If the Lyrik is 170mm I have a DSD Runt for sale, may help, but as other have posted it may be the fork itself and need the shim stack playing with or the oil weights.

Madness! Chucked some money at the Go Fund Me.

I am very intrigued by some, I would do that if the ground is wet but its not raining then layers underneath but if coming from the sky too, then jacket over the top.

I dont watch Grand Designs but caught this one and I agree with some of the comments here, Kevin def warmed to them and surprised under budget, delivered quickly and no pregnancy or divorce/split!

Carrying a few thousand slates onto a roof in a nice shiny superdry rucksack whilst looking better than I do when I go out for a posh meal?  Completely staged.

I mean, the whole show is somewhat staged, but I expect they filmed the first dozen runs to see if they failed or made it, looked like they would do it so filmed the clip and then left them too it, I bet by the time they finished there looked much worse being sweaty and mucky!

I 100% support this being implemented in England, the 5 rules New Zealand have make sense. I recall a scene in 3 body problem where a cognitive patient had to give themselves the lethal dose via a serious of repetitive and lengthy varying multiple choice questions, a great idea to give the dose following on from the 5 rules.

I’ve personally seen 3 grandparents pass with Dementia, 1 grand parent and 2 aunts from Cancer, horrible every one of them, something that no country should subject its people too. Time to mail my MP giving my support.

Will just leave this here for your perusal:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241003004039/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/28/nhs-sedate-downs-syndrome-patient-for-covid-jab-mother/

Nothing to do with the assisted living conversation, however reads like a disabled adult living in a care setting cared for by professionals/state not “Christian” Parent and has a needle phobia, to protect the professionals from covid he needs to be jabbed, they’re trying to sedate him to do it. No different to my nephew who has a needle phobia and was sedated for a nail removal not so long ago.

eBay used to be my default for buying items, but a gradual shift to not seeing true sellers and more cheap trash posts from traders so stopped using really. Coupled with the rise of FB Marketplace and Vinted, I’d say 90% of the stuff Iused to buy I now buy elsewhere.

Selling was more of a pain, x% to ebay, x% stolen by paypal when FB Marketplace is free.

As others have said, theyve got to do something to turn the tide, must have been losing users in droves.

You, via Council tax. The electricity supplier has an algorithm to work out the costs per lamps/gear within and charges the Council on a cumulative basis according to the algorithm.

If I recall the DNO actually keeps an inventory of all unmetered equipment and how much it will use, this info is then sent to DC’s/MA’s and then onwards to the supplier to bill their customer, in this case its not the OP, its probably the council.

It’s amazing how quickly the brain adapts and you can ride with the angle being a degree or 2 out without it being noticed.

This, isnt wasnt till a riding buddy pointed out that whenever I pedalled someone else’s bike I was said that bars were bent or not straight, when actually mine were bent…

I do own a much cheaper version of this tool, clips to bars, shine laser onto tyre, I find it useful as the big XL mudhugger means I can easily see the immediate tyre edge under the fork crown!

What happens when you go downhill? What does it feel like?

They all feel different depending on the motors, I am in the e-curious camp and have demo’d some ebikes. I found some motors that you pedal to the limit and then its like hitting a wall almost when the assist goes and then the motor is draggy and slows you back down, whilst others have been less draggy and felt like you could sprint past the assist limit with no issues other then a slightly heacvier bike, but its more planted.

But he bought a bike in the first place. Not a rim

I’d say not this, its actually this:

No blame to them, they are a 3rd party (bike purchased online)

If the online store had processed the return, I would expect the wheel rebuilt and for them to prob do that free. But this is via a 3rd party, I would expect the OP to pay the 3rd party LBS to build the wheel. Its the nature of buying online vs bricks and mortar IMO.

I don’t quite get why Spesh couldn’t send an OEM wheel, I get the not like for like for aftermarket, but surely they have OEM’s laying around for this scenario and then if not, send an aftermarket. OP have you called or whatsapp’d Spesh UK yourself? I wonder if the 3rd party are actually the issue here…

Another recommendation for Apple TV and airflow via fan.

I found the fan I got from Amazon made me too cold initially, but I didnt want to get off the bike to turn it on, I picked up a wifi plug so I could turn it on 5 or 10mins into the ride when it was then needed via my phone.

Not that I can see, it also shows swim in yards since I use metres and feet for cycling and swimming.

I can see adding goals, but no list of previous achievements.

