As someone else said go Haldon it’ll be fine, do the blue, red and black and then if you have time loop around again and where you saw stuff that looked like a line push up and go down.

Just looked at that Woodbury loop, it looks to be more fireroad then singletrack! I would avoid that loop, but not Woodbury, there are fun things up there, although they have just ploughed all the jumps at Yettington but the trails are still running there.

The Stans formula works much better translated into English:

Weight in stone x 2 – 1 = front tyre psi
Weight in stone x 2 + 2 = rear tyre psi

Basically, think about it being twice what you weight and that’s a good starting point.

Funnily enough, these are exactly the PSI’s I run! I did think reading that people run 20PSI or less quite low. I find that the tyre sidewalls get squirmy in corners and berms for anything less, my rims are 29mm internal rim width too.

I have the Specialized Elite 29er 2017 and its a great bike. The price difference between the comp and elite is quite steep, in hindsight I would have purchased the comp and then got some aftermarket wheels and a shock tune with the change. The bike has bought my riding on, letting me ride hard and fast but the wheels on the elite although smooth and fast rolling feel somewhat flexy as they have a low spoke count.

SOmetime look at “flybys” to see who I passed on a ride, if it looks they did a good/hard ride or where friendly, smiled and waved I give them Kudos!

I do the same, ill check flybys for when I don;t ride a trail centre and to see if there’s anything good that other people are hitting.

Shake-Kudos all
Its probably not personal.

Only on group rides shirley?

I’ve done the shake all when I have ridden BPW and its grouped our rides together.

15-20 bikes is a lot of bikes to move, would have to have been a couple of van loads, again suggesting towards organised crime.

another vote for Chaz at Roots, did a lovely job truing and tension-ing my 29er wheel

This sounds like it fills the bill:

Spotted: New Whyte Bikes S-150 Long Travel 29er

I have an 2017 Enduro which came with a Monarch Plus and I was told you cant fit volume reducing bands to it.

I was told this after I purchased the bands and dropped it in the shop to do it! My LBS looked at it, thought it looked funny and contacted TF or Mojo (cant rememebr which one) and apparently you cant fit em.

I was in the same boat and when recently looking at new bikes went for a spesh with the SWAT storage. So glad I did, for rides up to 2-3hours: bottle on the bike, chain tool and master link in steerer, multi tool on bottom of cage and then pump, tube, tyre levers, tyre repair kit in SWAT with space for some sweets.

If I am going on longer rides, I chuck on a Camelbak waistbag and soft/pouch 1 litre water bottle and chuck that in there with more food, a mech hanger and spare derailleur cable.

Before for shorter rides I would just tape a tube to my Top Tube and then rely on friends who had camelbaks with all the tools you could ever need in them! When I would ride solo I would forget I had no tools and left the tube taped to the frame! thankfully I am tubeless so havent had any puncture issues in a long time!

I have seen recently that on one are developing a multi tool that goes in the steerer, that looks super cool!

I just went from a 29er with 140mm front and 135 rear to a 29er with 160mm front and 165mm rear. For the way I ride and where I ride most of the time its great, this is steep, techy, jump stuff, climbing is fine just tweak the compression as it doesnt have lock out.

But I think this is down to the quality of the suspension over the old stuff, before I had a revelation fork on the front and now I have a lyrik, the stiffness of the fork was noticeable straight away and the fork itself just works better, on the rev I was 3 or 4 tokens and 90PSI on the Lyrik I havent had to add any tokens and am now playing with how low I can run it.

Same on the back, I had a Fox float RP23 with the CTD, I could only run it in descent and overinflated to stop bottoming out and destroying the shim stack! the new bike has a monarch plus which again is like night and day.

Maybe if the bike which had shorter travel had better parts I wouldn’t have needed to upgrade, but I have and so far I am very happy!

This isn’t a tale, more a frustration. I have a friend who is Strava mad.. So I follow him on some sections and he ends up being 10-30 seconds faster than me.. Strange, as he didn’t leave me behind.

On holiday, he was bragging about his times, so we hit the trails. I left a 20 seconds gap, before catching him up and buzzing his rear wheel for the rest of the section.. Again he was 20 seconds faster than me…

I worked out that the iPhone has shitty GPS, so it shows you being at the bottom, when really you’re not. I was using a Garmin Edge, which was a lot more accurate. I would say most of the time the iPhone shortened the section , there were only a couple of times that I have noticed Garmin being faster than the iPhone.

Just to annoy him I turned on my iPhone, rode the trail and ended up 20/30 seconds faster than him, which is 40-60 seconds quicker.

Stick with the iPhone for super quick times, Garmin for super accurate.

I use my Garmin watch for recording all my activities and on a recent ride a friend who didn’t bring a pack asked to put his phone in my bag to stop it getting wet as he stored it in his pocket.

