The best way to find out what would be offered would be to look at the American system I guess.

Prompt Diagnosis

£20.71 per month

Consultations
MRI, CT and PET scans
Diagnostic tests.

Treatment and Care

£37.53 per month

Post diagnosis treatment
Therapies such as physiotherapy
Cancer treatment and drugs.

Comprehensive

£60.47 per month

Consultations
MRI, CT and PET scans
Diagnostic tests
Post diagnosis treatment
Therapies such as physiotherapy
Cancer treatment and drugs

If the NHS went private, they would have to make it more affordable than BUPA, I was just giving an example.

Might actually get some decent service

You Go Girl!!

Let me guess, you work for them, bless.

Unless you earn more than 6K a month you’d better not get sick.

Even though you can get basic BUPA health care for £20 a month.

Might actually get some decent service

hope evo texch x2 …………i’ve decided !

You won’t regret it

I had hope tech m4 and they were awful as in really bad

User error I recon.

Bloody good thread this.

I would go for the Hopes.

Bigger discs will give more power, the same as putting bigger discs on a car.

:lol:

Waste of time mate, you can’t polish a turd.

Both

Nothing wrong with Fox forks, its the goons that use them and don’t look after them.

This thread shows it pretty well.

I have the answer, legalise weed.

Everyone will be so paranoid about crashing they will drive slower and more carefully.

Everyone will be so chilled out it will rid the country of road rage.

Back in the day, tracks werent as gnarly and jumps werent as big!

So David, please tell me what year the hills and rocks in the UK got bigger :lol:

I raced an Exposif in DH races and it never broke… Mr Peat was in the same team and his never broke either….

Be careful Dave, you risk being told you don’t have a clue what you are going on about by these boys, they clearly know better.

and regularly cracked/snapped and that was with the spindly long travel 80mm forks of the time.

Thats BS, there are loads of them still about, going for good money too.

keep going tho, the amount of shit and rate at which you’re managing to it spew out is fairly amusing.

Coming from you :lol:

as you can see the kashima coat isn’t that dark!

Compared to non kashima coated it is!

I don’t know about that. Back in the day before all these stupid bike categories, any hardtail (GT Zaskar, Kona Explosif etc) was used for that exact purpose.

http://sheldonbrown.com/frame-materials.html

Whats your point?

“They”, as in Stanton, Cotic, Dialled etc – who you seem to be complaining produce heavy frames

Considering an 853 Kona Explosif frame weighs 4.2 lbs (1.4 lbs lighter than the Slackline), and they have been making steel hardtail frames for much longer than anyone you mention, yes I do think they are heavy.

flow, is a thinner guage steel tube more susceptable to fatigue than a thicker gauge tube of exactly the same material in the same application?

No obviously not, but you have to pedal the thing its not a motorbike, weight is important. Especially when making a hardtail as the only things you have to play with to make it ride well are weight, material and geometry.

You need at least 6 cylinders, a mans car. Them Jap 4 cylinders are for boys.

How much do you have to spend?

If it were aluminium you would be right. Aluminium possess the shortest fatigue life of any material used to manufacture bike frames, with a typical life expectancy of 5-10 years. Steel on the other hand lasts a lot longer.

And weaker – more prone to denting and fatigue. I’m sure they know what they’re doing. But what would they know

They? Its just one bloke, my friends mate. Never built a frame before in his life, and I doubt knows anymore about it than I do.

Clearly you don’t have a clue, double butted tubing is as strong as single butted but lighter.

Rest your balls in her eye sockets

Really? The review in singletrack not that long ago told me it wouldn’t suit what I wanted it for?
That and the various negative bits and bobs I’ve read on here over time

Having ridden a Remedy, an Anthem, an EX, and a Five, I think I’m in a pretty decent position to give a valid opinion.

Like rickon said, Fives get negative comments because people are sick of hearing how good they are. Its not the bikes fault.

Also, just because you think it wouldn’t suit you (how you get that from reading about it and not riding it I don’t know) doesn’t mean its no good for the OP, or anyone else.

MPG is shocking for the performance, hardly any torque, mega tax. There is a reason why they are so cheap.

They are very different now to what they were back then. Bendy top tube, different angles, tapered steerer etc.

The only way to find out is ride one.

You have to try a Five, you will kick yourself if you don’t.

Did you smell it yet?

almost same price as meta 6 though

They are both MTB frames, thats where the similarities end.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=49579

Alu Easton Havens

Na

So, with all your frame building experience, how would you propose to make a frame constructed from 853 lighter?

The Sherpa is a trail/XC specific frame utilising single butted Reynolds 853 tubing.

Use double butted tubing for starters, allowing the wall thickness to be thinner (making it lighter), whilst still retaining strength. But what would I know.

Excellent choice of typo there

Damn the H key!

Get back to your xc jeyboy mincing, the slackline is meant to be thrashed

Ahh, so if it was lighter you couldn’t trash it faster no?

Obviously could, door that way :arrow:

Couple this with a geometry calculated to win races and you have the perfect XC trail frame.

Hmmm, that makes sense, NOT!

5.6lb is abit heavy

A bit heavy, thats stupidly heavy.

And it a 26″ wheeler. Are you sure it the forks flexing and not the wheel?