Agreed that the bike is built to be ridden in the wet and all that but I would not advise riding it and leaving it wet and then putting it into a bike bag for an extended period. I have not seen the cellar but I can imagine that if it gets that much water in during a down pour it will be damp for days if not weeks after the water level has gone. I guess if security was not an issue you may as well leave the bike outside in all sorts.

+1 on the damp being a concern.

+1 for Andy at Ridelines.

The tyre can most likely be patched so that it can be reinstated as a tubeless. The ding on the rim will need checking but may not be a show stopper either. I have had good results with vanilla tube patches or a small patch of old inner tube. I use vulcanising solution for both but some use superglue.

As has been said it is not just weight back and heels down. Given that this is a hard tail you will need to lighten the back end a bit by un-weighting when clattering off the rocks. Much as you will try to lift the rear wheel when riding up a kerb. Getting the seat post out of the way will also be a great help in allowing you to move about on the bike more easily IME. It is still good practice to lighten the back end on a full suss as well but the bike will compensate better if you don’t.

I was reading a lawn book only last night. Not my normal reading I would add.

Clover:
Rake the grass before cutting so as to lift the creeping stems so that they are cut by the mower. Treat with a selective weed killer containing ioxynil. May need repeated treatment after 6 weeks and also may need hand weeding, clover variety dependant.

When people scumbags want in there is no way that you can stop them unfortunately. Real downer for Philip after the elation of the Olympics.

Has anyone said Decathlon? 🙂

TJ to the forum please, TJ…. oh, what? Seriously?
… Seriously, where is he ?

I had read that he had been banned but not sure for what or how long.

LINK HERE for ease.

Wearing a helmet is a no brainer IMO but other have differing views, I may not agree with them but it is their head. A friend recently failed to duck low enough to get under a fallen tree and split his helmet open. Not sure he would have cleared the tree had he not been wearing the helmet but both he and I were very glad he was. He did not fall off his bike either.

Gashes from rock, slate and flint etc are more of a challenge for a tubeless sealant. Making sure that you have enough in your tyre is always a good start. If you know that you had a bit of a gash last time then the sealant needed topping up. It may have sorted the recent event but we will never know. As has been said look up tubeless repair kits/sticky string. These are great for when the hole is more that just a little thorn type punctures.

IME 6 months is as much as I would expect the sealant to last with out being topped up. Removable cores are great for this. I tend to stick a bit more in at 3 months.

If you can no get the tyre to seal trail side then tube it to get back home. Do not forget to check for thorns that may have sealed but still be in the tyre. The tyre can easily be patched when at home with a tube patch/piece of old inner tube to make it good for tube less again. Some use super glue but I have had great results with vulcanising solution.

The free hub may not need replacing. It may just need a strip,clean and re greasing. Not to much or to thick a grease though as this can also cause the same issue that you currently have.

I have been running vanilla Maxiss High Rollers as tubeless for a few years now. If you like the High Roller then there is no need to change to go tubeless.

For one moment I thought you were going to offer to do it for him?

+1 on Simply Bearings. Ordered Thursday and fitted by Friday night.

Basically yes.

Post production (editing software) can further enhance what footage you have shot. For instance if it is to shaky you can remove some of this or if it is to dark/bright you can change this. Lots of other changes you can make but this gives you a rough idea. You can also cut out the boring bits and just keep the best bits of your huck or what ever and cut out the 3 or more failed attempts. You can do this and leave it in the original format and it will view fine straight from source so to speak. You can also render this with with a HD DVD setting and get a great quality but sizeable file to burn onto a DVD etc. Editing does take time nad a decent spec of PC to achieve, especially when you are working with 1020 HD video.

Raw footage is great to view but normally always needs some editing doing to it. Whether it be cropping to get the peak out of shot, reduce the background noise, tweak the colour balance or what ever. It also gets quite boring to just watch the whole trail for instance so mix it up a bit.

I think the trick with getting the quality right for YT/Vimeo is to use the right settings. The issue is always going to be size vs quality but some rendering is better than others. Some of the videos posted above seem to lack detail and clarity. I am sure that this is not an issue with what the camera took but more an issue of the rendering to get a small enough file to post on line.

