ooooh, I’ve never seen ‘backless’ IS disc tabs. I suppose as long as you don’t brake whist rolling backwards you’ll be ok 😕

*removes tongue from cheek* would there be any market for just the other parts of it? Shame seller couldn’t advertise it as such…

I’ve got one on the commuter’s back tyre (back always puncture 3-4 times more often than the front, invariably tiny slivers of glass, presumably from the bottle bank I have to ride past on the way to work). It works for that at least, only get them in the front tyre now!

there’s a custom made brandy balloon glass that fits right in there.

Happens a lot with apple products.

…i can think of a few bicycle frames like that too…

GW, there is a little bit of me that hopes he really did get air, what with his extensive list of legendary feats of stw yore. (is that really a word? you know what i mean…)

…and there is a slightly less little part of me that hopes he just put his wee ones in securely and gave them a nice ride round the woods, with bumps and forces akin to doing those big wide speed humps a bit too quick in a car. If I did that (ie get airborne) by accident i would properly bob myself.

does anyone know what happens if you get air in a car and trailer? Again, not something I have any ambitions on trying any time soon but i expect someone on here has managed it or seen it.

It’s very expensive. Just the compression damper and pushloc lever or poploc is £180, and then for the full blackbox experience you need a new rebound damper too.

I would sooner spend about the same money on selling that one and buying another, or a full service plus Push upgrade at tf tuned. The push upgrade is allegedly rather similar to black box. Or rather, the blackbox damping is very similar to Push damping 😉

I’d love someone to be able to calculate and publish the cost to taxpayer-funded public services of an extra public holiday. Both in ‘real’ money (ie I am working but getting time and two thirds instead of basic pay because it is a public holday, so I am more expensive for same rate and quality of work) and in lost productivity for non-emergency services, ie social services visits, outpatients in hospitals, routine non-emergency surgery and so on. None would be an issue without a public holiday and if they just did it on a saturday like normal folk seem to like to do.

what an awesome argu-fest 😀

a couple of thoughts for the more scientific end of the debate:

It is also obvious to anyone with more than half a brain that you wouldnt go full tilt down a rough bit of trail.

sbz, how fast did you have to go in mph to get air with a kiddie trailer at GT with your baby and toddler?

I gather the trail in question is well groomed, but how easy or not is it to get your trailer wheels to touch down as smoothly/gently as your front one did?

And who here has rolled a car but not a kiddie trailer. Or vice versa? Which is more likely? (I have never rolled either, touch wood.)

I am not being all high and mighty btw. I have never got air with mine but for my ‘bad cycling parent’ confession, I did race my then 4 year old daughter at the BBB. I didn’t crash but Juan did have some 10mph ‘clearance’ issues with her trailer and an eight inch high tree stump when he had a go. She described Juan as ‘strange’ and the ride as ‘bumpy’. 😆

The £53 is not the one you need: adjuster tool for 520’s is only a few quid.
this one here.

Oh and +1 for removing pedal and reinstalling with lots of grease. I was convinced my bb was on its way out from the apparent noise/location and it was just a dry pedal thread. You never know…

i knew an animal rights ‘activist’ with a timex ironman watch, always remembered it because it seemed so out of place 😕

if they are from the continent the brakes will be the wrong way round, non?

oh unless lapierre still use the flip-floppable formula, then the ‘distributor’ (ahem) just has to find the right size torx key to switch them over…

Don’t dare to suggest to Comrade TJ that a public service doesn’t work perfectly 100% of the time…

IT’S THE TORY CUTS, I’M TELLING YOU!

Yes trains are rubbish. I like them but try travelling in Europe by train for a bit and see how much better they could be.

No tory cuts possible to trains nowadays, since they privatised them last time round. Generally accepted however that the breakup of BR and the difficulty in getting numerous train operators plus railtrack to work efficiently togethr has made trains even more rubbish and expensive in relation to driving yourself to work.

johndrummer, your train commuting experience was undoubtedly all the more rubbish because everyone else had the same idea as you that week.

funkydunc, it all sounds pretty rubbish for you. No more ideas, but my bestesht wishes for your next few weeks!

mmmmm, faster acceleration also depends on:

-how fit you are
-tyre pressure
-how muddy/dry the ground is

One mate who has a set is very fit (as in he has a training plan and weekly ‘turbo-trainer club’ with these loons.[/url]) He uses mountain kings and has upgrade-itis, he would definitely say ‘faster’.

