All the gear…

Those powerlines buzz all the time along a considerable part of their lenght, not sure why. Batch of faulty insulators which allow a small ground leak?

Doubt it has anything to do with the change in the suspension action. Maybe a slightly different geometry causes you to move your weight about differently?

Just pump the tyres up a bit more. If you're pinching more often, then it's likely at the same pressure as the old bike you'll get more grip.

Is irrelevant, all the brakes use the same ones. You can recycle them if you're really desperate, but you risk stripping the master-cyclinder threads by having to overtighten to get a used olive to seal.

Used Olympics + Yellow tape on really light non-UST tyres for a year. Eventually found it was easier to get the tyres on with a rimstrip in. I also had a tyre burp all it's air running without a rimstrip, though admittedly this was off a rather large step-down during a race.

Hose.

Make sure you have new olives to reseal them. I find cutting the hose with a stanley knife works a treat, without needing to rebleed the brake. Unbolt from lever, cut, fit new olive and insert, rebolt. Easy.

I think the Avid instructions document this pretty well.

Dawes Audax, lovely bikes.

I reckon Spesh will get a 3-ring front shifter made pretty easy, SRAM already make them custom brakes and custom forks (reba 29er with spesh carbon crown and steerer).

Even spending someone else's money, I still want XTR (and XX brakes) for next year. Maybe one of those new Middleburn external-bb cranksets run as a 40/30 duo.

Rapha are selling REPLICA British national champ tops.

No, they're the real thing. If you notice they aren't in the usual wool, just like the tops Kristian has been wearing recently. They had to order a large number, and unless he wears a different one every day, it makes sense to sell some.

Rapha are selling british national champ tops. If you're not Kristian House, you're asking to be gobbed on.

Tj spends A LOT of time up Calton Hill. I have always wondered what he gets up to!

Let's just hope he's wearing his helmet.

Used Arthurs Seat as a city-centre DH location on many occasions over the last seven years, with anything up to ten people racing down at the same time. Never had a bit of bother using the usual trail manners (say hello to everyone).

Also a good laugh for night riding, especially after a few beers.

Scandium is a metal added to an aluminium alloy to improve the alignment of the metal grain, and thus provide a stronger material allowing thinner walled tubes and thus reduced weight.

It's certainly true that early scandium frames were very brittle and failed (Dynamix being a prime example of this), but this was more due to over-excited engineers pushing the material too far.

I know people with Scandium Kona hardtails that are still being ridden after eight or nine years now. Most of Kona range is now build with Scandium alloy.

M2 was something special, it was a real metal-matrix material through the addition of ceramic. The M4 and M5 frames were merely a fancy alloy, costing far less to produce.

I wager five months till you snap this one Oli….

Pretty normal to get a little bit of oil to start with. Ride them for a week or so and then see what it's like.

He'll make you pay for the whole box simply for being a tart.

There was some pretty strong evidence to support the fact that silver spokes are indeed stronger, something to do with the heat treatment used in the colouring process.

Maxxis Ignitor/Crossmark combo. Those without the mad skills may not apply.

Panty spiders.

In older versions the installer had an option to make it available to all users or just you. I think all was the default IIRC. Icons definitely not in /Applications?

Exactly what I was trying to convey. Works out well on the RHS too.

355 runs a lot bigger than 2.1, I've certainly run 2.3s on the narrower Olympic rim, without the tyre profile getting so round as to wash out on loose gravel.

I've had my Olympics for over two years of constant use. Have only dinged them recently, nothing that couldn't be straightened with a small amount of leverage from a screwdriver.

Definitely a recommend purchase (and having bought a mavic rim at current prices, not that terrible value for what I think is a stronger rim).

Can see where the 3lbs appears from over my bike;

Frame +300g
Fork +300g
Wheels +350g
Brakes +100g
Saddle +100g
Grips +100g
Seatpost +50g
Bars +50g
Rotors +50g

All adds up even with underestimates.

Stunning looking bike though, all good tough stuff. Replied to your poploc + XTR thread, hope it helps.

Round (as opposed to the heavier sawtooth) Hope floating rotors for me everytime, anything lighter is just being irresponsible with your health IMO.

The Innolite rims are available under a number of brands, MSC being one. Will stick with the ZTR methinks, two years and they only have a few minor dings in them.

I'm sure Gareth said it was Wales, but the rest of the story you have is the same. £400 rim is going to sting though, more so than even a Stans at £70.

Jody also banjo'd the fork and front wheel on one of it's first rides at a welsh trailcentre.

Found this thread while looking for pics of your bike.

I run mine so that the cable runs out under the bars (so you push the lever away from you rather than down) with the cable a few mm away from touching the silver shift lever on the XTR pods.

Late to the party as always, but here's a pic of my 20.57lb (with race number on) race bike as mentioned by Nick:

That's probably the best pic I have atm, as I have none of the bike on it's own apart from the initial build which was changed slightly. The weight was verified using a set of calibrated postal scales.

The frame is 3.5lbs (1600g), the weight of a good alloy hardtail. The rest of the kit is light without being silly or German.

6.32:1 on rider:bike ratio, yes, that's right, I weight nothing too.

Druidh – How is the new Blur? Pics? I imagine it's a far more everyday bike than my Koncept.

"You'll need at least six inches of travel to clean it"
"You'll never clean it on a hardtail"
"You'll need to put your saddle down"
etc….

In fact; any sort of prescription related to the bike itself, in relation to 'technical' riding, doled out by fatties on semi-free-hardcore-docking-devices.

VW are just about to start fitting them to higher end models.

HL was scary when it first came out. D3 was pretty nervewracking, never knowing if the next room was going to be yet more monsters to shoot, and another keycard to find.

110 on one bike, want to swap for a longer TT and a shorter one though. Other bike is 90mm. Both are full-on XC race steeds.

MSC Koncept Carbon, only five in the UK.

TZF is on the right track.

I hear they making it into 2 lanes in some areas.

I'm taking the bait…

Been saying that for a lot longer than I've been around. Agreeing with others here, just chill out and let others do the crazy overtakes.

Vented lenses in Radars also do not fog up. Less to break on a radar. Less fiddly bits to collect mud. Jawbone won't suit ever face, whereas Radar with a change of lens shape always will (five options).

Either way, warranty on Oakleys is first class.

Druidh has one? Really? That's quite an upgrade from the FSR!

There is at least one prototype being ridden at the moment with a seriously lightened swingarm. No idea if it'll make 2010 production or not.

Hello Crispin!

Had a set of 2007 Corsa with the PAR, were awful to setup. Even following the manual didn't work out, but then I'm lighter than the lowest given pressures.

I heard it's going to cost £3 to £4.3B, have a 2 to 73" screen, weight nothing, or tonnes, and be made of recycled cardboard.