I don’t get all the aggro going OP’s direction, get a life you lot.

The great loss here is that the OP has been burned by this cockwomble and will be very reluctant to lend or share in future (and go back to lurking, which is a shame).

To answer the opening question. No, it should not need saying but depending on your assessment of the borrower’s character it might be prudent to. 🙁

Empty your pockets in to your carry-on bag. Leave nothing loose!

My invite must have gone missing in the post 🙁

what’s the problem with the race sport? Are they as porous as the old Conti Supersonics

Also wouldn’t surprise me if many companies made/fabricated/bought tens of thousands of pieces of metal for IS mounts and were surprised when the industry settled on PM calipers, leaving them with lots to use up!

Love my Lev, love the 150 mm drop. I have it fitted to an i-Spec LH shifter too.

Both are fairly reliable.

In your position, I’d be selling the Lev as you’ll take a much bigger price hit selling a 3 year old reverb. If you never double drop the reverb then do you really need the extra 25mm?

*waves*

I’m off for a pootle after work this evening and I’m going a bit quiet for a few weeks. I have some er, business to attend to. I work in Scotswood, so chopwell’s pretty handy for a quickie – I expect to pop over frequently in future.

I’ll try and coordinate a thursday evening with the Tumblers sometime soon.

gaz, PM passed me your email, cheers.

You have 2 options:

1: go to a shop, try on helmets until you find one that fits, buy if from there.
2: buy another bell from the cheapest source, as you know it should likely fit.

Option 3 (combining options 1 and 2) results in being hung, drawn and quartered.

wallop – I watched the women’s replay followed by the men’s replay last night.

http://www.redbull.com/en/bike/stories/1331745717143/replay-uci-downhill-world-championships-2015

Any additional info from you guys?

I’m half way between dbukdbuk and mcnultycop size-wise. 5’10.5″ and slightly long torso. I’d rather go up a size and drop the stem… or would I?

I would just go and sit on one, but Evans Gateshead only have funny sizes in and want a £60 deposit (refunded if you buy it) to order a bike in 👿 so I can’t get 2 bikes and and pick one without it costing me!!

Evans do offer a 30 day bike swap guarantee, but if I get one, there’s no guarantee that the other size will be too far the other way!

I’m going to have to get really nerdy with geometry charts aren’t I?

The difference form M to L is +15 mm on the ETT and +10 mm on the stem. You’re really pushing it if you buy a L and need to turn it in to a M 😕

The Brimstone Hotel looks the business….

Food at the Samling looks better…

Yeah, pushing the budget out a little for this trip. We’ve stayed at the lovely Howe Keld in Keswick before and I’d go back there if the budget needed to be a bit more modest!

I have the Fit 4 in my 34’s, it’s great.

I’m on a Fit4 34 also.
It’s an excellent damper

Old 34’s upgraded or the new 34’s?

Worth noting that the winter olympics in Sochi would not have been very cold, so using a vented TLD helmet would not have been a bad move.

In the end SWMBO said she wanted to ride the downhill tracks at Wharncliffe wo we went there. We did walk around the Hop Valley and I’m very likely to take the bike back for another trip some time, maybe even this weekend.

Walking down Jacob’s ladder, it did look a bit of fun on a bike and saw a group coming down (so I heckled appropriately). I assume it’s better to stay on the BW side of the descent to avoid the crowds on the FP? The bottom of the BW looks like it was less steps and more slope.

Just a waterproof jacket that’s big enough to layer up underneath.

More important (and specific) than ski jacket are trousers (salopettes) suitable for messing about in the snow, letting you keep feet dry and warm.

Thinking about it, on my main bike I’ve only used both types of 203 on the front and both types of 180 on the rear. I haven’t used 180 on the front at all so can’t really help, sorry.

SWMBO has the 180 on the front of hers and it is still pulse-y but I can’t say if it’s much better or worse.

I also like to keep it fair 😉 I haven’t ridden the shorty at all – one of my mates did and he loved it but it just didn’t look as purposeful as the Mary.

Compared to the HD, the MM has bigger gaps so it shouldn’t hold on to as much crud. They’d clear better than the HD as they have bigger gaps but bigger knobbles.

My 3C HR2’s were pretty fast wearing but not as fast wearing as the vertstar.

