You can dissasemble. Top of the damper is a reverse thread. Careful with it and grease on reassembly. I had one do something similar which i fixed but it hadnt actually snapped/broken, though i cant see yours being broken on the video.

Do you just want any old cogs it hopes specifically?

I went mad 18months ago and stockpiled 26” tyres when maxxis stopped distributing in the uk, fearing for the life of my poor old fashioned bike. Couple of mates have also left the 26 aint dead stable and made donations of their spares. I now have nearly 20 26” tyres of varying flavours for a bike I use a handful of times a year… 🤷‍♂️

Do we really need to do this again? Youve not been overcharged, youve been charged what the shop charges to run a business and provide you a service. Dont like it dont go. My only gripe in your position would be if theyd quoted £10 and charged £30 but im going to assume they told you it was going to need new tape and sealant etc rather than just a blow up.

Add to your equation the costs of rent, rates, taxes, staff costs, admin costs, business costs, dead stock, all that other stuff and youll see why retail is tough and when people whinge about paying for a service its annoying to say the least. The fact that by your calculations you dont feel the lbs should make a profit on the supplies shows a lot, that small stuff needs to be realistically minimum markup double plus vat, if not more.

£10 labour? Assuming thats half an hour work minimum to talk to you, book it in, get the supplies, do the job, talk to you again, put the sale through, take payment etc…. that mechanic assuming theyre on a decent low wage, say £10 an hour, thats costing the business more like £20 an hour by the time you factor in nic, employement costs, breaks, holidays, sick, averaged out maternity pay, so on so forth. Add a reasonable profit? £10 an hour seem fair? £30 an hour charge, add the vat, thats £36 an hour. So by my calcualtions that £18 labour, £10 for the supplies, thats £28 before you add the £10 muc off valve. Wastage should be charged to the customer, who else is going to pay for it?

With three staff in, it costs over £400 a day to open our doors, and thats just based on rent, rates, insurance, gas and electric, and wages. Theres a lot more costs than that under the surface. So on a double plus vat markup which people cry about as profiteering, thats £1000 a day in takings just to break even, making a profit is no easy feat in a shop these days.

Take a look at the exploria kombi bed. You can get the right height for the space you want, it’s for a t5 but I’d imagine it would go into anything else in an easy way. Gives you room underneath for bikes and kit – you will be closer to the ceiling than a regular bed but it’s not really an issue for sleeping.

Just turn the garmin on when you get to the bike, by the time you’ve got suit off and into your bike shoes it’ll be up and on, and if not it will be by the time you’ve ran out of the pen.

Or just use the watch for the whole lot, a sprint isn’t going to trouble the battery.

Clearly it stood up in a court of law…

Rigamortis must have set in…

I was expecting something out of Eurobike as the end of season sale is on, but nothing yet.

Keep wanting to update my strive but just can’t get my head round a very bling carbon bike with carbon everything weighing 14.5kg and the spectral is no longer 29.

Then YT knocked a grand off their jeffsy pro race and it’s looking at me….

I’ve had 4 reverbs, one needed a service I thought went back after 2 years sorted under warranty. The oldest is 6 years old had a service last year never had an issue.

Had one KS Lev, which is finnicky on cable tension but ok, and a giant connect which was cheap but not great.

I’d pick a reverb every time.

No better than the upper levels really… ive lost a bolt on my rsc lever, new bolts and bearings came today – couldnt be happy with just replacing the bolt could i. Thought id change the top one too… snap. Now ive got to try and work out how to get that bugger out…

As above, pinch bolt inside lever, manual talks you through it
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1226349/Sram-Guide-Rs.html?page=19#manual

Dont worry, didnt Boris buy a couple of water cannons after the last riots? He can just trawl those out… shirley?!

Solder won’t allow for the cable stretch will it? Will something like this work from KS – you may have to cut it down?

https://www.bikeinn.com/bike/kind-shock-lev-seatpost-cable-clamp/136637333/p?utm_source=google_products&utm_medium=merchant&id_producte=5889209&country=uk&gclsrc=aw.ds&&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyaGq1o7B5AIVB7LtCh2jCgltEAQYAyABEgIC-fD_BwE

What are you trying to insure, just the bike?
I dont think any travel insurance would normally, mine is insured through home contents and im insured on the travel insurance. Both through pedalcover.

