SLX is £71

XT M770 on Merlin is £98

They do have Servowave but only as they now have the XT levers.

It’s 36:19

T’is an 18″ – not selling though, I love it to bits.

just a couple of parting shots. :wink:

In my defence, I’ve never bought a new frame. The whole lot of 5 frames cost less than the Mojo would new.

£720 Mojo.
£550 Ti 456.
£0 Kona.
£270 Airborne.
£215 Klein.

Airborne gets the most use thanks to commuting, maybe 50 miles per week

Then the Mojo as it’s just soo flingin flanging good. (25-30 miles per week)

The the “A” (20 miles per week – local night rides mostly)

The Ti 456 gets used usually in place of the Mojo when i fancy something a bit more hardcore. (Only done 60+ miles since I got it)

The klein gets the least use, It’s soo damn pretty I don’t really want to damage it. My missus rides it most of the time. (20 miles per month!)

Full Suspension

Hardtail

Singlespeed Full suspension

XC Race

XC singlespeed race and commuter

Have you charged it properly? They only fast charge to 90% then a very slow trickle charge (12 hours or so) for the remaining 10%

High Rollers are good for everything but thick mud and very wet grass.

For ghetto tubeless, Kenda Nevegals aren’t a bad all rounder.

But realistically, Bonty Mud-X is a superb, cheap, tubeless ready tyre so long as 2.0″ is your bag.

Lucius

Iain

Alexander

Benjamin

Pick two.

Please someone else buy some and tell me what they’re like?

Take your bike, there’s some superb riding just to the west of Bradford.

The Avids are more powerful, but are heavier. The Hopes are more reliable IME. They’re both a pain in the arse to change pads, but the Avids more so. Getting Avid Ultimates to work with Hope floating rotors is a ball ache.

The new blue ultimates look VERY cheap.

Just pads, the soggy moors and dales are killing my pad life at the moment.

USE Joystick Maxx

I need to stay in more, where’s this Pepsi porn?

I’m soo very skint, that I have no choice but to be at home. Anyone wanna buy some wheels? :cry:

DO NOT PUT AVATARS IN!

No tag lines either, the rest is fine, although I would prefer who started the topic rather than the last poster.

Biking so good, the cows want it back!

I’ve been privy to sections of the report for a while now. Somewhere in there it reports that at least two crew members were still alive (but likely unconscious) before they hit the water.

Sad, horribly, terribly sad.

Bump

Your point is, caller? :-)

Not sure really….

druidh – don’t you have a titanium hardtail with custom lettering?

What’s wrong with the Lynx?

I like Tesco.

Every Bike shop I’ve talked to has reported decent sales in the last half of this year.

Joepie91 posted on Bike radar the other day saying that the admins had voluntarily downed their own site to remove users (specifically script kiddies) who have no hacking ethics.

Ro vs Daffy Looks like ro is the winner.

*dusts self down and walks away.*

the whole point of using it in bikes is to get a lighter frame with similar strength characteristics.

So. Kona made their top end frame out of scandium for shits and giggles? As it ain’t any lighter.

Speaking of frame design – I did speak to a frame designer, Brant…you know Brant right?

No. I have no idea who Brant is. But I know half the design team on the Eurofighter. Does that mean I win the ‘who has the biggest balls’ contest?

That really depends doesn’t it? in Aviation engineering, yes I suppose so but, we’re talking about a (I’m assuming given the forum we’re on) bike frame. I was using aircraft as an extreme example of aluminium fatigue, stating that a bike would get nowhere near the same levels of induced stress…surely you agree on this? Brant is Brant Richards AKA the owner or On-One bikes…A frame designer which is what you asked for. No?

‘last a lifetime’ ‘cos al ‘does not fail’

I never said either of these things. However, how much mountain biking kit is made of Aluminium? If it were half as bad as you imply how could anyone offer the 5-10 year warranties?

And if you haven’t been granted access to / developed for yourself, some nice little computer models to help you with your analysis, I fear for the future of the cute little probe. Please, tell me you’ll have someone check your work?

