I agree with Kimbers, Ive got the same sony as pictured and its been flawless. The UI is indeed very easy to navigate. My mother in law has also got the same one which I bought her for xmas and if she can use it then theres hope for you lot. 😛

I quite like it so neeeeeeeerrrr! 😛

You know you all sound like grumpy old people who dont like "change" 😆

I've just built my fianceé a bike out of all the spares I had. well, mostly, I was missing a set of brakes so it was a great excuse to upgrade the ones on my bike in order to have a set left over for hers! 😆

Anyway, Sarahs the same hight as me at 6' and so my old hardtail did the job nicely and she absolutly loves it! I guessed if she got into it, I could always change the frame at a later date if she felt it wasnt right.

She's completely over biked, with a set of fox vans on the front, yet she wont ride down the slightest gradient, or attempt anything other than flat trail, well, not yet anyway. She did ride over a short 2foot wide bridge the other day without getting off, and come to think about it, she rode under a canal bridge where the footpath was very narrow, so theres hope yet.

I guess what i'm trying to say is that the chances of a womens specific geomety making much difference to her riding pleasure or ability are slim whilst she's learning, so picking up a cheap small frame will probably make more sence now, until she's a little better and decided she likes the sport before investing in a new bike later on when she understands what she wants. 😕

I cant decide if he was properly mincing about, or the camera did the gradient no justice at all and it was in fact vertical? It looks fairly steep when he's fairying about on the scree, judged only by his inability to remain stood.

Still, i'm going for tactical dismount, because he was stood up long after the bike stopped. He was mincing though! lol

Ive got a Topeak Aero wedge, the quickclip version in a medium

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=7360

Dosent run on your legs, clamps nice and firmly, and can be removed in seconds. Its like a little tardis too, Enough space for a tube, multitool, leatherman, chain link, patches, phone, backup lights, keys, and if you open the expansion zip, you could squeaze a very light weight jacket in there, lol.

Yea…Like…You know…like, like….you know….yea, like, like you know…. 🙂

sucker! 😆 😉

Legally, the driver did not give a vulnerable road user/pedestrian with child anywhere near enough room to safley overtake regardless of where the door was. I'd say the driver put your wife in danger and is completley in the wrong.

Morally, there would have been more of a scene if the driver had done that to me.

My fianceé has had IBS for years and she swears by Buscopan, wont leave home without it 😆

Its not the Maxle that was the issue. From what I can see the trouble was lateral float in the hub when clamped up, casued by undersized bearing thickness or hub machining tolerances.

for what its worth, My new maxle light revs with pro2 are perfect.

Its good to see that others are a little aprehensive, if not bloody terified when attempting big DH riding for the first time, but for those that are pretty damn good at it, can I ask, honestly, how many times have you fallen, broken bones or just generally scared yourself before you became good at it…?

Getting into a warm bed in the middle of winter at 7am in the morning after a long day and an even longer night shift, spooning with my fiancee and listening to the rain batter down outside, absolutly knackered and just so very greatfull for a roof over my head and a Bed.

Big block of dry ice on the back seat? 8)

Well, I've been out and bought myself a fancy new big television ready for the world cup 8) Now, when theres a match on, instead of having to endure all the obnoxious idiots in the pub, and the football bores who have to micro analyse everything, I can stop at home and watch a movie in peace 😛

The 661 sizing is a bit on the small side. I tried using the size guide on 661's website, but still had to send them back for a larger pair. I'd recomend following their size guide, and then going up one!

I'll second the 661 airflow gloves from merlin

AFAIK, deore spec chain is called HG53

Edit; sorry, completelty miss read the question, sorry 😳

Mine arrived on Wednesday, ordered the 150 rev U-turns with maxle. Been out on the bike today for a good ride and I have to say there bloody fantastic! Very Very happy with them indeed.

mikertroid, I tried a pair of new 2010 fox floats on my mates bike today back to back with these, and I agree, theres no comparable difference, so no, probably not worth changing.

Have a look at Davyhulme, Very nice area, virtually crime free, easy access to motorways, near the trafford center for any high street shoping needs with free parking. 20mins cycling commute to salford, 10mins cycling to reach the transpennine trail and out into greener pastures and a pint in lymm.

As long as they are genuinly 2010 revs with the power buldge in the lower leg, you can take the all travel spacer out and increase them to 150mm. download the instructions on the sram website to see how.

no power buldge? 2009 model, 140mm max.

The usual "road tax" and Insurance, helmets, agressive bell ringing? you name it, lol.

Hmm, I know the helix in question as I stripped and serviced a set in work for a freind the other day. It wont effect the operation or life of the fork, but I can see it being anoying. I greased the threads up pretty good with air cyclinder grease and he's not complained about any rattling. Perhaps try that and see if it helps?

I dont know Duncan, but I wouldnt be surprised at all if they didnt. Merlin are registered as a bike manufacturer and get the parts like forks in direct from the manufacturers as OEM parts with no retail packaging. So you most probably wont get the all travel spacers that would be supplied with an aftermarket set in a nice retail box that just cost you another few hundred pounds for the pleasure.

