I don’t take much notice of this kinda stuff as it generally doesn’t bother me…but what I definitely do not get, are bonnet bras or whatever they’re called. It makes your car look ugly, and even more so when you take it off after a few years and realise the uncovered paintwork has faded in the sun and you’ve got a 2-tone bonnet!

Thanks for the info shandcycles, sounds reassuring

Nice Shand Fireatarter.

Do belts need a shed load of tension? Seem to be some people saying they reduce bottom bracket life?

Yeah seem to remember folk having off road issues when I last looked into belt drive a few years back. This’d be purely for urban commuting so no issues in that respect.

Orbea Rallon[/url]

Recently went from a 26″ Five to a (2015) Rallon and loving it so far

Enter the sunday – is friday practice available for sundayists? if so, do that, then what? hang about on the saturday? not really party on the saturday night as your only race is the sunday.

No Friday practice for Sunday riders. I think I read the organisers are leading local rides out for those not racing, so Sunday racers can head out for a chilled ride the day before.

In it to bin it! Can’t wait!

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/car-garage-in-derby

I’m struggling to tell the difference too but going to sign up for the sport one as I’m just going for fun with mates.

No obvious difference other than the more competitive option has some Friday practice it seems

The (Marin?) British Enduro Series is dead.

Long live the UK Enduro Series. :!:

This is all going a bit mental….

2 BES 1 is clearly trying to be super slick and professional the other is pretending to be your mate

SES + Tweedlove triple crown crankworks rip off

PMBA enduro + Mini Enduro + both Welsh Enduro series? + Southern enduro series + Enduro1?

Then a bunch of other one off races like Hard Rock…

All good in my book – plenty of choice across the country so you can race wherever you are and whatever level you are at. Choice and competition between organisers should be good for us as the consumer ultimately :-)

So on that note, be the British National Enduro Series and let them have second prize

That one sounds like you should get a free copy of the Daily Mail with every entry :lol:

Yep chainring as above. Had that before, felt like the chain was skipping on the cassette but it was actually skipping on the chainring.

If Marin have pulled out, I’m not sure who that reflects worst on – MBES (& CBES) for not sorting their stuff out, or Marin themselves for jumping at the first sign of trouble. Either way, it just adds to the confusion/mess!

To be fair though, if you’re going to do a series then you’ll only do one.

(Unless you’re loaded with all the time in the world!)

Interesting logos. I think these must be the mountains that Enduro was born of

#enduroclipart

So the BDS BES series has announced dates and more details now – http://www.british-enduro-series.com.

Not sure if a separate thread would add to the confusion! I’m distinguishing them as the ‘Cannondale Series’ and the ‘Marin Series’ now…which the sponsors will like no doubt :-)

Looks like there’s two races on back-to-back weekends which could be an issue for riders…

BES Rd1 12/13th March –
BES Rd2 30/31st April –
BES Rd3 7/8th May –
BES Rd4 11/12th June –
BES Rd5 13/14th August – Final and National Championships
Venues to be confirmed on Saturday the 31st of October:

Quite like the idea of Saturday = practice and race stages 1-3 and Sunday = practice and race stages 4-6 in some ways.

neilsonwheels – got a quick response on Twitter from the Nexus folks, apparently the update might have been a security update with Marshmallow to follow soon after.

Ah, weird!

I’d go check how my N5 has done, but I’m in the other room with the cat sleeping on my lap. Hopefully that upgraded OK!

It’s come through on both my Nexus 7 (2013) and Nexus 5 this evening. Strangely after installing, my N7 is still on Lollipop :?

The cheap Contis are pants, but the newer mid-level Pure Grip compound tyre isn’t bad from my experience (2x 2.2″ MK II’s on my hardtail) in terms of grip or ‘tubelessability’.

Also had 2.4″ Black Chili MK II’s on my full suss and really liked them. Sounds to me like you’ve got the cheap and nasty ones.

