Easier to get the rim you want in 32h, (?better resale value as well?) and if you buy the spokes from crc too they supply 36 so you get a few spares.

Random documentary on window cleaning on at the mo. £15 a house?? I hope my window cleaners don't hear it!

bigyinn – Member

Eh, article dated 23/8, but it happened after a christmas party? **** me those reporters are slow down there!

coroner's inquest was only the other day though, innit.

Yes you need a specific gxp bottom bracket. Hope do one and they also sell just the shim which converts their normal ht2 one to gxp.

enduro bearings via betd do a replacement bearing with spacer for £20-25 iirc, that makes it work with gxp. You either press old bearings out and new ones in at home, (big vice and assortment of sockets did it for me) or if you post it to them they will do it FOC. Ring them as it is usually in stock but never makes it onto the webshop bit. Mine has lasted about 16 months before just beginning to wobble.

if it doesn't exist, then that means i didn't wimper like a little girl as i spectacularly binned it on the first corner last time i didn't ride there. Yay!

Surf Mat is tagged in that classifieds thread with the gazumping platinum-coated £600 kiddy trailer. 😀

When i was at university I would write 'watford football club' (miles and miles away from watford by the way) in biro on every wooden exam desk I sat at. There were easily 20 different rooms you could sit an exam in, and anything between 20 and 250 desks in each room/hall. By the 4th year, I started finding 'watford football club' already written on an alarming number of the desks i sat my many finals at (coursework was a handwritten 'formality' in those days).

Is this the internet age equivalent?

bike riders are all fairly unspectacular, but we do have PLYMPTON OWL MAN. 😀 and indeed 8)

No linkage, but santa cruz bullit fits otherwise. Especially if you get a shock tuned to go with it.

molgrips – Member

Oh, and I intend to enter the XC race and try and beat as many people as possible. Is that wrong?

Careful now, there was a 'whippet' category last year for folk spouting that sort of talk. Best fit wide risers and wear baggies, otherwise they will out you as 'serious'. 😀

Tis a family event for sure: last year fatmuthahubbard of these parts only ended up entering 2-minute-lomg trailerbike races and just made sure his kids had a great time, and he thought it was well worth the overall cost for the family. (2 full adult entries and 2 kids in his case.)

The camping is way nicer this year for same money as last year too: kids playground at one end of the campsite.

I am considering feigning injury and just drinking/sunbathing all weekend this year. 🙂

can't be bothered to reply in full:
click here for my last post in the subject etc etc… 😆

the method he had apparently chosen to commit suicide was not a recognised or effective one.

damn right.

five or six bel airs in my cycling buddy network and they all creaked after a while. I dribble thick chain lube (finish line cross country at the mo) down the holes where the saddle rails go in and leave to 'soak in' with the saddle nose or tail up. bit of a faff but seems to work for a couple of months at a time. if it wasn't so comfy i would get a different one!

ahhh, share the love….

£40 dhl is intruiging top say the least: in a few years of hefty ebaying (mostly records and cds) I have only needed to spend that sort of money posting really large packages: in europe particularly Airmail and airsure services are ace and way cheaper.

dgudge, not sure how well you know the postal service over here, but if you are in Sweden, psychle could forget DHL at £40 and instead post the shifters to you by Royal Mail airsure which is fully tracked both in UK and Sweden, signed for and insured for up to £500 for about £12 (plus or minus £1 or so depending on the weight of the package) and it will take 3-5 working days to get to you.

Psychle, I know you are entitled to specify the shipping method if you hadn't already done so in the listing, but you will pay a few quid extra in paypal fees from the mahoosive postage (paypal is chargeable to the whole transaction not just the ebay sale) and lose even more money (to paypal) through this transaction than you feel you already have. You can do all this in 3 minutes over the counter of any post office. (don't forget to tell them the value of the package which add a further £2.50 to the postage price)

Hopefully this should help both of you out. 🙂

Ulitimately these are unimpressive and garner no man points, but in the typical stw demiographic at least, seem a bit unlikely:

I once recieved a pay cheque from the Gendarmerie (de France).

I have been friends with a nun.

I treated someone's gammy leg wound with maggots.

Oh I never 'got round' to doing my national service either.

i proper lol'ed at the beginning. You should see how ugly wassell's bike looks when you take the cardboard off though….

U31 – Member

Sorry Julian, i missed your post, no actually, i doubled back and walked home the opposite way, a mile extra but better then the possible alternative of getting beaten up or worse.

awwww, what an anticlimax. 😛

U31 – Member

Bummed a bloke.
Never will either…

never bummed anyone/thing!

Also never:
-set foot in a submarine (being a navy town most people here have somehow or other)
-sailed a boat
-kicked anyone in the knackers
-had a tattoo

I suppose that makes me sound a bit of a wuss really.
Being in paramilitaries errr, cadets as a teenager and a nurse in adulthood puts a few peculiar or interesting 'haves' in the list though i suppose.

I thought it was going to be the first line of a joke: "…and one says to the other…."