I'd wager that if you contact Merlin though about the sale of a set, you could persuade them to chuck a few in that they may have lying around the workshop.

Youve lost me Ton? £50 off where, Merlin? I got the 10% offer on a pair of u-turn maxle revs so £315 all in (based on fridays price of £349 but now there £359). How did you get £50 off 😯

I thought this small banner on the front page gave it away! 😆

Dont really need one, but if its free who am I to complain! 8)

Local Parlour for a cove frame?

I dont understand what your suspicious about? That they exist? I hope they do, I ordered a set of u-turn maxle lights from them that are due to arrive tomorrow. 😀

And with a free headset! cant argue with that 8)

661 kyle straights on the knees, very comfortable, dont slip down, good protection and fine for all day riding. I found the sizes quite generous though, so if you can get to a shop that stocks them, try a smaller size on, I'd be very surprised if you need XL unless your a very heavy bloke, cyclist legs or not.

For elbows, the vegies are rubbish, but the 661 evos are fantastic! They really allow your elbow to move through all its complex articlation without hindering it and remaining very comfortable. I honestly dont know I'm wearing them unill I go down.

Full fingered gloves for all the reasons above, and because the wind dries out my poor eczema prone fingers if I dont keep em covered. Just regard them as basic esential protective wear along with a pair of bins for me mince pies and an helmet.

Deffinatly skf 61804 2RS, hope give you the size on their own website click here

If your bearing supplier hasnt got SKF bearings in stock in that size, other manufaturers list the same bearing with the slightly different part number of 6804.

theres an ISO standard on bearing sizes so its pretty easy to check youve got the right number.

6 = single row deep grove bearing
18 = extra thin section (or just 8 by some manufaturers)
04 = internal bore multiplied by 5 (i.e. 20mm to allow a maxle)

2RS = 2 rubber sheilds.

I've been after a set of revs for a while, been watching the prices etc as you do for months. Saw these from merlin on friday night and just slammed the buy now button. U-turn maxle lite 150mm 2010 revs for little over £300….why havnt you bought two sets already? 8)

Just ride it, They can loose a few teeth with no probs.

6ml in the upper, but youll loose the 15ml in the lowers too doing it that way.

Idealy you should download the manual from SRAM's rockshox website, and remove the lowers to do it. You could do it the way you describe, but it involves undoing the nut on the bottom of the lowers and pushing the air piston shaft up and out to get to any spacers that may be installed. Trouble is, in removing the air piston that way, all the oil from the lowers will drain out anyway, and some of the oil from the uppers will drop into the lowers through the hole left by the removal of the air spring. If you going this far, you might as well undo the nut on the bottom of the other leg too and just pull the lowers off and do the job properly. Its the half arsed aproach thats probably causing you the problems now.

"Hello Mr LHS"

"Yes an engineer will be right with you"

NO!

A technician will. Did he spend 4 years at university to get a professional qualification?

NO! Therefore he is not an Engineer.

Vent over.

No, I spent 5 years serving a very well rounded apprentiship, working 40 hours a week and spending the rest of my free time studying for an ENGINEERING ONC, HNC and HND. Working much harder and longer with far less free time than any of my mates who chose to go to uni and from what I could see, toss it off and party for the first few years. I've since spent another decade and far more time at collage studying even further to achieve yet another HNC and HND in electrical engineering to broaden my skills set and adapt to modern technologies that integrate a lot more electronic process control than ever before.

You want to get over yourself LHS, many "Technicians" as you call them are far more capable than some snot nosed kid straight out of his degree, and just as capable of designing and commissioning machines and systems as you would like to think. nob end.

I got the same brakes a few weeks ago from ribble. Worked fine, perhaps theyve just got a little air in? Try pumping the pistons out a little without the disc in, (not all the way caefull!) and pushing them back in with a tyre lever or something a few times, that should get the fluid moving a bit and maybe allow any small air lock to free. Other than that, perhaps you need to loosen the free stroke screw on the front, a couple of turns anticlockwise on the philips screw will allow the cam mechanism to quicky close the pad gap down at the begining of the lever stroke, leaving you with pleantly of stroke left to apply pressure with. Loosen the screw too much however and the brakes will become very grabby.

Shock oil is silicone based and non corrosive, dont worry about splashing it about.

If the all travel spacer is correctly fitted, then the amount of travel will correspond to the amount of stantion you can see. The spacer stops them form extending to full travel rather than preventing it from compressing to the top of the stantions. However, if youve bought them secondhand, theres nothing to say they havent put the spacer in the wrong place? God knows, I'd pull em apart to see whats going on. Its really an easy job as long as youve got some fresh shock fluid and a syringe to measure it in with.

fav two engineering words: –

Desmodronic

Epicyclic

last week I diagnosed some "hydrodynamic cavitation" on the ink supply valves.

Breifcase w@n*ers! aka People who are obsessed with self inportance and who usually carry a breifcase to work that contains nothing more than their limp sandwiches, when actually a pink barbie butty box would probably be a better reflection of their petty childish nature.

I swapped to a Giro Xen and love it. Very comfortable, cool and most importantly dosent look like a mushroom on top of your bonce. They are quite expensive, but its not hard to track down a bargin.