Tbf tuned have a third party damper upgrade for the yari last I looked

Anyone ridden here more recently? Considering riding here this weekend?

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Hopefully might go a bit better now

As above Sram 1130 cassette is 11-42 and ShimanoHG splines
Sram 1150 cassette is 10-42 and SramXD fitting

What cassette has he now?

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18T star ratchet ‘upgrade’ kit[/url]

36T star ratchet upgrade kit

Can’t see a kit that includes 54T star ratchets so you’d have to get them separately on top?

Your 3pawl hub will have 24 points of engagement so the 18T rings would only be an upgrade on possibly durability but I’m not aware the 370 pawl hub in countless 1900 series wheelsets out there are prone to failure?
Ratchet conversion would require two proprietary Chinese/polish/genuine tools.
you’d only want the pawl tool once (and the cheapest one I’ve seen is the bitul copy) so I’d find a bike shop to swap
Then if you wanted to swap bearings yourself in future there’s loads of Chinese ratchet tools on eBay for not a lot, else bike shop or bitul

HG freehub to stay as you are[/url]
Will fit 148 boost

Think it was your forum posts that helped sell it to me, though taper long fork capable 26 frames aren’t common s/h
I passed on a Ragley pig X on account of being pickup only, I’m thinking I maybe could have trekked to London to get it if it’d be anything as good as your Ti going by that 🤔

Good to hear, shame they’re the most expensive option

Popped Up on another thread, yes they exist and you can also ‘upgrade’ to ratchet rings over your 3pawl hub

steel dt freehubs

What speed slx cassette have you in order to determine what freehub standard you have now?

Couldn’t tell you miles but its gone through 3x 10spd (EX1) chains taken to 0.75% stretch with a new 15t drive sprocket each time (chainsucks if not)
Its also had the smallest three sprockets replaced at two years just because it was £20 or so
Cassette teeth aren’t super worn so I’d put another chain/sprocket on to keep it going if it weren’t for the trueness issue

Shimano M4100 10spd 11-46 is appealling now I know NX eagle has such a poor interface with a HG cassette
Don’t know much of Deore m6100 12spd or any of the Box groupsets or others?

What looking after it can you do to stop the cassette eating into the freehub?

I see what you mean from treks point of view, I was alluding more to SRAM designing a ground up ebike groupset and choosing HG which was problematic with eating freehubs since back in the days before ebikes when cassettes only went upto 32/34T.
My experience of XD and GX eagle (aside from struggling to remove it on occasion) that it has no cassette eating into freehub issues

6’2″, main bike is now a Canyon Spectral 650 (2018-2021) so not on trend modern geometry but much better than large 26″ bikes (sanderson life, el guapo, spesh stumpjumper) of old.
The sanderson I’ve been riding from time to time the same trails as a spare bike (with a 120mm ’03 marzocchi MX) but despite its slack seat tube and high BB, it rides far better everywhere than the on-one
I wasn’t expecting miracles (nor has it set me back a lot) but its a lot worse than I was expecting both looks and ride wise

I must have missed the geometry chart originally, I’ve found one since and I can’t ever remember seeing a seat angle quoted in the 60’s of degrees

“bet it pulls sik wheelies”
Turning the bike upside down to take rear wheel out, it tries to topple forward ..

I have a 130mm recon, longer stems with mostly higher bars* and conventional albeit external headset I can try when I get round to it

*it currently has my only 35mm clamp 15mm rise bar/50mm stem combo

Rode it in June/July evening at peak dry, Cut Gate itself has had a fantastic job done on it, still holding its overall character but with the bogs replaced by much needed heavy stonework pictured above.
North America I’m afraid I’ll never descend again though, gone is the springy corker of joy in the dry for wide and straight broken by water-bars snatching at your wrists

Not sure why I’ve always stuck with specialized, probably the historic discounts

Despite the low treaded sole the 2fo cliplite lace do a passable job but they are no more for the UK
I’m eyeing up the new (treaded) Rimes (specialized UK doesn’t do them, but bikeinn have them at decent discount)

The long gone original rime was marketed at hike a bike with treaded vibram sole but a stiff midsole for pedalling
The spiritual successor is probably the new recon. Treaded with stiffish midsole

