Cheers Nick,

Nothing when it comes to mountain bikes is ever easy.

So do you know if the Max bearings are blue or black out bound?

I’m going to order the canyon bearings just in case and have the shop look at it in the mean time just to make sure that the correct way round.

Cheers Mike

Scrub that, sus’d it out.

It’s how you clock the can wrt the air valve. The can isn’t symmetrical so if it’s rotated from 3 to 11oclock it fits nicely

Cheers for replying guy’s

I’m on my second set of TF bushes, better but there is still a noticeable amount side play.

All the bearings, torques and bush measurements check out

I’ll get back onto TF

It’s not impossible to ride and be a dad, so the best advice I could give is how I’ve managed it.

I’m managing 5 to 6hrs a weeks at the moment but I have to divide that up between road and mountain, but the focus is always on maximising my mountain time and ensuring the bank of brownie points is full enough for the times I want a full day it’s an easy conversation then.
It’s important you underrated your family habits and working around them to fit it in, but it’s more than important that if you’re getting time to do your thing then your miss’s does also and it becomes part of the family routine.
Commute
Turbo trainer
Pilate’s and yoga (don’t scoff it contributes, something you can also do with a baby, there will be plenty of classes, go on your own or a a family, do it at home too)
Throw a set of slicks on the mountain or get yourself a road bike.
Running.
I’ve had 2 very different life styles/relationships and still managed to get to ride, maybe not as much when your free and single but still got enough in to keep up with the lads and enjoy the type of riding I liked doing.

My first relationship we had twins, work life was shifts and about a 40min car commute into work, i lived in location where it was drive to ride, and I was doing the gym twice a week. MTB consisted of a Tuesday night ride, 1 full weekend day a month with short mornings on the other days. Btw she hated me riding, but it wasn’t the reason for the failed relationship, honest.
Remember everything is focusing on maximising my mountain time, so I started commuting which took exactly the same amount of time to drive into work, making sure it was as full gas as possible, that was 4 times a week, Fridays was used as a logistics day swapping shirts and toiletries around at work.
Gym consisted trying to be like a gorilla and core stability and cardio came later once the penny dropped I was wasting my time especially for bike riding.
So in total my exercise time was around 5hrs commuting, 2 hours gym, 1 to 3ish(not including travel time) weekend MTB, 8ish hours a week, that’s a lot. If I’d have focused more on this time and done things with a little more though I could have been way fitter. Travel time is one area we can all use better, I did eventually start riding to the gym once it clicked I was wasting time sat in the car traveling to the gym.

It was surprising that in-between relationship’s my actual exercise time didn’t increase I just added more hobbies, but what you realise quickly is once kids come along you can’t do everything, you might have room for 1 hobby.

I have a total different life style to my previous relationship, a more understanding partner, a different job and I live in a different location and a 3 year old.
So now I work from home spending most of the day on meetings, which I control in a way. Gym has total gone, I used the money I saved from this to buy a half decent road bike. More importantly I can ride from my back door. Maximising my MTB time is still the focus.
I still ride Tuesday nights, and now I’m on 2 full days a month at weekend and quick MTB blasts on the other.
I still deposit in the Bank of brownie points and ensure if I want to do something outside my riding routine it’s discussed as far in advanced with the wife as possible. 9 times out of 10 she rarely objects. Remember family does have to come first.
So now it’s an hour road full gas at lunch or between meetings, during summer when the soaps are on I’ll get one in. I have several hour road routes I know I can do, it helps she knows I’ll be back home when I say I will be.
I’ll even do turbo sessions when time is tight or the weather is to sh1te for either road or MTB. Don’t be sat on it form an hour we’re not roadies, 30mins max.
For MTB I still get a regular Tuesday in, and maybe I’ll swap the hour Road in the evening for a quick of road blast. And as long as I give the family heads I want a full day at weekends as far in advance I’ll get a Peaks, Lakes or Wales MTB trip in.
I average around 6hours a week riding time now, which I’m quite happy with. There’s no drive to ride anymore other than the pre-planned big days out. More importantly I ensure I spend more time with the family and the other half than I do in the saddle. I’ve even managed a few weekenders and Spain trip.
Deposit at the bank of brownie points, put the family first and work around them, especially the wife.
Use your time wisely to maximise those big days out, set a goal if need be.
Don’t be afraid of the turbo or road riding
Commute
When the littles get old enough go ride with the family.

Update on this bloody chain noise.

So i was’nt having it that my fornt chain ring was caput after 700Km, so made one last attmept at resolving the noise before purchasing another ring.

The bike came new with a KMC x11-93, i swapped this out for a KMC x11-EL, then all the noise strated, so I took a punt and replace with a new x11-93, and gues what after 10mins silence. result £18 rather than £60
So the only thing i can deduce from this is that SRAM is sensitive to chain type, may be it needs to be a full plate link.

Who Knows!, either way the noise has gone and i’ll be buying cheapo KMC chains from no on.

Thanks for responding guys.

Sounds about right, becomes noisy the further up the cassette as you stretch the chainline out more and more, specially on the 42t.

So its looking like 30t steel chain ring.

I’ll take a look at the gammut rings, looking like 30t SRAM Steel direct mount are rare as rocking horse.

