iolo, I think it was spooked or dazzled. It crossed from behind the bike diagonally and I recall it glancing at me just before I hit it.

Thank you, Imnotverygood!

Thank you, Junkyard!

& that also goes for the other 95% that can see sense.

Rene, scroll. I was riding towards another rider approx 7-10mph. Driving or riding for the conditions? Please. I’ve got the Garmin file to prove my speed and was no way speeding. I finished my ride, stopped the Garmin, reset and was recording the final jaunt back to the car just for miles. It was a headwind. slow paced.

Just looking at it from another side based on all information you have provided in this thread.
I’m sorry for your injuries but seriously, get over it.We all fall off bikes all the time (or at least I do).

Hora wrote: The accident wouldn’t have happened if the dog was under proper control. Is that hard to accept?

Don’t feed these people,Hora. He thinks I just.. fell off my bike. He is either trolling or hasn’t read that I was knocked to the ground face first by a dog out of control. It’s not worth trying to reason with people that can’t evaluate the whole scenario.

So OP- you are in the right. The dog has injuries caused by his owners negligence. So why was he aggressive to you?

I mumbled something on the ground about the dog being off the lead. I can’t remember what it was,Hora. When you face plant with only having a split second of the view of the dog before you’re on your knuckles and face. It’s unreal. It leaves you pretty peeved off. I lay there not saying anything or moving with the bike on top of me for minutes. I knew what happened but I couldn’t do anything else. His dog ran across my path and I hit it, I hit the deck and said something about the dog being off the lead or whatever and it pissed him off. His attitude and the way he walked over to me was with a ‘what did you just say?’ attitude. I then said ‘I’ve burst my chin open’ and he changed his tune.

Iolo, his light and my light would have illuminated a walker between us. His black dog was running on the beach side directly behind him or to his left. If I saw a walker ahead of me on a path riding at 7-10mph into a slight headwind, I’d see them. Re-read before coming back at me with faff. The dog ran out from behind the bike across my path. The path was clear one minute, the next a dog appears from behind the brightly lit bike. If you can’t picture the scenario, head off to another thread.

Depends on location our local riding (Malvern Hills) is all shared use and I’ll happily say hello, slow down and give space to everyone out walking with or without a dog

Yeah, James. I’m the same. I often come to a complete stop on the path in the daylight if someone is trying to control their dog and bring it back to them. Riding in the blackness, with only one cyclist approaching, you pretty much continue at the same speed if there’s enough room for upto 3 bikes on it. Dark dogs, dark nights, not a good combo!

Sorry, Willjones. I wrote

Now that I think about it, if i owned a dog and was riding towards a cyclist in the pitch black with our lights fairly high powered, I’d not think twice about slowing down to try and control the dog.

I meant ‘I’d not think twice about slowing down.. as in I’d slow down each and every time as It’s just too dodgy to risk it.’

Even without other cyclists around, why do people risk themselves in the dark doing this?

On a shared path at night in the dark, if I had my dog (now departed) with me, I would have made sure she was lit up, and under control when a cyclist came towards me.

Sorry to hear it’s now gone :O\

Yeah, this is my thought, if you ride a dog down a path, it’s running along and you have no control of it’s direction. On trails, people that take dogs out you find that they run behind,in front, crossing whenever they please. Some might be well trained to stay to one side but this one just ran from the rear nearside of his bike directly across my path. I had no idea for the 20-40 seconds leading up to the passing there was a dog at all. Just a cyclist.

It wasn’t lit, we both had bright lights on but we were both managing to approach each other without blinding each other. I tilted my light down when I spotted him up ahead. His light stayed the same and I just looked at the path ahead to avoid being dazzled.

It IS bad luck but when I’ve got a swollen hand,can’t work because my hand now only closes half way, and I’ve got a big red scuff on my chin thats numb, it’s not great is it? I didn’t do anything wrong to deserve this. It’s a shared walkers path/cycle path. If someone is riding towards me with a slight descent and tailwind on his side, dog in pursuit, I think he should have slowed down. I had the Garmin running, my average speed through the ride was 16kph, I reckon the speed at the accident was around 12kph.

