titus
raleigh
ridgeback (girlfriends commuter)
isla bike

sort it out!!!

but the other 6 were in there ;)

they’re great at keeping the hoards off all the decent natural/bridleway/cheeky stuff

thanks for the PSA – broke my xen the other night and needed a helmet desperately! just ordered a trabec, poc t shirt and the dh gloves for £98 with a voucher code for extra 10% off :D code is PTP10% if any one else wants it

i have a seat tube mounted bottle cage which carries a medium/large size standard coffee cup fine – saying that that’s only from the shop to my office about 5mins!

double post

i’ve got one of these OMM Ultra Fanny Pack weighs naff all and can fit a relatively surprising amount of kit in it. want to try a wingnut for replacing my camelback for longer/day rides with more gear

i despair for the mentality of some people on here. for the OP hope you find them and good luck

sorry to hear that will keep an eye out in newcastle – where about’s in NE were they taken from?

Distance: 2,441.7km
Time: 181hr 39m
Elev Gain: 45,152m
Rides: 75

comfortably mid table

ditto above, i had a large had to sell it as too big and i got cold with drafts. removable hood was good from memory

i have a revelate tangle bag. great bit of kit if a little pricey and may be too big. i fit in all of your stuff plus motane velo jacket/gilet, 2 magicshine batteries plus some food in mine! bare in mind clashes with bottles (if you run them) with the long under top tube design. i have to use 2 small bottles that fit under the bag in the down/seat tube bottle mout positions

your patio needs cleaning

if not on already a rear light helps avoid being knocked off on the way there/getting pulled over by plod

dmr exalt in classifieds takes long travel

you need a dmr chaintug hanger

link

or a santa cruz chameleon hanger

i’ve used both and both work fine but the dmr one will fall off when you don’t have a wheel on/is a littler trickier to work with when taking wheel out etc

no

i spent 2 weeks over last winter in malaga area. bone dry trails but uplifts are expensive (£40 per day+), would be best if you plan to ride uphill as well as down to keep the costs down and theres a few good guide books about to help out with where to go – its not exactly full of trailcentres! NZ would be awesome and my bet if you had the cash – can get a season pass for the gondola at QT but as others have said it ain’t massive/of whistler proportions (yet) so best using the bike shuttles around there and rotorua too if you travel around a bit. as for accomodation vans/cars seem to hold their value out there, you could buy a beaten up van, sleep in the back on a mattress for 3month and sell it for what you paid for it (my mates did this!)

if you are washing at 30/40 maybe could try a higher temp wash. sometimes my bike kit comes out smelling like wet dogs if i’ve accidentally left it at 30deg (and a few days still in the machine after the wash :oops: )

22 bike thefts for july round here 8O

just about to move house thank god!

i’m on an endomondo run. f@ck off

my geax saguaro dropped pressure after every ride for the first 4/5 rides but now holds air fine. maybe persevere with it a little longer?

follow him home and steal his bike hoard/car/wife etc

drop a mahoosive fart in his face

robj20 – Member
I got 100 on ebay for £5.

got a link? only ones i’ve seen on ebay are a car type ie: 5mm diameter. i think the weldtite kit ones are much narrower

Mr Hanky

Indeed. Just searched for “S-Works” in my town and someone has titled their ride “Ride home on new S-Works”. No privacy settings, it takes me straight to their front door. The ride was only posted a week a ago, so I might nip round and get it later

i’ve just done the same thing and got a scary result too 8O although one guy has privacy settings on, his short ‘s-works test ride’ starts in one direction along his road and returns from the other direction. mr scallywag just needs to measure halfway along the gap to pinpoint a few houses to take a closer at…

lots of posts like that on a cycle path near me – proper slalom to get through them! unfortunately trafficky type engineering CAD monkeys will just plop them wherever on a plan without any consideration of the people who use them, not helped by site fitters on site who stick em wherever the plan says without hesitation/thought of questioning it

more mud clearance

jealous of whoever gets that! sounds ace :D

some nice switchbacks above todmorden/hebdon bridge i did a few weekends ago but may be a bit far :)

i remember my old one had the same hanger as an explosif when the same model year had slidey dropouts too – maybe similar for yours?

also interested as i lost mine – sorry can’t be of help!

if its a superstar cog why does it have fouriers logo on it? is it a different version ie: same factory, like the wah wah/nukeproof/superstar pedals? superstar website pic below. either way thats still poor performance and needs to go back for a replacement/refund/whatever

what car is it? i’ve done my ford focus and my mates kia. takes a couple of hours but pretty easy job

EDIT// fair enough my mate paid £270 for his mazda so sounds about right

glad your bike shop’s doing well whatever wheel size you’re selling

suppose the forecasted mass exodus of 26inch riders to 650b and 29’ers will mean bike shops selling more full bikes and hence keeping a more buoyant bike business for the foreseeable future

value the peace and tranquility* or take the opportunity to have a piss or have a look at the map

*at a trail centre probably not so likely

i used to crash all the time riding downhill but over the years it has definitely decreased in regularity from literally 5-6 times in a day of DH to maybe a proper off once in every 10 rides or so with a few little stumbles in the middle. now i tend to ride more xc/trails/all mountain style so this is likely to be part of it, but also i feel like i know my limits better now, riding to enjoy the trail as opposed to my previous bull-headed/trying to race every last mm of track attitude (although this comes out every now and again when needed ;) ). last big spill was from a tree sapling that caught my handlebar on the inside of a fast sweeping turn and pinged me over the bars at 20mph+ into a tree. luckily nothing more than a banged up knee/minor cuts and bruises but that put a bit of a dampener on my riding for a few weeks!

nuclear bunker?

yeah it would need something to stop rotation otherwise it could end up spinning on the up/down stroke. i fitted some of those air ram things to my van and from memory they didnt rotate on themselves, so some way of fixing into the seat tube/post could do it :)

i may have not read his instructions properly but how does he stop it rotating in the seat tube? or does it need eyeing up straight every drop/up?