I wouldn’t ever suggest the Vertstar for a XC/Trail tyre though, maybe a Trail/DH tyre, which is what I sued it for. Road miles were not generally much of my rides in those tyres.

In conclusion, peacocks are only he male of the bird. Peahen is the correct name for the female and Peafowl is the species.

I used mine last winter, great round the port hills where it does get a little slidey in the wet.

Pretty draggy and did gunk up a lot in the clart. Mind, all of us did. Just the Mary was the worst hit as it was the knobbliest.

/edit – we all know NW rates the Shorty over the MM. I was running the SuperGravity carcass with a Vertstar front and Trailstar rear. Never wanting for grip and damn near puncture proof (well, I never punctured in 1 season).

I’ve used the ice-tech and the steel shimano rotors, 203 and 180 mm. They all pulse a bit. The judder is obv much more noticeable on the front thanks to forks being flexy.

Ask and Ye shall receive (he’ll hate me (more) for this)

BWD – I may try and pick that up. I got the Dales one and it’s pretty handy. However we followed one of those from the Lake Dsitrict guide last weekend and it was a bit…. disappointing.

At the moment I’m likely to end up following the gpx posted above – I’d love to spend hours researching starva and cross referencing it with the OS maps but I reallly haven;t got enough time free to do that 🙁

i can understand why some people find a go-go-gadget seatpost more useful than suspension

there’s a reason that suspension is known as skill compensation….

Am I allowed to post the video of thisisnotaspoon hitting the only rock in the middle of a smooth trail and going OTB? May I please?

Post office do get sniffy about stuff these days so maybe wrap in in something opaque!

I’ve always succeded with at most, some pliers. Give it all a good wiggle to get the grit and muck out from between the plates, then press the flats of the plates together, then press the links together.

Was there a titanium RoadRat??

jamesw – I’ll go look for some of those in Strava then? I’ve heard of The Beast, don’t know if that makes it any good. I have also heard of Jacob’s Ladder – but mostly as a good (really) hard climb.

Soliseven – cheers. a GPX is actually great s it means I can plonk the route in to ViewRanger and follow it on there 🙂

I have a 77 designs one. It was pretty expensive once including shipping to NZ. It’s not 100% effective so I’m also looking for a minimalist top & roller guide.

Not new, probably not a bad idea 🙂 I’m sure someone else has already made a product to sell.

I made a boot from an old neoprene chainstay protector – also worked pretty well. In fact, now I’m back in the UK slop it’s probably worth reviving it!

Grr, forgot to get around to this and now there’s no size M in blue left. 👿

I thought was green and she didn’t then she’d point it out, and that would annoy me, and I’d had a couple of glasses of wine and oh god I wish I’d never started this now

can someone who speaks German invent a word meaning “the regret of having posted a topic on the STW” please.

That’s so green it’s nearly Cambridge Blue.

Looks mint anyway.

I think one of the best things is for people to keep going there on holiday and poke money into their economy and not be nervous of heading there

Absolutely!

p.s. Absolutely not a master of any wheel size….

I think the pickenflick and the Arkose are about 1 kg lighter than that (of course those are catalogue weights with no pedals and likely hard skinny tyres…)

so yeah, maybe I should just go look at nerd over some geometry charts in detail 🙂

Are you not letting the marketing BS steer you too much?

Quite possibly. Without doing a bunch of racing I’m not going to figure out (or maybe I never would) how much a long wheelbase hinders a ‘snappy’ racing feel or the high BB of a CX bike for extra clearance feels less stable at high road speeds….

Where were you TheBrick?

Some folk may have gathered from my thread
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/another-quake-in-nepal
that I was there at the time. The mrs and I (1 x Doctor and 1 x Engineer) decided that despite our skills we weren’t actually best suited to be providing effective disaster relief. Yes there were a lot of folk out there ‘doing good’ but the government and reputable disaster relief organisations were not looking for more assistance.

Anyway, if you do want to help for the long term, there are many charities who work to provide with suitable sustainable, earthquake-resistant building techniques and similar.

I’ve asked friends and family for donations towards these guys
http://practicalaction.org/earthquake-resistant-demo-1
instead of wedding gifts.

Who are FW WC?

Fort William World Cup?

matt, that doesn’t look like the man-legend that is oneeyedwillie from the original owning with bombers burglary thread…