Having tried running one to death, running to death on the third chain and rotating three as a set, I reckon the benefit-faff compromise is probably running two as a set, no front confused, one is on the bike, one is off then try to swap semi regularly so they don’t get too out of wear from one another
My problem with running one to death is the chain starts snapping before the drivetrain is totally used. Of course the teeth are well when by this point but it means you’ve the other chain to fall back on when one starts snapping

My question is though, what is putoline?
(I bought a gallon of finish line wet in 2008 and still going strong, most of my rides do seem to be in the wet tbf)

I’ve a crate or two of scrap parts. They do get rummaged through from time to time looking for that extract something. Usually don’t find it
As for just about useable parts my plan is to somehow find the time to rebuild all the old 26” frames I’ve amassed and then most likely continue to not ride them. At least it might feel like all those parts aren’t messing up the place ..

Anyone know What the Vgraphics loop over to dylife/staylittle is like compared to the Mach’s? I know it grades descents as red/blue but told it’s no tasty tech loop

If you’re at llandegla you might consider the more natural mast/worlds end descents out the back?

I’m in the same boat for a natural feeling Ride in north Wales Tbf. Pont scethin I’ve not ridden for ten years and wasn’t all that technical then. I’m told motorbikes have rutted it to hell of late

Llyn colwyd/llyn Crafnant from capel curig (obviously a bit far from Machynlleth) has some nice bits but you’l you’d need to borrow the path by the water channel to avoid the bog and the woods to chop half the road descent off

It’s suprising just how much of cadir is rideable going up. All the grassy rutted middle bit, push the first set of screes then rideable to the shoulder where it flattens then carry the last bit. There’s a side path just off the top that skirts the short bit of unridable on the main bridleway down. Took my mum (ebike) and sister up not long ago and they love it. I’ll concede its no ranger/telegraph valley though

Otherwise perhaps Cadir idris and don’t miss the extra grassy descent at the end

(If you’re not a trailforks subscriber you can still view on desktop website)

I reckon if you took a random pick of the off piste in dyfi forest on trailforks you’d feel you had a better ride by the sound of it

ebay 54t copy of dt star ratchet stripped on first proper climb of first ride

Had a shimano freehub fail just before McMoab, Kirroughtree works suprisingly well as a push and pump trail. When you really don’t want to lose speed its surprising just how hard a rock feature you can ride blind on sight without touching the brakes ..
Had another shimano freehub lock solid, rode whinstone lee tor descent (not alpine) as if it was a fixie, then took the chain off for the beast, Must be my best run down there. Chainless is so much smoother ..
Mate had a shimano freehub lock in ‘off’ as above in the cold. Peed on it to thaw it ..

Ripped a few pre-shadow mechs off resulting in singlespeeding bikes. Ever fearful since going to eagle with it sitting so much further out than shadow

Superstar tesla hub went bang on day one of a week in courchevel. Turns out another chalet guest didn’t live far away from home and very kindly swapped his rear wheel with me until I got back. Saved my holiday. As the week progressed discovered the phenomenon of pitted rotors, no amount of pad swapping will get you through in the alps .. baulked at paying £40/rotor at the time

On free hire bikes for a week in PdS, still not sure why but assumed DH bikes would have DH tubes in, one or two tubes between two of us, ran out in avoriaz on the tamest cut through below the lift to the road, cue my brother cautiously riding back to the bottom of chatel (Where we were on the way back from) to buy a 19eur DH tube. bought a puncture repair kit but it was so hot they wouldn’t stick overnight .. one of us was 26 the other 650. had every combination of tube size swapped between each bike ..

Deeper mud than anticipated before the slab, OTB, brand new S-works tyre tubeless (very thin), barbed wire put a great big slit through it. No crisp packets etc to bodge with a tube ..

Anybody know if or when anything north of New York New York might be ‘unclosed’, ie all the wolfs and loose women?

Markhraylish
As a free account I’ve always had access to heatmap on desktop and now it appears in the segment explore map in the app (though is this because I’ve switched from android to iOS?)

