IIRC full on UST tyres tend to be heavier, many racey tyres have flimsy (porous) sidewalls and tubeless ready or whatever the brands version of this tends to have a little extra rubber at the bead, like a little fin and slightly thicker sidewalls. Schwalbe Snakeskin is meant to be great as the tyres are thin, light and strong…but not cheap :cry:

I’ve read some people have managed to get standard wire beads to seal on strips which I may try if it ever warms up.

Joe’s no flats rubber rim strips are only a little more than 2 20″ tubes and work a treat. CRC do them and they work brilliantly. Add some Stan’s or whichever jizz floats your boat and you’re on your way.

I converted my Mavic 719s with Bonty Mud XR (tubeless ready) and they sealed quite happily using a 9p compressor bong:

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ghetto-tubeless-inflator-total-cost-9p

I went with schrader valves for convenience (big valve with removable core to reduce clogs).

I’ve ridden these pretty hard at 26-28psi (jumps, drops etc) and they’ve not burped/rolled/exploded. Being cautious I chose the larger size strip for my rim width to give the maximum rubber to seal with, I’d go with the smaller (but correct) size if I was to do it again.

Easy with the bong and my combination of parts, something to kink the bong hose to build pressure helped a lot so I could use both hands on the pump. I used a spare QR swap-out, works like a charm.

Go for it :D

I used the chisel/tappy method but worked a ring of paint off the crown of my last fork 8O

Cut a slot in your crown races and it’s probably worth using the right tool, then sell it once your races are all split.

Hacksaw to split with a file to finish works fine and they’re easy to remove from then on. Many brands sell them pre-split (Hope etc).

Christianity does not get to own morality. I have issue with this principle.

Science additionally is the process of disproving variables to eliminate errors. it is not the blind agreement with theories of physics, chemistry and biology. The scientific community is built upon people disagreeing with each other to whittle down to as valid, reliable and repeatable a conclusion as possible. We are not a unified group, it’s full of ongoing debate and argument; which is good. Wars are not started in the name of science due to the lack of moral validation to do so.

To believe in science predominantly simply means you don’t like things to be made up and you like proven evidence. It does not mean we all agree on the same popular ideas.

Why are some atheists so determined to criticise religion? why not live and let live?

Atheism (the opposite of theism, the belief in a god) is not just shrugging about religion but actively disagreeing with it.

I believe in 2 main rules; do unto others as you would have done unto you (either branded as the Golden Rule from Christianity, or in a simpler form; empathy). I also believe that you you should be free to do what you want, as long as it does not restrict someone (and to some extent something‘s) ability to do the same.

In short; be nice, cause no unnecessary harm. I also choose not to eat animals (see point 2) and try to live modestly in a sustainable way.

Religion has served as a means of offering social control, explanation and comfort to humans in difficult times. People have the burning “why?” question for any and everything and I feel religion can neatly extinguish this, leading to a lack of discovery. Children are incredible bundles of physical and mental potential, ready to experience as much as they can. This recedes as they find out there are ways and reasons to do things that are commonly agreed. I’m heading off on a tangent, for more see the vid at the end. The crux is that curiosity and exploration is integral to good things happening and the closing of this door is dangerous. Religion is not the only way the door gets nudged shut but it can be a big part of the process for some.

It has been interpreted as a means of giving some people the right to oppress and destroy in the name of a greater cause.

It’s no coincidence that sexism and religion are so strongly linked. God is viewed as male, as is Jesus. Eve was the bi-product of the first and perfect man (she was a spare rib, right?). She was also the cause for being booted out of the garden for eating healthily. Males are treated as forgiveable, females are punished disproportionately.

I key difference between the perspective of many religions and the scientific community is the starting point. Religion centres existence as stemming from the human experience, that we are the purpose of the physical world and all exists for our usage while in this plane. Science as a whole places us quite late in the game as a wonderful accident in an ongoing transformation of matter and energy (the same thing) that alters states through time. Consciousness is the bi-product of our physical development to enable us to have more control in the meeting of our physiological needs.

I’m not even starting on the vengeful acts of an all-loving superdaddy in the sky. I’d rather not believe in a neglectful all present sky wizard who has an ultimate purpose for all actions. His interventions in biblical times pale in comparison to the political events of the past century. You also can’t have a chosen people within a single group of God’s children. This paradox has been the cause of an incomprehensible amount of violence and death.

