if you bought them new, i believe there has been a few horror stories of some 2010 sids having very little, if any oil in them,and causing signs of bushing wear.just after what you would think is the bedding in period.
dont have any proof or anything but i also believe there may be a slight issue with the seal between the – and + chamber.

maybe your college might like to take a look at buying some shares in the Berkshire Hathaway group.or one of the company s this man owns Warren Buffett.i invested quite a large amount of money around 13yrs ago.after a friend had visited one of his seminars when he was in the states.to say its has been a good thing would be quite an understatement,im 38 this year,and all going well in five yrs. my second house will be mortgage free,this house will then be given to my son,to stop any goverment meddling in my old age.

imo the investment in property ownership has been dramatically reduced due to government/legislation.

shares in. coca cola always do well
Vedanta Resources PLC owners and investors from and for india, which is a massive market for investment,

also Kingfisher PLC the new owners of b&q/screw fix who are just about to launch in the chinese markets.(this has the potential to go bonkers as far as sales go)

as someone mentioned above large scale mining is proving to be a good investment as is some Russian energy company s as well.

if your friend has no morals then you could always invest in defence stocks,like GenCorp, the makers of bombs planes and missiles. or Sourcefire the it people who help said bombs planes and missiles work.

to be honest with £150,000 the worlds your oyster.
M B

thanks guys set up a dispute with the seller via pay pal. just sit and wait i guess.
not a massive sum of money but £380 is still £380

a complaint through paypal can take up to 60days and i dont feel i owe the seller any favours.as above really was looking to find out if i can just snatch my money back.

coming down crow-den edge on kinder scout fantastic,although somewhat challenging and about as cheeky as i dare.

id of pointed out the mistake.and then offered to split the difference. everyones a winner.

yes dead easy couple of bolts, bit of oil allen key and follow the online instructions i just used google.

also if your forks come with a spacer in a jiffy bag type thing. then thats your answer.(as in yes you can reduce their travel).

quick phone call to a mate who,s got the 100mm f29rl and he,s under the impression he can make his forks 120mm by removeing the spacer.

still dont no if you can make the 120mm ones 100mm though so im still not much help.

not sure if this helps but i converted my 80mm to 100mm by removing the spacer.

if it was in the 90,s could it have been the "seahorses" not to be confused with mark and lards the shirehorses. or slim and shady the two squirrels. -_-

is the turner sultan considered a better frame than the niner r i p.

agree with simon thats to expensive worth 300 max imho.
mb pro here bought direct from apple for £750 refurb was cheeper than the macbook i nearly bought from comet.or currys or pc world or john lewis as there allmost all the same price.

will there be any forks worth putting on it?

^^^thats not true. certainly is this country anyway,the main factor is cost your average family cannot see past the cost of fresh food be it fruit veggie or meat.
most families no they can have a take out for £20
most family s. also no they can provide a healthy balanced meal for £20 also.

but the later takes time and effort and as the breakdown of family mealtimes continues,more and more children eat what there given be it wrong or right.
most but not all of these children, cant cook, don't no what a healthy meal consist of, and when a healthy meal is put in front of them it looks strange and unappetising.

also if you live in europe ive also found that not eating meal is quite normal,and not regarded as being weird.but if you don't like fish people do look at you in a different manner.

i sometimes wonder if our eating habits arnt more controlled by americas dominance in cheep food than what we as a country choose to buy.

how about the fox f29rl at £300 brand new same place.dont think there going to make much more as £300 starting bid is quite high but well wrth it ive got the g2 ones of a gary f and there very nice indeed

if your really really quick theres some manitou minute 29er bolt through for a very bargain price of £170 buy it now,theres also a 19 inch slot drop out on there currently £56,and theres a pair of wheels with pro 11 with sun 29er rims £99 starting bid and a pair of bonty tyres for £25 one could build a very nice 29er within a week if you bid right? all items are currently on evil bay….

i had the problem in that my dogs just scared of the road,plus had a couple of bridges to cross as well.solved by walking with the dog on a lead while i walked with my bike.got to the suspension bridge,(i presume your bridge is one like mine and shaped like a narrow v)locked my bike up with a lock id left last time i was there.walked dog over the bridges tyed him up at the other end,went back and got my bike only takes 5mins and the dog gets a much better work out,hes now that used to being tied up at the other end he now just lyes there.

