Try an ear candle. They don’t half clean your ears out!

grtdkad – I have a similarly black carbon whippet here but no where near 17lb.

I think the scales are borked or need recalibrated. I’ve seen XC race bikes that are close to costing 5 figures that are not as light. Especially as the bike above hasn’t the lightest of frames or wheels.

The best way of doing Helvellyn is up Kepple Cove and down Dollywagon Pike…If Dollywagon’s too much, the next section down to the climbers hut more than makes up for it.

The main point of Paypal is so buyers/sellers don’t have to share bank details.
The person paying you, is paying the money to your registered Paypal email address…they have no way of accessing your Paypal account, let alone your bank account.
If you haven’t got a Paypal account, you get an email from them where you can go onto their site and transfer the money to your bank account instead.

You can use a Niner YAWYD stem cap for attaching a bottle top to your bike.

It’s a botch job anyway! The flags should be overhanging maybe with a small groove cut into the edge of the underside, so water can drip off. At present or after you clean the edge of the flag off, the water will soak into or get behind the render. Come winter when it freezes, the render will bust off.
The easiest way to rectify it would be to lay some more flags on top, leaving a overhang and point up with mortar.

If the off road C2C you’re thinking of is the one from St. Bees to Robins Hoods Bay, it’s around 200k and will more than likely take 4 days.

Here’s a list of 650B frames and here’s a list of 26″ frames that can be converted. Both links are to 650B Palace.

b r – Member
A bit critical, when a living legend turns up you can’t expect him to be ‘normal’. And Fisher was fine by me

+1

2wheels1guy…

:lol:

My first ever event, the 2008 Merida Marathon at Penrith! Entered the 75k thinking it was the right distance to challenge me at time…I did rides that were 50k long after all. :roll:
I took off like a shot, thinking it was great with how many folk I was passing. They were out enjoying the ride though and probably doing the shorter routes. I ended doing a long road section behind Ullswater and there was no one else around. I was thinking I’d took a wrong turn and then cramp set in. I’d never had it before and getting back to the finish was agony…to say I was in a bad mood is putting it lightly! :lol:
Strangely enough, I was hooked.

What do you think? Your mirrors are part of being able to drive a car safely according to the law.

Have a look at this entry on this blog about wear of the Gates/Rohloff setup. (Ollie Whalley’s, TDR winner no less!).

You can buy a different brand of rings but they need to be Truvativ/Sram compatible.

plus the guy mailed me saying he had received it, yet they still won’t give me my money back.

If Paypal won’t change it, why doesn’t the bloke who bought the phone pay you again?

You buy a chain ring that suits your brand of chainset.

Get more sleep! You go to to bed at 1am and are up early too?

Merlin usually have good prices. Click on the actual fork you’re looking at to get the proper price…most stuff has an extra 10% off the price on the main page.

I was going to say could I come with you…just looked at the forecast though! :(

Look here.

_tom_ – Member
Haven’t seen any of it, road riding is more boring to watch than it is to do!

+1

Bucko – Seriously though, I cannot ever imagine spending that much on a bike, even if I won the lottery tomorrow.

It all depends on what type of person you are and what biking means to you. Myself, I don’t earn a fortune, but I haven’t many hobbies outside of mountain biking. I spend thousands on it…with travelling about, biking holidays/weekends, changing/maintaining bikes. I know other folk who struggle to get out riding once a week, but earn plenty money and can drop 6K on a bike without thinking about it!

If you’re after some Formula brakes, Merlin are selling complete brake sets for as cheap as I’ve seen them…still quite a bit dearer than some XT’s though.
The XT Shadow+ mechs are already out too! Maybe they’re sold out if you can’t find anywhere stocking them?

Once you start spending more than a couple of grand a quality full-sus bike, the components are usually worth more than the frame. You could spend a lot more than 4.5k on an Orange if it was dripping with bling (your mates won’t be too shabby either).
I’d buy what I’ve already got with some cheaper parts instead!

burko73 – if the lbs gets caned 10% then why do so many of them do b2w?

Because business is business! If they don’t offer it, what would have been a potential customer will go to the place that does.
Anyway, most LBS I know would knock 10% off on a normal sale anyway, some might only do 5% on complete bikes.
Apart from getting cheaper prices online, I’ve rarely paid full price for bikes/parts, especially when spending substantial amounts. You stated that you wouldn’t expect a discount on a suspension fork and would pay rrp…I wouldn’t buy from somewhere that wouldn’t do me a discount. Even though I use cash for everything I buy, I’m not sure it makes much of a difference these days.

