I agree with Loddrik, (with respect) your cars are common cars and it wouldn’t be difficult for them to find another car to clone.

Just follow the basics, don’t give anything over until full payment and don’t believe the foreigners excuses when they want to start knocking money off!

Recently fitted a reverb to my Cube Stereo Race and it’s been brill. The carbon seatpost that came on the bike was an utter PITA and even with friction paste always slipped.

The RS Reverb is really neat and in comparison and to my mate’s Joplin 4 is an engineering masterpiece.

I have both, I ride 5 times per week and even though I splashed out best part of £700 on detachable tow bar and top of the range Thule 3 bike rack I now use a Thule 591 on the roof.

I was hit twice from behind in one month and luckily I didn’t have bike rack on :?

It takes seconds to put bike on roof rack, but it’s not as secure as being locked to a tow ball mounted rack. You have to be careful with barriers in lots of places, the ones that stop vans etc It drops crud on your roof when on the roof.

I’ve not found that much crap comes up of the back of the car on to the bike on a towball mounted rack but that would depend on the car, mine’s an Avensis Estate which has a lot of overhang over the rear wheels, cars that don’t like Golf’s throw the shit up onto the bike rack.

It’s also easier to carry three bikes on a TB bike rack than roof rack

just some things to consider….

I came on here to post a link asking if anyone knew the latest on this!!

I want to ride this trail so bad, it may not be the longest or the steepest (well I hope not if it was a train line) but the scenery must be awesome.

Looking forward to it officially opening soon

I’ve gone from a 120mm Specialized FSR XC to a Cube Stereo Race 150mm and i’ve had to play about with bars, seating and stuff so I got the geometry stats for both and they were both quite similar, I think the reality is modern bikes have soooo many permutations it’s difficult to say.

The top tube may be longer because the down tube angle is set back more so when the seat is raised it takes the seat further back to offer more seat to bars clearance?? On my cube the difference on reach from seat to the bars when the seat is low is hugely different to when the seat is high.

10mm would make no notable difference and seeing as most 40 series tyres don’t last two minutes it won’t be long before they’ll be getting changed again :lol:

I was torn between a 5Pro or an AM and ended up buying a CUBE STEREO RACE[/url] :D

I found that £ for £ it was better VFM than the Orange, beautifully built, awesome attention to detail and less common too. The spec of the individual components obviously doesn’t make bikes better than the sum of their parts but on this bike I just couldn’t justify buying an Orange once I’d ridden the Cube.

Bought it from Twelve50 bikes in Frodsham who were in running for best bike shop in STW awards, great service from them.

In 2007 I was self employed, I had a growing property management business and borrowed £50K from a certain bank from Scotland with a Royal tinge to it to expand my business, it was scaleable and I had got into a lot of debt building the business and had split with my partner and had to set up a new home at same time.

After I split up with my long term partner and the bank started putting me under pressure to sign a guarantee to secure the loan against an asset, which I didn’t have. I’d sold my house 10 year earlier and had paid the profit against my then ex’s mortgage (no equity deed) so they were stuffed.

They decided to get nasty and when I transferred the bank account to another account with same bank they took the money out of rents that had come in on the first of the month. I sought advice and was told to go bankrupt.

I went down for £130K in total, but not a single late payment in my life. I was balancing massive debts but the money I’d borrowed was starting to pay a dividend, if they’d waited 9 months they could of had the lot back. They turned me over big time.

My advice is as follows:

Don’t use anyone else other than CCCS! CAB are far too overworked to cope, period.

Don’t pay for an IVA! The insolvency practitioners on these schemes make huge commissions and they are driven to get a client on a five year plan, a £30 a month ‘managment fee’ over 5 years means there’s £1800 less paid of the debt you owe. They are very restrictive and if you fall on better times 18 months in you still have to go through the rigmarole of asking for permission for credit and it’s NEVER given. All parties in the IVA have to agree to changes and they’f rather have more money for them than allow you to take on more credit.

My bankruptcy was discharged in 11 months and within 18 months I had a SIM only contract which started to build my credit, I now have iPhone and credit card with £500 credit limit. It’s made me appreciate money more but my circumstances were exceptional and the bankruptcy was very technical, the Official Receiver ended up getting the money bank from the bank as they had taken the money from a client account, which is illegal.

All of the creditors were only paid in 2010 after a lengthy process.

There’s no shame in being bankrupt, Alan Sugar, Simon Cowell are a few of the famous BR’s. The only down side is you won’t get too much credit for 5 years and you have to put up with comments like this:

PM me if you want my number to talk about it, but either way, it won’t kill you and will make you stronger!

I’ve riden my month old Cube Stereo Race which has RP23BV & 32 Talas FIT’s three times in -8º and about 6 times in near zero and been no trouble at all.

Personally I’d cancel my order and make something else fit, MTB’s aren’t the same but they are!

I had my heart set on a 5 Pro, until I wlaked into Twelve50 bikes in frodsham and seen what CUBE have to offer. They did have Zesty’s too but putting the hype of Orange aside I thought the CUBE Stereo Race[/url] delivers more kit for the money. XTR mech, 150 TALAS Fits, maxles front and rear etc for about £300 less.

Been out on it four times now and it doesn’t bob under crank load one bit, beautifully built and every third bike I pass isn’t one either, can’t recommend the bike or Twelve50 bikes enough.

My personal advice is don’t bother! Did the 35K red route and found it utterly soulless, not a single real distinguishing feature and was just a torrent of switchbacks then not so technical descents. I had been MTB’ing less than 6 months when I did it and was an unhealthy 19st and it didn’t float my boat. £7 parking is a scam too

I’m just about to purchase a 2011 Stereo Pro, I will be test riding it on Wednesday around Delamere for good measure, but I honestly can’t find a 150mm travel bike with the same/smilar spec for the money. Like the build quality but think Cube shouldn’t be relying on their dealers to fit the mudguards to protect the shock.

If you;re going to design a bike with the rear shock next to the wheel then it’ll get damaged at some point, Cube only sell a £40 carbon guard and won’t throw them in for free, dealers are putting them on FOC which is wrong, it comes out of their margin, not the people who designed it that way.

Ok, up to now I’m on for this, the lure of Divagirl’s cake is to good…