Triscombe, Aberdare and Kirroughtree in the mix as well now…plus reasonable prices at £54 for one day or £70 for 2 days

Recently bought a Oneup Components top guide. Very light and discrete though ISCG05 only, but <£35

Hope it wasn’t a Ginsters pasty.

If it was, they weren’t being as generous as you think they were… :wink:

It’s the ‘fashionista’, particularly urban, cyclist who rides at night wears all black, on a black bike with little or no lights and then complains that cars almost kill ’em

Sounds more like ninjas to me :wink:

Just ordered this DHB jacket from Wiggle

Let me guess…
you’ll be wearing it for riding back from the pub without lights.

(Woosh)
:|

Sorry, must’ve missed something as I don’t understand the joke there

Just ordered this[/url] DHB jacket from Wiggle (36% off) which sounds pretty good.

Only mediums left though, and has a hood.

I’m 5’8″/32″ leg and a medium fits me nicely. Got a 125mm Reverb with maybe an inch of seatpost showing so as above, a 100mm Reverb would be better if you went with the medium

Yay, I’m in the highlights 8)

Round 1 will be at Brechfa

Yerr, awesome weekend for me too…loved every minute of it!

Only problem now is, having to wait til next year for another race :(

I’m in two minds about unofficial practice…on one hand, being able to make more of a weekend of it and get an extra day of riding the trails in is great, particularly if you’ve travelled a long way…on the other hand, it favours people who can get there on a Friday and leaves those who have to travel far and can’t get the time off work at more of a disadvantage.

Living in Cornwall means getting to 3 of the UKGE rounds (Grizedale, Hamsterly and Ae) has been an all day drive up on the Friday so Saturday’s been my only chance to recce the stages. Hamsterley was a short loop so I could practice most stages at least once but Ae was a big loop, so I rode each stage just the once and missed practicing Stage 5 (although I had walked it) due to time and to save some energy for seeding and the next day. I messed up big time on Stage 4, completely missing a diversion sign and headed down Stage 1 (!) – if I’d had time to practice Stage 4 more than once then I might not have made such a silly and costly mistake.

IMHO, in the name of fairness to all riders, there should be no unofficial practice and just one session for all – but I appreciate that once the course is marked out, it’s difficult to stop people riding unless there are marshalls everywhere, which is a logistical problem and extra expense for organisers…so I’m not sure what can be done!

Ah, it’ll be alright I’m sure!
Take a spare tyre too (I am), just in case.

I’m heading up Friday, aiming to get there early afternoon and practice a couple of stages. After the epic all-day-Friday drives for the last 3 rounds, Dyfi almost feels like on my doorstep!

Are you heading over Friday too?

Kimbers – yarp, got me Rallon finally. I’m getting more and more excited for this weekend each day. :D

Got your rim fixed/replaced, or is it still held together with Sellotape?!

*cough* My 26″ Five is up for sale in the classifieds at a decent price for anyone interested *cough*

Can’t wait for this. Got my new bike (whoop!), weather forecast looks not too bad at the moment and Dyfi has some great trails. I’m just going to go have loads of fun on the trails this weekend :D

And Enduro1…I’m sure I heard rumblings that it might not happen next year at the last round. Turn-out was quite low for Triscombe and Grogley I think. Hope I’m wrong as I enjoyed it and was pretty relaxed, but maybe the new SW Gravity Enduro series will take over more?

Spike Sports might do a couple of bitesize enduros again early next year I’d imagine…although having said that, they’ve usually advertised it by now. They didn’t run the Mondraker Exmoor Gravity Rally this year citing change of landowners and letting them ‘settle in’ but did say it would be back for 2016…but things change so who knows.

Ah, I’ve just seen BED/BDS’s Facebook post mentioning a 5 round series!

This could get interesting (and confusing)!

:?:

Ah yeah, good point. Sounds like the BES is going to be more ‘relaxed’ than UKGE, but I doubt mini-enduro-relaxed :D

A couple of the Welsh Gravity Enduro Series dates ‘clash’ with the Welsh rounds…I wonder if that suggests the series might consist of other race series rounds being included under one ‘national’ title e.g EWS-type model?