The problem with the single subscription model is a lot of people will never use all the features and/or they use features elsewhere. I use bits of Strava and bits of trailforks but I don’t want to pay full price for both. I’d be okay with a half price half feature option at the level of the old free Strava. I reckon they’d pull in more money that way overall

https://www.trailforks.com/poi/37109/
Big lay-by on main road to walkerburn been empty when I’ve seen it
Not on trailforks but a couple of hundred yards to the west is a steady climbing grassy path to get you round the hill a bit

Apparently it’s been updated of late but waterworld is nowhere near an Orange, especially when the much harder no social (or liver damage) is somehow a single black
New York New York the easiest of the blacks I’ve ridden
Big baw my biggest surprise how good and well built it is given the map makes it look flat

With longer forks and bigger Wheels and some massive head tubes about on bigger frames nowadays i for one don’t have the stack height to give up for that (650*2.6, xl frame w. 170mm ht)

I can pinch (usually by the bead) semi frequently at Cyb but iirc only when jumping slightly, a lot of the downslopes are littered in pointy rocks
Run stans only exo front but it’s nearly always the stronger schwalbe apex/Bontrager se plus huck Norris rear that pinches
Need something better but reluctant to go for stiffer super gravity/dd or smaller specialized

Both tools can be found on eBay or from bitul.pl for not much more than the Chinese 3pawl copies.
I’m thinking of swapping the guts between my m1900 (came with the bike) and m1700 I got for £127 as I’ve got a little ding in it

18t ratchet may be the most reliable but in technical stop start balancy stuff you can definitely makes a big difference even with 36t. 54t better* still, just wish there was a 72t option ..
Newer gen 24t 3pawl better than 18 but it’s no 36

*i read lots of horror stories of 54t failures especially given the price as a reputational chain snapper/free hub breaker I’ve touch wood not had a problem
I did get an eBay 54t copy to strip on its first Steepish (middle ring) climb though so go genuine

Ordinary patches you’ll struggle with the orange band all the way round that could interfere with tyre seating, unsticking and being too close to the cut itself

Weldtite do ‘edgeless’ patch strips that you cut to whatever size. More flexible and seem to stick better than most patches. Only need a couple of inches square if that. Have run them for ages with no problems across various tyres
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254714183712?hash=item3b4e260020:g:M74AAOSwDjlfWO8f

Hadn’t considered ebb slippage. Especially just for trying out I’m not going to be splashing out on a fixed disc hub and I don’t fancy a v brake only frame as I’d like it to be able to run a disc for freewheel use

Amedius, I’d be interested yes, what might you want for them?

Big n daft I wouldn’t know was a decent offer atm. eBay may be fairer

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https://www.thebikelist.co.uk/images/models/Genesis/2010/iO-ID_10/main.jpg

Look horizontal from here ?

That all makes sense Bez

Big n daft I’m trying to remember is a mk2 aluminium rather than scandium? And that must be about the time they were offering them in pink? Are they a touch longer in the top tube than inbreds as well?
What kind of money might you want for it?

26” L/XL, my current horizontal dropout search includes, what am I missing?

On one inbred horizontal or swap out
On one scandal horizontal or swap out
On one whippet swap out
Horizontal swapouts to fit my 456
Cotic simple only upto 19” and issues with brake mount
Genesis io
Was there a horizontal dropout kona unit?

The braking issue is what concerned me. I can’t say any ebb frames are but I know some vertical dropout frames that are slightly angled forward which must be even worse

Wanting to try fixed but don’t have a suitable frame. Have an on one swap out frame but don’t have any horizontal swap outs for it

Ratherbeintobago yes, my query is whether under backpedal braking not having the freewheel on a fixed setup whether the wheel won’t try popping out the vertical dropouts in any instance. With horizontals obviously it has no chance

Not many horizontal dropout mtb frames about s/h but keep seeing a few ebb options

Based in UK
Would want to spend loads on them as they’ve had a bit of riding through them now and keep having ideas of swapping the bike for something with stiffer frame/fork/wheels. My general aversion to pedalling even more weight uphill has stopped me so far

Vorsprung secus looks fairly extreme an add on. Cost aside I’m thinking its a bit vulnerable stuck out next to the brake caliper like that ..

Had a bit of a read into the luftkappe, not compatible with the B1 2019 or 2021 C1 air pistons. I presume it’d still be worthwhile given I’d have to get another 160mm spring?

(Didn’t realise my original 150mm 2018 spring isn’t a ‘proper’ debonair either compared to my 2019 160mm spring. I could see they’re different but never realised the original is only sort of a half debonair)