Bought a Reverb this week and have mounted my right hand lever upside down on the left. I have a front shifter so it’s a bit tricky mounting the lever and the front shifter together within easy reach and without interfering with one another, but seems to just about work…in the shed at least! Will get out and test it this weekend so will see how it operates in practice!

Indeed. How much testing does a bicycle need??

beej – yep i did :D

There was a comment they posted on their Facebook page a few weeks ago that they’ve decided to continue testing and so they won’t be released until late 2012 or possibly early 2013. Bit disappointing really.

I use it and love it. If you think it’s supposed to replace FB then you’re missing the point – FB has so many people and so many people linked together (friends, family etc) that it’s just silly to think a mass transition would ever happen. To be fair, I’m not sure what Google was intending G+ to be when it came out but it’s evolving all the time.

What G+ has evolved into is a social network for sharing interests and finding other people with the same interests. It’s more like a cross between Twitter and blogging, and I’ve read a lot of professional bloggers are ditching traditional blogs for G+ as they can still do what they do but get the interaction from ‘followers’ like on Twitter.

I mainly talk bike stuff on my G+, like new bits of kit, rides, ask for opinions on bike stuff – in some ways it’s like a more friendly STW forum :wink:

You get out of it what you put in tbh. If you don’t circle people and don’t post then people won’t circle you and it will seem like nothing is going on, but if you just search for, for example mtbers, and circle loads, then your incoming stream is more interesting and ‘busy. I follow a couple hundred people and most follow me back, and it’s really interesting to see how mountain biking is around the world for other people. For example, I follow mtbers from the US, Scandanavia and India as well as the rest of Europe and the UK, and it’s great to see the photos and stories that get posted.

Thanks for the offer kaesae, I don’t have a vice unfortunately and I don’t think my work bench is really up to attaching one but I’ll take a look at the guide though, it might not be as bad I think it is!

Regarding the costs, I should have clarified, the cost quoted for the rocker is £87 + labour which includes all the new pivot bearings. The cost for just the new bearings is £50 + labour, so the rocker link costs £37.

Ruscle – are you saying you got the rocker link plus rocker bearings for £35 (by my LBS figures, they say it’s £58)?

To be honest, I’m fine with the cost of the bearings and labour as such, but it’s the warranty issue I guess I’m mainly concerned with. I susupected the reasoning for the rocker replacement was because it’s magnesium and I can imagine it’s easy to damage getting bearings in/out!

But yeah, it was always my understanding that thay can be replaced under warranty, which I should imagine should extend to the rocker if that’s what is recommended by Trek, and so I would only need to pay the labour charges?

Rorchach – would be good to know what you find out, cheers

I bought some almost new 2011 Rev Dual Air RLT forks with Push/poploc (to be honest I’m not sure which it is!). REALLY impressed with them, they feel so smooth and aren’t actually that complicated to set up. The remote lockout is handy but after a couple of muddy rides, I found some dirt had gotten in under the knob on the crown and the lockout stopped working so I’ve bought the ‘kit’ to convert it to crown lockout to reduce ‘maintenance’.

Justin’s House is just one big ego trip!

The guy already had two shows on the channel and then came this as well. My two year old does like him but he grates on me, but maybe that’s from seeing him about 20 times over the last week!

Honk

I’m hoping to get a Five later this/next year and similar to you (5’8″, 32″ leg) and wondering whether a 16″ or 17″ is best. I’ve booked a test ride at Skyline Cycles at Afan for the end of the month as they have a 17″ demo bike. Might be best heading over there at some point and testing one out yourself too?

Here you go

…on one

Just clicked buy on an Animal Grail softshell jacket for £30 down from £75 from Play.com. Animal are selling it on their site in their sale for £50.

I would post the link but it’s not liking it for some reason so just go to the Animal section in the Clothing section on the site.

Taxi mode

Shopping mode

Rode my Trek Fuel EX8 almost exclusively for 3 years then decided to build up a Ragley MmmBop a year ago as a 2nd/playing about on bike. Fast forward to now, and the EX8 has been stripped and ready for sale as the Ragley became no. 1 simply down to it being more fun to ride.

My plan is however to get a Five next year to replace the Ragley as my only bike, but I get fleeting thoughts of ‘Why bother?’. I’d say the only time I miss rear suspension is on loose, rocky, pedally sections on flat/uphill bits but very rarely on downhill stuff.

Burchy – yep :-)

Northwind – cheers, future food for thought if I get bored with the green!

Ah Northwind, it was yours! I remember seeing somewhere on here a yellow MmmBop but couldn’t find it anywhere when using the search. Got any more pics? Whilst I really like the green of mine, I’ve wondered what it would be like in a nice bright yellow :D

Another MmmBop :-)

Tried Oxygen, Gingervillain and CyanogenMod 7 and all were good much faster than the stock HTC Sense Rom, but they were never stable enough on my phone and kept crashing all the time. I now use LeeDriod Sense rom which is very stable.

