Hendersons is veggie in case you didn’t know. Good, but meat free!

The Dogs on Hanover Street can be good – pub grub with a twist really.

Cafe St Honore does a menu for about £20 sometimes I think. Genuinely passionate chef (Scottish chef of the year last year I think?)

Avoid most of the bland places on George St etc.

Edit: most of the French places in town are nice too. L’petit folie, l’scragot bleu or Petit Paris.

I don’t think that tweaking the nipples will be the best approach.

Sounds like a difference in manufacturing tolerances. Your rims will be from different batches so will vary slightly – it might also be that Stans have tweaked the rim slightly following all of those comments about tyres blowing off the rims.

I found my Crest 29er rims on the CX bike a bit tight but lots of fairy liquid and a bit of swearing helped get the tyre on. Maybe stick the tyres on the radiator for a bit to warm them up and make them easier to stretch on?

I’ve just ordered a new rear wheel, but the 6 bolt disc version of the wheels you are looking at – Hope Hoops Pro3 SP-XC6. Means I can use any rotor for only a very slight weight disadvantage.

They get reasonable reviews from the XC crowd. Mine will be used on the XC race bike now that I’m building up a play bike.

There is a weight recommendation of <85kg from the Pro3 Hoops. If you are close to that or doing anything a bit rougher on a regular basis, or not using them for XC racing then you might be better off with the extra spokes with the Pro 2 Evo wheels.

postierich, have you got the application form from Rik?

I just looked at it for you and it would seem that you will need to pay a total of £65 – i.e. £40 to race, £10 to camp, £10 for your gf to camp, and £5 for your daughter (also £25 for two adults and any number of kids).

Apparently “a camping ticket gives access to all the estate facilities”

PS – just re-read my earlier post. Apologies for the numerous typing issues there. :roll:

My understanding (which may be wrong) is that the £40 includes your enntry to the estate and parking, but not entry to the face house/garden bits, nor entry for your family if they are just mooching around all day.

Might try the cheaper option of a Stinger, bash and n-gear or similar first then.

Rickon – is £10 fair? My email is in my profile if you want to part with it.

Cheers

Straitline Silent looks good.

I’ve had an n-gear on another bike before and found them a bit fiddly but the Hope equivalent that was in production might work with a nice bash guard too.

Not sure the Blackspire Stinger will work on 1×10 without an n-gear or similar would it?

Thanks for the suggestions and recommendations thus far.

I had the same problem with a Thomson post. Changed the QR for a bolt up and it still slipped, to the extent that I had to stop repeatedly during the Selkirk marathon to put it back up.

Stuck some toothpaste on the posting around the clamping area, bolted up the clamp silly tight and it hasn’t budged since.

The Great Glen Way is a nice length route although not at all “gnarr” (canal paths, forest tracks etc for the most part). I used a few miles of the old Great Glen cycleway route (on back roads) near the end rather than the official waymarked walking route so I cannot comment on the climb out of Drum which I am told is steep and may be a bit of a push. I was on the singlespeed that day so the road made more sense.

How about the Pennine Bridleway? There are various English/Scottish/Welsh coast to coast routes that could be worth a look too.

Enjoy GT folks. I’ve got the CX bike with me today so will probably do an hour or two on the way home on that.

Will try to make the next away day or Pentlands ride – if a GT/Inners trip falls in the school holidays I can probably take the car as Mrs Pixelmix won’t be using it for work then.

Just giving this another bump in case anybody else missed it.

Pairs entry from me coming your way shortly Rik. Looking forward to it. Hope you’ve ordered good weather – I’m rubbish on wet roots.

Midlothian sounds good although I’ll go with whatever.

Likely to be CX or MTB friendly? Need to take the right bike to work in the morning.

I ride the bike (2011 CAAD10 105) that cp linked too. I decided that I’d rather get a decent alu frame with reasonable components for my money than a cheap carbon one.

Frame is stiff and light and as suggested you’ll have lots of spare pennies for upgrading the components. Stick a lighter saddle and some fancy wheels on and you would have a very quick bike. If you want to spend most of your budget on the bike rather than upgrading later then the Ultegra version can be had for around £1399 I believe. Enjoy.

Tentatively in for this – was also thinking that the Pentlands could be a bit moist.

GT or CX both sound good.

Edit: even the forecast looks good!

Thanks Pezzers. Is the cable car you refer to near Stresa? It wasn’t totally clear to me from your post. Do you recall them hiring more XC/trail stuff rather than the Big Hit and the full face too? (I’m a XC mincer :?)

Bump. This came up in a quick search. We are staying in Meina for a week next month (just down the road from Stresa) and Mrs PixelMix has suggested I might like to hire a bike for a day.

Any experience of hiring in Meina or Stresa? I might just pack my road bike shoes rather than going too far so a place that hires half decent road bikes would be good (or XC bikes if there are decent trails nearby).

Bump bump. Email sent Rik. Hopefully I can make it – sounds like a good event.

+1 for photos. Thinking of building one of these up soon.

Enjoy!

I run 26/38 2×9 and I’m pretty happy with it. I occasionally wish I had a slightly higher top gear so I could churn away slowly on slightly downhill fire track, but that’s all.

