gutted i cant make the first one but i’ll be dealing with a comedown after orbital on the saturday night.

manc ftw

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Brooklyn SR8 <3

Only good things will come of it. I personally disregard any comments about climbing ability being hindered.

My ceramic hope lasted nearly two years. I rode it lots too in filth and rain. Think I swapped out the grease once but that was late on it’s life and it was probably already dead tbf.

replaced it with an xtr just to get me through winter then i’ll probably swap the bearings in the old hope cups.

thats the one flimsy.. I’ll be happy to buy that off you for sure.

this mud trench sounds like a lot of fun.

loving my minions.. i used high rollers a bit this year but never again. At least not on the front anyway, seem to work for some people but i find the steady breakaway of the minions really predictable and easy to work with.

not many people run tubeless for dh. because the cornering is so hard it’s just unreliable.

rode dh at foel gasnach and macc forest this weekend. Really good conditions considering I thought. Ran minions throughout.

I’d ring again and explain that you need a rough idea of what time to expect your pickup. This is basic comms mate.. if the engineer is too retarded to give you a roundabout time i’d say it’d be up to you to eek out the information that you clearly need.

basic stuff this really?

Take the pads out and hold them ove a gas cooker flame with some pliers. in my experience that’s the only way to completely remove any contaminants from the pads. I do it fairly regularly with my pads as they get contaminated easily if its wet.

Sometimes they end up feeling better than new.

I did a few runs down foel gasnach tonight with my new hope r4. The amount of light you have obviously dictates how fast you tackle messy terrain.

horses for courses innit?

wow, graphs of guesses. mint.

Im 34″ and i wear royal pants.

Obviously the whole being out in the woods mooching up a hill with a fancy bike on you own bit is playing on my mind.

aye.. this kind of made me think about how I actually feel about the person. It’s just pity, the act of cheating i find completely frightening. But those who choose to do it, pitiful.

I’m sure lance is hurting enough right now without having to see that kind of carry on.

Hamza on the other hand :D

I just bought one of the new r4 packages.. hope i don’t live to regret that.

I love howies stuff.. their skinny jeans are my favourites.

I have one too, it’s definitely got a loose connection. Where did you manage to get the cable gavgas?

depends what sort of races your looking to do.. I tend to look at the roots and rain calendar to plan my dh races.

British cycling?

it was a cruiser wasn’t it!? 8O

velcro shoes aswell?

auto.. haaaaa!

oh look.. it’s my mate.

in fairness you did kind of ask for that, claiming you were riding a proper bike..

rev ‘n’ go!? hell no.

Why not just get some square wheels instead?

And also i doubt an insurance company would take the view of it not being the other drivers fault, I he had slid into oncoming traffic and died as a result I think you could probably guess that nobody would conclude that it was the motorcyclists fault.

a scooter is not a motorcycle despite what wiki says.

Only hot birds with open face lids, mods, and traffic wardens should use scooters. Otherwise there’s no excuse.

They’re a great tyre, used them in mini dh races even. They wear kick though, and once theyre worn theyre useless.

Smiff the sniff, I like your style.

Chin up lad!

Time to start looking for a new steed I think :)

somebody get this man a medal!

HAAAha :)

It doesn’t take much gak to clog up a thread that fine, I’d clean all threads meticulously with a rag over my nail and then then lightly grease and try again.

Ti on Ti? I thought that was a no no? no?

It’s not a vernier unless it has a vernier scale! tsk

Are you sure you’re getting a good reading on your calipers? Got a ring gauge to calibrate them?

Aside from that anyone with a reamer, Ti is like cheese.

the new saint levers are the same style as the m666 ones.