Bounce have been good for me. Stainless steel pins, so should in theory, be harder wearing than softer metal pins. Whether that has any affect on the bearing surface (usually wears out first) of the two most common types of eyelet bushing (DU and Polymer), I don’t know.

Never tried the ceramic bushed or needle bearings! Needles (can be expensive) are supposed to be better on high rotation linkage point/s (less friction) and ceramic are supposed to offer better wear resistance than DU AFAIK.

Call to prayer

a real eye opener to the frankly **** awful state of UK renting.

Yeah but one generation are doing very nicely out of it and have bought up most/nearly all of the cheap housing stock in a triple whammy to current and future generations. They can leech off (predominately low/minimum wage earners) to fund their luxury early retirement.

Suits the government as well. Let the slum landlords manage the troublesome social housing tenants and dump all the social problems that come with it on private residents and the private sector. All very nicely out of the way from where they live!

Most ministers are in the same boat, nice little earner for them, their families and mates. It’s all very Victorian and no accident.

It’s win win for them, so don’t any of you bastards dare point it out!

Can’t see them being able to make this sort of thing in the woke era!

It appears so. The layers of Great British snobbery and stereotypes they are lampooning seems to go over the heads of some.

There are groups of people in this country who revel in stirring up divide, egged on by turncoat/bitter/opportunist cheerleaders.

One of my grandparents who lived in a deprived northern area was interviewed by a BBC news reporter. She (RIP) was erudite, informed and progressive. Of course the news editors decided that wasn’t fit for national news. Instead they focused on interviews of toothless people who could barely string a sentence together, as proof of the type of people/scum who live in her area.

Let them drink Tennents Super.

A bit of flange and a spelling error

Does it include the once a year pilgrimage to the Lake District retail villages to buy a 300 quid (reduced from 500 bargain take meh monhey) sleeping bag coat from Sean M Cummings Outfitters and go to the pub, I mean hike.

Assuming you haven’t goon handed the seat clamp. Most slow to return Brand X posts can be repaired with a new Igus split bushing. it can be replaced without rebuilding or removing the post from the frame! It will not get rid of any play, before you get all excited.

To check you undo the top collar, usually but not always hand tight. Carefully push the collar up out of the way, then push the post down about halfway and actuate it. It should pull the split bushing out at the top of it’s stroke. If your post blasts up and down with the collar and bushing out, you should be good! If it doesn’t the problems internal, usually the cartridge, some can be pumped up some can’t.

It is, of course, best practice to rebuild the entire post with fresh grease and importantly replace the collar seal, if it has been letting water and shit in.

Space Force…………some lord or other paid over a hundred grand a year to have his intern hit page refresh (Internet Explorer 8) on the SpaceX website once a week.

Last weeks deep dive Kingsman, Matrix and Moonraker.

Will make a change to see anything other than “headteacher headteacher the orange windbag said this” on the news and social media. The saturation coverage seemed to push most other things down the agenda.

A pair of gas giants everyone would like to see pummelled by meteorites.

Narrow Minds eh….

The disturbing thing is, It’s not so much young naive people you’d expect. It’s people who should know better, who are spreading the bullshit around.

A bloke I know (runs his own public facing business) believed all this shit about the rona, heard it from a nurse apparently (yeah course you did mate). Funny thing was, after I debunked one after another of his conspiracy tropes, he looked deflated like all the fun had been drained out of his life.

Have seen the people he discusses this shit with. It’s a thrill in their boring lives, there being some clandestine evil forces behind everything. Almost like the housewife fantasy in True Lies!

Maybe stating the obvious and hopefully this doesn’t come across as patronising…..But you will have to train your brain to accept different but similar triggers. Competition with an end result drove you before and it can still drive you. The competition can be anything, to not age as fast, maintain your weight at reasonable levels, get to the top of/explore the nicest spots, improve/learn a different discipline/bike/sport. Whatever suits you but isn’t the same as before!

Riding a bike doesn’t have to be so result and/or metric driven. That’s not to say they can’t be used as an aid (Strava etc), just not the be all and end all.

Unrealistic and demoralising targets, without an eye on it taking longer than it would of in the past are not the best way to kickstart a new chapter!

I think the coming years will take it’s toll on people who are emotionally invested in being right on social media. It may slowly dawn on them, in reality, people aren’t going to run everything by them first. Demanding answers to leading/closed questions of their framing won’t yield the results they want.

The wannabe Brian Clough’s are going to have a torrid time and should set aside plenty of time to win the battles!

Yep, was in Rutland cycles local ebike shop the other day (killing time) and amazed at how many bikes over £5k they had, £5k seemed about mid price for their stock. Several over £10k

I noticed the ebike bandwagon is the latest gold rush! Shame most of them end up bouncing back through the doors for warranty repairs in yet another MTB QC bit of a mess. Edit: I didn’t type “bit of a mess”

Seems like a parallel world to me. I look at the stuff on here and other major sites and the frankly ludicrous RRP’s for branded disposable tat.

Loads of complete bikes have had year on year price rises and spec reductions, usually cheaper nastier forks. Seen some go from gold Sektors to them shitty RS silver (always rust through) TK dampers with a price rise to boot.

