Good good, I think I’ll wait until summer then to give any of that a go, and bring out the big big tyres. Sounds fun
Any idea if the incident with the singletrack staff member was anything to do with a magazine feature?
I only discovered and started buying the magazine at issue 32, so don’t have much of a back catalogue

Genesis Core (alu.) or Altitude (Steel) higher end models come with 85-130mm Rockshox forks. (I think the aluminium RS recon one comes in around £800)

32:20T? Sligtly out of the ordinary?

Sounds more like you’ve just got itchy feet for bike riding. Go ride somewhere half decent with the spark first.

My topeak morph is/was great when it worked. The main seal and the seals on the valve head end seals have worn out now though, and I’m assuming this is causing it to leak a little pressure and when upto 30+psi it gets a real pain trying to hold the pressure back with the handle

Before that, the foot handle snapped off, the handle retention clip bit (for folding up) snapped off, and you can easily hit your knuckles on the main body of the pump when you hold the handle when pumping

The valve still works though. I’ve had it this one (warranty) for 2 years, the one before wore out in 7 months ish or so. I need to find a main seal and valve seal kit for this one and I reckon It’d be fine after that

The white and purple one looks nice.
The rest are bad colours to start with and manage to clash very well with the purple

“If your descending then it’s easier to stop”

Pootle along do we?

Its not always simple to start again on some downs either, though thats the sort of stuff is unrideable uphill anyway

“8 sampsonia way, pittsburgh, allegheny, pennsylvania 15212?? “

Is it anything to do with being next to Hemlock Street?

The only real issue will be making it more difficult to bed new pads in properly, as its harder to heat up to the same high temperatures

“all them bikes would look good i they had thease things called GEARS”

They do, they just happen to have just the one (with the exception of the explosive, with 2)

Somehow I don’t think you’ve ever ridden(/been beaten uphill all the time) with/by a SSer

Where are you based?

These ought to give you an idea whats near one another, and just how far away some of them are:

Welsh Trail centres without purpose-built facilities

Welsh trail centres with purpose-built facilities

guide to scottish trail centres (not FC)[/url]

Can’t find anything comprehensive on england but apparantly this is the lot for the UK:

England

Aston Hill
Bedgebury
Cannock Chase
Chicksands
Dalby
Delamere
Forest of Dean
Friston Forest
Gisburn
Grizedale
Guisborough
Haldon
Hamsterley
Hopton Wood
Kielder
Queen Elizabeth Country Park
Rossendale Lee Quarry
Sherwood Pines
Stainburn
Surrey Hills
Swinley Forest
Thetford Forest
Timberland Trail
Wharncliffe
Whinlatter Forest

Scotland

Abriachan
Ae
Arran
Balblair
Carbisdale
Carron Valley
Comrie Croft
Dalbeattie
Drumlanrig
Fire Tower Trail
Fort William
Glentress
Glentrool
Golspie
Innerleithen
Jedburgh
Kirkhill
Kirroughtree
Laggan
Learnie
Mabie
Moray
Mull of Kintyre
Newcastleton
Pitfichie
Strathpeffer

Wales

Afan Argoed
Brechfa
Cli-machx
Coed Llandegla
Coed Trallwm
Coed y Brenin
Cwmcarm
Cwm Rhaeadr
Gwydyr Forest
Mach Trails
Nant yr Arian
Penmachno

Bike Parks

Balnain
Blandford Forum – UK Bike Park
Esher
P.O.R.C.

You can replace the bearings in the SKF bearinged Aerozine (from superstar) one quite easily

Worksop is in nottinghamshire

Even if it has been one ride (the casting pip thingis are still there) it looks like theres been a LOT of skidding. Either way, they’re ripped.

“just file them off and use shimano”

Do you have a deathwish?

me too

TF tuned or mojo would cost more than the cost of the fork!

It could be (although may not be) that they’re part coil, part elastomer spring. Given the cold at the moment the elastometer will have hardened up. My ’05 Marzocchi MZs were like this. Peeling the seal back with a screwdriver (unannodized stantions) with a flat screwdriver (I didn’t care for them by this stage) and pouring/forcing any oil inside would improve things a fair bit for a while.

Sorry, I don’t really have a solution

“Can’t believe they’ve both just restocked at the new price. “

One or both may have just bumped up their prices regardless (And be selling pre-price-rise stock). They’re still a lot less than the RRP

£170 F&R on 160mm 6 bolt rotors only from merlin now i think

“ODI Rogue are good in a not too fat, not too thin kind of way. “

I reckon they are quite fat, but very good for big hands, and lots of paddedness to keep down trailbuzz. Mine have been going for 18 months so far. I reckon they’ll go for another 6 months yet before they fall apart (they’ve started to peel a little). The raceface ones I had lasted for about 3months

At this time of year you may well be better with a racey mud tyre like a bontrager mud X 2″, that is unless you can live the general sketchiness of any of the above if you’re not just riding trail centres with them

I’ve got away with 2.1″ crossmarks from february to august before. Thick mud was an issue, but the speed was really good, and fine in rocky peak stuff. I’ll be trying them again when(if) it dries up a bit come april-may time

Did you buy it as a complete bike? Surely they should’ve taken it to bits/put it back together for nothing on warranty?
Or was it frame only?