U31 – Member

Do you want me to tell you the story about me and 3 off duty doormen standing idly by while the biggest riot in history i have ever witnessed happened 100 yd from where we were standing, while bar managers begged us to help?

U31, is there any more of that story left to tell? I suppose you remember it so well cos you got your shoes all bloody stepping over injured folk on the way home?

[edit] lordy, TJ you have found your true opposite at last! I like to think that if you two ever met, there would be some kind of Physics Event and both of you would diappear in a cloud of subatomic particles.

it's how deep the lake isn't that is just as important imho. The higher you go the deeper you'll splash down.

If only glupton was here: he could tell us how he could write his name in tyre marks with it after everyone else has gone home. Or even between the remaining cars at quarter past five.

Oh, back on topic: no harm in leaving a friendly 'i just happened to notice' note under the wiper and see what happens after payday. Some people really just don't notice. I have a friend with a 10 year old 316 'compact' who probably wouldn't notice until about half a mile after one of the tyres blew out!

people want a bike thats worth a few grand for £300

£300 is obviously taking the pee, but the chances of finding someone that wants your bike in your size means that when they find you they will want to play you off against everyone else selling similar bikes, including folk who paid a lot less than full retail and don't mind sucking up a bigger percieved losss. You might have paid a few grand to build it, but….. I would expand your market (and indeed what you get in money for it all) by offering to split: I usually upgrade/replace frames, forks and wheels separately.

but don't spam the board every 24 hours

Only every 24 hours would seem to be a good starting point 😆

I wonder if people do use the search function on classifieds, I mean if you put up an ad with the right title but also a few other useful references in the tag list, would anyone looking for a frame like that actually find it? Or would they even bother looking?

I have had emails about stuff on classifieds 2-3 weeks after i posted it including a frame (which indeed sold to that truffle-hunting person for what I was asking for it).

bonus bodge points for use slotty screw, other points would have been available but you seem to have made it all the same colour 🙂
Do post up again after a few days to tell us how well it works.

oh my goodness, Godwin's law in 6 posts about a car!

funnily enough the uk framebuilder and Brooks came out really nice. And he did get a sunday ride with the cinelli bods even if he couldn't see their (offshore) manufacturing. CK and campagnolo bits were a bit like him just going to the warehouse and buying stuff though. They could have done some 'our product is unique and better' spin for him -they missed out on some really easy publicity there!

you either need specific brake levers or cable disc callipers as cable pull ratio is different for road and mtb brakes.

If you're after using combined shifter/brake levers then you'll be wanting road callpiers. If you aregoing singlespeed and already have cable brakes then new levers will most likely be cheaper.

It's always arrived next day via first class recorded for me, from anything from a tiny envelope of shock bushes to fork springs and bottles of oil.

Darcy, an eight year old shouldn't have a face book account. (their rules not my opinion btw! A quick google suggests min age of 13) Do her parents know this?

Dibbs – Member

I thought we lived in the UK where road distances are marked in MILES not some Euro babble.
Miles for mountain bike and kilometres for Euro-roadie-ing, innit? 😉

Possibly not just about weight of bike and contact patch: My wife is bang on about as fit/fast as me (but getting faster from one month to the next -ulp!) and she has a kona smoke. Despite having wider (slick) tyres and weighing a good deal more than my town bike (slicked up normal 22-32-44 chainset rigid mountain bike) she is faster and arrives less sweaty. I guess this must therefore be down to the size of wheel (29"/700c) and the larger chainset (28-30something-48). She says its a PITA to get up to speed compared to her mountain bikes but easier once you are moving quickly.

They are indeed compatible: I think only some campagnolo shifters take a different fitting. (It's brake cables that are diferent between road and mtb levers, and they often come 'double ended' so you cut off the end you don't need.)

I think it would cost a lot more than 6k to get them all off the ground for a display, but if they are anything like the Vulcan (my father-in-law works for/with them) they string several displays all over the country together in the same sortie: it only takes them half an hour to get from one to the next so as long as they make sure they've done a wee before they leave….

I want one that uses tilt sensor and gps to work out how fast and how gnar you are/aren't and then shouts words of errr, 'advice' and 'encouragement' as you mince you way down the big southern softy trails we only have here.

I am well looking forward to it. More 'bike practice' with 4 and 6 year old tomorrow.
Nick, if you're still around could you put your special BBB voice on and tell my wife to WTFU and take her singlespeed (its the one she rides the most here and its way hillier down our way).

How dare you clubber, that's ^^ the gnarliest trail on Dartmoor. Don't let these hardcore radsters come down and ruin it!!

Jesus and his angels looking over Mr Woppit whilst he sleeps?

oh, and who drinks the nichest beer.

giving it an extreme sounding name like 'The Dominator trail

yes, I regularly ride down/round 'the vasinator', 'the diversionator', 'the barbinator' and 'the badgernator'. These are all real trails with real names however named with a tounge in cheek at the 'discombobulator' phenomenom alluded to there. 🙂

FWIW I think its about being overbiked rather than a softy. Some of the downhills (yes there is such a thing in the south west and we even have a proper race series and all) that the local groms do on little jumpy hardtails is humbling.