Thanks for the implied insult, happy new year to you too.

I didn’t really want to get in to this but, Aircraft don’t crash regularly due to materials failure, they crash due to: component; maintenance; environmental and human factors far more often than material failure.

The Comet is the worst example you could chose, NOTHING was known about the effect of repeated presurisation (metal fatigue) effects of aircraft until the Comet. The only reason that the material failed was due to the improper use of square windows, creating a stress concentration point in the frame design.

Speaking of frame design – I did speak to a frame designer, Brant…you know Brant right?

Also. If scandium is used to create a lighter frame, how come the Kona Kula Primo (scandium) is the same weight as the Kona Kula (Aluminium)

Fatigue of composites is a far more complex topic but I’d hardly call it intersting. I do have some experience of materials technology and am currently working on a project for EADS Astrium.

If you can help me with the finite element/topology optimisation of the primary composite structure of a Mercury space probe, by all means e-mail me, I could use the help.

You’ll never get near the fatigue life for aluminium on a bike. If an aluminium frame fails it’ll be on a weld/junction not the frame itself. Aircraft grade aluminium (which is used on most bikes (2024 or 6061)) is suitable for aircraft wings (turbulence), multiple pressurisations (fuselage) and impacts (ground handling) over the 50-80 year lifespan, they don’t crash due to material failure.

Scandium is NOT usually used to make a lighter bike scandium is an aluminium alloy frame with scandium alloy tubes. Scandium is used as it’s stronger than aluminium but more brittle, it can therefore be used to create thinner tube profiles and which give a different feel of ride.

The On-One Scandal only has 3 of its 8 tubes as scandium IIRC.

PayPal found in my favour and refunded £135.04 of the £140 I paid (though I did pay by credit card) to him. The PayPal ruling was completed this morning after I complained on the morning of the 19th

PayPal info.

Dear Imperial Technologies,

We have concluded our investigation into your case and have decided in your favour.

We were able to recover 135.04 GBP, and this amount has been credited to you. Please allow five working days for this adjustment to be posted.

If you are due any additional funds, we will make our best effort to recover the balance from the seller.

If the seller’s account has insufficient funds to complete the refund owed to you, please be assured that we will take appropriate action against the seller’s account, which may include limitation of the seller’s account privileges.

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Transaction Details
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Seller’s name: William Campbell
Seller’s email: will.jcampbell@yahoo.co.uk Seller’s transaction ID: 7T258156H32270425

Transaction date: 10 Dec 2008
Transaction amount: -140.00 GBP
Your transaction ID: 7L3955138W3884056
Case number: PP-603-136-992

I may be the slightly lucky here, but I still want to rip his head off.

I don’t really know how to upload my routes to anything, they’re just in my head at the moment. I’ve bought a satmap to automate the process, but I’m still ironing out the kinks.

Stif are doing shimano MW02s for £67 at the moment

The satmap is a phenomenal bit of kit, maps are expensive though and it won’t work from the top of my bag, it has to be on the bars…which is a pain.

Currys/Dixons/PCworld

Sky? Do you have Sky TV?

failing that. Plusnet/Force9 have been perfect for me since 1996.

Cheers mate, I’ll give it a go.

What do you mean by the normal way? fluid in the top, or inject fluid in the bottom?

I’m from the Western Lake District and if I’m honest I think that Whinlatter is a complete waste of time through the day.

There’s far better riding to be had out toward Loweswater, Buttermere, Skiddaw and Gaskgill. Whinlatter is only worthwhile when ALLthe walkers have gone home and you can ride the trail, then the fireroads up and all the footpaths back down. There’s amazing fun to be had on the Whinlatter footpaths once you’re a danger to no one but yourself.

I’ve tried downspecking my bike, what then happens is that you systematically set about upgrading ALL of the bits.

Never works out IMO.

No other difference, just extra machining. I have two, but only as they were second hand at £40 each.