319mm from top of the post to minimum insertion line

this is the only reason to have a credit card
a credit card gives more protection against fraud and in a few year's I'll need a mortgage etc so having some credit history/rateing can't be a bad thing.

i feel your pain brother.

i have never had a loan or credit card in my life, left uni got a job earned money, saved said money then bought the things i needed. 4 or five yrs later i decided to get a mobile phone contract. jesus christ anyone would of thought i was a wanted terrorist, not one of the main phone company s would touch me.apparently because i had never had credit or a loan in my life,that was enough to put me as high risk.
made an appointment to visit the bank,and was basically told the same by the bank that in this day and age you will at some-point of needed to have had credit,so got a cc of the bank bought some forks for my bike and some brakes.paid the total of the purchase in full within 28days.went to the phone shop and hay presto one mobile phone contract done and dusted in five minutes.
strange but thats just how things work now a-days if finance/houses/company s cant do some sort of background check on you,then it seems easier for them to just say no or make you pay a higher rate for just not having any credit to start with….
oh and answer to your question sainsburys cc isn't to bad if you shop there. and tsb bank do a cc with air miles both under 16%
mb

if a player earns £50,000 per week, or around £2.5m a year, at the moment his take-home pay is a shade under £30,000 per week, When the 50p tax rate came in, he will be around £4,000 per week worse off playing in England than in Spain, where there are no planned tax rises. these poor lads are putting there heart and sole into raising the profile of our country,there law abiding citizens. that thrive on family values work hard for a living. and don't go round rubbing it in peoples faces, they never seem above the law, and always show respect for there fellow man/woman. are you sure theres nothing to like about football.

but on a serious note as far as the government /tax man is concerned last years tax bill from 08/09 was around £117,000,000 million, factor into that all the members of the public paying at the gates and sky tv paid nearly £1.7billion for the tv rights for 5 yrs. the b.b.c paid over £120,000,000 just to show highlights the wage bill is expected to go past the £2billion mark, you then start to realise why football is everywhere,there is so much money in it/and so much has been invested,that its here to stay weather you and i like it or not.
its all about the green always has always will….
mb

i was going to say £30 outside. or the whole house inside and out for £40 used to clean windows for a living when at school and at collage. never had so much money. summer was great winter was hell,all though i did clean shops and all houses were cash in hand and done out of work hours,
amazing how many women would leave there knickers and sex toys on the bed when you new your were coming round on a saturday afternoon.. oh the joys of being a vision technician

might be worth buying a pg990 sram cassette of the bay for only £44.50 posted not bad for only £3 morehttp://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3907.m38.l1313&_nkw=pg990&_sacat=See-All-Categories

can't see that image as my virus checker says it contains HTML/PicFrame.Gen virus

Me either, pity those that see it.

save your pity for those on a pc.

as a quick google says those on a mac need not worry.

Imo im smashed on tanduay rum from the philippines.
listning to Alabama 3

forum name gives me=Master of Trails i sh1t you not.

real name =Sir Rides a lot, now just because your paranoid doesn't mean your not being watched right????

no your dead right do not put a disc tab on it ffs

I think quite a lot of people seemed to have missed the point with this bike.you may or may not have noticed that it is certainly no looker,that in itself makes it worth something,all the parts are are over ten yrs old, in mint condition,and boxed,that again makes them worth something,the bike builder has such a good heritage/history. again adding value,it is like the seller stated a museum piece,weather you or i like it or not in ten yrs time in its present unridden state that bike will be worth a fortune,i think your right to believe that there possibly isnt another one like it it the world, my advice would be to get in touch with ibis and see if they still have one.but with less than 260 made there aint many.
Imo i cant even believe your going to ride it,i no people will say its a bike its supposed to be ridden.but it isnt like any other bike youll be able to buy again in your lifetime.and as i said before its price will tumble with every peddle stroke.clean it, stroke it wave your willy at party s but for gods sake dont ride it,its not going to ride anywhere near its modern day rival,and who nows in ten twenty yrs time someone might buy it from you to bang it in a museum and well all say we new that guy from yrs ago look whos had the last laugh now.
Mb

psychle – the one that went for$24000 was the prototype for the 1982/83 i think. it had chromo tubes and stronger welds was one of only three evermade and could be dated back to drawings it came with.

