The trail was never ‘designed’ as such. A lot of the sections are many years old and were built by Gorrick & BOB as hidden trails that they agreed with the CE were not to be publicised. As their use increased so they were improved with the ‘ginger’ and some new trails built. The ‘Stickler’ for example was a newish intended to be a hidden ‘secret’ trail.

The various sections were then joined together with new trails to make the publicised routes that are there today.
This. The decision was taken that as the numbers of riders were increasing (thanks to the likes of bike mags advertising it), it needed making safer and hardening, so they called Rowan Sorrell’s lot in who gave it all the ginger/trail centre treatment.

Don’t have an SC, but my Yeti bearings are the same. Just had the shop change them and they pulled the seals and filled them with grease for me. Said they see them last a lot longer. Must admit, I’d popped the seals before on the old bearings and packed them out too.

Yeti also have similar bearing covers. Do SC tell you to apply liberal amounts of grease between the bearing and cover (not the bearing seal)? I’ve always been in two minds as to whether to pack it out to keep water out, or whether it would just attract dirt and cause creaks?

You should send it to them, labelled ‘long term test complete’. They’d probably be quite intrigued to see what its like after so many years of neglect! 😀

Booo – doesnt work for me

https://goo.gl/photos/dXdBSetk4d288wkV8

I still dont have the option and am a Premium member on Strava.

Are you getting to this via the Segment Explorer?

I don’t see that and I have premium. Hunted down the same segment too. Wonder if they are rolling it out member by member?

Not a 95, but I have a SB66c. Upgraded from the stock Fox Float CTD to a Fox Float X with tune direct from TFTuned and been more than happy with it. Went for a very fashionable “enduro” tune, with good small bump handling which ramps up on bigger hits. Def doesn’t blow through the travel like the original Float did. Handled everything in the Alps with ease (went down to White Rooms).

What particular issue do you have with the current one? You could possibly just get it serviced and tuned by TFT and not need a new one.

Plates and lights have to be visible. Emergency kit (triangle, hi-viz jackets) all have to be reachable without leaving the car I believe. Don’t forget bulb replacements and breathalyzer (x2 as you always have to have one and you need one to use!) too.

Non cracking SB66c here, usually do a mix of UK trail centres (blue/red/blacks) and Alps on it in the last 2 years I’ve had it. *shrugs*

Definitely take the bleed kit and fluid out there in case you boil the brakes if for nothing else.

If the brakes werent spongy/pulling to the bar, then it sounds like the pads needed a bit more bedding in to get proper pad material transfer happening.

Edit – this rare talent probably also counted for the splined connection thingy! So what I’m really saying is get a T5 but don’t let your wife drive it.

Bingo – /end moneypit 😆

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14th June for us, pre-lift, and for me, pre wedding
Been told not to break our faces 😆

V. excited now, last working day tomorrow before heading down on Fri/Sat 😀

Electrolyte tabs help me massively with headaches on warm days. Other than that, take it easier, wear less layers or more open clothing and get used to it!

Have used Mojo in the past but just odered a new Float X PUSHed from TF Tuned and they have been very quick. Ordered on Thurs last week and they posted it out Friday (having done a PUSH tune on it). Very efficient, I’ll see if its made any difference tonight!

White Room at the end of the week – excited is an understatement. Much component upgrading because “they’re needed” 😉

InvisiFrame, not as hardcore as helitape but the matt goes perfect with my SB66c matt finish.

bikehike.co.uk – Google classic maps and OS maps on one screen 😀

FMX flip lever with some modifications perhaps? Guessing his shoulder wont like the forces going straight into them though

I’ve only been once and it was during the opening weekend, so pretty sure it was during the slowest uplift turn around the place has had. It wasnt quick, but we managed 6 runs with at least an hour for lunch and we arrived an hour after it opened and left about an hour before it closed, so probably closer to half a day really. It wasnt super efficient but it was certainly quicker than I could have ridden up.

Trials I would say were pretty good. For the missus they were brill, being able to hit fairly tame (for their grade) red/blue trails non-stop was good practice for her. For me, it was a bit too much of the now very obvious Sorrel style of BMX-esque trails on the reds. Saying that it was the second day, so they’ve probably nicely worn in now and aren’t as smooth as they started!

Looking forward to having another bash at them in June when we’ve booked another uplift day 😀

We’re with Adrian Flux with our self converted camper too. Best company I dealt with when trying to insure it during the build and now after it was reclassified they are a bit more expensive than others but fully cover everything in and belongings, which other companies wouldn’t.

