Shame – buy a new hub from *AHEM* 🙂

What hub is it?
Shimano do complete spares in manual form and on the Shimano website

your local bike shop should have a big silver book – I’ve still got mine from back in the day (1994 to 1997)

looking at my book though the only thing that isn’t numbered individually is the Hub body

Depends on the cond of the rest of it I suppose and if you are happy with the performance

£306 is a lot – but they should come back like new and last the same amount of time again, or longer if you get them serviced regularly, when a big bit goes it usually makes me think about a new bike

About £93 for a shock service with Loco or TF Tuned

Both of those guys will be able to give you firmer platform if you want it – without loosing performance else where

At the very least I’d get it to those guys for a dyno check

Put a car cover over it if you have one.
They won’t go looking under a cover to look at the plates – the police are far to busy or lazy to do that.
I wouldn’t have thought a sensible officer would be bothered as long as it wasn’t obstructing/hazardous or being driven.

Looking much better now – lots of scalpings still – but worth a look as the rain has done some lovely work sculpting berms and techy bits

Contact me – fin@rosebikes.co.uk

Ride starts 7pm but we are quite often late

Yeh – we might look like a bunch of arses – but we are actually quite nice

PS we ride most Thursdays from the Lock inn if anyone cares for a tootle….

Alright “fourbanger” mr Big B£%$&%s.
come on the ride – lets see you hit the new line first time without a pre look

I was just saying – it’s worth a look, more to cover my ass if some Jimmy Big B$^$£%s such as yourself crashes his brains out attempting it….
Go ahead though mate fill yer boots 🙂

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Andy is getting better slowly, but he’s got lots of faffing about until he’ll be right.
He’s itching to get back on his bike though……..

Sorry folks

That should have fixed the Vid

You checked out Rose?

Saw a rider on a White Hardtail – looked like an Intense and tried to flag him down for a look at the new bit, but he was concentrating on getting home – I guess…..

That working now?

We even did a little Vid of the run in
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/y1/r/Qyh5ph9cQ_M.swf?v=10151211225862119&ev=0

Yeh you can race for cheaper in the UK – but can you be sure – that
1) You are insured
2) The medical backup on site isn’t some retarded voulenteer service that knows nothing of biking injurys
3) There are adequate facilitys – like toilets and these are maintained
4) The trails/tracks have been constructed & ridden to ensure they are safe & Entertaining
5) They’ve got space for and have thought about the need to airlift someone
6) Have a timing system that gives accurate results
7) Ensure that there are lots of like minded people there
8) Ensure that there are lots of like minded companies there

Personally I see the freebies as a bonus – not a necessity – yeh it costs – but hey you are paying for the whole experience

It’s OK
I’ve calmed down now 😀

As we’ve said – it’s just gonna wash away again

All I can say is Grrrrrrrr I’m so effing angry tonight I could punch a councillor

If Andy and Mr Agreeable are up for it, I’m well up for a chat to the local council responsible for this

What ever they are doing they’re making a right bloody ARSE of it……

I’m just going to do my rain dance every evening.

They’ve left their digger and dumper halfway down the trail though. So I’m guessing they still aren’t done with it 🙁
Unless someone who is light fingered happens to know where they are ………… Not suggesting anyone on here would do such a thing

Yep it’s really getting on my tits now. Went back tonight and they regraded the whole lot.
It’s utterly disgraceful and I can’t see them saying its for ecological reasons as they’ve just smashed through everything

Could it be that *shock* many of the tracks and trails we use are also used by farmers to access their land?
If farmer parmer can’t get his wheezing Landy 90 up there he’s bound to resurface.
It seems that our area has plenty of bikers (the bcc over at longleat have shown that with 100 plus members) but no organisation to represent them..
Just lots of small locally active riders – or in some cases riders who think they should be able to ride without any contribution to the land.

Each to their own I guess.
I was the first to scream loud and say no I don’t want it changing, but the difference is I can see the light at the end of the tunnel – sorry bad pun.
It could have been done differently – yes. But it wasn’t and while it’s in it’s current state I can use it more for showing less technical riders how they can improve and build confidence.
Looking at the erosion so far it really won’t be long until it starts displaying its old traits
And who knows that line to the left half way down with all the big boulders may become rideable for some reason (cough) overnight.
Strange things happen in the woods at night 😉
The glass is always half full

I dunno but seeing as it’s not been touched for 15 years plus
I think they’ve just made a token effort, it’s the likes of us unofficial trail builders that keep them open.
Last year when a tree fell on one of our other favourite trails, I went up with the saw and cleared it stacking the logs to one side. A local busy body asked me what I was doing, I told her that my sister like to ride her Horse there ha ha, if only she knew that evening we’d be ripping it in the dark.
Incidentally it’s the one that runs kinda parallel to this one and goes from the top of the A36 near freshford turn down to Monkton Coombe.
Of course some monkey has since moved the stack and littered them all down the trail.
I’d love to start a local trail crew – but I simply don’t have the time to invest, I tend to do what I can in bursts.

