MoreCashThanDash – Member

Why is it that every year – normally more than once – we have so many otherwise intelligent people failing to grasp that winter tyres are for cold weather and not just snow?

Because this is STW, and any motoring thread makes (relatively) normal people incapable of:

1. Reading any thread properly.
2. Reading the whole thread.
3. Using normal rational when deciding their view point.
4. Modifying their view point when presented with anyother (read wrong) view point.

and a few others I missed.

glupton1976 – Member

How often do you get the chance to drive on snow or ice that isn’t slush full of grit? An hour/yr?

And do you trust the ability of other drivers, when it comes to them not driving into you, on snow and ice covered roads? I don’t.

Glupton, you’re either trolling or really not looked in to this.

It’s not just about sbow and ice. Summer tyres dramatically reduce their ability to grip (wet or dry) below about 7-8 degrees. It is simply out of their designed temperaure opperating range. So yes winter tyres in winter (colder temperatures) give you significantly more grip whether wet/dry/frosty/snowy. Added to their significant more open tread pattern which disperses water quicker and allows them not to clog up with slush/snow.

I suggest you do some reading comparing stopping distance in circa zero degree tmperatures when using winter tyres against summer tyres.

glupton1976 – Member
Not driving like a fudd makes more difference than any tyre could ever make.

Not sure that one is true!

Second set of wheels here with proper Dunlop 4D winter tyres

What wobbliscott said.

I’ve left my daughter alone in a hotel room before. And will do again.

I might be rembering incorrectly, but were’t they quite some distance from the apartment complex in a totally seperate resturant. No possiablity for a child monitor or hotel reception monitoring. Also wasn’t there some suspicion that some sort of sedative had been give to all of the children?

If I’ve remembered wrong or believed tabloid gossip please excuse me but it’s not quite the same thing as having a meal in the hotel resturant/bar with a baby monitor. Which I too have done.

Bummer!

Hi

Here you go

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The Wheels MFG one was just a push fit in my frame, no different to the SRAM cups. I tried it dry, with grease, with carbon paste. Drove me mad for a week in the Pyrenees!

I tried the Wheels MFG one, it creaked like a b1tch! fat worse than the standard Specialized unit, the instructions also say to bond it in. I dumped it after a week and fitted the Praxis one.

I have had creaking issues with mine. The instructions from Specialized (avialble on the website) is to glue the plastic cups in. I idn’t like that idea because at some point the plastic cup will need replacing so I’m now using one of the Praxis Works BB’s no creaking it’s great.

EDIT

Beeing able to fit the cups that easily is normal.

Don’t do it! You need to get yourself a proper carbon steerer bung before you kill your forks.

I’ve got these forks.

You’re worrying about £60/tyre for your car? How much do your mtb tyres cost?
How fast do you and your family/friends go in the car?
stick with a good quality branded make and look at the wet weather performance

Have a look at Eternal Tattoo in Dorking. They have a website and Facebook page. I’ve had 3 done by Robb, he does some fantastic black and grey work

Yes it’s just the new feature that’s out of action not the whole trail.

Well whatever your feeling the Ranger has removed it. Rode the trail last night and the line has had trees felled across it.

Personally I think (although well within my comfort zone) it was the wrong trail for it. As the OP’s crash proved it too well known and ridden by too broad a skill base to have a main line like that. If it had been the alternative line then it would have been OK

Yeah, it’s OK I’m using a Middleburn X-Type, so no wavy flex going on 😀

Thanks that would be great. To be honest the standard plastic cups with 6806 bearings in was fine – except the bearing life. Which is why I thought I’d try the Wheels one. But it now needs a set of bearings because they got trashed when the cups moved and I was 10k in to a 50k ride in the Pyrenees, so I had to over tighten them to try to shut the creaking up. This happened 4 day’s in a row!!!

Well I’ve ordered the Praxis one and I’ll see how that goes, if it’s rubbish I’ll get the SRAM adapter and glue it in and use a Hope HT11 one.

Orangeboy

What whose FF30-BSA convertor do you use? What are you using to glue the cups in with?

thanks

SJ

Why were you worried about torquing up the cups? If the one you had is similar to the Praxis on it’s tightened up to a physical stop not against the BB shell. I’m more worried by the cups moving and damaging the shell than any clamping force.

