Might sound daft but PayPal will get you going. It is a bank account that will send and receive money and makes e commerce simple. You’ll need to scan some ID but it’s probably the only way of getting things rolling without a meeting due to the money laundering etc regulations.

Hsbc will do you 12 months free banking as well. This can be quite a benefit given as soon as you tell them your a business you’ll be getting charged for everything!

Take a fine drill bit to the lockout lever and then thread the cable through it, attach the rest of the lockout mechanism to the fork somehow. Basically use a remote lockout from another a rear shock to do something like this.

Ahh a reply on topic..! ;-)

That’s what I was thinking but there’s no spring in the damper. Hadn’t thought about some kind of external spring cos theres nowhere really to fix it to. Might have to be a Loco question or just an XX damper.

I can’t get the LSC to a point where it would replace lockout. It does very little for me in open mode. This is on an SID not a pike, I’ve always been on and off the lockout on a hard tail. Quick sprints uphill etc it’s loads better locked. Just wondering if it was remote able.

I’m not convinced the fork is working as it should though, maybe the LSC should work better.

Why would you want to lock out on rocky terrain?.

Cos I forget to unlock it after the not as rocky bit!

? you just reach down 12″ at most and twiddle a knob..

My bike skills are obviously lacking, but i find twiddling the knob whilst covering rocky ground quickly gives me certain issues, namely ending up in a heap on the floor…

Unfortunately, my knob isn’t the longest so I have to bounce up and down a bit more when riding… ;-)

CRC have them for the same price, less whatever discount code is floating around?
Or you can get the full retail version from Merlin for £540, and they’ll actually dispatch them on time unlike CRC!

If you can use fresh yeast. Obviously not that cost effective for a single pizza though. It’s also better in a mixer with a dough whisk as the amount of kneading you need to do by hand is bloody hard work! Give it an hour to rise after preparing it, then press out your pizza base then give it another hour to sit then press it out again.

Would love to tell you exactly the proportions of ingredients for the perfect pizza dough – i used to make em for a living but it was 15 years and a lot of alcohol ago!

If you’re struggling loading the pizza onto the stone then you can buy handheld pizza slices for loading into the oven – roll the dough out, flour the slice lightly then build it on that and throw it in.

^ Dual air & dual position are different. Those are solo air chamber with travel adjust 130mm/160mm.

The old dual air system gave you 2 air chambers to fine tune the forks & the ability to alter travel with spacers. The new solo air system is less faff but not adjustable and you have to change/machine the air piston to change travel. Dual position is the adjustable travel which isn’t related to the solo/dual air.

Those will be OEM, i’m pretty sure you can’t buy dual position in black. It’s white only for retail, so you won’t get the shock pump & seal kit etc.

I haven’t done it, but I can’t see myself ever wanting to ride on the sunday at an event called the real ale wobble. Saturday, as long as you can’t get there early enough on the friday to empty a couple of barrels…

That ain’t right. Did the plasterer use regular, or holy water?

Well that made me smile for the first time today!

Yep… and they’ve cut out everything that ruined the last couple of seasons…
Including his bloody whinging daughter!

Only 2 reasons to buy a shan and I don’t see either!
(Orange and blue…(The gulf colour scheme is just about the best looking bike I’ve ever seen.)

16″ hardtails look super bee. I wish i could fit on one.

Pun intended? ;-)

Medium i’d say. My 20″ was about cock on for me at 6’1 with 31″ inside leg. That was with a 70mm stem and 740mm bars. Forks at 120mm and no stem spacers to keep the front low.

Try and compare reach on the bikes also as that can make a difference.

You holding the steerer in a work stand?
Assuming you’ve got one hand holding the tool and one holding the hammer, try inverting the forks, holding the lower leg and tapping, it’s a bit easier this way stops the lower moving with the nut. I used to find it a bit of pain until I realised it would be better to hold the leg, now comes straight off. As said undo a couple more turns.

Open reach all the way out, open free stroke to fully out and bleed.
Then take the reach in to where you like it and wind the free stroke in until you have the bite point you want.

What size is it? Been looking at those… ;-)

Thanks guys a bit more to go at there. Lakes routes good I love riding up there when I have a couple of days but I’m very limited on time at the moment and my current normal peak ride starts in the White peak which is under an hour and a half from my front door. No way I could get to the lakes, ride and get back within my small Sunday window! Up to 70k with 2500m of climbing out of darley dale but wanted something a bit different.

Oh, and nothing wrong with a bit of linking up road riding. Road, track, epic descent, vertical climb – it’s all riding a bike! (Apart from that doctors gate down to glossop bit…. I’ve ridden that once – well, not so much ridden as walked down, rode easy bits, fell off a lot, tried to work out how on earth you could ride some of it and then had to slog up snake pass stinking of the bog I’d fallen into multiple times. I was told it was one of the best descents in the peak….!)

Never knew about mapflipper – that’s brilliant thanks v much!

3 days a week for one employer is tricky – HMRC will want you to be employed by them. As above it can be mitigated by working different days, bringing own tools etc but if it’s 3 days every week then you should really be PAYE. I wouldn’t have thought you would have an issue as you’ll be fairly small fry in their eyes but it’s something to be aware of.

