Whilst changing the chain I also changed the chainring, from 32t to 34t.

Did you check/adjust the B-Gap after putting the bigger chainring on?

With £39 cassettes and £10 chainrings I used to run for a couple of seasons and replace the lot. But now I have a £150 cassette, so will try changing chains at .5%.

Looks lovely. Not fair, been like a misty Autumn day here all day.

Useful :) Currently chasing down a similar intermittent click. Some ideas above I haven’t looked at yet. My next thing to check is the front hub as mine seems to be from that area, although difficult to know for sure.

Saddle is all I change immediately, then tweak as things wear out. Still have stuff I’d like to do to my 12 year old hardtail. So the new Whyte had a nice Hope BB when the SRAM one gave up, that’s all so far. Know someone the other end of the spectrum – got a new £5.5k bike last month, and it has new wheels/brakes/saddle/bars/chainring/jockeys etc. etc.

but it’s the first fatality at the National for 6 years.

For the race, yes. Festival is still averaging 3 deaths a year though.

Must admit I’ve stopped watching National Hunt for the first time this year. Started watching first day of Cheltenham and switched off. Reckon it will go the same way as hunting, or is the industry just too large?

She was interviewed on the radio a few weekends ago, inspiring lady, bought the book off the back of it.

Hmmm. Speedy, fairly flat ride today and all worked fine, so seems to be when you put the shifter under load. Will keep an eye on it…

Ta. Searching…

lol, agreed!. But now and again you get caught out and Shimano lets me get away with it. No, no mech play at all.

Happened a couple of times yesterday. Mech doesn’t even move, shifter goes light – as if the shifter is saying ‘not doing that’ and lets go of the cable temporarily to save itself from my ham-fisted shifting. Just wondered if it was a feature?

Eagle is different to ride, isn’t it? Bit like going from normal gearbox to sequential.

I’m sure I’ve done this many times (Android->iPhone) just using a Google Drive backup? No need for anything else. <edit> Just googled – perhaps it was with older versions of WhatsApp and iOS.

@leffeboy so not really a backup, although MS I’m sure have impressive resilience in their cloud. Worst case if MS went kaput you’d be stuck?

I still use the same approach from my IT days. 3-2-1…

https://www.carbonite.com/blog/article/2016/01/what-is-3-2-1-backup

Losing wife’s music compositions would be a nightmare, so original on her Mac, backup to mechanical disk in the house, offsite mechanical disk and also cloud.

Inspiring stuff @xherbivorex, keep pedalling

@xherbivorex 240/155? Gee…

@iainc I’m having a blood test every six months at the moment. it’s no hassle.

Nope – although I don’t race so expectations a bit lower maybe, just get out on the bike when I can. Did a hard ride yesterday with an old mate and felt no different to 10 years ago (last time I saw him!) Recovery takes a bit longer (sore muscles today) but all good. Doing three decent rides a week at mo.

When I started on them I was all down about it. Quickly realised when I started asking around how many mates and colleagues are on them too.

45bpm resting heart rate here too, no idea if related. FitBit ranks me as ‘excellent cardio fitness for my age’, I guess ‘cos of low resting rate.

I’ve been on a very low dose since last summer. Been positive for me – was getting headaches, tingly arms/legs, generally feeling ‘not right’ so doc ran a full health check. Loads of cardiovascular and heart issues in the family (both sides) so it actually put me off biking for a while as I was concerned I’d keel over and be found in a ditch.

All the tests came back clean – apart from BP when they took it in the surgery, so monitored me for 24 hours and it was spiking, during the night too which was weird.

So, one pill a day, BP down to 125/70 and I do feel better. Do now need regular blood tests to watch for side effects, but no bad thing to see the doc regularly anyway.

Cinder Cone was midrange back then. I remember they held the price at £699 for a few years, so it effectively moved down the range as they added sus forks and components had to get cheaper. And then it went alu mid-noughties :(

Just found this old Kona newsletter tucked into Issue 1…

…has a bit of info on the 95 Cinder Cone in it…

I bought mine from a guy (Russell?) in Guildford Cycles, who I think went on to work for Kona. Remember he rode an Explosif, think he managed the race team?

Mud Kings coming off the hardtail today I reckon. Full sus has same tyres on all year round, I just use it a bit less in the gloop.

@plus one

Wow that 95 Cinder Cone brings back some memories, my first ‘proper’ MTB after a Spesh Rock Combo and a cheap Claud Butler, both that were nicked.

