“I could ride that (tight steep techy switchbacks) on my rigid, singlespeed 29er” G60 thread
“Les Arcs has the best riding in the Alps”

Marathon plus are a bit fat for my frame. Probably 23 max. Anyway thanks for the suggestions so far.

So far this year I have spent a fortune on my shoulders: dislocation/rotator cuff and then broken collar bone rehab.

Spinner do a 20 inch air fork. Alternatively, I have just fitted a standard fork to my sons 20 inch hotrock, it’s a bit higher at the front now but seems to ride ok. Not the cheapest option though as to will need to fit a disc brake and a new wheel.

I bet Obama would love to be able to get some of those things past the senate; gun control, social security, reduced racism, health care, pork barrel politics, the environmental stuff. All pretty worthy and only being held back by self serving right wingers/rabid fundementalists .

Its a user generated list so there is bound to be some wacky stuff in there but do they not have a right to be angry and demand change? The younger generation is the one that is going to have to pick up/is currently picking up the tab for the mistakes of their parents one.

Someone beat me to the last med snyper so it’s not an option anymore.

Go for the supermatic I reckon

with angleset and 140mm forks, would it work?

Mostly due to the rising cost of materials & unfavourable (for the UK) exchange rates.

This is a bit of a smokescreen IMO. Look at motorbikes, much more materials used, much more R&D involved, mostly made outside the UK yet nowhere near the level of inflation seen in bikes. You can bike a moto trials bike with Marzocchi forks for less than the cost of a push bike.

which is why I stopped. Unpredictable child, stupid parent. I stopped

Well you could have chilled, and left it at that. No comments were really necessary and certainly its not something to get upset about in retrospect.

I still think its ACC FTW. All those victories and world champs in downhill. Then total domination of the mega and other marathon DH events. AND if she made a comeback to downhill she would still probably kick ass after all those years of retirement. She was/is on a totally different level to the competition.

Kids, especially ones that are still learning, should be given right of way, encouragement etc. For them riding a bike is still hard and they need all their concentration to stay upright let alone worry about which side to pass on. Its really selfish IMO to expect them to move out of the way for you so you can get home 10 secs earlier.

So why do bike manufacturers offer 1, 2 3+ warranties?

1. For weak welds which might take time to manifest themselves
2. Because its sounds good in their marketing literature

But if you tried to claim a bent chain stay under warrenty, I bet they too would tell you where to go.

You buy a supercar (SW seems to like Aston Martins), drive it for a year look after it but one day you notice a dent in a side panel. When you take it to the dealer do you expect that it will be repaired free of charge? Course not, so why should bike manufacturers be any different?

why should they honor a claim that does not fall under warranty?

Indeed why should they even have to foot the bill for sending the bike to Germany when they are making a commercial gesture to put right a non warranty issue at reduced cost.

It would be worth looking at the college bike racks tomorrow, maybe asking security to keep their eyes open.

Dominant climber now is Adam Ondra. By far the best in the world and likely to be for a good few years yet.

I struggle to see how Kurt Albert dominated anything. He wasn’t even the best climber in the Frankenjura. In fact, he wasn’t even the best climber in his house! That was Gullich and he wasn’t as good as Moffet.

My son has the odyssey junior its small, nice quality and has decent padding.

the decathlon subsim saddle is pretty small.Alternatively, a bmx saddle like an odyssey (not exactly cheap though).

Nicolai’s cost would have been a couple of hundred euros at best.

And a tacit admission that their manufacturing and QC is not as good as they believe it to be. Which for a German would be very difficult to do and would probably compromise the brand more than this discussion on here.

Look at it from the point of Nicholai. They manufacture in house unlike the big brands so are pretty sure of the quality of the product leaving the factory. Being German engineers, you can be sure that the QC is pretty rigorous and I bet they are convinced that a deformed frame would never slip through.

