+1 for a blender see below links for photo & vids:

Photo (my blender): http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/6719126/

Videos:

Me on the blender (I’m in the purple): http://www.pinkbike.com/video/223512/

Not me, not a blender but a local track I ride with similar style bikes: http://www.pinkbike.com/video/144123/

Not me, not a blender, its a stanton slackline which looks awsome, only real difference is comes in a bigger size, ment to pedal up a bit easier and takes a 160mm fork, but the style of bike and the way the guy rides is how I like it, xc blast, hit the trails, dh tracks and 4x, versatile fun, good price…..this is special…..enjoy: http://www.pinkbike.com/video/144123/

Yours is ti!? Envy!!

Will1991 is spot on. I would like slightly lighter forks, 2009 426 air uturn revs look good at 750g lighter.

Not got a huge amount to compare it to, but I love mine, I’m all about aggressive ridding, love to be out of the seat hitting the downs. I’m 5’9 and have a Thomson 330mm post and its plenty long enough, my local blast loop is 16 – 18 miles, bit of canel, tiny amount of road and plenty of fun singletrack with Kinver freeride park in the middle to play on, the bikes perfectly suited.

I find climbing hard but I think that’s more me, my lack of fitness & technique, I used to have a giant XTC (xc bike) I was no better climbing on that, longest ride I’ve done was 35 miles, after the 20 mile mark it starts to feel a little cramped on the longer climbs but boy it rewards you going down.

The only other bike I’m tempted by (considering my style and budget) is the slackline, wondering how much different it would feel on those climbs but there is no way I’d want to loosed the descending, chuckability or agility qualities.

Link to my PB profile with pics ofv my beast:

http://will4x.pinkbike.com/

Charge blender, I saw a frame in good nick go for £80 on eBay last week, they’re real strong & great ride wouldn’t say its ‘the’ ultimate 4x race machine. Snap, Krisis, yeti, DJ and the new jackal are lighter & probably more suited to flat out racing but the blender is exceptional value, as my only bike I use mine as a do it all, trail, xc, dh, 4x & dj….I love it. See the link below for photos of it, there is a lil vid of me jumping on it to:

http://will4x.pinkbike.com/

Bump.

I’m quite local, ridden ribbs but not trails in the sure forest, are the trails marked or do you need local knowledge? Also where’s the best place to park?

cheers

For the current price on crc sunline bar & stem no questions, £50 – £60 for both, quality products, strong….light…cheap how often does that happen?

Drill, hacksaw, hammer, small slotted screw drivers, Allen keys, pliers, chain whip, Haha and so other useless tools.

Looking at responses probably gona have to leave it till tomorrow :-(

Cheers, that was my first effort but haven’t got a screwdriver wide enough at theft mo, again will be able to access tomorrow, sorry are there any other options?

Ok, haven’t got a grinder to hand…any other suggestions otherwise will try that tomorrow.

Cheers.

I brought my wife a lovely 2nd hand Giant Yukon, paid £180, brought a donor bike with fox forks deore cranks etc, transplanted all over and sold said donor bike for same price I paid, its like new cost no more than £200, beautiful bike….if mine was out if use would ride myself, rides ace.

I was under the impression gift was safer….am I wrong?

Once money transferred to my bank can a chargeback still be done?

Anyone?

I’d love a dropper on my blender but 4″ just not enough, not sure how much is needed, hope 27.2 gets a bit more attention in future.

Cheers cynic-al

Logical, gives me hope. Gona drop these wheel into lbs to check it out.

N.

Cheers guys, will investigate, no plans to build myself wanted to establish myself before going into LBS. Not going to bother if need new spokes, just wanted to match rims.

Sorry not 329.4 and 326 but 529.4 and 526!

Spokes are FR Swiss Double butted.

So how ling roughly is the length if the thread?

Cheers, I’m gona just chop it and keep my fingers crossed, can always bleed later.

Will keep my fingers crossed on getting a good one too.

Quick question to those who have shortened hoses without bleeding do the feel as good as original or do the need a bleed?

I was going to just chop before fitting but was told a bleed at the same time would be advisable, don’t want to faff unless I need to.

I’ve got SLX, replacing with XT’s that arrived Friday, will report, expexting to be the same just more bling, slightly lighter, supposedly stronger due to manufacturing process, also the pin that keeps the pads in uses an allen bolt instead of what appears to be a hair clip!?

Cheap…light…subjective, what sort of price and weight? Mavic EN 521 £37, EN 321 £30

Superstar, cheers, unless anyone working there is on here and already knows?

Yeah I have quite a bit of hope stuff too.

Does anyone know which laser etching machine the use though?

Mine come today…..selling my slx for extra being :-)

I had problems, but if you type it in comments and explain which voucher it is they take it off manually :-)

Means waiting an extra day or two but XT brakes for £125 the pair……I’ll wait.

Used to do it on the BMX when we were teenagers….no problems.

Possibly a good point given I ride single speed up front. The reason I’m looking at 11-32 is based on an offer I saw, weren’t sure how much of a difference the 2 teeth made.

Can anyone help?

Excellent in my experience, had a bike from there 3 years ago, a balance bike for my daughter just before Christmas (was best price on the web) and also got her helmet on a separate order. All delivered very quickly even a week before Christmas.

+1 good value, no issues at all been running for 12 months for trails, 4x, mini DH (forest of Dean, Cannock, ribbesford) and BMX tracks, not dropped the chain once.

Saying that neither did my Blackspire NSX just fancied a change, see my forum activity for sale, I’ll beat the price of the SS one!

I’ve got a steel ht….I can’t see the geometry of steel hardtails ever changing to a point where I need to change it, if I keep the parts well serviced and raw it/paint it I’m guessing it’ll still be serving me in 10 years time. I’m going to change it when I get to old for razzin it down dh trails with drops and jumps, then i’ll get a trail focused FS.

Sunline V1 here, very similar sweep, rise & width, given the chance I’d swap to fatbar just cause they look nice, colour matches the sanctions on RS & Fox forks, duo stem looks real good too.

There’s a Blackspire one for sale here http://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/704344/ might fit with an adaptor!?

Blackspire max, light strong, does the job well….

http://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/704344/

I have one for sale old isg mounts but if you’ve not got any can get an adaptor, you could always make me an offer.

I run euro anyway just put them on as they came :-)

Was ok on a local xc loop via freeride park, smashed my back wheel hooking a big gap. Was 8 miles from home, started walking but ended up calling for rescue, link to a pick of the wheel……

http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/7572644/

P.S here’s a pic

http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/7592563/

Picked it up today from the interlink depot…..amazin, one thing I was unsure of was the paint job……to my sunrise and pleasure I got the Nordic flash paint job! looks ace, fits ace didn’t mind the wait. Thanks Kingdom.

I placed my order new years eve. Came yesterday but I was out, collecting from.delivery depot Saturday. Cheers Kingdom, I don’t mind waiting a few days for a bargin and it was reassuring you posting on here.