I’ve been going up to that area monthly for nearly 2 years now, I stay at the Euston Square Hotel, its a few min walk towards the BT Tower, rooms are on the moderate size, but have the best showers. Do not stay in the Hub off of Tottenham Court Road or the Holiday Inn Bloomsbury…

I see some posts about the area, I’ve never see any issues and from Euston or Euston Square Tube you can get anywhere. Sometimes I run and Regents park is minutes down the road to do a lap of.

I run an Apple TV with bluetooth HRM and Direto trainer with no issues. I would say your monitor sounds small though, can you not squeeze a 65inch TV in?

The Madison dungarees look good. Anyone tried them yet?

I was interested but my local store which stocks Madison couldnt get a sizes in to try on!

I have some TLD Resists too, been good so far.

How lovely. How would you react if someone came along and told you you couldn’t do that any more because it’s bad for you? Would you say ‘I’m very sorry, yes you’re riight, I’ll change my behaviour to what you want me to do’, or would you tell them to f*** off?

You’ve missed my point, I was giving my view on why pubs have shut or are shutting which I don’t see linked to the first smoking ban.

For your point, as an adult, you get told you cant do stuff all your life, its how you learn right from wrong, stealing sweets from a cupboard at home, maybe okay, stealing from shops not okay.

To quote Fred Durst… Life is a lesson you learn it when your through…

CX_Monkey another person curious as too which pub? Trusham or Lower Ashton based?

I just want to suggest to those who think the smoking ban killed pubs to maybe consider lifestyle changes, a decade ago Friday night I’d be in the pub socialising with friends of all ages, now on a friday night I am either riding, climbing or going to the gym/exercising with those friends.

The last decade or more has been like the digital camera for kodak IMO for pubs. Good pubs with good owners who have good relations with customers and adapted are doing well. Rubbish pubs, with bad owners who don’t keep up are being left behind. Oddly I’ve found that whether pubs carry any alcohol free options a strong correlation between good and bad pubs.

I saw some comments about cans at home versus the pint due to price, yes some pints are £6 or £7 now, but you used to be able to get 8 cans for a £5 and now you can barely get 4 unless you want Fosters! I think the price of cans has increased more then the price of pints!

I’ve just changed mine for a sonic toothbrush and it’s great. Always deals to be had too.

I picked up the top end Sonicare brush back in 2016, think it cost me £120, still using it today and battery life is just about keeping in there. I see these days they have lots of diff models to choose from, although they have done away with the wireless charging from what I can see.

 I would recommend Booheads on the Sonicare

These looks great, have just subscribed. Usually I wait for Philips have sales on the big packs, which does mean sometimes leaving a worm head on for longer then you’d want!

My bike feels better running 20%ish SAG front and rear, anything softer and it feels wallow-y too me.

Maybe try some bracketing? so go from 25% to 15%, see how it feels, then work your way back from 15% towards 25% till you find something you like?

I also realised that I can never find one setting that is good for everywhere, so I ended up being set up for fast and rough which made slow and janky stuff not the best.

An excellent website I use whenever I get the new bike itch! Would be a shame to see it go.

Hopefully it doesnt go the way of MyFitnessPal!

I was in the market for a Frog 40 or 44 to be the the follow on to going through a tadpole mini, tadpole and then tadpole +, not much came up second hand, ended up with a second hand Wild Bike and cant fault it TBH.

Now looking for the next wheel size up and looking for either in the next wheel size up.

Nuclear, there’s a LOT of maths involved that goes hand in hand with reactor physics. EDF has a grad scheme

https://careers.edfenergy.com/job/Nr-Bridgwater-Graduate-Maths-Engineer/1114709201/

Schemes open and starting salary doesnt look shabby for a grad scheme!

Good going OP.

There’s some truth to that. Once you’ve got the technique a jump’s a jump and a drop’s a drop.

The problem with the big ones is that they’re much faster and scarier. And as you say, one wrong move and you’re out of action for who knows how long.

The rest of the truth is, Vision line is a really well built and thought through line, jump smooth and pump and you’re through it, height and gaps grow and match the speed. Full Moto at BMCC is the same.

Other Bike Parks or Trail Centres dont usually get this right (cough BPW cough), you’ll hit a few jumps and pick up speed and next there’s a small jump and you’re landing flat!

Must resist…

I cant remember using a sky+ box and can only just remember what the remote looks like, but, I have sky Q and like the box, its display menus, can record lots of things and supports app such as Netflix, Amazon, etc. I really like the remote and the voice assistant mainly works.

I did sample replacing my Sky set up with a Firestick or Apple TV, but it just didnt feel right.

