A matchmaker mount for a gravity dropper to attach to Hope Tech brake levers, please.

Birkis are amazing: they are w i d e and comfy and look great with trousers or shorts and make you look like a german or a hippy, and they are great and everything.

I’m quite keen on them, you see 😀

I think all this just tells us that someone, somewhere needs to companyTFU and make us all a proper gearbox. Come on, build it and we will come!

I’ve decided to go with braided hoses, non floating rotors, and matchmaker clamps. Much awesomeness.

Xiphon, that looks amazing, totally industrial.

The real question for this thread is why you’re buying Hope brakes tbh.

I fancy them because they have massive spares support, rebuildable. I like supporting small companies, especially ones that have an implicit support for long term use of their products, not throwaway brakes like others. I’m less worried about outright performance than I am about reliability. Are hopes a good choice in that context?

I reckon extra hose flexibility sounds like a genuine improvement. Only thing that puts me off is not having matching gear cables. I don’t think I’ve ever warped a rotor.

No, Kingtut, no need to be patronising.

I was expressing surprise that they charge more for these “upgrades” that apparently don’t do anything positive.

You may well want them, they will make precisely **** all difference to your riding, but your mates may well be impressed.

LOL.

So neither “upgrade” actually makes any tangible difference to the performance of the brakes, and indeed the hoses are heavier? What?

Obviously nowhere illegal, iTunes will do the job.

Go 1×10 😉

Seriously though, stop and have a look at the mech. The cage should be a few mm higher than the outer’s teeth when it is pushed to that gear. Once you have set the mech height, check the H and L screw. Start with the L, placing the rear mech in the lowest (1) sprocket at the back and adjust till there is no rub. In the highest (9) sprocket at the back, check the H screw. Then adjust cable tension as required.

Alternatively, MTFU and go 1×10. 🙂

Support workers and carers have very precise codes of practice about this sort of thing. This sounds very much like abuse. You need to report this to the council, or the Care Commission if the council do not take it seriously (which would be extremely surprising in my experience.)

I Hope you find a solution.

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It doesn’t matter if you take the job or not: we are all morally implicated in the destruction of the world’s ecosystems, as all us westerners use copious amounts of oil in every aspect of our lives. That needs to fundamentally change, and I’m afraid I don’t think your new job is going to sort that essential problem in the slightest.

I’m constantly shocked by the pro-motoring comments of some people on here. I mean, I know this gwj72 person is a troll, but it still shocks me.

A while back my Granda (just turned 80) had another heart attack while driving. He’s had about half a dozen heart attacks before, has reactions like a slug and drives everywhere faster than is safe. So he has this heart attack, goes straight over a roundabout, literally, and ploughs into a car, over a pavement and into a wall. Luckily, no one was hurt. About 1 minute before the heart attack, he told me he was doing 60 down one 30mph street, so he said he was glad it happened that bit later when he was going slower!

While talking about it with him, he said outright that he didn’t care if he hurt other people, he was going to get another car and drive. Thankfully he had his licence taken away from him. But really, that was about 10yrs too late.

If in doubt, assume the motorist is in the wrong. I mean, they’re the people driving the polluting, murdering vehicle that kills thousands every year and damages the air and lungs of tens of thousands more, of course they’re not going to card about something as trifling as “road law”.

Well JVR Property Management, like all businesses, should learn not to accept dangerous aggressive drivers, it obviously has a negative impact on their reputation. I know I for one will never employ their services now. 😉

I think it’s time for a revolution who’s with me?

I’m with you all the way sbr, we’ll be the vanguard! I’m pretty sure Elfin will join in.

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE MOTORISED!

i’ve seen a dog on a skateboard before.

Racist. 😀

Seriously interesting topic and great responses everyone, I’ve really enjoyed reading this.

A little while back I went to see Find[/url] and Home films, showing in Glasgow. I went with my then girlfriend, who was just getting into riding. While we both enjoyed the films, there was one section that stood out: a section of a couple riding in Mabie I think it was. This husband and wife were stressing the social, non-competetive, non aggressive side of riding. It stood out partly because it featured a woman (!) and because it was a refreshing change from the competitive crap and the drinking and one upmanship or most mtb media. It felt relaxed and fun.

