If you need something straight away i recommend coppaslip.

No,kidding. Just fancied coming up with some other greasy type of fluid for the thread ;O)

Sounddd. Thanks folks!

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I think you should dress up as a jar of Nescafe.

Good stuff! Just dont throttle back too much.You know how well cycling clears the mind ;O)

Hi Epicyclo. I see you are in one piece after the paintballing! Alex was telling us about you stalking someone at the paintballing a few years ago while someone had you in their sights.. followed by a hard blow to your neck! You learned then,so this time round you must have taken care and read up about it!

Someone mentioned the fat bikes were a bit iffy when at speed on rough descents. When i read this last night i didnt think anything of it but today i was thinking about it after a descent and i thought that there might be a bit of uncontrollable rebound in the tyres that is going to be a bit of a tricky one to get around.We obviously have to deal with the effect of a normal sized tyre returning to its shape but we will barely,if at all notice it.. but a fat tyre returning to its shape could be noticeable,to the point of it becoming a problem at certain speeds over rough rocky ground.Something that you obviously cannot slow right down while still keeping a decent pressure,like the rebound of a fork or shock. Thats something that even super tacky compounds wont alter because air in a large volume tyre is.. air in a large volume tyre! Or am i thinking/talking puirpishh? Maybe i`m worrying about something that never going to be a problem in fatbike land.

So you felt like you need around 30psi,spoon.. what do you weigh?

I havent noticed it yet. A few hours ago i spent a good while altering what i see from folk and clicked “hide story” a zillion times to find everything still there when i returned to the site 15 mins later. I then reported/marked them all as spam and they still show up. Think i might just delete the freekin thing as the control over certain things is not possible.

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Fishers arent too bad at all. Not as good as HOPE but they do the job fine enough.

If im on a mountain and expect to descend for 30-40 mins then ill adjust the rebound over what ive been riding on the singletrack up behind the house.Its not there for show!

With the cassette off its not just a 10mm allen bolt to change the body. Its an axle out job.

Ask if they have the complete hub in stock.If they do,its likely to cost the same as the body alone. Then pay a little extra for labour (if at all) to get all the guts of a new hub fitted into the old shell.If they say they cant remove the body without it being built or they can,but it will damage the shell then they are telling lies! Deffo the route i`d be going down as its good to replace cones (for free) in this level of hub whenever you get the chance.

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Zed/neal? I`m putting a few things together and thinking i know who ya are! Martin here from Inverness (raced at clydebank in 2009) with the Haro? I had clicked on the next video you filmed at unit23 and it was a Titans club skatepark bash. I wish that place was closer to me. Gogo is always posting on FB about going to u23 every other night like its 2 mins away ….argh!

Lucky gits.

I need to get back down there.Not sure if it`ll be this year,but would like to do a few races next year as things happened with “me” and i had no go in me to even think about travelling down.

Oh, good choice in music in the u23 clip.J.A!

Trust what everyone says about xtr being better. Each step towards xtr gets better and although xt is great its not quite as slick/sick as the best out there. Its something you should spend the money on as you are in contact with them all the time.. unlike the rear mech. So if you only have so much to spend then i`d go for a cheaper rear mech (keep a good front mech if possible) and splash the rest on shifters.

Lol Boblo.. manufacture a carbon fudge packing tool.

Now now folks! We dont want a My dog is bigger/better than yours arguement..

JTonto,Those dreadlocked dogs remind me of Floella Benjamin with beads in her hair.You would have to be doing dog stuff around the clock owning one of those. Plucking it out of bramble bushes,hosing dung out of its dreads every other day. Good on the owners that choose to have such a nightmare of a dog. Great dogs to view,crap to own!

I mentioned this at work the other day. Baggies over tights lol. I have been out with folk dressed like this and lets face it.. if people in the group are questioning the look, then wtf are non cyclists thinking? Some baggies look like skirts over ladies winter tights. Its awful. I know its not a fashion show and it might keep a bit of mud off yer hole but why not just buy tights fit for the purpose? Some folk are wearing the most ill fitting baggies too. How do they get over the saddle with so much material getting in the way?

Next time you dress like that, glance in a mirror before you go outside and question it. If you ponder the look for a few seconds then return to the room and sort ittt outttt!

For people with a 26 wheeled bike wanting to go for another bike with big wheels.. i recon they would sooner go for the cx over a 29er. Not sure i would but i think thats what will happen. :::looks up at his 29er frame hanging on a hook awaiting its build::

and Coffee.

