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2.25 RoRos on my Crests OK, tubeless. Stayed inflated overnight, the acid test is a ride this evening.

They’re black with a grey/white band about 5mm where the tyre meets the rim.

Yeah one of them leaked a bit through the sidewall during fitting, the fluid seemed to fix it and they stayed up overnight. To be fair to On One they do say on the product page ‘not suitable for tubeless’, though I thought that was for durability rather than leakiness.

Man they are light, I’m astonished how light my front wheel is, with a 2.2 tyre and 180mm rotor on it.

Both tyres put on this afternoon, no big dramas, rear needed fluid to inflate (probably due to my dodgy yellow taping), soapy water was sufficient on the front. If they’re both inflated in the morning we’re done.

Dry trails for a hosepipe ban?

Deal.

That’s lucky, I had no idea they were an old model!

Too late, OnOne 30 quid each http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/TYSCRRONEVO/schwalbe_rocket_ron_evo_folding_tyre

Ta for advice.

ok button pressed on 2.25 RoRos for the better wet performance (now we have a hosepipe ban, it’s going to rain until October), and I’ve explained to my daughter why she’s getting no more pocket money this year

I’ll report back on installation

@burs yeah Bonty are in the frame a bit, I have Mud X at the mo

@rickon for southern shandy riding (N Downs. Surrey Hills 80%), no proper rocks here, and I have a FS for those placees anyway

yeah when I first had them I managed to get a Maxxis ADvantage on with a tube, but had it cut it off.

I think next time over I’d just buy proper UST rims.

@pete thx

@djf my hunch is these rims are designed for running ‘normal’ tyres tubeless, not UST. Though I didn’t know that when I bought them, and buying the ‘wrong’ tyres is an expensive mistake nowadays.

OK Nobby Nics I think it is, do I need the UST for my Crest’s, or should I NOT get the UST?

Ta.

Bontrager Mud X (more an all round mixed conditions tyre than the name suggests) went on easy tubeless. See my history I wrote it up last Oct or Nov.

I always ride with my MTB helmet, peak on. It keeps the sun out of my eyes on bright days, and the rain on wet days. I only have 1 helmet, 4sure not buying another just for road. God I’m a style disaster!

But road’s just training for proper riding, after all.

SPD’s just aren’t as good as propper roadie pedals

yeah but in what way?

Why are SPDs such a no-no for road?

Didn’t walk in them much at all, and they ride fine, tho I am not the gentlest on kit. I had a pair where a sliver of plastic sheared off the key part of the cleat mid-ride and they wouldn’t engage then, game over. Pros probably have new kit whenever they needed it, support vehicles and ride in bunches. I’m often out on my own.

From my POV there’s no good reason to keep them and a good reason to get rid. (Want my pedals?)

I have Ultegra but the cleats are plastic, they tend to fail at the engagement points leaving you out on the road somewhere with a cleat you can neither walk in nor clip in with. I think I’ll be switching to something SPD compatible so all my shoes, bikes and pedals will be on the same platform.

Whatever I do next, it won’t have plastic cleats.

Probably the closest to what you’re looking for is at Le Tour at the top of the valley. Search STW and see my post history.

There’s an OK loop (Pettit Balcon Nord/Petit Balcon Sud) that starts from town (look for the parapentte landing field) and goes aroud the valley floor. Once is enough tho.

Chx isn’t really XC territory, more for the body armour brigade really. It’s pinned in a deep valley with huge rock walls each side, that pretty much defines what you can do there. And biking’s not a high priority for the Marie as Chx has masses of summer tourism trade anyway from coaches and so on.

For maximum biking bang for your buck go to Morzine or Verbier, both about an hour and a bit away by car.

For hiking and views, it’s world class. And if you climb, you’re in sport climbing paradise.

No worries. I was going to add if you are thinking of booking a holiday you have maybe a 25% chance your week is minging, 50% it will be mixed but mosly OK to ride and 25% it will be lovely.

It’s pot luck really.

It usually runs in cycles like this: 2-3 hot sunny days, 2-3 mixed days, a big storm then start over.

Sometimes it’s hot for many days or weeks, sometimes it’s cold and wet for a long time. It can snow at town level in July but that’s not common.

The changes are fast, but unlike the UK, predictable. The shot term forecast is pretty reliable.

Toys point is that only manual workers and landed gentry should go the the Lakes. I think.

Seems strange to me that the question here is “why shouldn’t I chuck my skin?”. Really the question ought to be “why should I?”, and I see no reason why one should.

@Tang, measurable harm is not the only issue: it’s as much a philosophy. Tread as lightly as reasonably possible, and leave the place as close as one can to the state it was found (or better, as it should be).

Note ‘as reasonably possible’, I’m not advocating SAS style pooh bagging.

lol did you make that or have it ready just for the Wildcat offshoot of a future banana skin thread?

I’d think that if banana skins were a part of the natural environment of the place, then how long they would take to rot would be irrelevant, as the location is already optimised for dealing with them.

My POV on taking them home is that pure wild environments are precious and rare, it’s good to leave them be as much as reasonably possible. A tiny bit of contamination is still contamination.

I was reading about Scottish Wildcats recently, there are less than 400 pure-breeds left. The biggest threat is not environment but interbreeding with ferals/domestics. Every time that happens all descendants of that litter, even if raised wild by a Wildcat mother, are not Wildcats and that bloodline is lost forever and they compete with the pure-breeds too.

Take anything home that wouldn’t be native to the natural environment you’re in.

And put a note on http://dorkingcocks.freeforums.org/

Time allowing I’ll go look tomorrow.

(evening bump)

Don’t go to Lion unless you specifically need to.

(Steel hardtail BTW).

Thx Tony & njee.

I have a 1070 since October, works. My setup is all SRAM/Truvativ, shifting is spot on. Can’t compare to Shimano as haven’t used the equivalent 10 speed.

My 1070 chain though went to 1% stretch double quick (it felt), I have another and am monitoring it closely.

that Enigma looks nice

man Ti hardtails are objects of desire for me

We do weekly night rides, funny thing is we stopped for a jar in The Dolphin last night tho we dont usually go that way. Email in profile.

my Soul direct from Cotic, last October, was fully prepared and assembled perfectly.

I think I do, especially on a very bumpy trail with lots of fast power-spins. (My new bike has 170s my older bikes 175s but I’ve never tried them side-by-side on the same bike).

Most new bikes come with 175s. If you think about it it’s daft that a 5’6″ person and a 6’+ person ride the same cranks, it’s got to be wrong for at least one of them.

The Killing S1, Danish version with subtitles (especially good with a young baby in the house).

And we were 3-episode-at-a-time MINIMUM watchers. In many ways, I think it saved our lives at the time.

Funny, I like to savour and digest slowly, an episode at a time, and the day has to be right. We’re mid-S4, 2 years in.

Ah S2: Valchek, McNulty out on the water and still causing trouble, Avon stitching things up in prison.

I’m happy to pay if there was a rental type thing – I just checked netflix but it’s not on there.

I reckon if you bought the DVD 2nd hand you’d get your money back on resale, so total cost will be minimal though perhaps cashflow might catch you out!