Given the amount of road, what’s the etiquette?
Lycra or baggies?… 😆

You need a +20mm and a couple of spacing washers to make the extra 1.5mm up, or the hope 160-183 adapter.

I don’t think giving is for me even if you can promise it will be a citrus burst

Will I be on the wrong side of the banhammer for posting the skittles advert???

Just looking quickly at it on bike hike it looks like about 85% marked as path on the google map. Obviously some of this will be on rutted paths etc I haven’t bothered to check the OS map yet to see what exactly the breakdown is. I’d guess it’s probably about 1/2 and 1/2 from looking at the first few k’s.

Looks like it’ll be a cracking day out if the sun shines though!

I quite like it, i’ve zoomed out and it’s like the old days of widescreen browsing before responive websites where everything was optimised for a square screen and you had 2/3rds of the screen as white space!

Mac – command + shift + 3 screenshots the screen and puts it on the desktop.
Use command + shift + 4 to get a crosshairs if you want to grab a crop of an area of the screen.

Yeah you can get it cheaper. The solicitors will just suck their teeth if you do though and tell you it’s not their recommendation to do that, and it might cause problems with the sale, and is likely to incur extra work and cost to ensure the insurance is adequate.

Obviously it’s nothing to do with the extra £60 that’s going to be split between your solicitor and his insurance mate…..

This help? http://www.justridingalong.com/conversion-kits-for-dt-240-oversize-front-hubs.html

Have you got hold of some? Where from?

You don’t mention how old she is. There’s nothing in a salary of 12.5k for 45 hours a week to stop her being paid overtime, as far as minimum wage goes you need to tell us how old and also what holiday allowance unpaid lunch breaks etc are involved.

If those 45 hours were split across 6 days with half hour for lunch each day with 6 weeks holiday which would be the minimum that would easily make it minimum wage.

Tips etc can count and bonuses can used to make up minimum wage. If have thought if she’s on minimum wage now she wouldn’t get a real time cut, have the contract checked by a specialist?

Not had a fray bentos pie since probably mid 2000’s, sold house clearing cupboards and found one bought a few years ago and not eaten.

Lived on the toilet for 3 days….

Superstar Kevlar for me in the alps.
If you’re sticking to shimano I think i’d still run the sintered ones in the alps cos it’s always got potential to be wet and grindy.

Can you put the B screw in from the other side?
RAD cage sorts it.

Got the load space measurements? Gas bottle cages are probably a good shout, cheap if you can find one second hand that fits nicely.

http://www.carbonology.com/carbon-fibre-tubes-c-64.html

Bodge time??? I know these guys can make different sized tubes and do do bike stuff so might be worth dropping them an email?

The only exclusion was “theft if not locked by the frame to a fixed object” which includes – I checked – a roof mounted car rack and bike in the boot IF the bike is connected to a part of the car with a cable lock or similar.

Get that in writing if you want to claim – they told me categorically bikes would not be insured in the car even if locked to the vehicle. I spoke up the line too as I’d have used them otherwise.

Not sure exactly why this was or if it was definitely the case as I used to be M&S who would cover, and now i’m Pedal Cover who do cover and all 3 use AXA.

I’m just not 100% sold on the twist/grip nature of the 591, particularly if gripping, for example, a naked carbon frame.

Don’t use the 591 if your frame is carbon.
If it’s painted alloy, yes you’ll lose some paint as it rubs during travel. Helitape helps if you can be bothered. I’ve had painted & anodised frames on mine and they’ve all lost finish.

My raw metal frame is brushed so you can’t really tell. I’d leave a raw steel frame and helitape a finished one, don’t forget to tape the bit of the seat tube where the arm can extend to.

* I didn’t actually look at the OP links, just in general Nerve/Spectral.

I’d say you should compare apples for apples – the next model up of the nerve would be a better comparison, and it’s still £100 less which pays for your reverb virtually. The benefits BSM mentions then become pretty much evened out it’s just the geometry that differs & that’s down to you. You wouldn’t go far wrong with either TBH, depends what you want to ride.

I reckon the Spectral CF is the quiver killer… sell a kidney!

What’s more important to you – the 50k+ days or the 1 week of uplifted biking in the alps?

