A chain line issue such as the chain running poorly in the middle ring while running on the bigger sprockets,cannot be addressed by front mech adjustment. If it’s gagging to derail, it’ll derail. No point in adding another problem.

Yeah, surfing the web and checking/sending emails. nothing else really. I just thought it would be the thing as he’s been using Chrome for a while as it is so I thought it might be the easiest to get the hang of.

The young guy probably see’s it as a dull incapable machine for what HE might want to do with it* but it’ll suit my paw spot on.

* I read a review on one last night and the guy slated it a bit for struggling with over a dozen tabs open at once! Jeez.

I then asked to see something running so he plugged it in.. Then I find out ‘its out of stock anyway’. Grr!

This, like I said, seemed obvious but the answer was no. He never thought about it.. Straight out with the answer. He wasn’t keen on selling me one at all. I think he eben said they were pretty useless. Thanks!

Interesting comments have been made by some in the trade that within the next year it may be rare to see Shimano components stocked in a bike shop, apart from cheap workshop service parts.

Not really. Going by concept stores about to crop up fuelled by a certain distributor of Shimano.. it’s looking the complete opposite from where we are.

I’ve known of two instances where Sunrace 8 speed cassettes were causing shifting problems after only about 500 miles, so as a shop we didn’t buy again….but I have also known that to happen with 9 speed Sram cassettes more recently……and we are not very keen on buying them again now.

Have had the same thoughts for years. Bikes come in to get repaired, hopefully shifting better than when they were new. Fitting those just doesn’t help the shift compared to shimano. Doesn’t help the shop either. The price you can get great shifting 8 or9 speed shimano cassettes for these days, you’d really have to not care about your shop to fit 2nd best. I think one of the problems comes down to the mechanics getting asked ‘well does it work or not?’ The answer being ‘yes, it shifts but its shit’ With the reply being ‘fine, get it out the door’… followed by ‘well if its shit now, what’s it gonna be like in a month?!’

Fix it proper with the best parts, get return customers.

I’ve been reading stuff about it all weekend but gave up after reading this girls comment on the Angels of DM fb page:

‘how did they get in?? It was a sold-out show. Either they had tickets bought in advance, or got through security at the door? There must be CCT footage’

Prince has stated that he was very well En’Dowd.

Sorry to hear that, D45. My old man told me that he went to see about a pain in his leg.. he got his prostate checked, felt firm, so after tests they reckon they caught it in time. Waiting for the results, I gave him a lift in the car and as I dropped him off, the path was icy and he landed on his arm/shoulder. Not knowing anything as far as how far it had gone through him, I thought that if it reached a point where it got into his bones, he would’ve snapped with the way he went down. I convinced myself that it couldn’t be too bad after this fall as he seemed fine and never broke anything. Months on, he has been through 40 days or radium and the outcome was cancer on the surface of the prostate so I think that meant that they could make ‘less of a mess’ in and around that area. The results as the months went by seem to have dropped for the better. They told him they were very happy with the way things have gone but after the radium treatment, he’s yet to find out how it’ll all turn out.

Like it’s been mentioned above,its a slow growing cancer and quite often older guys will die of some other problem.

Got a car last week and AFlux wanted £48 quid for 2 days cover so I could get the car home. I decided to pay 260ish for fully comp for the year.

As for the place being closed and the guys attitude of ‘is it reasonable.. just do it’ don’t ever use that nugget again. He’ll get you and others into serious trouble if things turn pear shaped.

‘it’s not your fault it’s closed’

And driving home without insurance will be great fun when you become the most unlucky man in Britain when someone steps off a pavement into your path.. or a cyclist runs a red light and he goes over your bonnet. Not worth the crap.

Moneysupermarket quotes, save the best ones and jot down what they include. Call up your current insurer to see if they can match it. Do all of this regardless of whether you’re buying the car or not,on the friday. If the sale doesn’t go through, let them know.. but be covered even if it means losing out a small amount.

There is a downside. The jump from my Hope tech enduro/hans d’s & rock razor to Hugo 52’s with trailblazers is enough as far as steering goes. 29+ is barge-tastic in comparison ;O)

Haha, You post a pic of it as I mock it being lost in make-believe land. So when will it be rolling?

