That Bontrager remote looks like a bargain.
Just picked up a South Paw though, so will see how that goes.

118mm is the standard size for the blast running a triple.

Moviprep is devil juice.
Only had it the once but Christ it was bad.
I couldn’t drink both sachets and was gagging about 3/4 through the second.
Apparently a lot of people don’t get that far.
The sandwich and tea in the recovery bay after was a welcome bonus!

It’s actually only a mile to my local station where I normally travel from – but it wouldn’t be much of a ride….

The station 10 miles away (roughly half way to work) has a more frequent service to Birmingham (4 trains/hour).

Thanks guys, will be 10 miles each way.

I will be giving it a go on my HT but ‘if’ I keep it up I’ll want to use something else.

I’ve got Endura Hummvee 3/4 – seem really hard wearing and a decent fit.

Both my bikes are 26″ – HT and FS.
Both capable of taking tapered steerer forks too.
There’d be no problem with running 650b forks if you can’t get 26.
I think tyres are going to be the problem further down the line.

qwerty

SR-Suntour XCT JR 152mm cranks with removable rings (i went 30t N/W with 10spd 11/36 cassette) £21.62: https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Sports-Outdoors/Kettenradgarnitur-SR-Suntour-T20242-Z%C3%A4hne-schwarz/B0029MP3AO

I picked a set of these up a while back for my lads bike but not fitted them yet – didn’t realise you could remove the rings.

How do you get them off?

That charge frame is a bargain.

Yep F80’s. Didn’t lower it, just set the sag a bit lower.
A-C works OK it’s only slightly longer than the original forks.

Haven’t forgotten about this.
Comms with Taiwan is a bit slow…..
Now it’s new Year for a few days I’m hoping they come back with some revised postage costs.
Have also asked about discount for bulk orders.

Watch this space!

Looks nice.
Did something similar for my lad.
Still need to swap the cranks though and also got some shimano hydraulic brakes, SRAM shifters & mechs to upgrade the current Deore combined cable brake/shifter set up.

Would like some lighter wheels but the cost is pretty high.

I picked up some of these a couple of weeks back.

AMPLIFI MKII Knee Pads.

Got knee & elbow slip-ons for £40 from Tredz (looks like they’ve sold out now though).

Used them all last weekend at Coed-Y-Brenin and on a night ride over the Chase last night – really comfortable and not particularly bulky.

@mrblobby – sounds like a good set up.
Hoping for something similar.
MacBook Pro is looking like the best fit for what I want.

Thanks

Can you still do that on the new ones? Thought it was a feature they’d removed.

Not discounted an iMac – really like the look.
Mac Mini seemed good as I could get a decent monitor and swap between mini and my work laptop.

Cheers guys.

The refurbed ones at HOXTON MACS look decent for the money.

Anyone bought off them?

Thanks guys.

Don’t want an ipad pro – I want a laptop/desktop.
Like being able to use an SD card, USB stick and CD/DVD drive.

Did think about an older Mini and maxing out the RAM and fitting an SSD.

Just been and looked at the 21.5″ iMac – nice!

Khani – that looks similar to how I want ours.

As long as the outside wall is solid I don’t mind – it’ll block the view of the neighbour monstrosity….

Thanks core – really useful info.
Will be looking at keeping/replacing the doors from kitchen/dinner into the new space so we can shut it off if needed.
Good point about roof insulation etc. – will probably have to go flat roof with lantern light due to the current extension being flat roof.

Off to Coed Y Brenin tomorrow morning for the weekend with some workmates.

Bit of an update.
Supplier has gotten back to me – tools cost around £15 each, but postage is expensive at the moment (from China….)
Trying to get a cheaper (i.e. slower) postage rate.

Chris

I think I may have found a supplier.

Waiting to hear back – will update if anything comes of it.

Thanks for the replies chaps!
Have ordered a Nitecore i4.

TBH Xtar are usually good, are you charging 2 cells at once? I find mine sometimes struggles with that if the 2 cells are too different but it’s always been fine with a single cell.

@northwind yes, trying to charge 2 cells. Both cells are the same size/type/capacity.
It seems to be the one channel that is inconsistent. All my batteries are XTAR too.

Thanks for that – doesn’t look too expensive on Amazon.

Anyone have one??

Wish I had the skill set to do this.
Best I can do is bolt stuff to an existing frame.

Geometry wise I don’t think you’d go far wrong looking at Frog/Isla frame geo.

Good luck with this it sounds brilliant.