I’ve got some TA Specialites rings which I’ve been happy with. I think they were 9 speed Chinook rings. A few places do them here although I got one chainring from Germany as no-one had them in stock here when I was buying.

Hi all, don’t mean to hijack this thread but what rigid forks are people running and how strong are they? I’m looking at building a rigid but I quite to like to get some air, now I know that there are loads of rigid DJ forks but guessing that they aren’t really the right thing for the job! The ones on pixelmix’s inbred were the sort of thing that I was thinking but want to make sure that they’re built for the abuse!

I was pretty happy with those Pace forks. They are a a little bit scuffed here and there but very light and never missed a beat. They are currently lying in the garage as I was thinking I might put them on my wife’s bike, but I might be persuaded to sell them if they would be useful.

Regarding ‘abuse’, you wouldn’t want to use them for dirt jumping but I’ve had the bike round Glentress red/black and Innerleithen and had a bit of air with no issues (I don’t tend to fly off the big stuff on any bike though!). I’d happily recommend Pace carbon forks for general trail riding. I found a tubeless tyre upfront (for low pressue) made the bike a lot less tiring on the downs too.

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I used to have one of these. The frame and headset are currently lying in my house looking for a buyer so let me know if you fancy a 16″ Inbred with a lovely Hope headset!

Was a bit too dusty on my local trails on Monday after a dry and sunny start to the month. Glad of a few hours of rain here in Edinburgh this afternoon to dampen things down a bit. Should wash some of the dust off the bike too. :-)

Tempted but I’m due another rest day and I’ve also hurt a toe (tripped over a super gnarly hardcore drill box in the house yesterday) so I’m just going to have a soft pedal home. Will get out again soon.

13thfm – should be home by then so just pop round.

Great, cheers Mark. Might just pop down to the shop after work or if I’m running late I’ll head up to the canal.

For the avoidance of doubt, “the tape” isn’t a compilation of cheesy songs popular amongst loved up spotty teenagers in the 90s. At least I don’t think it is.

Had a quick spin up Puke Hill and down White Hill earlier. Just the odd puddle between the dusty bits. The obvious areas such as Black Hill are probably best left for a while longer, but the main routes should be fine. See you then.

Might be up for joining the troops if it is a Pentlands ride. Less likely to be able to make it down to GT for a sensible time.

Another 2 days of sunshine forecast before then so the Pentlands might not be too bad. Was planning on a brisk 30min loop at Bonaly / White Hill tonight so I can see how bad it looks then.

Kinesis Crosslight Pro6 here.

Nah, you’ll be fine. That route is signposted all the way round. The main junctions in the Pentlands all have signposts and your route is probably about the best for soggy ground conditions (I assume there will still be some soggy patches up there).

I just found a link to this thread from elsewhere. Probably deserves a bump as I hadn’t heard of this anywhere else yet.

Tempted, as I had planned on doing 10@kirro.

Garmin app on iPhone works well for me. Picked up segments that another rider with the Strava app missed. I just export the gpx files for certain rides from garmin connect and upload them to Strava.

The format still needs a bit of work but I think it has potential. A few more passing places needed on this weekend’s course I thought.

Lopes must be kicking himself for that mistake at the start of the final.

Setup tips?

I found that this method of aligning the pads worked well for maximum power in my initial setup.

I’m running the standard Avid rotors which come with BB7s on my road bike (not the Roundagon ones they used to supply).

No complaints over 6 months of use – when set up well they have enough stopping power.

I had a singlespeed hack bike that started out life as a singlespeed MTB and then became a singlespeed slick tyred commuter. I split it up last week after realising that whenever I rode it I would rather have been on one of my other bikes.

Sure I’ll now spend a bit more on drivetrains on the other bikes, but it’s nice riding a bike that I like rather than a bike that I tolerate.

Saying that, my mountain bike is now hardtail so there is less maintenance involved after I fell out with the bushing play in the back end of my Anthem.

Not very impressive but they are ideal for shimming crud guards to fit slim seatposts.

I thought this was going be a thread about the amusingly titled Strava segment which runs parallel to the tram line

This is about the 3rd post on this topic, so I’ll trot out my usual pic of my Pro6, now 6 months old.

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That Shand does look lovely – like the colour. You racing it in 2012? Edinburgh 48 next week?

Found a tech sheet for the FC-S500 and it looks like the chainline is 42.7

Thanks. In laymans terms, is that a suitable chainline for a 68mm BB CX bike?! Sounds like it would work since it seems to be in the middle of a road double.

I believe that in theory I shouldn’t need BB spacers between the HTII cups for my CX frame, but presume I could squeeze in a 1mm spacer on the right hand side if I wanted to move the chainset across slightly?

Thanks. I’ll be swapping the chainring and guard for my existing ones (smaller than the standard 45t so clearance shouldn’t be an issue) so really just need to make sure that the chainring position is suitable for a cassette. Calculating chainline width etc makes my head spin, so I’ve no idea whether or not this will give an appropriate chainline for a cassette.

Al – sounds a bit odd admittedly, but at the end of the day, it is just a black single ring chainset, and since they are cheaper than 105 etc, it’s one option for sorting the setup I am looking for.

Bump. No-one running and Alfine chainset and regular cassette?