thanks for the info guys. sounds like it does work albeit a tight fit. Jason what edge of the granny ring do you mean ? Dharmstrong, photos wuld be great.

Well said winterfold. as an occasional visitors to surrey hills, say 6 times a year it is really difficult to know whats sanctioned and whats not. as you poodle around the hills most people will try out any likely looking trails inbetween the undergrowth. How are we to know if this has been there 20 years or 2 weeks.

I’m guessing the creators of these trails are not liekly to hold there hands up or take much notice of an official line hence i think much of this ‘policing’ is pointless. If hurtwood were to mark which trails were sanctioned ie by marker posts or maps, would we as communty stick to these trails. If one of your favourites was not marked as such would you never ride it again even though we may have been doing so for years and not apparantely causing a problem to anyone.

What i’m trying to say is that although the middle ground of the MTB community may claim to be respectful and law abiding in fact we are probaly all breaking the spirit of the rules if not the actual rules every time we ride up there. but all the while saying its not me gov.

I think this one will run and run for years yet. The hardcore of anoymous trail biulders will continue biuld the rest of us will ride whatever we find on the ground not knowing whats sanctioned or not.

Change the theme a bit. How does everyone set there compression damping and floodgate settings. must admit i’ve not really played with these as the forks seem to run fine, but just interested to know how these effect the performance.

hi, i weigh in at about 63kg and i run my ’08s at about 70 psi in the positive and about 75 psi in the negative. yes i like an active fork but i also tend to ride ‘light’. Just remember the last 5mm of travel can sometime be hard to find with rockshox so don’t worry if you only get say 90/95mm out of a 100mm fork.

Far worse conditions that 2008, guess the ground was already saturated. How can the first lap be ridden in the big ring then the next in the granny ring. Never know a surface deteriorate so fast.

The sereal moment for me was waiting at the gazebo for the handover to do my second lap, shuffling my way in just to get a few minutes of dry and knowing the next few hours were going to hell, i looked up at the sponsers sign above the finish line and what does its say – Marin bikes CALIFORNIA. Kind of rubbed it in for me.

p.s.

anyone know where the results will be published. and who the photographers were.

echo pretty much what everyone else has said but easily the most expensive one day event i know and didn't offer anything other events don't. Potentially a good course but suffered from the rain we've had, albit a dry proceeding week. maybe the course would be better suited to a later date, although parts of the course look like they are permantly wet as there were flowing streams cutting across and down the singletrack.

if there was cheating can't see how you can police this unless you have a marshall on every corner and that wasn't going to happen, can only remember about 6 on the whole course.

malc,

"have a crack at it later in the summer" ?.

Was that something i agreed to do with you when i was having a moment of reduced awareness.

you could always bring them round to the broadwater giants workshop and we could use a hammer. Worked the last time we had them out of the frame.

Malc, your mechanic here. Just thought, does the anthem and kinesis have the same way pull on the front mech. if not may be ok if its dual pull, or i may have an old one kicking about to get you up and running.