mm, I haven’t seen the wheels myself, just googled for some pictures (which of course could be titled wrong) but if you have washers that thread onto the axle of the hub then they are 370s, the 350s (&240s) have push fit endcaps. Post up a picture sure..

I would say they are DT 370s hubs. Not star ratchet, they use pawls & springs.

You can still get Saracen Ariel frames with 26ins wheels & 140 or so mm travel, the 14x. Could be worth seeing if Madison will replace for one of those..

American classic hurricane disc?

Just 2 adjustments really- Reach adjust, the tool free knob on lever near the pivot and bite point adjust, the philips screw on the main lever body.

Syntace hiflex?

http://www.trickstuff.de/en/products/clapton_KL.php I think you need these..

I had a Green grapil (snapped) which was replaced with a black grapil frame (not snapped yet) but to my eye the swingarm looked much the same

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Hmm, my lower shock mount creaks under load and if I’m honest the back end seems a bit flexy on hard cornering.

Check the bolts holding your dropout plates to the frame, I had a replacement black frame, rode for a month or so & was taking the wheel out & to change a tyre, things were barely held on. Lots of loctite & a torque wrench later & they haven’t moved in 6 months.

As to upgraded swingarms- I wouldn’t hold your breath, I suspect madison got rid of all their grapil related stuff when they were clearing out the frames cheap.

I bought a pair of RS rebas from them, they were defective out of the box (blown air seals) but as I had cut the steerer they couldn’t do a straight swap (or so they told me) so I had to wait about a month while they sent them back to SRAM, SRAM looked at them, fixed them & sent them back.

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Picture me with a squid head..

Or if you just need to replace the rings I have a set of slx 10 speed rings (will work fine on 9 speed) that you can have for not very much

here is one..

Ta for that 🙂 3/4 bibs now suddenly slightly more affordable.

Nae pay rises at my lot this year. Or Xmas presents. Office folk got em thou!

Cant stand it.. Work offshore, so the hours are long (and feel longer when you have nowt to do) Long time away from the other 1/2, bikes & pastimes. Most of the time I don’t feel I’m capable of doing the job and when I try & bring this to the attention of supervisors etc at the job they tend to ignore it. My lack of motivation & laziness (as well as recognising that my job is fairly well paid for what I do) Means I’m never going to look for further employment till working offshore no-longer suits (starting a family etc) by this time I’ll have ruined my chances of developing skills or a a CV that could be applied elsewhere.

I would go for an ext. Bottom cup, I’m not beside me bike but I suspect that having an internal cup would cause the adjusters on the crown to bash into the down tube. BB is 73mm. While it says it has dropper post routing, its designed around a fixed exit cable like the KS lev or Gravity dropper. tried to make it work with the reverb hose, but you just end up with a loop of hose annoying close to the tyre or hanging off the BB. BBB hydro hose clips along the top tube work well. I use 150mm Magura thor forks on mine, the extra 10mm over the sektor 140 that came on it doesn’t seem to upset things too much.

DT Swiss 350s- much the same internally as a 240, just a bit heavier (And a good bit cheaper)

Should be fine with a 150mm fork, I have a pair of Magura Thor T150s on them, still climbs fine & doesn’t seem to upset the geo too much. If I didn’t already have one I’d buy one in a heartbeat.

I had a green one that snapped at the chain stay, totally out of the blue (scared the bejaysus out of dog who proceeded to follow me out of the forrest, barking his head off) Was replaced under warranty by madison eventually, but I would make sure you have warranty back up. Grand wee frame apart from that!

The back of the charger is made of 4130 chromo, hence being a bit skinnier than the front. Always fancied one myself!

I have just picked up one of the XT mechs from the post office, its a long (SGS) cage one.

Genesis High Lattitude LT?

Yeah, tired the code but it said that it wasn’t valid with current promotions (or something along those lines.) could be my dutch internet

Hrm, tired it there with no Success- its the ones with the red frame ya?

I had HEL braided hoses on my old model SLX brakes- no complaints, apart from needing a proper big vice to crimp up the fittings.

I think it depends on the chainrings on them- a shimano 2×10 double with a 38 or 40T big ring & the narrower Q-factor can foul on the pivot end of the swing arm.

What rockhopper is talking about is called selective availability, it have 100 or so meter offsets in position, but it was switched off a while ago- what you are seeing especially indoors is the effects of multi-path on the signals most likely. But don’t worry, Tis completely normal.

Only the 240s 20mm front hub can be converted, the 350s are fixed at whatever width you buy..

here Although Bottle battery seems very old skool

Few too many hotspots.

While I don’t work in the Oil & gas production / drilling side of things, I work in the subsea / offshore construction industry whose biggest client is- you guess it.. Oil & gas.
My experience of it has been mostly good, work is interesting, meet lots of pople etc. However- travel to remote parts of the world is a bit of a double edged sword, as you will see alot of departure lounges, heli bases, offshore supply bases in the middle of nowhere & not much else, its proably better when you are younger & can take time off at the end of a trip to travel, but if you are 41 & have a wife & kids I’m guessing that this wouldn’t be an option.

The quality of the accomodation (my experience is from constuction vessels & barges, not been on too many rigs) is quite variable, from having a room to yourself to having to share a cabin with 3 other people on differant shifts, makes for interesting sleeping patterns. The same goes for the quality of the food as above- Sometimes its great, sometimes you are lucky to see anything green for a month at a time.
Crewchanges can sometimes be a bit hit or miss too- I have done 7 week trips offshore with no end in sight a times, or crewchanges canceled due to weather / problems with the heli / your replacement got drunk & was refused boarding on a plane…

If you have a background in chemistry then that will help, working as a mud engineer would be a possibility (although given that drill mud is a nasty stuff, maybe not!)

What bigjim said about renewables is very true, most of my work over the past few years have been to do with building offshore windfarms.

Bit of a thread hijack… But is the el ciclon still for sale?

A stinger isnt much good in a 1×9 or 10 setup, as the chain will fall off the top of the ring. Better off with a top guide or a full guide. Changing your cassette to a 11-34 gives you a handy extra gear too.

Santa cruz UK have been very helpful to be before, 2 bolts had walked out of my ageing blur classic, emailed them about buying 2 new ones (as I didn’t need a whole pro pack) and they were sent free of charge next day..

Unless you have a monster sized bike & some downhill forks the Hoses will be too long & look daft (As well as potentially catching on stuff), so you will have to shorten them anyway, at which point you may as well run them the right way around.

Double and bash with a blackspire stinger or some other kind of bottom roller is usually the preferred setup.

Yeah, it involves a good bit of dremeling / stanley-knife-ing from memory. Shimano don’t really make a “Downhill” marketed SPD pedal thou, they have the DX (m647) pedal, which a few pro DHr’s use, like Ben Reid, but I think it was originally designed as a BMX racing pedal (still works fine for downhill & everything else thou) Where as Crank bros have 3 different models of one downhill pedal..

I think Fabien Barrel modified his shimano SPD shoes (the old DX ones) to run the cleats farther back. If you google for Fabien barrel SPD dowhill video or something along those lines I’m sure you will find it..

As to the second point- Lots of WC downhillers use Crank bro’s pedals because crank bros pay em to.. There is some differences, mostly that CB pedals have 4 entry position as opposed to 2, but in terms of cleat position there isnt any difference.