@andytherocketeer, I’m 6ft with short arms(!) and ride a large, it fits really well but I’m on the limit of a normal length of seatpost. I’d say on paper that you’d need an XL.

Loving mine too.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/technophobe/8047595768/in/photostream/lightbox/

It’s now got a KS Lev seatpost on it so cable routing is nice and neat. And I still have my 180mm forks on from recent Morzine and Fort William trips although I have gone back to the 140mm rocker arms from the 160mm I was using.

One piece of advice with the shim though, just make sure it is long enough as the frame does require a long minimum insertion.

I’m happy to take a punt on something new as long as I can return it under warrantee easily, hence buying from UK. I’ve got an X-Fusion Hilo which has been faultless, so I have some confidence in the brand. I just wanted to know if anyone had any info on the forks?

Bos Devilles have been on the shopping list but not sure if there’re a bit of a risk reliability wise to be buying from the Continent?

Rotherfield in the winter, I don’t think so! Pure clay

Stay clear of Bedgebury too.

Im sure they’ll be a little busy on the Monday!

Email is jamie at technophobe dot tv, thanks.

Sounds like I’d be daft not to try a Peak or Calderdale ride too.

I’ll bring a map and gps with me, sambob if you’ve got a gpx then that would be useful thanks.

10 years Tony, you’ll be all talking funny by now!

Any bike friendly suggestions of where to stay after the SCW?

Is Gisburn cack then?

I do like the sound of something different like Calderdale riding, but I really know nothing of the riding there, in the Peak or in the Lakes. What I really don’t want is some XC epic without the rewards and with map headaches, like a big day out on the South Downs. That’s not me.

I know I’m being fussy but if I don’t get what I want I’ll have a great big hissy fit, stamp up and down and go home early!

Hello, I’m a lurker and have been had over too.

5 transactions in total, for O2 and Vodafone prepay.

Just cancelled my card and bank are refunding, not sure whether CRC are taking responsibility for this security breach?

So I ordered some shock bushes, got sent the wrong ones, had to pay for Saturday delivery so I could ride that weekend, then I get money stolen. GOODBYE CRC I’ll not use you again!

I had one for exactly the same reason and could get two bikes in and riding kit no problem. I could get anywhere between 30-40 mpg depending on driving.
I’ve had a few quick cars before, and whilst the Clio wasn’t the most powerful it was the most fun car I’ve ever owned. Bloody brilliant handling.

Toshiba are the closest I am told, they are saying that they will have a glasses free option out in Spring 2011.

Delete all music off your computer, open iTunes, connect external hard drive and open the music folder, select all your music files and drag and drop them all on to the music section on the left hand menu in iTunes. iTunes will then sort all your music and place them in its default (or selected) folder.

Being in Langton Green you're close enough to come help on trail building days and sort the drainage out?

It's a good point and one I'm not going to deny being interested in. I would love to help make Bedgebury the sort of trail centre that lots of people think it should have been…. As long as there is a good plan and more Indians than Chiefs?

Sounds good, but I was rather hoping that the exciting news would be that the trials had been redesigned and decent drainage been put in. Oh well I can dream…. :wink:

I like mine very much although as others have said it has taken a while to find the perfect set up (not helped by riding all summer on a rear wheel with a snapped axle!), but it just seems to get better and better.

Go for it!

Passive mains devices are BS. Active regeneration works but you pay for it.

Because?

I think your high-end hearing goes when you get older, so why do these old fart reviewers bother buying tweeters?!

Agreed, most just 'feel' their way to a review conclusion….helped by how friendly they are with the supplier of course!

I'm not getting into the mains/cables argument, I know what I hear. As someone who has made a living in this industry for 12 years I can recommend a Vertex AQ Jaya filter, the difference it made to my kit was staggering for the price and unlike other filters it didn't stifle dynamics. I have in my time time tried many different filters from DIY to PS Audio and Burmester (the best but £8k+), the Vertex is really very good value.

yep

You need to buy a Home Cinema then you will get a free Vantage, one for mid-life crisis and one to wreck with bikes!