Have been keeping an eye on the ICS rom for the last couple of weeks but it’s still early and as they haven’t got the camera working yet. I’m waiting til that’s sorted and it’s stable, then I might give it a go!

Just read on Ragley’s FB page that the full sussers won’t be available til later next year now as they are ‘continuing R&D’.

Oh well, looks like they’re off my next purchase options for early next year now, shame.

Search is yo’ friend

Nice. The Charing Cross is on my ‘next commuter bike list’ :-)

Ragley MmmBop
Trek Fuel EX8

I’m, surprisingly, ‘orena45’ on Twunter.

You’re way more famous than me Kev (@blackhound), you’ve done proper bike rides and starred in podcasts as a result and that :-)

Anyway, my claim to fame is that Twitter legend, Mr Stephen Fry follows me (ok, and 10,000 odd others…but he still follows me)!

godzilla – Member
Sunset bikes with the 10% ? They have an RS with fox fit’s £2399 with 10% off.

From the Sunset web site:

*Please Note: Discount codes cannot be used in conjunction with 0% Finance Applications, Cyclescheme Quotations or Orange Bikes.

I assume that means the ‘Winter2011’ code too?

Looks a bit like a Ragley rear triangle too :lol:

My advice FWIW…don’t listen to anyone here (including me?!). Every birth is individual and it’s completely down to what you and more importantly, what your Mrs wants. Whether you go for a home birth or not must be your decision and one that you are both happy with. Yes, homebirth has it’s risk but equally a hospital birth also has it’s own risks too. Whichever way you decide to go, if it’s not what your mrs wants, she’ll feel stressed, literally tighten up when and where she needs to be relaxed, and that’ll not be good for giving birth.

Take in the ‘facts’, listen to what the medical professionals say but make your own choice.

FWIW – ms orena45 and I had a water homebirth for our daughter 2 years ago yesterday. No medical intervention, all natural and just us (the two midwives spent most of the time in the other room drinking tea and only needed to come in for the occassional check and just help at the end). Our birth story is up on ms orena45’s web site here if it’s any help in coming to your own decision. :-)

Wow, that’s amazing! How’d they managed to fit that in there?!

I bunged mine in for the first time last week with 2 years worth of dirt on them and they came out looking like new. :-)

I’ve got an MmmBop but no experience of the Pace, so in true STW style I’ll say the Ragley is better :D

However, I will say that the Ragley is all lot of fun to ride though some say a bit harsh for long XC rides, but it’s not bothered me. I’m actually on the verge of selling my beloved Trek Fuel EX as it doesn’t get a look in anymore.

– Loads of mud clearance
– 1.5″ headtube so you can run any size steerer fork
– Nice and slack for descending but still a decent climber
– Can build it up tough for playing/DH (as mine was), or reasonably light for more XC stuff (as mine is at the moment)

I’ve just gone (as of last night) from coil 454 Pikes (20mm Maxle/1.125″ steerer) to 2011 RLT Revs (air, 15mm Maxle, tapered). The Pikes (with a sizeable crown race still attached) weighed in at 5.45lbs…the Revs came in at 4.00lbs 8O

Will be off out tomorrow to see how they ride, can’t wait!

STATS19 data, whilst overall accurate enough, can be prone to many errors. It all depends upon how the attending crash scene officer records it, either at the time or when he/she gets back to the office. I look at STATS19 data for work and it’s surprising how wrong certain information can be – even marking a collision on a completely different road than where it occured is not uncommon (but reasonably rare I will add!).

Hope do – mentions E2 on the spec sheet HERE

Good band 8)

Do travel spacers come in the box with all Sektor purchases or does it depend on where you buy them from as to whether they’re included or not?

John Thompson is nice – they brew their own ale which is good! There’s a Monday night ride from there too if that takes your fancy.

Fitted mine yesterday on my EX8, had to shorted the hoses but it was thankfully very simple (used the guide as linked earlier in this thread), and been out for their maiden voyage today….

Wow, these brakes are awesome – so much power for so little effort (and I thought the M775s I had before were good)! Great price and quick delivery once they were in stock from Rose Bikes. Happy chappy :D

EDIT: just realised they’re now out of stock again, 19 weeks til more stock arrives apparently 8O Glad I got in quick!

Looks like a Bell, maybe a ‘Variant’ or something?

XTs are now back in stock, looks like mine are about to be shipped – cant wait!

I’ve got a Ute. Great bike for shopping trips and light to medium cargo shifting, and with a change of bars, stem might be ok for some short distance road touring (I fancy trying it on mine sometime) but don’t think I’d want to do any long distance touring or significant off-road on it. It would be ok for ‘off-road’ as in Sustrans trails but not really for MTB type off-road. The Big Dummy is probably your best bet if that’s what you’re thinking.