yES rOB – what you driving at the moment?

Running the same bmx tubes on 717’s with eight different tyre changes over the last 14 months – NO TAPE.

Why the faff? Schwalbe bmx tubes, JRA milk, fairy liquid, track pump (or sometimes CO2 with certain tyres)8 tyre changes on the same bmx tube and still no worries. Rim tape sounds like way too much hassle.

Grapefruit juice and brown sugar

B&Q Chainsaw oil – ya nose it!!!!!

Rob why are you asking? You will get decent advice from here and then end up buying the wonkiest crock of T4or suchlike you can find – please prove me wrong!!!! Mondeo 06 Zetec/ Octavia Elegance 2.0 PD

YGM

Cheers Stoner very considerate – what about i squirt you a rental fee as a paypal gift you post the hanger to me – when I get one from Planetx I send it back to you – you donate rental as a STW pint – jobs a good ‘un

Was eaten alive by midgies on Skye last week- huge red welts which looked bad but no real discomfort. Were only baby ones don’t fancy chances in another week or two.

Had 32 Talas on mine at a time 100mm-140mm – 120mm seemed to work well but the fork went a bit noodly if you wanted to crash through rock gardens. 36 Talas was a bit too much fork. Air Pikes seem to be the best all round fork for my sort of riding

**** me!!!!is there anybody stable that has come out of Oakfield?

Hustler

Fanks 😀

YGM Druid

Currently using 4 sets of sintered that were bedded in correctly – lasting well so far in a lot of wet riding, plenty of power but bit of a squeler in the wet (07 and 08 XT)

Thanks gents me thinks I will bring it up to CRC to let them see if it is a warranty issue – notchy bearings at 5 months old ain’t good

Cheers P I saw that and me thinks I need oversizr cone spanners as mu 16mm one’s are nowhere near the size needed.

Cheers

Nice colour Ton but **** me does your BUPA cover you for Chiropractor?

Halfords LHM is £10.95 for a 1lt bottle -unless you have a stable the size of a Sheik go to a decent LBS and get a small bottle for much less

Galicia is an absolutley beautiful part of the world, completely unlike the typical costa’s – if you want to stay somewhere very special there is a pension right beside the cathedral in Santiago which is veery reasonable

Rubber mallet. bit of 4 x 2 and a nice cold pint of mtfu – Bob’s your uncle

Did the PGCE for a year and then taught for 4 months after it – that was 12 years ago. By far the worst 18 months of my life. If you are the type that likes to pull the shutters down come 5pm and have a life outside of your job DONOT even think about teaching.

Lidl silicon spray – 99p per can
Or if you like the smell of apple and have more money than sense
Autoglym Dash spray £7.99 per can

Montane Featherlite – cracking lightweight smock for the money – unless it is really chucking it down it will keep you dry, packs down to “a small eating apple” and breaths fine. Used to have Gore Paclite and not worth the money imho.

Put the chain on, get an old towel (the terry towel sort) give a good 20 rotations with you grabbing the chain as it rotates to try and remove as much shipping grease as you can- go out and ride, if it’s wet clean the bike as you normally do and start oiling the chain if you think it need it – shipping lube = sh*t magnet

Me the wife and my kids are healthy – can’t ask for more.

In recent years they have definetly been overpriced and underspecced and the fact that CRC bought a couple of containers from the Swiss distributor and then sold them at much larger discounts than anyone else pretty much put Paligap back a bit with their potential sales.

What headset?

Having had a ti456 which I replaced with a PA (due to imminent redundancy) Yes the inbred builds into a superb bike and everything you have probably read about it is true. However having bought a PA second hand at 90 quid I can definelty say the 456 is not ten times better than it. I have to say the PA is as capable in most situations and the only time I really miss it is on long technical climbs where the weight saving of about 2.5lbs does help- though I keep telling myself that fitness will soon overcome this. Unless you have money burning a huge hole the PA really is a cracking frame.

Evans were doing oem xt for 34 quid, don’t know if they still have stock.

Had a 03 SE estate from new, third Primera in sucession and from what the Nissan service manager told me I got a decent one – “only” my door lock failed whilst going round a roundabout with my 7 year old in the back, door mirror motor failed three times, 35mpg, handled like a galleon. LAGUNA IN DISGUISE.

It is the predictable answer but look at an Octavia instead

Flat blade screwdriver + rubber mallet = pikey special
THANKS

Congratulations big boy- the wall of black poo, green sick and screaming is only building. Enjoy it while you can.

Can vouch for Malcolm as a top guy – bought a DB off fleabay nearly two years ago for £180 without hardware for the bike I needed to put it on. Sent it off to him after agreeing what I needed in two emails, within 10 days I had it back with hardware, service, correct spring and shipping. All for $40 which at the time was about 22 quid. BEST customer service ever

Mikey post your paypal up again as I will gladly help you out in line with other helpful bods like Zedsdead et al – ignore the glupton and his sad and bitter outlook

He IS your man if any child belonging to you needs looking after at your nearest animal safari park.

Had a set of 36talas on a ti456 – super slack and brilliant at crashing through things but unless you are riding stuff that points down bigstyle a set of pikes will make better sense 95% of the time.

Get an old inner tube and sharp scissors – FANNY’S YOUR AUNT

Tony I had a sit and carpark ride on the blinging Spicy dripping with XTR and 36’s in a lovely ballbarnish finish up at CRC a fornight ago. 08 model for an unbelievable £2100 – Ventana not up to it then?