How about the top of Haytor on the TOB 😉

will eventually but I have just bought a quart and I expect I will use it up before it goes solid – I reckon if you keep the lid on tight then it should last a fair time – my last bottle lasted for a year!

Would seem a bit premature – I’d still give them a service and check bearings and depending on what you find email Hope – I expect they happily sort you out!!

How often have you ridden on them – I think a years hard riding would be easily enough to wreck the freehub body bearings?

Jet washes KILL bearings IMHO! and the more dirty rides you do in grinding mud the shorter the duration!

Not rubbing on pads? Does it run freely out of the bike?

If not I’d check the bearings as neninja says but with that time span could do with a service? :

http://www.cyclistno1.co.uk/features/maintenance/hope-pro-ii-rear-hub-service.htm

Commuting at rush hour esp in dusky or dark defo!!!

Top of Haytor 🙂

ITV player has it FYI:

http://www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=273298

BTW I wrote up my experiences of the day here:

http://www.cyclistno1.co.uk/blog/tour-of-britain-stage-5.htm

Another from the STW twitter:

https://twitter.com/#!/singletrackmag

Looks like cable release – Dunno LoCo – I presume pre-release?

🙄

wow £12 – break the bank!

The test track is 1km and there is a road one as well – demo bikes as well etc etc – looks good and this time you can take your wallet 😉

I thought its not perm at the NEC in Brummy – no longer in London?

Def not pipe cleaners – I have used mine prob about 12 times now and soaked in harsh de-greaser and still going strong and no rust either!

Cheers plod – Down to Gary Lake off here really but I try and do my bit 🙂 (sorry STW – not trying to plug!)

Where is it in that article? I can’t find any purple/floss/pipe in that page, I read most of it but skimmed some of it, but doesn’t seem to mention using the product at all.

Was nice article though

😳 – god I’m going mad – just posting up crap these days 😯

Was this one 😉

http://www.cyclistno1.co.uk/features/maintenance/mud-proof-your-bike.htm

They last for ages so money/use pretty good TBH 🙂

Fab stuff 🙂 – so reusable 🙂 just soak in degreaser afterwards – still on my freebe even now 🙂

Even put it in my article 🙂

http://www.cyclistno1.co.uk/features/maintenance/chain-maintenance.htm

Had them on 2 bikes now 18 months and 5 months (HT and Orange Five) and running the Kevlars and they have been faultless!

@clanton – I combined 2 knackered cassettes for a mate and as donk says burred off the hooks with a file and he’s been riding it with a new chain for 5 months now!

I usually but SP41 and an XTR kit for the ferrules etc and then just cut new outers when needed and then swap inners if/when.

I have the mud lovers on my winter bike and been good though 🙂

NO – 990 has alloy carrier

Edit: and pg980 🙂

have a look here:

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/stw-forum-ride-east-dartmoor-3911

Great riding roads and off roads 🙂

As Real man says – if you follow some of the Stage 5 TOB route you wont go wrong for a road ride – if you want some killer hills try Dartmeet and Widdecome 🙂

Looks nice but the paint on my 1 bolt seatpost flaked off badly!!! I shan’t be buying another wet one!

ahh cheers WW – you never know 🙂

Be interested in trying one out and comparing it with my XCPro3 – i.e. rear end and the 130mm setup for trail riding.

Neil – you shouldn’t be drooling as you have just bought a new bike! 😉

Basically I’d go with the road pedals if your shoes are not very stiff – if your soles are stiff then I wouldn’t worry – the flexy soles on a small platform may ache your feet over a long distance ?

However if you do use his pedals then I’d practice a bit before you do the race 😉

I’m going Sat as well – gonna try and book myself onto some test rides 🙂

Good thinking RocketDog!

have a look around on the street map view – I can’t see any cameras?

Bent hanger?

Wear on smaller sprockets is hard to spot IME.

He wont if he enters an “The Extended Use Agreement “?

cool – cheers for that – might watch that later 🙂

http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/frames/mountain/product/review-dmr-bikes-trailstar-frame-08-29168/

I stand corrected David 😳 The rot of the neurons 😉

[goes away with his head hung in shame]

Some of us only have Freeview so not proper telly IMO 🙂

It has been one of the STW long termers for a while now and get good reviews!
Edit: Trailstar is ALU though – this is Prestige butteryness 🙂

If I didn’t already have a XCPro3 then I would be tempted 🙂

yup – either take it back to the shop and tell them or just cut out the middle man and phone Mojo – I had an issue with my rear shock on my Orange Five and they dealt with me direct instead of going through orange !

yup – squirt lube (pref water based) under the grips and wiggle 🙂

I got some muddy fox bib shorts and they are crap – seams split quickly and decals (which were horrible to start with) pulled off quickly. Wouldn’t be going cheap again IMHO 🙂

They seem to have a permanent sale ! Just cheap stuff in the first place IMHO!

+1 perthmtb 🙂

Options:

1. Keep it all, degrease, lube etc but has in increased risk of jumping and chain sucking on your ride.

2. Change chain and expect to jump on the back and suck front

3. Change chain and cassette and poss suck front

4. Change the whole lot.

If you do want to do something I would prob choose no 2 and then try it on a short ride and see if you get away with it – prob not – and prob end up going choice 3 or 4.

Once a week for a year in dirty condition prob would at least stretch the chain and if its more than .75 % stretched then it will abnormally wear the rest of the drive chain:

http://www.cyclistno1.co.uk/features/maintenance/chain-maintenance.htm