I see what you are getting at there ;O)

So you are saying it’s the 29er that is faster over ‘all types of terrain’?

To get more of an idea of whats right you’ve got to ride UP the hills also.

This was from some Canadian guy on that forum. I have to agree.

Exactly.

I’m surprised they are still coming out with ‘the fastest’ when it’s complete bullshit. A 29er wheel is faster over certain terrain but it is not the fastest wheel over all types of terrain.

If they owned a selection of bikes and rode them back to back over a selection of terrain from rock gardens right down to smooth singletrack with steep climbs and steep descents,they would soon find this out.

Hah, I replied with a ‘no’ too before reading the OP’s first line!

Think of yourself as a leader. In 5 years time, heaps of xc bikes will have lightweight dropper posts fitted.

Yes, but with some oddball sizing of seat tubes you might be shimming them at your own risk. Anything from 30.9mm upwards will be possible.

I have 2 sdg I beams on the mountain bikes and have ridden 2 winters ago in -10c with 13.5stone on them. Both are holding up fine. Worth it for the comfort of those fx saddles. Mmm.

I bought 2 reverbs with this problem lurking in the back of my mind. Hence why I buy 100mm drops, not 125’s. See how it goes as they won’t know it’s on a Mav if it fails?

The ones that leaked had faults. I’m sure my slx are the same as the bike sat there for months in the shed last winter,it was fine until I took it for a ride and found the disc damp with fluid. The calliper had a wet look mist over it too,just like you’d expect from a leaking calliper.

I cleaned it down and replaced the pads, it was fine. It sat there for a week or so and I took it out and it was the same again. Calliper looking misty with a howling brake. I’m certain the cold shed/sub zero temps cause the probs. It’s fine through summer!

If you wanted him to flow I’m sure he’d flow for you. It wouldn’t be that big a deal ;O)

Sorry, I was taking the mickey. I just read on another thread about folk worrying about riding in the cold with carbon.. not just alloy!

The mud is the scary bit. It could hide cracks similar to a windscreen shattering. Not worth it.

This is the type of mud transported around in a jar on rides, I take it? The stuff you slap on to make the bike look the part? :O)

If you’re the original owner they’ll probably give you a new one, my mate got a seven year old enduro replaced no probs,
Spesh are good wit…

Woah, probably not if they read this thread describing 6ft and 7ft in the riding description.

Never know it was his frame? Well the macro shots are the icing on the cake for Specialized to easily walk away from this.

<makes note to place a thread asking to see cotics next time he wants to view heaps of spoons> :O)

Wrong thread for all that,Kcr. It’s the thread with the south african girlie you should be posting that on ;O)

Learnt more about Lenor than Lance.

Shimano winter boots bought a size bigger with an extra pair of thin insoles below the shimano ones. I can wear any thickness of merino sock in there with no restriction and it’s the best combo I’ve had in 20 odd year.

I stood around for half an hour in snow a few years back (with it being -10c) and still managed to continue a ride after stopping to take pics. In the 90’s I rode with Axo missions a size too small with summer socks through the winter and I remember taking them off mid ride,and walking about next to icy puddles to get the circulation going! My toes were all marked with compression and black,red,blue..

Strathpeffer.

Views from the car at lunch time like I was in Chamonix! Blue sky,cold,snow on Ben Wyvis. It was a picture. So I did just that.. took a heap of pics.

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+1 for splitboarding. Only disadvantage is the cost involved, but if you are a crafty DIY type then look out for the Voile “Split kit”.

Take one old snowboard and a circular saw, et voila! All in all I reckon it cost me sub £200 (inc buying a behemoth of a 179cm board from ebay!).

Have since toured around Chamonix several times, Glacier d’Armancette, Domes de Miage etc and can wholeheartedly recommend splitboards.

Just finally flushed off the epoxy and pretty much ready to try out my DIY K2 zeppelin. As much as I’d like to hit Cairngorm summit on it’s first outing I’m a bit wary of making a **** of myself! Did you manage a good tight gap between each ski? I have found a little bit of movement here and there but I reckon with both bindings slipped into the pucks it’ll do the job fairly well.

edit: My Voile kit was £240 with skins and I decided not to use a Salomon 159 with a tweaked edge and splashed out on a 2nd hand board in great condition. Its also pretty stiff before the cut too!

