I was always against riding on footpaths.

Unfortunately near me Sheffield Wildlife Trust and the council have teamed up to make every bridleway 6 foot wide, perfectly smooth and generally bland looking.

Ironically it seems that the bridleways are now better suited for walkers and anyone who wants a varied surface has to look elsewhere

interesting

i wouldn’t shorten the chain though, i ran one a couple of links short with a brand new x7 mech. lent it to a mate who bottomed out the suspension and the chain growth ripped the mech to pieces (not sure if your suspension design would do the same thing though?)

tbh looks like a replacement mech job to me, even if it doesn’t solve the problem you can always use another mech in future. x7 mech £35 from merlin

dual ply rear tubeless surely

anyway……….

and is ride sheffield going to bitterly oppose any improvements to devils elbow, or would that group be happy because SWT are all lovely people?

you just all seem very positive about people who are shafting my riding

are they still intent on ‘improving’ devils elbow?

OK, thank

I’m going to take some convincing about the Sheffield Wildlife Trust though. Seems you can be pro cycling but still not give a hoot about mountain bikers

OK then (deliberately not getting involved in the arguments)….

when is the next ride sheffield meeting? Do you have to be a member or anything? If there is a real chance of influencing something then I would be interested in getting involved.

and as a side note – anyone else disappointed that steel city downhill is involved in supporting an organisation that seems to focus on ruining our tracks?

at 6 ft I am happy with the large even though my friends laugh at the lines I have to take around hairpins due to the long wheelbase.

does anyone know know if the sheffield wildlife trust have consulted any cyclists in the past? Do we have a group in Sheffield that could approach them with one voice? I did hear talk of a group that met a couple of times but I dont have or recall any details. It would be good to at least get our point of view across before they get a chance to repeat the vandalism elsewhere.

I think we hold a pretty good card of we can get organised, if sheffield MTBers dont support the Greno woods campaign it would start to look pretty shabby

6ft
large frame
40 mm stem (reduced after various faceplants on jumps with the standard stem)

everything from long days trail riding, some xc events to light downhill

yes, I was talking about the latest change in the bit from lodge lane up the hill. the council may have the final say on the width but none of this would have happened without the sheffield wildlife trust. They are not getting a penny from me for grenoside now, can you imagine what they could do to the bike tracks?

and another thing (rants). they could have ‘improved’ the footpaths which are dedicated to walkers and left the bridleways more interesting. as it is the footpaths are still prone to get waterlogged and muddy

fair point. It’s just bitterly disappointing to have something re-classified as a bridleway and then turned from interesting to featureless. and ugly.

and I really dont see why they have to be sooooo wide. Its not as if it would be hard to walk up if they were 3 feet wide. I could drive my car down them now

the spesh ones gave me blisters and the endura ones I had wore out pretty quick on the thumb (SRAM shifters for you). I just got some Fox ones (sorry, cant remember the name). Very comfy though and mid priceish, ~ £20 something from memory. Nice and thin too for the summer

only when there is still a few miles to go and the pads are so worn down that I can see sparks!

Im with Spock. for the price of a set of gore you can buy about 6 metres of standard shimano outer and a handful of inners. run full length so no crap can get in. Outer is only about £3 a metre if you buy a lot, cheap enough to replace regularly without having to oil and clean etc

I think taking the pads out is more fiddly with juicy than a lot of systems but at a push on the trail I have got them out with fingers. pushing the pistons in is pretty much the same in my experience as with other types. I found a nice flat metal tyre lever that I carry in my pack which is a good shape for pushing pistons in, saves carrying an extra tool

I must have just got unlucky I reckon. most of my mechs have big gouges out of them, I just never had one snap around the bolt before so I figured I would check to see if it is a known problem.

from the sounds of it you have juicys? never did like that way of retaining the pads. funny that when they revised the design for the elixir they went for a simple bolt that the pads slide on. Just like my 10 year old hope minis!

I got a 5L one from screwfix (was about £50 but that is a couple of years ago). its very small but fine for car and bike tyres.

I like moose’s idea though, you could even use the spare wheel from a car if you wanted a bit more air (my dad once amazed me by fixing my broken down saab using the air from the spare tyre to bleed the hydraulic clutch line)

rolls of that shimano outer. about £3 a metre. shimano inners about £1.50 if you buy a few. kits are just rubbish

if it happened in Libya we would send in the planes

I just went for a non bike one from screwfix. 5-25nm driving a quarter inch socket. Cost about £25. Some parts say less than 5nm but only usually a little bit less. Sometimes I think bike specific stuff can be a real rip off

loads of people on here will give you advice about going tubeless when you are ready to give it a try. Sometimes its dead easy if the tyre fits well. It would be worth you getting the stans yellow rim tape (the wider one for flow) and the olympic valve on order if you want to give it a go. Sometimes they just go up with a track pump

looks like fun, not sure about those pedals though…

oh yes, will it be on a treadmill?

I always feel really old when people use acronyms. IGMC?

unless I stop wasting time on this forum and get to my next meeting I wont be doing anything for a living.

I wish I sold treadmills, think of all those happy hours with the planes

OK, its not windy, we cant use a fan. and the plane is stationary relative to the air around it. Im stuck, how do we make it fly?

what if it was windy?

why cant I use a fan? spoilsport

OK then, what if the plane had engines, and they were running?

I swapped ring 3 for a bashguard after I fell off and sliced my leg open (stable door, horse etc)

I found I ran out of gears a bit with a 32 middle, 22 / 36 seems to work better.

just a minute, did you just deliberately suck me into a conversation about gear rations? Doh!

I got some Eskars on a pitch, they seemed really good, never tried them tubeless though. Bonty or Maxxis seem to sit nicely on flow

agreed. nicely done. humour but with a good edge to it. please do keep us posted.

chicken and egg? Not so sure about that. You have been a forum member for 1 day and so far you haven’t

– asked anyone for advice about tyres
– got into a stand up argument about the best gear ratio for 1 x 10
– had a long ‘is a helmet any use thread’ with TJ

poor show, time you started to pull your weight

maybe if you blew a really strong fan at it at the same time?

if you get a proper tubeless ready tyre you can run them tubeless with just the yellow tape, dont let anyone go telling you that you need a rimstrip

I ran hope \ 521s for years (bought them off gravity slave funnily enough). they are still as true as the day I got them. Moving to hope \ flow has transformed the bike though, they feel lots lighter. I’m surprised at how little weight difference nuke found but then I guess tubeless saves another ~100g per wheel?

And I’m clumsy as all hell but the stans seem to hold up fine, even when I crash at wharnecliffe

grab a hand full of brakes on the steep, go into a skid, slide off the drop onto your front wheel and bottom out your forks. occasionally go over the bars

or is that just me?

I just swapped yesterday to a 36 from a 32 but I kept the 22. granted there are only about 2 or 3 climbs I use the lowest gear on. But they are the ones that bug me and I keep going back to! my bike is about 30lb so it takes a bit of pushing.