Some one buys a frame and rides it with no issues for the best part of a year and only then starts making complaints about a misalignment. The fact that he claims not to have ridden it much is not exactly easy to prove (he might even have taken it abroad and had it chucked around by cargo handlers etc). All they know is that is has taken a VERY long time for the customer to complain about something that should have been apparent very quickly if it had been a manufacturing issue.

Replacing for free might have been the best in terms of PR but its one of those commercial decisions. You believe the bike left the factory in good shape so why lose money (that a small company can ill afford to do) to placate one customer who in your view is probably chancing his arm. Nicolai UK is unfortunately just caught in the middle so you cant really blame him.

I guess the brands that subcontract their manufacturing are more inclined to replace stuff as they just pass on the loss to their manufacturers and it costs them nothing.

http://dirt.mpora.com/news/faster-croquetas-yannick-granieri.html

This has sold me on the canaries for January

Jamie bestwick vert bmx

Nico Voulloz, Anne Caroline chausson
Other sports jerry Moffat ( rock climber in the 80-90s)
Michael Johnson, ed Moses athletics
Michael Jordan basketball

Single ply probably. Duel ply super tackys are downhill tyres and are hard work for anything else.

The climbing works is probably your best bet if you are on your own. Another site to look at is ukbouldering, it has a strong Sheffield bias and is less full of bs than ukc.

Bettys Wood(bottom of St Ives), I think

Thanks

Ianv – are you a Bingley local?

Wilsden, always up for learning some different trails.

down your steep as f*^% descent

where abouts exactly is this please?

What about the Grande traversee du jura? 380 km one way .

Otherwise Tolouse, or Carcasonne through the Arieage (Foix/Ax les thermes) into the Capacir/Cardagne and back via Quillan. You could link lots of this on waymarked trails from the various centre vtt ffc. Or Girona over the border into France, up the Tet valley and back into Spain at Puigcherda, through the Spanish side of the pyranees back to Girona.

Not sure how long these last two would be but I am sure they could be extended to meet the criteria.

I would have no issues with buying from YT, I think the only downside is that you will be very lucky to bag one as the deal is so limited. If I needed a downhill bike I would definitely have my finger on the button.

Not sure about this year, but last year the deal came with a weekend B&B at a bike park, two days training, lifts and a shirt as well.

Had mine plated in June after breaking in May, was back riding road, canals after 5 weeks and light weights. Riding downhill by the 3rd week july (if cautiously). After 6 to 8 weeks a plated bone should be fine to ride on but the problem with plating is that the tendons/nerves can catch and you get a sharp pain in certain situations. My movement is not 100% but certain backward movements catch the nerve and hurt a lot. This goes if the plate is removed (normally after 6 or so months). My main problem from the brake is the time I spent in a sling has seriously weakened my left arm/shoulder.

You should be riding by now, Wiggins was back on a bike after 5 days after the op and Danny Pedrosa was winning moto GPs 6 weeks after a double one. The longer you leave it the harder it will be to get going again.

Try http://www.cosmicboogie.co.uk

28 lbs isn’t that heavy for an entry level Bmx, the really decent bikes weight about 11kgs or so. Do the bikes have pegs, gyro and a front brake? Get rid of them and loose a couple of kg. My sons 18 inch bike is 11kg and that was the lightest I could find without spending loads.

Personally, I never subscribed to the stupidity of limiting myself to one particular sound

Yeh but TJ asked about house not “80’s comedy rave acid s**t”. 😉

So what is house music?

I don’t think techno and rave qualifies as house.

Have to say that some people have a very broad definition of house music 🙄

http://deephousepage.com/mixes.php

And its Tolouse not Toulon for the eastern pyranees. There is also Carcasonne for flights.

Cannot comment on any of the guiding outfits but if it is done right, the company that operates in andorra (singletrack safari) has the biggest potential IMO. Good bike parks, awesome off piste within the valnord bikepark area, and some great trails that would have benefited from an uplift. They seemed to be based in Ordino (a town just up the road from the valnord lift) and I kept seeing the van all over so I guess you would get to see a bit of the area.

The yt industries wicked is a bit of a bargain. Alternatively,just go with the heckler and save yourself some cash.