I supply and install audio visual equipment – home cinema’s, multi-room hi-fi, home automation etc and am in the middle of starting up a new venture too. See http://www.technophobe.tv if you are interested?

Good news – It gave me the push I needed to start my own company. I have more time and now work from home most days.

Bad news – I’ve got to put up with a bunch of 2-5 year olds screaming the house down.

To be honest I’d never take my children off road in the way that the inventor has in his video – they will be plenty good at hurting themselves, they don’t need me joining in too!

Weeride looks good. Addresses some worry i had about jr falling asleep. Anyone else got experience of this?

Sounds good to me but his mum won’t be so keen. Plus I’ll miss all that “I’m cold/hot/hungrey/tierd stuff”, bless ‘im!

Hmm 1-1, any decider?

As a resident of Tunbridge Wells I too can relate to the lack of legal riding near by, so not being allowed to ride on Ashdown Forest is a real pain as it’s on my doorstep. I have e-mailed a member of the Conservators that regulate the use of Ashdown Forest to ask his views as to why there is no access for cyclists but for walkers and horses? If anyone is really interested I will post this with his e-mail address so you too can try to put some further pressure on them?

Oh, Dearleap Park = ok but awful when wet.

Definitely second getting up, washed and dressed as if you’re going to work otherwise you find yourself at lunchtime still in your dressing gown feeling really manky.

1) Twice
2) Lots
3) 1 – Nose cut off by peak, 5 operations
4) 3%

Oaky, from the other side of the “discussing” does anyone think they would suffer more significant injuries if they DID wear a helmet?

Well my helmet cut my nose off! 5 operations later and I look OK again. I wouldn’t want anyone to go through what I went through, but I understand that what happened to me was a freak faceplant accident (actually more of the blame is in the design of the peak as it was this that sliced it off). I do wonder whether the helmet did help to save my skull as it was a bit squashed at the front but, guess I’ll never know?

Do I wear a helmet now? Yes, I wear a helmet with a removable chin guard, although I’ll never wear a peak as I think they are really badly designed (Hard plastic, sharp and clipped-on, make one from rubber and maybe).

OK I give in you’re going to have to give me a new pair of forks. If you can do that I’ll take the red lizard skins off.

One more point. I LIKE HOW IT RIDES, that’s why I bought it. I don’t look at it when I’m riding it and when I’m not riding it it’s in my shed so I don’t really care….although I do have previous with fugly bikes, I had a Whyte JW2, bleagh!

So does that mean that mine are crap then?

What should I have instead o’wise one? :D

Seriously though, a fork upgrade will be my next step. Although I do struggle to find a fork that offers the weight/performance that i get from my Mav’s.
I should add now I have tuned the forks to my liking with less compression damping and more rebound. My lock down even works on these!

Abarthchris, as someone who has also suffered a bad facial injury (I cut my nose off!) whilst riding I can recommend bio oil for the scares, it works a treat. Although it didn’t grown my nose back, that had to be fashioned from skin from my forehead!

Get well soon and don’t let it put you off, accidents happen to the best.

-1 Red Lizard Skin.

Personal taste, maybe black would look better but I’m more concerned that the chain didn’t whack the crap out of my chainstay.

-2 Shockpost thing.

What is a shock post thing?

-3 Triple Ring.

Like I said, this bike does everything I want it to. For me that includes riding to the trail on the road, I like pedalling as fast as I can so I require a large chainring.

-4 Mavericks.

I know, not everyone’s cup of tea but I like them. Have you owned a pair?

^How to make a nice bike look ugly^

Let’s see yours then?

Well I like mine, it’s all the bike I’ll ever need….until the next one :wink:

No seriously this is it, it rides so well on so many different types of terrain.

i don’t think i’d like to be hit by that a speed. looks like it’d take a leg off! but I get your piont, thanks.

I generally liked mine except the suspension stiffening when out of the saddle on technical sections, that’s where I want it working most. So had to go.

May as well add another one!

So can anyone compare a Tracer and/ or an Orange 5 to a mk1 Blur LT?

Don’t worry too much about the xc race side of things, it will only be a back up bike for that. i just want to shred trails as fast as i can, but it’s just that I rather enjoy the climb up first…Like a sicko!