When is the best time to sell a 26″ Five ?

Right now, to me, for a tenner :P

Oh dear.

This seemed like a great idea for the 20inch wheel city bikes they first aimed them at.

1) ProCore? I haven’t seen many reviews of this. Maybe it’s the answer. It’s expensive and heavy, though.

I’m using it and I haven’t flatted since May. I flatted a lot before that, tubeless or otherwise, despite my riding being a lot less lairy. It’s changed my riding, things I was wary of before I just point the bike at and get off the brakes now. It took a bit of tinkering with tyre pressures before I found one that was comfortable for my weight, bike and general use, once you’re below 20 differences between single digits of PSI become a lot more apparent.

It’s expensive, it’s not for everyone, it won’t be indestructible, but given how much time and frustration it’s saved me out on trails with the HT, I’d buy it with my own money.

Edit: I’m not the kind of rider who notices a few hundred grams here and there, but the weight difference is similar to the difference between exo and dual ply.

Link because it’s probably huge as non gif-v:

U may be magician hooman, but I am just dog.

Well now I’m Susan too, but it’s just all the peer pressure, right?

fasthaggis – Member
Be organised and eliminate all faff.

Very much this. Prep your bike, bag, clothes and stuff for breakfast the night before, or it’ll take you an eternity to leave the house.

Low point for me: putting a bike back together in a massive rush at seven a.m., then realising the cranks were at 90 degrees to each other when I tried to pedal off.

Just get him to sign the dent with a sharpie.

Pretty much what Faustus said. You’ll get better at tying the things you see on the ground to things you see on a map as you practice more, especially contour lines :D

I’ve always found it really useful to look over routes using satellite photography in advance (and afterward) too. OS maps do have symbols for vegetation types, but satellite imagery seems to give me a much better memory/anticipation of those kind of landscape changes, trail surfaces and widths, etc.

I find my phone in a pocket works okay too. Viewranger is a really handy app if there’s an area you’re going to ride in a lot, though it has a slightly annoying tiles and micropayments system with a minimum spend of £8.99 for 30 map tiles. You can import GPX files and lay them on top of the OS map.

Or Eggs Benedict.

Hendo’s. It is, frankly, an outrage that they don’t seem to export it to the other side of the Pennines.

I was thinking that too. I might lay a patio in advance then take a pneumatic drill. I suppose a rammer plate would do in a pinch.

eddiebaby – Member
I’d rather have a chainsaw than sodding cowbells.

I think we’ve found our perp, everyone!

Cheers for leading HtS, I enjoyed the second half once I’d realised what was up with the bike. I thought I’d been gradually losing fitness for the past month! :)

I have ordered the special little tool for my delicate special little brake. Hopefully the bike won’t feel like I’m dragging a sack of coal behind it for Up The Butress this weekend.

Getting to the point my old bike felt like it was limiting me, rather than the other way around. Went from a 100mm hardtail to a Blue Pig with 160, as it felt like the next step and suited to the kind of things I was enjoying. Also considered a 456 and BFe.

In two years of bringing my riding on, I haven’t got to a point where I feel the bike is holding me back, so unless I have a windfall and fancy something squishy, it’ll probably be a long time before I consider another bike.

Cool, cheers Daz, see you there :)

Thanks Daz. Beate might be late, so that’d be great. Can probably get to The Masons for a given time.

If I can get a lift I’ll be there.

That companion stone appears to be a message for Al.

Oh, there’s Todmorden Toy and Model Museum! Tiny, ramshackle, used for a Derren Brown thing once, full of disturbing old toys:

I’ve heard of a few people swapping drivers in Chinese lights for better ones recently, but nothing beyond that.

loddrik – Member
Horniman. Does that count as a little museum?

It just looks small once you’re inside because the walrus is so big :)

Thanks everyone. GoFaster, that’s a double tap and die :P

finishthat – Member
Get a tap and drill bit set

porter_jamie – Member
or get something like this

https://www.cromwell.co.uk/SEN0259960K

which has the drills too

I think that’s what I’ll go for; thank you both. The last place I lived, I was spoiled by having access to a really well equipped hackspace, so could generally find anything like a tap drill set on a whim until I moved north. It’s ruined me now I’m back to hand tools instead of machinery :)

It is. That’s the main reason I’m skipping it :P

AlexSimon – Member
perhaps it remembers last mode at switch-off.

