every bike trailer I’ve ever had has removable wheels and folds flat for storage/transportation.

What about a tag-a-long? My kids have all been fine on tag-a-longs from around 4 years old.

I’ve used wee-ride’s and rear mounted child seats and trailers or tag-a-longs together to transport 4 kids. Just a wee heads up, if you plan on using a wee ride AND a rear mounted seat together getting on and off the bike will be a nightmare.

and I like you too Yunki ;)

pills mate

Ah… Now you mention it. years and years ago I rode to a girlfriends parents after work. it was about 90 miles of country roads so by the last few miles it was the middle of the night and very dark, I’d not had enough to eat and was feeling almost delirious. just before rounding corner before the final climb I looked to my right and saw a shadow, kind of like a large animal and it was moving at the same speed as me, I stood up to sprint away and it suddenly got more animated and sped up too. it finally clicked that there was a main A road running parallel but lower to the lane I was riding and the beasts shadow was actually mine! :oops: pissed myself laughing all the way up the climb. :lol:

So yeah, I do get that shadows can give you a fright, but they can give you a fright in daylight too.

would need to be an awfully tall cupboard for a tin of spaghetti hoops to even knock you out. even the largest catering tin.

possibly.. it just seems an awfully common fear but not actually all that debilitating for most. Personally I just wouldn’t have called it phobia unless it was a lot more severe. I could be wrong. like I said I’m kinda black and white in my thoughts on a lot of things.

I like darkness. I find it calming. that and the sea. I often sat on the rocks down by the beach at night staring out to sea for hours on my own as a kid.

Sorry, Cougar do you mean you don’t know what pathological means?
I’m using the definition “manifesting behavior that is habitual, maladaptive, and compulsive” ;)

I’ve bumped into unsavoury characters lots, rarely in the dark and almost never anywhere remote. I wonder what makes you think the way you do.

Thanks Butcher, that’s more the sort of thing I was wondering.

I thought phobias were pathological fears Cougar.

it’s 200g heavier than a normal hub but how much does a battery pack weigh that is strapped to your bike?,

slightly less than 200g TBF, lasts 6+ hours (never needed longer) but it’s also obvs removeable (which does matter to some).
Dynamo sounds pretty cool though. I would have read your link but HOW LONG IS THAT THREAD??? 8O .

Not all Etnies are the same molgrips.

Pretty much all Vans waffle soles are shit for riding in nowadays. I tried on every pair in the local Vans store this summer. they were all basically old skool soles (which have always been too thin for pedals) and the even pro-skate models were exactly the same just with a thicker insole.. For me that was a very sad day :(

Yes. always have.
Not all skate shoe soles are the same. some are too thin and some are too stiff.
lack of stiffness does not necessarily mean inefficienct pedalling either. pedalling on flats requires a different technique to pedalling cliped in. (I do clip in plenty too)
I like my soles thin enough for good feel on the pedals but thick enough that the pedals don’t ever hurt my feet.

TEVAs aren’t skate shoes, neither are 5:10s

Would my C&B seen 1200 Lumen light not be too bright on the road or should I just crack on. Also have a Less powerful Cateye on that’s on strobe mode.

I have no idea what your lights are but ideally you want something with a fairly focused spot rather than a flood patern and ideally at least 3 modes. for climbs I switch to low, on the flat mainly med and only use full power for particularly shitty roads and fast descents. remember, if you live anywhere at all hilly you’ll be hitting 40mph+ at some point most rides.
When cars are approaching I often shield the right hand side of my light out of courtesy seeing as they aren’t dippable.
Oh.. and never use a **** off bright strobe!

paulo. don’t forget rims can be designed to be both lighter and more aero without the need for a braking surface.

every week here all year round. Just back from a club ride.
ride solo at night quite a lot, usually 2-4hours but have been known to stay out for the odd night century as well.
single XLM on the bars, 2 front silicone leds and 3 rears (one under the saddle, one at the base of seatpost and the other round the rear hub).
it’s safer than riding in the daylight IMO.

Ok Dan. I do apologise. it must be Pump house.
glad that’s sorted.

