whole wheel, as thayve had some problems with the alloy nipples.

brakes will be fine mate cheers, gonna bleed them today.

dog is well happy here

ooh that'll be pleasant,ive yat to bleed my brakes after sundays effort, although the LBS are relacing my rear wheel under warranty.

spotlight weather just on as i type and they've just given out rain till friday and didnt mention the weekend, ****.

oh rich have mailed you photos of floyd

those lake ones in the review tab up there ^^^ look warm an toasty. for the 1st tim eever i think i going to invest in some winter footwear, i'll get either the shitmano mt90's or the northwave ones though, the lake ones are too toasty for the south!!

its wazzing down here (i live 2mins away from course)and has been for a wee while now. the course probably wont dry out although they will change some stuff that gets awful/boggy/unrideable in the wet, ive just seen the local forecast and its different to machine's forecast up there in that north devon, i'll be praying for sun but they're giving out heavy rain and 20mph winds all week, either way the trails will be a shitfest after 1500 riders over it so i'll be on my bonty mud x's and cursing whoever entered me into the madness.

see youse there and im afraid i cant comment on the actual current state of the course as i've never ever ridden it outside of a race and wouldn't ever consider it ever ever ever, I wouldnt dream of it, not even at night, or for that matter during the daytime either, and i certainly wouldn't know of anyone who had been in there either.

wot the said, they aren't to hard to bleed at all.

i'll be there too, trail snail racing.

i'll be alongside julian wilson pi$$ing/rimming/applying bum vinegar into sponging machines water bottles and hoping he'll be too tired to thump me when he gets in from the lap…

its not going to be too nice even if it dries up, mud tires a go me thinks!!

no i was there with 3 other blokes

was up there today in the rain..was very nice until my rear wheel shed a spoke and my brakes decided to stop working…

have you been swabbed for PVL?

you'll need a hollowtech bb. thats all.

ah the joys of laps in the wet, well at least it'll make for interesting river crossings as that little river does get pretty fast/deep when the rain comes down off the moor like it has been doing.

another 5tenner here and i have the 16" its 'bob on' for everything

best bike i own

just make sure you got the right size, is the only tip i'll give.

sold mine after one ride…too big for me although it was a med and im 5'10"

2miles away from newnham here also. wazzing it down today,. and last nights ride was just terrible (no not newnham but cann just across the road) i'd leave the NN's off in favour of something more mud orientated a la Monsieur wilson's advise, i'll be on 1.8 bonty mud x's if it stays like this, spesh captains if it dries up a bit.

rich quantocks is still on atm, as long as its no torrential and driving wind we'll head up after i finish work around midday, i'll text as we leave.

pray for sun.

damn and nothing doing in the 16" bikes..pah!

sold my heckler and kept my 456..

prefer the feeling of the trail rather than a dulled sensation that fs gives. im not slower on my ht either.

what are the frame weights for the paupers versions of the ragley and the mmmmmmmmbop? doesnt say on the hotlines website blurb

i never really got the whole, ss if its muddy thing, i regularly ride through all manner of muddy chossy conditions and not once in many years has my drive chain given up (i did have problems with chainsuck on my inbred but thats a separate issue which is now fixed).

'apparently' the course is very overgrown around cottage descent and the 'new bit along the river' at the moment so i hope they get in there with the strimmers soon.

SM, shouldn't you be working!!!!

take both and swap around as suits. either will be fine though.

you can search my thread from ages ago, but i smacked **** out of my chainstay with a ball end of a hammer (nice job too) and havent had any problems since, so i'd reckon it'd be ok. at that price they are a bargain mate, get one.

for me its the bobby Mcgees. but then i like ukulele

song here

isn't it built in the way of all that other stuff piled up..?

thats cool, light and stiff is always good, just what i want

cheers bp. kinda what i was after, although i use my u-turn a lot on my 456 so will go for that.

no no and no… i still want them though!!

i do ok on the pikes but reckon at 5.4lb they could be lighter and if the revs give good performance then im in like flynn.

ye i found some cheap ones too, thats why i was thinking about doing it

daffy i know what you are saying, and it is a concern i reckon, but im not into treating anything precious, just wondered whether its worth the extra $

im in the same boat..!!!

my 456 steely is 16" and im the same size as you, 16" is good for chucking around and although i have a fair amountof post showing it feels good on all day xc rides too.

pikes on mine.

heh heh

loose the shitawful tyre for a decent one and then go in hard and fast on a high roller, no washout then problem solved…

nice one i will,
cheers

i’ve had a PA, sold it after one ride, just didn’t get on with it.

just try a few and see what you like

all depends on budget, you gets what you pays for!!

im going with the family, any events for 3yr olds?

2nd jambo, sounds like hashers to me

bring some good earplugs if that horrible jazz singing/wailing banshee is going to be there again, scooby dooby doo wah wah wah beebopbeebo etc etc utter shite and i came close to ‘piss bombing’ her a la festival stylee last year, especially in the wee hours it wasn’t fun at all.

wot all of them said ^^^^

stumpy looks good

chill out, she’ll be all good.