Could use a clean, and your rug is slightly wonky. :wink:

Go for it. They are a nice colour and can’t see them not working with that.
I’m a big fan of gold bars tho. I run a bright gold pair of answer pro tapers on a green Lappierre spicy.

Have you found these bars cheap anywhere?

Nice bars. Not got any myself, but a friend does. They are a bit less of a bronze colour than the pictures suggests. A bit more shiny.

They look best with black/white colours.

Think this was originally Northwind’s suggestion.
For putting them on, line up a few zip ties in the grip and slide in onto the bar using the reduced friction from zip ties. Then just pull the ties out.

Taking them off I just use a quick spray of IPA. Never need to take them off now tho with shimano brakes and I spec shifter.

The levers will come without any oil in I assume. You will struggle to fill every gap of the lever with oil without doing a full bleed. Give it a go, but you will almost certainly need to bleed it.

Rab vapour-rise

I got bored of looking for one and bought a new shimano chainset. Was a rubbish BB system anyway. So long!

Ribble have the new deore for £46.99 including BB

just bought one

Smudge at MTB Batteries is very busy at the moment with Solar Storm repairs and battery rebuilds

People are actually getting them repaired? Why bother? Just buy a new light surely? I have 3 X2 ligths fully expecting them to have a short life span. They are cheap enough to replace and certainly not worth repairing.

Repacement batteries – another vote for torchy on eBay Here is his shop Here

How low are your pads? Mine go back to the bar when the pads are really low (though mine are SLX so don’t have the contact point adjustment).

Maybe try giving them a bleed again if they were right to start with, could be a sign of air in the system.

Were you using the proper Shimano funnel?

Lyriks have the power bulge to fit bigger bushings in. You will need new lowers I imagine.

Edit: Try an oil change. The bushings need that thin layer of oil.

My mistake! Been on holiday and forgot time still runs at home!

Just going to add my 2p as someone who has ridden both rather alot. Llandegla is horrible. Nothing flows, its bumpy and wide and im sure they throw down rocks onto the trail surface to make it more like mountain biking.

Penmachno isnt a brilliantly made trail. Its more cut into the hillside, so it does become a bit of a stream when its mega wet. Loop 1 is normally fine with the exception of a couple of bits. It helps if you know the trail in order to get the best from it. If you dont, i think poor line choice will take away from the flow of it all. But it is fantastic and easily my favourite purpose built trail.

I read your angles should never have more than a 30 degree difference.

I found +15 -9 to be about right after a few tweeks. Shop set it at +9 -6 which felt terrible. It was my first time riding so didnt know any better.

Osprey.

Just bought a viper 13. Absolutely fantastic. I actually bought it with the main purpose of taking it snowboarding. But it will become my biking one now I am back. I may even get another one for less muddy use.

Pockets in all the right places. Loads of space, and the zip to close the bladder compartment is genius.

Most of coed y brenin is still closed. If your in betws, pull out an OS map and get going. Easy to get long rides from small areas in the woods and hills near betws.

Surely you need the bike first. How else will you get the pig home?

Just got back from week in serre che.
Fairly busy with all the ski schools going with the little gremlins, but fantastic weather. Had a dump of fresh powder first day we were there and cloudless days the rest of the week.
Few brown patches appearing towards the end of the week and the lifts were giving temps of 12 degrees on saturday at 2000m.

Rab vapour rise +1

Brilliant jackets.

Its not that bad. Marin always drains pretty well. Fair few trees over the trails/root plates pulled up the trails.

Penmachno I think is clear except the little bits they are felling (look on the FB page to see which sections).

Loop 1 is never very wet. Loop 2 is always very wet. But it will all be ridable.

Try them on. Cotswold staff are normally pretty good and will help you get one that fits. Although the only experience I have of Cotswold is the one in Betws y coed.

After today, just 1 more day of work before a mates stag do, followed by a week snowboarding in Serre Che!

Just a bit excited!

Climbing, WW kayaking, WW raft guiding, power kiting, snowboarding. Snow kiting?

Anything but golf… Spoils a good walk!

This was my first proper bike. Had a couple of cheapy ones before. But this took me on expeditions around Scotland and did the obligatory stair hucking in front of the ladies.

I bought this shortly after and owned both for a couple of years. Take note of retro zocchi’s with bolt on arch.

Rode this everywhere. Over the summer i would ride 10 miles to my mates house. Spend the day riding, then ride 10 miles back. Pretty much every other day. Even entered an XC race on it. Who knows why I didn’t take the trek!

I did same as Mister P
Was a bargain too. Didn’t sell on eBay which made haggling easy. Saved a few hundred on a car that only cost me a bit over 1k.

EBay seems like the best place as I spent a while trawling through the crap before finding my current car. Some of the prices dealers on auto trader were asking for a damp shed was crazy.

I don’t think wheels are the biggest concern. I have just got a frame with a 1 1/8 head tube and it isn’t easy to find forks that fit, and the options are ever reducing. So as long as tapered forks fit, I’d be happy with a 26 inch frame.

Edit: Beaten to it! ^^

Never touching tom tom again. It seems to pick extremely stupid routes. Garmin is much better on this front. No problems with garmin. Tho I use Google maps on my phone now.

Plus Garmin often have the free updates for life thing, which is very useful.

Thinking “a medium frame will probably be big enough”

8O That Stanton!

You want removable battery, yet also want apple. Hmm.

Moto G is the one to look at for cheap android. Moto X is the old one.

Get Samsung for removable battery.

Sorry to bump this thread up. Is the venom the same pack as the viper, just without the bladder?

A friend of mine has arrived at a trail centre meet up before now with 2 bikes and 3 wheels.

I prefer my PS2 version of need for speed underground 2

Pipe cutter and a file will be neatest.

How straight can you saw? ;)

Same as the home alone thread.
Coke horse and prawn

Viber is good because of the call function. But you need a fast phone to run it. It crashes my rooted HTC desire most times I try to start it. Whatsapp just works and doesn’t have a slow menu system.

Ha. Worth a try!

Mucky Nutz Butt Fender. Don’t do nuttin’!

I was in much the same train of thought as this. Until I took it off the other day. My God. I couldn’t see a thing. Constant spray of water.

They definitely work!

Wear contact lenses.

Lighter fluid.

Bought to move biking and kayaking kit around.
Probably an alps trip in the summer too.

Plus the huge tailgate is amazing.