It does.

Second ride with mine last night, and like you I found the light on my helmet was noticeably bluer. The BT21 throws a wider beam than I feel I need that close to the bike, but even so the output is more than adequate.

Ta OP!

That’s a very sweet post Zachary. I’m sorry for your loss.

Someone here was recommending the older version of these Adidas Terrex approach shoes a while back. Toe protection, stealth rubber sole; If I were after new flat shoes, they’d be top of the list to check out.

A mate has had some bad issues sending with MyHermes, as a result tries to avoid buying anything that’ll be sent with them too.

The only cause of rape is rapists, and that’s an encouraging bevy of nos at the start of the thread.

The rest of you, if you’d like to read some actual evidence instead of spewing paranoid hypothetical scenarios, here’s a CPS report (Which, warning, can make for some distressing reading if you get to the case studies). They put the amount of false accusations at just over 0.6%, and in that 0.6%, most cases are complicated by age, pre-existing abusive situations, and mental health issues.

Good bit of context I learned recently: false reports of car theft are around 2%

AlexSimon – Member
nach – nice work.
How did you find the beam pattern?

Ta. I found the beam fine, but I do ride with a XM-L2 torch on my lid that throws a spot quite a long way, and tend to use bar lights for flooding the trail closer by. I’ll let you know if I find anything rubbish about it in the next week or two.

Overall, with all of this stuff I’m finding about 1/3 of cheap lights are a pain in the arse. Still works out cheaper than brands, but it’s very much for fettlers.

“Investing” in some gewgaw or other liability.

I’ve often heard people say it about cars, desktop computers and other shiny things that lose half their value in the first year.

Also: “use it in anger”

Next up will be black bike bits described as “tactical”.

I ordered a BT21 from Gearbest around the 21st and got it within a week.

Took it out for a first ride last night. I’m running it paired up with four good quality protected XTAR cells in a battery box. It survived getting rained on, and is plenty bright enough. I only used the overdrive mode on fast descents and suspect it won’t do much intelligent stuff to mitigate the heat buildup over time. It does get hot fast, so we’ll see if the driver burns out in the next few months (a similarly built one sold as the Jexree Owl seemed fine at first, but has got noticeably dimmer over the year to the point it’s useless now – whereas I’ve had years of use out of P60 based XM-L2 and P7 flashlights).

One of the things I liked the look of with the BT21 was the heatsink giving a decent mounting area at the side of the light. I hate the rubber band light mounts these all come with, so bought a Gloworm quick release mount off the classifieds here, and adapted the light with a bolt, a range of drills from 2.5 to 5mm, and an M3 tap:

The messy looking spacer is there for now because I only had long M3 machine screws to hand. The first fin has a 5mm hole to accommodate the inner facing part of the mount, the thread goes all the way through the rest.

Gloworm mounts are the best I’ve seen: machined aluminium, low footprint, can raise the light up a little to help fire it over cables, and let you position the light body directly over the stem (which is more an OCD thing for me than anything, but does take up less room on the bars).

Seems mostly ok still over Littleborough way, including Mordor, though I suppose what Daz took us over was largely sandy and rocky.

Great ride Daz. The rocky bit, just after the pics below were taken, was some lovely technical puzzle solving.

I hadn’t seen that before. I like that he seems terrified of that last puddle :D

Last December I was out riding by myself, and did a section around some access roads for wind farm construction. Carrying the bike over a pile of what looked like rubble and clods of earth, I disappeared up to my thighs in about half a second. That half second of wondering how deep the mud went was absolutely terrifying.

My hub bearings wouldn’t shift with any of the ghetto methods, so I ended up buying a blind bearing puller set, and absolutely do not regret it. Worth trying ghetto methods first, but if you decide get a set double check the size ranges it covers, because one of the smaller, cheaper sets of 4 rather than 8 will probably cover everything you’re likely to need for an MTB.

Some of the early ones are definitely reposts, but I found the motherlode of factory machinery gifs:

I’ll be there.

Link because it’s huge in non gifv form:
http://imgur.com/DKOpBoz

Should be there!