roverpig – Member 
Rode from home, up over Bennachie and back (3 hours). Still trying to convince myself that you can roll everything from Oxen Craig to Back ‘o Bennachie. I’m 90% sure it all goes. Actually I’m 100% sure it goes if you hit the right line, but only 90% sure that I wont go off line, drop the wheel into a hole and throw myself into the rocks. So I’m still wimping out of some bits, which is frustrating. Still, it will come one day.

To the treelike is definitely rollable, even on my 26’er 🙂 . After the treeline it gets a bit fast for rolling off stuff.

I rode the Hill of Fare on Saturday and managed to punch a rock with my pinkie 😳

Pudding, chips, peas and gravy must be available in every chippy across the UK.

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Not my picture, but a few of these

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I’ve used Shimano, Crank Brothers Mallets and Time x-rocs.

Time are the best.

Only one!

Pick anything from here….

househusband – Member
On a night out a friend decided he was going to try and ‘pull’ a rather attractive lady, unfortunately for me her friend was rather on the large side. My actions that night can only be described as ‘heroic’.
You ‘entertained’ the friend, yes..?

😳
…….and my mate didn’t. He still owes me 😀

On a night out a friend decided he was going to try and ‘pull’ a rather attractive lady, unfortunately for me her friend was rather on the large side. My actions that night can only be described as ‘heroic’.

This is 31.5lbs (calibrated scales) with pedals and a 2.5 exo minion on the back, not the Specialized Butcher as pictured.

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To clip-in at the very top…………he let’s go with both hands 😯

Nope. My whole body is aching after a pretty big crash on Sunday (I had to order a new crash helmet).

My cousins bike (AndyF1)…..if it was a smidge bigger.

Oh, and Messiah’s Nicolai.

I inspect the bits that make up a gas turbine and make sure that when they are put back together they actually make a gas turbine.

The inspection part is very dull, the making sure it goes back together is less dull. Does the fact that I’m good at it make me dull 🙁

Money. I work in Aberdeen so get paid more than I should and could probably chase more if I really wanted to.

Torridon.

Amazing as ever and enhanced by the Torridon Inn having a beer festival. 🙂

Maybe he sees it as an achievement in doing it alone.

Hill of Fare near Banchory.

First time riding there and it will be very slow, I’ve had the lurgy for the past week.

No. I’ve tried various pairs but sweat running down the inside of the lens obscures my vision.

Fast rolling, grippier than they look and the EXO protection is a good halfway house between single and two ply.

On the downside the edge on the outer blocks wears pretty quickly.

I have also cut clean through a sidewall first ride (300 yards) while bimbleing along. A bit unlucky really.

dontdropthesoap – Member
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With Binners, Harry and Bregante? 😉

Scotch pies

Blacksheep ales Riggwelter

Old school dance tunes here http://www.unityradio.fm/?p=1079 ……they are playing voodoo ray now 8)

Can I have the Blur?

Have you had a few beers…..’lesh harsh’ 😀

All quiet on the orient express – Magnus Mills

Most of Graham Greene.

Glas-allt-Shiel 🙂

I think you would be looking at more natural stuff if you want techie and long. Any of the routes around Torridon have that rocky feel to them.

Ford Sierra Sapphire
Renault 11 turbo
Mini 1275 gt
BMW 318 tourer
BMW M3
BMW 740
Porsche 911
Bedford estate – abandoned on RAF base
Ford fiesta – scrapped
Vauxhall vectra – srapped
VW passat estate – scrapped
Ford mondeo
Renault Kangoo

Oops! 😳

Must read OP properly. Didn’t read the integrated bit.

I’d follow the shops advice, but I’d get the headset as cold as I could first.

I ride a Marin…..yours has to look better.

Edit….I no longer ride it as I cracked the frame last week 🙁

Flashback been there and done it, made it across tbh I always say after I wish I had done the out and back, so I wouldn’t be despondent about that, was really difficult with the amount of rain I had a few years ago. Head down and do the loch damph loop that’s a good yin.

I concur.

Scope it first or follow someone who has ridden it before.

Oh….and which bit is 4 feet to flat?

Smudgy writing and having to fire an SA81 rifle right handed. Can’t really think of anything else.

Left handed corkscrew, seriously?

Cynic-al and McMoonter have some quality ones. Lots of ’80’s Lycra and climbing tights on show.

Post ride service involves leaving it in the boot of my car.

Clean it about once a month and give a full service about twice a year.

Just ridden/pushed/carried/swore my way from Loch Muick to the top of Lochnagar via Broad Cairn. Rode back down to Loch Muick via Glas-allt-Shiel……which was rather difficult.

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My car smells of 4 years of the outside….it’s not very pleasant.

A 2.5 minion exo is actually 2.24″ wide when fitted to a 21mm rim.

4.5 hour commute! That would be a very easy choice for me.
I used to commute 3 hours and was a miserable git. I now do 40 minutes and am less of a miserable git 🙂

Chumba XCL.

Really stiff, really well finished and bulletproof, but I felt like I was perched on a ladder when riding it!

I think it was a wee bit too big for me, but I really could not get it to work.

Gravity must be stronger than when I was a kid, because my wheels stay firmly planted to the ground nowadays.

Started with an emmelle type of thing, then
Saracen Tufftrax
Sunn 5000 (cracked)
Sunn f/s (suspension ovalised in months)
Sunn revolt (mate still rides)
Raleigh TI special racing products. (TJ has it now)
Tomac Revolver
Commencal supreme (cracked)
Commencal supreme (cracked)
Commencal meta 5 (cracked)
Morewood Shova LT
Marin Wolfridge (still got the frame)
Marin Attack Trail.

Loved all of them, but the Marin Wolfridge has been the best by a country mile.