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Great film, many years ago I used to know the family it was based on. Great folk’s.

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Was Gregory’s girl a true story then? I never knew that.

where I grew up Gregorys Girl and Outlander. Where I stay now includes Trainspotting, World War Z, Fast and Furious 6 and others.

I think it looks like a crack in the HAZ of the weld. Is that another on the other stay?

Vitus are good value and well put together hardtails- should do the job for you. I’m in the process of stripping one down and selling the frame as I don’t ride mine enough.

That’s like asking who has one pair of shoes that can do all. No. One for the mud, one for work, one for the dancin etc

A few of the ‘merkin youtubers ride the ripmo’s and they love them. Would like to throw my leg over one.

also bookmarking

Not been to wheelcraft for a while, need to go back for a visit to get that unique shopping experience 🙂

Me. I wanting new/rim/hub/spoke fitted
Al. What you looking for
Me <describes>
Al. I can get them in, but i have some nice rim/spokes/hubs up in the loft go up and have a look
Me. OK, <Makes selection>

Me- When will they be ready?
Al. When do you need them?
Me. Next weekend?
Al. Should be ready by then. Give me a phone.

Me on phone. Hi is that Al?
Al….Hello…….long pause… silence
Me. Hi Al, is that you
Al… Further long pause…. It might be, whos asking
Me. Its about my wheels, just checking they’re ready
Al. What do they look like, I’ve lots of wheels.
Me. <describes wheels>
Al. Aye they’re ready, just pop in.

Arrive at shop, and as usual a load of folk standing around talking to Al.
Al. Hello. Where you travelled from today?
Me- Glasgow
Al. YOu must be starving, do you want beans or a pot noodle, help yourself to coffee
Me- I’m driving
Al- You’ve put on weight since the last time. Then proceeds to talk about Australia, Foundary, Where you working etc for the next 30 mins before asking ‘anyway what can I do you for?’
Me- I’ve come to pikc up my wheels
Al- What they like
Me- <describe wheels>
Al- Righto, I’ll work on them in a bit, YOu must be starving, do you want beans or a pot noodle, help yourself to coffee.

Another person walks in shop
Al. Where you travelled from?…. Falkirk…YOu must be starving, do you want beans or a pot noodle, help yourself to coffee

COntinues for the next 2hrs 🙂

West End based, but most directions out of Glasgow are well served by cycle paths. North out of the city is my go to.

I’m in, just finished day 2. It’s dificult not to rush ahead.

ordered one in Aug with 8 week lead time and chased it up mid October. They couldn’t give me a new date and were very vague saying that it could possibly be another 2- 4 weeks before they start.

I cancelled at went elsewhere.

Hope they get things sorted out with family losses, mails, sickness, material deliveries etc

What does Elbry ride now?

Never mind the Bollocks
the the infected
Nick Cave no more shall we part
Lou Reed Transformer
Tom Waits Small Change
2nd Coming
Led Zeppelin III
eels Beautiful Freak

to name a few

Second Cathrovision, i like his dulcet tones and he comes across as a genuine guy.
Yoann Barelli for his mad as a box of frogs videos, especially ‘Into the gnarr’ serious.
BCPOV is ok
BKXC/McTrail rider, I can watch with the volume turned down as their hoops and high pitch laughing can grate.

Get fit with Natasha is always a good watch.

nice one Colin!

In order of adoption for me:-
V-brakes
Headsets
Index gears
SPDs
Suspension fork
Disc brakes
Lock on grips
Rear suspension
non-square cranksets
Speed link
Dropper posts
LED lights
and more recently that wee button on Sram rear mechs for removing the wheel.

Trickers Bourton with Diante sole, been good for the past 6 years.

Devinci Spartan

Nice.

Like my old Muddy Fox!

Day 1 Pink Floyd and Rack & Ruin Dunkeld. Rack&Ruin was superb my favourite trail of the trip so far. Roasting weather.
Day 2. Scooby doo, Hong Kong phooey and Yer Maws Erse. Dusty and Laomy. My favourite trails of the trip so far. Roasting weather
Sitting in the Indian in Ballater and doing Heartbreak Ridge tomorrow.

Scotland is awesone

Scottish Highlands road trip- top ten MTB rides.

I asked a similiar question a bit back

thanks for the suggestions, some great suggestions there.

agree about videos flattening out the trail- this one still looks bonkers. On his other videos Yoann talks about line choices etc- with this one he advises not to ride it if your not comfortable with the qualifiers. Insane trail ridden by a loon! Great video and awesome rider.

Looks more like her stem or handlebars collapsed to me.

I thought that as well-

I have had mine for just under a year, and as a serial bike changer, I cannot recommend it enough. I use mine for most things, from a gentle pootle, hike-up- a- ben, coast to coast and riding on/off piste in the Tweed valley approx twice a week.

I guess the best thing I can say about it is that I never think ‘i wish I had brought another bike’ ie. I’ve never came to a downhill bit, techy climb, genteel pootle that I’ve felt under or over biked.

Devinci Spartan would suit you Tony

one of the best mountain bike videos 🙂

25mm gorilla tape from B&Q for a £5

Uzbekistan is an amazing place- however i made the mistake and went in July when it was a balmy 40 deg. Good thing was all the tourist places like Bukhara and Samerkand were empty and I managed to get amazing photos. Also spent a couple of days in the mountains close to Tashkent and was an amazing place.
I think the new president is making it easier for visitors, but i think you still have to be registered at a hotel. Cash is another challenge- many Uzbeks dont trust banks or plastic cash and like dealing in money.The exchange rate is something like 8000 Som to $1 USD so people carry around full holdalls and there is only about £50 quid in it 🙂 USD is the black market currency, but you may get searched going into UZb for dollars and searched going out for Soms, as you’re not allowed to take currency out.
Plov and Uzbek bread mmmmmm

My friends family stay in Tashkent and her friends husband has a tourist company run from the Uzbekistan Hotel in Tashkent, they are extremely helpful and if you’re looking for any information I could get in touch.

