Will have the dog with me so it’s either haldon, lusleigh or burrator for me today (need to avoid roads). mind you, i’ve not done much round drogo.

Whereabouts Shinythings? Will also be playing outside about then. Was thinking of doing some burrator area stuff but could be easily diverted

I’m out every weekend…

I can show you the natural stuff in lustleigh and Haldon but am always happy to learn more routes on the moor as it were…

Take it easy to start with and build up his/her fitness. I ride with our lab all the time & I let him dictate the pace. It’s also worth investing in some ruffwear boots. Particularly good for trail centres!

Mind if I can join you

Bravo!

Juan Maclean
Shit robot
The rapture
Metronomy
Tuneyards.
White Rabbits
The Burns Unit

all a heavy part of the collection – for some reason can’t get on with the black angels although I did see them storm a gig in manchester a few years ago

Will check out the others- cheers folks, keep them coming!

Great!

We’ve got to go for a spin slugwash, I was doing the same thing that weekend!

Arsenic thing is bobbins.

Bring the bike!

oh, must be about 30km when all is done. might do it sunday

Very roughly, the route was supposed to be something like this;

in the end I modified it so I’m looking forward to trying this again

bother.

How’s this;

liking the ultra-niche :)

No need to face it. If you think about it it’s not the bottom bracket shell faces that align the bearings, it’s the relative orientation of the threads. The face just allows you to secure the bearing in the thread. I can’t find it now but somewhere I have a picture of a frame that had a really odd BB area that rather proves the point.

Have you ridden a 90s Kona recently? I think not. If anything it will be faster and require less fitness…. They are bloody FLYING MACHINES!
Light, direct, fast, and they climb like a rocket.
They really are THAT good. That’s why they have such a following

I second this. Was out on my explosif earlier & it’s a rocketship.

If I had the money I’d have a hei hei with a disc brake mount and some Ti p2’s with a disc mount welded on.

keep forgetting to record my rides :(

I have a sanderson soloist & am very happy. Have had on-ones in the past and they’re popular for a reason, they ride really nicely. Had a dialled love/hate and there was no love there at all – don’t know why, just never clicked.

I wonder how many of those things one could combine at once yunki?

I think the Ticks that are there (and everywhere) pose a much bigger risk.

They’re hard to spot apparently ;)

From what I can see there have only been a couple of cases and they were strep A related, a bacteria that is on your skin etc normally anyway.

203 and 180 here.

Cheers Bennyboy – bit paranoid now ;)

still deciding on lustleigh/haldon/woodbury/run on the moor/sit around & drink tea

Tired and gritty-eyed from yesterdays ride.

Rab Survival Zone. no question about it.

well, after your inspiration;

things to change to red;
headset
seatclamp
bb
seatpost

Mega pleased with my Sanderson, see thread about sandy for pics.

Titanium seiko kinetic.

Some lovely bikes here!

so how was it?

If USE put a better bearing on the SUB it would be a world beater

Decoy? behave! wrong sort of trails my friend.

There’s a lot of natural stuff at Haldon forest to be found, some of it loops along with the blue run, some with the red and loads is miles away.

Lustleigh cleave is a fun place to play and the mbr dartmoor killer loop are pretty good starting points as is this killer loop;

http://www.embc.uk.net/routes/killer_loop_dartmoor.html is ok

the nutcracker decent is rather amusing.

Wot he said^

been exchanging emails too shinythings – let me know what i can do to help.

quicktime will do it too.

my beloved Voodoo – like a joe murray MTB that does fast too!

and covered in mud;

i’m well up for that Slugwash!

Just wondering about a “start wherever you like, meet here for beer, ride off next day to here for more beer then home” type thing

Hmmm – How about a Dartmoor event – anyone?