I know, I nearly bought an AC at the start of last year…with the options I wanted/needed, it was going to be around £2800 for frame and shock! I hope you get something sorted.

If you really want to stick with your fork, your only option is a different frame unless you could get a custom one with a 105mm H/T. Even then, they might be able to make it that short due to the other tube sizes (TT and DT junction).

That’s what I’ve used before. I just turn the whole lot upside down and whack the pipe on the floor.

What size frame are you after? The UK Nicolai distributors are selling a new, medium one for £1500, that’ll be without a shock I would have thought.
I’ve just checked the head tube lengths…it’s 130mm for the med and large. The fork you’ve got won’t fit. There is a Lefty XL, that fits H/T and H/S combined lengths of up to 167mm. Even with one of those you would still have a fight getting it to fit, especially as Nicolai’s are supposed to have a deep-insert headset (less options).

When you look into their full feedback, it seems they’ve used a bike courier service quite a few times! 😯

I go through the gate at Seatoller, it’s a lot more interesting than doing the tarmac climb. At the start I head up to Walla Crag rather than following the Borrowdale road too (it cuts out a lot of road and adds another great descent that way). I’ve seen maps on here where folk have done that, but went up Chestnut Hill and towards the stone circle…I’m not saying the proper/best way up there, but that’s not it!).
If you go to Pooley Bridge, you’ve got to do the Lake path instead! The other suggested route is supposed to be ‘easy and fun’? That’s a bit of an oxymoron isn’t it? 😆

somafunk – Member

It has to be XL cheese crisps with a healthy covering of tabasco sauce whilst munching on a pickled egg, yum………almost worth an excuse to cycle to the pub for a feast.
+1, maybe without the tabasco though. The eggs have to be home-made with brown vinegar too.
I don’t know what kind of pubs some of you drink in, with pretend crisps on offer (those that are moulded from tattie paste)! 😕

WTF?

druidh – Member

I road up the C2C on my tourer with 28mm Marathons on. It was “interesting” in places. – mostly due to lack of grip on damp rock and pine needles.
I had my Strava KOM taken away for ‘The Full Monty’ (Blue, South, then North) by a bloke on a hybrid! 😯
Thanks for the heads up as well Tom.

If you’ve already got it, you might as well try it…it will cost about £50 for a ‘Lefty for all’ steerer, if you haven’t got one already.
Make sure the head tube on the Nic’ isn’t much more than 100mm though, that measurement, plus the headset must be no more than 137mm. If it’s going to be more, get saving for a new fork as well.
There’s a diagram with these measurements in the other post I linked to.

It just shows you weren’t a true mountain biker in the first place. The more of you that take to road, the better. Clearer trails for everyone else! 😛
Oh, and for those of you roadies that enter mtb events…please don’t. There’s nothing worse than getting passed by you on the climbs, only for you to hold the rest of us up on the downs! 😡

Here’s one description. It really is a Lakes classic, taking in some great views (on a clear day) and brilliant, rocky descents.
Trekster – You’ll have to set off pretty early if you want to be back for 1’o clock. I can do it in less than two and an half hours…that’s without stopping and no puctures/mechanicals though. If there are any problems, anyone’s stopping to take pics or mincing the descents, it will take a lot longer.

Have a look at this post here (on STW).

The ‘Bash’ is in great condition. The weather doesn’t bother the proper route much anyway. There’s a few cheeky sections that are not so good in the wet though! Last week, some of the drainage ditches had more or less filled up with loose stone too. 😀

More or less meaning ‘Out off/from my tablet’.

I’ve had the same…was expecting god knows what when he opened the bag. I burst out laughing when I saw it was pegs and dusters!

It may be that the seller bought it in good faith. If not and they had any brains, would they really try selling it whole?
To those of you who think the ad is legit…you think that someone who thinks that there’s carbon inside the frame is clued up?!? 🙄

When my old boss did his house up in the 90s he had all base units fitted with drawers for ease of access in his dotage – quite a nifty idea.

+1, make them double width too. No crouching down, struggling to see in the back of the cupboard. A pull-out larder is handy for tins and packets though, so you can see the labels…that might not work with what you’ve planned though.

I had a few mates come and see me the day I’d just got back from Holiday. I hadn’t had chance to go shopping, so didn’t really have anything to offer them. I looked in my freezer and found some mini-ice creams though. We were all sat about eating them and my mates sister says “these are nice, did you fetch them back from your hols”!