None of our times matched afterwards even though his phone was on my back and my watch on my wrist! on one climb, where my effort took 12mins his phone was 45seconds off, but then on the descent on the other side, he was 10seconds or so quicker! This was back when I used to have my watch on 1 second recording and GLONAS turned on. Since then I take it all with a pinch of salt.

Schoolboy question, I am curious to try a shockwiz as I generally just set up both fork and shock at 30%, but my forks dont have separate high and low speed compression, just compression and my rear shock is the same.

Would it be a waste of time, money and effort to use one knowing I couldn’t apply the recommended LSC and HSC?

the met office one have released a new version.

I find the new one quite horrid compared to the simplicity of the old one!

Will give the others mentioned ago instead.

I thought this post would match the recent experience I had, it doesn’t, but I will share anyway!

Purchased a Spesh Enduro Elite on Valentines day as a present to myself, 3 weeks later I am at BPW going down one of the blacks and a huge rock comes loose and bounces under the frame making a very loud noise. Didnt think much of it as had metal frames before and they were always fine with rock strikes and this shiny new carbon frame had a frame protector on it.

When I got home and was cleaning the bike, discovered the frame protector has a huge crack along the length of it from the rock strike and the frame underneath is damaged! WTF! my not even one month old new bike, just typical!

Thankfully a closer inspection makes me believe the damage is paint only and I have decided that out of site, out of mind is the best policy here…

If the OP is still looking, the camelbak flashflo hip pack arrived and got its first outing over the weekend.

I dropped a large biddon in the frame, and then in the hippack removed the 1.5litre bladder and mouth piece and used a 1 litre flexi bottle from mountain warehouse and was able to drop a Lucozade bottle in the main pocket too. In the front pocket I was able to fit tube, tyre levers, mech hanger and spare cable.

This was at BPW and the pack worked well, I had to replenish the water at lunch time, but it didn’t move around very much at all, actually helped hold down my clothes on my back so trail spray didn’t get up there and didn’t feel as restrictive as my old Evoc hydration pack.

I might get chased out of here with a pitchfork, but I rode BPW last weekend with my Kask Rex Helmet (open face trail helmet) only. Rode mainly the reds and the blacks and I came away fine, however I think my lack of wearing helmets and pads stems from my years of BMX and also my self assumed level of bike control and skill.

I do agree with the above comment, as someone that has never worn a full face regularly I find the restriction of vision, hearing and weight of helmet off putting.

I also have the 9504 (3 bike version of the 9502) picked it up second hand for circa £90 few years back. Been using it few times a week ever since picking it up, dont know why I never got one sooner!

I have an XL 29er and it fits on it fine, slight balancing act before you get it strapped in, but with use you get really slick at loading up! The wheels on the Xl 29er do poke out past the width of the car body on each side, but no more then the wing mirrors.

Ive done all sorts of miles using it covering A roads, motorways and country lanes, for example Ive done Exeter to BPW with my XL29er, whyte t130 and a DH bike, there were no issues. For extra safety, I did use a ratchet strap to go with the stock straps.

The rack does say limited to 45kgs and a max speed of 80mph but I’m sure I have gone over this and haven’t lost a bike yet!

The stock straps that came with it where n’t too great, I picked up some fasty straps as recommended on here and they have been great.

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I have the 2016 SJ 29er and it is a hoot of a bike, for XC rides and trail centres its excellent, the 29 roll over is great and the bike handles everything quite well. Even my friends on new 650b bikes comment on the SJ rolling away from them without pedalling!

I did find the stock stem too long and swapped from an 80mm to a 60mm and it made it handle descents better I thought.

Joe, I just went from a 140mm Spesh Stumpjumper to a 160mm spesh Enduro, the extra suspension makes a difference and the lyriks are noticeably stiffer then the revelations I had before.

But the main difference is the geometry, the SJ was 67.5 HA and 74SA, the new bike is 66 HA and 75SA with slightly shorter chainstays. The slacker HA makes it feel better at medium and high speed on rough ground and jumping, the short stays make the bike more playful and somehow the seat angle plugged into the rest of it makes it climb better!

It’s all about the geometry, although if you look too hard it likes opening a can of worms!

Ive just decided to go packless and now carry 660ml on the bike and have just ordered a Camelback Flashflo for £20 from Wiggle, comes with a 1.5 litre bladder with further space for other spares.

This should do me fine for any 2-3.5 rides as long as I am hydrated when I start.

The 2017 stumpjumper has a 67degree HA, maybe you are looking at the 2016?

I just picked up the 2017 Enduro which has a 66degree HA and 75 HA and its excellent, I had an XL 2016 SJ and downsized to the large and even though the listed reach is shorter, 461 to 450, the bike feels longer to me, has a nicer standing position and the front wheel wanders less on the climbs. Im 6.1-186cm

I was looking at the 2017 Enduro Elite 2017 during Jan, when the local shop told me it was going up by £500 I wasn’t sure if it was a sales ploy or not! I actually rang another shop after leaving to confirm!

