runkeeper is very, very good indeed. I bought a garmin edge 305 GPS (no routing guidance) for better accuracy than smart phone based product, has heart rate monitor and cadence sensor, but not cheap at £170 but gives me the info I want.

I’d want to be paying drastically less for bankrupt stock! On One have done this as a clever stroke of genius, sell of a load of frames in another company’s name, if they’re shit and troublesome then we honour the warranty, if they’re good we’ll re-brand them as ours and sell shit loads to our loyal fans.

Lack of design inspiration due to lack of designer???

Firstly glad you’re OK and you’ll get over it.

Secondly, don’t ride near roads, ride on it at least the traffic can see you and anticipate moving around you.

OR, like me just avoid them full stop. I think riding through undergrowth wasn’t the brightest decision you’ve made and the Doctor can do nothing to help you.

A counsellor may help you talk about it….

Houns, i’ve suffered the exact same issues as you over the best part of 25 years and what started out as a stupid phobia gave me panic attacks for years, BUT I must say that it never stopped me doing anything. I think you need psychotherapy NOT drugs. Beta blockers etc are a poor doctors answer to panic attacks and you need to get to the root of the problem, you need to see a psychiatrist.

I had hypnosis for mine and worked a treat. Doesn’t work over night and I still have the stupid phobia that was linked to the panic attacks and I still have them but through managing them I conquer them, they happen about once a year tops and it lasts seconds.

ping me an email with your number to michaelreay@rocketmail.com with your number if you want to chat mate. I genuinely feel for people in this position, and non sufferers taking the piss compound the problem and demotivate you more.

Like tadeuszkrieger’s post I think I have an element of Bi-Polar, I have the ups but don’t have the severe downs. I’m ridiculously poor with money and it makes me feel great spending it, I’m good at earning it though so it helps, but since November last year I’ve spent about £13k on MTB stuff, all emotional purchasing and i’m a very average rider. I just ‘have to have’ the in things, all the gear and no idea type person. I’m overtly confident and I think that hides a lot of insecurities from a troubled past….

Grim I 6’1″ so it’s borderline, where about you based?

The shop I bought it from in Frodsham are Cube and Lapierre dealers and were great to deal with http://www.twelve50bikes.com

bomba, look at this video, it may be the cheap way but they way the guy seals the tyre still applies..

is it open for public use to help bed it in or is it going to sit there for the next 12 months and not get used?

not much choice on that front, richey do one as I looked into one with a layback but ended up getting a reverb.

Other option is to get a USE shim and get a 31mm post

rim strips?

Soapy water on bead to allow it to seat properly?

I predict the tyre you’re talking about is a Schwalbe….

Is it a bontrager rim with offset spokes?? You may need asymmetrical rim strips like I did.

Over inflate the tyre and leave overnight for the bead to settle.

Make sure you shake the tyre from side to side whilst revolving the tyre around 360º on both sides.

Keep the crush and buy another bike. in December I was going to buy an Orange 5 until I weighed up the dismally poor spec for the £ and bought a Cube Stereo Race which for the money blew the Orange Spec out of the water and it rides as every bit as good. I then bought a Niner hardtail for the more XC blasts where full suss is too much, I’m now hooked on 29ers and bought a Gary Fisher Rumblefish 2 for the bouncy stuff so selling the Cube, it’s in for sale section now, looking for about £1750 for it if you’re interested.

Shame you let the Tiger go, great bike!

Judging by the bars he’s been to Cannock Chase….

My GoPro on the chest mount sounds like yours, it creaks a lot and spoils the sound.

I went to Thetford Forrest a while back whilst over that neck of the woods and found that whilst it was utterly boring and narcoleptic inducing it was a good workout, you’re never off the gas. Some of the fittest MTB’ers I ride with do a lot of training on routes like this as it gets them fit, so don’t let the keyboard warriors comments put you off.

I got a 10 x 8 double door top quality shed for about £750, 23mm shiplap and was rock solid. I bought it for a motorbike and then spent about another £120 on 25mm chipboard to line it out, bit of insulating inbwtween the ply’s and when I moved and left it behind it was still bone dry inside after 5 years and reckon it wouldn’t need treated for at least another 5 years.

If I had to do it again I wouldn’t build, it don’t save that much money as the shed builders get economies of scale as they buy so much wood.

Is this a blatant marketing ploy or what!!

I went into Halfords in Wigan to see if I could get an emergency 29er tube and they hadn’t even heard about 29er bikes per se.

I wouldn’t let Halfords wash my bike nevermind assemble one..

Looking at the SPec it looks built to a price too….

