Is there not a search engine you can use that searches for pictures yet? Would be handy for stuff like this.

Contacted Leisure Lakes, who sold the brakes, they’re sending the correct rotor (Post Mount) adaptor out next week. :-)

Top service!

Got one on the back of my Bullit, stiffens things up a bit, but not sure how noticeable it is when you ride it.

I’m saying if you go on the Marzocchi website or google you can get the manuals and then work out a) if it’s feasible and b) what you need to buy to do it. Then you can work out if you can afford it or if it’s worth it etc.

Sounds like they are convert able though.

Best thing to do is to look at the manuals and see if there are any stumbling blocks to just unbolting one set of internals and bolting in the other. I think you’ll find that you only need one cartridge, and the price may not be inline with the two I need for the 888s. You’ll then need the coil, probably £40.

If it’s warrantied, get it repaired, sell it and buy the fork you want I reckon.

I imagine you probably can convert them and that you definitely should. You might find your’e priced out of the market though as the RC cartridge you’ll need is probably expensive. I looked at upgrading my 170mm 888s to 200mm, but it needed replacement cartridges, which would have been about £200.

Mine is brilliant and it looks brilliant as well! Looks like they were only on sale for a few months at £500 so I’d be annoyed if I’d paid that price.

What’s not to like.

Yeah, but I can’t use that mount anyway as the one I need is post-mount, so if I’m within my rights to ask for a proper mount it might be useful.

This thread has truly delivered!

“I don’t really want Mint Sauce cufflinks making, but I’ll take your money and send you some sheep cufflinks instead.”

He’s properly had your pants down kiddies!

Carbon 456 with Lyrik U-Turns. Don’t know how slack that is, but probably a bit? Rides ace. Usually run them at 140mm for general trail duties, 115mm for ling climbs, full beans for Peaks descents. No idea what the HA is at the various heights, but they don’t cause much in the way of problems in use, so I can’t see why I’d not want it as slack as it is.

456 Carbon, ticks all your boxes better than those suggested above.

Class action? In the UK?

FFS!

115-160 u Turn on the Hardtail
170 on the FS bike

140mm front and back on that customs are looking at

Quite a few you can’t get adaptors for. 15mm hubs are 5mm narrower, so for some the adaptors would mean the disc rotor hits the fork legs, depends on the flange-flange distance.

But their reducer bottom cup is pretty ugly. on One have a very nice and good looking reducer headset and quite a few others are doing them now.

There’s been an oversupply on tapered forks for a few years now, which is odd as you’d think the manufacturers would have learned.

Problem is that for everyone 10 people with a tapered headtube, 5 will be like me and want to run 1.18th so they can swap forks between their bikes a bit easier.

GT I-Drive, came out in 1999 and has remained pretty much the same until now. I don’t think any other bikes have shown less ‘progress’ over the decade, much to their credit.

Last time I rode mine, exactly a year ago, it bucked me off into a rock and ruined my winter, which is a big mark against it!

Have been away from HT2 for a while, but I’ve got hold of a Race Face bearing puller, so I can replace the bearings in them now, so going back to HT2 so I can use some Hone Cranks that have barely been used. £50 for the puller I think, will save that much in 18 months of broken BBs I reckon.

They are unnecessarily shit though aren’t they? You’d think someone would have made one that works and stays working by now!

I always ruin Christmas for myself anyway, and I’ve done it again this year. Just bought myself some Bomber 44s, Magura Louise brakes, new wheels and a Transition Spitfire frame. Not sure anyone is going to be able to top that for me on Christmas Day.

I find it best to buy your own bike bits, otherwise she might find out how much they cost.

It doesn’t help that the one bike they’re got that people might really really really want, other than the Fury DH Bat-bike is the Ruckus 7.1. Which you can get in America, but not here.

Bomber 44s maybe?

I know if it was me I’d be looking seriously at a new front wheel as well if stiffness is a major factor for you.

The more you fatties lean forward, the more your gut pulls down against your back, the more uncomfortable the ride is. Simple.

If you put the brake on with no adaptor, a 6″ rotor will fit. That is the standard, so you just need a 180mm Post Mount adaptor, the two you’ve lnked to will be fine, I’de get the second one because the first looks a bit girly.

The only exception to that is Magura Thors which take a 7″ rotor as standard and the Magura Wotans, which take an 8″ rotor as standard.