For the OP, next years stumpjumper will be released in August time so waiting till September or October you might be able to get the 2017 for less…maybe…

Playfulness is all to do with geometry and nothing to do with wheelsize.

This ^^^. I went from a 29er stumpjumper with rather more XC style geometry, i think around 67.5 on the HA and it didnt feel too inspiring to jump around but my friends whyte t130 felt like a BMX almost, but mine did go much faster over the same terrain or rocks, roots and ruts, so much so that he would notice i was rolling away and he was pedalling!

Ive now switched to the 29er Enduro, it has a HA of 66.0 which is less than the 66.1 in the whyte t130, this bike feels like my friends whyte, playful, hoppy, chuckable and then rolls like a beast!

I will say that rider height might play here too, ,I’m 186cm on a large and its great!

I am also in the group of what video, what company and what spot, but will go look through pinkbike on my lunch break!

My thoughts, there are other disciplines of cycling which do not care for the owners permission, id says these are trials in urban areas and BMX street, as long as I can remember videos and magazine photos of people riding things have been in circulation.

This leads me to my next point, should the landowners do more to direct traffic and protect “their” land? for example, whilst we are calling out a brand, have we looked through the hashtags on social media for so called influencers riding this spot? do we need to start thinking about reaching out to other sports which use these areas of our country such as fell running? I’ll admit, I havent got a clue where I can and cannot ride in the countryside, but signage certainly does help me!

I have just gone from a 2016 29er Stumpjumper comp with 140mm front and 135mm rear to the 2017 29er Enduro Elite 160mm front and 165mm rear.

Now I dont know if it because the newer bike has better wheels and other spec, but on my local trails which are currently super wet, muddy and greasy I am smashing previous PR’s from last year when the condition where prime!

The bikes weigh about the same and I also wouldn’t say I have lost anything going up hills either!

The thing I like the most about the new bike is the geometry, the 66degree headangle and short stays make the bike super fun at any speed, in the turns, when hitting drops or lips, everywhere!

nickc – Member
what bike? (more specifically), what wheel size?

The bike is a 2017 Specalized Enduro with the big ol wagon wheels that are 29! :-)

n0b0dy0ftheg0at – Member
Is that existing 28T 64BCD?

If so, biggest ring you can replace it with is 30T, IIRC.

32T ring would require 104BCD option of crank.

No, sorry should have mentioned its the raceface cinch system.

Question for the guys that own a pair, do you still wear socks under the inners?

I have the alloy Roval rims on my stumpy which are listed as 29mm inner width, I ride schwalbe tyres and havent noticed any squaring, I ride a hans dampf up front 2.35 and either a racing ralph 2.25 or a hans dampf 2.35. I wouldnt say 30mm rims would be an issue for these tyres.

I have an XL Stumpjumper 29er which I’d be looking to sell in the next month or so if you’re interested?

Have you fed the chain through the derailleur correctly? On some there is a small metal tab between the two jockey wheels which you need the chain to be on the correct side of.

I use the sports direct Campri range, lovely and warm around £7 for 2 when I got mine.

Garmin Forerunner 220 can be found on ebay for around £60, will sync via bluetooth to a smatrphone. I am not sure if it has a cycling screen, but this can be changed once uploaded.

I think the Garmin forerunner 225 or 230 have a cycling mode.

sorry to hijack, I am doing the same trip from the SW in June, was planning on riding the two tracks at Fort William and had also hoped there would be some good singletrack around too.

I can see Torringdon is around 2.5hours from Fort William, is it worth the drive? Then a quick google and eyeball suggests there are many trails in the national park, is there a recommendation from you guys?

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Glad to hear I am not the only that avoids certain delivery companies!

DMCK16 & Muke: I live in a terraced town house, I have no front garden, side alley or access to a service lane etc. I might try catch the postie one morning as when there is a free text option I will ask for the package to be left next door where a retired couple live, however for some reason they choose to ignore this and take it back to the depot! I do know also that depending on the size of the parcel it might not be the normal postie delivering the package but someone delivering many parcels across the town in a van.

Boxelder: I am getting better at this, although sometimes when I find something I have spent ages looking for or when something is a bargain I’ll click first and check postage as checkout

I should have added, my work gets funny about having packages delivered to the office.

Do you need to religiously ride your bike every single Saturday morning?

*I’d say the majority of Saturdays, planning and thinking of my Saturday ride generally gets me through the Monday – Friday boredom! (not sure how to use the quote function properly!)

although you have probably thought of this, I think it might be cheaper to rent a bike when out there, it also would remove the need to care about wear and tear on your own bike!

I dont but I know for rides that you have previously had a relieve.cc link for but lost the email you can find them online by typing http://www.relieve.cc/view/ and then entering the ride number from strava, usually 9 numbers . Maybe try this for the rides before you joined up, but I wouldn’t expect it to work.

PS If using the strava app as opposed to the web portal, you can get the strava number by going to the activity and then pressing share, if you choose via email it will show you the full link with the number at the end.