Walkers are allowed,cyclists are allowed, dogs not under control causing all this injury is just not on. He was riding with a dog, if he tried to say it was on a leash then that would be daft as it ran off. Even if it was leashed, how dangerous is this to ride a bike with a dog attatched to it? I was riding on a path I’m allowed to ride on, a dog was out of control, I need a new helmet and I’m supposed to be working for the next two weeks in a shop all on my own,which I won’t be able to perform the stuff my boss is expecting me to do. The scratched light and lever doesn’t bother me.I need a new helmet which doesn’t bother me too much either, I’m glad I’m not killed considering the crack through the forehead area of the Hex, It’s cracked right through to the vent. I have had mild concussion, ligaments thrashed in my hand, various other scuffs and feeling out of it today. If someone chooses to run a dog off it’s leash, beside him on the bike, in the pitch black with blinding lights without slowing down to control the dog like many many dog owners do, then why should I suffer and expect ‘tough luck’? I’m not wanting a new light,lever and helmet. It’s around the figure I said above but I only want the cost of the helmet that I paid. My eVent jacket and gloves are scuffed and holed but I was mountain biking, I’m not wanting to go on a full on claim spree.

I also worry about the dog, it’s not it’s fault, the owners doing. We seen each other for at least a minute and he never altered his riding or tried to control the dog. Now that I think about it, if i owned a dog and was riding towards a cyclist in the pitch black with our lights fairly high powered, I’d not think twice about slowing down to try and control the dog. You just don’t continue with a black dog in the darkness of night at cycling speeds. This is the reason.. and I’ve got this to sort out. I really do hope the dog is ok and they found him but this is entirely his fault. A bike with a bright light hides a black dog running willy nilly behind his rear wheel. Nobody would’ve avoided it. I’m now thinking that my hands never left the bars with the speed I went down. I never got my palms out.

Edit: Yes I know the dog may be injured or dead. My injuries are not my fault. The dog getting injured or killed is not my fault. It’s a result of me hitting it through his choice of actions but I’ve done nothing wrong. If I had a dog and ran it of the leash and caused these injuries to someone, I would expect to have to pay out. I would also accept that my dog’s injury or death was basically my own doing. How can anyone see it from any other point of view?

Just raffle it. Someone on here will get it for peanuts. 40 quid a ticket to be in with a chance of winning ‘Renton’s Runt’:O). Surely 20 folk on here would be up for it? 40 folk/20 quid?

I got my DW Flux for around £485 brand new a couple of years ago. UK sale. There’s just so much on offer out there. Look at that new Ibis bike CynAl posted the other day for £999. If you put yourself in the position of someone on the forum with cash ready in hand.. and take a look at what’s out there, it’s a kick in the teeth when you realize what price you have to drop stuff to for it to sell with ease. I’m a hoarder and tend to keep stuff like that instead of selling it for peanuts.

I killed it when the bagpipes came on!

That’s what I ride^

I’ve got a 160 fork up front on a 140mm Lapierre and it was pretty awful at full travel but offset bushes make a difference. The biggest being – it feeling quicker in 130mm travel up front, which is around 4mm higher than the fork that came with it. I tried 650 xc wheels in it before the offset bushes but I nearly fell off it on the first turn during a carpark test so decided against splashing out. Looking forward to having a 650×2.8 on a wider rim up front as soon as a certain tyre comes into stock.

How would this compare to my 2010 zesty?

I am pretty sure your frame was 1 1/8″ non tapered so this would be one benefit of upgrading. It’s also bolt thru at the rear.

How would this compare to my 2010 zesty?

I am pretty sure your frame was 1 1/8″ non tapered so this would be one benefit of upgrading.

I’m not seeing much of a redesign in the website image but as it was a weld penetration problem maybe they just welded them correctly second time around.

I’ve swapped one out and it looked a bit more substantial. I’d take a punt on them.

It was only on the first stretch from the road towards Coulags bothy and a few stretches beyond the bothy a nightmare,Stu. Many other rocky climbs can be tackled but at the start of that track it is like pissing into the wind on the big tyres. It’s a mare of a climb on any bike but I cleared so much more on 2.4 tyres with travel at both ends. The fat bike fires back at you and it’s so out of control with no damping as soon as you make your move at the bottom of any rough section. Hopefully full sus versions will nail it.