For some of the other posts above…I know folk who have got bikes on the b2w scheme and have sold them a week later. Just seeing it as an opportunity of a cash loan!
I know someone else who got some fancy race wheels for his road bike on the scheme too.
Some of the posters above saying you’ve got to do this or you must do that are hilarious. People will do as they please and so will bike shop owners when they’re getting the money.

Aus – House she reckons is worth £200K and unlikely to appreciate much over time.

Over how much time though…in the long term it’s rare that a property doesn’t go up in value, especially with typical family homes.
The rent amount will probably go up every couple of years too.

pleaderwilliams – The shimano versions have a switch to engage/disengage this spring, so you can choose quicker shifting or less bouncing depending on what you’re riding that day.

The switch is only there so you can disengage the clutch/spring when you need to remove the wheel.

? Are you seeing something different in the pic? Its excess material (likely from the weld) on the inside wall of the tube, exactly what a reamer is designed to remove, not a large mass blocking the whole tube which needs drilling through?

If the weld sticks out a few mm, a reamer might not remove it. They are designed for ‘reaming’ a hole to a tight tolerance. When it comes to bikes, they’re used for removing corrosion or making a seat tube the correct size if it’s a little tight…removing tenths of a millimetre, not chunks of weld.

The problem I could see with reaming is that the tool is designed for removing very little material from the inside of a tube. Although it looks like a drill, it’s not designed for drilling and has such doesn’t have a tip like one.

The problem with trying to shrink them will be that the cotton stitching won’t shrink as much, if at all. You’ll end up with wrinkled/creased up bits around the neck and sleeves.

It’ll be where the weld has blown through…you either want the seat tube reamed or the frame changed.

emmodd – You could do the 3 passes…Gatesgarth, Nan Bield & Garburn.

There’s a few routes that take in said places over on GPSies.

It’s phil ATTTTT unsponsored DOTTTT co DOTTTT uk.
I’m surprised he hasn’t been back in touch with you, I thought he might have been away canoeing somewhere, but he’s been posting on his other website over the last couple of days.

PaulD – Member
Clutch XTR mech has a User-adjustable clutch….see here.

http://techdocs.shimano.com/media/techdocs/content/cycle/SI/XTR/SI_0120A/SI-0120A-003-00-Eng_v1_m56577569830789046.pdf

No need to send it away for ‘recalibration’.

PaulD

+1. This exactly, do people not read the instructions?
Sent off to be re-calibrated!?! FFS! :roll:

I’d always wanted a Nicolai and nearly bought one when I cracked my Intense…priced up the frame I wanted (an AC) with a few custom options and is was going to cost more than £2800! I bought something carbon flavoured instead, for £800 less and don’t think the Nicolai would have performed better than what I ended up getting (Mojo HD).
I’ve always liked hand-built aluminium frames as I used to be a welder/fabricator and can see the work that goes into them. That’s all to do with how they look though, which has no effect on how they ride. Carbon is where it’s at now. Lighter, stiffer and despite what a lot of folk think, strong! I’d buy an alloy bike to save money, but wouldn’t pay more for one that I could get a decent carbon one for.

I used to love the games on the old Neo-Geo arcade machines…have you seen the Analogue Interactive walnut consoles? They play the arcade MVS cartridges, way cheaper than the AES home versions…shame the console isn’t cheap though!

I quite enjoyed it, was only there a week though. It was a bit of change for me but I did spend a small fortune on shopping and dinners…seeing as the courts were just off the city centre.

Ibis Mojo Special Blend if you’re looking at spending two and a half. Comes with a triple chainset (great for the Lakes), just replace the mech with a shadow+ one and you’re good to go! :D

Turrican 2 on the Amiga.
What was that helicopter game too? Desert Strike?
The Chaos Engine was a good two player game.

Very sad to say, but great when you’re a kid, no one I knew ever bought an original game for their Amiga…everyone at school would just swap copied games or some lads dad would supply lists with anything you wanted, for the cost of a days dinner money! The latest cracked versions of X-Copy were what everyone wanted, so you could copy any game…there were always a couple that wouldn’t copy, a sickener when you borrowed a game and your mate wanted it back. :lol: