Ok – count me in.

If I organised it, you would be given a map and a route from one pub on a beach, to another pub on a hill. No Marsalls, no medics, no marker tape, no insurance, bring your own food, no showers, and the campsite would be near the pub which happened to have a band on. Might also have a fat bike race around the nudist beach. Look at that, I just organised it. How hard was that?

This please.

moto ace?
http://salsacycles.com/components/moto_ace_flat/

i’ve got some somewhere & they’re quite pleasant to use

or did you mean
http://salsacycles.com/components/bend_2_bar/

Haldon Blue run is pretty good on a crossbike

I’ll be up there at some point early tuesday morning.

lovely yunki – if you fancy a spin on it next week & want some company just shout.

Both times was accelerating up a fairly steep hill on the singlespeed – both times I ended up on my arse in the bushes :(

I had the same issues with specialised so I’ll try the Sidis, ta!

Beautiful on the lustleigh cleave – hound tor – warren house loop yesterday.

You’re paying for the pleasure of having a relatively nice example of the bike you lusted after as a kid, you’re not paying all that for the off-road capabilities. Some people pay that much for a car! crazy fools.

Just got back from houndtor- grimspound – widi – warrwnhouse epic and it’s pretty good up there! some bits were a bit claggy but I rode the singlespeed KM with no worries

they were superb for me.

http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/endura-coolmax-printed-item152031.html ?

dartmoor

Mostly, but not totally true. Materials vary in damping properties or levels of resonance just like they vary in stiffness. High frequency vibration or ‘buzz’ resonates less / disipates faster in a carbon structure than a steel one. But low frequency vibration – brake or bigger-bump flex- will be more about the overall stiffness of the fork than the material. Generalising and I’m not saying everyone will feel a difference in the fork material beyond basic stiffness, but if you can’t make a good bell or a tuning fork out of carbon fibre the same lack of vibration retention should be true of carbon bars or forks.

Apologies for the snarky response. Bad day.
This was what I should have replied with and thank you for clarifying.

I doubt that most people will feel the difference between the residual oscillations of steel and carbon. I would think that it is the initial displacement that dominates the “feel” of the fork and this is mainly dictated by the diameter of the tubing involved. To give an example, a surly fork, despite being longer, will feel stiffer than a p2 fork, the same principle of stiffness varying with (approx) square of diameter are behind the lefty and SUB forks. The difference in the two is predominantly in the later oscillations – the ringing as it were – which is a small vibration, vastly masked by subsequent impacts.

FWIW, my own personal preference is for steel but mainly due to failure modes – I have bent P2s when a carbon fork would have snapped.

As a frame designer, I’m assuming you’re joking…

Either that or you are TJ in disguise and I claim my £5

Go back to school and learn some engineering. The only way that forks can take the buzz out is by flexing.

My frogs are the best pedals I’ve ever used.

Sanderson soloist with an Alfine (sometimes) and its best bike ever IMO.

the Gryphon and the WTF both look very sensible, in their own way, I love the cruiser looks of the wtf

can do too

Curry

Talisker

A game of thrones audiobook.

Riding out at Lustleigh cleave tomorrow.

Mine was a bit of a horror – broke in two places and dislocated both ends along with a good quantity of tendon damage to the shoulder, a rib or two and, quoting the doc, “simply horrendous soft tissue damage, might have a punctured lung there too”. It was too wrecked to pin together and I trashed the nerves to my right arm apparently.
Couldn’t lie down for 6-7 weeks, finally back to work just over 3 months after. Still had numb 2nd and 3rd fingers from nerve damage for 6-7 months after getting back to work. By the time I got the all clear I couldn’t even lift an empty mug, let alone ride.
Spent a long time in physiotherapy and have regained full strength & movement although my shoulder still clicks and pops, there’s a massive lump where the bone is displaced and it aches if I overdo it. added bonus is right shoulder dropping noticeably – enough that I bought new suit jackets and shirts for work and my lovely coat no longer fitted. Even now it’s noticeable.

Two bits of advice;
1. Get on with physio asap – I had a superb Physio, who was also a friend of mine and she kicked my ass into doing exercises. It’s not about strength but mobility and range of movement – In my case there was great danger of loosing mobility through scar tissue and repaired tendon having less elasticity.
2. Find something to maintain dexterity – I built airfix and balsa planes during recovery to re-learn fine motor control – I attribute my recovery to this, docs thought I’d never get full movement and motor control back thanks to nerve damage and I still remember the tears of frustration but I got there in the end..

I know the KH rim and they’re exactly what they seem. strong, wide and Roger over at unicycle.com is a star.

Ignoring the impulse to ask why – That is a bit odd.

Mavic and hope sell spokes in packs, pre-cut & rolled to length so a build is usually a doddle however as the ERD of the stans and crossride rims is different, and the flange diameter is different they will need something custom rolling up.

that said I think pedalon have stock of most spokes and would be my reccomendation

I’m in Devon & have built a lot of odd things (everything from clark kent pineapples to snowflake unicycle wheels) if I can help?

DFA radiomixes

old

I’ll be doing a spin round the cheeky stuff tomorrow morning…

It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.
Statement (1959), quoted by James Gleick in Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992)

riding haldon yesterday, today, and monday.

If you rode at places like coed-y-brenin then you wouldn’t last two minutes on a hardtail! I’ve started riding the black routes and tbh I don’t think you’d get around it on a hardtail without pushing sections. My five is a fabulous bike which gives me the confidence to ride such aggressive terrain.

I’ve ridden those on everything from a unicycle, through a rigid singlespeed to a big-hit & they’re all fun, all rideable, just different.

I really loved mine, I started jumping more and started blatting through stuff I might have slowed down for in the past. I’ve always been a bit of a hooligan on a bike but this really amplified it.
Oh and it was good for all-day epics & I’ve even put in some good laptimes at 24h races too.

thanks chives- funny that one I didn’t see it on MDCC website either – will have a better digg.

@ Chives – a race at Haldon? Part of a series? – wondering how I missed it

haldon, dartmoor, lutleigh cleave are all good search terms

what about a USE ringo-star?

just ride your mtb but instead of stopping every 10 mins for faffing/tea/iced buns/chat/zombie attack/etc just keep riding.

@carl Nice to meet you @Sharrah pool!

I’m gutted I missed it. Had a visit from the in-laws instead :(

@ iDave

There’s no email addy in your profile..

ok, I’ve searched the forum, is there more info available somewhere. With all of the “i feel better” comments I might give it a go