thanks, it willbe on a full suss frame so with the powder coating with that cause a problem with the pivots?

I have had several bikes similiar to the bullit, which was a dog on climbs, if you want something that climbs well and I mean really well try getting hold of a Titus supermoto, fab climber okay slowish but built for anything, mine below weighs in at 34 ish lbs heavy bulb and sun rims wheelset

or try the the el guapo, newer version.
Can also recomend the older Turner RFX 4 bars, still the best bike I have owned, just……. titus is up there
Ellsworth moment similiar, owned one and sold it. Not as stiff as the titus but very very good all day bike.
Personally always thought the giant reigns climb well, but only had a play on one.

Good luck

Cheers what do you reckon the bikes weigh?

the only time now i worry about the weight of the bike is when i am flying

Intresting bike, as above go with a thomson inline (?) drop a couple of spacers or run a low rise bar or 0 degree stem, it will help the climbing a bit if that is where you have the seat post normally.
Tyres
have a look at, all on crc website
Maxxis Advantage – FR From £17.99
Tioga Blue Dragon Magnum 66 From £17.99
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=5464
Tioga Yellow Kirin Magnum 66 From £19.99
used one of these most of last summer, decent tyre, survived the prynees, and i think did well in STW test of tyres
WTB WeirWolf Comp Tyre
no idea what they are like but cheap
WTB Mutano Raptor From £11.00

but one persons tyre recommendation is anothers living hell.
Good luck and tell us howe you go on :D

Thanks folks, from what i can gather she is a fair rider, she rides with my SO and daughter, she has a cove hardtail, and has ridden my SO turner xce which is too small but I think gave her the taste for full suss, as I have said above really want her to go to something like a trance or a xce/flux, she wants to keep the hardtail and *have* a *big bike*, she works in marketing/graphics, which says a lot :wink:. Thanks Jon some good suggestions there on the trek/orange.
Anyone know anything about GT sanctions?

Hi andy looking for a frame for my SO female friend, she wants a full suss bike and I have run out of suggestions, and a work collegue in the south is trying to sell her his asx, she is 5ft 7 and weighs 9st, I have suggested an older trance with pikes to start with, but she is keen to have a big bouncy bike, any suggestions?
Thanks

Thanks folks,can you recommend some other older/second hand frames that fit the criteria please.

my HT has been up at that weight, the change to lighter tyres will make a huge difference, personally i would not run less than a 2.25, I have some wire ignators in 2.1 and they are skinny. Or try racing ralphs and the kin.
Enjoy..oh.. and can you post a pic of the foes? :D

Tis a light bike that one, :Dchange the tyres, all rest seems good.whats the rear shock?
Peronally using maxis advantage and blues groove on the front of my 35lb bike. But there will be loads of people to tell you the best tyres. Really silly question and apologies but have you got the seatpost and stem sorted for riding uphill, sorry not being patronising but the people who have there seat so low for climbing or too crushed up to let air into their lungs alwats suprises me :-)

Hi got slipped disc in my neck, got the adventure pack direct from the manufacturer 3 and a bit years ago. brillant piece of kit, as above removes the weight from your shoulders mega stable and tough. took a long slide on the road recently the bag came away unmarked as did my roach shorts alas the same cannot be said for my endura superlight or my hip.
Buy a wingnut, if you do regret it they will be snapped up second hand

Prince albert or alpine, no PA great all round bikes. Or 456

1. Learn to bounce better when falling off on tarmac
2. get rid of the fluid filled lump on my hip
3. get on my bike
4 be fit enough to do the col de tourmalet in May
5. Ride 5 times in the lakes this summer
6. enter a race for the first time 15 years

try the wingnut range, used mine a few times when i used to run.

it is fork english

01751 476 815.

I think top service though.

sorry I did not think there was a website, could be wrong

mine arrived yesterday great service thanks for the alert

yes, used the maz eta, pace lock down bettersystems than u turn which I had on pikes. For me could drop the forks on climbs. Used it on forks 130 to 100 but way better on forks over 130mm in all honesty.

cheers ditto bought some for daughter, birthday pressie, so cheap I am :lol:

Sorry for the hijack but I was going to ask the STW are these jackets waterproof or not? Are they very breathable? are they quite fragile?

no still recovering from falling off last week on the road :oops:… :busted helmet, pedals, lumps on my hip, leg, knee and elbow. No riding for me today but painted new back gate just got to fit it…. :roll:

Hi B.A, hope you are enjoying the bike, riding on road on the titus, pic somewhere, will be riding off road in May if I stay healthy, thanks for asking. GiantJason, I had rfx as a horst link for me it was a better climber on techinical stuff and indestructable on the way down unbelievably good, see the turner thread, Jon Edwards has hit the the reasons on the nail. The moment is great bike you will be more than happy if you get one.

