I’ve got a pair of 40C tubeless Nanos that I’ve been meaning to put up for sale if interested.

Clearance was a bit suspect so I swapped them out for Riddlers for they are barely used. One has done about 30 miles and the other 10 …

Gary

Mine (assault) came with tubeless valves, though I’m using Milkit valves which come in various lengths. Using normal Stan’s and Schwalbe tyres with no trouble.

Nice wheels, though I did have a couple of rear spokes come loose and braking in the wet is pretty shocking.

Wessex CX – used an abandoned golf course; complete with bunker. It was ace – i’m not sure they’ve been back for a couple of years which is real shame.

I think the redevelopment of the site meant they couldn’t sort out a viable course. Shame, I quite enjoyed it there

Its an import – someone gets to pay duty and VAT on it if you want to do it all above board.

Was planning to – but cleverly forgot to enter and solo is now sold out :(

So if anyone have a solo male 40+ entry they aren’t able to use, I’ll happily take if off your hands!

Gary

I was on an old Heckler which was just fine, and the majority of other people on the trip were on full suspension too. But one guy did just fine on a hard tail and was a nice option for the climbing!

I did the Singalilla trip a couple of years back – great experience, what’s not to like about watching sunrise over Everest?

Would love to go back and do the Pindari trip too. Hope you like climbing :)

A few pictures here – https://www.flickr.com/photos/garyhill/albums/72157648851023057

Which one is correct ?

Neither :)

Well if anyone on the dev side is actually going to spend any time looking at the issue, here are some observations from when I went cookie sniffing –

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/stw-please-stop-logging-me-out/page/3#post-6942875

As per Stoner’s note, seems like the session tracking is messed up

I’ve done it on a cross bike before, and usually see a good few others.

Its a few years since I last rode but as I understand it the recent versions of the route have had more tarmac/hard sections than in the past, so I would imagine it will be just fine

how many blood passport prosecutions have taken place to date? none, thats how many.

Maybe do a _tiny_ bit more research, as one google search and the first hit gives me 14 names of cyclists suspended based on the biological passport

like the idea of the jones loop bars but I also like bar ends and that’s not really possible necessary on his design

FTFY :)

A few other examples this year too – e.g. Epic Cymru being pulled relatively early. I understand the pressure on organisers with big bills being presented early etc. but equally it takes time to get events off the ground and into people’s consciousness.

As far as the events that the OP lists go, I’d not heard of any of them via any MTB websites or social media. And I am in Hampshire so close to 2 of them, and have entered SPAM organised events out of Erlestoke before, so a good bet for a speculative promo email.

Whereas for popular events like those run by Gorrick, I always know when and where they are happening …

Cheers guys gone for the GC1 seeing that they are for swept bars!

Though they talk about “correcting” for sweep, which seems slightly at odds with the idea of riding Jones bars in the first place – though obviously they aren’t going to turn them into a straight bar

Had a similar crack in mine – as per other suggestions, you just have a basic slab base and slowly the weight of the wall and some movement means the floor loses. I was lead to believe its a fairly common failure of that kind of base.

I needed to fit a new garage door, and the structure wasn’t square, so I needed to do something about it. I managed to get the whole garage rebuilt courtesy of insurance with nice foundations for the new wall. Didn’t seem too hard to get done but wasn’t super quick; seemed to be helped a bit by the fact I’d just bought the place and the survey had failed to comment on the issue.

As above, there are some implications of doing it on insurance and I’ve not changed my insurance company since as a result!!

… she was tested again the next day and was clean.

Well yes, but there is a reason there are unannounced out of competition tests, as well as the expected ones at the end of races …

As mentioned above, it’s because Pooley is seen as a potential ITT medallist (and there is a limit on the total number of riders in the squad so you can’t take a rider just for the ITT).

The way its been talked about, the TT rider _must_ ride the road race. All part of the limit on number of athletes as you say.