With these limitations it is difficult to chose a headcam over another unless they shoot the same footage at the same time and are rendered into the same file format/settings.

I have known people struggle with simple flat non technical tarmac and fallen off. 😆

Your head so it is your call. I would say that the helmet is in theory a one hit wonder, same as motorcycle helmets. They are designed to absorb the energy of the impact and allow the skull to slow down that bit slower and therefore less energy passed through to the brain. They do this by allowing the lining of the helmet to deform. The expanded polystyrene that is used does not regenerate itself after this has happened. It stays “crushed” so it is not able to dissipate as much force as when it was originally made. This means more force get transferred through to the skull. That is the theory and I can not test it to prove it. I guess you could test it by hitting some expanded polystyrene with a hammer or similar and see the damage.

I do replace after a blow to the helmet when riding. Some manufactures do have a crash replacement policy so cost may not be as much as full replacement.

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do you think they will bring one out with a bottom hose attachment? I.e. not the stealth but where the hose doesnt move and is attached above the seat clamp? think that is what I will wait for and why i am looking at the KS LEV. Or i could drill my frame for the stealth, but dont fancy that at all.

A couple of weeks use with the KS Lev 125 and so far so good. 🙂

+1 on the diversion being worth a ride. needed more sign age though as it caught a few out when I was there so out came the first aid.

RIP, Condolences to family and friends

If you can get to a skills course this will help for sure. You may find that your technique is lacking and this is why or contributory to your unfortunate recent off’s. When you then start to get stuff dialed on the course your confidence will come on leaps and bounds and you will relax more on the bike and it will help even more.

I can not believe this has gone for so long with out any skid mark comments.

That’s Surrey for you…. 😉

So far only used them the once and delivery was spot on, ordered very late Thursday and delivered Tuesday.

Not read all of this but 2 sides to this. Yes the group could have broken into smaller groups and waved the driver on but they were not obliged to do so. Would have been nice and may have placated OP.

Had this been a tractor with a hay trailer on the back or some horses it would have been doing similar speed and you would also not have been able to pass so the OP would have had no option other that to wait until clear to pass.

I have seen artics and tractors etc use pull ins to allow faster moving traffic to pass around some of the highland roads. It is much appreciated. However if they pull in I would not remonstrate with them as to why they did not do so sooner. In the scheme of things it does not take long to safely make any lost time.

Why the rush? Enjoy the scenery and live life a bit more I reckon.

Not used one but the Thudbuster is meant to be a very good suspension seat post. No idea if it is avail in 27.2 though.

Some may say that this is the salt in the washing up liquid but as the rest of the bike is good then the argument holds no water with me. Glad that you are okay despite your off. Is the bike okay, bar the brake caliper?

It will be interesting to see what comes back from Hope once they have had chance to look at it. I wonder if it was a bad casting with contaminated/poor quality ally in there that made it more susceptible to the corrosion. Hopefully it is not something in after market pads else we may all have issues.

A shop will charge you buttons for this in comparison so you will have to do an awful lot of chase and face to cover the cost. Some tools are worth having in the home workshop but I do not reckon that this is one of them.

I saw it on Sunday so maybe this is the second in the series. Mega Avalanche being reported if it is as I recall.

Based on what I have seen in the manual on the web anti seize is good to go as well. I guess that they are looking at gripping the most with minimum possible clamping force from the seat clamp.

Best discuss it with the insurance company and get written confirmation from them. Your/STW interpretation may be different from the insurer and it is theirs that counts at the end of the day.

+1 Put a bit more air back in and ride on.

This time of year you will find some good deals on tents as they are trying to get shot of stock before the “summer” finishes.

Drain the water out of the frame.

Good call on those KS videos. They are in the Support section but not linked from the product page. The manual is in there as well. The inners of the post look to be good and suggest trouble free operation..

For ref:
Lev Install Video

Lev Service Video

Lev Manual

Vulcanising solution and bits of old tube have worked well for me. Just get the tube clean, meths works well.

The amount of people milling around Morzine with various plaster casts is alarming

+1. Very sobering when you first turn up and you see them walking down the street with arms in slings.

I bet that picture looked to be in focus when you took it…. 🙂