Yeah, some climbs I fired up quicker than the normal bikes due to the grip. Even on some techy downs I feel more confident with the grip over any bigger travel bike.

You can ride them anywhere you can ride a more traditional type of bike.

Nah, if it’s fully rigid you can’t. I’m not even sure if front suss helps either. On really rocky bouldery climbs you ping off stuff no matter what pressure you run. Quite often stuff that you know you can climb with your 120ish ~160ish travel bike. Having said that, a fat bike will ride over many other surfaces inc pebbles/beaches better than a traditional bike. They definitely can’t ride anything a traditional bike does.

Not sure if I’ll have a workplace to go to in the morn. This is on the border of the so called dangerzone and it’s so noisy.. I canna sleep.

Fitted ti one’s to my Lapierre. (6mm either end) so the bb height measure’s 8mm less.

I doubt you’ll see B+ winning high level Enduros
From what I’ve been told lately it’ll be the exact opposite.

Yeah, I can see 2.95’s the new 1.95 in a few years. I’ll never buy a fat bike and since trying them I’ve been dreaming about short travel with 3-3.5″ tyres. That Specialized up above looks to have a braw size of tyre and rim on it. So much so that I wouldn’t rule that combo out of winning a WC DH. That has surely got to have a heap of benefits. It makes stuff around 2.5″ look useless for just about everything MTB.

I was having about 3 strong mugs a day but a few weeks ago I bought some Tesco stuff that I kept making too strong and I’ve gone off it! Haven’t touched it since and haven’t considered buying new stuff. I haven’t noticed the lack of it and I don’t notice any difference with my sleep. I can drink No6 strength,3-4 mugs a day and even last thing at night,more often than not I need to sleep half an hour after it. Not sure what’s wrong with me.

Is it common for glow plugs (or even just one of them) to be the cause of the pre heat light not coming on in the dash if one or more of them is at fault? Sometimes the light doesn’t come on in mine and it might take a few minutes before it comes on again. Trying to start it without getting the light appearing first in the dash makes it impossible.

Kryton, It’s a crappy time of the year. Have a break and don’t push it! Having 2-3 weeks off will surely not bother the fitness you’d have had come late summer.. but at the same time if you carry on with this lingering, you’ll never have a good fitness with it lurking anyway. Plus it’s so risky, not just for the rest of the ‘race season’ but your future health in years so come.

Kept my 2nd ever board, a 1994/95 Type A Nate Cole in a sleeve. I kept that as it’s nice to look back on.

I hope folk don’t enter enduro’s thinking that there’s no climbing!

Nah, think about a big day out in the hills. Only you race flat out occasionally. Remember how knackered you get on the big day out without the short full out efforts thrown in? Just enter one and find out how hard they are compared to what they look on paper.

If you can’t say anything nice..

Nope, I tried around 1997 (Mt Vision frame set) after buying a Pace from them the year before but he laughed at me as he chortled ‘I’ve got a mortgage to pay!’

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I’m sure he’ll be along soon enough. It’s a name that’s been around here for years.

I know it’s not fresh but who cares when it gets this good!

Just post it to his Peshwari Nan’s house.

I only know two people with mukluks. One of them carried their bike home because of that.

Adsh, I ran XO 2×10 on my 16″ spearfish with XX mech up front and it all worked spot on. Still got the front mech in as near new condition too if you’re looking for one!

I’ve had 2×10 (not too keen on it) and currently have 1x and 3x bikes.

On a descent where you find yourself needing an easy gear for the next climb, there’s something nice about one or two trigger shifts to get you into the easiest of gears up front without having to shift the rear mech. This is never the case with the 1x bikes. Even riding undulating tracks where middle ring to big ring, middle and back again repeatedly, makes the gear shifts much easier than the multiple shifts you find yourself having to do on 1x set-ups. It’s something that I find far more useful than the narrow wide ring advantages on the other bikes for day to day mtbing.

Even with last years weather being pretty good (apart from day 1) I have never been so bored on a bike. Getting up late and doing most of it in the dark didn’t help.

Grips with seat
Stem/bars with post
Seat clamp with spacers or headset
Hub with hub