More to the point, what wheelset or rims for tubeless CX/gravel?

Grails are highly regarded but don’t take WTB tyres. What’s highly regarded and takes all tyres?

What’s the less far-fetched explanation?

This may be false memory syndrome, but back in the 90s was there a tyre which instructed you to point it one direction if you used it on the front, and the opposite direction if you used it on the rear?

Edit: sorry thread reading fail, hadn’t appreciated that Smart Sams still have this.

The only anachronism which stood out for me was the interior of the train at the end – I vaguely recall it as 1970s british rail?

The sound quality was poor in the imax at which I saw it. Bass distortion, swamped dialogue.

Great film though.

The major drawback of road disks is that they ocassionally shreik fit to wake the dead. Both my TRP Hy/Rd and non-series Ultegra have done so.

My theory (feel free to shoot it down): 1. roads spray up all sorts of contaminated oily crap onto your rotors. Mountains spray up only good healthy gritty mud. 2. MTB steep and twisty means one puts a hell of a lot more heat through your brakes, this further keeps them clean and quiet. Road biking by contrast involves not nearly so much braking, so one doesn’t routinely get the heat build up which would burn off the badness.

The result of 1 and 2 is that MTB disk brakes are nice and quiet, but road disk brakes are max shreik.

Just a theory.

So let’s get this straight. In the first nano second after the big bang the universe expanded/inflated way faster than “c”, then slowed right down, and then started speeding up again?

The judgemental thing is a two way street though.

I’m sure I’m not alone in judging myself more harshly than i judge others. I smashed my knees up a couple of times before i eventually bought knee pads.

For some reason i was happy to be technically inept and short on courage without wearing pads, but the moment armour was donned i felt that i would be upping the ante. i.e I would attract higher expections both internally from within myself, and externally to the outside world.

On the subject of full-facers being unneccessary and/or dickish, is that not exactly the same thing which held back other bits of armour from wider acceptance, but then a tipping point was reached and we all started wearing them?

I felt very sheepish when I first started rocking knee-pads for merely trail centre red/black type stuff. But now they’re ubiquitous. Then elbows followed. Will full face follow?

If a planet is tidally locked does the lack of spinning mean they won’t have a magnatic field, hence no atmos and no van allan belt? i.e chances of life even slimmer?

One sometimes wonders if NASA sensationalises these things to get a bit more research funding (not that that’s a bad thing).

In fact if they did the purple or translucent red with black/white (or vice versa) decals I’d have either of them too.

I think the new graphics look rank.

If they did an orange, green and blue with the black/white or white/black decals they’d sell through them much quicker. I’d have a green one.

I’ve been thinking about a p29er monster mash for a while, so cool to see one made real. Kicking myself for not buying the red/white/blue SS sliding drop-out one when Halfords cleared them out for c.£400 a few years ago.

What fork is that? I see it’s a Niner but is it a discontinued model?

Just back from the cinema. Best film I’ve seen for years, seriously.

I’d be running the road tyres tubed anyway, so presumably c.100psi pressure no problem?

Hope Tech XC only 1mm wider than Archetypes but quite a bit lighter.

I’m guessing that say 700x25mm road tyre also works fine on a Tech XC?

Cheers, I’ve ordered a pair.

Next question; are you all running tubeless? If so what rims? I have H+Sons Archetypes on my Tripster which I have always run tubed, and I’m totally not up for going ghetto.

Planet X have the WTB Nano TCS for £20.

Can anyone tell me whether they are maybe an OEM poorer compound, or a batch of miscast 2nds which have a wicked shimmy? Or are they perfectly kosher?

Yes I have trust issues!

What do we all think of the new v2 fork?

I’m sure I read somewhere that it eliminated the flutter which sometimes affects the v1.

Also, it accepts flat mount which the gruppo I think I’ll have to buy.

What is it you don’t like about it? What effect did the push have?

I have the Fox CTD (the one with the piggy-back) on my Spectral 29er. I like the plush descending, I couldn’t ask for anything better. However, the pedal bob on the climb is mentally annoying and physically sapping. I had assumed that these were just normal characteristics of the four-bar/horst link, as my old Stumpy was much the same.

The weak link in the Spectral I think is the Fox 34 Float fork which feels divey at normal pressures (i.e 25% sag) and gives me a bit of a battering at the higher pressures I run it at, and not full travel.

NB I’m not a connoisseur, I know nothing about suspension.

I went the other way, from a 19″ Soul to a 21″ HandJob. I made the move because I felt the Soul was too small for me.

As it happened, the HandJob is actually a degree slacker in the HA and degree steeper in the SA (according to mobile phone spirit level app).

The HJ is now on skinnies and mudguard duties which is a damn shame. Seeing that old pic makes me want to get the nobblies back on it.

