Do you have a link to the adaptor seal? I’m struggling to find it on Google.

I run sram t type cassette with a flat top chain and shimano crankset. Likewise, it works fine with a normal eagle cassette and chain when running my mud tire wheel set. There is a small nominal difference in roller diameter, I think 0.1mm which is so small there is no noticeable impact in use. SRAM will say otherwise, but they do want to sell cranksets!

I kind of hope that classified get enough traction that one of the big players brings out a less aspirationally priced competitor. Although I suspect sram would just buy them, make it shift with AXS electronics and Jack the price up.

3×5 on friction shifters is the logical end to this thread.

Or go the whole hog and just settle for a hub with a different sprocket on each side. Who needs more than that!

That said, if you could still get it and frames that would take it, 2x di2 would be very tempting!

I find some fabrics take reproofing better than others. I have an old altura coat that I use for commuting that I reprinted with nikwax five years ago and it still beads better than new. Endura stuff I find never takes reprinting well, even with a thorough wash in soap and multiple cycles of reprinted. It’s a shame, I love the designs but they aren’t effective waterproofs!

It’s like it is because there is more money in selling a fancy fashion van. With more practical design and plain paint and fabrics it wouldn’t get the lifestyle crowd who’ll pay a premium for the look, which has high margin.

edit: I’d be intrigued to see how the bike fits upright. What size is it?

I was tempted by the cheap transfers, but I assume they are the older model that needs special (expensive) tools to service.

The kits come with everything, but if you just buy a derailleur that won’t include a battery. Pretty sure you can use shifters interchangeably.

worth being aware there are two versions of axs. The later version ‘T-Type’ has better shift quality, particularly under load. It has specific chains and cassettes. It works fine with other 12 speed stuff, but the shifting isn’t as good (although my experience is it is still better than older style mechs).

If you have any photos of you riding then I’d suggest taking a look at your hands and wrists in them. I find that when I do that, the angles of my hands and wrists give quite a good indication of what I need to change.

I’m interested in the answers to the original question.

However, I suspect the range will rule it out for me. From what I have read, that range falls quickly so on the motorway it’s more like 150 to 180 miles. The charge also isn’t lightning fast, half an hour for 10 to 80%. On a long trip, that means you would need to get lucky with the spacing of fast chargers to manage two hours between half hour stops. That’s very different to something like the Ioniq 6 which charges almost twice and fast with longer stints between stops. Not so good for bikes though.

I’m also struggling to make the environmental sums make sense. The ~20 tonnes of CO2 to make a big luxury car is about 80000 miles of diesel before factoring the CO2 of producing electricity to charge. At that point, as much as I want an Buzz, it feels more practical and better environmentally to run our current car until it dies then get an EV.

Demoed one and it descended incredibly well for such a short travel bike, almost as good as the 150mm ish bikes (although I suspect repeated hits would see it start to struggle). On the flip side on technical climbs I found it worse than the bigger bikes I was demoing.

Would probably suit a use case of covering big distance with a focus on the descents but where the climbs are generally road or fire road. For me the better technical climbing ability meant that bikes like the trek fuel and Nukeproof reactor that I demoed that day were better for the riding I do. If I wanted to cover ground quickly, a proper XC/down country bike like the epic would be a different class.

Sorry for the typo, it’s a 1275 but I think that is functionally the same as a 1230.

Yes. I have two wheel sets with different tires. One has transmission cassette, the other standard eagle. I switch chains when swapping them over and both work fine. The t-type cassette shifts better under load (flat out sprinting) but the standard axs cassette still shifts better with the t type mech than a normal one.

Some have had issues with needing spacers on non-t-type cassette to get into the adjustment range but I haven’t needed one.

I thought their reputation was for great service when it inevitably breaks! Your experience seems consistent!

Cracked out a 20 year old colnago a couple of years ago. Discs are a bit nicer as are wider tires (although new narrow tires are better grippier and more supple than the old ones). Beyond that, the experience was pretty similar to my newer bike.  To be honest, it felt better than my carbon condor. If I wasn’t worried about the corrosion I’d still happily have it as my go to bike!

I tried riding my 12 year old trail bike on mellow XC trails. It was awful, I swear it was trying to kill me!

Run it internally: down the downtube and up the seat tube. There should be a cutout in the bb shell that you can poke a finger through to help guide it. Much easier with a cable fishing kit.

If your aim is speed on an xc corse, then unless your are particularly light or talented then I’d spend the money on an fs frame over lighter components.
Saving 1kg will make you ~ 1% faster on the steepest climbs and have less impact everywhere else. Being able to cruise over roots sat down when knocked without the back wheel catching and slowing you down is huge.

Does this mean the stuff I ordered a week ago will arrive?

Had a prompt reply to a query on Monday, so hopefully just a website glitch.

I’d be returning as not as described if it was me, unless it was what I really wanted or amazingly cheap. Though they seem to have been going for surprisingly high prices for budget frames with no warranty.

