How much longer is the bolt? That’s how much good thread you have. To get full strength from the threads you’ll typically need 2D of thread engagement (so if a M6 bolt, you want 12 mm of thread engagement).

Unless the new bolt is much longer, it’s Helicoil time.

carbon frames have metal BB threads

The OP has a carbon fibre bike, and a press-fit BB. I only have experience with two bikes in this combination but they had care carbon BB shells that were bare CF weave on the inside surface.

I used carbon grip paste, worked well. Some types of grease (not all) supposedly can cause issued in carbon fibre.

What have you changed recently? Or fiddled with?

Is the noise a regular frequency when it’s present? Does it change with pedalling cadence?

First thought is chain routed incorrectly or rubbing on the derailleur.

Don’t replace it now, wait until next year when they introduce the new saddle clamp standard, which is 32% stiffer and 11 mm lower profile.

Or 2 years later when they make another standard after realising people don’t want stiffer saddles…

I’ve seen the same chap at multiple points on my commute through Newcastle – from anywhere between Denton, up to South Gosforth. We do share a wave most times, it’s nice to be nice. 🙋‍♂️

Just buy a whole new bike and enjoy it. Within 2 years whatever you buy will be obsolete – the manufacturers will have made all new standards so that you can’t upgrade and will have to buy a whole new bike next time, whatever you do.

Just needs some antivenom.

FWIW we can’t help you without pictures.

The track to Machrie standing stones isn’t very long and might be worth attempting with a reluctant cyclist. You could ditch bikes and walk the rest of the way up to the stones if needed.

And the cafe at Lagg is great. Opposite end of the island but keen cyclists and they’d be keen to share knowledge on riding on the island.

Thanks Folks

I’ll ride Gwydir next time I’m in the area.

‘deglas was a bit dull. I only had a little over an hour so rode the black out, skipped the jump line and picked up the blue to get back. I could be critical over the trail, yes the black is a bit tame foe that label, but it just doesn’t use the terrain to get any steep sections of descent. Still, it was better than not riding.

Some cracking on-trail stuff at CyB, we did the fist half of the Beast, followed our noses down a fun little off piste we spotted then retreated back to camp to drink off the hangovers.

I think I’ve managed to find a way in!

Make sure you report back and let us know :-)

Llandegla is on my way to Bala with minimal detour (Newcastle – Bala). If it was much more I’d have to sack off the idea of getting a ride in at all.

Monday could be anywhere but one of the group might want a hire bike rather than a borrowed hardtail…

Aye the contours seem to indicate I’ll not find much steep, but if fun is easy to find by using the main red/black routes then that’s great :-D

A quick look at the G160 and I reckon you’ll be fine. With the shock mounted on the top tube, there ought to be plenty of strength in it.

Have fun and happy riding with your wee one, it’s great 😁

p.s. If anyone in the North East ever wants to borrow our MacRide for a test, I’d be happy to help.

Ok, when a rider is on a bike the weight goes through three contact points: handlebars, saddle and pedals. there are load paths designed to transmit these loads, eventually through to the ground.

The forces that each tube is designed to take depends on the bike and suspension layout but typically on a hardtail or road bike with skinny tubes, the tubes are significantly going to react axial forces (tension and compression). If you were to stand on the middle of a long skinny tube, it will break easily as it doesn’t have much bending strength.

This same principle applies to mountain bikes.

A mountain bike frame will have more strength – it may have
+ thicker tubes
+ suspension forces acting on tubes in a transverse direction, so the tubes will have been designed to transfer a bending load (unless you’re a sick engineer)
+ crash or misuse load cases

which will all mean it’s more likely to cope with the forces from a tube mounted seat.

However I hope this all makes clear why I consider the MacRide solution to be superior – the additional loads are being applied through the designed contact points. :-)

Agree, put your foot down for a repair, replacement or refund.

A beautiful foreshadowing of our special relationship when Europe gets fed up of our shit and we have no friends.

apologies, I thought that “shortgun” was just a term for riding in front.

Looking at the Shorgun seat – no, that’s not ideal. As an engineer I wouldn’t load up a frame like that without knowing the properties (diameter, wall thickness, material) of the frame it’s clamping on to, the weight of the passenger and being confident in the installation (is it clamped on to both top and down tubes, solidly enough without slipping and soft enough without crushing?)

I’d not use that except on a sacrificial bike without more knowledge or testing.

not convinced that loading up your steerer tube is more “right”

the weight from the rider’s hands goes in to the handlebars and through the stem, just like the passenger…

To choose between the two, I mean, the shotgun isn’t cheap (£120)… The MacRide is a bit more £200?)

The stirrups on the MacRide are great – keep the little one’s feet planted and secure. She’s not going to topple off due to inattention.

Edit again – more info here (not my content)

The best front mounted bike seats for older kids

Yes, they’re not all designed like that.

We use a MacRide. you put a special headset spacer under the stem, which is clamps on to, the other end clamps on your seat post, so all the load is going in the right places.

I had our little one on from 2 years old, making sure she was capable of holding on and had the strength and patience to go riding with me.

I’m unfamiliar with the weeride, but that’s different beast, suitable for smaller children.

Security may easily decide they don’t like the look of them and refuse them, leaving you in a very difficult situation.

Just stumbled across this map, while confirming that Vertigo (La Chaux – Lourtier) is the one I was thinking of. It was. Like Stu says, it’s not hard. Jackass (Chateau – Cries) is hard.

