Zee cage with a Specialized bottle works great for me.

Yup, I love the shifter action on 11sp GX. Can’t see me ever using Shimano again tbh, SRAM just seem better for proper wide range 1x.

I’ve got a sliding dropout steel Voodoo SS that I’ve been tempted to drop-bar, but as it would involve buying new brakes as well it’s on hold as my remit for it was to use it without spending out on it!

Looks spot-on, that. Been on the lookout for a 19″ for a while but they’re either asking silly money, or 17.5″..!

*piqued

Just sayin’..

Oh yeah, the purple Habit looks pretty damn good too!

What a handsome lad! Good on you for rehoming and not going to a “reputable” breeder like so many insist on doing..

V8 copies @ £12 cheap enough?

Geometry > travel

Command Post takes all of half an hour to service, and a full seal and bushing kit is about £20 iirc. Very overlooked in the easy-to-service stakes, but it does only come with a setback head if that’s an issue.

Built on 10%
Green urban 6%
Farmland 49%
Natural 35%

Just on the edge of Farnham.

We have one of the Motorola IP petcams which is great – has motorised pan/tilt, decent night mode, two-way speaker/microphone, sound & motion alerts with variable sensitivity, temperature alerts, video recording, the lot. Decent Android app as well. Definitely worth the money.

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<here prospective thieves, let me provide you with a list of just how many expensive bicycles are at my home>

I’ll throw another suggestion out there; the upcoming Bird Aeris AM9? Nicely long and low, but with the shorter chainstays (440mm). 150/150 travel too, so it sits square in the middle of the Fuel and the Enduro. Only downer is they’re not released til next year..

Trek – for their habit of buying then wrecking once-great companies. Also the Lance/Greg Lemond thing.

Are you deliberately ignoring the advice from PolisherMan and myself then..? 🙄

https://m.pinkbike.com/buysell/1740704/ Durolux

Have to say, part of the reason I went 650B wasn’t the wheel size but having a straight steerer (2011 Pitch Pro) – went all in with Boost at the same time to hedge my bets! Still got a rigid 26″ SS, straight steerer, etc, though! Thankfully that just gets whatever’s cheapest thrown at it..

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Steel 30T or 32T in 94BCD.

It’s not just the tread wear on tyres that’s an issue – they age harden and crack as well. As fronts wear faster than rears, if you continually just replace the fronts when they’re worn, you can end up with tyres 5+ years old on the back that still have loads of tread but are long past their best in terms of grip (remember that tread is purely there for water displacement).

When fronts are worn, you should switch the rears to the front and put the new tyres on the rear. This not only keeps the worn/new balance the same, but means you don’t end up with perished tyres on the back.

Facebook Marketplace, set radius to about 15 miles, budget to £100, buy the first one you see that has a micro-adjust alloy seatpost and alloy cranks (my usually-reliable markers of something cheap but acceptable). Personally I’d favour hydraulic discs, rigid and singlespeed for complete lack of maintenance required.

FWIW I use a steel Voodoo Wanga SS with rigid forks for that distance commute, popping to the shops, etc – cost me £170. Have a cable lock long enough to go through both wheels and the frame, and don’t tend to leave it locked up longer than ten minutes or so.

I spec’d mine exactly the same as above (but with GX 11sp) – I did get the Hope/DT wheels and a carbon bar though. Be aware that with the Super Deluxe shock you need an adaptor like the Shimano SM-BA01 to shift the bottle cage down as the bottle hits the reservoir otherwise. You could also go for the Yari and retrofit the Charger damper at a later date as I believe that’s the only/main difference between it and the Lyriks.

Cable outer loop to the rear mech looks way too short/tight, plus the inner looks to be clamped on the wrong side of the bolt. Fix those and go from there.

https://www.candb-seen.co.uk/product-quick-release-mt.html

Bird have got £250 off the Zero TR currently, so the NX version is under budget? Would need to add a bit for a dropper though, and they’re probably not “local” local to you.

Agree with some of the above – I’d say the barrier to more people cycle commuting isn’t the effort involved, it’s the treatment of people on bikes by people in cars.

In fact – I think we need to stop referring to “cyclists” and “drivers” (and “pedestrians”), as that just perpetuates the idea that we’re somehow different species. I wonder if we just talked about people on bikes, in cars, or on foot, it would be a gentle reminder that we’re all just people?

At £150 for the Brand-X XL, that’s what I’d get. My 125mm one has been great.

Chuck your job in.
Buy a Carrera, a Burberry baseball cap and some trackies.

Hang about outside the chippy with some yoofs.

You’ll soon be bunny hopping like a champ and will be able to manual for miles.
This is depressingly true.

When you raise the post, hover just over it and catch it with your bum. You can then guide it up to the higher positions without it slamming against the end stop. Mechanical sympathy is key here.

My local is Swinley, and as above, the best thing about it is that all the people who go there now aren’t at the places I ride.. 😉

No, but I’m the Dave other people know. I could hire myself out to people who don’t have a mate called Dave I suppose?

from an engineering perspective, it’s a bit of a cludge,

That is the bit that bugs me – I know that the ball-clamp type are perfectly ok; I was just wondering if there were a more elegant, direct-fitting solution! If not, then fair enough 🙂

I do know that there’s a Bosal detachable 2″ hitch receiver that was made for the Tesla Model X that looks to be the same fitment as the Westfalia detachable swan neck, but they’re over £400! I do like the idea of the receiver hitch-mounted racks though.

I think that if you’re happy on clipless and enjoy your riding (and not being “held back”) then why bother changing? I went from a lifelong clipless user to flats about 6 years ago, when I got my first FS, mostly because a riding buddy recommended it.

I don’t know why, but I’ve never really had an issue with my feet coming off the pedals, and certainly never been smacked in the shin, and I’m hardly a riding god. Maybe a few years of riding horses before switching helped with weighting through my legs more?

Tried going back to clipless a couple of years ago and hated it; I couldn’t stand the feeling of the float (felt like I was stood on ice) and that I couldn’t change the position of my foot relative to the pedal axle depending on what I was doing. For those reasons alone, I doubt I’ll use clipless again.

Edit: that’s on both a FS and a rigid SS.

I have the same issue wearing goggles with my Bell Super; had planned to try some junior/kids goggles but never got round to it.

32 on the 1×11
34 on the SS

OH has 30 on 1×11

Isn’t the answer to that a Cotic Soul then?

Interesting – I had some Geax before, the ones that looked like Specialized Eskars, and hated them! They were 2.3 on a narrow Mavic 17mm internal rim though, so just felt unstable. Liking the look of the £20 Ground Controls though, cheers!

If you’re looking for a pointy dog 😉 then give http://www.greyhoundgap.org.uk a try. As said above though, definitely rescue. The right dog is never the wrong breed.

Yup – the defining factor is the smallest sprocket. 10T needs an XD driver, 11T goes on a standard freehub.