+1 for turbo I got it free from a mate who could only use it in garage. I have polar HRM and its now sat in front room in front TV. Works a treat. Warm, comfortable no winter road work or extra over boots etc to buy 🙂 I come home from work, check the training program, browse TV channels and find something to watch and Im away. Wait for the program and start training. TV or a DVD keeps me happy and while I exercise. Fitness increase is brilliant. If you cant get either for turbo best not to bother. It will be too borring. I MTB on weekends 😉 and the turbo fitness means I really enjoy my rides more.

heading there to always good trails and the food afterwards 😉

If rocky or trail centre Id use Ardents both ends. Medusa useless on rocks because of the nobs you but great in mud. I have all three tyres plus HR. But now only use Ardents they seem to be ideal and I run them at 20psi as their UST

714 2010 – no issues, great bike Morrocco, Spain, Trans Alps loads enduros, Wales etc still going strong no maint 1000’s km on that bike. Just thinking about new bush bearings about £20 for a set I think.

Was from Tidworth then Amesbury 🙂 Some great riding on the plain. Peaceful to. Now in Bristol Cwm carn and Afan on my door step 🙂

You can cycle the whole plain – less the areas with red flags. I lived and MTB over it all for 8 yeras. Just give way to armoured vehicles 😉 and obvious troop exercises and you wont have a problem. The range wardens in the pick ups are bike friendly and are mainly on the look out for motor cycle and 4 x 4 off road brigade.

Many problems can be sorted by unplugging the router from the power lead and letting it reset. Try this before anything else, works for me.

Nope – old wives tale nor do you need to take air out of anything else. I have reverb and been abroad twice, I just slam it all the way down. The cargo hull is preasuired!

pugs and pump – never used em in 20 months

+1 slow riders, buzz their rear wheel!

I ride trail centres lots I never ask to pass unless its very open normally after the single track. I’m quick but always say – ‘keep your line dont stop, keep going’. More often than not they let me pass when they are comfortable I never expect them to let me pass.

Seen most things – best/worse bunch were a group looking at their head cam play back in the middle of the single track and ignoring two riders waiting for them to move. Clearly not beginers. As the third rider queeing to pass them I asked if they would mind awfully looking at the video at the single track. So its not all beginers slow or Turner riders 😉

+1 for hanging on to bike. My bars and pedals take the shock. Over the bars keep tucked. Dont stick your arms out to save yourself.

+1 well done

Anyone in the south have a demo bike? Small size as it seems pretty roomy

Demo would be handy or should I just go for 2012 Zesty 714 hmm agony of choice

Mmm and small bikes available?

Mountain biking riding implies to me ‘uneven surface’ who cares. Vote + 1 more bumps

TBH I would buy another I love the way they ride Zesty 714 here

Mach 5.7?

Tubless light weight best up grade ever 🙂

Don’t carry anything. If I puncture then I’m walking back for early finish. No issues for me and TBH I haven’t punctured since going tubeless 20 months ago. Out in the wilds or trail centre I take spare tube etc only because it’s a long way home. Ashton court 10 min push.

Zesty 714, do it all bike fast up relentlessly fast down. Mines been on loads of European an African trail holidays and is plenty bike for trails. If your nit picking bikes over this or that I think your missing the point of how it rides for what you ride. Mines been well looked after and soundly abused, never let me down. Currently bombing around Andalusia 🙂

I had creaking from 714 a few months ago. Greased the carbon spacers around the headset and the steerer tube from forks. Maybe worth a check as it stopped the creaking for me.

I would give my self more time while buying. Whats the rush its winter. You can demo bikes on evans rides, afan, CyB, mates etc. Treat it as a days riding and youw ont have lost anything and had a great time. Hopefully you will even have found that elusive beast the perfect bike 😉 We all use different bikes, I dont know why so many people base their entire buying choice on someone elses opinion without throwing a leg over a few bikes before dropping several £k on a bike they have never ridden?

Mach 5.7, Zesty 714 Spicy

Base training – generally means long slow rides in heart rate zone 2. I have found a couple of days a week in the gym also really helps with the arm, back, core areas. I found increasing my overal strength has helped with mtb rides. Turbo means avoiding long cold rides 🙂

Enjoyable meant that I keep the training as interesting as I can to make sure I actual follow the training plan (as best I can) and more importantly keep up the training. So many fail to keep it ‘enjoyable’ and stop training. You may have a great training plan but if you cant keep it up?

Turbo and gym, TBH I use this throughout the year. Come home check training schedule, see whats on TV then train whatching TV finished and food 🙂 Tend to spend weekends if more or less dry at trail centre because there pretty much weather proof to keep my eye in so to speak. Main think is to keep the core training enjoyable – hence TV on turbo in front room ha ha ha

+1 Ardents 2.25 roll fast and provide great grip. Avoid more nobly tyres as I find they tend to loose grip on wet rock or roots. Ardents flatter profile gives you great grip

Essential and works a treat in the front room in front the TV with a fan. Can watch dvd or Tv as I train. Its far more effective for fitness. Not a replacement for cycling or MTB though. An hour on the turbo is worth double to road or MTB for fitness. No slowing down for traffic and the only way to do interval training IMHO. When its wet and cold – turbo!

Heart monitor. Spin classes. Turbo trainer and programme and stick to it. Polar have oine training diary good for keeping you honest.

I think as mentioned earlier the data is flawed. I fell at CYB destroyed helmet and pretzeled wheel. No report helmet took all the impact. Just online to get a new one. I know from many offs how my helmet has saved me from injury over the years. No amount of statistics will convince me I’m better off without one. Member of CTC as well and I see the same old data trotted out by them as to why you don’t need a helmet a cotten race cap is good enough. Interestingly it tends to be the more senior members view.

+1 the old grave yard is still there you just need to take the right line 😉

+1 for Glyncorrwg cafe. I was there last Sunday when a guy ordered food then realized he lost his wallet on the trail (from his back pocket of cycling top (no comment)). They gave him his food free. Nice to see genuine good service. I find the foods great and plenty of it.

Like the new bit but always go from Glyncorrwg

Tends to be all open at weekends although during the week some tree felling. Nothing closed last weekend. Not too sure about skyline bits are reopening and closing all the time.

I go to Afan 2 – 3 times a month W2 black I like the riding there. Most skip the black run bit of W2 but its not that technical. Back from few days at CyB and Nant Yr Arian nice to ride somewhere new but still think the trails at Afan are better because they are faster. But just my view no flames please.

Brechfa is closed tree felling I believe

Why not try Cwm carn on the way or Brecon Becon routes?

Zesty 714

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I think most of us were thinking about off road use.

+1 druidh Looking at retiring at 55. Although strangely I enjoy my job so happy to go on but keenly aware that these are my best years so making the most of them so making sure there’s plenty of me time. In later years i have managed to avoid promotion and increased worlk load ha ha

🙂 dont worry Zesty is a great bike down and up just let it go and hang on when in doubt :-S Hasnt got any traits that I found except that its bloody relentlessly fast.