Other mate who has a set also has upgradeitis, doesn’t train at all and uses specialized ‘the captain’ and likes them for the tubeless/low pressure/no punctures thing. Not sure if he would say quicker than light-ish narrow xc rim, but certainly weight loss at the rim/tyre is better than anywhere else on the bike provided you are not doing 6 foot gaps and huge jumps to flat.

Ooooh yes 😀 -if you can afford it! Crest are wider than 117 so you get a bigger tyre profile for the same tyre, ‘hope hoops’ builds are often best value and by accounts on here (and my mates’ ones) are well built/tensioned.

Oh and if you get a pro2 front hub it weighs a smidge more than an xc but means you can change to a 15 or 20mm axled fork in the future for a £15 set of replacement cups/caps rather than a whole new wheel build.

yep 88cm is pleeeenty unless you have a downhill bike with enormo-wide bars. Happy building!

Peter, were you one of the ‘chosen ones’? I seem to have paid a tenner more than you for mine… Still, 70% off, mustn’t grumble.

How flexible would they be under these circumstaces?

Do you have kids?

If no, have a look at how much it would cost you to spend the money you would have spent on fuel (500 miles a week ust be quite a few quid) on a cheap-as-chips b&b walking distance from work, then ask if you can do flexi-time/longer days to cut it down to four days a week and three nights in b&b. Lots of our student nurses/doctors/OT’s do this as they often don’t drive, their training placements are so far away but not long enough (in months) to bother moving there. You will have absolutely no life for six weeks, mind!

As a rough guide, I have found 750mm just enough for normal size xc bars/frame/100mm-ish fork/160mm rotor, but if it was me i would be happier with 800mm and the option to shorten the hose.

What fork, will you be using headset spacers under the stem, narrow or wide bars and what size brake rotor may make a bit of difference too.

touché, gee 😀

blimey, 5mm is a lot of ‘tolerance’ for a manufacterer/reseller to disagree about isn’t it?! Depending on your hub flanges and number of crosses that could be 2-3mm difference for spoke length. Maybe the halfords mechanic is also struggling with this bit…

I doubt halfords will want to to try a set of spokes for size and then use a different length afterwards, indivivdual shops may well order in the number and size of spokes specially rather than having a load of different lengths in stock.

If the shop has the rims already, they could string a gear cable through opposite holes of the rim and measure the exposed part, repeat a few times around the rim to make sure it isn’t a bit egg shaped to start with, there’s your effective rim diameter. (Of your actual rim, regardless of the conflicting websites 😕 )

a very quick google (as in the first result!) reveals the ERD of your rim is 530mm. Dimensions for the hubs will be on the hope website or indeed any shop that sells them. Two minutes on the dt swiss spoke calculator would give you the spoke lengths.

I don’t know what your halfords’ problem is. If i didn’t have two small children whining in my ear about dinner i would work it out myself.

[edit] gee, ahem. 😉

Lordy I sound miserable there ^ don’t I? Sorry, I promise to post about bluebells and drifty corners for the rest of the week.

-working.
-trying to calculate how much the public holiday has cost our nhs trust (in real money, extra day’s leave for everyone and non-delivery of non-urgent services) in these times of great economic austerity. Paper napkin calculation so far is about half a million for a small-to medium primary care trust. God knows what it would be for a large acute/general hospital.

I’ve put my Summer treads on the bike too

that’s it, he’s cursed it. I’ll be putting my mud tyres on for monday…

Hairychested – Member

SRAM in Polish means I shit. Makes you wonder

‘Chram’ (pronounced with a ‘sh’) is slang for the male member in parts of eastern europe and caucuses, roughly translates as ‘pecker’ or ‘johnson’ depending on how american you are/n’t.

Kona also sounds like a very rude word in portugese.

I expect the somewhere in the world, some of the names of Cove frames are actually nice greetings you’d say to your nan.

slightly OT, or maybe back On Topic….
aren’t sram shifters really hard to fix?! I had a go once. My experiences:
1) there are so many variations in internals, even a couple of models that look similar from the outside vary from one year to the next. X4/5/7/and old X9 for example.
2) there are precious few walkthrough guides on the interweb for this.
3) you need three hands to put them back together at the end.
4) it always turns out to be that little piece of cast alloy right in the bowels which is unrepairable and unreplaceable unless you have some nice fine metalworking toolage.

