I had something similar on a set of SRAM Force cranks.

I was the only bidder, I won the cranks and paid for them, then ten minutes later I got a refund and a note from the seller saying he had sold the cranks to someone else just before the end of the auction.

I sent him a reply saying that he was telling porkies and that I was going to report him to ebay, which I did. They came back and said that he had breached their T&C’s and they suspended his account.

Just waiting for a 1978 Dave Lloyd frame and forks to be refinished at Argos in Bristol. It will then be built up using a mixture of age related parts.

I’m just about to start building up the wheels, using Mavic Module E rims and Campag Nuovo Tipo hubs.

My concessions to the modern world will be stainless db spokes, a new headset and modern tan wall tyres.

I can’t remember the BCD, but you can get a narrow / wide chainrings to fit the inner spider.

There is not much choice of manufacturers but I managed to find a 30T for my 1 x 10 29’er.

Another KTM Revelator fan.

Mine is my training bike and I am nothing but happy with it.

Speak to Jose at Paulus Quiros. I recently had a very interesting conversation with him about the properties of Reynolds 525. Or better still wait until April and go to Bespoked.

Also, consider a s/h Rourke. I got my 853 frame and forks for well under your budget.

Then again, Steve Goff makes frames at amazingly good prices, and s/h they (shamefully) sell for very little money. There was an absolute stonker on LFGSS a couple of weeks ago.

X-Lite. Bar ends, seatposts, levers, and all sorts of goodies.

They were the company that founded Muc-Off, but after the death of the founder, the X-Lite part of the business was sold off.

I was planning on road riding yesterday afternoon. I don’t mind the cold so much, but it was just horrible here and I would have had frozen bits before getting out of the end of my road.

Misty and frosty this morning, but I’m hoping this will lift and I can get out later, road or mtb, I really don’t mind which.

A few years ago bumped into a guy with the lightest steel BObJackson road bike. Is that possible?!

My 853 Rourke weighs 8.2kg’s, and could have been lighter if I had used SRAM Red rather than Force22 and used carbon bars, stem and seatpost instead of alloy, so yes, lightweight affordable steel bikes are possible.

Steve Goff.

[list]http://www.steve-goff-frames.co.uk/index.shtml[/list]

I don’t think solo is the most popular category, so I’d just get yourself in front of a computer as soon after the online entries open as you can and you should be fine.

I use a proper bike bag.

They are £50 new but I got my last one from eBay for £15.

Dunno, I ordered medium and large shorts and got nowt.

Three jerseys and a T shirt have arrived, but no shorts and I’m assuming no chance of any, other than private eBay sellers.

I still don’t understand how people who ordered before me have got nothing and some who ordered after me have got jerseys and shorts. Sounds like total confusion in picking the orders.

Just got the same e-mail.

Jerseys dispatched but bibs pending.

I started riding mtb’s in the late 80’s and road bikes three years ago, so I know where you are coming from.

I almost never use the drops, I spend most of my time riding on the hoods or on the tops when I’m cruising.

30 miles is a good stretch to get started, but you’ll need a few more runs like that before it starts to feel normal, and as others have said, this isn’t the best time of year.

Before you buy new tyres, just take the current ones down a few psi (depending on your weight). I’m around 76kgs and run 20mm tyres at 90 psi, and get good grip in all conditions, although wet, gravel and the occasional splash of diesel can upset things from time to time.

Depending on where you live, try to keep off busy roads as the last thing you need right now are idiots in vehicles giving you a hard time.

Stick at it, it’s great fun. I now spend more time on the road than I do off, and last summer I spent a week cycling in the Highlands of Scotland and it was amazing.

Just got the same e-mail.

The venders think their horsey activity is what gives the New forest its unique character, so they feel justified in their stance as achieving conservation.

As the owner and rider of a New Forest pony, there is a problem with this stance when it comes to the Wiggle sportive. Pony’s live in and around the forest. The sportive take place on the roads and starts / finish (at the behest of the NFNPA) outside the National Park, so there is no conflict between conservation, as the Verderers are not charged with ‘conserving’ the tarmac on the roads, and recreation.

From what I can see this is just a campaign to get the sportives out of the New Forest, and if local businesses are concerned, then they need to start making a lot more noise about it, assuming of course that they can, without the nimby’s turning on them.

mine only lasts about 20 mins on a full charge

20 minutes! I am getting an hour and a half constant recording on the battery supplied.

I record as much of my training rides as the battery allows, so far I have got two close passes by a bus, a pull out by a Jag and an old guy in a Yaris who nearly took my right arm off when he insisted on overtaking me as I was signalling to turn right.

Best £60 i have ever spent.

Interesting thread.

All this time I thought it was just me that found the massive adverts for things I have no interest in and no wish to buy unbelievably annoying.

As for the forum, I signed up a couple of years ago and then very quickly stopped using it, and just assumed that there were a few members who liked to keep the place for themselves, after being trolled almost to death.

So the NFNPA have now adopted a charter that none of the cycling organisations or the event organisers have signed up to.

Is it safe therefore to assume that the NFNPA are going to try to enforce their charter? And if they are, then how exactly do they intend, if I am rider number 1001, to stop me riding my bike on the public highway through a National Park?

Sounds like a vigilante’s charter to me.

Thanks OP. got some kit for both myself and my son.