Internal gear box’s cant come quick enough.

btw I have a riding buddy, fat bike, we can ignore that fact, who’s got 3000mls from an SRAM 1×11/Raceface ring set up, but he did go down a ring size which probably moved his sweet spot done the block!!!!!!!!!

Anyone!

Had the same issue last month, trawl the forums, it’s common.

You could replace with an mavic extreme axle if it goes again.

I can report there was dust on the trails of the West Pennines, lets hope it lasts

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My charger started to crackle, stopped using it and got a replacement from MTB batteries[/url] top service, you may have to email them to see if they have any in stock

Vids- Do it

The supplied battery bag lasted one ride for me, so I cobled together some hook and loop velcro (3 and 5 cm width)strips. Works a treat no movement.

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Is Trout out there???????

Troutie, I need a repair on my Librator.

Is it an easy enough self repair? (one of the light unit pins on the power connector has broken)

Mike

Location,accomodation,food. oh and lots of this:

CicloMontana Vids

Got to say vlaue for money and the trails you get you cant go wrong with CicloMontana.

this might help:

http://enduroinfo.wordpress.com/category/the-races/

cheers for the advice guys

Had a search over on mtbr, they seem to think the isx6 is the way to go, closely followed by those with deep wallets going for the CCDB Ti coil.

If I’m going to stick with RP23, and there are threads singing it’s praises if you get it tuned correctly, is just that and get it tuned.

A Kashima and/or PUSH upgraded isn’t really going to add much more over a tuned OEM shock from a few I’ve spoken to.

If i remember I’ll post an update on how it turns out.

Cheers for the help boys

Huum, so ditch the idea of a new shock and go the tuned route.

Do you guys think the kashima upgrade is worth the £ for the increase in performance?

Thanks for the responces guy’s

Another question to ponder over;

RQ’s or Baron’s for winter, as a do it all tyre?

At the moment i’m running MAxxis DHF 40a up front and an Advantage rear.

???

Guys,

Does anyone know if you can tubless the folding 2.3 Baron?
and
If a 2.3 will fit the rear of a tracer 1?

Cheers Mike

Can’t rate maroc and co highly enough we’re there again for the 4th time next month

Ciclo vids

http://youtu.be/9P6fZCdq56c

RollersTV

http://www.youtube.com/user/RollersTV?feature=mhum#p/u/2/4JAdtjYs0kE

here’s some of my efforts:

younggeoff

where you getting the road rage from

no not yet, it’s just very draggy.

Someone has suggested 3 in 1, but does’nt it have to be a mineral oil. Not sure 3in1 is.

Anyone

I’ve experienced something similar, I’m using the foreign 2 pin plug charger.

Noticed when I’d plug it in to charge the green light on the charger plug either stayed green of flickered red/green.

I have to give the plug a flick with the finger or it to go red and charges the battery.

Yip I know it sounds dodgy, but until i fork out for a uk one it’s the way it is.

That was my experience, take a look at the charger, if poss try someone else’s.

Spot on mate thanks for that

Thanks for the correction PP, I must have been pi55d over the last 4 wks while sorting my particular issue out 🙂

i had a +ve/-ve leak with rev’s this is how it went with them:

1) Let all the air from your -ve,, bike upside down
2) pump your spring rate psi into the +ve
3) turn the bike upside down again and pump the -ve until the fork start suck down, no more than a mm or 2.

if the +ve/-ve seal has gone you wont be able to equalise the fork, you’ll also see the psi in pump very, i could actually see the psi in the -ve decrease with the pump left on the valve.

If it’s sucking down on a ride i would suggest that you have more -ve than +ve and possibly not a seal leak, this is something else i suffered with.

Step 3 was advice that came via mtbr and a guy who was given some tips by PUSH’d., I actually end up with just over 5psi more in the –ve and the forks feeling plush.

btw i have 150mm rev’s , i hated them until i actual took the time to read how to set them up properly, there now way better an capable than a set of Van36’s I had, awesome hard hitting forks.

Lipseal,

Any chance of some pics of your bearing press, gona give it a go

Cheers mike

Stayed with Switchbacks and Ciclo, have to say we’r going back with Ciclo for the 3rd time running this yr, so read into that what you like, same trails and 30mins drive from each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently they should be 7lbs

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=30815

Cheers lipseal I’ll check the intense site, bloody bearings this is the result of a creak from new the LBS have striped all the bearings down to clean and grease, creak gone but the bolts are creeping loose.

I boil in a bag wih a jacket on, so bought this discount from cotswolds.
Dry and warm, plus all i need is a base and a buff if it gets really cold. Just got to sort the cold feet out now.

took the easy option guys and downloaded the trial version of sonyvage might as weel shell out and use this:

cheers anyways

Cheers IA, on a learning curve so i’ll try your suggestions and spend some time googling

Some guys on the contour forum have suggested WMM can edit mov files, but you have to download the full kilite pack. I’v done this, doesn’t work unless I’ve downloaded the incorrect one.

When I get chance i’ll post an update.

My reasons For per suing the WMM is I don’t want to fork out for software, but if all else fails it’ll prob have to be sonyvagas, unless Anyone else has a suggestion.

here’s my contribution

780 ContourHD

bloody hell, no help at all, I’ll buy both………..joking apart I have a few GE items and swear by them.

Does’nt look it’ll matter what i go for bot will more than do the job.

Cheers guys. Bloody winter