Is suspect you’ll need to do lots of speculative shopping for find a well stocked bike shop. I wouldn’t necessarily trust that buying from the same brand will produce a good result, unless they actually make their own stuff.

Do Charge/Fabric make grips?

It’s a real spread round here. All marques, taxi and school-runners. Urban 4×4’s and granny wagons are all terrible. Between the sense of entitlement, disregard for signalling and looking, then the willful risk-taking and punishment driving….

stay safe out there and keep your wits about you.

Looks nice, much like the Ground Effect merino/poly hoody I’ve worn to bits (seems to be discontinued, which I a shame. My Mrs. wore hers non-stop of 5 years and replaced it last year).

Very versatile and comfy, gets worn on and off the bike. I wear mine as an outer layer if it’s nippy and dry.

there have been some really in-depth trail shearing threads for Verbier in the last year, have a google.

The image from kayak23’s video looks familiar too 👌

In NZ anyway, Grade 1 = Green, Grade 5 = Black???

well done, puts a new spin on your username too 👍

can you post your review here for posterity?

dealt with by a 3rd party

hmmm, really? like a verifiable 3rd part review site like Feefo or TrustPilot? In fact, are any of those immune to the vendor diddling the reviews that are published?

The only car I’ve driven that had auto stop/start work very well for the way I’d be taught to drive (just like gonefishin describes above).

At the front of the queue? Leave it in gear with clutch down and handbrake on – ready to move away.
Not in the front of the queue? Take it out of gear and handbrake on – engine stops.

Given the queues of traffic standing on their brakes that one passes on their bike, I don’t think many people at all drive like this.

Anyway, the stop/start worked ok. I figured the cars were designed for it and why not do just that tiny bit to reduce idling pollution?

I’ve been doing similar in Draftsight, which is a free version of AutoCAD (2D design CAD).

Again, it a piece of software with a steep learning curve but I use AutoCAD at work so it’s not too bad.

I can imagine that Sketchup is a better too for home use, I only haven’t looked in to it because I’m comfortable using 2D views and couldn’t be bothered to learn new software.

We’ve needed a branch in the last two years for:

Opening a child’s bank acc and making payments in to it for cheques etc. from relatives (it’s quite restrictive)
Getting a mortgage

Has he been a named driver on anyone else’s policy? It would be worth asking the company that policy is with if they’d offer a deal, say 1 year NCD for that clean history?

If he has absolutely no history then uh, as above.

Medicine: decent pay (once through Uni) and scope during training to push yourself in to any direction you want. Maths and physics-y? Go towards Anaesthesiology or Radiology.

Maths: real world applications for degree educated mathematics seems to be academia, finance or Starbucks.

Engineering as a middle ground? Shorter training period than medicine, more useful than a maths degree (although your first year should be very maths heavy) then you get to make stuff and break stuff.

MNPR = Monday Night Pub Ride?

Sorry, not coming but for some bizarre reason this realisation popped in to my head yesterday.

same rubber as FiveTens basically

There’s a large range of “Stealth” branded rubbers in various compounds. The pinkbike review of these boots/shoes had some helpful info.

I hope this doesn’t result in highly educated volunteers such as doctors etc. not wanting to cover events.

Could easily be a real issue if someone wanted to get lawyer-happy with any volunteers. I suspect though that the Docs will end up educating themselves and that the race organiser will make efforts to keep the doctors informed, so that they don’t put off the pro’s from coming.

Thanks for the info scaredypants. I can’t say if any of the NZ doc involved were GP’s (we all one Dr. Jerram is not) so can’t comment on whether they would have been likely to have come across that. All we know is that they discussed it, they concluded “not” or “probably not” and no one remembered to check afterwards.

I can absolutely understand how the UCI have reached their conclusion, I’m just aggrieved that it’s to the detriment of racing and my opinion of fairness and sportsmanship.

/edit – I didn’t explain some of my earlier comments well. On these races, you can not get by with a St Johns ambulance parked up on the forest road or a retired GP stood by their car – the doctors have to be capable of riding the entire course safely and efficiently with their kit.

I have the ankle protect ones. The sole is nowhere near as grippy as my Freerirders but overall I like the boots. I would buy them again at that price (£60) but not the £110 that I paid.

Size wise – I had to go up to 8.5, I normally wear size 8 Merrels, 8 or 8.5 Shimano. Fairly narrow, which suits me. They’re light and not very water resistant.

HTH

I took 6 weeks parental leave when my Wife was finished her mat leave but using the holiday accrued (so one of us was getting paid at a time!). We took our 10-11 month old little one to NZ to catch up with family and friends and hang out.

It was great.

So if you want to, at Whatever age you choose to take some time off with your little ones, just feel happy to go and do it.

GL&HF.

There’s a lot of falsehood being peddled and accusations being thrown around so it’s hard not to jump in to heated debate in defence of the Doctors involved.

However there’s a a few things worth noting.

The nature of the backcountry races in NZ is such that you cannot e-bike between stages on forest tracks or roads. The NZ enduro stages are extremely technical (think hard Golfie tracks, slippery Grizedale roots.

The doctors involved are volunteers taking holiday and weekends away from family to be involved and support the races in NZ. They are not supported or trained by the UCI, they take their own, medical kits and ride their own bikes around the course. They’re not “race doctors”.

I don’t know where they stay after each days racing at the NZ Enduro but it’s quite likely they didn’t have reception for a prolonged period.