yes.

That won’t make it better,kevin.

I found a hedgehog at the back door not so long ago (after finding the neighbours cat staring at it)

I chased the cat and the hedgehog scuttled off into the garden. He could run fairly quick so I take it there was no probs with it.

If you feed a hedgehog ham,does this prove they are cannibals? Pork scratchings don’t count :O)

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Well done.

If I go to Golspie I am a bit wary on the section posted below but I do try and let the brakes off as much as possible. Remember what happened at Golspie years ago on VTOL? Rider gets air as he knows the trail so well but unluckily spots a walker as he’s in the air. Damaged back and airlifted off.

Walker had a broken arm. (If I’m wrong I’m sure someone will correct me)

Was if from a purple carded ‘missing link’ packet? The campag one’s use this packaging. I wonder if it’s a campag one? (Not that I have tried a campag one on shimano or vice versa yet, although it would be interesting to try and snap them together)

Having just searched.. forget what I said about the colour of the packet as it seems to show everything and anything under different packaging by kmc!

They lost hundreds of my pics in the past. A lot of them were scanned and I could never be arsed doing it all again. I think I still have some on it so I might have a look.

let me guess loads of questions + requests for photos…..and not even a thanks for the photos….!

Pretty much sums it up….. It’s the not replying that got right on my moobs!

Yes, I’ve had this recently. Some folk were so keen then they just vanish off the face of the earth. One guy said he was going to buy something from me… then I hear he has to hopefully sell his frame at the weekend first before buying it. wtf. Get the money together,ask yourself if you really want the item, THEN get back to me!

Ahh, I was meaning just one corner (cos i’m lazy/don’t have enough stands etc and I never thought of relieving all 4 corners at once) but I see yer logic. Maybe if I did this I’d have felt the play in more area’s than I did.

It’s a 206, bin it! Do you not remember how much nicer the 306 was to drive? :O) Unbolt the beam,snip the brake lines,get a scrappy to uplift (literally)leaving the beam behind and get £120 for it. Then take the beam elsewhere for £50 and put the rest towards….

Pistonheads’ shed of the week, a 306 gti with heated seats! £999. http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=26671 :O)

Yeah, I’ll just shut up Kenny as I’m no car mechanic! Funny you should mention that steering with worn bushes under the beam fixing points. Before I got a new (recon) beam fitted I remember the rear feeling weird and braking was weird with odd pulling. I thought it was brake probs but it had new discs/pads all round. Maybe the chewing gum-like bushes were causing it? I planned on getting harder one’s (not solid group A alloy ones!) but it never happened.

Not that I think this has anything to do with the problem but it would be good to jack a corner up at the rear and block the wheels elsewhere. Let the handbrake off and grab the wheel at not only 12&6 o’clock/9&3 o’clock.. but also try 8&2 o`clock on the rear nearside wheel. Jack the other side up and feel for it at those points along with 10 & 4 o’clock.

The 8&2 o’clock nearside / 10&4 o’clock offside was where I found play in my axle. It felt fine elsewhere but it wasn’t too expensive to sort it out as I caught it in time.

Rear beams are shotblasted/painted up here and kitted out with new bearings and stub pins etc for £340. Old beams are bought for £50.

Is it a 1.9 diesel?

Could be a broken spring. Sounds daft, but measure them or count the coils. Sometimes they can break and the piece can drop out on the road, leaving the broken end sitting on its seat and looking OK at first glance.

I was thinking this at first too. I have had this on my car a few times over the years but its not sounding like it could be this at fault with what he described.

I’m not sure if the 206 is similar to the 106 but I’ve had a broken spring like Graham said (clunking during slower turning but not really affecting the ride)

I’ve had Ball joint probs – worn but not really feeling like they affected the ride like you talked about either.

drop links were replaced but only to freshen everything up.

I’ve had a few pugs and even with high miles, never had probs with arb’s.

If it’s the same setup as a 106 gti then the struts are a pain to remove compared to the struts in my Seat Ibiza. There’s more faff and harder to do in ‘the garden’. It’s a lot easier to pull a driveshaft out of the pug too (not what you really want). Once they are off,the spring removal is easy but the nut at the top of the strut to remove the damper is a specialist tool ,although a rough back alley garage would whip them off with some make-do wrench. It removes them but it marks the nut.

If you want to tackle it yourself and haven’t bought spring compression tools etc.. I would probably pay for someone to have a look at it first. It might not cost as much as you’d expect and it’ll save disrupting stuff that might be running perfectly.

Sometimes the home mechanic/I can do it myself approach wastes time and money.. leaving you with a sore head (with pugs) ;O)

Once it becomes second nature it works well. riding with 2 shifters,a fork remote and a post remote on the opposite side.. I won’t argue with Hora! I have been in a bit of a muddle at the start when trying to shift gear,get the post to where I need it etc..

