@stevied I don’t think you’ve really grasped what’s happened here. I suspect the company will have been sold by insolvency specialists. Any proceeds from this will be used to pay creditors, in a very specific order. As the new owner apparently has no connection with the old ones (it’s not unheard of for the original owners to buy back the assets of a bankrupt business, but it is fairly rare, and doesn’t seem to be the case here) it’s hardly a win win situation if he were to give a discount to a disgruntled customer.

JP

People who are out of pocket need to contact their CC company for a chargeback or Paypal. From my experience, if you’ve used either of these payment methods you should get your money back. It may take some time, though. I don’t think it’s appropriate to expect the new owner of a business to compensate you for issues with a company for which he has bought the assets post insolvency.

It is quite common to buy businesses in this way (and sometimes prior to insolvency). It is very difficult to start an online business from scratch; an established business has many SEO benefits that often outweigh the negative reputation side effects.

So let’s put the pitchforks to one side for the moment.

JP

Unless you’ve ridden a Fox 36 or a Lyrik and thought ‘this is a bit flexy’ I really can’t see why you’d want to go for dual crown forks on a bike that’s not a full DH one.

Chris Porter may harp on about this sort of stuff, but he’s a fairly big, fairly heavy guy. For people like me, who are around 65kgs, dual crown forks don’t offer any real advantage unless they’re on something with 200mm+ of travel, where the extra stiffness is needed.

As an aside, Pink Bike’s obsession with taking pictures of bikes hucked to flat is very weird.

JP

@Ramsey Neil

First, most countries that regularly use referendums have a threshold majority set at, say 55% for any vote that seeks to overturn a status quo and is effectively irreversible.

Second, I think it’s perfectly sensible to have a second referendum, based on the fact that we now have a better idea of the options available, rather than some nebulous promise of gold bar shitting unicorns that the Brexiteers were promising.

JP

Charger 2 damper is £200 in loads of places online. You can fit it yourself. Change the airspring for a 2019 one and you’ve basically got a Lyrik for £240. That’s got to be cheaper than selling and buying a new fork.

JP

@billyboy If you think Rees Mogg is fighting against the ‘establishment’ then you’re seriously deluded. Rees Mogg is as ‘establishment’ as anyone I can think of. He’s an Old Etonian FFS, not Che Guevara.

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My mistake – it was Trinity College.

JP

Friend of mine was in the same college as him at Cambridge. He was as odious back then as he is now, apparently.

Unfortunately he is my local MP. Anyone who thinks he is a diligent constituency MP has obviously only ever seen issues presented to him that conform to his own interests. He is entirely useless if presented with anything outside of this.

I suggest that those who still think he’s OK go and have a look at his voting record. I’m not particularly partisan with politics, so I thought I’d initially give him the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately he has an astounding ability to vote, with relentless consistency, in the opposite way to any decent person, regardless of their political persuasion.

JP

BBC produces hardly anything I want to watch these days. Eastenders is, like all soaps, a pile of shit.

JP

Some misinformation on here. Grind is important regardless of what type of coffee you’re making. Apart from the beans themselves it’s the single most important factor in making decent coffee.

The problem with threads about things like this is every home user thinks they’re some kind of expert. I’m not saying that I know everything there is to know about coffee, but I have worked in the coffee industry for several years and can separate myths or pure nonsense from fact.

If grinders didn’t matter for filter coffee then there would be no reason for almost every speciality coffee shop to spend a couple of grand on an EK43 grinder (I could certainly have done without having to fork out for one when I had a shop). But they all do, because the difference in the quality of the coffee made when using one is demonstrably better than all of the alternatives.

JP

The grinder is the most important element in determining coffee extraction, as its ability to produce consistently a suitably even grind is how you are able to make coffee taste decent.

At the cheap end you get blade grinders that just chop the beans into random sizes. This is bad because you:
a) have little control over grind fineness (in simple terms a finer grind will increase extraction by increasing the surface area of the grounds that are in contact with the water)
b) have grounds of massively varying size, which means that you’re getting a mix of under and over extracted particles.

As you go up in price the grind evenness gets much better. This means you can brew coffee at higher extraction levels (which leads to greater sweetness and complexity) because you aren’t getting so many grounds that are outside the size range for your ideal extraction.

Below the £100 mark you’re better off getting a hand grinder with decent burrs, as the additional cost of the electric motor will result in significantly worse grind quality at the same price point.

JP

What sort of riding? Hardtail or full suspension?

JP

Not sure what people’s problem is. Singletrack isn’t a charity – running a forum costs money. If you don’t want to pay then don’t pay; if you don’t like the ads then don’t use the forum.

I’m quite surprised how poor other bike forums are; the main forum I frequent – SELOC – which is a Lotus related forum – is way more active than any bike forums, which is weird given how niche it is.

JP

I’ve got some Deore M6000 callipers for sale for £20 for the pair. If you could find some cheap levers you’d have an inexpensive setup.

JP

They really don’t cause arm pump unless you’re doing something very wrong. I always wear mine (Nukeproof) – don’t even notice them after a while.

JP