You could try bikmo for the bike cover is house insurance isnt a viable option.

Why would you? If i saw that crack on a wheel id probably carry on till i knackered it, but i definitley woudlnt bother building it up when its probably a £30 rim….

GCI will work on a one off basis, as long as youve not got a big company and hr dept to deal with very likely you can get one through work. Ask the question, id assume as a higher rate tax payer youre valued enough to not make an issue of it, theyre still saving nic either way.

Levels should be ok as long as you’re not to heavy. I run them on a fairly aggressive hardtail, although 200/180 rotors. Don’t find them lacking much, I can tell the difference to my guides but they are better than xt 2pots. If it’s ex demo I’d be giving them a bleed with fresh pads and then upping the rotors first, see how that works as you’ll want to upsize the rotors anyway for codes. Might give you enough to avoid dropping the £300 on codes, nothing lost if not.

Assuming this is a trail end of the spectrum 29er.. if we’re talking a burly enduro job then just chuck a set of code rsc and big discs on and be done with it.. 👍🏻 you’ll want RSC though to get the best feel and the contact point adjust, awesome brakes.

26 into 21 is the second trail I mentioned, just had a look at trailforks. And yeah… its bloody brilliant! 😆

Using trailforks theres some great stuff off the back into cogne, if your oh is unable to ride but can drive round…. 😉 id love to work out how you get up to the top of pontonnet without a massive climb, looks like an ace descent.

If she can deal with hike, the best stuff in pila is out of the park. The descent down to the floor is good… but its got nothing on the natural stuff there, especially when its dry and the sand on the aosta run is a foot deep…

For starters, head up the top lift, follow the walking path up to the top of the col, from the viewing point youll see a ridgeline down to the left as youve walked up, ride that. It forks a 3rd of the way down or so, hang left and youll end up back to aosta having ridden some amazing singletrack. Couple of awesome sections.

Assuming the couis lift is shut this is a ballache but you can pick up fire road from the park to the grimondet lift, youll go under it and see a track off to your right, follow that down. Make sure you dont take the wrong one and do the desarpa bike park trail. This is very rocky and continuous so not ideal with a busted foot though. Loads more natural riding in the area just watch you stay the right side of the mountain.

Just put crossclimates on the van, wanted an all year round tyre that was mud and snow marked for the alps in winter and good for tracks and soggy campsites etc. Then took them across europe in 30deg heat. Very pleased so far, but christ theyre expensive at £130 a corner…

You dont need the washers using a +20mm mount like that. You just need shorter bolts to do away with them. The washers are for use with the spacer kits which are just tubes. Jaffe vtt should be able to sort shorter bolts out for you.

You can get a +40 mm adapter to up the disc size whcihnwould be ideal for riding there, a 200mm centerline disc will probably run you about 60 euros in town but i dont think youll find the adapter kit you need. Nevada VTT might be your best bet.

And the double bolt adapter above wont work with sram spacing, op has the correct adapter. Stupidly sram dont sell that adapter or the correct bolts to the public, its oem only.

Old tyre and zip ties.

Yeah amazon but use google to search it. Worked for me for a bearing kit and service kit, but searching amazon itself proved fruitless.

Coke after, learned that one after years of paddling in the Trent. Iron constitution now.

Just did the one at Troyes lac d’orient yesterday on the way back from the alps, would like to say kids made me do it but I don’t have any! 😂

I’ve been, we drove – ferry to Dunkirk, up through Germany, took the ferry from puttgarden and bridge to malmo. Was the cheapest way of doing it. Others flew and hired, others took the ferry from the uk to esbjerg which when I looked was bloody expensive. It seems they’ve restarted the Immingham-Brevik route again through, so I’d be taking the caravan and booking that if you’ve got gear that makes flying a faff. It was a long drive for us as the Brevik ferry wasn’t running then, I’d not want to do it again really unless over a few days and sightseeing on the way.