Stance doesn’t have the maestro suspension like the Anthem & Trance.
It uses some of the engineered flex in the rear stays – there were some issues with the earlier ones cracking.

I’d probably look at the Boardman or Vitus for that money. If you’re a British Cycling member you get 10% off at Halfords/Cycle Republic and Chain Reaction.

I’ve got some on my Mega.
Picked them up in the sale earlier in the year.
Really good wheel set IMHO – have put up with my ham-fisted riding.
Will echo the tight tyre comment – took 60psi to seat the rear.

I usually just carry my normal phone.
Hadn’t thought about a ‘robust back-up’.
I’ve got a Nokia 6300 sitting in a drawer at home – might just get a PAYG sim and stick it in for emergency use.

I quite like it.

Agreed that Anna comes across as a bit of a helpless blonde and Doddy looks a bit awkward in front of the camera. Still can’t complain it’s better than a lot of the other stuff on TV.

Only issue I have with series link (Sunday afternoons) on sky is it seems to cut off the last couple of minutes.

Same as Prawny – got 2 x KS eten’s and can’t fault them.
I’ve got the stealth version on my Nukeproof and the external routed type on the HT – both 100mm drop.

If you can ‘go stealth’ then the Brand-X dropper on CRC seems good value too and appears to have some decent reviews.

Go and get it checked out.
Don’t wait or get fobbed off by your doctor.

I did something similar around 3 years ago (Sept 2013) – thought I should just MTFU and get on with it. Was still painful a few weeks later and went to see the Doc who said it was badly bruised and would take another few weeks to heal.

I got to Christmas and was in agony – went back to Doc who referred me to the Othopedic Triage unit – took 3 months for the appointment to come through. Had 6 weeks of physio which provided a slight improvement. Another 3 months later I was back at the Triage having a cortisone injection in my shoulder – all hunky dory for 6 months.

Woke up one morning in agony again – guess the injection had worn off – back to the Doc and waiting another 2 months to go back to Triage. Was offered more physio and another injection.

At this point I was about ready to smack the Doctor – I told them in no uncertain terms I wanted to see a specialist. In the previous 18 months I hadn’t had an xray or a scan and I was now convinced something wasn’t right (I’m a bit slow to catch on…).

8 weeks later I got an appointment with the Consultant shoulder specialist – who is a brilliant well regarded Orthopedic surgeon.

He sent me off for an xray (he was surprised I hadn’t had one too…).

Turns out I’d impacted my AC joint and with enough force for the bones to slide over each other and basically rough the ends up, oh and damaged a few other bits in the process.

The conversation turned to surgery – which he was basically going to cut 1/2 inch of my collar bone off and clean out the joint. Recovery time could be between 6 – 12 months.

Before this though I needed intense physio to get my should lined up properly as my shoulder blade was ‘winging’ and impinging the rotator joint and I was about a week away from a frozen shoulder.

I also had an ultra sound to check all the tendons were OK.

Before kicking off the 12 weeks of weekly physio I had 2 cortisone injections which hurt like hell (couldn’t lift my arm for 2 days) to alleviate the pain an swelling to help with the physio.

After the physio I went back to see Consultant and he was pretty pleased with the results but wanted to keep going with the physio and delayed surgery.

So another 3 months of physio ensued and another trip to the consultant.

He’s now delayed surgery indefinitely as the physio has realigned my shoulder correctly and opened up the AC joint to relieve the pressure on the meniscus.

It took me nearly 2 years to get sorted.

Don’t mess around go and get it checked.

Have ruled out On-One frames though as my current dropper won’t fit – need a 31.6 seat tube.

Idea is to swap as much over from the Carrera as I can – mainly the ‘big cost’ items – wheels, dropper and my spare tapered forks.

Hornet is looking favourite.

deviant

Ragley Piglet 2, I ran mine with 140mm forks.

…..by chance mines for sale, contact me on here if interested.

If I could work out how to PM people I’d drop you a line….

Like the look of the Hornet – seems like a decent from for the price.

Not sure what size I’d go for though – would be tempted to say large (18″) as it sizes up pretty close to the Mega.

The mavic wheels I have are 12mm bolt through or QR.
Will have a look at the Hornet and BFE.

Just noticed this posted up on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/mtb.enthusiasts/permalink/1809885562560114/

Be careful if you decided to ride big drops with the shock bottoming out.

Just found This Article on Pop bottle pressures. Interesting that in ‘normal’ use a full bottle of pop is around 50psi and can go up to 100psi if left in a hot car.
According to the article bottles seem to be able to withstand around 150psi.

Love the EVH paint job on that extinguisher!