Is the truth really that harsh.

I don’t understand why you two are so defensive/aggressive on this.

Weird isn’t it? I don’t even understand why either of them are on a mtb/cycling forum at all. Neither even seem to have any interest in bikes or riding them nevermind buying or selling cycle related stuff. Every time one of these threads comes up those two defend the new classifieds to the hilt entirely blindly. quoting numbers doesn’t change the fact the classifieds is utterly shit now. We all know it is because we’ve actually used it. Those two wouldn’t have a clue because they never used the old version or the new one.

so the only other option is Chinese ebay jobs, which will probably take 3 or 4 weeks to arrive.

More like 10-14 days IME. Order one NAO instead of procrastinating here.
They’re actually just as good as those overpriced AB, WT etc

or search Ebay for a UK seller

vague in = even vaguer out

but I’m sure chiefgrooveguru will be along later to help solve your quandry

You think this is being a total bastard?

you really need to get out in the real world a little more mate.

you’re also far from hard up

.

it’s ALWAYS one of those threads with you.

You never will because by the time they’re cheap enough for your level of tighfistedness we’ll all be dead

Me: How can I do X?

Everyone else: You need to spend money to do X

Me: that’s that **** then

I see they’ve had a batch of race matrix pads painted blue and added £3 E bike tax.
should offset the hit from this weekends discount codes nicely ;)

of course they don’t make any sense
You’re replying to a man so deluded he thinks someone’s likely to actually buy his shitty old 26″ orange 5 (or whatever number Orange put on his). But even if he does find someone stupid enough has no money to put towards something new anyway.
Just the usual pointless drivel

Morning is def busier. If you drive down from the general direction of Embra before mid day you pretty much always pass a procession of family cars driven by emaciated Zwift addicts still in their lycra, bike on the roof heading the other way to get back to spend the afternoon at B&Q/IKEA or whatever it is their wives let them do with their weekends.

No. I still have a proper ironhorse Sunday

oh… :wink:

WTF is your point?

so I could do the black before it got busy

hahahahhahhahaaaa
This has never was and never will be a thing.
Driving up overnight and catching a few hours kip in your car to get a quiet ride sounds a bit extreme. GT Black has gotta be one of the quietest graded trail centre routes in the Scottish borders. I did it on Saturday afternoon at an extremely leisurely pace with loads of stops and we saw absolutely no one at all from where it leaves the shared Red (by the freeride) until the final few red descents (mushrooms). and even then it was just a teenage ripper in his late teens taking his mum round the Red. hardly bustling.

OP. Enjoy the pub. Have a lie in (in your proper bed) and get a proper breakfast. It’s still light for riding til well after 7:30pm

it’s all good.
don’t stress about what you ride.

it absolutely never gets old whenever northwind mentions his successful EWS women’s category winning trail bicycle.

I reckon TMo would still have won all those early derp races on her kona from 1999

shit bike with shit tyres and shit rider isn’t ever going to be particularly quick or skillful anywhere.
Stop worrying about it.
it’s tedious AF

Which are draggy AF for XC

I know which would feel more satisfying if it was a rock I’d thrown at your heid ;)

It’s genuinely funny that you’re quoting this when you spent money on an ST-10

*I actually liked some ST-10s.
and loved Tom’s no **** given attitude

so a whole 3mm higher at the BB?

If only it were possible to improve visual spacial skills and foot position coordination

**** luv um :roll:

You got your new leccy trundle bus yet?

why should I have to adapt my technique to make up for the bike’s failings?

Well that’s one way to look at the issue.
Thing is though there are also many positives that come from a bike having a low BB and if you’ve intentionally chosen to buy a low BB bike it’d be pretty stupid not to adapt your technique to make the most of those positive traits. It’s actually not difficult and looking ahead, planning your line, timing pedal strokes and paying attention to foot placement will improve your riding everywhere.

2019 Spectral’s don’t have what i’d consider an overly low BB height either. Repeatedly smashing your pedals and toes into stuff isn’t a failing of the bike it’s a failing of the rider.

I’m 100% honest and incredibly loveable.

You can watch those videos of guys on road bikes hopping up flights of steps all day long, doesn’t mean they are the best tool for the job.

Whatever gets you off man ;)

your word for today blackflag is.

“ratchet”

I’ll expect your homework on my desk in the morning ;)

I’m conscious of timing my pedal strokes

Try using that consciousness along with coordination, timing, common sense and forward planning.
your bike’s BB isn’t particualrly low

Hope this helps

Chill out kcal

my pint doesn’t as it’s not a soft southern shandy.

My mate cycles a ten mile round trip on the flat on a singlespeed at a gentle pace in normal clothes every day, so he decided that didn’t count. We decided that as my commute last year was a 32 mile round trip at about 18mph in cycling gear that I normally did twice a week it counted.

Does sitting in the pub for 2 pints with a cycle helmet on count then?

;D

Iz confusing as.

My commute varies between a 20-40 mile round trip in normal clothes at 20mph average. (so at least an hours exercise each day)
Would that count?
To me exercise is exercise. No need to dress up like a fanny or use any special equipment to make it count. Whether it’s riding to work, walking to the pub and back or shagging a milf it all counts as exercise surely?

for future ref: a brand X maxle is £12

Sorry to hear about your mate.
As with Ton I don’t really see how it’s possible NOT to exercise for 1/2 an hour each day (unless laid up ill or something) so I suppose by default I’m in too.
Why is commuting excluded?

play the last of us on your PS3

it’s infinitely better than No mans sky or Reddead donkey

@Nobeer
i’ve had Burgtec plastics since release and they’ve done about 800 miles so far but a lot of that wasn’t exactly gnarly riding so IMO it’s far too soon to say whether they’re durable or not.
They are however a nice size/shape, seem pretty strong and are plenty grippy. But more importantly for me they’re not too grippy (I don’t ever use sticky soles and like to move my feet around a pedal without lifting off). Alloy pedal wise I still love mk1 nano (grub screw version with just 5 pins in each platform). same pedals Xotic still do. Those they have the perfect mix between not too grippy to lethal in the wet for me in normal Vans/Etnies. The Burgtecs are noticably grippier.
hope that makes some sense.

Those Boardmans really aren’t a very well designed platform shape. fine for BMX tho.

Maybe someone could make Ton a thin suit to ease his anxiety?

Try http://www.Growapair.co.uk

or lose weight

They actually are shit.
folk thought Raleigh Bombers were brilliant once upon a time.

They were wrong too.

instead of looking for even more garments to add to your obviously too warm cycling uniform stop wearing a helmet and stop wearing gloves and always wear short sleeved tops.

He’s not argumentative or nitpicking.
He’s right.

Everything you just typed is naive.

Those guys are thundering down hills. The gearing on dh bikes is fine for dh but no good for road, which a lot of people ride on their mtbs to get to trails. DH gearing isn’t really relevant.

SRSLY?

You spin out 36×11 on the road on an mtb you also ride proper off road on?
With your love of super grippy tyres I find that incredibly difficult to believe.

I don’t even spin out that gearing on derestricted Ebikes (downhill over 38mph I’ll generally just tuck… long before spinning out).