Yeah, the fee is 10% + the listing fee. You only pay the PayPal fee if you withdraw the money, I don’t do that so I can’t remember if it’s a percentage with a maximum per withdrawal, but I think it is.

If you can leave the money and spend it with PayPal then it’s a decent deal, you definitely get more than 10% extra with the bigger market on ebay, if you put the item up at the ebay price on here you’d either get no interest or you’ll get haggled down, then have to throw in free postage.

It’s very easy to use PayPal to buy things I find, ebay obviously, but lots of bike shops take it too and if you’re buying stuff second hand etc.

Don, with respect, if you’ve never ridden a FS in anger, and you accept that they’re popular with riders of all abilities, maybe you should have a go on one properly to see what you’re missing?

They’re just different, not better, not worse, in general. I usually ride whichever I feel like at the time, it’s good to mix things up a bit so you don’t get bored of your trails. It’s also good to have backup, eg I’ve a rear brake that needs bleeding on my hardtail and I’m riding Thursday, I can fix it or I can leave it as I’ve got bouncer I can take out instead.

Decide what frame, then find it second hand, barter yourself into a bargain, then sell at a profit if you don’t like it. Possibly. If you do like it, spend the change on some bling bits.

Sweet, me too, the pins in the eyes thing I mean.

Definitely bullshit.

I ride in a pretty big club and I’d reckon the majority own a full sus bike. There’s a large proportion that also ride hardtails and there might be similar numbers that own a hardtail as their only bike as for full sus.

Perhaps the biggest trend in the last decade is towards owning more bikes.

Bikes in general are a lot better though, so for you buying a bike now, either would be a perfectly valid choice. I’d get a medium-weight 140mm travel FS and diversify from there, but it really depends on where/what you’re planning to ride etc.

If it’s Fox, it’s probably a crappy design. Fashionable though.

too heavy for XC racing, too shit for 4X/DJ

There’s a lot in between XC Racing and 4X and Jumps. Like riding your bike for fun, where reliability and strength are more important than weight. Sure, we all no people that bought a BeFe rather than a Soul to mince around Llandegla on, but don’t tar us all with the same brush.

I thought the Sektors were coil? Coil > air in my humble opinion. I also love U-Turn.

That Tracer looks like you’d be smashing the linkage of rocks left right and centre?

But a new Bottlerocket wouldn’t be battered would it.

I don’t think it is. I can’t say any more definitively than that.

Banshee Spitfire?

It looks ok, sure it’s fine, but it’s not the messiah I don’t think. Looks are a little underwhelming, but then I really don’t like the Specialized thing they’ve got going on at the front; where the top and down tubes are practically parallel should be boxed, would improve the looks a lot.

Not convinced by the faux-bar arrangement though, it’s just an over-complicated single pivot innit? Looks like a bike that will sell more on marketing (Look at our TR450, here’s one you can afford) than on ability.

Maybe it looks better in different colours and maybe it rides better than it’s looks suggest, we shall see….

I’ve just ordered a set of 44 RC3Ti from America, they weigh under 2kg, so light enough, and should be awesome. They were about £300 on ebay, delivered, with customs on top, though I don’t know what that might be yet.

Only issue with them is that they’re 15mm axle only, but have picked up some wheels to go with them for £65 second hand so all is good.

Why do you need a document to service some Bombers? a) they don’t need servicing and b) you just undo a bolt and pop everything out, see that it’s fine, then put it back with some new oil.

My personal opinion is that if something needs 15 hour services and breaks as much as Fox Forks and costs that much, it isn’t something I want anywhere near my mountain bike. I’m not just referring to the surface coatings either, I know far too many people that have had issues with TALAS breaking, drop outs cracking etc. If that happens to you it’s cheaper to buy new forks than replace the damaged bits.

I’m sure the only reason Fox are popular is that they heavily discount to the manufacturers.

£77 for a complete set of front and rear Magura Louise discs inc floating rotors last year; don’t sell right before Christmas!

See, that’s what I thought, should be quite simple. But they’re saying that it doesn’t work, not that they don’t do the adaptors, but that it’s not possible.

Mind you the importers are claiming they’ve stopped getting the hubs because they don’t do various adaptors for them. They too want to sell me some different hubs, despite this not really being any use to me.

I’d have thought I could send some 20mm adaptors to be machined to with, then have them sleeved to 15mm.

It looks like I might have found a better option though; the frame I want second hand with a set of wheels that are adaptable to 15mm, for quite a bit less than the brand-new price. Just need to round up some cash….