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We had a whole bike race[/url] indoors round our way recently.

GW – Member

is Jedi doing basic arithmetic courses now too?

…since when has conventional arithmetic had anything to do with the bike weights bandied about on this forum? 😆

What will it be? I am trying to imagine 2 front ends and 2 steerable ‘front’ wheels. Like that Tyrell f1 car with four front wheels.

that is puuurdy 😀

you’d think a decent and largely sensible company like Charge could manage to spec a seatpost you can actually use properly though wouldn’t you? 👿

(their own ‘chopstick’ seatpost is a different design and would be fine with that crazy seat tube angle, shirley they could have found room in the build budget for that?)

oh dear God.

I recommend World of Warcraft Al, it is alleged to be just as time-consuming but much much safer.

Not one capital letter in there Carl. I liked use of ‘yestereffinday’ though.

Highly ironic indeed that FTPT has given us a bitching fragmented coalition government from opposite ends of the political landscape, and yet somehow with their stoopid lefty bleeding heart voting system (tounge firmly uin cheek here BTW), the Scots are about to get a single party majority.

Well done SNP 😀

Last 2 rounds of general and local elections have had me vote differently between coucil and MP.

Plymouth city coucil (often labour except for last time) overlaps south west devon (massively safe conservative seat) parliamentary constituency a bit, so many non-conservatives felt compelled to vote tactically for lib dem in our constituency, but vote labour with their hearts so-to-speak for the council ones. I wonder if this is the case elsewhere. And I wonder if it would be under AV. 😕

You need to look at whether the frame is 100mm travel cos its a park/street bike or because it’s a 100mm xc bike with no gears. I really wouldn’t be expecting a simple, inbred, io, love/hate etc to like being jumped and dropped.

Not slot dropout (sliding dropouts, best of both worlds IMO) and not light, but if you are 6 foot or less then an identiti mr hyde would be proper good. You’ll certainly have a harder job snapping it than any of the ones i mentioed above. And the large size is 17″ with 23.5″ top tube for actually being able to ride it any distance too.

for that money, yes.

a mate’s juicy 3’s went on for 2 years without a problem and then suddenly the levers leaked and pistons pumped out. Mrs Julian’s have been fine for 2+ years, nice and grabby and never overheated, didn’t even feel much sharper after I bled them at 22 months than they did before, which for a dot 5.1 brake is pretty good going. However, often uneconomical to repair when seals go (at least you can buy spares mind!) and whatever you do stay well clear of them (including the levers) with anything like gt85 or *sharp intake of breath* wd40 as this knackers the seals both in levers and calipers. They are also a right faff to bleed and require a particular bleed kit which isn’t always the case for other brakes.

Have you looked for shimano at circa £100 a set? No spares but very reliable, easy to bleed (like a car, basically) and the mineral oil they use doesn’t absorb moisture and go spongey, so won’t need bleeding unless you’ve actually damaged something.

To be fair, the first 2 bits of TJ’s advice are absolutely spot on. About the most sensible I’ve seen him in a couple of weeks 😆

I forgot to mention the lad I went to poly with who had to get completely naked to crimp one off.

…known a few folk (professionally) who were further along the autistic spectrum than the average stw-er who also did this. Or required a bath/shower to get their hoop ‘into the mood’ so to speak.

I thought glupton was going to do it with his kiddy trailer. 🙁

Although surly only Broken Pipeline is cheeky?!

😆

…and the rest! Although the rimwrecker is now properly a bridleway, it wasn’t until a couple of years ago. Bombholes etc is on ‘access land’ now (again relatively recent change i think) but letter of the law says that for access land we have to stick to the bridleways if we are on bikes. All the fun/remotely singletracky bits of the lopwell dam route are (on paper at least) cheeky too.

That said, I pick my times to ride, and I’ve only ever been challenged about any of the above near the bombholes (fence hopping involved) and by the legendary ‘log man’ and his wildlife-scaring husky-a-likes in Cann. Oh and Chris the ranger a couple of times. If you haven’t been told off by Chris you aren’t trying hard enough.

NB, all steve’s routes have a considerable amount of ‘cheeky’ in them. But the middle one, if you were to do it, would be Aaaaaaaace. 😀

Also Max Darkin’s ‘mountainbiking in the south west’ book has several good and 100% kosher routes on MBR style pullout maps. Good investment if you are new and have no riding mates.

Also just tag along on a group ride on here, crispybacon and trailmonkey often post them up. If you are fit enough to do the 1st and 3rd routes steve posted up in the dark and in 2-3 hours, then join in the tuesday night Yogi rides.

….imagine if there is only a 35% turnout but 55% of them vote ‘yes’.

Will the ‘no’ campaign disappear in a puff of logic?

[edit- ooooooh spooky ^^^ 😕 ]

In light of recent enormo-threads, this build will be a real disappointment if no actual spoons are bodged on with glue involved.

TINAS, are you actually buiding a bike, or just taking it out the box, putting the wheels, pedals and handlebar on and removing the reflectors? 😉

All the good riding spots round here are made or massively altered by man:

Local FC woods (Cann, Bellever, Haldon etc): mostly conifer/fir plantations in nice neat rows.

Dartmoor: used to be covered in trees, mostly chopped down for buildings and ships, landscape since turned over and over in extraction of tin, lead, arsenic, copper, china clay, peat. Bit like an industrial wasteland but with grass on the top.

Gawton DH: mining area and forestry, too steep to get the trees out economically so not actively forested.

