@glupton: Good to hear, I’ll be on my enduro, in a sea on oranges!

@turbo / cferg : I’m taking the usual bars and gels, plus prob pita stuffed with something nice, after a big breakkie of porridge!

Not long now, gonna be heading up the road in a couple of days, and my bike is still in bits with the forks still at mojo…..

Aye it was me! Drop us an email and we’ll sort it out!

I dont even know who you are monsiour banana!!

Spoke to knacker about the orange t’s as well on sunday.

Ping me a mail, think I have a gpx log of it, and the old black (maybe) been meaning to head up there and ride it but just not found the time yet!

Mike
aka the singletraction gibbon :D

I’m a gibbon and yes I can!

Lets face it, why give your LBS the easy job of when the fork is in one piece, make them work by giving them a broken jigsaw puzzle when you cant figure out how it all goes back together!

TBH – it disappoints me that you can ride this route on a hardtail, I want all mountain GNAR that you need 4/5/6″ of trail AM bike to get through!

After riding the Kielder border raid earlier this year on a 29er hardtail, I thought I’d be able to ride a PROPER mountain bike on this one!!!!!

Well, its sponsored by Orange – you must do it on a FIVE !!!!!! :lol:

Was just about to write the same post as there’s 7 of us heading up there to do Tour de Ben!

Could someone tell me what the LRT’s (Landrover Tracks?) are like terrain wise, guess they are like rutted out moorland/fireroads?

And the answer was…….

A half link chain in pimped out white colour!!!!

Singlespeeding is the future! You’ll love it! :D

I’m back out on my hardtail this eve for Dalby Full Red: 21 miles of fun, never done the full red on it before, but do it on other bikes and have ridden my SS up some of the hills in there before but Addersback climb might be the ‘fun’ one to beast myself up!!!

Thanks, has anyone got any pictures of a half link installed?

EDOT: DOH!!!! found it: http://velosolo.co.uk/faq.html#d12

Yep, pace do a cracking job of servicing there!

Nope, the purple helmet has left, kicking and screaming, now the bike hire is run by Pace and ctc in partnership.

Dont know if its 1/8 or 3/32 : despite reading this! :

http://sheldonbrown.com/gloss_ch.html%5B/url%5D

Sorry but what is a ‘magic ratio’ …….!????

Take that little bit of extra time to dial the shock and fork in, makes the world of difference!!

I ride a 160mm 2010 (new style) spec enduro with 36 vans on the front, insane bike, awesome at flattering my lack of skills!

Look at Orange Alpines and also spec’s new stumpjumper evo in 150mm, which seams to be getting rave reviews everywhere at the moment, but yes, demo everything you can!!

Buy once, buy right :)

Gorgeous, would like a test ride though before I order one, where can I ride one then……?

Tracey – guessing the CCDB air’s will not fit the enduro’s. TF tuning have have both of their CCDB coil’s fitted to spec enduros fail…… I asked the same question for mine very recently!

Less than a week to go, hope everyones prep is going well!

Had a gloopy ride around Dalby today with some off piste and adjacent woods thrown in for fun.

We’ve got 7 of us heading north at the moment, all trail builders with SingletrAction, and all really looking forward to it!

Hardtail 29er it is then :) !!

Rigid!!! are you mad!!!???

Would prefer it without the handlebar clutter, its never too much trouble in my life to reach down and flick a lever round!!

Any experience of pace or DT swiss from people?