pretty confident France won’t get anywhere close)
I’ll take that bet. 2014’s dark horses.

You heard it here first.

you’ll be eating them later?

If I win I’ll buy you some burgers ;)

I just got France in ours

£3 a go in ours leads to a juicy £60 prize for the winner plus lesser prizes for 2nd and 3rd. (pretty confident France won’t get anywhere close)

I’m in, riding solo at my first time at the event – should be interesting :)

My wife received a tin of Tesco Value beans for our 10th.

Swiftly followed by a recreation of her wedding bouquet and a necklace.

I was too much of a chicken to stick to the Tin joke for too long

I’m very proud of this one, taken a couple of weeks ago – more style and bravery than his dad already :)

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thats great, thanks everyone :)

No F14s yet?

Top Gun has a lot to answer for!

Jeez Phil is a machine! watching that trackplot for him over the last couple of days is amazing

Looks great – a nice understated bike :)

Looking at the track again it seems to be very much a straight line, going directly across ridgelines etc, rather than round them. There then seems to be a pause before continuing along the correct route. This may add weight to it being a tracking glitch

I really hope its an error with the tracking and not a navigational error. It would be awful!

Is it just me or does the tracker website show Phil Simcock going quite a way off route as he makes his way down the west coast?

Not sure if its a glitch in the tracker system or something else wierd

the only issue i can see with this is that then your stem top cap, and any spacers above the stem will have nothing to hold them on. leaving an open tube with potentially sharp edges waiting to be landed on.

if there is a way of securing the top cap then you’ll be fine

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No worries – email in profile, drop me an email if you think you might be up for a ride, that weekend may be a bit busy for me anyway

Cheers

apologies that map was out of date – here’s a better one

http://cms.nevisrange.co.uk/cust_images/2014/Nevis-MTB-MAP-2014-PROOF%20version%201%20NOT%20COMPLETED.pdf

There is definitley enough there to kill a few hours.

You can pick up the Broomstick Blue from the North Face carpark ( a few miles north of Fort William). THis trail is a bit of an out and back and will deliver you to the main carpark where you’ll have a good number of options. From the new green and blue trails, to the 10 under the Ben loop and the world champs XC loop.

When are you doing this, I may be able to meet up with you depending on availability.

edit – trail map here http://cms.nevisrange.co.uk/cust_images/donloadable%20forms%20brochures%20etc/witch-trail-map.pdf

I’m about to sell my Dialled Alpine as a full bike – 18″ frame

email in profile if you’re interested

looks fantastic, very inspirational

I guess I can post this here as well, my latest

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I was about to place an order for a 650b Remedy when my LBS swayed me with this, it had just arrived in the shop and I couldn’t resist! :) no waiting for me

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Dialled Alpine Mk2 – ticks most of those boxes, 27.2 so fits some but not all dropper posts –

Coincidentally ;) I’m about to sell my full bike – 18″ frame, U turn lyrics up to 160mm. let me know if you’re interested, email in profile

We’ll that killed the thread :/

A couple of rides in and I’m loving 1×11, my concerns about the steeper climbs (where I’ve been locked into the granny ring and the bigger end of the cassette) have been dispatched with ease, without resorting to the supersize 42 AT&T he back.

I’m still in the ‘new bike’ honeymoon period obviously but so far so good.

Big thanks to Nevis Cycles for sorting the bike and dealing with all my questions :)

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Had this for a couple of days now, still getting used to it but loving it so far :)

Same issue for me on my work pc, fine on iPad and iPhone though.

I’m glad it not just me , I thought works IT had spotted my regular visits to te site and found a way of encouraging my attention elsewhere

Northwind

I’m currently in a dilemma between the 650b and 29er remedy. As someone who’s ridden both you seem to be a fan of the 29er, were there any elements when the 650b was better than the 29er? Even in the tight twisty stuff? Or did it win on all counts?

Also why do you think the 650b was so much slower than the others?

Thanks very much

got mine too, as well a gorillapod like tripod and some compression base layers.

just got 2 Purgatorys from Nevis Cycles, also got 3 for 2 inner tubes as well which was nice, easpecially as they weren’t offically doing that part of the deal :)

trespass is great but a bit pricey, we tend to spend the money there for winter wear, for summer we go with Mountain Warehouse as warmth factor is less important

cinnamon_girl – Member

Could you not just pull it off for a few years?

it would keep him occupied, certainly ;)

sorry CG my modification of your post was how I read it at first

It is possible that there is a wormhole between my kitchen and yours, we had loads of wooden spoons and now just have one.

In the interest of balance and maintenance of the laws of physics, have you been continually losing jars of ground cinammon? As we have about 4.

nice looking bike :)

must be a 1st for STW as there are no nit picking comments

any updates on how it rides?

That link from DavidB seems fairly believable to my uneducated mind

I have a 135mm on one flip flop hub which I’ve been struggling to find a use for if you’re interested

email in profile

We’re getting one from Beaver Timber in Oban. They’re willing to remove the old rotten shed as well as installing the new one, which us ideal for me.

I’ve had two recommendations for them from folk in the trade so happy to trust their judgement.

If you’ve got time to wait there is the Shed Man in fort Augustus , but he’s booked up til August at the earliest so too late for us, he’ll do a custom build for you for a similar price to Beaver. He was one if the folk to recommend beaver as an alternative

@DezB – I want to know what happened next?

Alex

Looks great, was that a custom build or off the shelf?

I’m looking into a similar thing at the moment so any additional information you’re able to share would be much appreciated. email in profile if you’re able to

Thanks

Fantastic

Thanks for posting

nice one :)

had a moment to find the website of Da Marios

http://www.damario.co.uk/

on Gloucester Rd, apparently it was Princess Di’s favourite pizzeria

it also has a dancefloor downstairs if you fancy making a night of it :)