Tavi Woodlands DH: Spoil tips, mines and forestry.

…and so on…

Anecdotally Hustlers are particularly difficult to get the bearings out of.
I bet kaesae has done one, email him and he might have some tips.

GW trying out his ‘racer’ look in the mirror at Aldi. 😀

It’s good practice for old age: when your sack hangs 2 inches lower than when you were 35, front to back is definitely more practical.

GW, I ask because a top-end full face bike helmet is maybe 3 times as much as a top end xc/road one. And a top-end motocross one (I understand some wealthy/strong-necked/also ride a crosser riders use these) is goodness knows how much. I wondered if you were more or less thrifty for a full face helmet. It looks as though you might be the same: how many did you get for your £200?

Very inexpensive poorly ventilated, aesthetically non-pleasing, oddly-fitting but nevertheless ‘meeting safety standards’ full face bike and motorbike helmets are available too, but not in tesco.

GW, how much have you spent on full face lids?

FWIW I have typically spent £40-70 on both types.

In answer to the original question,
-Fit
-Comfort (most of us will have much fewer helmets than we do shorts, gloves or even cycling shoes.)
-exceeding minimum protection standards
-looks

So pretty much the same bar the protection bits as we would for shorts, gloves, jerseys, shoes and so on.

Aye, watched it last time round, what a lovely series. 😀

I did my first ever trail centre and my first ever race on verts. Aaaaaah, the memories…

Nowadays, 2.0 Mud x or 2.21 UST nobby nic on front and something lower profile like intense system 2 or sb8 on the back, had this all through the winter really. Occasionally for muddy races I will put a 1.8 mudx on the back too. All manner of big downhilly tyres on the Bullit too or intense system 4/cc2.25 if its for longer/less downhill.

I’ve got a pair of ‘non-pro’ verts in the classifieds for a tenner if anyone wants a look at what the fuss was about. Weighed them for postage purposes, suprised how light a relatively tough 2.3 wire bead tyre came up.

Spud, what do you get for being called ‘up’ but not ‘out’?

One of the reasons I no longer do my old team leader/deputy manager post is the on-call ridiculousness that goes with it, and the pisstake changes to on-call pay.

In the mental health areas of NHS, dealing with it over the phone, taking more ‘positive risks’ and not reinforcing the helplessness of the patient by going out are not rewarded financially at all. If you go out to give someone extra valium or admit them to a hospital bed (£300-700 per bed per night depending on the unit/ward) you do get paid. (believe me from experience it is far easier to do the bit you get paid for in this case than the bit you don’t get paid for…. 😕 )

I would just quickly add a piece so the top mount was a triangle, then you will be ok.

2 spoons then 😉

The bottom mount looks very nifty though.

And yes bb7’s are truly ace and a match for many hydraulic brakes.

Is that a 140mm rotor Al? If so, good. If not, would it mitigate against or hasten premature failure?

Plymouth is full of military buildings.
These are ugly but absolutely enormous (battleship plus plenty of headroom in each one).

Dungeness sound mirrors:

Maunsell sea forts:

*boom tish*

Hmmm, your post would suggest that it the bike shop that removed the brake posts when they fitted your disc brake. I would start by riding (very gently!) back to the bike shop, showing them what has happened to your fork and asking them to sort it out. I can’t believe a bike shop would do something that daft. 👿

mine arrived the other day, seems very nice indeed for £40 but not for £140.

CRC have now added a nore to the description about how only one version comes with spacers. Mine (silver) came with a 2.5mm one not the stack of them illustrated in other colours.

It also only came with the one brass shim despite the instructions recomending you add or remove the second one to get a balance of ‘well sealed’ and ‘not binding’ on the upper bearing cover. Having ridden it, it is abundantly clear both to me and to other road users (!) that I do need the other/missing brass shim as I either have loose headset or noisy squeaky one with the top bits rubbing/binding.

Hopefully that is the catch.

Anyone got a spare or two knocking around? No one online in UK seems to stock the brass cane creek ones (only found on ebay from USA with £18 postage!) It looks as though the nylon ones you get with hope headsets would work too.

SBZ/glupton would never mistake ‘yourself’ for ‘you’re self’ so it can’t be him… ❓

as above, and yes like that its unsafe. Ever seen martyn ashton do a trials show where his front wheel falls off and he does the drop on the back wheel anyway?

too many to mention, plus often re-registered under different login names too. Give us a clue?

I am 33 and mrs j is 34, 12-13 years service each: we both ‘stuck’.

…although even then, with the scrapping of ‘mental health officer’ status I am actually 1 year further away from retirement than I was when i started 12 years ago!

hamishthecat – Member

Are all these posts real?

yeah, whenever i go on Dartmoor there’s no one else there. These people must all be imagining what their tyres would be like up there.

fwiw i am a serial tyre switcher, and in 8 years riding up there in all seasons, I have only found a couple of tyres that weren’t just fine. (trailrakers and those terrible specialized roll-x iirc). Basically if its dry or gritty you’ll be reet, and if you get to a boggy bit it will be rubbish whatever you ride.

We didn’t buy one until eldest was 2 1/2, and wedged the little one in next to her (it was a snug fit despit havinf 2 sets of harnesses) when he was 10 months and just about walking IIRC. As i remember we put helmets on them to stop the little one pulling big one’s hair and to stop them boinking heads against each other.

Off road railway paths only for us plus trailer race at 2009 BBB. 5 way harnesses so hopefully they would have stayed put if we had ever tipped it over. Like Ton’s, mine slept most of the time!