“Wot Shinsplints said. It makes lock on grips redundant.”
Not if you want to take your single bolt clamp brake lever or shifter off the bars, or swap the bars it doesn’t. They really do make it easy peasy

What about the DT swiss ones where the lever doesn’t move? Are they any more secure than shimanos?
(though not going to help with not having to adjust the tension in this case

No, I know the adaptors are for 185 rotors which only avid do. I have them already. Thanks for the replies. Sounds tlike an SLX caliper will go straight onto a 185mm avid adaptor to run on a 185mm rotor. I didn’t know if the adaptor needed the conical spacers or not. Sounds like its the caliper that needs the spacers

“it’s got a long headtube (140mm)”

Thats not that long

I’m 6’2″
My specialized is 146mm, and the giant 155ish I think.
Both have 35mm of spacers on (Rockshox say 30mm is the maximum) (since changing to a short steerer clamp hieght FSA stem) and are both too low.
The specialized has 130mm revelations (as high as a fox at 137mm) and mid-rise 685mm bars as well. Only got a 6 deg. stem on though

(The trek (21.5″) is about 220mm, but has an uncorrected rigid fork)

A more vertical angled stem sounds like the only option (since you’ve tried high rise bars), else its 29″er time!

What bike/fork is it you’re having trouble with?
How long is the stem/wide the bars?
Is the seatpost an inline clamp, or is the clamp set backward a bit?
How far back is the seat clamped in relation to the seatpost?

Though technique will help the most, it could be that any number of these factors are not helping you here if in an ‘extreme’ combination

426 revs are normal (non OEM) stock

409s are the OEM ones (the only difference being the floodgate (how lock out the lock out is when engaged) adjuster requires an allen key)

Which ones?
If they are rockshox, the OEM ones have a different number (eg 409, 335, 327, 289). If you go on the website you can compare models to see what the differences are

Maxxis Crossmark 2.1″ in a 70A maybe. Its not going to do too well in slop though (but managable) – pumped up with 40psi of course

A road AND trail centre tyre is asking a bit much, just depends whether he wants speed for the commute (and straight line trails) or some knobbles for slop/harsh cornering/braking

” wont call it a “Killer Loop” as we dont want to spark another “phrases that I hate” thread “

I think I was the first to list that one, looks like it was long and tough enough to call it a killer
It when mbr call 15 miles rides killer loops I was referring to

“Try 60a highroller single plys”
Or save another 150-200g (per tyre) and get the kevlar folding 60a 2.35″ ones? and Ghetto tubeless if you don’t want tubes

Else if you want a UST/LUST version, then swap (at the least the rear) to a 60A medium compound version

“bonty acx 2.2 “
I got on with mine fine everywhere until I took them to Golspie/Laggan. They just seem to squirm and slide in fast corners. Visually they appear to lack cornering knobbles (the same size and number all over) which (in my mind) makes sense

Dialled Prince Albert should be spot on (a Dialled Alpine if they’re a particularly tall set of marzoochis – what ones are they?)
On-one 456
Pipedream Sirrus

Are you thinking new or S/H?
else some of these might come in S/H in budget
Cotic Soul
Orange P7
Genesis Altitude 853

Can’t think of anymore steel 5″ ish travel HTs

I can sort of see where he’s coming from, but its a bit of a flawed opinion that you have to be a posh toff to spend money on anything slightly out of the ordinary.
In theory it can be inexpensive, but it seems shiny things get the better of ‘us’ and ‘we’ start to miss buying things. If it plays a major part in your life then why not?

“Who is the lad on the blue Inbred?”
I assumed it was the kona hoss featured on the cover of issue 33?

Nice pic doug, the bike shadow on the rock looks pretty good

Yes, saves going down a road hill to come back again and quickish. Shame about the gates though.

Over the A66 (from durham) so keswick/ullswater seemed the obvious (nearest) choice

steed – do you really ride a horse?
rig – its not an oil platform (unless its actually that gary fisher singlespeed)
sweet, man, dude, stoked, nailing it, pinning it, killer loops, epic rides – when they’re just a day ride, anything followed by ‘lite’,
Attempting to grade non-man made loops/rides under man-made trail classifications. Just use real words. Saying its a black grade (because its rocky) surely puts people off getting away from trail centres (though maybe thats a good thing?)

I do use ‘to clean it’ though, and technical which are both pretty silly really.

According to RS’s site, the 20mm maxle lite is available on all of them (SL, race, team)

Still sticking with maxxis, you could try the ignitor/high roller inbetween tyre, the advantage? In a 62A eXception version? or 60A maxxpro