You’re talking XT at £34 and XTR at £63.

Just pay that extra £29 and have done with it 😉

I have never put a bike in my car in over 40 years of riding…

I’ve got a roof rack too 🙂

All my 1×11 kit.

New brake levers, one shifter, rear mech, cassette, chain n ring

that’s Saturday sorted then 🙂

Torchy 🙂

Thanks for the help, I could get up anything on the old setup so I’m sure I’d have been fine on the 11-40 with a 32 on the front.

I’ve ordered the 11-42 anyway, on the grounds of why not.

Can’t think you could spin a 30 ring fast enough to stay on!!

mboy; yes that was the question, you just phrased it better.

My current setup roughly equates to an 11-41 cassette and I was wondering which way to go.

Ta

I’ve splashed out on a set of Torchys BK 7even. Apparently 3300 lumen with decent run times.

£80, but after a few runs using them they seem good value compared to my mates £25 2500 lumen ebay specials which die after about two hours without warning

Drop out of the woods, narrowly miss the swings and freewheel to the pub.
Sam Smiths mild is £1.30 pint in the Colliers Arms, Elland.

This. And you can sit next to the canal to enjoy it 8)

Just got meself a pair of Giro Terraduro. Vibram soles for walking, fairly stiff for pedaling and the cleats don’t hit the floor.

Liking them so far

Cheers, I appreciate the tips.

The bars on it are 700mm and it’s a 70mm stem. The handling is a little slower than my old bike which had 100mm stem, but which had a MUCH steeper head angle.

I’ll stick with it for a while longer, but maybe look at wider bars if I can’t get on with it.

Yep one ride, I’ve only had it two days 🙂

I’m dead impatient though 🙂

Yeah, Wilko we sound a similar build.

The post on the bike has no layback on it, but my knees in about the right place over the pedal axel as it is.

Could be it’s just a more modern setup than my old shed

I’m 5’11, but I have a “long back” compared to my legs. If they were the right length I’d be over 6′ easily.

So far I’ve only had the one ride, so about four hours on it

We camped on the hill above Cragg Vale on saturday night and walked down to watch it about half a mile before the Robin Hood.

Fantastic party atmosphere all day; the whole family had a great weekend.

Wobbled over to the “Hinch” to watch the end of the stage and for a BBQ/beer/sit in the sun watching the band they’d put on. Happy times 8)

Stood on the back of a flatbed truck up Cragg Vale.

Bit of a do at the Little Valley Brewery afterwards

Les Carroz.

Small village connecting into the Flaine area and very close to Geneva

Lotsa Froome lurve here.

That climb was incredible.

I lost my mrs at Gisburn, bit of a result.

Sadly, we found her near the café.

She’s a beginner and was okay on the blue run.

I did the two day NATS off road tour of the Peaks years ago on a fully rigid bike, on the second time I’d upgraded to elastomer front forks.

You don’t need much more than that. Hardly worth bothering 😉

New flags wouldn’t go amiss.

I’ve got 5/8 working at the moment (counting the whole family here), but I’ve only just taken the shock off the full suss this evening. Need a couple of new bolts and it’s good as new

New jockey wheels and pedals.

Sadly excited by them!

Does Steve Stanger still sort out the route?

Should be worth a crack. It’s for a good cause too.

49 now. I only ever see a HRM of the stationary bike down the gym, I have three types of workouts that last an hour. All three will get the rate up to around 170, and keep it there for varying periods.

I’ve no idea what happens on the bike in real life, but I loose my legs before my lungs.

One like this (still got the bike too)

I ride anything around here; there aren’t many tourists so you tend to just get a nod from walkers and fell runners. In the peaks/lakes/similar I’d stick to legal routes.

The only problem I ever had was with dogs was when a snarling bull terrier bit my front wheel and punctured it. I was too wuss to kick the bugger 🙁

It’s voodoo magic. The sag and air pressures stay the same whatever travel you select!!

Sram gripshifts. 1993 and still gripping and shifting.

My F2 ran discs for years using a fix like the one in your picture. It used a rejigged rear dropout.

I’m 99% sure I bought it through a Pace retailer, possibly Aire Valley Cycles, and that it was a Pace product.

If I knew where it was now, you could have it!

Pace with pace sus forks and magura hydraulic rim brakes; 22lbs.

I was a bit annoyed to find that the fluid does degrade with use. My Hopes needed bleeding after only 10 years. Tsk!

In laws – normal for them not to chip in; you were treating them.

Mates – that’s wrong. Just add everything up, add a tip, divide by numbers there and thats what they all pay

Gym then ride on Saturday. Blowing up a tower block in Sheffield on Sunday.

Halifax. Dead flat, don’t bother.

There used to be a group ride from VS Cycles, but I’m not sure it’s still running – you could ring them and ask.

There’s decent woods on both sides of the valley towards Elland, and from there you can get over towards Barkisland on several routes. Once there your options really open up in most directions.

Garage air hoses won’t work cos they use the pressure of the hose pushing on the valve to start the air – so it just pushes your valve into the tyre. You need an old style air hose that has a trigger if the track pump doesn’t work.

nbt: La plagne, tomorrow.

You sure? 🙁

Verbier in Jan, Tignes in Feb and Courmayeur in March. 8)

Paul, I hear what you say but am still a tart.

i’d prefer to give someone cash to do it for me TBH.