IME most people in this country hate each other and begrudge anyone that’s not like them a living, unless it’s viewed as noble enough! Most things are done via stitch-ups and spite, which is encouraged in the survival of the fittest workplace, where you are constantly reminded how grateful you should be and how lucky you are.

People continually vote for liars, as long as it’s broadly (in the loosest sense) in-line with their ideology and stoked rage du jour, then complain about them being liars.

The only radical things that gain fervent support are usually punishments of one form or another.

A part of me would love to airdrop a 16 pack (just a pack a time) into a crowd of these arseholes. Watch (video goes without saying) them eviscerate it and slug it out over individual rolls, like when you throw a whole slice of bread into a raft of ducks.

I enjoyed the last round as much as black friday Blaupunkt telly tug of wars! If you pick the right music to go with it, it’s therapeutic and satisfying.

The clever ones always get in first.

Nasty little jump that near the start, proper bucky, caught a few out as mentioned above.

It’s always them shitty small ones (like kids build down the woods) with a short steep takeoff, no scoop, that boot the back wheel if you’re not fast to squash it.

Been happy at 760mm for the best part of four years 740 prior to that.

As for short reach (not too short of course) it’s better for wheels off the ground jibby type riders. If you just want to steamroller local bridleways/rocky tech at speed, the longer big wheel bikes are better.

Hasn’t it always been so with jump orientated riders sizing down!

Nearly all the deals I’ve done have been as I’ve been walking out!

Dealers are hard faced and have seen it all before, you have to play just as hard. Always have a pool of vehicles to purchase from. Never set your heart on anything or you will pay over the odds and that’s exactly how they want it!

Some are prepared to wait it out for a ripe plum duffer (there’s one born everyday) to show up.

Something for the weekend.

Here you go a side on view of the drop. It’s a fair old huck and definitely not a marked part of the trail system. I eyed it up and thought nah not for me!

Watch the head bob as he lands! Incidentally the drops were there and ridden before it had surfaced trails. Some of the old DH lines and drops are still there off the side of the highest part of the red trail.

I’ve used dot 4 but it did cause UK wide flooding and some children died, yes it was my fault!

Astrix and Space

Cloud Nine

North Face sleeping bag coat some walking poles and rucksack. You’ll be kitted out for a Great British walk (not too far from the motor) around a Lake District town centre or retail village (call it a hike) then pub lunch to recover!

A bit

Some gladiatorial elbows out racing on a mega type track would be good.

Whatever it is, it sucks, my bad, anyhoo.

Any contrived wholesome/monetized/stealth advert/viral videos?

Not there yet!

It’d be awful.

Le Mans start?!?!

Millie johnsets run is worth watching

That was horrible, she got wash boarded along the rocky ground on her face and shoulder good and proper. Sounded like she was crying on the live feed after it. Can’t blame her, poor kid has had a few ugly crashes that would have most people calling it a day!

Tahnees case was fantastic. You’ve got to see it.

Skin of the teeth arse clencher that.

Good to see Vergier get one and Iles looking predatory on the bike. Bodes well for the future with all the new bloods looking sharp and well up for it.

Yup the sleeve should slide easily out of the way.

You have to use the hollow axle itself (block of wood against it) to bang the first axle bearing out as it’s locked in place (the axle) once both bearings are pressed in! It’s always the smallest axle bearing that’s **** and the most exposed (outside) bearing in the freehub, which means you end up doing all of them!

Take the end caps off, freehub and the non-drive side snap ring. Then all will be clear.

You can use the threaded collars that hold V-brake (threaded stud) pads in. With them being tapered and having an allen key end to aid tightening, they wedge fit into the opposite side of the stripped hole, protruding slightly but not bad at all! You will need longer bolts though, M8 I think.

It might have involved some drilling out, can’t remember TBH. It’s a bodge, a solid bodge though, that definitely works, I have a crank that has been like that for years!

How’s everybody feelin?

Reported and pending lifetime ban. Dear boy teabags are not acceptable, including the gold version of that pleb slurry.

Be gone you uncouth rotter.

It’d be fun to watch though

Exactly something TT rarely captures.

For the love of god please spare myspace and AOL. I haven’t completed Farmville or Candy Crush yet.

If they are the same hubs used on the MTB wheel builds with 120 point engagement hubs.

REAR AXLE
Drive = 6902 RS
Non Drive = 6002 RS

There’s 2 identical bearings in the freehub as well but I’ll have to look in my toolbox as I didn’t write down the numbers.

In terms of sourcing the bearings get them from a local trade supplier, rather than bike specific re-branding clownshoes. FAG, SKF, MTN and Codex are all decent.

Repressed:

Remix of Sooth My Soul. Pushing the remit a bit what with it being Jungle and not particularly proto!

Reminds me of a bit of trivia from about 10 years or so back. One of the big old-skool Jungle labels Moving Shadow were such obnoxious arses with people on YT, in the days before all the corporates and their handlers locked it down! To repay their arseyness someone posted their entire catalogue of HQ vinyl rips as a set of torrents for all who wanted it.