Yay! I’ve ridden the steepest trail in Scotland :D

except it isn’t! :(

When does this countdown to ubiquity begin?
I personally can’t wait for the S/H roadbike market to be flooded with incredibly cheap barely used top end rim brakes, frames and wheels.

lolz

That’s good advice from Tracy.
also, when I recommended running 26″ in the Capra this is because at his weight he’ll benefit from the lighter wheels and tyres (There’s also still a wider range of tyres available).
using 26″ will drop the bikes chassis so shorter cranks will be needed but this also happens to be a good thing for his height.
a lower bike will turn better and be more stable (especially good for a small light rider on rough tracks)

mike you’re adding nothing constructive here now

if only son, if only… :cry:

I know that. read my previous posts above Michael ;)

Actually… 8)

WOW! so much nonsense in that last post.
firstly, not all DH bikes even have slack seat angles.
Modern Enduro bikes are NOT MOAR capable on DH tracks. for one thing, they’ll generally use air springs and smaller oil chambers in their shocks/forks and won’t be anywhere near as durable.
I’d suggest YOU read up on leverage ratios. it’s the spring rate and damping that needs to be adjusted for a lighter rider, not the leverage ratio.

Always been confused by Pumphouse. Strava says it’s steep but it doesn’t feel steep. It’s fairly short and direct though. I always think bits of other Caberston trails are way steeper.

I already explained this to you in my second post. :?
Why care so much about what Strava says? I know what steep is, I don’t particularly need any kind of measurement device to know I’ve ridden down steep trails. and certainly don’t need to know the average steepness of any one trail. This conversation is beginning to remind me of the posh tools you used to hear bragging loudly in the queue for their cake at the Hub only back then instead of numbers it was colours. is it a ski **** thing? :lol:

on the road Strava is a decent wee tool for judging the steepest climbs and can be used to find/compare hills whether for training or a challenge. Off road it’ll give a decent idea of what you’re in for in certain areas but there’s no need to get all number autistic about it.

Do yourselves a favour and ride BMX at some point in your lives. For a BMXer there’s either kickers or flat, Vert, tranny or invert.. no none ever talks about angles except to describe how far they’ve spun.

there’s nothing you can’t hit on a hardtail at Hamsterley so any modern enduro bike will cope admirably. same with any of the newer graded trail centre style DH venues. Innerleithen, Ft William, Revolution, Antur etc.

I was just telling a friend at the weekend on the local club run about one of the nicest road bikes I ever owned. A 1960s Flying Scot I rode in the early 90s. it had originally belonged to the father of my (then) girlfriend who’d kindly given me it to train on as my own roadbike was in a shocking state and I was racing XC and he reckoned I was wasting my time training on a mountainbike. He was pretty handy on a bike and it had originally been his first criterium frame, It had an almost original Campag (super?) Record groupset (beautiful, light and really durable) the only concession to being I fitted a new axle and re-dished the rear wheel to allow me to fit an 8 speed Sachs freewheel on by splaying the drop-outs. I rode that bike everywhere on road and off, even up parts of the West Highland Way. I never raced it myself but did do a few TTs. years later I moved to live and work in Glasgow and through the city centre the handling of that bike really shone.. I still set my road bikes up with a mind to replicating that same handling to this day. Eventually it just became far too difficult to get hold of decent 27×1 1/4 tyres so I cleaned it up, serviced it and gave it back to it’s original owner. I bet he’ll still have it somewhere. Don’t have any pics of it, sorry. I’m just not one for taking pics of my bikes. seeing a pic might ruin the rose tint of my memories anyway ;)

You might have trouble fitting modern wheels to an older frame. it’s do-able but you need to remember not only wheel size but OLN and brake drops have changed over the years.

What bike is it you’re building? good luck with it, there’s usually a story behind every old classic bicycle so remember to ask whoever you bought it from to tell you as much about it as they know.

PH is the STRAVA name for “pumper” NW

“the power of free thought”?

:lol:

As Tired pointed out, the difference in fit between a M defy with a 120mm stem and a M TCR with a 100mm stem is only around 5mm but the difference between using a 100mm stem and a 120mm stem will actually have quite a significant effect on handling.
I happen to prefer a quicker steering roadbike and my preference is towards race bike geometry with a shorter stem nice and low. I’m actually way more flexible than most too.
We’re all different though and “nicer handling” is clearly subjective.

can’t you test ride both sizes with suitable length stems?

if we’re all using acronyms here ;)

CS is about 35

i’m 5’11” (33″ inside leg) and a M Defy is far too short for me. (and if anything my preference is towards a slightly shorter bike than most)

is it to ride ben?

What is it Reedspeed?

Was Lance really all that bad?

Ignore what anyone else does
on a mountainbike set your bars to the correct height for riding technical terrain while standing with your cranks level and set your saddle height for the correct extension for pedalling.
Drop on other peoples mountain bikes is irellivant to you.

If he gets good, factory teams will be fighting to buy a shop might offer him a discount on his kit!

If he then becomes an outstanding junior and is well connected a big team might well take him on but unless he becomes a regular top 20 rider he’ll still need to work or make withdrawals from the bank of ma n pa to get by.

He’s 12. let’s hope he just enjoys his riding for now, eh? 8)