Ur FraMe is n Brigadoon,Scotrootz.

The adaptor will be easy to make. 12 holes.. 6 threaded holes. Might make one next week! Oh, I don’t need it as my hugo52’s fit fine in my 142 27.5 rear end as it is without worrying about something.. I don’t need to worry about in the first place.

I was of the understanding that it was only the front hubs that Hope were planning to do a conversion for but could be wrong

I was asking about hubs and that passed through my head on the phone and I asked about them but nothing was in the pipeline. Probably around 3 months ago so I take it things have changed.

A comb over in the 70’s! You must have skull showing through by now ;O)

Best for?

I bought the Jagwire kit for the compassionless brake cables

Yeah, that’s all I would buy them for ;O)

In my experience Sram coated inners tend to flake their black coating off. Shimano black coating wears, never seen it flake.

On sti’s that rely on a non standard inner cable, no inner will work as well as a Shimano Sil – Tec. They can make the world of difference, sometimes even with sp40/41 end caps and outer casing it’s still not possible to get super slick shifting. I’ve spent money years ago on road gear cable kits recommended by Shimano for my Ultegra’s and it still wasn’t right. Moved onto Sil-Tec’s, problem solved. The road kits (RRP around 34 quid) weren’t the exact replacement for the Ultegra’s.. I think this was half the battle.

I’ve been offered Jagwire cables and hydro hose kits free of charge from a Jagwire honcho to try and get my onto them not long after fitting an XTR cable kit on my bike, which was working sweet as a nut 6 months into it’s life but I had to refuse as the cable’s were working perfectly. I had no reason to remove something for no reason, or giving myself extra work. Grabbing freebies just for the hell of it wasn’t going to happen either.

Another thing with Jagwire, they’re fitted to so many bikes from new. Straight out the box it’s common to find the casing split due to how brittle it is compared to Shimano SP. This can cause extra work for mechanics. Bit of a pain for the workshop and again, more warranty work. You will never find SP casing spit due to how brittle it is out the box.

Like Peter says, beware of some of the cheaper brands as they often come in something like 1900 or 2000mm lengths which can sometimes be a bit short for some routing. Yet another workshop mare when your boss is paying you to fit internal cables through a frame.. only to find it won’t reach the flippin mech once you get there.

steel Konas from 81-95 were fairly unremarkable bikes in almost every way. (yes. I have owned and ridden quite a few)

Hmm,I can only remember them from 88.

So how does it drive after the tweaks?

After finding that if you shake your Garmin edge to sort out the moisture ingress… the elevation goes up like a rocket. For that reason I won’t be doing it and don’t trust folk that do the altitude they claim to do in the first few days of it :)

‘Greatest cyclist’

I look at that in different ways. I thought Chris Hoy as he was successful when he was young with bike skills along with fitness to win BMX titles as well as all the other stuff that followed. Also for the same reasons, Jamie Staff.

For the skills and now a fitness that is unbelievable against the worlds best enduro racers, not forgetting the xc stint, I think Tracey Moseley has done really well. Not just rolling down the hills quick due to a bit of fitness and heaps of skill but has a huge amount of stamina for this enduro malarky.

Like I said, I see ‘greatest cyclist’ as someone that has speed,skill,strength and all sorts to become a great cyclist. Would I get flamed for mentioning Chris Akrigg if I look at greatest uk cyclist in this way?

Works fine although mine needs a bit of tweaking as i never set it up spot on from new. Rode through from Dundonnell to Poolewe yesterday in mud and bog so.. yeah, it lasts approx 3 of those rides as I forgot to take oil with me! It’s worn out already but it was a jaunt into the unknown the day after heavy rainfall.

I had a pair of tyres worse than that, one right through on the inside. I got pulled over for a random check and I had to leave the car as they considered it too much of a risk to drive. I knew they were low approx 6 days before this happened and I couldn’t believe how quick one went through to the wire. The car had been sitting there and I was using another vehicle, on my day off I chose to use the car with dodgy tyres as it had a full tank of fuel and unluckily passed a patrol car about 11pm. Very unlucky but I chose to drive it. £200 fine for each tyre and 3 points.

