s”. Volume, velocity, variety, value” although though that’s really consultant bulls**t. There are lots of industries that generate enough data to make capturing and analyzing it a challenge such as:
Financial Services: all trading across commodities, stocks, currency etc
Utilities: data coming every 30 mins from Smart meters (or will do)
Utilities and oil companies: SCADA data being produced every 0.1 secs by tens of thousands of sensors
Security services: monitoring emails, mobiles and social media

Relational databases are very good at holding vast amounts of data but there are two challenges:
1) Cost of storage is high when you take into account the hardware, software, management, support, etc. A Hadoop environment is much cheaper for storing large amounts of rapidly changing data
2) You need to do a lot of data modeling to get stuff into a relational database and it needs to have consistent structure which is not the case in the examples above. Relational is hard to get data into, but easy to get it out, whereas Hadoop is the opposite as you can just dump anything in

So if you have huge amounts of different types of data arriving at high velocity and you want to extract value from it, you can dump it into a Big Data environment, do some analysis, throw away anything that’s irrelevant and move stuff you want to keep into your higher cost relational environment.

I got it HERE

Just got my touch up pot of RAL 1016 plus gloss coat so will try it against the original paint on my Bronson at the weekend and report back

That’s not the right colour. According to SCUK/Jungle, the Pantone ref is Pantone 388c or 381c which translates to RAL 1016

Managed to answer my own question. Found THESE people who provide touch up or aerosol to match RAL colours

andyl – Member

Powder coat isn’t like wet paint so you can’t buy a touch up paint for it.

I didn’t know that. I guess then I just need “normal” paint in a small quantity to a specific Pantone reference. I’m thinking of something like the car touch up stuff you get in Halfords

Has nobody amongst the STW massive done a bit of scratch touching up on their pride on joy? I don’t mind scratches lower down the bike as they are just war wounds, but the ones on the top tube, plus the rub patch from my knee, are bugging me

agentdagnamit – Member
Osprey material is very thin, tearing thin I’d say. Light weight though, but prone to rip on climbs, probably ok on the bike.

I have been using a Talon 22 for 4-5 years as my all day pack. The material looks like it would rip just by looking at it, but I can testify that it is amazingly resilient. It has been well used and had numerous big offs into rocks and all sorts of stuff, but still doesn’t have a mark on it. Is tick it in the washing machine and it comes up like new

I got my Bronson back in June and have done everything from XC to full on Munro bashing on it. Can’t recommend it highly enough and it has definitely got me doing things I couldn’t do with the old bike which was a Blur LT.

Is it worth the money? I think so but then realistically I have not done a direct comparison. I bought it because I had the Blur for 6 years and loved that bike for its ability, reliability and crash resistance.

When I bought the Blur I did back to back tests with a Trek and a Giant. On paper there was no real difference except the price, but riding them was like night and day. Like jumping out of a Golf 2.0l diesel and into a GTi. Having read the ride reports on the Bronson it was reasonable to assume that SC have done with the Bronson what they did with the Blur.

So for me at least, it’s not marketing hype, it’s real life experience and reading reviews. You will only find out with a test ride. Worth noting with SC that buying a complete build is usually not saving anything. Often cheaper to go for the frame and specify the build you want with your LBS, or build it yourself

Exchanged a few emails with him and rode with him once – Ben MacDui from Linn of Dee taking in the Loch Etchachan descent. By a long way the fittest and most talented rider I have been out with. On top of that, just a thoroughly decent guy, always helpful and so passionate about mountain biking

Heartfelt condolances to his family. A great loss. RIP Brian

rickt – Member
Yeah,

In short, unsrewed BPC out to max > leveled the lever > topped fluid up,> slacked bleed nipple and did a few lever strokes to pump fluid through > tighten back up nipple, > topped up fluid > moved lever downfacing, > few lever pulls > raised lever > tapped hoses/top cap to push air to top > re-topped oil to brim, refitted.

End result… loads of lever travel still.

Done the above a few times also pushing pads back in too.

Nope, wrong. Watch the Hope video.
Slacken bleed nipple just enough > pull lever to the bar slowly and hold > tighten bleed nipple > let lever out
Keep repeating this until you see now air bubbles coming out and/or fresh brake fluid comes through showing you have flushed all the way through. You will need to top up the reservoir about every 3-4 pumps. If you let the fluid get to low the lever drags in air and you have to go back to square 1.

And you need to do the tapping thing before you set the levers back to horizontal as per the video

Did you wind the BPA all the way out prior to bleeding? And did you do the bit at the end of the bleed process where you point them down, tap them a bit and then refill?

After that its wind them all the way in then for mewind them out 3 clicks

allthepies – Member

I had this a few months back. Can’t remember what I did about it however.

Facebook did have a process for dealing with it, I’ll try and remember

Would be great if you can rack your brain. Not getting anywhere at present. If you log a report it just says they will use it “to improve Facebook”. Otherwise there are no options to specifically report someone using your email

Just email your email provider, and tell them that someone is using your account. They will sort it.

Don’t think thats going to work. She is not using my email address, its just associated with the wrong Facebook account so its not an email issue

Go for this option then ….

Go to her page, click on the thing that looks like a cog, select report, fill in the details of your complaint.
I will give that a try, although I already did that from my page and nothing happened

Specifically –

Tus respuestas no son suficientemente precisas. Vuelve a intentarlo con respuestas más específicas.

Nope, thats not going to work. Did the password reset and confirmed but to confirm its the right person and not a hacker Facebook are asking for further identification. I have to identify the names of several people tagged in photos which is clearly impossible

No interest in trying to muck around with her account. Just trying the logging in route. Will report back.

