junkyard- nothing to contribute to bearings, but the boat thing is a stuffing box. My favourite boaty term. :-)

my webmail always goes silly between round about 5 and 7 on weeknights. :?:

especially as there's so little to choose between the big two

apart from the stock! Everything I ever want to buy on wiggle is out of stock. Perhaps I am fussier but I don't remember there being such little choice on there a few years ago. Rims? yeah, about six in each size, etc.

been a week or so since anyone mentioned the 2010 Big Bike Bash.

+1 for the cube.
Also Line 6 now make 15 and 30w amps now that are well within your budget. I've only played the big size flextone and spider but if they are anything to go by then the little ones are well worth a try.

I am still good mates with a couple of rather serious Christians who also did Geology at university (where I met them). They had no trouble at all reconciling geology and particularly palaentology with their faith.

I once had the delightful experience of lunch with them plus a creationist type who'd done a talk to the university's Christian Union about how it was actually the Devil Himself (!) coming down to rearrange animal bones and hide them where scientists would find them, so as to 'make 2 plus 2 into 5' and make people doubt the Book of Genesis. That was an entertaining discussion to choke on my sprouts over. :D

£36 on tftuned for the fork crown lever for 09/10 ones. 8O
As yummy looking a fork as mine is, I might try disconnecting the return spring inside and then bodging something temporary onto the blue 'bobbin' to move it round by hand.

I like silver bikes. With silver components. Am I bad?

are they like a middle class version of the ROAB? I went to them once to accept a cheque they had fundraised for a ward I worked on, and it was a bit wierd. (it was a fookin' big sum of money though, very helpful!)

"Bar mounted switch so you could change power settings without taking your hand off the bars"

I had that on an old clunky lead acid 10w cateye. Can't say i really miss it.

mrs julian has identified it as a 'nubbin' for a frame pump. I am hugely impressed with her.

my mate used to sell t5's for a living and he'd advise you to get a t4! :D

Bushwacked has been spotted in B&Q, wearing a suit, cackling maniacally, sweating and buying an electric saw, garden waste bags, patio slabs and a spade. :-)

veeeery smooth…

I would have thought there is a small amount of money to be made undercutting the likes of BETD for nice quality bearings, and the right shaped/sized bits and bobs to press/drift them out and in again.

… oh but by way of friendly advice, do try not to call them 'rigs' on here, you'll get all the pedants upset. Again. :-)

mrs julian has just bought me carbon bars for christmas. Must tell her about that in the morning!

They may have a special oem version done up for them. Rockshox make other forks which are unavailable to buy except on complete bikes (usually in different colours or lower spec eg pike 302).

fwiw, yesterday I opened up my 09 maxle 120mm rebas and there were no spacers in them at all, (I put a 15mm one in to lower them.) The latest service guide on the sram site would suggest that there are no spacers in 120mm rebas and that you can put them in to make them shorter. It doesn't say anything about there being a 130mm option on the reba.

Jase_MK: Have you had a look at your pistons? I've had proper (as in came with the brakes) pads wear just like that from pistons not retracting properly in gritty wet rides.

Oh FWIW, I have had a couple of ss pads fall apart, some have been very average indeed and some are really just fine.

When razzing the trailcentres, I find letting 15psi out before each downhill and putting it back in again before each climb is just fab. :wink: :wink:

Actually rarely more than 30psi with tubes for xc and as low as (what my track pump says at least is) 10psi for dh if its really loose.

54% FAIL.
I might have a hunt for an online one for the motherland France and see if I do any worse there!

Just dismanteld my xc pro (?slightly longer top tube) and I was very happy with a 110 on it. It was a medium and I am an averagely proportioned 5'11". I suppose it depends if you are on a smaller frame with longer seatpost of larger/longer frame though.

you won't need chaintugs with the io as it has bolts built in through the dropouts to push the axle back against the tension of the chain. (I mentioned chaintugs earier cos you would benefit from them to singlespeed an on-one. Sorry if i confused things.)

[Devil's advocate mode] It's not like either team were/are going to go on and win the whole tournament though is it? [/Devil's advocate mode]

Can't believe this thread is 2 pages old and no one has invoked 'Saint Maradona' (as he is still known over there).

Dirt cheap bottom brackets, hubs, chains and headsets on an expensive bike, just so they can spec a big name rear mech.

my mates' 08 epics (2 mates, 2 epics) came with DT swiss rims and 240 hubs, but laced together with no-name spokes and crap nipples that broke at the nipple all the time (eventually had both back wheels rebuilt by the shop). They also had xt chainset, x9 shifters and an x0 rear mech with a deore cassette. Nice touch.

:lol:
bodacious!

Never ridden either, but one difference ss'ers seem to fret about is that the brake tries to spit the axle out of the back of the non drive side dropout on horizontal dropout/track-ended disc frames. Unless you put the disc mount inside the rear triangle like the newer on one scandal and horizontal dropout inbred. (and another frame which escapes me right now).
The wanga is clunkier looking than the genesis, but gets the best of both worlds as it has screws to push the dropouts back like trackends but the whole dropout moves (no need to reset the disc brake when you change ratios or the chain wears) and the dropouts are vertical so the axle stays put under heavy braking.

If it was my money I would save a few pennies more and get a 'new-shape' scandal, or get a brand new inbred and spend the change on some posh chain tugs.

Coupe 'Renaud'? :D

joli!
Alors, comment traduire 'Mullet'?

I am sporting a 'november beard' now if that's any use.

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whats the point? 20mm is for the burly crew.

that's pretty much what I used to think about disc brakes. And front suspension before that! Heavy and unnecessary. Of course they are a lot lighter these days and many/most feel the performance and lack of arm pump to be worth the weight gain. I wouldn't be suprised to see the weight penalty of 20mm getting smaller too, at which point hitting rougher bits faster in xc races may be worth it for more people.

Great great bikes, but in the job I do I really could not chain up a bike with 'handjob', 'stiffee', 'hooker' or 'shocker' outside my workplace.

Mind you, the stickers start peeling off if you even hold a conversation about jetwashing near one.

bah, double post again.

I am just about to: (ordered bits to build new wheel to go with a new fork today). I reckon based on the old fork and wheel I had versus reba team/xt/717, there is negligible weight increase. When I had pikes on a couple of other bikes, I found the maxle front wheel even quicker to remove than faffing with the 'lawyer tabs' on qr forks too.

looks more like Anthony Worral-Thompson IMHO.

Or Robin Cook.

'Schram' also sounds like eastern european vernacular for 'todger'. :D

my local chiropractic clinic has loads of rooms and self employed types in there. You could look about and try out renting a room first rather than going the whole hog with your own premises etc. Hot stone therapy anyone? :D

Nothing much synthy to contribute, but this may be my favourite thread ever on here! :D :D :D

Time to 'dust off' the vocoder emulator and make some silly answerphone greetings methinks…

Bowie – Aladdin Sane

I don't know him but I bought a frame from him on the classifieds a few months ago and it turned up very quickly, and very well boxed up if i recall rightly. Seemed like a friendly enough bloke if you can read that much into emails.

Oh fwiw I have lurked/read on SDH for 2 years, and posted maybe half a dozen times, other than 2 or 3 for sale threads (although I actually posted stuff i sold on there!). Does that make me a bad forum user?

I was in a TV shop the other day and asked about HDMI cables and the guy launched into the full sales spiel "they start at £25 but really you're best off with these at £60 because…."

"….I get more money for it."

My brother works in Comet and his best commissions come from extra bits like cables. He could sell you a telly for £700 and a hdmi cable for £70 and still 'earn' far more in commission for the cable than the telly.