I think it’s a stealth ad to make you use your lbs when you don’t know what your doing.

Haha could be.

Any other guesses just for a laugh.

Thought it was well known Megas chew through there pivot bearings pretty quickly. Not the only popular bikes that do either! It’s also not unusual for some frames and components to come with cheap nasty bearings and poor/no sealing design from the factory.

I’m not saying it hasn’t been used more than the listing suggests, jet washed to within an inch of it’s life or it’s just plain old car salesmen BS. I mean if it was a customer return, they’ve only got the customers word for it and who clocks push bike mileage to the letter.

You have still got more come back with them than your average secondhand seller! Was it cheap enough!?!

Life’s about microaggressions and small victories, which should be celebrated unabashed.

Merry Christmas bellends

Listen to the bassline talk.

It’s about time we quit playing games.

it was as awesome as Rogue one with the Vadar Scene.

The best bit of the recent stuff.

Fine when wet. The berms are tarmac and the rollers hard pack.

Cheadle is not the Bronx.

You can do half laps off the top of the second berm back to the top of the first, so you can try and clear the table top!

Your man Pedro was in a Sci-Fi film called Prospect that was pretty decent in a alternative/indie sort of way!

@mrmonkfinger There you go embedded now. Yeah that link won’t have it for some reason.

@Twodogs Makes a change to see a different narrative than old person harmlessly going about their business abused by young punks. I’m not expecting a knock on the door from the press complaints anytime soon!

We have a group of people (obviously not all of them) who are very vocal about not wanting anyone on two wheels anywhere, sanctioned or unsanctioned, doesn’t make any difference to them. It is not reciprocal. There are no groups of mountain bikers/cyclists, I’m aware of, who want or are pushing for exclusion of other user groups. Nor do they bowl around making sure everyone knows about it.

Only one Prodigy tune so far (minus points for that) and we haven’t exhausted the playlist by a long stretch. Not touched many of the cheesier/big hitters yet!

It’s a generic design. I’m sure there’s at least two other brands that sell them in various colours.

Yet another middle-aged dog owner who can’t share and has gone out of his way to cause and escalate any issues.

They’re always self-appointed and have time on their hands! Demand answers without authority, protocol and on behalf of people who didn’t ask them to do it. Attempt to appeal to a moral high ground. Incite “like-minded” locals into mini war cabinets, making a bigger deal of things than actually exists. Use media to garner a emotional response from the like-minded readership, these publications rely on for a living, who lap it up like sacred ambrosia.

It’s a British cancer.

UMC it’s a hospitality term :D

Fancy mediating between all these competing interests? With some behaving like children with eaten crayon smeared all over their faces, throwing shit at each other.

I know there are a few on this forum, **** that for a game!

if only they could use some of the £1000’s they now make from parking fees to employ someone to empty the bins

Seem quite happy to receive the coin, but do so whilst reducing levels of service in all areas with fewer and fewer staff. So they can eventually sell it off (bit by bit) as another poorly performing (blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs) public body. It’s the British way to stitch people up, run it into the ground, then blame said people.

They see it as a right to extract monies without any of the hassles. Maintenance pffft get some volunteer numpties to do it and frame it as community engagement.

This is what you’re up against, not to mention the hateful old **** who just want to piss all over anyone else’s fun.

What was that mantra again….

The trouble with bins is someone has to empty it. Britain has a big problem (see public toilets) with paying people to do it or anything for that matter. Don’t get me wrong some people really hate/resent their jobs (even though they pretend to like it) and want it to be fair i.e. shit for everyone.

You can get funding to build new things but there’s hardly ever any money for maintenance. Apparently it should be free.

I’ve seen litter problems far worse abroad then here, not just poor countries either. Jump spots (especially urban or close to urban areas) do seem to attract individuals who don’t give a ****. This gives fuel to the horrible (I’m being polite) subset of people who hate anyone younger than them and want to stop whatever they’re doing by any and all means.

Maybe people should be a bit more fickle with their social media choices. Instead of trying to plant a flag because they uploaded some videos dancing, banging on pots and pans, chucking an ice bucket over their heads, selfies out to eat/making some dinner or taking the bins out.

Bring back planking.

It’s **** all compared to UK Space Command.

The “spkunk works” is working on a project featuring a repurposed Sinclair C5.

2022 son you better believe……….

Those generic ones that Exotic, Moove and Superstar used to sell.

They can survive a nuclear strike but are a bit more than 30 quid!

People just moved on when a platform became stale or full of clowns.

Remember all the precursors!?!