Forget the Orange and go buy a Cube……

They do a few beautiful ladies bikes and make the Diva look positively old and poor value for money.

About six years ago everything was falling down around my ears, my business, my relationship, was about to be declared bankrupt to the tune of £130K and was riding my motorbike down the M6 and thought seriously about riding it flat out into a bridge stanchion.

Within five seconds I’d weighed it up and though the pain my children would have for the rest of their years would be more than the pain I had. 6 years on and I’ve come through bankruptcy, found the meaning of life and respect money better and still have my children.

I think suicide is a very cowardly way to shit out and leave others behind, however, after seeing my partners very brave mum fight cancer for 2 years and lose, I think I would take myself somewhere neutral and end it to save my loved ones from seeing the big bold happy go lucky me dwindling to a tube fed vegetable.

But each to their own.

Jambon they have post mount Front and IS mount rear

As Nuke’s pointed out different pads to Juicy.

I used superstars sintered no problems at all on my previous bike which had Elixir CR’s…

I’m just about to put some Elixir R’s up for sale, only done 1 dry ride, £125 for the brakes, discs, mounts and bolts. 185mm F and 160 R

07885733038

I’m an ex letting agent who started my business up 8 years ago and sold it 2 years ago. I started because most letting agents are utter shite, they charge tenants absurd moving in fee’s which puts many off, they have no legal clout, if they piss off with your money and spend it you have no recourse at all. I made a good business on the few simple principals, a) return all calls to tenants and landlords, b) use gut feeling and judge of character over the utter crap references they provide and the vetting companies charge silly money for c) be honest with people.

I had over 200 properties on my books when I sold up and my non payment of rent for the whole lot was less than £200.

Don’t tell your mortgage company if you intend paying the mortgage, if you fell into arrears they’d write to ‘the occupier’ anyway to inform them of repossession proceedings, they can’t tell you legally what to do with your house.

Don’t put ‘friends of friends’, they make the worst tenants.

Put the bond in a guarantee scheme which has some sort of mediation facility

be prepared for your tenant to treat your home like a company car

Don’t worry about tax, you can actually earn a decent bit (not sure what it is now) before you have to declare it.

Don’t be afraid to question prospective tenants and challenge their answers, asses their body language and sort the genuine people from the serial evictee’s

Make the property presentable but not personal, when you move back in it will feel totally worn out

Spend some money marketing your property, don’t use admag and free ad sites, they attract utter dross.

Know you’re local area, who are the big employers, hospitals, international companies etc.. Let their HR depts know of your property in case any company lets are required.

Another option is to ‘room rent’ where you split the house into rooms, you’ll get more money but may have to factor in a bit more hassle but the returns are far higher. I rent out a 4 bed detached house to four tenants who all pay £235 – £425 a month, it nets me twice as much as letting the house out to one family at £725 a month and it’ll stand empty for months as the market is crying out for cheap short term accommodation.

Sites like http://www.spare-room.co.uk are a good starter

good luck!

The staff of the BBC staff refusing to move is the EXACT reason the Beeb are moving. Up North people get on with their jobs, they don’t moan about being asked to do their jobs they do it. People turn up for work on time, they set out earlier if the traffic’s crap, they don’t get allowances because they live inside a ring road and unlike the Beeb staff they don’t consider themselves indispensable.

I’ve done a lot of work at Media City and the whole area is top notch, it will be an eye opener for people to move away from the big smog, still have city living but not feel that everything’s 100mph 24 hour society..

And if they have a mountain bike they’re spoilt for choice 8)

I have a work phone on Orange and it’s shocking! Got drastically worse with the T-Mobile merger deal, I cancelled the update and it got better. When you add two piles of shit together you get a bigger pile of shit!

dump the t-mobile update and it may improve.

Both Orange and T-Mobile use ‘long range’ masts which were laid out to throw signals further and now due to 3G etc they simply don’t achieve the range anymore but haven’t invested in new masts to counter the problem

I live in Wigan and feel spoilt rotten with choices, N Wales 45 mins, lakes an hour, peaks and hour, rivvy 20 mins, Lee/Cragg Quarry half hour and loads of other routes within an hours drive. Quite often dash up M6 for two hours and then into the 7 Stanes places like Mabie, Ae etc..

being an owner of a Cube Stereo Race I’d say buy one but the AMS isn’t an AM bike, more XC, i’ve done some long days on mine and it’s comfy, still pedal efficient and not too cumbersome but the finish and quality of Cube bikes are second to none.

Cube AMS are a good 120mm full sus, belting VFM, I’ve got a Stereo Race which isn’t as light as the AMS but still is an all day machine and the 140mm suspension is very good. It’s in the for sale section as I’m now a 29er convert!