All the instructions are on the Shimano website.

I know you didn’t create the route. I thought you’d clicked on the separate sections and were trying to join them up.
Try using the GPSies site instead…It loads as one route for me in the track creator. If it does load as six for you, you should be able to save it as one from there, in whatever format you want.
If for some reason it’s still split into six on your GPS, could you not just display all six on the map, rather than trying to load them as routes?
Edit: To save all this hassle, you could download the GPX from here.

Whatever cynic-al. None of it can be classed as steep.

thisisnotaspoon – Then do Innerleithen red in the afternoon, but be aware the climb is a killer. It’s ridiculously steep for the first few miles

??? The climb just moseys away, it does go on for a bit though. The climbs at Glentress are worse, especially the one to the tower on the black.

legend – Member

The black isn’t good enough for some, so they recommend Inners instead + the red at Glentress too!
We used to do Inners, go and have something to eat at Glentress and then do the red there plus a bit of the blue. We used to do it that way round so we could either have a shower if it was muddy or play around on the freeride park to put a few more hours in.
For anyone who hasn’t been to Innerleithen, there’s just a car park with a portaloo.

richieokeefe1 – Member

I see maybe do the the inertheithen instead ….im staying there so might give that a go …whats the verdict on this trail ?
Do it! It’s better than Glentress. If you’re staying in Innerleithen you can just bike across the bridge to the forest too.

I don’t understand how you’ve got it split into six parts? I just managed to download the KML file (one route) and convert it in GPSies to a CRS or GPX (both still one file). 😕

Edit: Realised what you’ve done! You must have saved each individual section.
Click on KML instead.

To be honest the Black isn’t that good. Do Innerleithen and then go and do the red at Glentress…much better!

Have a look here. I realise you’ve got sorted now but the whole site is good for routes all over the country.

As others have said, ride it first. You normally go down the tuning route if there’s a something specific that you don’t like about your shock. Usually things like altering the small bump sensitivity, too much wallow or not enough bottom-out resistance.

Edit: Just saw your second post. Has the shock got the extra volume can? If so, change to the standard one and buy the volume adjuster kit to fine tune.

I’ve had golfers elbow on and off for a couple of years. Every time I thought I’d seen the back of it, it would come back even after resting it. Biking didn’t seem to bother it much except on any hike-a-bike sections. It might be different with yours, with you having tennis elbow as well.
I don’t think you’ll be climbing for a bit…it was always carrying things whilst gripping them that aggravated mine. Go and see a decent physio if you’re wanting to get back to it as soon as possible.

A few years ago Shimano shoes fitted me perfectly in the size I would normally take. Then they changed the fit and I had to start going up a size or they would be to narrow across the toes. I had wondered if I’d be able to go back to my normal size but in the wide fitting…I haven’t got particulary wide feet though.
Do Chain Reaction or Wiggle not have any on stock? They do free returns if they’re no good.

Depending on how much you’re willing to spend, the new Thomson Ti bar could be just the ticket…it’s 730mm though, but at 295g will be lighter that a lot of carbon DH bars.
I think it’s aimed at the rigid 29er market too.

Edit: I’ve just seen that the carbon versions are the same width, about 100g lighter and nearly half the price…the Ti ones would still be nice though.

geoffj – Member

Just stick it in a movie editor, turn the volume down and overlay a new track?
+1, If you’re using a PC you’ll either already have Windows Movie Maker or will be able to download it for free.

Come and have a go Hussain!

😆

Who was it that did the plastic rain cape thing? MBR? It was more like a split bin bag!

If it’s not the air, it’ll just want bled. Did the bleed kit come with it? If so, just follow the video on the Sram website.

It’s technology isn’t it? Forcing folk to write who normally wouldn’t, don’t or can’t. Before the internet or texting, you didn’t normally get to see how illiterate a lot of folk are. 😛

atlaz – Member

Why not buy a cheap GPS and have done with it? No smartphone doing GPS is going to have a very long battery life sadly.
+1, it’ll be on your bars as well then, no faffing getting phone out/putting it away. It will come in handy for following routes you don’t know too.

Maybe if they made the tubes straight, they wouldn’t have to make them so bloody heavy!

I thought that was the main point of hydro-forming, to put extra material where it’s needed but keeping the tubes thinner where it’s not.

The Borrowdale Bash isn’t good for beginners! The climb up to Watendlath would see a few folk off or sicken them with a lot of pushing. The descents would be too much too, I would have thought.