Or when they pull on to a clear motorway and in to the middle lane – AND STAY THERE…

jd-boy – that's the sort o advice i was after. Thanks

Good enough to put me off them anyway. Gonna go roof-mounted after all.

Cheers

My point exactly…

How visible…is a matter of opinion.

Anyone have experience of using one mounted on a saloon?

Come on peeps, i need some impartial advice pleeeeease 🙂

Endura Cairns hide my beer gut well…

A pint of skimmed milk.

If not stop off at the chippy for fish n chips.

The 'notubes' website is no good so don't waste your time.

Grease up the tyre, put the wheel on the floor and push down on the side of the rim you have already fitted the bead in to whilst you fit the opposite tight side.

Use the minimum of force you can get away with, using either thumbs or levers.

The shock looks OTT size-wise fot it's travel.

What is the attraction of the Curnutt shock btw?

mattp – don't take this he wrong way but you can't do that in the middle of nowhere.

Try grease or vaseline even..

top marks for effort, his entry speed looked a bit much tho.

I'd try it but not wi'out pads – watch how his right leg gets scraped over the rock 😳

"Not to 'U-Turn'" is my answer for the following reasons:

Less to go wrong and 150mm is an ok amount of travel to climb with without too much front-end lift, not to mention descend with! 😀

Well said 'yeti guy'

I know 7 people who have 5s and they love them and have had them for years.

I know one person with a 160 'Alpine' and he loves that too.

I don't believe there is anything in price so the 160 should get you a smidge more exclusivity.

My advice would be if you have more than one bike, then get the 160, if it's to be your only bike, then i'd go for the 5 but GS said, there'll be no disappointment either way.

GJ – Cheers for the response, how about first dibs on the XFirm when you come to sell?

Clunker – you should be on the 'How Clean' thread on here…

YAWN…

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR – I relax with beer n chips and still manage to keep my bike clean so how cool must I be…

Cheers Stu, it's gonna be busy when it opens!

Is the extension open yet?

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR – You are just too cool…

Giant Jaunt – I feel a swap offer coming on…

Swap you the standard spring for the XFirm?

They couldn't tell you eh…
I'd say you "well I can't stock your product then" bloody tossers!

OMG

+1 OCD and all the 'cool folk' who just 'quickly hose down and lube every once in a while' are blowing out their rusty chained a-hole! Hell-yeah!!!

Marin, Penmachno , Whinlatter in no particular order…

Gypos nick stuff, simple as.

YAWN

Pro3s are even louder 😯

I think what 'ScottCheg' is saying is that he wants it to develop a in to trail-centre rather than a "skill-center"…

It's definitely what I want for one…

or

Maybe LQ will form the skills park within the big network once (if) all the surrounding area has been linked…

In which case, fair enough.

Thought i was gettign too much, they seem to blow through the travel.

My riding style is full-on, whether up or down.

Not sure now whether to get the spring or some new forks…

How much did it cost 'all-in' to change the springs, where, etc?

Effin ell Oxnop, you know when you wish you'd never asked…

How did it happen, Hope yer alright pal btw…

GW – It's the spring that came with it and i weigh 14.5 stone(s)

Whatever wheels you go for, chose some that are a tad less harsh..

That is a very 'busy' bike

Like the pic Simonralli2 🙂

Good for you old-git

KINGTUT – Agreed, but as this is a bike thread, on a biking forum on a biking website, used by bikers……

Cynic-Al, that must have set you back a few bob…

Any chance of weight (with pedals) and spec-list;)…

Cynic-Al, that must have set you a few bob…

Any chance of weight (with pedals) and spec-list;)…

Well I think if i can't offer up a decent answer to my own question, then there's only one thing to do…

'Bit difficult to really go in to this as we do not know the facts of the off/crash…

In general terms though, MTBs should be generally crash resistant imo.

+1 njee – re' the 'not fit for purpose' suggestion.

Surely no-one is saying that MTBs shouldn't be made to withstand a fall, crash…Are they? I mean a reasonable one, like this one seems to have been.

The crash to me didn't sound like a major one and should be able to withstand a reasonable crash imo. isn't that the reason we invest our hard-earned in to more expensive bikes?