Nice find! Going to have to get some to get my old kona back on the trails…

So, does that one just mount directly on to existing QR?

Personally I never bother with bottle top caps or anything. I just wipe it off and drink away. Still alive. Expect most the poo I eat is cow and sheep I think. Less bad for you perhaps?

You’d have to be pretty unlucky to get any nasty poo on your bottle.

I think I define nasty poo as anything that makes you gag ;) – human, dog, cat, fox etc. Meat eaters I expect. And no, that doesn’t mean vegetarians poo is OK smeared on my bottle…

I’d ask him for some proof of ID. A scan of his passport, picture of him next to today’s paper and a proof of address. I have to say, it does sound a bit dodge…

Update for those who care.

Took it in to the shop today and they were quite apologetic (not very but not sure what I expected tbh) and took it in straightaway to give it a once over. I went away for an hour and when I got back they seemed to have done it and as a bonus fixed the puncture I had got in the meantime as well as fitting a new Middle ring that I bought thinking it probably should have been replaced during the service.

No mention of a discount in the future or any other perk (other than a free tube I guess) but at least the bike is working. At least I hope so, not actually ridden it yet.

I shouldn’t think I’ll use them again if I’m honest, just because…

Also, and this might be a common thing with bike services…but do you normally get given the old stuff they take off to replace? You do with car services. And I didn’t with this bike service. Recognise this makes me sound a bit tight, but tbh I would have recycled the old chain on a pub bike…

Thanks Drovercycles, very sensible and considered reply (and coincidentally pretty much what I’d have hoped for as well ;))

Will be sure to keep you updated over the weekend

Get your points about nothing actually happening but it certainly wouldn’t make me want to use them again pre-race or some such. As Northwind suggests I fit in the camp that can do it myself but was ‘treating’ myself to someone else doing it properly.

Those of you who are saying your LBS just has some guy with 6 months experience clearly have fairly crappy LBS. Mine is generally fairly well regarded and the guy who serviced it had 8 years experience. Apparently. Guess it was just an oversight. But if I cocked up what I do as my job I’d expect to not get paid for it. Just saying.

i was wearing spds…was a slightly comical moment…

Think I agree with most of you and absolutely not planning to name and shame.

I did give them a call and they were quite apologetic and offered to put it back on. I explained that I had done that already. They then said they would give the bike another look over but so far have not offered anything else and I haven’t asked for anything else. I just said that I’d be in over the weekend and that maybe they’d have a think about what else they might like to do. Which I know recognise might have sounded a bit passive aggressive!

the forks was on top of the Gold service. Gold service is fairly standard strip down

they changed the bottom bracket

£90 for the service and then parts on top. I also paid extra to have the forks and shock serviced on top of that. It was a spenny trip to the shop…

Sorry, should also say I did obviously get the crank back on myself and completed the ride… I recognise it’s not that complex, but do I now trust that my forks have been correctly serviced etc etc…

No damage caused as I was going up hill. Slowly. And no, weirdly I didn’t notice a warning wobble. Was as surprised as you are ‘legend’.

I guess it’s more the fact that I could have hurt myself it happened 5 mins later when going down a rocky lakes descent.

Worth saying that I am vaguely capable of sorting my own bike out and usually do but given I’m not a pro (and never will be as good as a bike shop should be)I thought it might be nice for a change to get my bike really nicely set up

Keen to know too! Would love some nice new hopes for a hundy…

I was there about 12 years ago and the bikes were ropey then but hopefully they’ll have improved. I was cycle touring with a mate and remember Banos as being the place we had a pretty interesting experience with a landslide. And a great New Year’s Eve party where they burnt effigies of their fave figures of the previous year

Have a look on seedrs.com loads of interesting small scale investment opportunities that could earn you money (rather than kickstarter where you don’t get stake).

That’s what I’d do…or invest in my own start-up of course ;)

a fairly old ibis mojo sl

I quite like it

I used them for a couple of things. One was a bike. Which was handy because I couldnt really get it delivered to work and the other was simply a bleed kit and I knew I wouldnt be in and wasnt sure it would go through the letter box.

All worked very well but I feel a bit sorry for them as noone else seems to use them and they looked so excited to see me!

as njee says – 29er is 700c but the key thing is the width.

I have a pair of AM Classics I couldn’t get anything vaguely roadie on. And that includes 32mm tyres. Split my fingers trying. My top tip would be to make sure that anything you do try is a folding tyre as they are that little bit easier to get on.

the meeting up with random folk is an interesting one too…she said she was the mother in law but what if she’d be intercepting e-mails (OK improbable) or maybe he just had a penchant for santa cruz riding chaps and was going to bundle you into the back of van ;)

So, no one knows of anything other than essentially using paypal in the legitimate way?

Surely there’s an app that allows me to store my validated ID online so I can share it with people?

I’m going to say Marin. I know they are still about, but no way as cool as they used to be!

flange – 20 mins drive to Bedgebury from Tonbridge – not cycle! Takes me just over an hour to ride there but not on the SS!

good point b r . reckon i spend at least 20 mins packing and unpacking the car. Not to mention the actual drive of course!

as per another thread on here, if they do they should try including some on bike storage into the frame for the bike packing bike. Even if just somewhere to store multi-tool, pump, tube and spokes…

Very good singlespeedstu….bought 2 packs though

Hi tiRed is it this one http://www.wiggle.co.uk/deuter-race-x-rucksack ?

Does it actually have a sleeve inside or do you put it in a sleeve first?

On the plus side…if you move cyclists onto pavements presumably that means we can hoon about on the footpaths as well ;)

I’d avoid park ones at all costs. Snapped several on road bike tyres…

Absolutely with you van halen. Someone should use the technology of a lightweight 11speed and apply it to 8 speed with a broad range. And make it cheap!

Interesting idea cougar…how does the keyboard feel on the 13inch

If the 15 inch doesn’t feel like too much of a lump in the backpack I’d probably rather go large…

I’ll be cycling about with it a fair bit…

If you stay truleigh hill you can walk over to devils dyke pub. Or ride obviously…we walked, made a nice change and we had a comedy drunken night back when we came across hundreds of people walking the 100km Gurkha route through the night. They were not happy to stop and chat…

£500 would be a good mates rates kinda price. If I was new to mtb this would be a great starter bike

Stayed in a nice b&b in pyecombe. They even ferried us to the pub…

Thanks all. Riddoch, that looks like a winner to me.