Thanks for posting Rich. Inspiration for my summer adventure.

iirc the Prince Albert was essentially the same geometry as the Morning Glory but in steel, and the Alpine was the equivalent of the Kobe Ti.

I could of course be misremembering as I was mostly drunk in those years

The PA was the same MG, the Kobe ti was the same as a Litespeed Kitsuma and had a very short tt. The Alpine was low and long (well was back then)

Dialled bikes were popular here back in the as there was a huge following for steel hardtails and DB/Mike were good to deal with and cheap prices. I had 2 MK1 PAs, an Alpine and a Kobe Ti.

Still got the Kobe Ti on the shed and have MG built up as a light weight ‘gravel’ bike

I only met him a few times and he was a genuine top bloke. RIP BJ

I don’t know why there’s a lot of posts commenting on the weight of the ortlieb bikepacking gear? Is it really that much heavier than similar offerings from Apidura or Alpkit etc? Also it is waterproof rather than weatherproof. I suspect some of the comments are based on comparisons with ortlieb bike luggage ie. the stuff that is made out of lorry tarpaulin, rather than their bikepacking gear. I’ve bought a lot of Ortlieb stuff to do the NC500 and a C2C this year and it was awesome.

I ran the seatpack, handlebar bag and accessory pack and it performed brilliantly through torrential rain, mud, shit and tears. I ran an Alpkit frame bag for the NC500 because my Ortlieb 6l was too small, but the Alpkit became saturated after a bit of exposure, but to be fair Alpkit never claimed it to be waterproof. Only criticism of the Ortleib framepack is that it is a single zip, therefore a single space and can get a bit bulky. Also the single space means that it is harder to locate things. Whereas the Alpkit had two zips and a divider, that made it easier to locate and organise. When it’s pishing of rain and you’re cold and wet, you want to be able to set up camp as quickly and efficiently as possible.

For the OP, I think the 4l would be ideal as you don’t need the two zips. Check out the Lomo bag, it is only £23 and looks well made. I’m thinking of getting one for my winter hardtail.

My review of Ortleib stuff:-
* Handlebar bag- Can’t fault it. Stuff inside dry as a bone, handy webbing on the outside for holding jacket or sandals
* Accessory bag- as above. Works really well with the handlebar bag and is good for keeping all valuables in and you can quickly detach into ‘man bag’ when you stop for breaks or take into tent.
* Seatpack- it extends a bit out back and depending what you put in it you may get the ‘happy dog’ effect. I stuffed it with all my lightweight stuff like clothes, sleeping bag etc It worked well as long as you thought about how you load it. The webbing on the back is pretty handy too for storing waterproofs etc. The air release valve is a pretty cool feature. Also, because of the shape, it acts as an excellent mudguard.
* Cockpit bag- It’s the only bit of kit that i’m disappointed with. The plastic moulding on the bottom means that it only works on compatible frames. My steel adventure bike was too thin and I had to use extra strapping to stop it moving. The zip is not that accessible normally and even less so with extra strapping holding it down.

‘ if there are many other mature gentlemen or lady members on here’ there’s no young people on here. Or mountain bikers.

Welcome, good to hear your enjoying the MTB buzz

I had a few bottles of Erdinger after riding the Golfy on a hot summers evening and it hit the spot. Furstenberg is okay if you can get a hold of it.

oops- what a diddy!  Still it still looks a bit of a bodge and £30 odd quid for a couple of ‘torque caps’

Always enjoy his videos and kinda like the fact that he rides an unfashionable brand/geometry/ whatever.

I received mine in May and have ridden loads due to the great summer.   It’s a bit of a ‘swiss army’ bike in that it is good at everything, however you don’t really notice how good it is until you compare it to what you could do on your other /older bike. (I recently owned a Devinci Troy, Banshee Rune & Spitfire and numerous other FS over 30 years)

For the amount of travel, it is an amazing climber especially on techy stuff- my lungs/heart give up before the bike.  Descending is a hoot- I wouldn’t describe it as super plush, but it seems to work better the faster you go.   Its a kinda of neutral bike where you don’t have to think about things, you find you just do it. Eg steep descents, techy climbs

As for all day rides,  I completed a C2C bikepacking trip on mine and the biggest day was 85 miles off road and was super comfy the whole day.

Try and get a test ride as the sizing is a wee bit ‘inbetween’ in comparison to other bikes.  I’ve ridden large frames for 30 yrs of MTBing and I went for a XL orbea- although I think I would be just as happy on the large.

I had a test ride on the Mondraker Foxy RR and I think the Foxy felt marginally better on some descents, but the Orbea was the better climber and is quiet (see Foxy review on front page).  You wouldn’t be disppointed owning either though.

Epic year for weather and new bike riding. Top rides this year (so far);-

* North Coast 500 bike packing on road- adventure bike

* Coast to Coast Fort William to Aberdeen off road mountain bike

* I was managing to rideTweed Valley 2 or 3 times a week and got a bit blase about riding Golfy/Inners and GT off piste, so highlight was an after work blast at Yair with the local trailbuilders. Honorable mention to Thrunton as it was a change.

‘The key thing with gravel riding is that it is an alternative to road riding, not an alternative to mountain biking’

This for me.