Your restoration looks v. true to the original build I remember – same XT rear mech, Richey cantis, gripshift etc.

Snapped the chainstay on mine :( Kona warrantied it with a 1998.

Grass not always greener. My Android works 100%, Bluetooth works great, even in the car where it connects to the car as a handsfree headset for phone and also to BT/FM adapter for audio streaming.

Wife’s iPhone 7 is a PITA on WiFi. Always losing data (even thought it’s connected to the same WiFi I’m on).

Have you tried clearing out the Bluetooth system app caches and files (storage in settings)? This helped me with an unreliable BT connection to a Fitbit.

Wife is a pro musician and she won’t touch digital, so there must be a difference. However agreed there’s a trade off with functionality and convenience. Had a few pianos in the house over the years, both grands and upright, and all the decent ones go for good money. Now have a 1970s Yamaha U3 which seems to be a benchmark for decent affordable uprights (I’m no expert!) Does sound lovely.

Went scouting for routes there with the dog a few weeks back. Very, very wet on the bridleways but looked like there were a few berms and jumps dotted around. Plan to take the bike back there soon to explore a bit more.

Not all of them are sat in the shed doing nothing. Think I get more laughs/mile from my 26. Great fun at Swinley Forest yesterday (other than the pinch-flats).

I have a few of their lights, front and rear, been pretty impressed. Much more expensive Exposure Maxx D was never right, always having issues.

Agree with the above. We’ve moved and had people doing a DIY move with multiple trips in the chain below, and it’s a complete PITA.

They save some cash – we end up parked up with our removal team at the side of the road until 9 pm. Once in, any idea of taking time to unload stuff in the correct rooms out of the window.

Then I get a bill from my removal folks for overtime. I asked my solicitor to recover this from the people who caused the issue – which they did.

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They put my MIL in her 80s through a driving awareness course after an accident. She was pulling out of a doctors car park and a delivery van pulled in, she swerved and ended up in the wall. She loved the course, passed with flying colours. Gut-feel the van prob pulled in a bit quick without looking properly. Not always the oldies fault.

Where had it been? Sat in someone’s reception for a few days?

That’s beautiful. Wonder if that suit is patterned like that to avoid looking too much like a seal?

Agreed, I’ll tape it. I keep my bikes for ages so worth minimising further damage. Funny, I said in the shop when I picked it up (summer), what’s the clearance like in mud, looks tight guy laughed and said I was old-school, people don’t bother with winter tyres, be fine.

…on a bike design for ‘British weather’…Whyte says similar, don’t they?

…So Strava ingests workouts from them in similar way as it does from a Garmin?…

I assume so – you add it as an authorised connection from the Strava side. Seems to work well.

https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918087-Fitbit-and-Strava?page=2

One other thing that password managers help with is making things accessible to the family if something happens to you. If you fall under the bus tomorrow, who’s confident their family would have access to what they need to sort stuff, get family photos etc?

…I think 2FA on non-trusted devices would put my mind at rest, thanks – I’ll have a further look…

It uses it everywhere I think regardless, you just have an option to remember me (i.e. stay authenticated) for a number of days on a trusted device.

Thing is, ridden the same way in the same conditions for over ten years on my other bike. Sure, the frame has many dinks and scratches but chainstays are fine. Many, many times have those moments when the rear wheel locks up due to mud clogging the area at the bottom of the seat tube, poking it out with a stick to get going again. Soft paint job on the new Whyte?

Using two-factor would help address the concern around ‘what if LastPass gets hacked?’. I’ve used it for a while, happy with the convenience vs. security balance. Was describing it to my Dad, he’s not interested – sticking with his easily guessable password that’s the same for everything.

https://lifehacker.com/is-lastpass-secure-what-happens-if-it-gets-hacked-1555511389

I got an Ionic cheap from the US. Seems to do all you say. Tracks heart rate, sleep, has GPS so I can track a ride and sync to Strava. Waterproof so you can swim with it. Also supposed to have a blood oxygen sensor that will be enabled at some point. Got a few different straps. Overall I like it. Oh and it does basic smart watch stuff too. Notifications, contactless payments.

Still have both, so one pic.

2007 P7, 2006 Revs, XT and RaceFace.
2018 T130 S, still stock

IMG_20190108_163055 by James Fisher[/url], on Flickr