I have a huge amount of tools still in Europe somewhere after having my Van nicked.
in hindsight, credit card/Euro roadside assistance is enough. have always had great service from French garages.

I was once offered to sit on an old mans face with a flake inserted in me while looking out his window into the Grassmarket on a busy weekend.

*must add, the old boy thought I was female

Cheers footlaps.

Let the hilariious cat pics continue 🙄

oh.. and does anyone in the EH area want a cat?

No. and I’m certainly not watching that pile of shite again 😉

peadoblasphemia? 😯

a new low for hora?

No.

neither is the kerb on the way to your local shop

Bwaarp – loads of techy stuff. Lots of the red had lovely tech section

😕 eh? I really enjoy GT red but there’s nothing technical on it at all..

Trails are to smooth these days.

smooth can be fun too, there’s nothing technical about Scalextric but it’s fun! BTW, Do you ride a hardtail or mincetank?

Me want’s lots of rock gardens, roots, off camber roots, big **** off braking bumps etc etc. Gravel is like riding tarmac.

Go to Glencoe for your rockgarden fix, Dunkeld for rocks and roots and Innerleithen for steepness, loam and natural feeling singletrack with plenty roots and rocks (not the trailcentre XC route tho)
Laggan black is nice but the rocky bit is very short and a lot of the smooth stuff (red?) just isn’t very good (poorly designed corners and jumps etc.)

cut it in half(ish) 😉

hope you get the shock sorted. Avys are awesome!! 😀

I’m gonna start carrying a permanent marker to draw a penis next to these stickers whenever I see one 😆

I think druidh’s one looks cool.

Wow! Really? Having your name on your bike only looks cool if you are under 12yrs old or you are actually a top rider and your team manager/mechanic had it done for you. Paying to have a sticker of your dweeby forum name done for your bike has surely gotta be one of the most uncool things ever.

mboy is spot on.

I’d rather not share mate’s Email addresses online but if he doesn’t see this for himself I’ll send him a text..

Gwins Quali crashes are in here

http://dirt.mpora.com/news/dirttv-fort-william-world-cup-qualifying-2012.html

Forget Stendec

find a local MX/Motorcycle suspension fixerers..

If you can’t find anyone in Embra, ask Legend off here, he had his Avy done in the weege..

Rickmeister – watch the vid again!
He breaks the start hut beam at least 5s in and crosses the line at 4.52.. this “practice” run was faster than his race run!!!

suspect some of the ‘speed’ is caused by the camera and settings used…

I’d say quite the opposite, headcam footage generally makes DH tracks look slower than riding them for real.
his average speed would have been over 20mph (bear in mind his how rough most of the track is and how many corners there are top) speed would have been somewhere around 45mph (after the Tissot)

Looks just the same as before..

Is it the two black (cable covers?) acros the take-off throwing you?

The step-down triple that’s also in the 4X?

IS mount/adapter looks fine but as TJ says, your caliper looks to be positioned too far inboard

if it’s the same fork, the 80mm one will be stronger

Aye, as Druidh pointed out, give it a few days and she’ll probably be far more rational about it. 😉

With a full bladder and straight to their shoe display 😉

No used bike is worth more than £4K

No, trust me 8) that isn’t the problem! 😆

mboy, trust you to disagree with something that starts with “for me..” 🙄

From my experience a front 2.5 3C dual ply minion DHF on an 823 with twice the amount of sealant recommended will burp air at anything less than 32psi (and still will above that if a rock is glanced a certain way) whereas running a 2.5 dual ply minion on the front of a 721 with a standard XC tube will not pinch as low as 25psi on the rockiest DH tracks I ride. and just to confuse matters even more on my mini DH bike I have a single ply Minion up front and don’t pinch that at 30 psi

Okay Dokey…

You’re getting pinch flats because you are not running enough pressure to ensure your tyre sidewall doesn’t fold and pinch the tube on square edge hits.
Your valves are ripping off because the tyre is rotating on the rim under braking.

upping the pressure will fix both issues!

have tried loading the tyre with talc to stop the tube being pulled round, but to no avail.

there’s no need for talc if you stop the tyre rotating. 😉
make sure you seat your tyres on the rim properly by over-inflating them when fitting, a properly seated tyre often feels almost as if there is adhesive on the bead when you remove it from the rim.

Tubeless will not help stop sidewall rips, infact quite the opposite.
and if you are happy running pressures where your valves get ripped off I envisage problems with burping air from the bead with a tubeless set-up.
for me tubeless tyres burp air at higher pressures than I’d pinch flat a tube at.

FFS! Why not just run appropriate tyre pressures?

I didn’t actually say (or even imply) it.

🙄

Underthinking more like heckler, every cormer’s different.

Ahw – Qualifying yourself as an idiot was good enough tbf

Not if you actually weight the bike properly.
Front wheel wash-outs can be saved too you know 🙄

Don’t think anyone’s mentioned that front tyres should almost always be run at a lower pressure too

Depends if you ride like a roadie **** or can actually ride off road fairly well.

Tread, compound and pressure are all more important than 0.15 difference in width.
The width of the rim also matters
Narrower tyres are not always less grippy

One of mine was scooting along feet up on a balance bike at around 18mth ( needed a 10″ wheel bb) but she was walking at 10 mth and never off various ride-on toys/scooters/scuttlebug etc. First rode a proper bike unaided at 2&1/2, but she’s mental for riding bikes/scooters.. they’re all different. Just buy him one and see how it goes

One sided are nowhere close to the feel of a decent flat but a lot nicer than placing your non spd shoe on an spd mechaniism.

Oh. And option 2 for the pedals

3 ?? No one frerides clipped in, mtb spds should always be be double sided.

Option 4 skate style spd shoes. Cleat is decently recessed, they’re rasy to walk in and don’t look ridiculous off the bike.

Are you also 17st?

Large is too big unless you just want a heavy xc bike.

Certainly made me hard, son. 😉

Mainly seeing that trackie clad arse chasing the front wheel down the beach, the bents regulars must be loving that action 😉

Might be interested, How much?