2011 18″ Stereo Race FOR SALE

I think if the MTB world went head to head with the horsey world they’d have us banned from bridleways and anything else we shouldn’t be on before we have them wearing nappies on their horses.

Green Laner’s just banned from the hillsides a few years ago when the bobble hat massif managed to get TRO’s placed on most green lanes meaning MX and 4 x 4’s were banned from enjoying the land like most of us do, albeit they leave a bigger footprint.

The equine world (like the ramblers) have wealthy friends in high places and I’m happy to keep my eyes open and have enough reaction time to be able to ride around a 12″ pile of brown grass.

What’s next… we ask farmers not to let their cows shat in their own fields???

Due to a crash I had a few weeks ago I’ve numbed the pain by adding up the receipts of all the stuff I’ve bought since November last year :?
CUBE STEREO RACE £2700
Niner AIr 9 £1700
Trek/Gary Fish Rumblefish2 £3250
Go Pro HD & mounts spares etc £430
GPS £300
AM45 shoes and Specialized defroster shoes £200
REACT Extreme jacket £180
3 pair of gloves £100
3 sets of pedals £150
Helmet £100
Shorts £100
Rox Shox reverb £275
3 sets of handlebars £140
Hope X2’s £260
Hope M4’s £330
Training with Ed Oxley £210
Osprey back pack £90
Track pump £80
Mobi Wash £130

£10.695 in less than six months, and still ride like a fanny….

I’ve had this sort of problems in the past and one way of stopping it is stopping people outside UK bidding on it. With the £ being weak against the euro a polite ‘uk bidders only’ just doesn’t work and if they’re bidding automatically they can’t prevent winning if they bid the highest!

go to my ebay/account/postage and packing preferences/exclude locations from your listings and in there you can tick boxes against countries/continents you don’t want to post to and it will then not display it on ebay search engines in their respective country

Good luck with the dispute

Mine was fine out of box for a week, bled it then it packed up completely, now on second one and it feels equally as flimsy…

My Cube (For Sale) with Black on Black…

My Niner with White on Green

And my newest purchase…. another freak bike

Is it a go kart track or for mobility scooters, the latter would draw more entrants…

I’ve got QR 100mm Reba RLT’s on my Niner Air 9 and 15mm Fox F29 FIT’s on my Rumblesfish 2, the front of the Rumblefish is way stronger than the Niner, yes the Rumblefish has tapered head but if I were in the same predicament I’d gor for axles and let the fork dictate the wheel choice and not vice versa

To echo rick@twelve50, I bought my Stereo Race from them and the service and back up was brilliant, not that I had any issues with the bike, more my basic maintenance skills :lol:

it mentions improving the facilities at CYB too, they were damn good the last time I was there, why not put some facilities at some of the other trails that have none??

Wrightington Country Club, just off J27, i’m a member of their gym. If you need bike accommodation you can use my garage if an issue!

I’ve thought that myself chaps, just wondered if it devalued the bike!

mountainman do you have X12 rear ends on them?? I know two guys who both race Stereo Race’s in Enduro DH and haven’t had that happen to them. Mines done some rough stuff and never had anything more than the usual bit of chain slap….

Yes Jamesy mine’s 18″, it’s got 100mm stem but the stem length is irrellevant if you’re previous bike has a top tube length different to the cube! Where abouts are you??

You’re welcome to come try it out, I’ve got few sets of bars to try with it…

my number’s 07885 733038 if you need me.

I’ve ran racing ralphs which were excellent but both had deformations in the sidewalls and now put bontrager something or others……

Both cured it for me, get wider bars if you think you’re grips aren’t wider than your shoulders.

I have a 2011 Cube Stereo Race for sale in FS section! Love it to bits and neither the shock or the bearings have been an issue in the 4 months I’ve ridden three times a week. I’ve got the carbon shock protector on mine which does make a difference, plus the shock compresses down so wipes the crud off.

I too wanted an Orange Five Pro and when I compared the spec the Cube won hands over.

To ride it’s a great bike, great build quality and a looker.

I then bought a 29er in February and can’t get off it. I was then offered a 29er FS last week that I could not walk away from, so made the tough decision to sell it.

Cube are the best kept secret at the moment, people don’t know the name too well in places and often overlook really well spec’d bikes in favour of a more know brand name.

cheeky link to mine for sale:lol:

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/2011-cube-stereo-race-18?replies=4#post-2395578

I’m also 6’1″ with 31 inside leg and there was a good 3″ left in the seat post. I put a stem on with 10mm longer and riser bars but only because I have back issues and found it suited me better.