That’s a place you would be thankful of spikes on a frosty day,John. Ta for the offer too.

Thanks Smiff, Well your’re not going to believe this. Got in to work this morning and the boss gives me a 2.1 ice spiker with around 30 miles on it and a snow stud 1.9! I hadn’t mentioned the need or want for them.

Moving on from 26 to 29ers has left them laying about in the shed taking up space so they had to go!

Brake hoses around the outside of a fork? Maybe in JJB or if you owned motorbikes all your life.. but not on stw!

Nice kawasaki colours though ;O)

yeah, on saturday a rider returned after riding around the puffer course and had a frozen xt body.

Yeah,I would agree on being a beast to be able to get up there over and over for practice runs! To do this the day before and still be strong for hoping to do well in the racing with full concentration you’d have to be pretty freekin fit!

I’d go and have a mare and break something knowing me! Thanks anyway. So have you ridden roots with them at all?

Don’t look at that result sheet and think that 20-30 mins of racing looks easy. You will be on the go quite a bit. It might seem that you have quite a bit of time to spare between race start times but it passes very quickly.

I raced that day/night and had 4 hours sleep before driving down from Inverness, never drank enough through the day and should have kept eating throughout the day a little better. It would have helped a bit..but nowhere near enough to help me in the nightriding down unknown trails of Innerleithen dept! I didn’t have a clue where I was going and get very confused in the dark on new trails. To the point where I’d be better off walking!

I wouldn’t mind the road sections on yesterdays ride but there was quite a bit of ice once the sun went down that was just rideable (nearly at that on-yer-ass point). The thought of riding ice spikers over wet roots nearer the end of the ride got me thinking as the mud tyres were all over the place. If anyone had experience of them being better than most normal rubber on wet roots as well as on the ice I’d consider a pair.

So which bike are you buying in the meantime? 🙂

I’ll have the engine for my 99 beeza tdi! Nah, I’m kidding. It’s also had it’s electrical probs like the rear washer packing in, the radio cuts out every 5 seconds at times amongst other wee niggles but it still drives well. After the abs having a problem last year the mechanic must’ve moved some wiring as the radio started working again and a few other issues aren’t as bad as they were!

If your engine has been well cared for i’d guess it having many more years in it. If it was built by the same folk that built my 1.9tdi.. then it might also reach 233,000!

(just rolled over this figure as I got in to town earlier)

You see these coming into bike shops every so often but not often as good cond as this. We just donated a Scott from around 89 in far better condition with shimano/suntour kit to a charity shop!

That is awful!

Why did this have to come down to slating the construction of a frame/being arsey towards the company owner on a public forum knowing too well that he’ll read it when the job at hand is simple?

It’s possible to use the correct tool for the job along with another tool* in quite a few alloy and carbon frames with this step in it. It makes it so easy.

Others have mentioned two other ways above but why not take it to a flippin bike shop if it’s causing grief?

*and I’m not referring to a hammer,either.

The Glenmore Lodge staff on their days off used to Telemark down Grade 1 gullies in the ‘Gorms making a point of showboating to their collegues taking punters up on winter skills courses!

I’ve boarded down Alladins Couloir with a telemarker. I took the safer option and said ‘after you’ or something along those lines with head movements/facial expressions!

I learnt (in the local golf course) how to board in 91. Got bored of Cairngorm with lifts etc and I used to walk onto the plateau,Fiacaill ridge etc more often than buying a pass nearer the end. I haven’t been up much over the past 5 year but just finished building a splitboard last week.

It’s free heel climbing on voile skins so not exactly telemarking but a step in the direction that’ll give me an idea of what it’s like. Not that I’ll turn to telemarking.. like someone said above, two wrong’s don’t make a right.. only in splitboard territory, it might just do ;O)

Can’t wait for another dump to try it all out.

Edit: To answer the original question, No.. but the owner of Bothy Bikes in Aviemore is the only person I know that has snowboarded and also tele’d. Can’t think of anyone else.

The location of a chambered cairn about 45 mins ago.. having got lost… and stumbled upon it after reading about it only last month.

Anyone got the App ‘mixerbox’? You can drop in all these youtube vids and play them. I downloaded it ages ago but haven’t really used it yet.

The Bombay edit is amazing!

Awww,I was going to say this but I’m a year out!? Recorded in the 80’s? ;O)

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