Don’t think I could log into her account as I have no way of guessing the password, especically as she is Spanish. Looking at her page, seems she works in Burger King

I have sent her a Facebook message – see if that works. Don’t know if she speaks English so she may not even understand it

piemonster – Member

This thread is useless without pictures

Cheers for all the responses guys… had a look at the Bronson the other day – looks so good but I’m struggling on the spec it comes with. All Deore on something at £4.8k just don’t look right.

You can get the aluminium Bronson with full XT AM spec and Pike forks for £4800. With a bit of discount, or buying the frame and collecting the bits yourself, you are getting close to your £4000 target with a decent spec

There was an excellent article I read a few years ago about seat height and how the professionals did it. The bottom line is that you want top of saddle to top of pedal to be around 107% of inside leg measurement.

The easiest way to achieve this is to sit on the saddle and put your heel on the pedal, keeping your hips level. At the bottom of the stroke your leg should be just about locked out.

I agree with the comments about the frame being too small for you, so if the budget does not stretch to a change, a layback seatpost would help. A vertical line from the pedal axle when the crank is horizontal should be just on the front of the kneecap, not the back as someone said

I am very careful about my whole riding position as I have serious ligament damage in my right knee so need to protect it as much as I can

cynic-al – Member
I know of nice/interesting places

I am looking for good, recommended B&B/hotels please!

EDIT: CaptainMainwaring, looks lovely, what kind of discount do I get for being a stw Big Hitter/bellend?
10% more than the standard rate :-)

There is a 10% special offer on at the moment – it should show up on the website. Can’t do better than that but if its at the weekend I can throw in a guided tour of the local trails with a pint of Old Scrotum at the end of it

Self catering with biking and walking from the door, plus secure bike storage? This is our place, run by my MrsM, and it does get good reviews on Tripadvisor The Knock[/url]

As above, the Bronson is the obvious choice, either carbon or aluminium. Techy trails is what I do and it’s just perfect for them. Should be reasonably readily available now as eh have been out since April

We have had one for about 18 months. Comfortable, plenty of room, surprisingly good to drive and plenty of room

It is also very capable off road – Mrs M uses it fairly seriously working the dogs

Was in Torridon for a couple of weeks in June – family holiday. We were incredibly lucky that it was reasonably windy just about every day so only saw a few midges on one day sitting in the sun outside the Torridon Inn. If you are lucky its one of the best places to mountain bike.

The Annat/Coire Grannda/Achnashellach/Fionnairich/Bealach na Lice is probably the best loop in the UK. Perfect day out

Beinn Damph loop anti clockwise is a nice half day ride if its dry – watch out for the bike swallowing puddle about 2/3 the way along the loch

Ling hut path up to the bottom of Coire Grannda then turn right to head back to Bealach na Lice and back to Annat is another nice half day

Out and back to Coire Mhic Fhearchar via Coire Dubh Mor is another good half day. Push/carry most of the way up and the descent is a bit on/off the first 1/3 but well worth it for the view of the coire which is really special, plus a brilliant technical descent for the bottom 2/3

This is my Bronson which I’ve had for about 2 months. Enormously impressed with it both climbing and descending. “Value for money” means different things for different people, but my build was under £6k which I am happy with. I did spend a bit of money upgrading a lot of the components to Hope

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You want the bike I would have bought if it was available in carbon. Nicolai Helius AC. 66.5 deg head angle, adjustable 140 or 150mm travel, bomb proof and beautifully built

Sheet 25 of the 1:50000 does the main Annat to Achnaschellach loop, but you need sheet 24 if you are doing the circuit of Ben Damph and sheet 19 if you are heading up to Coire Mhic Fhearchar. I use Memory Map and print the bits I need for a ride on to an A4 sheet and stick it in a map case

I had a 58 plate MK V R32 manual for 4 years from new – sold it last year with about 45k miles onit. I’m a bit of a petrolhead and tend to change my car every two years, but after 4 years the R32 was still putting a grin on my face.

Sorry but there is a fair amount of rubbish being spouted above. A few comments:
0-60 time is not much quicker than the GTi but the 4WD is hugely confidence inspiring in very wet conditions – I live in highland Scotland.
The A3 may have the same engine but its a totally different car. Does not have the R32 suspension and is absolutely anodyne to drive, like 99% of Audi’s. I had a previous generation S3 which was very quick, had huge amounts of grip and was as dull as dishwater
My interior after 45k was absolutely mint as I looked after it. Same as any other car some will have been looked after and some not – the leather interior seems to hold up well
Good condition R32’s hold their value really well as they are relatively uncommon and are a bit of a cult car
The only thing that went wrong with mine in 4 years was one of the electric fans failing in the first year which was replaced under warranty
Service is every 10k, with the 20k ones being bigger. IIRC the 40k service was around £200
I do almost no town driving, and drive “enthusiastically” rather than manically and got around 28mpg

I still can’t think of another car for around 2nd hand R32 money that combines the same performance, fun, practicality and reliability

I’ve been using Avery’s for years and very happy with them. If you want stuff in the £4-£6 region go Laithwaites but for £6-£7 and up go Averys.

You don’t have to accept their monthly or quarterly packages. They have mailings each month with lots of offers including mixed cases

Must be a faulty part. Hope anodising seems to last forever – afer 4 years the red hubs on my Blur were only very marginally lighter than the new red floating rotors I put on.

Send it back for instant, so fuss replacement

Hope bashguard. Weighs very little, has proven remarkably robust, looks great, comes in different colours
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My Bronson. Not only descends well but a brilliant climber too, and it’s reasonably light. You can tell I’m a bit of a Hope fan

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Did this yesterday. The track skirting round the NW flank of the gap is pretty easy. IIRC about 10 mins hike a bike then a bit of pushing. Not even too much wasted height gain. Much quicker and easier than going through the Gap