I discovered the above failing to fix my own shifter without an internet thread about me. Thank goodness.

back on topic: I know someone that likes maple syrup with their bacon.
That is just plain wrong.

Next, from a multipack. I think my wife bought me these ones 😳 / 8) depending on your opinion on spousal underwear purchases.

…when a group ride of of 15 or so on 70% cheeky trails features people wearing the local club strip. 😆

One of my rules, that is (ie not to wear club jersey if cheeky)

Another is that often I stop to pat dogs and talk to their owners about their dogs. I don’t actually like dogs much but consider it part of the ‘It’s ok, I’m supposed to be here’ thing.

Oh yeah, quiet bike too.

My evangelical mother-in-law trotted out the ‘I don’t need breakdown recovery, I’m with The Lord!’ line to the RAC man at the motorway services; her engine died 50 yards out of the car park.

I think God wanted her to join the RAC y’know… 😀

I have the 06 version and with 105mm fork is is already prone to a bit of ‘wander’ on steep climbs, not that it would be a problem with nice switchy talas.

The letters stand for ‘Active Suspension Racking – Super Light’! This may give you a better idea of the ‘strong-versus-light/racey’ calculations that went into this frame. The front of mine is not exactly beefy and if you ride it like an all mountain bike, ie square edge hits and drops/jumps, you risk snapping the headtube off with 130mm fork let alone a 150mm one.

Get a 575 for your fork, or ride it with 100mm fork (36’s are well heavy if you are only ever going to have them set at 100mm), mine is well fun to ride at normal fork length.

You’d notice of your seatpost was 0.2mm too big or small, but cos the seat clamp moves inwards and squeezes as it closes, 0.2mm too big is not a bother.

oscillate wildly, 29.8 or 30mm usually for steel frames with 27.2 seatpost, alu frames with 27.2 posts are usually 31.9/32mm clamp. This is cos you have to make/draw the seat tube walls thicker for aluminum than for steel. 0.2mm difference is not much of an issue for a seatclamp but definitely is for the seatpost!

I’ve just replaced a 31.8 cheapo clamp with a 32mm salsa fliplock and it was a slightly tighter fit on the frame than the old one. So I would say yes you’ll be fine. Salsa clamps are looooovely, four in our household,

Someone is selling a nearly-new u-turn maxle black box motion control over on the classifieds for £400, I’d bite his hand off.

fatmuthahubbard off here won the biffers’ night race at BBB 2010 whilst he was about five pints into a good evening. On a singlespeed. I was sober and only came 3rd.

We have been on ‘free’ spotify for about 18 months i suppose: the frequency of ads is definitely less now, and as mentioned earlier, three quarters of them are now for spotify anyway. The ads for music do not seem to be targeted at all either…

I had these but navy stripes and Phaaaat laces, tan everywhere else and all gum sole. As a 19 year old circa 1996, I was overjoyed to never ever see anyone else wearing a pair except Damon Albarn. 8)

I also love rowley xl2’s, I have a tan/black pair on its last legs and would love some more.

Yours must have been an American woosh. 😀

In France we say ‘zoum’.

Grammar and spelling policeman. Actually quite a few people on here are too. 😀

…apart from the BNP. I don’t see them winning much and they are well behind the no campaign.

Anyone heard the ‘no’ campaign broadcast on the radio with the horse-racing commentary. (Lib dem horse comes third and still wins etc…)

I proper LOL’ed.

The way I see it is that we already have a hung parliament and a government formed from parties from opposite sides of the political spectrum, neither of whom got a parliamentary majority and are punting all sorts of things not mentioned in either parties election manifestoes less than 12 months ago.

1) the lib dems did talk about electoral reform/referendum well before the election, which is more than can be said for many other bits put forward since May.

2) what’s the chances of AV electing an even more mixed up government than the one we already have?

3) The notion that your local MP votes with the interests of his/her constituency is shakey to say the least. Yes, our (Cons) MP supports local individuals and writes letters in support of them if he sees fit, but in the Commons, 98% of MP’s from all parties vote with their party 99% of the time. Linky for the very few ‘mavericks’ in parliament.What are the chances of the wishes and needs of their constituents coinciding exactly with those of their party?

4) On the basis of there being so many safe seats under the present system and the unlikelihood of most of them ever changing, what’s the chances of more people being inspired to actually go out and vote because they think it will make a difference?