Religion has helped communities unite and work together, however I think in an age where information is abundant we no longer need to fill the gap.

Imagine if churches/mosques/synagogues etc were education centres and people actively wanted to learn something on a weekly basis, like a free university without a moral agenda?

You’re not the chap with the weak wife signal upstairs are you?

Your email address is there and I guess it’s not like you’ve put your pin code etc up but it wouldn’t take much for someone who got some info (unshredded statement etc) to google you to find out more. I wouldn’t have Twitter and FB links as you can see so much before you friend or follow someone but then I probably lean toward the paranoid cautious side of things.

I’m not meaning to weird you out, my mum had her identity nicked and lots of cash taken from her account. She has no internet presence and is quite particular about her info being shared but still got done by some horrible person. It’s made me extra cautious about easy to find info, but then again I still haven’t asked 192.com to delete my info yet. Must get round to that.

Once you’ve got someone’s full name and location 192.com can help you find out more alarmingly, extra info from there increases vulnerability. You can ask to remove you. Now I’m off on a tangent but there you have it.

It’s a bit like having the anonymous radius from your house on Strava, the less available to strangers the better. Especially with all the creepy bike thefts aboot at the moment.

Don’t trust no-one anytime (apart from some people sometimes).

Oh, and the OP put “there” instead of “their”.

*reluctantly stalks looks at profile*

Rachel/allthegear, that’s a lot of info you’ve shared there! It’s worth breaking up your email at least with “AT” or “DOT” to prevent it being scanned and I’m not sure it’s wise to have so much in one easy-to-google place.

Maybe I’m paranoid? Now where did I put my tin foil hat…???

I’ve just noticed the “???” in the title. Multiple exclamations and question marks grind my goat, but then something else distracts me and I move on.

Rachel.

I really hope allthegear’s name is Nigel or something and the Rachel at the end is just a peculiar habit.

Puss, it’s a good sign if this is the tip of the irritation iceberg. Unless you’re so at the end of your tether this is all it takes for you to snap…

Rachel.

What a guy. Check this out if you want to learn about “terror babies”. Amazeballs, and I don’t say that light-heartedly.

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/08/12/ac.gohmert.terror.cnn

LOOK AT THE GAPING HOLE!

That’s awful :evil:

If you can’t solve it with Bombers or the 9p compressor it ain’t worth it :wink:

It sounds like a category A offence (Bombers), WTF is someone doing giving other people’s kids booze? It may only be a single crown penalty, but it smacks of triple clamp intentions.

Or not, hard to say without clear info.

It doesn’t help according to your first post (come on, this is STW), but a ti hardtail with a 120mm (for 26″) or 100mm (for 29″) adjustable fork would be light and climb well if you get the fit/build right. I’d probably get a 2×10 XT group and either a SID or Reba with a bunch of Hope bits.

For that much I’d build rather than buy off-the-peg to prevent to the inevitable fettling, but that’s me.

FWIW I had a Trance X, they’re great bikes and climb pretty well. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that so many linkage systems resemble Maestro.

It’s pretty good in Brighton too (well, Wild Park), dry as a bone and not too cold once you’re in the trees.

Defeated an old foe yesterday, there’s this big drop off I’ve always thought “no chance!” Nailed it 3 times in a row with travel to spare on a hardtail with skinny little Mud XRs :mrgreen:

Share the stoke, I haven’t ridden conditions like these in months and didn’t even need to wash the bike after!

OOF! Looks great :-)

I like the forks have taken on a sort of bone effect, the finish really progressed Euro. Did you use a drill bit sander to finish it? It’s quite consistent.

A banger hanger helps a bit too and they’re cheap/unobtrusive. It’s a bit of metal with a different skewer nut that mounts over the mech and takes more knocks. It also crisps your shifting up a little as it reduces mech flex.

£12 at CRC:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=19016&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Shopping&utm_name=UnitedKingdom&gclid=COiJ_IrtprYCFcbKtAodPVcAvA

Or ebay for £9.99:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-JERI-Banguard-Hanger-Saver-Alloy-Rear-Mech-Protector-/190752549729#vi-content

They work, unfortunately they don’t come in Maxle size :(

EDIT: It’s worth ensuring your cable outer is out of the way so it won’t get pinched if/when you crash.

