All chains stretch. They are made of rubber. ;O)

If and when Fisher read this,they are going to be absolutely fuming. Completely gobsmacked. The sooner they stop bending over backwards for ‘soles that want their cake,and to eat it too,the better.

A visit to the likes of Magicseaweed and reading the comments between surfers/bodyboarders will put you off trying it out! It’s a shame,and It’s great that there’s nothing like this in cycling :O)

At the other end of the scale,away from the internet forums and comments under photo’s.If you asked a handful of pro surfers what they thought of Mike Stewart..

Helmet peak for the hail a must!.. and Gatorskins for the pebbles washed into the middle of the singletrack.

What’s that? Can it be held steady in Y phrunts?

and their returns system is now officially awesome

Yes,sounds fantastic. Only the main post office in the city ::::cough:: of Inverness have never heard of Collect+ or whatever it’s called.

Total of 30 odd minutes wasted driving into town,£1 parking,fuel… ::sigh::

O.K. I was going to town,I mean city, anyways so its not really a big deal at all. It would be nice if crc could have a moan at the right people so that a mass email could be spread around the country to inform the post offices of this new fangled idea. Not blaming crc at all, I got my goods the other day in around 3 days.

I’m not saying it’s wrong but wouldn’t an orbital just add to the time it takes to complete the job?

<peeks past the curtains>

‘a wiz right bout at saddle’

You have 4 mins to edit before the spelling police arrive.

Mineral.That’s why they go to the trouble of printing it into their lever parts :O)

* best to see if Steve Redgrave is free as you’ll be wishing you had his rowing arms!

Keep the machine moving! Don’t stop with the belt still rotating. You could do damage that takes ages to get out. As found out by one of the guys sanding a lodge floor out near Grantown about 20 years ago. He span the course paper on the spot and left a hollow you could trip over!

Well it’s a mountain bike,for mountain biking.

We could slate 1×10.. but not if one of the gripes are to do with Asphalt.

I am well happy with 32t and a 10 spd 11-36t cassette.

The E13 xc guide does the job fine enough for what I do on it. (along with making a nice fixing point for the rear gear outer) £40 over the likes of £110 if it does the job 98% of the time is good enough for me.

There’s no bash ring,just a chain protecting the ring. No shifter,mech and cables. Just a nice space on the left hand side of the bar for a dropper post lever when I get one.

1st gear is fine for Torridon (even with the extra weight of a rack,sleeping bag,mat,bivi and a fairly packed non biking rucksack)

The cassette wearing more evenly throughout all the sprockets is something I like the idea of too. The last few cassettes I removed from triple set-ups were in great condition on some sprockets,wasted on others.

O.K. a 32t ring and an 11t at the rear might see racers possibly lose some races due to spinning out but I don’t race so the benefits of 1×10 for everything, bar flying down a fast track where you need to be pushing a gear to do well in a race,is the way I will probably go in the future.

Yep, leave the wheel on the bike,tyre on the rim and fix it in minutes with that kit rc2 just posted. The faffless way to fixing punctures on bicycles.

Carrying a tube encase of a big slash or hole is always a good thing. Still waiting for that to happen 6-7 years on.

Go Outdoors aren’t that cheap but they are doing the tempest for 70 down from 140 with the discount card if anyone’s looking for a 2 person tent.

They show a 300 in the pics. Is the 200 looking much different?

Forget it. You could steal that bike pulling it backwards with the front brake on. It’s quite a light beast to move around! ;O)

We need pics asap

It was grantaway that posted it,bunny ;O)

Also push down on the fork without the brake on. This can often show up any problems. If the function of the fork feels fine with the brake on (Like just about every Tom,Dick & Harry do when feeling a fork) you might find it feeling completely different without the brake applied,to the point where it might be binding.

Drink vinegar

I would agree on it being well recovered. Not to mention enjoying being back on the bike. Was it a holiday in France?

Aye phone pics from the beach earlier

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I don’t find more travel a problem, it’s better for ploughing through stuff in the mountains but it’s more the angles when you are trying to get up something that’s rocky and steep.It’s hard enough as it is on a steeper short travel bike. Even with Talas and steep seat tube angles I’d still find myself swaying towards bikes I rode 15 years ago with hardly any travel to make a better all-day,3000ft climbing per day,scottish mountain bike. I’m not fit or brave enough to be pinning it down a remote mountain on big travel after being out all day anyways!

I need to try a little harder to not go around things next time I’m up there!

