Is the narrow Q-factor an issue on most hardtails? Saw those and fancy a punt on an XX1 chainset but it’s £135 for the standard Q factor.

Reverb £160 bike discount. Full retail bleed kit etc.

The Azera barista instant, I think it’s nescafe. Get a load of it when it’s cheap!

Hmm, I didn’t have my reading glasses, so it all looked a bit fuzzy

Can’t see it being a problem – you can move the jaw a bit but you need to clamp it as close to the bb as possible.
My strive is worse than that as it clamps right on the shock box but it’s never come off through thousands of miles, but it did worry me. Just drop a toe strap around the jaw as a belt and braces measure and be careful taking it off as the jaw will probably hit the shock stanchion and scuff it.

Only con to me would be reliability if buying over 3 years old. If buying new, modern autos really don’t give anything away compared to manual, normally a small drop in efficiency, power and a bit more emissions but not exactly a lot.

My current car is the last manual I’ll have – driving 30k a year is just too much like hard work with a clutch to think about. Any decent system gives you manual shift if you really want to do it yourself. Plus… Flappy paddles!

I’ve been looking at the new stock wheel from just riding along, the jawbone.

+ if you want to go down the SRAM route – your hub may well have an XD freehub available to save a whole new wheel. Normally £50-70 though.

Reverb @ Bike Discount is my favourite had 2 recently.
£165 and its full retail boxed and bleed kit unlike the more expensive UK OEM ones.
Don’t think i’d go anywhere else for rockshox kit now.

Nahh … they got mine wrong.

I’ll bet they didn’t..

Took me a good couple of confused tries to work it out… Simple when you twig!

I just used skicover which was £20 for their basic policy just to cover off piste.
Use first direct annual policy for skiing but it lacks in off piste cover. Figured I could use first direct if anything went wrong as they’d be really good normally and just use the skicover policy if I had to get rescued off piste. No idea if it would be any good for £20 though, but they were the cheapest I found.

Didn’t matter anyway, off piste was off the cards all week… 14 people killed in avalanches in the week I was in Switzerland.. :-/

It’ll be down to their uk operation – you used to be able to pay in euros. I can remember comparing the 2 rates when I bought my strive a couple of years ago, but it was only £20 or so difference iirc.
Obviously with a uk company to run there are costs to meet there so it wouldn’t do them much good to cut them out.

Patrol off that list. Can you not get a longer airspring to run the pikes at 160?

Lift pass and haribo!

What does it go on to in the car?
iTunes for one will put anything onto an iPod, iPhone etc on to MP3 format without touching the original.

There is software out there that will do the same for a usb stick, it just encodes it to MP3 as it writes it.

FWIW, my focus won’t play flac off a usb stick. Don’t have a Beemer!

You sure you mean lightroom? Not Photoshop?

Liightroom is less than £100, no point having that on CC as you’d pay more for it in a year and not have it.
Photoshop however, i’ve got it on CC for about £8 a month and it’s a much better way of doing it IMO, cheaper than buying the latest version every 3 years and you’ve always got the newest one.

I think they look terrible! I had a C456 with a straight steerer fork and it just looked naff – fork crown loads smaller than the bottom cup. Did have a very large bottom cup though – other frames may not be so bad.

Read it and find out if it works for you – don’t think everyone will benefit from it in the same way.
I tried, some of the stuff made sense but i don’t think I had an epiphany. I’m still nuts!

Poploc or pushloc?
I’m pretty sure I’ve got a poploc with a busted lever in the spares box I’ll have a look tomorrow if it’s poploc you need.

is 20mm rear? that suggests on the CRC link that its for a 160mm rear?

Because Avid use 140mm as a rear standard for frames – so to them you need a +20mm for a 160mm rotor. If you’re frame is 160 then you need +20mm for a 180mm rotor.

properly confused by this, and post mount to post mount 180mm doesn’t even look like it exists anywhere?

As above, to retail customers it doesn’t…. 😉 It’s OEM only, the on one link is the only place i’ve found them.

What really doesn’t help is the bike industry and everyone else seems to see very different meanings to the word ‘standard’… I blame the roadies, I’m pretty sure 140mm discs weren’t a thing until they started putting drop bars and disc brakes together!

IS 20mm will do your rear. You can’t normally buy a 20mm post for the front, check the chart i posted on your other thread for the compatibility & the link to the 20mm post from on-one.

(Edit: Assuming you’ve got 160mm post forks that is)

You’ll need longer bolts for it though if you haven’t already got a spacer kit.

Remember Avid use 140mm as a rear standard which is why it’s confusing if you have a 160mm standard frame.

🙄

You could always drop him a mail and ask for a copy? I don’t see the relevance tbh, the basic axa policy document is going to be the same as any of them I’d have thought, then he’s tweaking a policy to suit the customer. I’ll go through mine when it turns up and post if anything obvious seems bad.

The cover itself is broadly the same as my m&s policy, just differs in price id say mainly because the bikes are unspecified – like m&s used to be. I’m paying the same now as I was 3 years ago, it’s only being forced to specify each bike that made m&s a daft price.

