If you only have four hours, then an outward and back up High Cup would be the better option considering the season and the micro climate around Cross Fell. That said, you could climb from Dufton on the radar station road and descend into Blencarn from Tees Head if the weather is favourable on the day.

Thanks for the replies.

I had a small OTB and the handlebar embedded in soft mud. Didn’t actually realise the lever had snapped until about twenty yards down the trail and it was down-shifting, not up.

I had thought about an XT replacement as the break occurred at the narrowest sectioning the lever and the cross sectional area is very small. I appreciate the relative strength of alloy against carbon fibre, but think the alloy would have bent rather than snapped off.

I’m keeping an eye out on eBay for spare and repairs too.

What finish does this give? Do you have a photo by any chance?

Some good, practical ideas, thank you. I may consider this as a DIY job now.

Yes, there are pros and cons for both methods. I want to mount it flush on a wall which will be plastered. Hand tools will result in a wavey cut-line which will never be true. It’s a carbon frame, so I can’t grind back to a datum line.

*Pulled up in (insert trail center name) in his Tesla and carbon frame bike….

Mark these words for future STW stereotype scorn.

Been years since I’ve carried out any pile design, but: you mention uplift case, what magnitude are the bearing loads?

The piles can fail due to compressive fracture at the base and the rebar provides the tensile strength circumferential to the pile in the lower portion.

A19 between Sunderland and Teesside. A ‘train’ of cars in the overtaking lane. Lorries in the left.

Vattenfall were recently advertising a project engineer role out of their Hexham office. Feasibility study through to completion for onshore windfarms.

Mackem – Member
“gifted”? You mean given?

Eh? :lol:

I was given 500g of Vietnamese weasel shit coffee for Christmas. Very smooth and quite strong.

Saw these just outside of Darlington around 5pm. They were the same colours as a drop of oil in water.

Sorry for the poor photo, a very large black cloud obscured the view somewhat.

I was in a competitors office in Rotterdam last year. They had the works canteen clad with random scaffolding boards. It looked pretty good, very modern.

I built up a 14″ Kona fire mountain for my boy last Christmas. I opted to get a set of 24″ wheels from Superstar and kept the original 26″ for when he outgrows the bike, hopefully yo get another six months out of it. It’s a really good bike to ride, and his riding has came on leaps and bounds.

I only use the office maybe three or four times a week for anywhere between three and seven hours, so I liked the idea of having something that requires less maintenance than a log burner.

Thanks for the advice about the fuel evaporating.

Zip, are you paying around £2.60 a litre?

There’s my new buzz phrase for meeting bingo.

Thanks for the replies. Joined BC: tick. Will place the order later today.

Tickets to Fort Bill DH in June and four nights in Spean Bridge.

I stayed in Puerto de la Cruz during the summer. It’s at the foot of Tiede and there is lots of biking to be had. Ralph at MTB active is a great guide if you want to be shown the better trails.

Shandcycles,

Here is the listing on EBay:

Easton Haven

It states 10×135 and the drop out and ID share the same diameter when I offered them up, but I’ll check again tomorrow.

The rear came with an adapter for both 135 and 142 width. They fit the frame with no flex of the rear swingarm.

I’ve just placed the order with SS for the Superlight bruneep, but thank you for the offer. I would have taken you up on it too.

Brilliant! The ultralight one is in stock and comes in silver too. Top notch work STW!

CRC advertise the DT Swiss one at 33quid, but alas, not in stock.

Jessy being left behind by her owner scene? Floods here. Have to keep it together for the sake of the kids.

Shifter,

I thought they had simply used a stock image as the spec states 10×135, but is is just a standard diameter skewer, hence my question on here.

Jimw,

Out of stock! Which is a real shame as I’ve seen ordered a narrow wide chainring from SS today.

Thanks Hatter. I’d looked at the DT Swiss axle, it’s just I’ve received the Easton Skewer and hoped to finish the build before Christmas. That said, I have doubt in my head so will probably get one anyway before I ride the bike.

I’m sure Aldi recently did adult ski helmets for around twenty quid? Surely you will find stock of 1 somewhere?

They get fairly decent reviews considering the price point.

I’m not an otter spotter, I’m the otter spotters mate……

I have recently bought a timber building which will be used as a garden office from Hodgeson Timber Buildings in Cotherstone, County Durham, but they do deliver nationwide.

Very good price and workmanship and their design is well thought out to allow road transportable sections which the bolt together on site.

Thanks for the link rhayter, I’ll give them a ring.

Daffy, you are right, I assumed a good wheel builder would do all types of wheel and didn’t consider some may be better than others for different wheel types.

MTB, old school 26″. 20mm front and 142×12 rear to suit an Ibis Mojo SLR. I do mostly natural trials with the odd trail centre day.

breadcrumb – Member
Seriously, I can’t not see a penis.
If that’s her arm what is the pink bit at the top?

Judging by Chuckle 2’s forehead, the light above.

I beleive Chas Eagles in Sunderland have a repair service, or at least will take the lens and send it off for repair.

I managed to take a shot of one ‘over’ Teid in Tenerife earlier this year.

I owned one of these back in 2001 ish. Had to sell it to fund a business start up and with hindsight, should have kept the car!

This one is almost identical.

In the vast majority of cases, the “building” has been done for safety. I remember some of the earlier events where people were having the most horrific crashes because they were basically landing huge drops in powder. If you are doing drops on that scale, you need everything to be predictable.

‘Sanitation’ no?

The build up vids on PB had riders praising how much was left from last year’s builds. There are clear lines with berms built up with sand bags, huge rock cut outs to make a new line and edges of cliffs removed and rounded off to allow a new drop off route.

Would I even consider riding any of it? Not a hope.

My comment earlier applies. The sanitation allows for a smoother, safer ride, but hand in hand, this is means the ‘edge’ is now bigger and tricked which is dangerous, in a different way.

You could not do what the guys did on Saturday at the original Rampage.

Mike, I should have emphasised the word relatively more.

Redbull T.V. have a 40 odd minute movie about the recent Hardline event. All the interviewees (SP?) said they see a future in this type of event and it’s a way for DH to progress/evolve. One of the racers said it was harder than Rampage as you pick your line and ride it, whereas Hardline is a competitive race, with similar huge features.

I watched Rampage live and although it was a spectacle, the lines are becoming relatively sanitised which allows for ‘going bigger’.

It has a future, short term, but will be replaced by something else. Hopefully due to natural (or marketing) influences, not a severe accident.

dooosuk – Member
Why would you bond it yourself? Just buy insulated plasterboard in the first place from kingspan, celotex etc.

In my case, the insulation is within the depth of the timber frame and the plaster board is fixed to the face (flies over) the timber frame. And this method also allowed me to ensure no bridging to the external, 22mm thick timber cladding creating a nominal 25mm air gap.

*bond^

I’m currently insulating and then dry lining my outside timber office. I too only have 75mm within the timber frame so looked around for an insulation at 50mm to give an air gap between the board and the timber.

Arleflex Platinum

I intend to bind this to the plaster board with the vapour barrier to the outside, then fit the plaster boards to the timber frame. It has an excellent U-Value, even at 50mm.