Sometimes a solo explore but 90% of the time my rides are a small group of like-minded lunatics :)
It’s a good insurance policy IME to have a riding buddy somewhere in the vicinity if you’re having a go at a tricky bit of exposed tech’ on top of a mountain.

I used http://www.pierreetvacances.com a couple of years ago.
Residence L’Ours Blanc is centrally located with nice enough apartments.
Would use again.

Thread hijack:
I’ve just received a set of M8000 XTs as warranty replacements.
Decided that I want to try Hopes so won’t be fitting them and will sell-on as brand-new-in-box if you’re interested.
£110 collected Preston area.
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what nixie said
I’ve always punched the bearings out with a big screwdriver and seated the new ones with a socket (and using the old bearing sat on top of the new one to protect it)

Pro 2 Evo hub bearings generally go before freehub bearings do IME.
Bearings cost only a couple of quid, new freehub is a bit drastic!
Also worth checking that your freehub body is not cracked. Hope will probably replace it FOC if it is. (I’ve broken every Pro 2 alloy freehub that I’ve had. Hope replaced all with steel ones)

I’m sure my daughter gets MS Office for free as a 6th form student, just by using her college email address.
I think they allow something like 5 or 6 installs.

Supermarket.
Did have a milkman for a good few years but it was the absence of

guaranteed milk in the morning

that was the problem.
Some little scrote on his way to work would occasionally help himself to the milk sat on our doorstep.

slight deviation…. has anybody got any idea when the Stubborn Dwarf (Stubbing Wharf) is planning to reopen?

Not me.
Can’t see the point.

Don’t tell me you took them over Midgely Moor….. :lol:

I found that a towball rack made little or no difference to mpg or noise, whereas at motorway speeds a roof rack and two bikes knocked a big hole in mpg and was noisy too. (Mondeo estate)

Nope. That’s HMRC’s job, not Joe Public’s

Yes, you need to be assured that they play by the rules. No, you don’t need to scrutinise the details personally.

yes, only any good from the Cant Clough end.
Nothing that I can point to on a map but I can describe… As you climb on the doubletrack from Cant Clough towards Hurstwood, look for a small singletrack off to the right (straight on) as you go over the brow of the hill.
Follow that.
It pops out on the side of Hurstwood res but it’s a more interesting than the doubletrack alternative.
Track is often referred to as “Super Mario Land”.

pretty much what they all said^^^
Darwen Tower to Roddlesworth by whatever route suits best.
Roddlesworth to Abbey Village
Abbey Village to White Coppice via Wheelton Plantation and the Goit
Healey Nab then Heapey Fold lane
Climb from to Anglesark Res to Yarrow Res
Rivington
Lower Barn to Pike
Down Wilderswood
Back up and over Wilders Moor
Burnt Edge
Shooting huts climb to Winter Hill
San Marino
Simmy’s route from Belmont res to Witton Weavers

Good point 220si, the Mk 2 might well only have room for a single cable in each groove.
Mine’s a Mk 3 that has room for two each side.

stevied, yes the other seal you have will be for a 34.9 post

andybrad, yep, very pleased with it too.

OK, brilliant. Make sure you report back on the finished product.

stevied, don’t fall into the trap of assuming you can only use the 34.9 stealth.

The Liteville factory build kit comes with 31.6 stealth and a long syntace shim that integrates with the clamp and a post-size-specific top seal to keeps everything very clean.

… the insured party as defined in the certificate and schedule

… come on ndthornton, you know it’s not an out and out downhill bike.

I took my 601 out on an all-day winch-and-plummet type Calderdale outing last Sunday.
Yes, I know it’s totally over-biked but, as my 301 was out of action pending warranty on reverb and brakes, it seemed like a reasonable idea and proved itself quite capable of cranking up the climbs.

It would be crazy to expect any renewal price to be competitive.
No real option other than a full search of 3 or 4 comparison sites, plus the handful of companies who don’t quote through the comparison sites.
It’s got to be done every year, sadly.

stevied,
The cable slots under the shock sliding mount are wide enough to take two cables in each slot.
Stealth reverb hose then enters the frame immediately above the BB

podge, I wasn’t referring to a narrowly defined legal right.
That kind of thinking what got us into this situation. ;)
More a philosophical right and wrong

I trust all of us do, discreetly and courteously, never in large numbers and not in tourist hotspots on bank holidays.

Courteously – Yes, always. You have to be considerate and pleasant to everyone you share the trails with.
Discretely – No, why should we hide under cover of darkness?. This is the bit of “Cheeky Trails” etiquette that I just can’t get on with.
Tourist hotspots – why-ever not, assuming you think you’ve got as much right to be there as they have? Just remember to be courteous and don’t go hooning down a trail that a family are walking up!
If you want to set a KOM, yes then out-of-hours is the time to do that, but pootling down a super-cheeky trail shouldn’t be an issue.