I’d remove the wheel and put the spare on for the trip to the garage. Points for speeding is fair enough but it’s a mare getting them when you’ve not gone over the limit all day! Even if your excuse is ‘I’m going there right now’, you’re still driving on a dodgy tyre.

I’ve installed Viewranger and the option for buying whichever tile you need is quite handy. Might give it a short loop tomorrow to see how it goes.

I read reviews on that last night, colournoise. Folk seem to like it.

Might try it,Johnnystorm. Thanks.

Well not a glitch. I just thought that this was something that would have been up and running for quite some time with everything available to download at the tap of a finger. 2 weeks? I was expecting it to be around 2 years.

Quite amazed that half way through 2015 OS maps app has glitches in it for Android. I expected heaps of folk to be saying ‘I’ve been using this for years, can’t believe you don’t have it yet!’

In the reviews for ViewRanger in the App, one guy points out that they appear to be quite out of date (7/7/15)

Thanks folks. I was talking to Epicyclo the other day and he mentioned having maps stored in the phone and it got me thinking. I’ve never bothered with it in the past as I remember getting all excited with the Iphone 3gs and finding out mid ride that nothing would load for me up here in the ‘wilderness’.. so the idea of paying for something that I can zoom in and scroll around nice and quick on the OnePlus screen seemed like the way to go. The idea being that if it’s super quick and well detailed once zoomed in, I can switch it on and off pretty quick and have days of batter life.

So was it a big download ,Bedmaker? I still have the old Iphone – after paying £90, can you download it onto your laptop and other phones too?

Joining a Sram Powerlock is easy. Pedal the link to the top, push down on the pedal and the tension will lock it together.

I’ll miss the pics. Must be something like 10 years ago when every other night an epic photofest would be posted up.

Just found this thread. Although a Hugo52 with a Trailblazer is a fraction wider than the Scraper/Blazer combo, it doesn’t fit in a Spearfish.

The grip as you brake on a 2.8 is so good. Just got to get the pressures right! I have mine in a pike 27.5 rct3

You don’t need darkness. It’s up at 7.3 right now and expected to hit 8 in 25 mins. It’s clear in many parts of the country so worth a look. Sunset aurora pics are the most colourful of the lot.

Hugo with a trailblazer, like Epicyclo says is up at 72mm so it looks like it would even have enough room going by some of the pics above. The hugo/trailblazer doesn’t fit a Kinesis FF29. It is pretty much jammed in there once dropped into the dropouts so it’s 100% a no goer. Obviously it rolls with scraper rims as Kinesis sell them (and have a full page ad showing the bike with them fitted)

2015 Trance 3 works too. I’ll get some pics up soon.

Thanks for your views. Good luck at the race.

The weird thing is, there’s measurements of this tyre on scraper rims at the same overall width as what you’ve measured there but only the scrapers will enable these tyres to fit into the FF29. 2015 Trance 27.5’s can use it but the chain stays are a bit of a squeeze. Seat stays look pretty good.

I’ve got a Hugo and a trailblazer on my lapierre 514 and the late braking is great. Just tried them in an FF29 but only the scraper rims work. Now hunting for a compatible frame for a Hugo rim.. Anyone fitted a Hugo/trailblazer into anything?

It’s 1k. Go for it and take your chances. Check out the exhaust. Something with a hole in both the middle and back box could reach 300 quid for starters. Tyres, screen (chips or cracks that won’t pass), rear screen wash hose came off on earlier ones, you would think it’s blocked, but instead you’d be filling up the tailgate with screen wash. electric window failed on mine around 80k. Check both work if electric. Mine has only had something like 1 wishbone and bushes done up front. 2 strut bearings, a few springs and driveshafts/boots have been fine for 250K. This is a car that’s done most of its miles on salty scottish roads on higher ground where gritters were out most days. My peugeot disintegrated.. the mechanic that works on this car is amazed at how it drives and although its rough on the outside, its solid underneath and the engine bay/strut area’s look like they did at 60k. I’d probably buy it, do an oil change asap.

This thread has just reminded me that I’ve never had a clutch go on it, and never changed the gearbox oil. Gear shift is sweet as!