preferred the medusas myself, and even the acx over the mud x

nice, not been there for years now – it was very foggy and icy when my mate and i did it and remember a couple getting stuck on the top (the guy’s nerves went, lass leading him was fine) and wanted to go back the way he had climbed – took us 20 minutes to convince him it wasn’t the best of ideas!

still going, but will use bigger pots next year and maybe undercover

Joseph, five minutes after he was sick on my carpet!

toby

hannah

IT manager at work, gone blind in one eye, and losing sight slowly in the other – not seen him in a while so don’t know all the reasons behind it

Maybe a 1 in 50,000 thing, but suppose he was the one

did the DAS route myself in Jan with a mate, used CAMRider as they had an offer on for courses in jan/feb

sorted the theory stuff out in december, then had the 5 session course over a three week period once the tests were booked, 2 sessions on 125cc’s and the other three on 500cc ER-5’s, we both passed part 1 and part 2 first time, the bigger bikes are easier to ride

can’t remember the exact costs, something like £550-600 which included the test costs, course fee and insurances

save on the heating bills by burning your old copies of 2000AD on the fire 🙂

unfortuntely i can’t do this myself as my mum binned all mine (over 500 progs) – they’re worth quite quite a bit now as well… 🙁

how about the bonty xdx 1.75’s, cotic used to sell em for the roadrat, picced here on a salsa la cruz

not ridden for a least a month due to an injury to the peroneal tendon in my ankle

bored as ****…….!

should really do some bike maintenance, all i seem do at the weekends now is drink!

my parks cable cutters work just fine 😉

can i join the shandy drinking middle aged wuss team as well? 😉

39 and pretty much the same, 5 pints on a friday night and saturday is ruined, well not ruined but i don’t sleep or feel great for the next 18 hours

but i like love ale though!

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/bike-thefts-in-delamere

a dizzy neighbour of mine has just done exactly the same thing to my six month old company car

although now i’ve wiped the blue paint off the black door, its not that bad and you have to look for the small dent in the off side rear door panel now so can’t be bothered with discussing it with her

more **** off with her hitting it and not mentioning it to me like it didn’t happen – nice black marks down the front of her focus where the scrape happened

her new fella is much larger and scarier than me anyway! 😉

nice comparison – what to try some BOS stuff, but yes the prices are prohibitive

Ouch +1!

that must be £8k there at least – bugger

Now on a Turner and Dialled Bikes, so know I’ll be looked after

grass always is greener on the other side…

have broken an Orange, a Turner and a Trek in the past

orange was repaired and resprayed in less than four weeks, turner replacement triangle took **** six months to turn up from the US, trek front triangle took four months

out of all of them, i was most put out by the Turner service due to the down time of the bike involved

everybody spouts about Turner customer service, but if they don’t actually have any replacements in stock to instantly courier out, then tuff titty my friends

re- the OP’s issue; i think some communications problems are not being mentioned on the thread, why would a front triangle be replaced for a crack at the BB? piccies available? is the seat tube cracked or was it the weld? who dealt with orange, the lbs? what did they advise?

repair should be warrantied for another 12months imo

mate works at GE and they have just bought thousands of those playbook thingies…

thought they were more of a business tablet with a 7″ HD screen, but not not many apps compared to the ipad

and finally, some fruit of labour (well not much labour really)

Have you seen the price of Maxxis UST tyres lately? Pennies only short of £50!

The ‘L’ in ‘LUST’ stands for ‘lightweight’ so draw your own conclusions but my experience is that the single ply versions of all Maxxis UST tyres

shop about – i’ve just bought a 2.25 Crossmark LUST last month for £35, the 2.1 LUST version is about £31

but lightweight it is not, the sidewalls on all the LUST tyres i have used are nothing like the singleply tubed variety

it is heavier than the 2.25 Ardent LUST (810g) i run on the front – i think my 2.25 Crossmark LUST weighed in at 880g

not used crest rims, but have arch and flow 29er rims and both have been fine with my mighty weight

i have a set of 2006 flux rocker plates – somewhere… i’ll have a look

run a Blackspire Super Lite God (or something like that) on M970’s with no issues

What would you spend your winnings on?

Wales

was out around south delamere last night and someone (within the last week) had dragged an entire dead tree – only a small one mind (4-5m long) across the trail

noticed plenty of dog walkers around that part of the forest last week, but that tree completely blocked all users from using that track

quick stop and two minutes later and the trail was cleared and biking resumed 😀

why? because some people are cocks

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/brodie-holeshot-titanium

got one of these for my g12, s’okay

a 113mm bb will get you nearer to 50mm, but if you find that chainring too close to the chainstays of the frame and suffer a lot with the frame from chainsuck a 118mm bb would give you a little more clearance and will provide a chainline nearer 52-53mm (its 5mm wider so only 2.5mm extra on both sides)

bit of advive needed also 😉

my chili peppers are about a foot tall now and have starting budding, never grown anything from seed before

is it too late to transfer them to bigger pots? i must have six or seven in too small a pot now

too slow!

no recommendations for the rocket rons yet?

i love the racing ralphs in the current conditions, but the sidewalls are pretty thin – may try the crossmark ust instead

old pale

you’ll need a 2009 spacer kit, particularly the 20mm spacer to reduce a 140mm fork to 120mm travel

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Kind of fed up tbh,been on the market since 8th april

ha! two weeks and you are fed up already! try 11 months of it renton! 😆

i’ve had one offer, get plenty of viewings (average one a week now) – nothing in nov and dec though, but was surprised by how it restarted in the first week of january

not that arsed about it really now, had people cancel at the last minute, and a couple of no shows – i arrange viewings around my diary

but not going to find a place and lose it again, so selling first, then looking seriously like ART says

if it is a dual air revelation yes

Rockshox All Travel Spacer Kit needed – you can get them from tf tuned or loco tuning

reduces the overall length of the fork (the uppers won’t extend as far due to the spacer)

no experience with sids but cotic’s can run fine with rigid forks (the simple was first pictured with carbon rigid forks) which would have an axle to crown height of 440mm

i’m guessing a sagged SID would run around 430mm, but at full travel may feel too low – unless you don’t mind running them a little harder

i’ve always run my soul with longer forks (110mm ronin’s, 120mm marzocchics, 120mm minutes, and now 120mm rebas), and at full travel (i.e. assuming you never get the last 20mm out of them like me) they would drop to around 400mm (AC height) – a sid would be a good 30mm lower

looks that you are building a HT around your Sid’s to me – how about

try them first with the sids first (costs nothing), or
try a rigid fork (cheaper than a new suspension fork), or
buy a 100mm fork (cheaper than a new frame)?