If redundancy then in theory it should be 3 weeks if she’s been there 3 and a bit years.
If you’re talking about dismissal, then you would probably have to argue reasonable notice which is a bit ambiguous, 1 pay period would likely be the done thing. So if she’s weekly, a weeks notice, 4 weekly, 4 weeks notice etc.

Can’t see any company provaracating though given if we’re talking a few hours a week it will be such a small figure that if you play a fair cop they shouldn’t quibble. Obviously same for you as it wouldn’t be worth pursuing if they do. I’d probably wait for something formal before asking questions though….

Iain, AA no good for you in that case they specifically won’t cover bikes inside the car even if locked.

I’ve just used Darren @ Pedal cover, top service and policy does pretty much everything the M&S one did but £300 instead of over £500.

Best I could find online was the AA at about £250 but their exclusions made it a no go really. Not sure where anybody is getting that level of cover for £100….

Love winter riding, hate the kit cleaning considering the bikes live in my spare bedroom in a 3rd floor flat. Said bedroom is also the workshop and has beige carpet 🙁

Clips on everything. Occasionally think I should be on flats for more DH stuff but then try it and hate it.
Enduro is all about crashing in spuds….

Say Mrs FD gets £5k can that all be paid to me at the 20% bracket, or does she have to attract most of it?

And what will you be doing to earn the money?

HMRC will see straight through that – for 5K it’s really not worth it. Even if you played all the loopholes paying you would likely save you about £500 in tax which would soon vanish in the costs of doing it.

If she’s working for a single business then IR35 regs also come into it.

Cassette isn’t proper machined blingyness, it’s a seperate sprocket affair.
There’s probably not huge amounts of difference in the rest of it.

I’m just looking at mine, M&S have just charged me nearly £350 just on bike cover which is over 5% of their value. 🙁

The AA quoted a lot less for the nearly the same cover but the issue with that is the bikes aren’t insured if locked in the car – M&S said they would cover this.

When I spoke to the AA and tried to point out that they were encouraging me to put the bikes on the roof where they were likely to be nicked instead of inside the deadlocked alarmed tinted windowed estate car, locked to the frame with the beefiest lock I can get the response was ‘yes sir, but they’re not as secure inside the car…’

Will try some of the above on monday, thanks 🙂

Scarlett Johansson /50% of thread

/end of thread…

IXS trail was what I went for when faced with the same decision. Dead pleased with it, fits really well. Not too heavy given the coverage.

I’d pay it off. The value of the house is irrelevant until you come to sell it and then it will be the same whether you have a mortgage on it or not – as come move day cash in the bank is the same as cash in the house. (Assuming you don’t need that cash for costs of moving.)

Only reason for keeping the mortgage to me would be if you were on one of these mad 0.5% above base tracker deals you could get years ago – as then you’d be better off keeping the mortgage and putting the savings in a 3% account.

Fly out in 2 weeks. Was going to sort some cash yesterday as the cheap currency place up by me was open, now i’m kicking myself. That’s put a couple of hundred quid onto the trip.. 🙁

Is your frame 180 post? If so you don’t need the washers, take em off and see if it all fits and plays without them?

If your frame is 160 post I bought a couple of the 20mm spacers as extras, if on one are out I’ll send you one for the £2 it cost me plus a bit of post.

Can’t be doing with the cps and spacer crap after I had to get them bled in the Alps in the summer and the mechanics didn’t put all the washers back on…

Edit: still plenty there http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/BSAVPPBM/avid-post-to-post-brake-adaptor this should directly replace your spacers.

Laws of the sellers country apply. If EU then very unlikely to be a problem any more than a uk company, just do your due diligence on the company. Distance selling regs apply.
Obviously you may have certain rights but if they don’t play ball it’s not as easy to sort it out if you have language barriers etc and you can’t just nip in the car and sort it face to face.

Take the 8gb ram over the space. MacBook air is designed to be quick light and portable – only keep what you need on there and use a storage drive on a network for larger files. A couple of San disk ultra fit 64gb sub drives will give you the extra space when you need it for £20 each if you do need extra space sometimes.

I keep mine around 1/2 full even with a dual boot win 8 system on there too with no problems that’s 128gb and everything else is stored in the cloud. When I’m away extra stuff goes on the mini usb drives above.

Oh and if no rush that model appears on the apple refurb store for £799, it’s often up there worth checking for a couple of days. Full 2yr warranty etc.

See the box at checkout marked vat number? Put your workplace delivery address in and their vat number. Boom, no vat! 😈 The government will never check!

Black duck tape.
You cant see it, it does the job and the next time you find yourself in need of a quick repair, it’s there on the seatpost.

Halfords pro 24mm socket works for me, just be a bit careful cos it’s not too rounded but it’s not a flat edge. Don’t need to grind the edge off just take a bit of care.

Screw fix circlip pliers – I’ve got the ones with the interchangeable heads for flat, 45 or 90 degrees internal or external. Does all jobs that way.