Serious question: what makes this a big enough upgrade to sell a M2 and buy a MK3?

(Orange. Ferrarris are red. Souls are orange).

You should be OK, it would be a tightest of tight frames that wouldn’t take a 2.25.

It think in all fairness we’ve run the same design since October 2009 until now. Not a bad innings!

For sure. Perfectly content with my Oct ’11 frame, not bothered it’s now been ‘replaced’, products have to move on. Good luck with it.

Kelvin I chose last year and have a Soul 2, errr ‘Classic’.

At least it took a few years for my Blur to become ‘Classic’, with the Soul it’s just months!

Yeah.

Judging by your name I guess you live very close to me. I have a box of unfitted tyres sizes up to 2.5 if you want to borrow to test before you buy.

And trust me on the RaceFace bars:
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=48026&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Shopping&utm_name=UnitedKingdom

Oh and wishing you the happiest of birthdays of course.

700mm? No way. Go short and wide.

Isn’t the 27.2 seat tube a ‘feature’, for more flex?

RaceFace SixC carbon AM bars, 725mm. About a hundred quid, love ’em.

Had right knee pain on my road bike once just from having the cleat too tight and it was needing too much force to unclip. Left was the same but I released left by swivelling my whole body at dismount, whereas right was only the knee/leg moving to unclip, prior to dismount.

So check that.

Horses for courses I guess, I never found a great deal I’d regard as flowy, I’m more a forest ST kind of guy I guess.

That bit above Vallorcine/Chatelard is lovely but only about 500 metres long IIRC (I’ve been gone a year now). I can’t be arsed with loads of on-the-brakes steep switchbacks.

I hiked and dropped Col de la Terrasse -> Loriaz on my snowboard once, would have been a struggle getting a bike up that way.

Anyway those days are gone, feet firmly planted in the Surrey Hills nowadays.

Everyone should go to Chamonix if they get the chance, there are few places in the world you can sit in the back garden enjoying a pastis and look at a glacier in the pink sunset.

ok, mostly they are on easily.co.uk

Thx guys I’ll try that.

We rent a dedicated server in a warehouse in London that runs Linux and the services we provide to our clients. I mean a proper, bunch of hardware in a pizza box, server.

Yup saw re notifying Virgin re the domains to be used. That’s not a problem but doesn’t stop the “on behalf of”.

If I was happy with “on behalf of” I’d use Google and it would be no issue.

Anyway there we go, I don’t think Virgin will do what I need.

That isn’t what I said – I said you have to authenticate, not that you can’t.

Fair enough.

Ah, you neglected to tell us that bit. Why go through Virgin’s (/anyone’s) SMTP servers at all, then?

Because the SMTP on our server doesn’t have authentication – and since I will be connecting via an ISP neither will I have a fixed IP address.

Obviously if it’s your work email then that one is out but you should be able to use your work server for outgoing as well I assume.

I work from home … that’s the issue.

However, the alternative isn’t only a public server, it’s the server of the host. The gotcha is, you need to authenticate to the server before you can connect to it (and sometimes jump through other hoops too).

Yup. I know. I have a server. But as you say SMTP doesn’t have **authentication and I’m not going to make my server’s SMTP public. ISPs work around this by only allowing mail to be sent from one of their IP addresses. Which would be fine if it didn’t do the damn “on behalf of” thing.

** Actually there is authenticated SMTP, Zen have it and I use it … just trying to avoid having to run it on my server.

The 2.25s are fast. Can’t comment on the 2.1s and I’m not a competitive last-2%-matters racer. I can’t see them being that much quicker for my use case.

If you buy 2.25s and want to sell them on, mail me when you’re ready.

yeah it’s ambiguous

btw usually (tho not exclusively), incoming mail is handled by the server the domain is hosted on, outgoing mail (usually SMTP) is handled by whoever is providing the user’s connection

Google do have public SMTP email servers, but do the same “on behalf of” thing, which is what I need to
avoid.

I’m currently using Zen, who do all I need but are expensive, have other issues that are causing me a problem, and we need to get the digital TV anyway as our terrestrial reception is poor to non-existent.

Mailboxes are for incoming mail. Thx but that’s not helping, I know what I need.

If anyone actually uses Virgin and has knowledge of this question (most probably a home-worker), that would be helpful, ta.

I have loads of domains. Domain’s don’t come with an SMTP service.

I reckon you’ll be OK, you’re quick but not particularly heavy, and you’re going to enjoy the extra speed.

Even I have been known to have both wheels off the ground at times (perhaps inadvertently), haven’t broken them yet!

(D9 is here, we just have to remember).

Hmmmm I have some cheap On-one Rocket Rons and wonder if they’ll run tubeless on my crests

Yes.

actually I have just bought a spare pair of the tyres for stock, if you want to give them a whizz before you commit to buying wheels you’re welcome (but I’d want them back or replaced!)

@cheez it’s not just the rims, the tyres are a big part of the equation on mine. Maybe you could try that on your current rims first if you are aiming to avoid spend.

I’m not quite sure what you’re asking.

I have (2010 I think) RoRos bought from On One, the product page says “not suitable for tubeless” due I presume to sidewall thickness.

They took 2-3 days and a few leaks to seal the sidewalls, on my Crests. They’ve been fine since – 3 months, a couple of rides a week.

They are brilliantly light and fast for a 2.25 tyre, worth the trouble I think.

I wouldn’t take them anywhere rocky, but my local riding area isn’t so it doesn’t matter to me.

Soz Crests I mean.

Did you feel the weight of the front wheel on my Soul yet?

Come around, do it, (pick up District 9), you’ll probably buy them.

I’ve read several places they are strong but haven’t stretched mine as you would yours.

wow 25lb

happy times to you!

new bike threads are the best

bob no, oil is just 5ml of 15wt btw. So very little is right.

Nah rebound is just 3-4 ‘clicks’ back from full rabbiit. It’s not too high.

mjsmke I am running -ve about 10 higher than +ve on the grounds that makes them ‘plusher’.

It’s mostly just “running in” I think, how long does it take usually?

I’ll ride them a bit more before jumping to conclusions perhaps.

ta, I’ll work on the principle of DFWAB** for a bit then. I can hear lubey-type noises in them anyways.

** Don’t Fix What Ain’t Broke

ok it’s this I think: http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_205785_langId_-1_categoryId_165469

I use mine every day… but I didn’t spend my own money on it.

If the kids use it, surely that’s a good thing? You don’t want to drop the cash and then have it in the corner gathering dust.

no idea, sorry

but if someone can point me to where I can but the 10mm** “deep socket” I need to get the bolt out out of the -ve air on my Reba’s, that would be handy.

** for a bolt 10mm across (diameter), not 10mm sided++

++ which is what I bought from Halfords, doh

OP – if you get a tyre slash on the trail, will you be able to get them off and a tube in?

I have a photo somewhere of my broken carbon post, if I could find it, it would put you off a carbon post forever.

I run the USE Sumo Ti in my small Soul btw. It’s not bent.

ok could be mine is a 350, soz. 400 would be looooonnggg!

a bit more solid than the USE set up

USE is fiddly but I have had no reliability issues, after 50ish rides.

It’s nice and flexi. Personally I’d be reluctant to buy a no-name brand via ebay, seatpost is an important bit of safety kit. (I had a carbon post splinter beneath me once, I was very lucky not to get eviscerated).