er, not quite! http://bit.ly/h1KcAf

Surly, Salsa, Civia and Ridgeback for now.

Flattered by the interest :oops:

Rich at Keep Pedalling

32:19 in the South Pennines, 36:20 on the Pugsley

out with FreeRideSpain last year I was running what I would consider to be barely enough air in the tyres and the grip on the rocks was amazing. Bontrager 2.35 XR4s on Bontrager rims with Stans milk in them and no pinches or thorn punctures at all. That was on a Dialled Alpine with 140mm Revs though I’m no heavyweight at around 10.5 stone.

Just can’t be arsed with punctures anymore, tubeless everywhere for me.

hands on hoods

You gotta be kidding me…brakes don’t work and you’re not actually gripping anything properly. Use the drops, put a higher stem on if necessary.

Open Pro’s and 35mm Landcruisers here.

if it’s just thorns and not bigger stuff why not use slime tubes? they should seal the thorn holes and may be not as heavy as a Marathon Plus. Not much stops thorns but if you can seal it once it’s in jobs a good un!

aren’t they ‘tubeless ready’ ie they rely on the sealant to be airtight, so a little leakage is normal.

no you won’t die btw

Mrs Mocha’s 5’1″ and rides a 47cm Trek Madone WSD – fits very nice. Worth a look?

41 x 19 here, mtfu :wink: 63″ is about right.

my LBS has been pants…. ordered cups in Sept delivery delayed until mid nov…. so ordered the nuke proof from CRC £30 cheaper….. and has the Cane creek arrived….. nope..

hardly the LBS being pants though is it?

that looks very appetising – do you deliver? :wink:

if I ran mine s/s I’d be running 32/17, as it is I’m running 2×6 at the moment – fat up front. The more friendly winter option.

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and currently with a fat wheel on the front too. great fun.

£15 Endura Spectrum – pretty good if they fit your face.

two sets of wheels would be the way to go.

isn’t it simply that the bearings sit in the cups at an angle?

there isn’t really a defence for being caught speeding tho is there?

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damn those slippery cobbles…

I’ve mostly run my trek 69er with 26″ rigids ie 445mm and it rides fine, super fast handling – if that’s your thing. The Trek was/is s’posed to run with a 29er sus fork btw.

that’s a 100mm non offset Pugsley fork – spot on length with an Endomorph.

took the half fatted TD:1 out for a spin today, felt good. i think running the rear at 20psi certainly helped, all good fun

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olive ?

No, not in my experience anyway :o(

doesn’t Jeff say to go with what you already use?

29er – grippier, slower, comfier

cx – slidier, faster, not comfy – s’pecially on frozen ground!

he seems to like it

ooh, that’s what I was about to say. It did take me about 3 goes before I got my first Pug wheel right :oops:

s’pose £8 each is a bit expensive but from my experience they do last well.

we have them if you can’t find them locally.

yeah, 7901, it says here http://www.surlybikes.com/blog/spew/spew_8_spoke_calculation/ just going to whip the locknuts off a hub to check tho…

yeah, that’s right – 7901RS

which hub?

What tyre sizes and ratios do you lot use?

4″ and 36/19

try your local bike shop? we’re local if you live in South Manchester and have a drawer full of stainless bolts.

I think that 700£ would have been enough to buy a bike to cycle to work

yeah, it would. But then what about all the lights, lock, helmet, rack, panniers, mudguards, etc. It seems to me that limit was set so that people could get kitted out properly in one go.

they are listed ( well, as a size 56 ) but no due date yet.

whoop!

32×20 will be fine. Works for me in the South Pennines.

yeah, you were answering my mystery :-) cheers! at the time it just seemed weird to have ponies stabled all the way up there – seems like a logistical nightmare to get feed etc up there. That’s a damn steep hill we pushed up from the loch!

That would be the ‘The Pony Shed'( Garrons / Deerstalking)

sorry, being thick here, what? The place had tack hanging in there, so looked like it was used for stabling? or am I missing a fundamental somewhere along the line?

hmmm, should be there – http://stufffromtheoutside.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-scotland-more-bikepacking.html

chap at work’s got a Trek OCLV road bike from around 16 years ago. I think that was around the time the first ones were produced. He still rides it too.