Ever since Pooley was invited back into the mix, the talk has always been about “who will be the 3rd rider”, so I don’t think the fact that there are a number of people feeling put out is too surprising as they’ve had to put everything into trying to claim that last spot. The description of how Hayley Simmonds was kept in the loop, if accurate, did sound pretty piss poor especially in light of the problems BC have already had this year.

It’s going to be interesting to see how well Emma manages to finish the switch back to the bike before August.

For clinchers I’d recommend the Spesh Turbo Cottons, they are bloody fast. I’m convinced they are quite a bit faster than the GP4000S,

Interesting (if you’re that way inclined) table here that has only specialized tyres outdoing Conti GPs. No idea how reliable the findings are!

http://velonews.competitor.com/where-the-rubber-meets-the-road-what-makes-cycling-tires-fast

Probably all pretty standard – you’re insuring for replacement of the bike, not replacement of your cash, hence the RRP thing, and I’ve seen clauses regarding underinsurance in policies I’ve taken out

Talk to PedalCover – https://pedalcover.co.uk/ – very friendly and helpful

Fair cop on simply repeating internet wisdom on Lynskey – comes down to whether you think it is a case of “no smoke without fire”, or they just make way more ti frames than anyone else so you hear about more issues.

And that’s one point about British Ti builders – do they not just import the tubes from China (rumours of recycling abound). Any inherent weakness will be there, whether it’s welded in China or the UK.

I am not sure that the source of the tubes is the biggest factor in final quality. Though I note that Reilly have been talking about working on hydroformed ti tube sets so I don’t think you can accuse them of slapping together random ti tubes of dubious origin.

My view is that getting a ti bike put together well is the most important thing, that’s what I would look at first over and above where the materials came from …

But now we’ve thoroughly derailed the thread.

It’s an interesting discussion but not worth derailing the thread over

Indeed – I just have a bit of an interest in the car crash as a Serotta owner. And on the basis of the quality of that bike, I’d be tempted by a #22 with Serotta originated build quality whereas if they were still made by Lynskey I’d be wielding my barge pole :)

But keeping it in the UK I think I’d be looking at Reilly or Titchmarsh ….

My read of the Serotta -> Saratoga -> #22 migration is slightly different:

http://www.bicycleretailer.com/north-america/2014/03/13/saratoga-frameworks-factory-shuts-down#.Vx6qiEeSa70

http://www.bicycleretailer.com/north-america/2014/03/17/canadian-bike-brand-hires-ex-saratoga-builders-plans-new-york-factory#.Vx6rb0eSa70

So I don’t think you can really paint #22 as a Serotta under another name, but they look really nice, and a Drifter is quite tempting :)

Serotta (who are now #22 bicycles)

To be pedantic, pretty sure Serotta are completely defunct. #22 employed some of the folk from Serotta who were laid off. The #22 bikes do look very nice though and not bad price wise for US made Ti with some of the Serotta pedigree, but not sure if they have a UK distributor so tax and shipping would probably eat into that.

Can Jones’ steel truss be bought on its own?

Yes, unless something has changed, I got one when I crashed and bent my unicrown fork.

If it’s just clip on bars, on a normal road bike, then no real issue IMO. Just stay off them if you’re in a group.

I would be keeping well clear of anyone I didn’t know riding on aero bars, and conversely if I were you I’d be staying off them if there was anyone else around simply because I’d have no idea what they might do.

Saw someone on a hilly sportive on Monday on a Boardman TT bike, not my idea of fun but each to their own!

The South Downs looked like a painting this weekend….

Test Valley was looking good too (albeit not as arty :) ). Apologies for road bike content!

Test valley fun! by Gary Hill[/url], on Flickr

You do know that there is a configurable speed threshold for the auto pause?

Steel diamond with truss here – not much new to add other than to back up the idea of going for the truss fork, I got one last year after bending my old style unicrown fork in a crash. The precision in handling with the truss fork is great, but do plan on a decent sized front tyre – it is stiff!