I ahd the moment great bike, able climber and descender, no problems climbing in the pryennes coming down limited by the dhx shock as above. Out of the 2 you need the moment. Personally I think the Horst Link climbs better than the VPP system. However the moment does not climb as well as current bike Tius Supermoto (super grippy, stiffer and better descender)but was 4 lbs light at least, 35 lbs to 31.5lbs, nor as well as my Turner RFX the best bike I owned. The system, ICT, though claimed by Ellsworth is really Turners. The moment is a fantastic bike enjoy if you get one. Oh and I still think the Mk 2 version is one of the best looking bikes made.

I had a 2001 version best bike I ever owned…..cannot go wrong with them

Pretty much agree, now I read STW, ocassionally Dirt some excellent articles a couple months ago on races around the world, avoid MBR like the plague dull uninformative, what mtb ditto but buy once a year and MBUK well okay on a given day. Problem is most bikes well ride like bikes, generally not many ‘bad’ designs around now, e.g klein mantra fisher level betty and so on, so you can only write so much I would guess. Oh shred online like that….

Anyone experience of the fox talas 36r’s????

First up Litespeed Kitsuma,

then Titus supermoto

in the shed to be built a nicolai cc.

My daughter has a carbon top tube sirrus, fine with 130 but better at 120 in her opinion, great bike. I rode it when she had a lefty on it and that was a tall fork but flew down singletrack. Currentlyy pace forks on there and the adjustability is the way forward.

Enjoy

I had a PA great bike med size for my shrinking 6ft and will do the SDW fine but agree with Bikey, I also ride a 36lbs 170mm bike as an all dayer, so your nomad would be fine.

travel lodge euston very clean, basic and 50 quid not sure on parking

I have liked mine qrs, yes bit flexy but light and have been reliable. Grand really

I really laughed at the rugby ref sequence….brilliant, true and sublime

Maxxis advantage for me, very drifty in mud but you know where they are going, if that makes sense, quick on firetrack and road

depends on your riding, I use/used lightweight hiking boots with vibram sole, currently raichle, for winter and most of the summer, then merrels with a vibram sole. Both cheap from TK maxx, I have used trainers and skate shoes found them to soft to pedal for ages, ripped to shreads in a short while so stuck with the above. I am sure 5. 10s are brill but the cost puts me off :cry:

Bike ones
a la Zindane sweating mode

Trying to catch daughter,

watching the sea and waves and daughter screaming at the waves

been out early,looked liked a drowned muddy fool as the clean roadies hammered me on the way home……i so tried to stay with them…………………now so tired….

No problems with anyone getting out there and getting fit, good luck to them. What I hate is fat people in 4 x 4 shouting abuse at me as they by on a country lane on the way to the country pub lunch…………..happen to me this morning!

We had a dalmatian for 11 years,choosen after looking at all breeds intresting character rode loads with us, great dog to go out with mileage was easy but just check the surface his pads would rip up on some, pacing was important climbs they will be ahead and will try and stay ahead on the downs meaning a lot of stress on the joints. BUT dallys will run off and eat any dead or rotten carcasses, they are head strong, when he was a pup he would like to cut across the front wheel after several near misses my wife ran over him he never did it again, they will pick up a smell and follow it sometimes getting lost, I lost him on some singletrack then heard him howling like a banshee took me 40 mins to find him. Ours was the best house dog I have ever owned but he was knackered all the time which is the point these are high energy, highly intelligent, highly greedy dogs that need exercise and a firm hand, he also had some weird phobias, placid around some dogs but ridgebacks and labs seemed to have a pathological hatred cows wanted to lick them……….no idea..but we were stampeded on more than one occassion, kids think they are great but they might not like the attention.
Mypartner works with adults with disabilites and he waas tremendous around lots of people but it was hard for him to pick up some singals, e.g eye contact so we always kept a watch on him, so have a good look at the nature of the dog not necessarily the breed.
As he got older 9 yrs old he stopped comming for rides with me, it was lashing down and he just sat in the car park and would not move, 6 months later he would not run and then he started having ops for stones in the bladder and kidneys common breed problem we had him put down a year ago, be prepared for heart break if you get a dog. Mike Ferrentino wrota a great article on the death of his dog in bike
If you are prepared to put in the time they are brill, buy from a household breeder and see the mother of the pups, get them trained get them trained again and exercise them, they love luxury and are fools and will amke you laugh, cry, swear and curse.
To date we have not got another dog if we did on the list would be
dally
german wired hair pointer

good luck :-)

I would recommend shimano or magura louise fr, great brakes hayes I have found to be reliable but not for me, only used formula about 15 yrs ago and hope are okay, avid crap in me experience

Yes twice Vosges, and the Pyrennes. Never used avids again, now magura or shimano. Yours a serial brake dragger :-)

Like most on here Mint is that track to my mountain bike world, great to hear about the book. Fave cartoon the one where mints lung jumps out whilst he is on a climb and has a cig, March 2003. That image has stayed with me on oh so many climbs. Second one, so reminds me of me

thanks
Jo