Mr C f h I can only drool at the prices being paid at the moment for some bmx gear its defo a sellers market at the moment.

@ woody my thoughts exactly. if you can afford it then buy it lifes to short to worry about it.

i beg to differ• investment-a thing that is worth buying because it may be profitable or useful in the future.the key is in the interpretation of investment.if i can buy something for £2000 not use it and in 5yrs sell it for maybe £5000 then to me that was a investment ok its based on an assumption its value goes up but in the case in question i think its a reasonable and quite safe investment.also bare in mind we are in the uk and maybe our friendly american neighbours would pay a fortune for this bike. but the seller for some reason is not offering world postage.but thats his choice, i no of two friends in america who could get rid of this bike in a jiffy and for quite a good profit.therefore in my eyes it has the potential to be an investment all be it a small one.

i think your dead right to go for it.in its present state made up with nos parts and unridden its as close to a museum piece i suspect youll ever find.as with most early full suss mtb i think you may find the ride might not be up to its modern day equivalent.but then again,they make modern bikes in runs of more than 260.
if you manage to buy it for £2000 which i think is a fair price for a bike of this condition,the second you take it for a ride its value will tumble in terms of museum piece priceing.i own a 1980 se racing loop-tail Quad-angle (the steel one) and out of a run of only 150 made there is less than half that left in the world,i saved like mad as a child to buy this frame,rode it like a nutter throughout my childhood went to uni and left it in my parents loft where it lay for about 5yrs,lent it to a neighbours son for a year as he didn't have a bmx (bare in mind at this time i was still un aware how much it was worth).now 29yrs later its been striped re-sprayed re badged and re built using as many of its original components as possible,and in terms of value it is worth a small fortune,in its present state the bow ti has the same potential. and in another ten yrs could go the same way as my bmx purely based on the fact that in ten more yrs some of the 260 made will brake or just get trashed.if you buy it and use it as a bike i think you may find some of the bikes components arnt quite up to scratch,and youll end up changeing them out for more modern day ones.my advice would be to buy the bike if its as good as the seller says it is.remove every single component that will cost more to refurb than replace.cover it in heli tape and ride it,if its not your cup of tea re-build it with all its nos parts,mothball it for ten yrs and flog it.for a profit,if the frame alone isnt worth £2000 in ten yrs ill be very surprised.

ive just looked at the geomertry and if your between 5.9 to 6 1 i think it will be ok so maybe im back in?

yes it does my mistake. he has now posted the answer to its size and its to effin small.got all worked up over nothing again im out.

quick search on ibis says the first prototype was made in 1996 and went into prodution in 1997 so clearly older than the seller states but he also says its an 8spd cassette and a 9spd gripshift so might send him a quick message just to clear a few things up.

Certainly be interesting to see what it goes for! if its less than £1000 ill buy it just for the sake of it.
a brand new pair of MARZOCCHI BOMBER SUPER FLY Z.2 FORX went for just under $400 before christmas on u.s ebay so could be money in it if you stripp it..shame i no but i think thats what will happen to it.

yes i did think that wasnt his best selling point, but if you ignore the death threats its still a nice bike.

take the crank of the bike,put an allen key in a vice put the back of the pedal in the allen key and push on the crank arm.

My Thor's are good for as long as they stay dry, May i suggest you go and buy a pair of gortex outers from a snow boarding shop for around £25 to £35 then,as these are roughly around the same price as a good pair of gloves,with the added bonus of being a very thin pair of fully waterproof gloves for when its wet but not cold.also some ski shops sell whats called a gortex inner to wear under ski gloves, that arnt waterproof. if you can find these they tend to be a more fitted glove as they are put on first.you may also want to have a look in the expedition type shops, they seem to sell loads of high tec waterproof gear, that weights next to nowt.seems to be a bit more pricey though.
i like you had the same problem,the gloves i owned were more them warm enough, but when wet were very poor,bought some gortex outers first,then a few months later found out about the inners, whilst walking in the lakes.not looked back since.
Merchant

silver pro 2s on 717f and 719r. front 5wks old, rear rim brand new. rear hub same age as front,brand new never ridden bonty tyres and tubes.dont no what they weight but not heavy.£185 posted next day and insured.

these might be able to help? http://www.stkildacycles.com.au/saints-fabrications/saints-fabrications.html