Authorised Orange dealers should have one of those sample racks – lots of short sections of tube painted in all the available colours. Go to your dealer and take a look, they look different in the flesh.

We’re doing an out and back ride – Wharncliffe to Fairholmes via Cut Gate, Sunday AM.

You’re missing the cable guide that goes under the BB shell. It has a snap fixing that locates in the small hole in the bottom of the BB shell.

Like this, but without the screw:

If you go to your LBS they’ll be able to sort you with the right one I’m sure. Otherwise if you give Cy a ring, I’m sure he’ll help.

Oh aye Grip, I’ve still got a couple of issues of grip.

Future also tried to have a stab at Dirt’s target market with Rush. It was like a downhill offspring of MBUK, and lasted 3 issues IIRC.

It was rubbish.

I’ll be there.

Tell us how long you want to be out for/how many miles you’re likely to do in such a time and maybe we can suggest something?

I struggle to get two downhill tubes in my ’09 Mule once the bladder’s full.

OS Maps are your friend.

That looks bloody awesome.

It suffices for V12s too.

5 minute job – strip, clean, lube, rebuild, ride. if you want to replace the bering you can, it’s easy enough to get off – well actually it falls out when you take the axle out.

It’s the inboard bush that kicks you square in the face and laughs you out of the stratosphere if you try to remove it.

That would be a great idea.

I’d never heard of them so had a look at the website. I liked this write-up on one of the dirtjump forks:

With 34mm steel stanchion and 20mm Magnesium lowers, the Knight Dirt Jump Axle fork will make sure you have a stiff one every time you get on your bike.

I notice their top end XC forks have BOS cartridges. Nice.

Ask on the retrobike forums, they know their old GTs.

at which he blatently tells me that he f’kin hate cyclists, they always cut him up, shouldn’t be on the road and that he did what he did on purpose.

Did he have a bus full of passengers/witnesses at the point where he openly admitted attemtped murder?

I like the headlights that follow the steering angle despite being mounted to the main frame.

From the Cotic news page[/url]:

29/04/2009 : Cotic Ride Jerseys are finally here

Price is £50 including P&P, and two sizes are available – size 4 for normal people (it’s baggy but good on Paul who’s 5ft 8in, works up to around 6ft), or size 5 for taller types (Cy’s 6ft 3in and it’s good for him. Will work for 6ft-ish and up). If you’d like one, email order@cotic.co.uk or call 07970 853531. Be quick though, we’ve only got 15 of each colour….

oddly i feel the opposite…

Interesting point.

Why are you surprised?

It’s a roadbike v mountainbike prejudice I have. I just don’t think you get as much bike for your money.

Sorry, that’s a useless post isn’t it, I didn’t mean for it to be. Rather I’m just pointing out that you’re not alone in your requirements and that I’ll be watching this thread closely 🙂

I’ve been looking at spending similar money on the darkside fpr a while but have found myself surprised at how little was available on the new bike market, which is a shame as I don’t trust buying second hand.

I grew up in Hillsborough which was until recently home to a very large pshyciatric hospital, Middlewood. So we had more than our fair share of local characters.

Walter, Battery Ken, Maureen, Mr Trousers and a couple of lesser known and therefore unnamed ones.

Dancing-Bustop-Upturned-Bike Guy gets all over the city too.

All sounds like one of those fad diets to me.

I’m from Yorkshire and when I’m not down’t pit or working at steelworks for a penny a year I live on black pudding and dripping sandwiches wrapped in grease-proof paper, and either over-stewed, sugary tea, best bitter or pints of neat Henderson’s Relish.

Never did my old man any harm – he lived to the ripe old age of 47 before the rickets got him.

That’s two riders from the old Volvo Cannondale DH team (halcyon days) that are in trouble over drugs. Nightmare.

Excellent.

In fact if Hoy can be so good because of boring Bran Flakes, I’m 100% sure that as soon as I can get hold of some Kelloggs Start which is loads better, I will be able to immediately slash at least 5 minutes from my morning commute time.

Breakfast cereal? As an adult?

What is it with people who want to eat kids’ food first thing in the morning?

I didn’t say anything about breakfast. Kelloggs Start is good any time of the day.

And cereal isn’t just for kids. Four time olympic gold medallist Chris Hoy loves Bran Flakes so much that he’s willing to go on telly and tell everyone about it.

http://www.kelloggs.co.uk/whatson/branflakes/

“Chris likes to start his day with a delicious bowl of Kellogg’s Bran Flakes. It’s the original high fibre cereal, helping to build Chris’ foundations for strong health.”

See.

It was about 5 years ago when I last had it, tasted just as good as I remembered 🙂

GOOD GOD!!! You can still buy it?! Not in my local Tescos you can’t! Must check ASDA ASAP.

mmmmmmm athletic

I know, that’s what it tastes like – fitness personified. I love it.

Learning it’s still available is the best news I’ve heard all week.

For grief, the first thing that comes to mind is Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother.

Don’t cover an entire bike with it, just focus on areas that are vulnerable to damage from abrasion. For example, apply to sections where cables rub or where you might get heel rub on swingarms etc.

Some folk do the underside of the downtube, which is another area you might want to look at if you’re worried about gravel being thrown from the front wheel and chipping the frame.

It is easy to apply if you take your time, clean the bike, use a sharp knife to cut it (and I mean surgical scalpel sharp, not Stanley craft knife sharp), heat it up to get it nice and pliable, and make paper templates first to ensure correct and tidy coverage. Don’t expect it to be a quick job, and don’t do it in the dusty garage/shed, or with mucky hands.

As for amounts required, it’s impossible to say. Depends on how much you decide to use on each bike.

I want you to hit me as hard as you can

The problem of which you speak is the reasoning behind friday and saturday night brawls in every town and city the length and breadth of the country.

A general feeling of impotence is felt by us all these days.

If this is still happeing, roll-call for riding Wharncliffe on the 21st of June are : –

Skiprat
thepodge
jackthedog

That bloke who used to be in The Cops and that Steve Coogan film Parole Officer?

Oh hang on, he’s not from the colonies.

Don’t know.

I imagine he was there though, anyway.

I sound like I’m scare mongering now, but it’s not limited to the inner city. It’s not joyriders or casual theft, rather they’re being specifically targeted as they shift easily. It would take you about 2 hours to strip a Landy down to it’s component parts, and there’s always a big market for cheap Landy bits.

You get reports of 15 or more going from areas like Derbyshire in one night. In one night 3 went missing from the same farm out this way a few months back. Through two locked gates, across two fields and away.

God bless ebay.

Diskloks are about as good as anything – the proper branded ones that enclose the wheel. Best thing to do is have a search over all the Land Rover forums for security, and see what they’re doing.

Generally the best security is just keeping it out of sight, and not advertising it’s presence.

Don’t want to sound such a doom monger, I just want to stop you suffering the same issue I did a few year ago, when my new pride and joy lasted 3 weeks outside the house before it was goneski.

The theft risk is the only reason I don’t have one as a daily driver any more.

As a Land Rover owner, can I just raise the security issue again in case it was overlooked.

Landies go missing A LOT. If it’s not securely garaged, invest in some additional quality security (not a £15.99 steering wheel bar from the local garage) or your new purchase won’t be around long enough for you to enjoy it.

Depends what usage you want from them, what frame they’re going on and how much you like to tune them.

I’d be up for a bit of that.

That already seems very light for a 5.