great read and pics – good on you. and good luck for the rest of the trip.

I would come along, proabably with a few other folk from aberdeen area.

as a place to ride, the two tracks are good fun, not DH bike teritory as they are far to peadaly to keep the speed for the jumps, 5 and 160 territory i would say.

cheers

Dave

Clarey – might want to bring your skis as well!

I live in westhill, would recommend out west as it is near the good riding and access to the mountains. and is good if you work south or north of the city where ever your work takes you.

Good on you for the job, give us a shout when about for a ride 07736 289 589. see if i can show you some new trails if you haven't found them all.

dave

When you do get here full time give us a shout. i am here for another 18 months or so.

who you working for?

Terry, he is my mate, but lives in perth OZ. so afraid you can't go and wind up Alpine. you started your grown up job yet?

think he was a bit annoyed cus he is a tart and they took a lot of paint of the mount, i think i see the point of the 'pre-empting' bit.

am sure the cranks will hide it anyway. Was probably just the shock of your new frame having more taken off than you imagined, still in the protective stage of bike ownership

thank you all.

that was my main question really, do they need to face the whole thing for the BB, or should they just do the circle around the BB shell and leave all the paint on the ISCG mount?

Mate has not paid anything yet.

ok – many thanks, a shimano rear mech it is then!

dave

all sorted – thank you very much.

Dave

Thank you very much you two. has worked.

Dave

or is it a 'sum' and 'if' thing?

that is jsut what i needed to hear. thank you veru much all, that makes my build cheaper.

regards

Dave

Melissa,

thank you for your explaination, I suppose it was not clear to some (like me) that last years price was heavily subsidised thus the surprise in the level of price increase.

I wish you all the best with this race, it does look amazing!

straighliner, a shame i think. not sure why such a price hike

Chucky,

Awesome, informative and thank you very much. Posts like this aer brilliant and it is what makes this place great.

As and when you do the HID can conversion, do you think you could do a 'how to' like above for it? i have the hid and not the halogen and would be keen to give the HID conversion a go. Or if you don't have the HID can and fancy a go I am more than willing to let you use mine as a guinea pig 😉

Good work

just got the right address, think i have firday head on.

Cheers

Dave

We took a chimenia (sp?) and burned a load of caol in it, made our gazebo a little smoky when it first lit but the warmth was a god send.

Would recommend one.

Thank you simon, will have a look at them.

Cheers

Dave

this is mainly for recreational riding. She will never race, more just for the fun of going out. Want comfortable geometry with a fairly short top tube so she is fairly up rife and relaxed.

She has ridden my road bike ( a cervelo, my wifes, a look and her boyfriends a trek) so she has had a feel of what size bikes she likes and what sort of geometry. I have a failty good idea of the sizifn of the frame for her.

I am just after any other decent bikes out there for me to look at int his price range.

I have ridden and raced on road bikes for 6 years now, so feel i am quialifed to advise. just looking to find anything I have missed.

Many thanks for all your thoughts. Any more bike ideas?

that has got to be worth serious brownie points. I think you can do what you want for at least two weeks…..

When going down hill I sing out aloud or in my head the A team theme song, and shout "don't touch the brakes" over and over.
Going up hill I just wonder off into a dream world and think about weird stuff that I can't talk about on a public forum…..

Looks awesome….. imagien it could be busier next year.

Good work and well done.

D

Nico did ride a Zesty at this years Mega, but as with all pros it was highly modified. It has the rear linkage off the spicy to give it 160mm, and a shorter i2i length shock with a custom front shock mount. he was also on fox 32's.

I was very breifly behind him. he was rather fast!

Sorry to hear about it, will keep my eyes open at the local areas.

where are you Hadge?

Hadge,

thank you very much. I think i will be fine with a med, but i was just wanting to try to make sure.

Cheers

Dave

go searchthe easton web site for how they test the carbon bars. it might convinvec you they are up to the job. it certainly put my concerns at ease

Gil M did some for me, very good indeed.

Koja,

I just got back from biking through the himilayas on a 456 with avid carbon discs. I used a tubus disco disc spercific rack with no problems, they only have a 20kg limit but i was carrying about 13kgs and had no issues what so ever,

I can take take picture for you nezt week as i am travelling home at moment, plus nay other questions you have. a few pictures and story of the trip is on my blog at http://smuffandrooneyhoneymoon.blogspot.com/2009/08/travelling-to-india.html

and jsut choose the days after that for more pictures of the bike adn story etc… email is in the profile if you want to send questions etc.

Cheers

Dave

talkphotography is always useful for me, always found the advice I was after there.

Not sure they will be happy with you using a flash, as it will disturb the birds. Normally you are are well hidden as possible to capture them in their natural habitat.

What was the problem with the shots you took?

Rudiboy,

Yup that is your old Uzzi, she stole it off me and i had to buy another DH bike. She loves it.

Thank you all for comments.

Not sure, I got the idea from a friend who is a photographer. we just thought it woudl be a fun thing to do.

we called it "the Chronicles of the wedding dress" rather than trashing it.

My bike,

absolute quality! and I love what youa re wearing as well. I take it once married you two rode down the hill together?

fantastic idea, bit too late for me to copy now! well done.

put the handbags away gentlemen

BUnnyhop – please put the pictures up, would love to see others. Be careful of the chain device and brake calipers, these where the worst areas!!!!

have fun

Nicknoxx – love it, that is a brilliant thing to do.

Yes the wife does all these sports, she raced the mega this year (she wanted to do it in the wedding dress?!!?) we skied toured all around europe for 8 weeks in the van, and she is brilliant at throwing stuff at me. So a good representation I think

as for dumping the dress, it stank! we move around alot and we don't keep much stuff, so less to cart around.

thank you all for your kind words, and thank you those who think this is a mindless act of self indulgance killing the enviroment. Has been fun reading your opinions.

I love all the pictures and am going to proudly hang them up at home.

bunnyhop

do it, then post thie pictures, it is actually great fun, a massive faff, but great fun. don't expect it to be that easy though, it gets jammed everywhere!

littleorangechunks.

you actually made me blush!