Joe blow mountain about the best IMO. Not expensive and it will seat most things really well. Normally fails with new dh maxxis tyres but even the lbs struggle with them with a compressor.

That’s fine, Slovenia you’re going to be doing some pedalling that’s exactly what I’d use.

In fact even for full on lift assisted alps I’m running exo tyres now and have for a couple of years, back out next week and it’ll be minion/aggressor exo again the dh tyres will be staying in the garage.

Are they mirrored? I have 2 vehicles and mirror the ncd, I prang one I lose it on both. I’d say at renewal if not.

I tried this recently, had a few old barbs so used those instead of the posh new ones that came with the brakes.

They leaked. May have been me cocking it up as I can’t actually see the difference but redid with the new red barbs and all was fine.

I’ve got a KS lev integra, bloody expensive but very much as good as my reverbs on the bigger tubed bikes. No flex that I can tell. Does make for a firmer ride than the carbon post.

You’ll get there with a bit of common sense. Buy a second set of wheels fit decent winter tyres, take chains. Christmas you’ll find the drive down fine till you start to hit the mountains, try and time it so you hit them mid afternoon if possible. If there’s snow then you’ve got best chance of it being cleared.

Get there too late and in a snowstorm you’ll not enjoy it if it’s your first time doing snow in the dark. Practice fitting and removing the chains here so you can do it easily. Loads of people think they can do it first time in the pitch black in sideways snow… doesn’t go well!

If you’ve got full vw service history speak to vw customer care, there have been times when people have had it sorted, even at that age. It’s not guaranteed though. Even if they give you an allowance of say 50% off then it’s still likely to be cheaper at a decent independent. Common fault.

Just get a tag. You can send the tag back after if you like and get your deposit back, you just lose the postage.

But to answer your question yes you’ll be fine running out and round, but you’ll get some strange looks and when your card doesn’t work on a small peage barrier and you’re in the way of a queue of people… or if you go the reach over route don’t clip the concrete side you can’t see in the left, blow a tyre out and again be in the way of a queue of French people…

Funnily enough I got a tag several years ago after those 2 incidents!

I’m seriously eyeing up those cowhide buckets. There’s a Planet X fund towards a stealth which might have to take a hit if they don’t get sold !

Wouldn’t worry hugely about the bt charge, as long as you’ve changed filters etc and made sure wiring is ok inside you should be right- I’ve called them out loads and never had a charge. Last time they ran new lines in did all the internal wiring too not so much as a bother, the engineers all are pretty good. I’d guess they warn you just to make sure numpties don’t phone up complaining when they’ve pulled a plug out or something.

If you’ve emailed I’d assume it was spammed or similar. Pick up the phone or contact them another way, they won’t be ignoring you. I’ve had a couple of things need warranty with them having ordered loads of stuff and they’ve always been super helpful.

Just nip down halfords and get the best pair of 6×9’s you can on your budget. If you havent got room for a couple of inches behind for the driver you can get mdf spacers online pretty cheaply.

Just used sandtex also, really good paint. Excellent finish everywhere i bothered to prep it properly, missed a couple of bits lower down which werent great so prep is key. Id heatgun and strip the entire door rather than sanding if i did it again.

One coat of the primer then 2 of the paint for me.

Bike park is very much DH focused, however go exploring and you will find some of the best enduro style trails anywhere in europe. Take the walking path up from the top of the lifts, up to the col and the viewpoint. Youll be rewarded for your big hike with a phenomenal view, then look down the ridge…. follow your nose. Just be careful to keep the correct side of the valley, Theres at least one obvious fork, go left. Trailforks is your friend.

Theres a lot of stuff off that hike up leaving the trail at different points and some fantastic old trails off the far right of the piste map too.

I’ve had an aggressor on the back of my enduro bike the past couple of European trips and it’s been fine. Done one or two days at antur and bpw on it too, I’d be happy enough leaving it on and keeping the crc tyre as a spare in case. I tend to err toward dh tyres for that kind of riding but the exo aggressor is pretty good. I’ve trashed a dh minion at antur so it’s all a pig and a poke.