Say & Cheese usually hits the spot for me.

but you end up repeating yourself when you start smashing your face with a hammer. I`ll choose to die wondering ;O)

That UKF killsonik remix is shocking! Cmon. Got to be a pisstake? lol.

A shame Nero is in the title compared to the mj cole remix.

Can the pinch bolt be undone to enable the skewer/axle to be tapped out to the driveside along with the threaded insert attatched? I wouldnt go mole-gripping anything just yet.

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The frame is actually silver.I messed around a bit with this pic. Loving that Kr1.Mmm.

Nicolai`s dont crack ,Ton? Funny, i once worked in a shop that had a demo.It cracked under the headtube.

Talked about this a few times over the years and yes.. i love the feeling of crashing. Once at Learnie before the manmade stuff was put there i flipped over the bars due to a seat too high and luckily landed on my ass and feet about 20ft down a grassy slope without hurting myself.The feeling is amazing.Nothing you can do but wait.Floating through the air is such a good feeling.

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With that, the bearings lasted for about a year regularly riding in the Peak and being somewhat lacking in the cleaning department.

Take note of his last words,folks.

So many people are just far too handy with a hose.If you hose the bike,dont hose past the seatclamp.Who freekin cares if the saddle is filthy underneath!

Tape over the split at the top of the seat tube and clean/grease the post often.

Up front, dont go spraying water any higher than half way up the headtube. Same as the front.. if the shifters are filthy,water spraying into them aint going to help it. (even xtr arent sealed so keep the hose well away)

The back of an a-head stem and the split wedge on headsets arent the best design for keeping water out of the headset/headtube so dont bother hosing it down. If you do,water will work its way into the headtube,run down the breather holes and eventually fill up the bottom bracket.

If you fill the bottom bracket with enough water then the sleeve will be submerged when stationary.. Not to mention all the soakings the entire sleeve will see under use. You can clart the bearing cups with extra grease from the inside (lots can be pushed in by finger next to the inner rubber seal and the alloy cup) before fitting the unit to help keep the water away but no matter what quality of bb unit you buy into.. a hose blasting around the top part of a headset and seatpost split wont do you any favours.

Also measure the width of the shell BEFORE fitting the unit with digi verniers and take a measurement of the bb unit with the correct number of spacers. If you put 2+2 together you can work out how much the o-rings are actually doing their job once the unit is fitted.Sometimes too many spacers or too little could be compressing the sleeve (allowing it to deform once tightened – meaning that its going to let water in past the o-rings) or one end of the sleeve wont be fitted into the cup correctly at all.. meaning that the o-ring is just a waste of time.

I have soaked some of my bikes under normal use (not with a hose) and the shimano bb units fitted years ago with extra grease from new still works like new (one nearly 5 year old now)

Once hosed down to destruction, most bb units seem to fail when they have been sitting around for a week+ at a time.This gives them time to rust up.

Now if i dont ride my bike at all ;O)…then surely all my bb units must be rusted solid.

<awaits flaming from folk that know me :O)

Count, if you have been listening to music over the past 50 years then i would agree that at the half way stage you would be cringing at the new breed. Just like i cringe at todays music. The thing is,for folk around 17-23ish years of age around 1989-90.. this was a big part of their life and with the way music/generations go.. they will consider the likes of The Happy Mondays and Stone Roses to be their all time favourite bands til they die. Just like a lot of todays youth will go on to lurve Usher or Dizzee Rascal for ever more. Poor wee souls. :O)

ugh.that is asking for dropper post trouble.

The new shimano 15mm bolt through front hubs.Not hard but a pain in the hoop compared to uncaged bearings when all you want to do is give it a quick clean out and regrease.. its just more time consuming.

Paying cash? So you better expect less of a saving considering how much it will cost them to bank the cash ;O)

I dont get the ten year old mentality on busy roads.. causing drivers to change their driving to fit in with them. Does this happen only for the camera?

Also make sure you havent over tightened fixings for the res cap.

Well i still keep on looking around for Tuonos,Gilo. Theres a 2007 model in blue/white not too far from me in Elgin.. had a look but i dont think hes into trading my bike for it.Private prices look attractive compared to his £5200-ish for 11k. Maybe in a year or so. Cant wait to try them as i havent been on one yet.

Nobody seems to like this at work.I think its better than the original.