Nah,all the monster travel ain’t for me. I was up Glen Einich yesterday after riding around Badaguish on an LT carbon tallboy and burning up to the loch with 105mm at the back and a pike wound out at 120mm for the climb and descent suits me fine. I enjoy it up in the mountains too. Big rocks can be ridden with shorter travel. 160mm on a bike for long days in the saddle with 3000ft of climbing isn’t going to be the best option. You would be suffering and taking so much enjoyment out of it all by having to push up some sections that could be ridden on shorter travel.Even with a pike or talas of whatever description still leaves you with a big bike lurking underneath and I really can’t see why something with 160mm of travel on a long mountain day ride consisting of 80% climbing is going to be the most pleasurable option. Yes, its great coming down but for me.. I enjoy a bike that suited to the days ride more than a bike that’s more suited to the descent.

Take a trip to Torridon for example. You start in Coulags and head to Annat. You climb back over and up to descend down into Coire Lair.. A total of 5 hours+? and you have descended into Annat (totalling 15 mins) then you descend down into Acnashellach (totalling 30-40 mins)To be honest I actually get more enjoyment on mountains on my 4 inch travel full suss. The 140mm on my Zesty is great.. but only for such a small percentage of the ride.

Then again,back in 97 I had even more fun on my Pace rc200 with Judy’s coming down Cairngorm.. and that was after carrying it up and around the Fiacaill ridge and directly up to Cairngorm with it on my back. Just ask Sanny if he had more fun carrying his slingshot up mountains in 1995 or pushing his Turner in 2011 ;oD

Hi Ant,’mart’ here ;O) Yes its a great clip. I watched it the other day after you posted it – right the way through. I’m impressed! Like I said, I skip a lot of the techy stuff and the blind rolling humps. It seems I completely forget what each of them look like on the other side (not to mention the fear of what happened to the rider and walker on the trail mid flight years ago!)

Haven’t you been riding for only 3 years? Fearless!

This reminds me of one of my first lessons with my old man in his Fiesta.It was an old Y reg with a poor handbrake. I was getting on not too bad one evening until we came to a rail road crossing. The barriers dropped down and I slowed down to a stop and pulled the handbrake on… well,not on.. right up til it was near vertical as the cable pulley near the rear axle popped off! You should have seen the clutch control that eve. Infact you should have heard that clutch control. The thing is you wouldnt have as my old man was screaming something along the lines of ‘aw fer f-sakes you snapped the f-in handbrake…awww,what a man ya are!’ just as I’m trying to stop the car from rolling into the guy behind me (for the first time ever) as well as not put it through the barrier into a train.

Sweaty palm moment.

This reminds me of one of my first lessons with my old man in his Fiesta.It was an old Y reg with a poor handbrake. I was getting on not too bad one evening until we came to a rail road crossing. The barriers dropped down and I slowed down to a stop and pulled the handbrake on… well,not on.. right up til it was near vertical as the cable pulley near the rear axle popped off! You should have seen the clutch control that eve. Infact you should have heard that clutch control. The thing is you wouldnt have as my old man was screaming something along the lines of ‘aw fer f-sakes you snapped the f-in handbrake…awww,what a man ya are!’ just as I’m trying to stop the car from rolling into the guy behind me (for the first time ever) as well as not put it through the barrier into a train.

Sweaty palm moment.

You could take out the size due to pressure query by knowing that the wicker basket Rupert is standing in beneath the balloon,at five foot eight inches tall,measures four foot deep.

Oh wait,hot air balloon baskets compress the higher they get (waterproof at 3 miles high) so that theory is out the window.

So when I spotted 3 objects travelling above me whilst bivi’ing in Torridon.. what exactly was I looking at? They were all in the sky at the same time. Looked just as bright as each other too.

A potential cat-thief earlier.

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It was. I had the option of clutch control or a 3 minute humour lesson so I decided to take that instead. If they offered the the 40 minute humour lesson at the end.. then I would have came up with a better reply to Muckytee’s post ;O)

It was. I had the option of clutch control or a 3 minute humour lesson so I decided to take that instead. If they offered the the 40 minute humour lesson at the end.. then I would have came up with a better reply to Muckytee’s post ;O)

My handbrake failed earlier and I had to go back and forth a number of times to stop me causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage to the Audi behind me. I tried to control it as well as possible but it was hard with a guy in the rear view mirror looking like he could have.. jumped on my head or something. Angry sod so he was.

My handbrake failed earlier and I had to go back and forth a number of times to stop me causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage to the Audi behind me. I tried to control it as well as possible but it was hard with a guy in the rear view mirror looking like he could have.. jumped on my head or something. Angry sod so he was.

Liquipel and a brown paper bag

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teasel – Member
A grip, get one.
Surely two is the order of the day. But Ruffians or Rogues…

We need a lock-on this thread.

When my bike was ripped out the tiny rear window of my car I called up to find out if it would be covered. Nope. Only the stereo and personal belongings were covered. Laptops,suits/clothing,stereo were a few things they mentioned.

I descended down into Annat,Torridon the other day with an open pocket holding an Iphone. You just need a silicon case. It grips really well.