It sounds like the weight of expectation killed you, training done, made it to the start line and expected a good run, then when it wasn’t panning out that way spiralled instead of enjoying the race or stepping up to the challenge.

I would expect a trip to a Waterstones or other book store would find you a sports psychology book, I seem to recall the chimp paradox stuff being big few years ago. Pick something up and see if you can do it yourself.

If not, I’m sure there will be plenty of professionals happy to help by taking your money!

EDIT: I have just found a copy of the chimp paradox on my bookshelf, unread… cover postage and its yours.

The minute its cold overnight we’ll get wet windows and mould around the windows, nothing behind furniture.

We picked up the Electric CD12LE-v1 12 litre de-humidifier, its a nice unit, can run be constantly on, on for a set number of hours, or turn on in set number of hours. It hasnt removed the issues with wet windows, but has definitely helped.

I own a pair of front and rear traces, have no issues turning them on, initially was a lil fiddly to get em plugged in to charge but got used to it.

The snake, The rat, the cat, the dog…

I have 2 in the garage…the trusty steed must be best part of 12 years old, 21 inch top tube and short-ish back end which is nice for skateparks, after a few years on the MTB and a child it started seeing more use, after going long and low on the MTB was curious how a longer BMX would feel and picked up a 21.8 inch frame with longer rear end in and then a 3rd bike for the wheels and other parts… 21.8 now nicknames the red rocket gets used for pumptracks, trails and hopefully soon some local racetrack.

I had about an hour riding the TruTune on my Zeb last night.  Fitted it mid-ride, so had a fresh feel for the fork with/without it.

First impressions are excellent, a few notes:

– Seems to go into the travel/overcome stiction a touch easier

– Tracks better, with more feel for what the wheel is doing

– Probably easier to get deeper into travel, but also feels more controlled

Last year I picked up a DSD Runt for my Lyriks and went on the chase of lower pressures for softer off the top but ended up with it being too soft in the middle for my taste, ended up back at my normal pressures with it in. Interesting to read your impression of the TruTune isnt too dissimilar to what I found. For me, maybe I do prefer a progressive over a linear fork!

I’ve since picked up some Zebs so stealth ad if any 170m Lyrik owners would like a more linear fork.

I picked up some cheap carbon wheels years ago, could instantly notice the direct feel or lack of flex, felt like was on tracks when corning instead of an understeer feeling.

Recently had something go into the rear wheel and rip out the nipple meaing the rims shot, I have had something similiar happen to an alloy stans rim before. From speaking to the local shop have laced up a Ex511, apparently lighter and stiffer, I haven’t noticed anything initially from a few rides, so maybe the shop was right!

I picked up some Code RSC’s in 2018 pre a Morzine trip and they’ve been faultless since. I’m around 85kg so not the heaviest rider, but went 220 rotors front and rear few years ago, the rotors also have a 2mm thickness and it made them even better feeling for modulation an bite, I wouldnt go down in rotor size now.

Even picked up a secondhand pair to go on an aggro hardtail I built last year (also about to big rotor this bike).

My pad of choice for them is the Uberbike E matrix pads (both bikes are analogue)

I don’t know any routes, but I will say good luck, I was in Menorca this time last year and did a couple of pre breakfast jogs and that was far too hot for my liking!

I chased a rattle for ages and replaced all the bearings in my frame only for it to turn out it was my rear  floating rotor which had developed play…

I noticed a better feel at the lever when I went from 180mm rear to 220mm, better bite and a greater sense of modulation which worked for me on the steeps as I could be more be precise with doing on and off instead of on and dragging.

Its a relatively cheap upgrade too, so just give it a go!

I think a lot depends on how well the powder coating was done.

There’s probably a reason the sets on sale and I kinda think it might be linked to this, but circa half  a dozen bad reviews out of 50 or so isnt too bad.

If it the different sections screw together you could try some ACF50 on the fasteners and threads, might help corrosion forming on bare bit and working under the powder cost.

I’ve oulled the trigger on the set so will order some of this and see how I get on. Think I’ll treat it like my bike too, give it some washes now and again with a mild detergent and let it air out during the winter on dry days.

I’ve a Spesh Enduro and have gotten curious enough to pick up the needed mullet link and thought getting a cheap 650b rear wheel would be easy…it is not…seems like everyone is doing the same and price of second hand wheels isnt far off a new wheel!

Hopefully pick one up soon and can report back once tried.

It’s 2024, brake pads in the air-fryer surely?

Unless you mean pizza oven.

Clean both rotors and do some hill stops would probably be more effective.

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