You haven’t come across the Bogtrotters have you, they seem to make a point of riding in the opposite manner even if better legal trails exist to their destination (ok, I don’t think they are rude but you get the gist)

Trouble here is that I can count on one hand the number of bridleways that are worth riding in preference to a nearby footpath.

yes they do, Stoodley Pike or Darwen Tower on Sunday? sound familiar?

Very, and why-ever not, given the provisos above around being nice.

I took a small group through an NT tourist hotspot yesterday in the middle of the day. We spent a long time waiting for walkers and chatting with them. They recognised our considerate behavior and there was no friction. One pleasant dog-walker even smiled and said “you’ll enjoy that bit”…
We did.

It’s only the older generation that ever seem to register any disapproval. I admittedly had one older gentleman yesterday comment to me as he passed (we’d stopped and got off the trail to let him pass). “I don’t think this is a bridle-path” he said whilst smiling.
“I know, it’s daft isn’t it” I replied, “those pack-horses must have been in bother all the time”.
He nodded and laughed.
This is just what happens when you’re nice about it.

I’ve got a SG HD trailstar on the back and I’m not that impressed. The SG Magic Mary on the back of the other bike is a better all rounder IMHO.

To be honest, I’d rather run a dual ply Maxxis but my rims don’t seem to play nicely with them running tubeless.

What would be causing that

… not releasing the shifter all the way to first position before you started

Sounds to me like you’re “one whole gear out of sync”.

i.e. your shifter is in gear #9 when your mech is in position over gear #10 on the cassette, consequently when you shift down to gear #1, your mech only goes to position #2

I’ve got a couple of “Liteville special” Magic Marys in 2.5″ and they are brilliant. Noticeably wider than the standard 2.35″. Think they’re built on a Fat Albert carcass. Don’t think you’ll find them on general sale though.

The on-one Chunky Monkey is very good too. Had one on the front of the hardtail for over a year now.

A bleed WILL NOT fix this known problem.
A service will.

Warranty it if you have the option. You will likely get a new post back.

If you fancy a bit longer day, this is a good route that we did last year:
Park at Ranger station; up Rangers all way to top; down Rhyd Ddu; short road section back to Rangers station; up bottom section of Rangers; branch left over Telegraph; off-piste right to pick up Llanberis path at mid station; up Llanberis; down Rangers.

Everything on Autotrader is overpriced IMO. It’s just a starting point for a negotiation.
You’d need to be selling with full 12 months MoT at that age/mileage.

and you missed poorer handling and slower from your list too.

Nice big estate every time for me

Last night was the first night this year that the bike has gone back in the garage without needing a wash.
Dusty trails in Calderdale, who’d have thunk it?
Only slight downside was that we all ended up carrying a bit too much speed into some techy bits. (Too much speed into “steps of death” didn’t end well :oops: )

My first ever double-post error… Yay

With 9 spd, my approach was “run 3 chains in rotation; fit the shortest; run the lot into the ground”
All components in the drivetrain were steel and it worked fine.

With the advent of 1×10 and an expander, the drivetrain now includes softer alloy components (expander and narrow/wide chainring), all are still relatively cheap though, so the same approach still kind of works, but the softer components (unsurprisingly) seem to govern the overall longevity of the “set”. It’s now typically two chains in rotation and throw the lot away when the chainring starts dropping the chain (wear effect on width of tooth? – a third chain wouldn’t help here).

Now I’ve got a bike with an 11spd X01 cassette, I’m definitely going to change chains religiously at 0.5 using a chainchecker. The price of the cassette is now the primary consideration. I want to ensure it lasts as long as possible.

pull up two metal rods, slide out the entire headlamp assembly, change bulb, slide the unit back in, then push the two rods back down

Exactly the same for Mondeos. Am surprised to hear all fords are not the same.

the m62 is the boundary between north and south…………..FACT

I’m with Ton on that measure.

eg. Cheshire, for example, is clearly “Southern”

Serious answers:
1. Is it really worth moving from Nottingham to Sheffield. They’re 40 miles apart. That’s not worth relocating for.

2. Wharncliffe is a pretty good starting point for riding in Sheffield area. There’s a FB group I think.

Dropping the chain was the first indication that mine was worn out.
Fitted a top guide as a quick fix but that was only treating the symptoms, not the cause.
Definitely needs a new ring IMO.

I’ve got the 180mm Thirty-Five on my Liteville 601.
Very impressed. Nicely controlled and easy to set up. Feels quite Pike-esque in use. My only very minor criticism is that it’s a noisy thing. You can definitely hear the damping circuit doing its thing.

I liked Paul Daniels

… not a lot … but