I have some Endura MT500 which are 1 ride old I am wanting to sell. I don’t ride gnarr enough to justify them.

Sagan is so dreamy.

Nice to see one of the component guys turned up 🙂 They were great to me last year too.

Daft question time! My bike came with 2×10 (Salsa El Mariachi), can I just 1×10 it out of the box, or do I have to use a shorter cage rear mech?? Yup I has no clue if it is short cage or not 😛

That video is very funny

Did anyone else think the red line on the number board for us soloists was crap? Mine had gone in no ome at all. diamond last year was better.

I’m a leftie and: play guitar, box, iron and use most stuff right handed. I can’t use my left hand for other stuff apart from writing its proper weird! I can use both my legs for football. Yup I’m an odd one.

If they perform any better than the Deore ones, you are on to a winner either way. The Deore M596 ones I have are ace!!!

Graham you’re a top man!! Spotted a few of me in your album 🙂

I had 32:20 on as well. I had brought an 18t cog but thought I may blow up lol. I had more dramas withy ignitors clogging.

Out of curiosity what ratio were singlespeeders running? Those singular guys flew past me.

I did feel personally the atmosphere was a bit meh. There were also some right miserable gits riding. I did have fun, especially my monkey hallucination.

That course hated singlespeed!!

Just found it on the Salsa site! It is indeed 73mm English. Cheers for answering though.

Olympic Rings you can adjust and a kettlebell.

I know about all the gear inch stuff. I go for ow it feels rather than faffing with maths.

Sorry it’s a case of first time ss on the 29er so not sure what ratio I am going to run 😀 I ran 32:17 on my 26 so it’s for trial and error.

I have no mud tyres 🙁

I 24hr on a steel hardtail. I find it comfy enough bare in mine my other bike is a Trance x2 so I’m used to having a sofa 😀

Luther is a blimming great series.
Dexter is immense.
SOA gets very ridiculous.
Bates Motel is great in a kooky way.
Revolution I watched the first one and though it was pap.
Walking dead is very good.
Breaking bad shouldn’t have made the latest series IMHO.
Oh and the shield +100
That’s my 2p

Just ordered a joystick!! 1/2 price it’s rude not too!!

It’s a sport based arround riding for hours to get back to where you started. I don’t thing Strava makes it any more pointless!

It’s not pointless. It’s point to point! It just so happens in most cases that both points are in the same place 😛
Chasing KOMs on Straaaaaaaaaavvvvvvaaaa is a bit pointless though 😀 don’t get me wrong I think Strava is a great idea, it’s just a shame idiots spoil it.

It’s been around for a bit that there site. I really don’t understand why you would use it though??? Saying that I don’t really use Strava as I found that different devices give some right spurious result so it’s a bit pointless.

My new(er) bike has 2×10 and I think it’s amazing. GOing back to my triple on the Trance feels wrong IMHO. I did run 1×9 on my old bike but got fed up of dropping the chain 🙁

I use rice pudding if I am out for a long ride or before a race.

Arse!!! I had unfinished business with this, I couldn’t do it last year due to being on a HM Forces holiday 🙁 No SITS and no Kielder that sucks.

What wally said. Did mine the other week and the seat tube ones were knackered. The rest of them were very graunchy. I got mine from mtb bearings.

Thought that might be the case! Cheers guys.

Hmm, not sure whether to take a punt or not.

I left the rucksack at work 🙂

That’s cheating rocketdog 😉

Yup not feeling the love for this 🙁 methinks the “race” is off for me and it will just be ride and chip off to my tent for bits. I don’t fancy leaving my lights, spares, gels etc loitering for anyone to help themselves to. I’m sure I remember talking to some poor sod that had some of his bits nicked from the solo tent last year. Sounds small, but if you’re hungry and tired it ain’t fun.

As Paulio I too rely on the trackside camping as I have no support. This should be interesting!

And the overwhelming majority of the UK population lives in the South.

Their loss 😉

Watches with interest.

I am after a medium.

Ian you have mail.

Glad I have no jockey wheels to worry about 😀

As a solo singlespeeder I am v curious as to how much this is going to differ. It looks ok and me thinks the tree laced singletrack will be “interesting” in the night. . Getting off and pushing for steep climbs is ways a winner though 😀

Word to the wise: anyone that uses the term “rock”,
non-ironically, most certainly does not “rock”.

I generally sway, but I do like to rock stuff. I’m very good at it.