That section was immediately followed by a load of crash footage from some race. I could of cried.

And yet…and yet how important is the truth of the situation? Obviously it’s reporting events, and the facts of the situation matter to get an accurate impression of what happened there. And yet…

That photo just pulls me in, makes me feel young and free and ready to stand up and riot and lie on the streets, and comfort those hurt by some riot gear fascists, to kiss and shout. The truth in many ways gets in the way of peoples’ emotions and stories, which is why the photo went viral with the wrong facts surrounding it.

*I’m going to get political here, sorry.*

Maybe our society should finally think about providing facilities to split cyclists off from the 1 tonne+ hunks of metal that speed around?
Maybe we could follow the lovely model set out by the Danes and the Dutch, the model that measurably improves road safety and creates nicer cities?
Maybe we could force people not to be so blasé about their driving, by introducing tougher penalties for motorists who break the law?
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*Sorry I got political*

Sharki, sorry to hear about your friends’ loss.

This thread on mtbr was a really interesting read for me. I think you wouldn’t have any trouble as long as you weren’t trying anything too rough.

Awesome. It’s wonderful turning peoples’ points of view around on themselves.

Top tip: most men only have one bone you’ll want to be jumping on.

Junkyard, I’m fully with you mate. It makes mr despair how car centric our society is that even cyclists hate themselves. I take solace in the fact that one day soon the whole automobile lifestyle will collapse and the fat and lazy will also have to cycle.

It will also accept tapered forks, which I would reccommend for future frame compatibility.

Stan’s Flow without a doubt. Light and wide, yet plenty strong enough.

I spent 6 months in India and a fed in Nepal about 4 years ago. India, as others have said above, is huge and you should not attempt to travel around it as much as you are, unless you are going for months and months. I spent a month in Varanasi alone, as it was so amazing. Nepal has a very different feel to india, quieter, easier, but amazing.

Dancake, thanks for that triangular scraper tip. The main tubes are stripped and looking fine really, it’s just the fiddly full suspension bits that I’m struggling with.

Update: frame looks sketchy as hell,I can’t get into the nooks and crannies at all, and I don’t know what to do now. 😕

Unfortunately, there is no answer to bad driving that allows for the continuing use of motor vehicles. There is something about being in an enclosed box, with masses of instant power and speed available to a person, that drives people temporarily psychopathic. Motor vehicles are inherently anti social. Various studies have shown that we can no longer communicate non verbally over 30mph. We lose empathy for others. I’ve seen the most placid, peaceable people get angry and frustrated in cars, almost every time I get a lift in a car the driver breaks the speed limits.

The problem is endemic, and only a full scale and permanent shift away from motoring will stop it. We need to reduce speed limits, increase enforcement of traffic law, raise oil prices, reduce parking spaces massively, pedestrianise urban centres: we need a real war on motoring.

But then I’m a hippy who rides bikes everywhere, what do I know.

Yes they do Kimbers. I love my Wah Wahs. Hurray for Kona!

Sore dreadlocks?

How come you’ve got the Easton carbon bars and I can’t find any for sale, Orange definitely stole them all. Not fair. 😡

Elfin, yeah Cannondale clearly like their powdercoating to last. I’ve managed to remove a bit of lacquer and the stickers underneath so far. The areas where the powdercoat had chipped have let the nitromors work better, and a bit of it has come off. I’m going to get some hardcore brushes and try and sand some paint off to help the nitromors work, but it’ll be quite a job I reckon.

Definitely post some pics up once its done Elf, or even what you’ve got so far.

Elfin: We’re in this together! I’ve spent the day frustrated that the paint on my Cannondale is still very much on! 🙁

Anyone heard about soda blasting[/url]? Reckon this would be a good idea for paint stripping? I’m doing my Cannondale one way or another.

OCB, that looks like a brilliant bike.

Magic link explained I reckon it sounds rather good, would love to have a test ride.

Is the Magic Link any good? What does it feel like to ride?