@ DrP – is that still the Mk1 fork you’ve got on it? I don’t recongnise the graphics on the DS outer leg?

Do you think it would be an option to just get a refund?

Vortex – I’m not sure how much confidence I’d have in a V2 frame with pretty much no warranty left. Kinesis may have reinforced the down-tube given other failures reported here, but mine went at the CS/BB.

This is the first bike I’ve ever had which has had a broken frame.

I hope the top tube/steerer interface is a bit, erm, beefier
I’ve only 8 month’s warranty left!

DrP

Is it actually the case that replacement frames are only warrantied from the date of original purchase? Does the clock not get reset?

I’ve joined the cracked Tripster owners club. :(

60cm frame, cracked drive-side chain stay immediately behind BB shell. It’s just under three years old, and has had a relatively gentle life as a winter road bike with the occasional summer outing on smoother Pentlands trails. Never raced, never crashed.

I’m not given to hyperbole or getting emotive, but right now feeling down in the dumps.

CB shouldn’t make things with moving parts.

I had a headset from them and the upper cup cracked! Not a moving part!

I’ve also had Candy pedals (which disgorged its ball bearings after a month or two) and a Joplin dropper post, whose fate really doesn’t need to be elaborated upon.

I held a KOM on an “up the hill and down the other side” segment for quite a while. One night I was out with a pal, we were stopped chatting at the top of the hill of that segment when I saw a guy on an absolute mission zooming up towards us. Unbidden, I held open the gate for him and gave him a bit of encouragement as he sped straight through.

Yes, he took my KOM.

To be fair he blitzed my KOM by more than the 10-15 seconds I gifted him, but don’t want to spoil the cool story bro.

Last weekend my HyRds were shrieking fit to wake the dead.I’ve had a bit of squeal before but this was highly alarming.

It sounds like rs685/ultegra is the way forward, now I just need to find them at soft brexit price, I’m sure they’re £100 more than they were a couple months ago. Sales only c.3 weeks away.

Di2 – I’d love it, but my frame is a Tripster which doesn’t have the drilled routing. If I wanted to go electronic and hydro it would have to be SRAM Red eTap HRD. It’s stated as £1,700 RRP to be released early 2017. That price is well out of my reach, but if it was to follow the typical Merlin 45% off then I’d be all over it. However, what with weak sterling and likely high demand I can’t see this happening.

105 – nothing against 105 (which is what I’m currently running) but as highlighted the new shape is pretty radical. Looks-wise it wouldn’t be for me.

I took my sons to the Sco vs Lithuania game at Hampden on Saturday, their first international. They didn’t see even a minute of action, as everyone in the crowd was standing. They refused to stand on the seats for the ironic reason that it would obscure the view of those behind us.

I think family enclosure is a must. If they don’t have a family enclosure and you’re not familier with the standing/sitting practices then don’t go.

Scotroutes Ti HT has trumped us all, but 17″ Marin Mount Vision frame (26″, natch), headset, BB yours for keeps if you want it?

I’m no more convinced of the purpose of cx bikes than I ever was.

Aside from being stipulated for use in CX races, the advantage of these bikes is that that as long as it’s not especially rocky under wheel, they are so much faster than a mtb. Fire road, well worn walking trails, the inevitable tarmac linking everything up, they absolutely fly.

Where it gets too much for a CX bike I think you then go into a full susser being best.

A HT’s strength is it’s breadth. It’s good for everything, but I don’t think it’s best at anything.

Redhead Kingpin

Derek B, the Crown Prince of poetry.

Antoine de Caunes?

Manfred von Richthofen?

Colonel Mustard?

Really sorry to hear that. Where in Edinburgh are you and did your neighbours get done as well? the fact that you got comprehensively cleaned out maybe means they knew what they were doing, which in turn suggests they’ll end up further afield that Edinburgh. Do you have snaps of your bikes? I’ll certianly keep my eyes peeled.

“Enhance…”

In an otherwise rubbish film that bit did make me laugh. Surely a deliberate nod?

is it all seamless or would i effectively be creating a new wifi signal and then face issue with my laptop jumping between the two and generally more pain?

I have TP-Link and it is on different signals which is a massive pain. I’ve got two Sonos units in different rooms on different networks which is a major drawback.

There is a way to get them on the same network but it doesn’t work with Windows 10. The TP-Link support lady told my wife that Windows 10 hadn’t been released yet!!!

I have a hiplock gold.

It fits well, but as soon as I bought it I started worrying about crashing whilst wearing it and busting my pelvis.

It’s the same paranoia I have about my GoPro chesty. I spoke to a mtb “first responder” guy at Glentress who said he’d attended someone who’d fractured his ribs by landing chest first on his GoPro. oof.