All safe for me in Hants, commute today was nice and quiet 😀

My vote goes to DHB. Their mid/top line stuff is great for commuting and longer rides. I’ve got some of their shorts that are now into their 3rd season of commuting and look brand new with 18 miles each way during the summer months, 5 each way in the winter. I have found you need to find a pad that suits you and dont always think thicker is better. I have some Altura gel shorts which feel lovely when new with their gel inserts but get irritated after a while on longer rides. The DHB ones are thinner and feel like they wont be as comfortable when you start but after 15-20mins you dont notice them at all and go on for a good few hours.

We love our T5. Ours is a 2010 180BiTDi and as above get somewhere around mid 30’s MPG cruising for most of its life. We took a standard panel van and fitted it out as a camper so no rear space for bikes, we use a towbar rack. Cabin wise, its the same as a mid-spec VW car really, nice place to be, not the nicest but at the end of the day its a van! If you can get a post 2010 then it has the newer Euro5 engines with better MPG and lower tax, and also 6sp is well worth it.

Jebus! Heal fast bud. I had the fortune to be taught by Rab when he and Andy from Dirt School came down to Peaslake. Brilliant rider and a good craic, taught me and the missus plenty which I still use every ride.

Another duo and carbon combo here, as above grease and torque properly and it will be fine. Don’t blast it all with a jet wash either, that’s always a good way to flush the grease out again!

Shhh STW dont need to know the new Avids are actually ok, keeps the supply of cheap Avids for the rest of us 😈

My X0 trails have been running fine since last Oct btw, no problems what so ever…

Going by the Liteville scale, I should have 26″ both ends – means my SB66c is perfect then 😀

I am reasonably sure they wouldn’t go to the trouble of producing SB66’s for the team when they can’t sell them to the public.

Given Graves appears to be riding the SB66c again this season – definitely pre-season, its on Faceache, and so is Hannah Barnes, it looks like they will keep the production going for team riders. John from Yeti has stated the SB66c is the favourite staff bike as well, but no sales from bike shops has killed it off, they have said they will bring it back as soon as the demand from shops is there.

That is until their new bike arrives 😉

My understanding is the Strava app uses 1s intervals now, certainly on my iPhone 5 it does. It did used to be 4s, but I think they changed it now, maybe not on all phones.

Can I have 2? Old bike but you get the idea 😀

When you are “crossing the line”, how far are you going past it? You need to go a good way further than you think to get around any GPS positioning errors. You might think you’re 5m clear but GPS still thinks you are in what Strava considers the segment. I find this a lot at Swinley, only way to get accurate times is not to stop until there is somewhere with a good 20-30m between segments to stop in.

From what I can gather online the 200 sample rate of every 60s, whereas the Strava App does 4s and 1s now (on some phones) when it notices lots of movement. If you use some of the Strava comparison sites (forget their names now – RaceShape I think) you can trace a phone vs Garmin and you’ll see the Garmin skipping a lot as it jumps across from point to point its recorded.

Strava doesnt (didnt?) interpolate between the points to work out when you “crossed the line” on a segment, so its down to when the next point gets recorded. Its why a lot of phone users used to be quicker than Garmins (500/800s) when the app used to only do 4s intervals as sometimes it would cut time off for them vs the proper 1s track of the better Garmins.

I got Ubyk to chuck it in as part of the deal on my SB66c, as it was going XX1 from the start. 14 quid is crazy, but once its done you forget how much it costs and it just looks neat 8)

If you dont mind having a Yeti man on it….

http://www.silverfish-uk.com/ProductDetail/9946/13108/Front-Derailleur-D-Type-Cover

Edge 200 only has GPS altimeter whereas Edge 500 has barometric altimeter which *should* be more accurate. Take both readings with a pinch of salt mind.

a couple of years ago, I ate a bad curry. I think I lost a similar amount in 72 hours!

Food poisoning is a very quick way to loose some excess poundage. I didnt put on the 4lbs I lost when I was last ill with it 😯

myfitnesspal – track calories and eat 500 less a day than you burn. In theory this will net you 14lbs in 14 weeks.

I surprised myself in how much I snack and by reducing it just a little bit I’ve been losing 0.5-1lbs per week for the last 6 weeks. As per TINAS, I was amazed at the amount of extras I was adding onto a healthy meal, often just eating too much of a good thing 😳

In 14 weeks this may plateau somewhat so you might need to throw in some new exercise, like weights or kettlebells to keep the loss going.

Pridds, as the guys say, its Jump Gulley @ Swinley.

I have a T5 too, converted the van ourselves to a camper, guess I’m an MTB micer as well 😳

If we’re going to do flying 66’s then heres mine 😀

Very nice sir 8)

I reckon you wont be far off 30lbs. My 66c weighs in at 28lbs with similar specs. They do seem to climb like a far lighter bike and descending is incredible. Cant wait to get mine out to the Alps later this year with White Rooms 😀