Former = Nerve, Latter = Spectral

I’d pick the Nerve if I could only have one bike. Prefer the Spectral + a light hardtail though!

Apple TV best way. Chromecast works with apple for a cheaper option.
You can get an AV cable for iphone/ipad but it costs more than a Chromecast.

My 26 blows up a bit bigger than my 2.4 RQ.

Race face do the Sixc and atlas in that spec but 800mm.

I’ve got a pair of 5-10 insight mid heights I use for that kind of stuff, i’m in spuds normally but wanted something for rocky lakes hike a bikes etc when the disco slippers are a pain to walk in. Impacts look a bit better as bike specific?

I’m not a massive fan of riding in them as they’re a bit gompy and cumbersome but work on the way up.

Do we need to do this again?

Inspired by…?

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/52042

They’re a very good budget option.

Totally agree, I bought mine when they first came out for £140 when Reverbs were north of £250!
Now they’re £135 and a reverb from ze germans is £160 I’m less convinced. I definitely wouldn’t go and put anything else on a bike that came with a switch though.

Mine’s still seeing service on a friends bike after 3/4 years, regular lube and it’s fine. Slow when cold yes and a bit faffy with having to change the cable but they are decent enough – wouldn’t buy a new one over a reverb though.

Not sure i’d say anything called a girder was going to be light weight!

OP – you looked at race face Turbine cinch? Same DM system as the next so you can shed weight there, but alloy as opposed to carbon.

You’ve also got a few X01 cranks left at PX for £99.

big ring big ring

Did you use the old big ring to big ring + 2 links method? That could be a missing piece of the puzzle!

FWIW – I’ve been 1×10 for years but when I moved to a larger front ring with an expander to get a bit more top end I started snapping light chains. Moved back to the cheapest (heavy) SRAM chain and not had a problem since – it was always when powering up climbs in too high a gear, i’m not sure if the 36t front increased stress on the chain?

I’m watching that FF29 chubbie page with interest – i’ve had a fatbike itch for a while and that could be a relatively cheap way of giving it a go!

Throw a bit more sealant in, take it for a ride – it’ll be fine.
I tend to put 2 of the little stans bottles in a 2.2 29er.

Seals fine though and brilliant tyres.

Goat in Maerdy, Tyddyn Bychan in Glasfryn or Ffynnon Wen between Bala and the A5.

No – easier to buy a 120mm if you want 120mm. Are you looking new or second hand?

New solo air needs a spring change. From what I know most dual air’s will but some of the 80/100’s will be OEM and can be different – anything second hand could be different as you don’t know the history. Only way to tell 100% is open them up and see what’s on the air spring.

If you can find new old stock retail version dual airs that should be a pretty safe bet. There was also another thread on here about the same thing a while ago, can’t find it though.

Ltd co makes no difference – if you have an annual policy now just add business cover.

Mines through first direct about £90 annual including most of the sports I do and business cover. Just have to top it up with something else for a week if I want to go scare myself in the Alps!

Call me a cynic – but considering the bloke’s worth £100 million, has a business empire firmly in the black and the wife is a sharholder/director of some of the companies – I don’t think the couple of million quid divorce settlement is going to be of huge issue to him considering the PR he’s going to take out of it.

Anybody else not heard of Ecotricitry until this news broke – when the whole go green thing is everywhere? How many customers has it brought onto the books…?

Call them but they’ll probably charge. Orange wanted £20 – this was for a phone out of contract – and I’d even taken a new phone & contract with them…

The worst of it with iPhones is they then relock to the next sim network as far as I know. There’s no way of doing it free.

They’re really not – auction houses I deal with take around 35-45% of the final price all said and done.
I reckon the eBay prices tend to be quite a bit higher than they’d be on the regular 2nd hand market and they take a lot of grief away.

I reckon you’d be about right with maybe a bit more post than you’d like to see…

I’m 6’2 32″ inseam and it’s good, i’d like a slightly longer TT if I was being picky. I can chuck a photo up with my seat 2″ higher if you like?

(FF29 not Sync – but same sizing numbers pretty much)

No different to mine on grinding, muck + n/w jockey wheels and everything being tighter = grinding noises. I keep mine a bit cleaner than the 10spd bikes as it’s not £40 for a chain and cassette…

Never had a jumping chain though, but I don’t really ever backpedal?