OBJECT E
The repair, maintenance or restoration of a Place of Worship or a Place of Architectural Importance

That’s what it is Midlifecrashes 🙂

Definately a place of worship for me

Have you got a big or a small Air can?
I’ve found that (especially as the Christmas pies have worked thier magic) the large air can tends to wallow and sit deep in the mid stroke, giving it a crappy feel. For a heavier or aggressive rider of 85kgs plus
Even upping the boost pressure – which I also believe they need, doesn’t fix it all…

So the top is pretty much all this, fist sized rocks with a very loose bed of scalpings, looks like they’ve thrown hundreds of tons in there I’d have said a good 25 to 30 lorry loads
At the top your heart sinks – if you’ve ridden it before as the lines have all gone, but…….

As you can see the old rocky steps – the first big obstacle are covered up – but the line on the left is getting washed away a bit at a time the line round the outside is fast but you can get your techy adventure on still – thanks to Mr Rain

We dragged all of the branches out of the hole on the right just so that if you did happen to venture in – you could get out

We definately weren’t scoping out a high line around the corner that allows a fast rider to give a slower rider in front a little space before the fast straight 🙂

Veiw of the roll in that’s been there a while – I used to use it when it rained as it avoided that first death hole/drop that was usually full of water

This bit has definately seen some 4×4 action – and they’d ripped out a couple of the big stones fron the wall above to make a “Rock Crawl” on the left gutter. They were ridable (Just) so we left them be, as they couldn’t be moved by 1 person.

The bottom of the first straight looking up

Now this is the bit that has annoyed me – the original trail went down there to the left – it was very difficult here – but over time we had cleared a smoother single track line to the right.
It seems that in the resurface they litterally pushed all of the old logs and rocks that were too big for the new trail into this line, thus creating one trail instead of the two that were there – shoddy. 🙁

And what was single track is now 4×4 wide – Gay!!

As you can see though – due to not fixing the drainage – Pipehouse is re making it’s little ruts and troughs again – if you couldn’t ride it before I’d say get your ass down there this year a couple of times a month and learn new skills as the trail develops in it’s own natural way

It won’t take long before these 5in holes are 1ft plus again

See a nice new Berm is developing with the rain errosion, this bit is fun and fast now

This section used to be a deep V shape – with only really one line, in some sections it was barely wide enough for your fork legs to clear – so you had to do little wall rides to keep momentum
No such trouble now

But as you can see some bits are developing a kind of wave to them as the water traverses accross the path, which is making mini doubles to launch off

Looking back up the trail

The last corner where you used to get a good soaking is now loose and dry

there is a sneaky last little hole just after the corners exit so get ready to bunny hop here

The Dirt section further on is unchanged and but you can enter it soo much faster – and you don’t have to stop for a rest, we we’re thinking it’d be cool to host a wee race there, dunno who owns it though..

We went down there today for a bit of a razz
It’s not all bad.
The tech rock steps are gone.
But we cleared the wood from the hollow on the Right in llamas pics and low and behold the old rocks are showing through.
We did about 5 runs on bigger bikes and it was a hoot you can carry so much speed now.
As the rain keeps falling more interesting lines will open up, because they’ve not thought to repair the old pipe which used to carry the water – back in the old days.
It has for now made it more accessible for many who wouldn’t have dared ride it before.
Only problem I can see is I’m travelling at DH speeds and may have had trouble stopping for walkers/horsey types.
I’ll get my pics out in a bit.

Bloody brilliant – one of the best, legendary trails around Bath, ruined….
I’m all for opening for everyone blah de blah, but Pipehouse was eppic – it took a serious rider to clean that in one go with no dabs, I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve cleaned it.
*Sigh*
Well at least a few of our hardtail crew will be happy – they used to walk….
Maybe I’ll pop up at the weekend and take a look – with any luck the rain will wash it all away ha ha

We had a go at some trail maintenance one day to make it do-able fast on a big rig, spent all day moving bits and bobs – clearing the strangling bracken and widened the fork jamming bit near the bottom just enough to squeeze through.
Went back after a day of rain – and it was back to normal…
I dare say “Pipehouse” will resort back to normal, unless they’ve sorted the drainage

Also reminds me of a good friend – who upon his girlfriends request for “some real mountain biking” he took her down pipehouse. I don’t think they are together anymore ha ha

With Rose you have the same warranty rights as with buying in the UK, thanks to the good Ol EU
Rose don’t sell seconds…….

Give us a call to arrange a test ride….
07775 786709 Cheers Fin

Personally 4
DH bike
150 trail bike
Jump bike
and Road bike
All Rose’s obviously

Also have a reserve Yeti 4X frame

In the family another 4

if you include demo bikes erm….. another 30 odd….

Don’t worry about it should be fine – it’ll boost her riding to smoke you every now and again
I take vastly inappropriate bikes out when I ride with my Lady, coz a) I get to work harder – keeping my fitness up and b) it’s lots of fun
But then I have been riding for 20 odd years and she’s been riding bikes seriously for 8 months tops

Why not decide for yourself ? We’ll be at the NEC bike show.. on Oct 28th…..

Hi Bruce,

I deal with Rose here in the UK – if you would like to arrange a test ride, drop me an email fin@rosebikes.co.uk