It would seem my feet are “very very strange”, as I have two pairs of Fizik’s 1 pr 2012 and another from 2013 when they were silly cheap. The 2012 shoes fit a tiny bit better, but both are comfy and spot on my trainer size (8 / 42).

Driver handed himself into the Police and the rider has been found and declined to press charges.

What can you say.

As for who did what, the punishment pass after overtaking is pretty standard fare, even when (or especially when) you overtake on the outside, and I don’t commute or even live in a city.

Other than the fisticuffs there is nothing on that video that most road riders have not experienced time and time and time again. I even had some **** indicate left and start to pull into the curb when he was half way past overtaking me! Meh!

It’s a jungle out there.

Interested to know how you get from Long Ashton to the Mendips with very little on road.

Cycle path from Long Ashton to Nailsea, Kenn Moor from Nailsea to Yatton and Strawberry line from there?

That’d be a nice ride on a gravel / cx bike.

Be interesting to see how this compares to the madorc, one chap reckoned the madorc climbs were worse…

MADORC climbs were only worse because some came much later in the ride.

HONC 2014 had a lot of steep climbs, but on the 50k course the last third of the ride was pretty straightforward.

I thought HONC was a better course for those who were tired of leg and lung.

Would do both again.

What is the overall weight?

I have an 853 Rourke that I built up with carbon Mizuno forks, sub 1500g hand made wheels, Force22 and USE seatpost, stem bars. All up it has come in at 8.2kgs, which I am pretty pleased about.

I don’t race, I just built for summer riding and sportives.

Three of us in, and just had toast, yum.

750 places gone now, looks like it’s slowing down a bit.

I got mine for a UK eBay seller for £59 posted. I ignored some of the cheaper listings as the cameras did not have the SJCAM logo on the front.

Mine is a genuine one, with the right firmware and menu’s and I’m well pleased with it. So far I have just used it on the road bike, but by turning off the screen when recording (as suggested by Technmoan) I am getting 90 minutes record time. I have even taught myself basic editing using iMovie and have used that to save the two close passes by a bus the other day, plus the dick in the Jag that pulled out on me waaaay too late.

I’ve not heard of anyone being robbed like that before, but if you park your car in the roads around Leigh Woods / Ashton Park, then there is a very good chance it will be broken into.

This happens so often that the wardens in Ashton Park know where the thieving scum dump the bags once they have removed anything they want from them.

Marco Pantani used to use a downtube shifter for the front mech and a brake / shifter for the rear.

Comparing Rival with Ultegra is not a fair comparison. Rival is much closer to 105 and Ultegra to Force.

I am a big SRAM fan and use it on both mtb’s and road bikes. I also have Shimano 105 factory fitted to my KTM road bike and will replace it with Rival or Force (depending on funds at the time) when the 105 wears out.

I have always found SRAM to be set and forget, especially if using factory supplied cables, which stretch a little and then stay put for the rest of their lives.

I’d have no worries about buying a bike with Rival, its good solid stuff.

Weston Woods is my playground. You can ride around for hours, completely lost, it’s great fun.

If you want and easy ride, head up to Worlebury golf club and turn towards the woods the top of the hill. If you have come up brutally steep hill with a sharp right and left at the top, then turn right by the golf course (on your left). If you come up a long climb, past loads of houses, turn left.

A better start is to go to Kewstoke and park in the free cp opposite the Commodore pub. Then ride up to the New Castle restaurant. You can either then take the bridleway up into the woods, which is a good long climb, or you can just roll along the road (towards Weston sea front) a few yards, where you will find a multi use gravel path on your left, through a zigzag type gate affair. Ride this all the way to the end, up a couple of decent little climbs. When you come to a T with a bench by it, turn left and that’s another long but gentle climb up into the woods.

Ordered mine from the bay, plus a spare battery, plus a memory card, all from different suppliers.

The camera is currently held up, as MyHermes had a fire at their hub a day or so ago.

I’ve just read a couple of pages of that thread, and I cannot believe how reasoned and sensible the arguments back and forth are, they even managed the Road Tax subject politely.

You can tell it’s not a cycle forum, on Road CC they would have hanged someone by the middle of page 1… well maybe not hanged, just beaten them up, with iron bars… a bit.

What sort of record times are you guys getting?

I was just about to press the button on an SJ4000 last night when I saw that it has 70 minutes record time. My training rides are 1.5 hours minimum, but I have had so many close shaves in the last couple of weeks I’m thinking a camera would be a good idea.

The shifting on 10 speed grip shift is light and very easy, even compared to Attack, and a world away for the old Sach Wavey’s… which I still use.

Having done two turbo sessions this week… tomorrow I’m going up the woods on the 29’er and I don’t give a toss what the weathers doing.

The thing which strikes me about people posting examples of animals they’ve seen near to tracks with motorised traffic on them, and posting different arguments, is it still remains a biological fact that there can be problems caused for pregnant animals if they’re startled/frightened.

This is true, which is why the farmer should keep his pregnant animals in a different pasture. But in my experience as a horse rider, farmers very rarely consider any ROW across their land, be they footpath, bridleway or other. It is not that they are actively trying to keep people off, although some certainly are, it is just that they put the stock in the area which best suits, without thinking that people on horses, or motorbikes / quads may want to use those Rights of Way.

Mayhem is confirmed as 19th, 20th and 21st of June.

http://www.mountain-mayhem.com/mountain-mayhem-2015/