My perception is that all the bikes have the same core handling traits, the different options just put subtle-ish tweaks on that. Various friends that rode mine with the unicrown fork – ie most “basic” setup – all went away wanting one!

TBH it turned out to be not my sort of thing- it initially sounded like it would be- so maybe this is why, but, it’s not been on my radar at all this year? First year it got a lot of media but it seems to have stealthed away this time round. Or maybe I just blanked it all

I’ve been pondering that a bit – generally, not just with respect to this event. The repeated examples of multi day events failing to last I guess make it pretty clear that it is hard to overcome the risks of the up front costs without a big help from sponsors.

I enjoyed last year’s event but its a fair old commitment of both time and money so I was still trying to figure out if it was something I could justify doing again, even though the news on the event made it sound as though it would be a step up (for me) from last year.

I can’t imagine I’m the only person in that boat, and we are still a long way from August with plenty of time for a push on marketing. But that’s easy for me to say – I wouldn’t want to be the person taking on the risk of a loss in order to get the event established without a deep pockets sponsor to hand.

Can you not just flip the wheel round to see if its the dish of the wheel or the frame …

[Too slow!]

I knew I’d read the thing about width somewhere. Of course CRC answer could be wrong …

“No, sorry; the 350 hub runs a pre-built 110mm width for 20mm thru-axle and cannot be converted down to 100mm as required for 15mm/QR. The 15mm version of their hub can be converted down to run QR, but the 20mm version is not convertible.”

http://answers.chainreactioncycles.com/answers/5230-en_gb/product/prod38128/dt-swiss-dt-swiss-conversion-kit-20mm-to-qr-front-questions-answers/questions.htm?sort=recentq

The DT site says “no solution”. I think its because the 20mm 350 hubshell is full width – ie. 110mm – so you can’t shorten it by changing end caps.

“Please note, these hubs are not interchangeable between different axle types; all three hub shells are different”

http://www.justridingalong.com/wheel-parts/hubs/dt-swiss-350-6-bolt-front-hubs.html

Just a thought, but weren’t a lot of the old Klunker rims cut & re-joined by Tom Ritchey, as they wanted lightweight rims which were only available to roadies?

I think you’re thinking of Bontrager cutting down ally road rims to 26″ as alluded to earlier.

Top bodgery, and I bet it will take a lot of abuse before the funny spoking becomes a major issue assuming a half decent build. Wheels are not the mysterious magic some people seem to think!

Thumbs down from me. Though I can’t really get as worked up about it as some have, seems to me the linking is so damn clumsy it’s usually pretty obvious when its machine inserted (based on what I see on other sites, not seen many here). So it just looks s***.

Can it be configured to add what it considers to be relevant links underneath a post so it is clear they are ads, and doesn’t disrupt the flow of the post?

If I deploy the traditional crank puller, there is nothing for it to brace against in order to extract the crank.

Top hat bung in the axle end

Like this, though I don’t know for sure if the Octalink one is good for ISIS.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/shimano-octalink-chainset-plug-tool/rp-prod5728

You could try bodging with an appropriate sized coin but can lead to a screwed up “mangled and unremovable coin” situation.

ISIS I would guess. Top hat bung in the axle end and a traditional crank puller.

Postierich, where did you see how many have entered? I’m tempted to enter but not if I’m the only one!

Click through to the entry page on the SI Entries site and you can see the entrants list.

As above, my SS has an EBB rather than track ends, but is quite happy with an oval ring

It seems slightly xenophobic to begrudge a small – presumably – Chinese man the opportunity to improve his lot by making some curly handlebars. Or have I missed something?

I think it all depends on the nature of his beard. Can Alpkit provide a photo?

If your job is between Weymouth and Poole do not go for Christchurch! It will take you an age!

This – while my practical experience is years out of date (grew up living in Broadstone) I don’t suppose its got better!!

For the commuting you mention, somewhere around Wimborne/Corfe Mullen is probably a good compromise and sets you up nicely for riding opportunities. That may depend a bit on where precisely in Bmth your wife needs to get to though.