I use Conti Race King Supersonics tubless on 355 rims using Stans Sealant. They have really porous sidewalls but sealed up pretty easily with the sealant by inflating to 40-ish psi and shaking the wheel to plug the hole with the sealant until no air comes escapes(videos on the ZTR site).

Getting one of them seated was another story and I needed a friendly car mechanic to do it with his compressor, the other one went straight on with my track pump.

Not sure what tyres you'd need for your rims as my tubless experience is as above and doesn't extend to UST setup, I'm afraid. But the Stans Sealant will seal most tyres I reckon with a bit of patience.

Just Ride Along (I think) have a comprehensive set of guides and FAQ's to going tubeless.

That is one of the most stupid offers I have ever made.

It doesn't take much to do that does it. I did exactly the same thing and couldn't find a replacement lever so had to buy a whole new set. I've still got the broken one and if it's possible to get the lever off the cylinder assembly you can have it for postage costs and maybe a donation to the site.

Email in my profile if you're interested.

I've just set up some 355's and found Freeborn[/url] to be the cheapest for tape and valves. I'd also recommend the injector to cut down on the mess when adding the sealant.

Watch the Stans videos before starting the installation, very useful they are too.

Depending on your tyres be prepared for a good bit of inflating to 35-40psi and shaking the sealant around to make sure you seal the sidewalls properly. It took me 3 days to seal mine, but that is with fairly porous Supersonic Conti's. Well worth the effort though.

Brecon Beast on Sunday for me. Unfortunately the weather is looking pretty perfect so that's one less excuse to wimp out and do the shorter route.

Not really any help to the OP but my parents named their beagle 'Jeremy'. For the record all his paws are the same size.

Magura Julie HP's are about 60 quid an end. I bought them for my Roadrat but swapped the front one onto my Yeti when my M4 had a malfunction just before a ride. The Julie was excellent, I was really impressed.

A bit more on/off feeling than more expensive brakes but plenty of power and the caliper seems well put together. Super easy to bleed too. On the downside the master cylinder is a bit cheap feeling but the lever feels nice. I think they've got a 5 year warranty.

If the Juicy's are the £45 at CRC ones then that would be hard to turn down.

Oh yeah, be prepared to talk to a lot of people when you take a beagle for a walk.

My parents have a couple of Beagles – lovely dogs, full of character and both have pretty different personalities. It feels odd writing about dog personalities.

They are quite headstrong but certainly trainable and yes, they love loads of exercise. Get one young would be my advice as they seem much, much easier to train. Old dogs and all that I guess.

I had a similar sounding problem and found that following the videos below sorted it right out.

Set up a caliper Video

Centralise caliper pistons Video

I'm about 10.5 stone with kit and have mine at 90+ and 85-. I find I need the rebound set almost as fast as it will go too.

Mine took a good bit of experimenting with the pressures but it's well worth it, small changes seemed to make a big difference. At least I don't think it was only in my head.

The best views are probably from Skyline but I reckon Penhydd gives most bang for your buck. Once you've done that – should take well under 2 hours – and are nicely warmed up you can stay at the Afan Argoed car park and do the Wall (decent views down the valley) or go to Glyncorrwg and do Whites.

Penhydd then Whites would be my recommendation for what it's worth. I don't think you'll be too disappointed whichever trails you choose though.

I ride there a couple of times a week and have never used pads but I see plenty of people that do so whatever you feel comfortable with I guess.

Ok no worries.

ChatsworthMusters – YGM re those rotors.

Sorry to hijack the thread briefly.

Last – RRP neoprene mudguard thing, well it is July.

Next – rotors to replace my horribly warped and rubbing current ones.

Guillestre in the Hautes Alpes region (a couple of days easy driving from Calais/Dunkirk) is a lovely place to stay. The camp site run by Monsieur Pascale is just above the main town, is fairly basic (comfortabe though, not primitive) and is really nice and relaxed.

It's over 1000m up, near loads of lovely Alpine walks, St Veran (highest permanently populated place in Europe) and the town itself has good restaurants and a market.

Beware – there are loads of trail heads just up the road, got me chomping at the bit. I'm sure you could hire a bike. You can head to the South coast pretty easily once you've had enough of the alps too.

White Denim, either album – Workout Holiday from last year or their new one – are well worth a listen.

Ugly Side of Love by Malakai is really good too, once you get over the Finley Quaye-ish vibe.

I’m just about 5’8″ (and consider myself a bit of a short ar5e) and I’ve got a Roadrat. It’s a small long frame (for flat bars) and I’ve put a 130mm stem with Mary bars and an On-one Twelfty seatpost with about 6″ out of the frame.

I find it spot on – I really like this bike a lot – and my girlfriend (5’5″ish) gets on really well with it too, there’s certainly enough stand over room. If you’re around South Wales you’re welcome to try mine out for size.

I’ve got U-Turn Rebas on mine and have run them at the ful 115mm. At that travel it seems better going down (may be my imagination as that’s the effect I expect) but is utterly rubbish on climbs, wandering all over the place. I usually stick at around 100-105 and wind right down for steep climbs.

Conti Sport Contacts (26″) were great on my 16 mile round trip through London. I found nails sticking out of the things some days but the protective belt stopped any punctures. Seemed quite fast rolling too.

They come in 700c too so I’ve just put another set on my Roadrat for road duties now I’m back in Wales.

Yep, that’s what I meant to do. Thanks neverfastenuff.

I went to Reykjavik last November with a hope of seeing the Northern Lights. No luck with seeing them but this site[/url] was recommended by a number of people and did indeed forecast that we wouldn’t see them at that time. Being in Reykjavik I wasn’t too disappointed as it’s a brilliant place anyway.

There were loads of private and coach tours that would take you to look for them though from about £20. Best time to go is in the winter apparently but you do need to be lucky with the solar activity and cloud cover.

I work for a large energy efficiency/renewables/sustainable transport organisation. We’ve increased in staff numbers hugely in the last couple of years (created green jobs?). Probably not the sort of job that Gordon was think about though.

Not really at the practical/installation end of things but I’d be happy to answer a few questions if it would help.

I’ve got a 2005 Citroen C5 hatchback which takes almost as much as my previous Mondeo estate, enough for a few bikes and kit certainly. It’s the 2.0l HDi, 138bhp engine which is surprisingly fast and smooth and returns 50+mpg but it doesn’t go around corners as well as a Mondeo.

Even with the top spec Exclusive trim it was way less than 4k. Lovely ride especially on the motorway and the estates are huge. Apart from a clutch problem it’s been reliable too, despite being a Citroen.

I had the same sort of problem a little while ago on my Yeti ASR (single pivot).

I largely sorted it by slowing the shock rebound a bit and I know my tyre needs changing which I expect (hope) will restore the handling to as good as new.