Is there a Linsk where your Ragl should be Northwind?

Hmmm. I love my BluePig X but wouldn’t fancy losing any handling/manouvrability for throwing into corners and such, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Bigwig climbed better (HA, tyre contact patch etc).

I’m not enthused about the standard QR dropout or the bridged seatstay but a longer tube needs a bit more support.

http://d34rswofdojrpl.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/filebase/ragley/Ragley2013.pdf

I’d be keen to try one but imagine it to be more trail than the hooligan my BPX feels like; which is exactly what a lot of people are after! I reckon it’ll be popular as long as Ragley doesn’t drop the ball with quality control.

Real reviews and tests needed!

Secondary wife networks aren’t the easiest systems to manage. You’ll probably have no luck in either socket once you’ve got a conflict.

I have the same thing, it’s a pain but other than a tampon under each eye I don’t see a solution. It’s worse in the cold and is closely followed by a runny nose as the tears find their way out. I wipe my eyes at the end of a run or on a boring bit.

Goggles helped a bit but they’re a bit sweaty/rubby I find and don’t look great without a fullface. Then again crying with a snotty face aren’t a good look either…. :oops:

Maybe I’ll revisit the goggs & lid look.

I’m so sorry you went through this. My friend Stu took his life in the same way and his wife came home to find him, etc. Similarly he had been diagnosed and been medicated and in a MH hospital for a period of time.

Having seen what she went through and the crushing sense of tragedy I can honestly say it will get better. You have a rollercoaster of healing ahead of you and you need to be as open with those around you as you feel safe to. If being busy helps and there are people who can just be ‘normal’ with you, be among them. Don’t isolate yourself, counselling and support groups are there and are likely to help when you feel ready to approach them. She didn’t stay in their place after the event and moved out as it was too strongly connected with the trauma. Stay with friends/family for the short term at least.

I couldn’t eat properly for the first week (very unusual for me, not expected) and sleep was similarly disrupted. Make sure someone is keeping track of you, they don’t need to be with you all the time but it’s good to have someone aware of how you’re coping or not. Your post above sounds like you’re doing ok which is great to read.

If you would like any more information about how my friend got through it or the groups she used then email me at shameer AT gmx DOT co.uk

Equally if you just want to vent or chat, please feel free. It’s amazing you had the composure to do what you did for him.

I wipe my stanchions with 15wt Rock oil (same as what’s in ’em) after each ride. I wouldn’t go at the seal with the lowers still on, separate the fork if you’re going to poke around in there and you can lever the seals out with a socket if you need to re-lube your foam rings/wipe crud from the lip seal.

The SRAM videos are great (assuming you have RS forks):

You gotta love Herc Castro :lol:

I’ve used masking tape and a hacksaw with a file to finish the steerer followed by a Hope Head Dr. Easy and no issues of stripped star nuts.

I think you can get a Head Dr for the price of the SFN tool, also you might find one in the “wanteds” for cheap. Mine was offered at postage only thanks to a generous STWer :D

Nice build combination but not my taste in colours. *Insert predictable stem comment here*

Is it me or is the upsweep on the bars quite harsh?

Trim, not shave. Like the other beard.

Modified Jump Stop + Stinger= about £28 and 120g all in. The bash is added weight/cost if you don’t have one but you probably do if you’re looking at chain retention.

Check it:

Yep, right way round :-)

We got to the bottom of it :D

My Shimano PM-PM adapter (same brake) is set up: adapter, calliper, washers, bolt. If you have a longer bolt it will go in the top hole.

Nearly there!

I already have.

You and I are a coincidence of matter and perspective in a specific arrangement that has been coded as DNA and can influence further coincidence. In larger sense we’re about as significant as a single rain drop in a monsoon. I like the analogy of water and it’s transformation to help comprehend a finite supply of matter/energy (same thing, innit) in continual transformation.

Everything occurs in rhythms to some extent or another, with the bang/crunch being the largest scale (well, the largest to which we have labelled. The oscillations of 100 cycles of bang/crunch may itself behave in a rhythmical fashion resulting in eccentric behaviour). I know it’s been refuted as an idea but it’s interesting to think this version of the universe is not the first but merely another go.