I looked at a downcountry lapierre when they were cheap on evans. I was put off by lack of reviews other than one by Pinkbike that was less than complimentary about the suspension!

So are the rapides,  but for these prices…

I don’t get the environmental argument; it’s not like any solar you export just disappears, it displaces other generation. Most likely gas, which is most likely what you would be consuming in the evening if you didn’t have a battery.

Thanks for the reply sl80. I tried crc again and got a fairly prompt response. They refunded me for the price of buying the clip off of halfords, an impatient wait for it to arrive now! However, they swore that the bike doesn’t come with the red battery box!

I think they have started doing a 110 mm air shaft for the Sid SL, but not 120. Not sure if the 110 only works in 2024 forks or what model year the forks coming in the bike are.

Mine arrived. Unfortunately the rear derailleur is missing the clip to told the battery in so it’s pretty useless. I have hunted in the boxes of stuff and can’t find it. No response from crc to an email about it. Where was it for everyone else?

Bike came in at 12.1 kg delivered, so unless they used the worlds heaviest inner tubes the claimed weight is looking as fictional as the idea that it’s grey.

Good setup, especially if you can position it just right to unlock the suspension when you drop the seat!

What sort of color is it? The pictures look white, but description says grey!

So only 20% heavier than the headline weight on wiggle!

Did you weight it before adding the dropper?

Not saying it’s hugely serious, but people were talking about evasion vs avoidance and if it’s not for commuting it’s the former

It’s evasion if the bike isn’t primarily used for cycling to work.

For run flat use I prefer them to rimpacts. I think because rimpacts are quite low to the rim tires tend to fold over on themselves whereas airliners hold them closer to a normal shape.

my mum runs them (road and gravel variants) and doesn’t bother to fix punctures, just tootles slowly home.

Bontrager drop lock is pricey but good.

XL – I’d need to run a 200 mm dropper on a large to have enough insertion. Though I do use a very short stem.

I have one on order to replace a 2020 one that cracked… it was second hand so no warranty. Therefore I’m a bit sceptical about the quality (particularly with the wiggle warranty looking shaky), but it’s hard to beat for the price.

Despite being only 100mm it descends really well; it has a very long wheelbase for an Xc bike making it very stable. For marathons the long reach could load or arms more than you want, but I have done all day rides without issue. The suspension is very active, this makes it plush downhill but wouldn’t be great if you like a firm platform but don’t want to use the lockout.

I as a (long legged)6’2 and 84kg, I need the shock pressure on the limit to get the sag sensible. So if you are tall and heavy, that might be an issue.

It’s sliding around the snow in mountains. Don’t stress! With a decent thermal base (cycling kit works) then waterproof top and bottoms (again cycling kit works, although ski trousers will fit over boots which is better than mtb ones which have tight cuffs) you’ll be fine.

Unless you get unlucky, it will probably won’t be that cold. You’re in Italy in spring, so the sun will be hot if it comes out.

Surely they should just be using heat pumps? Cheaper and no CO2!

Is there a cheaper way of getting replays of full races than discovery plus? I was planning on stumping up for GCSEs plus this year instead as of just watching the u23 races which they put on YouTube, but £7 a month is too much to justify just for this!

It depends what you want to achieve. By most measures plastic packaging will normally be environmentally better than cardboard as plastics don’t require as much energy or water to produce. There are numerous analyses available on the web, and they all vary slightly based on the inputs. However there is some discussion in this guardian article (it’s old, but the fundamentals haven’t changed) https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2010/mar/31/plastics-cardboard

The one place that plastic is worse, of course, is that the waste doesn’t break down, so makes a mess if not disposed of responsibly. There is a bit of concern there as cash strapped councils may not always ensure that their decoying contractors are doing what they say, leading to waste being irresponsibly dumped.

where I try and avoid plastic packaging is in direct contact with food due to the issues with chemicals leaching into the food, but that is very hard to achieve for everything.

When my mother is asked about getting an e-bike she says not until she’s 80; “I haven’t given up on life yet”. So from that authoritative source the answer is yes!

Having seen the cutting out of any corners/roots/ features by eebs at Cannock and QECP I wonder why these folk go on the trails at all. They don’t seem to want to ride them, so why not stick to the fire roads and not destroy the trails?

I have an old style DTE and an MT500. Despite buying the  endura to replace the DTE when it was a couple of years old the DTE is in much better condition even with much more use.
i got the endura to replace the Maddison as the fit was odd. The cuffs are really tight so the rain goes straight inside you gloves and the neck is really baggy so rain and cold gets in there. That was the old version with pit vents, the new version may be better.
If Maddison made jackets to endura’s designs it would be perfect!

Edit: the Maddison has been perfectly waterproof even in horrendous conditions (apart from via the gaping neck).

Though a shout out to whoever is funding QECP. There at the weekend and the new skills area and mini trail were really popular with the kids. The resurfacing on the top of the blue descent had it flowing great.