Also make sure if you are self employed your new employer is paying enough. You’re saving them around 35% of the equivalent salary cost and you’re losing sick pay, holiday entitlement, pension contribs from next year etc. so set your rate high enough to cover all this. For part time work sometimes you can lose out by going self employed instead of PAYE depending on your salary as the majority of your earning could be tax free anyway.

Are merlin still doing the 10% off on rockshox?

I’d probably look there first.

You could have PRS call you every day for the next 13 years demanding £400 to play shitty radio full of bad music and worse adverts, until you go mad, not to mention the pain in the ass of having to turn the radio down every time someone calls in case it’s them.

You could of course pay them, but that would be no fun…

W.T.F….

Shouldn’t be a problem – the works ring runs with 11 speed and 10 speed chains so you can run X01 behind it. I have w/c ring and xt crank on the hard tail, no chain guide. I have the front end of your combo on one bike and the back end on another so not together, but don’t see why they wouldn’t work.

You just have to stick to all X01/X11 cassette mech and shifters and use an 11speed chain, and stick to 32t and above on the front if it’s a 2×10 crank.

I’d give some thought to XT with a cassette expander if you’ve already got XT gear though. £40 cassette, £50 mech if needed, £80 for 42t & rad cage & £20 chain sees you at £190 or £220 all in with the w/c narrow wide.

I’ve got full X01 on the big bike and the combo above on the hard tail and I really would be hard pushed to spend the extra on full X01 on it, considering it’ll cost nearer to £500 than £200 for X01.

Wide lightning?

NEC bike show this week isn’t it?

Not tried a general lee but they don’t get great reviews.
I have one up and the rad cage and it’s flawless shifting, i’d go there myself.

Shirley the stock STW response should be ‘can’t decide which of the 17 bikes I would rather pop on the roof of the Audi?’ :wink:

I don’t get my lack of riding motivation at the moment, i’m happy to ride at 6am before work in the summer, and I love night riding. I’ve set my alarm for 5.45 every day this week and as soon as I wake up and see it’s still dark outside I turn over and back to sleep. :?

Don’t get it…? You may be over biked but I wouldn’t have thought you’d die… ;-)

https://www.bike-components.de/bedienungsanleitungen/2011/rockshox/forks/rockshocks_technical-manual2007.pdf

Great bike, however…

So far it has cost £2564 and I just need to get a reverb stealth to finish it completely.

So you’ve built a new bike completely around a seat post, to finish it and then put a different seat post on…

Win! :-)

Use the Exo version in 42a in the UK and the dual ply version in 42a in the alps. Have a 60a 2.5 also which either goes on the back in the alps if lift assisted or on the front if pedalling. 2.5 sizes up nicely, not mahoosive plenty of clearance in a pike but loads of grip.

To sum up – brilliant.

just box section aluminium.
you can pick it up pretty easily from exhibition companies, we use something called Sodum which is similar to that. Loads of octanorm on ebay etc if you don’t need square shape.

I don’t get why a thread was locked earlier due to a the OP asking about IOS8, which was deemed too close to the iPhone launch thread for STW harmony – but this is the 291st thread about the scottish referendum and not one’s been axed yet as far as I can see??

It’s taking over!

Weekend tickle anyone?

Regular saver from first direct will give you 3% over the year gross which is as good as any ISA if you max it each month. £300/month into that will see your parents paid back at the end of year 2 with a chunk of play money left.

Put the other £200 in a basic savings account with your current bank for simplicity, holiday & bike fund. Santander offer decent cashback on their current account.

Shimano wide fit is all i’ve found that works. I’m a ‘G’ apparently which is extra extra wide or something in my work shoes, can get in spesh shoes but I split them in 6 months where the ball of my foot splits the upper from the last.

Can only get them in a limited amount of shoes though, so I stick to the M088 and the road equivalent.
I’d really like them to do a walking boot in the wide fit though, i’m sick of going through a set of cleats in a weekend on a big mountain ride, not to mention the fun with wet rocks…

Whatever fits. My first road bike I was keen on the Giant as it always gets good reviews – but the giant main dealer was fairly useless. Couldn’t get one to fit out of the box but they were happy to helpfully put on new bits to make it fit – at full RRP… Their idea of a bike fit was go ride it on the carpark, and tell us what you think.

Ended up with a Focus from my local lycra LBS who spent time with me choosing, fitting it to me a week later, and then fitting it again 6 months later after i’d spent a bit of time on it.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/291033879800?limghlpsr=true&hlpv=2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=108&device=c&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=108&ff19=0

Or for better quality: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Specialized-Bearing-Kit-Stumpjumper-Sworks-Saphire-2007-/141407159118?pt=UK_Health_Beauty_Fragrances_Women_s_Fragrances_PP&hash=item20ec86034e

There is a difference between 06 & 07 though.

Roobarb and Custard

That looks great I reckon, bit of fun. Maybe a bit odd on the first pic but the decals make it.