It’s also cool to know that some scientists consider the universe to be bagel shaped due to the compound circular geometry. Therefore, what would be in the hole or beyond that lovely shiny bit on the outside? Perhaps a sort of chain-mail of other universes interlinked into one another?

All at once everything is completely pointless and yet the most unique thing you’ll ever be part of.

So, what tyres for existentialism?

My missus likes being out on the bike but she doesn’t like arriving somewhere sweaty, with helmet hair and having to fit her locks and repair stuff in her bag too. She sees it as a bit faffy and undignified.

I’ve just thought of something not so obvious; is the adapter the right way up? I think you could fit a PM adapter upside down by accident (if it’s a 2 bolt only type) which would bring it too close to the rotor.

If it’s not working after the next fiddle, put a pic up.

I use Cycraguards (for me) and a Mucky Nutz (for my fork) and it’s loads better. I’m over the shame of it, my dropper is so much cleaner after a ride. As is my riding gear, face, back etc.

It helps being on a hardtail, I couldn’t find one that works on a FS so gave up on it. They tend to snap on compression!

Don’t fill the gap while aligning, it’s not necessary. I see I’ve confused things a bit:

Get your pistons back in, put the pads in with the gap still wide.

Align the calliper so the rotor is dead centre (the split in the calliper is pretty much central), pull the lever a few times paying attention to the piston/pad movement: is it even?

If yes, good! If all’s hunky dory you’ll be able to lock the brake where the calliper is without flexing the rotor. If you get the pads in a bit and it’s clearly biased in/out then adjust accordingly and continue to fiddle until you have even pad movement and a flex-free bite.

The new Shimano PM to PM annoyingly has cup and cone washers (they add fuss in my opinion) and long bolts. It sounds like the Avid mount should work, maybe a washer’s ended up where it shouldn’t?

As said, don’t do the squeeze and tighten method. I think you may have hit on something with rotor diameter too. Avid do 185 as well as 180 and I think it’s Hope that does 183. Shimano do 180.

Avid mounts tend to have cup and cone alignment washers, Shimano didn’t used to but sometimes do now. This affects things a bit more in terms of mounting but sounds like you’ve got this sorted.

Tightening the allen key will twist the caliper to turn in towards the rotor unless you stabilise it with a hand until one of the bolts is tight. Even then it can tweak things out of place :x

So:

1. Pads out, pistons back, align as above.
2. Put it all back together and check alignment.
3. Tighten when happy that both pads are working evenly and the rotor is not flexing when the brake bites.

Be careful not to pull the brake when there are no pads in as you can pop your pistons out, leading you into a world of pain (unless you’re making subtle adjustments like the screwdriver thingy). Additionally a screwdriver will be too hard if you have ceramic pistons (newer SLX & XT). A plastic tyre lever is a better thing to use to nudge the pistons with.

It’s more ‘horror’ than horror. Worth a punt.

Surely a popcorn machine is a pan with a lid?

Melty butter/marg with brown sugar or better yet maple syrup in a vast pan, add popcorn, tumble around until it’s all coated. If this has not worked get off the floor and tumble the popcorn around :wink:

You don’t need much to flavour it. A touch of chilli powder and icing sugar works well in an odd way too.

Shift more, if it settles it will freeze.

And wee on it, but don’t go near any jellyfish as you would have no aces up your sleeves in case of an attack (unless you literally put some aces up your sleeves or a small container of wee).

Who throws a flapjack? That’s where it starts, but I can tell thee where it ends: That’s a criminal in the making.

It’s done the rounds but is a good watch, it’s mad seeing the spokes in the wheels and the rider’s eyes as they spot the landing. The slow-mo makes it all look even harder!

You need to search for jobs of a similar position to assess what the industry standard for this level of responsibility is; additionally there will be a regional bias.

If they don’t offer you what you value yourself at, would you have the cojones to storm out and look for more? If not this may not be a useful exercise. If your salary review is annual and your responsibility remains the same as last year I imagine the growth would be the same as the typical April increase.

I’ll start: >£15k but <£50k. You’re welcome :mrgreen: