I just stuck a coil on mine. Awesome bike.

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DezB – Member

Wow, first 3 posts on here – Steve Mason, Joy Formidable, Suuns – the last 3 bands I saw live! (And Death Grips: the next one)

What are the Suuns like live? I’m going to see them next month in Leeds – really looking forward to it.

I’m loving the Suuns new one.

Seems there’s a lot of people round here with nothing better to do than sharpen pitchforks.

And if meat is your thing, then just up the road from Drig towards Tong to Nawaabs.

Yet to have a good one in Amaans.

One of my front centre lock rotors used to vibrate under braking which was pretty annoying. There was very slight movement in the rotor/hub interface. Solved it with a few rounds of ptfe tape but annoying all the same.

Not sure if that helps or not.

I just copied the ones on the Wiggle website.

3 for me I think.

circa 1983, a Puch BMX of some description
circa 1985, a Piranha BMX
1999 Trek 7000 hardtail.

Desperation makes fools of us all.

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She’s got a face like a bag of smashed crabs.

Just had the same thing. I added one bike at £4k, one at £3k and doubled my excess to £200. Premium ended up going up about £30-£40.

Checked Fish Butty!

I think you need to find a new LBS. Would they still charge you a fiver if you bought elsewhere (for less money) and took it there for fitting?

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I’m listening to a lot of The Black Dog lately – quality stuff

From a company’s perspective, they are buying an asset (the bike) and renting to an employee. As long as the company recovers all monies from the rental and final payment (and associated employers NI payments) and is cost neutral for the business then they should be OK. From an audit front, it has nothing to do with them – its the businesses asset to do with as they see fit.

With regards the final payment, again, the business can charge you what they like, nothing to do with HMRC. What HMRC are now doing though is stipulating what they perceive the value to be. So, if you make a final payment of £50 when HMRC are saying fair value is £250 you will have received a benefit in kind of £200 and have to pay the tax/ni on this.

As Fuzzy says, a way to reduce this is to delay the transfer of ownership for a couple of years so the fair value reduces.

There are still decent savings to be had if you self administrate – you just need to run some sums to work out the savings. I got a 2012 bike reduced from £1050 to £800 on our scheme. I reckon I’ll end up paying just shy of £500 for mine so worth doing IMO.

A couple of threads about this here

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/talk-to-me-about-cycle-to-work-scheme

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/cycle-to-work-scheme-12

Leeds, Leeds, Leeds!

Reading The Enchanted Wood and the rest of the Faraway Tree books by Enid Blyton as a 7 or 8 year old kind of set the tone for my love of hallucinogens as I hit my late teens/early twenties.

Love mine. Amazing bike.

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Dan, I’ve mailed you back with details and pics.

The forks I’ve got are these.

http://www.marzocchi.com/template/detailProdotti.asp?LN=UK&idC=1592&IdFolder=113&idMY=56695&IdOggetto=56811

If Dan’s not interested I’ll fire some details out.

Bit of a shameless post but I’ve got some 2010 55’s that I was gonna stick up for sale this weekend!!

Even without the self promotion, if I was setting the bike up purely for the gravity side of things, then I’d be putting some coil 160mm’s on it.

I ended up puttting some Lyriks on my Zesty having ridden in th’Alps previously with air Pikes and the difference is massive. Just much more stiff and plush and as others have intimated, less fatigued at the end of a run.

For an album, Laser Guided Melodies by Spiritualized has got to be up there.
For a single track, Anenome by Brian Jonestown Massacre gets my vote.

Another vote for Rock n Roll extreme here. Cleans and lubes your chain all in one go. And ‘cos there’s very little excess lube left on the chain,mud doesn’t stick to it like shit to a blanket.

Desperation makes fools of us all.

Is it a shadow mech? If not it’ll bang like a shit house door when the plagues in town.
IIRC the frames are designed around the shadow mech and with these sitting lower its not an issue.

Final descent aside, its a pretty dull trail. I rode there a few weeks ago after a few years away and I’m in no rush to go back.
Pretty much every other trail centre in Wales is better imo.

With Penmachno only 20 minutes away I know where I’d be riding if I was down that way again.

I really liked mine. Much better than the 5 Spot I replaced it with although not as good as the Zesty I now have.
Never felt out of its depth. It’s not the lightest though.

All but the 2010 were replaced under warranty so no need to repair.

Would you really want to start welding a frame prone to breaking?

In the experience of the Meta’s both me and a friend have owned, it will break eventually. Between us we have broke Meta’s from 2007/08/09/10.

Unless you’re getting it for peanuts I’d walk away.

However you travel, this is the sort of scenery you see on a regular basis during the summer

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Me and the missus were over there in the summer many moons ago. We used Moose Travel and spent about 6 weeks bumming round BC and Alberta. Had an amazing time and the guides/drivers were quality.
Granted, this was about 8/9 years ago so things might have changed but still worth looking at.

http://www.moosenetwork.com/

Really flexible and all hostel digs so quite cheap (at the time anyway).

Have a look at last years Cannondale Caad8’s. Some decent deals out there.

http://www.paulscycles.co.uk/products.php?plid=m7b65s6p4335&rs=gb&vid=16030

For those that did manage to get new rear ends for the Lapierres, how much roughly did these cost?

With a second hand frame, I would guess that the new back end would be more than people have paid for the frame in the first place making it not worthwhile surely?

Been listening to a fair bit of Gomez lately

Purity Ring – Amenamy
Ty Segall Band – The Bag I’m In
The Libertines – Time for Heroes
Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child
Mogwai – New paths to Helicon

Another shout for Garage Bikes in Morley.
Also always had fantastic dealings with JD’s Cycles in Ilkley.

Its been a while since I’ve had a delivery from them as quick as the OP. In years gone by next day delivery was pretty much standard.

3 or 4 days now seems to be the norm from them these days which is fine for me but will see other forum members frothing at the mouth at their apparent ineptitude.

Bounce on back wheel to get thick mud off.
Run the chain through a rag to get crud off chain.
Lube chain
Wipe excess lube off chain through rag
Put away.

The above works on most bikes, full sus included.

I got turned away from Big Lils once for being too drunk!! I always thought being completely arseholed was a prerequisite!

+1 for Orbit in Morley
Also Gallery in Leeds.

Simian Mobile Disco
Crystal Method
Hardfloor
The Black Dog