I was Stravabagging at the time and failed miserably ;O)

4″

It also means less upper section on show when at full extension over the likes of a 5″ dropper.. when,lets face it, they still haven’t been perfected so anything that sticks out 20% less than the other model has got to be a step in the right direction towards it lasting a little longer.

Thanks,Col. Basically known as a 135×10 q/r? Was this the same on the 2005 model then?

LOL. Well worth it’s own thread! Spend it well!

would you look at that improvement!

My one needs the button held to turn it off.

It’s from one of the latest batches/drops.

I think you should make up a horror story about a maniac called Andrew. Start talking about him at the breakfast table (but not directly to the kids) and they’ll soon be acquainted to this horrible beast.

Discuss how you were told by so & so (a sister,aunt or friend that the kids know of) that keeping very quiet keeps Andrew away.. and that if Andrew finds mummy and daddy on the plane he could easily take them away.

I’d love to find a standard, unmolested S1 106 Rallye. Although like lots of other cars on the thread, its probably a pretty cool car, or at least I think so.

Yes,it’s too cool for this thread.

I’d agree on loving to find one as standard but I’d HAVE to go and molest it by fitting a tujp5.. keeping the original tucked away under an old rug ;O)

3 hours since the last reply? Dezb’s left the house and obviously having problems finding stock of After Eights ;O)

I take it the remaining piece is well stuck in? I would have thought that a fox valve (around £7) would have been fairly easy to fit without a strip down but it’s getting the old one out that’s going to be tricky.

Kenda small block eight for the rear during winter.. posted by someone calling themselves Uphill cursing!

Why are you cursing uphill? ;O)

No.

I hope you don’t have jockey wheel crud under your finger nails..

Lumenator is great. So far I have been using the lowest of settings for all road and offroad climbs in the complete dark. It seems to be more than enough at a slow pace. 2nd lowest setting-not often using it. The 3rd highest setting seems to get used for most flattish on road and offroad riding. Full power for road/offroad descending.

The rubber switch is a pain in the dark (just too bright!) so it’s good to cover it up.

The strobe on the v2 is brighter than the lumenator. Not that I’ll ever be using that setting.

I apparently pushed my best friend into a TV when I was a kid. It burst her lip wide open but the TV survived. I can’t remember any of it but I have been told ‘she’s a very pretty lassie these days but you can still make out the scar,although she covers it well with make-up’ 😯

I felt so bad when I heard this.

The TV’s back in the mid 70’s could take a good beating

Sorry Trout. No advice,just a pointless story :O)

Softly spoken with a sing songy twang

Nah,i don’t know what I have.

softly spoken with a sing songy twang

Seems a bit steep, I’m 32 & my wrx Impreza is about £400 to insure. Oddly my 306 rallye isn’t much less.

That’s not too odd! It’s a 306 rallye. One is getting rare as hen’s teeth.. the other is as rare as hen’s beaks 😛

I asked Trek if they could do a crash replacement on an oclv I had. The offer was approx 40% off if I remember right. This was around 2002 mind you. So was it like this back then but now they’ve buckled up or?

All on a road bike,Nuke?

RE: the front mech. You can’t fit a mega9 front mech to the correct height over a dyna-sys chainset anyways. (as far as the correct distance of the underside of the outer plate/outer chainring teeth is concerned regardless of whether it’s direct or band on)

sYs*

I run 9 and 10 speed chains through a 10spd front mech on a 10spd slx chainset. Either chain,not a problem!

I run 9spd xtr shifters,9spd xtr rear mech and a 9 speed cassette and I’ve had no problems with either type of chain. I have swapped back and forth and through a range of gearo combo’s it doesn’t seem to make much odds. Its great!

This doesn’t mean it will work with any mega9 dynasis mix mash so be careful mixing anything other than what you asked about.

(my 13 year old is on giffgaff (runs on O2) – 300txts per month on a recurring monthly one-off payment. her texts just stop when she gets there)

Yep, it works for 39 year old’s too. It takes £10 out of my account monthly and I worry about nothing.

It was made perfect. Just a pain that it got colder the past month and it cooled down a little too quick ;O)

nah,just a carpark spin so nowt here!

I just love how you could ‘T’ mark sections and delete bits out to make great mixtapes,with stuff you really like without the crap in between or stuff that can be shop friendly with filth ‘T’ marked out. It was a great wee tool. I can’t do any of this on my mp3 player.

This thread has made me want to go charge up my battery and see if the Sony minidisc player still works! I have dozens of mix discs with stuff I haven’t heard for a decade or more. If it works,then that’s my winter night riding music collection sorted!