You know people had weird bickering and quite vitriolic arguments about all sorts of stuff back in the days when computers were black and green and 9600 baud modem to dial into a bulletin board was cutting edge; including conspiracy theories, trolling etc.

I know but it was pretty self-contained and not on the same scale of the 24hr public slanging matches from the comfort of a sofa, work, bed wherever.

It rarely made the news or had any impact outside the platform.

The French got it right off the bat with the Croque Monsieur and Madame.

Unfortunately once the idiots showed up with their backward politics, control issues and two-faced lies. American businesses who want a fee for everything, sue each other and everyone at the drop of a hat. Celebrities who’s persona is their business. Allowing advertising revenue to dictate direction and terms, they **** it for everyone else.

If only they hadn’t been shown how to operate a computer. Had the UI simplified and added to cheap handheld devices, so even the stupidest of the idiots could join in at the press of a finger.

What happened to the days when the “cool people” just moved on and left the squabbling adult children eating the crayons and smashing the toys over each others heads!

I remember a small American MX company did a shock absorption stem with no articulated parts. The design was lifted/adapted from their MX range. Such a simple, cheapish and sensible solution to damping trail buzz. I’m surprised it hasn’t been copied and didn’t catch on.

It was on an EWS bike a year or two back.

I’ve not posted any mixes because that was how most people first heard these tracks, that or via compilations. Most were vinyl EPs (the first releases/promos’s/white labels) owned by DJ’s, wannabe DJ’s and “enthusiasts”. Hence a lot of people didn’t know the names of the tracks, as they were mixed, cut/mashed up, pitched up and well you know!

Vaughn Bode that is…..

If you can find a frame that has a low standover/short seat tube (410 and 400 on my bikes). This is important because getting air is much safer with the seat as low as possible and you shouldn’t really be sat down at all when pump tracking! A shorter reach than your usual, somewhere between you and your Mrs will be fine. I’d fit a stem that’s a little bit short for me and little bit long for her, with some nice high rise bars. Slack and long reach aren’t necessary or advantageous on pump tracks!

I use an NS Eccentric Alu Evo with 26 inch wheels (it’s 27.5 frame with a 27.5 fork) for this exact purpose. It’s light enough for less powerful people to throw around, is a really capable trail bike (I’ve had Blue Pigs before) and is reasonable enough on pump tracks.

To be clear a dirt jump bike with short travel/rigid, low profile tread tyres (pumped up solid) is best for (mountain bikers) pump tracking but would be pretty compromised on all but easy flow trails. You can’t have it all!

It did.

The vocals could be pretty iffy back then (limited sampler memory and lack of pitch independent time stretching) and were often added in later releases for radio play. Some were such an afterthought/resented by the artist they were even out of key!

Think the Congress riff was from this

I’d go for the instrumental of that Congress track, that vocal has been shoehorned in!

Or the Janis Joplin Tribute JJ Tribute.

My monies on the top bushing that split one. Replaced mine on a Brand X which is a similar (not identical) design post, without rebuilding and hey presto normal service has resumed.

Edit: There was no visible signs of wear on the bushing itself.

Every thread is a potential Brexit thread.

Marshmallowed

I agree it would be interesting to know whether it’s a supply issue/cost (if outsourced), a compromise for modularity sake or just the fact that’s what they tooled up for (design choice) from the get go.

Good luck getting any accurate information/trade secrets off private businesses that don’t suit their agenda or are already publicly available.

It’s a business point of view not an engineering one.

Virtually everything you buy comes from a business.

Why go from 36, plus 6 to 42, then only plus 4 to get to 46?

Because it’s less dies across the range of cassettes/less machines/tooling changes/ease of manufacturing. It’s the same as why they churned out tyres with the same TPI threads for years and resisted changing frame geometry for so long. The manufacturing processes were configured that way. Any changes cost money (new designs, machines and processes) and add complication (more parts and more complex processes). Most (not all) businesses IME avoid this and drag their heels as much as possible. I’ve used machines so old and battered (20-40 years out of date) customers would be shocked.

People need to get the romantic idea (suggested by marketing) that businesses are their mates, init to make things better for the customer, out of their silly little heads. They exist to make as much money as possible in the shortest timescale. This is achieved by charging as much as you can for as little effort as possible, hence why things are often ruined by endless cost reduction and price increases related to brand building. It’s a cycle they are all engaged in.

Any local bearing supplier. They supply industry, there’s loads all over the country!

You won’t go wrong with FAG, NTN, SKF, NSK or Codex.

Don’t give your money to the re-branding rip-off merchants, they offer high prices (usually at least double) and average to poor quality. ****-em they deserve nothing.