Orangeboy

If I have to effectively glue the cups in place I’ll destroy the BB shell if I every need to remove the cups – a bearing change for example.

Thanks. That’s my hope too, the Wheels one creaked horribly and moved in the frame.

Somewhen in 2001, but post GoFar. Just after I got my first ofice job after coming off the tools. BM before that.

Owned cars
First car bought 1992 1980 Mini 1275 GT
1983 Opel Kadett SR
1988 Rover 820
1987 Vauxhall Calvalier
1988 Ford Sierra GLS
1988 Audi 100 CD Avant
1990 Saab 9000
1990 Landrover Discovery
1989 205 GTi
1992 Renault Espace
1994 Landrover Discovery
1996 Peugeot 306
1998 Peugeot 406 Estate
2004 Saab 9-5 Aero
2005 BMW 645ci

Company cars
1994-2000 Anything the dealership was using as courtesy cars, from Saab’s to Nissan Micra’s to Citroen Saxo’s
2001 Saab 9-3
2002 Citroen C3
2003 Citroen C3
2004 Citroen C4
2005 Citroen C4
2006 Citroen C4
2007 Citroen C4
2008 Citroen C5 Saloon
2008 Citroen C5 Estate
2009 Citroen C5 Estate
2010 Citroen C5 Saloon
2011 Citroen DS3
2011 Citroen DS3
2012 Citroen DS3

I can’t point you towards one that may cover you I’m afraid. But I would have thought you’d be in the £hundreds. Based on any fall is likely to break it again, and if you’re already close to surgery a fall is almost certainly going to need it. That and most alpine resports have ‘deals’ with private clinics so that’s where you get taken, means the costs would be significant.

I don’t think you will get anyone to cover the collarbone, if you do the premium will be huge. (some inside knowlegde of travel insurance here)

Recently got an S3 to replace my aging S2. Great helment.

Second the Jag, XJ6/8/S, Daimler double 6?

Honda everytime

My mate id 5’8″ and finds his medium just about right. So it sounds perfect for Hora too 🙄

Yes, my first propper road bike a 1991 candy apple red Columbus SL tubed Daccordi built with Campag Chorus, sold when I was skint

And my first propper mtb, a 1994 Pace Rc200F4, sold coz my poor back couldn’t take the beating it gave out

any decent motor factor will get one for you. But fitting it lying on your back will be a pain in the ‘arris

The AMG 63 engine seem to be getting a reputation for being fragile if you’re looking secondhand. The definately aren’t a bulletproof as the 55 compressor lump.

I have also had this both as seller and buyer

Nevagal DTC front and rear for about five years, though sometimes its a Stick-E on the front, depends on what I can pick up.

I normally go with a new set for winter, by the time summer comes around they’ve worn down some so they roll a bit better on the hardpack anyway

Why not email Cy……..?

I used Duncan @ Genesis Watchmaking for my 50’s Omega and my Fathers 20’s Rolex. He is absoluetely brilliant and very reasonably priced, can’t reccomend him enough.

service@genesiswatchmaking.co.uk

Check Which? for reliability on Pug Boxxers too.

It’s not the Pug bit thats a problem, it’s the fact that a Pug Boxxer/Citroen Relay is a Fiat Ducato underneath the badges.

Looks like the rules have been tightened up to include the FF and back protector.

michaelbowden – Member

There is no Full Face requirement as far as I’m aware. I’ve done a couple of the Super Enduro events in Itay.

Hah, I’m a moron, I thought it was in France

If that’s the case then it gets properly into the grey area, since it’s obviously safer to take a full face and not wear it on a fireroad climb, than it is to wear an open face all the time.

It may be they have changed the rules now that some of the Italian events have become part of the ‘World Series’.

There is no Full Face requirement as far as I’m aware. I’ve done a couple of the Super Enduro events in Itay.

Most people carry a XC lid to use in the transfer stages, some people (inc Brian Lopes @ Sauze in 2011 using his pisspot) raced the stages in an open face.

Result!

Can’t you just replace the Maxle with the newer non tapered type?