Toy Story 3

Sentimental cr@p

Didn’t it get ‘Best Film’ Oscar?

No, no ‘digi-mation’ film has. No animated film actually.

Bladerunner.

i know, for it’s time, etc. the effects, blah. genre defining, yawn.

but it’s 3 and a half hours of H Ford looking out of a window.

but it’s less than 2 hours!

Very interesting thread.

I have a plan to get a 27.5+ front wheel made up for my cannondale trigger. It has a lefty with bags of clearance so I don’t need a new fork (or bike) to experience some plus-ness.

I thought it was a way to slacken my front end while adding more grip. At the moment I run a 2.4″ Mary on the front and a lesser grip tyre on the back – a set up I love around the Peak – I was hoping for more of the same.

This thread gives me lots to think about re my assumptions. Tyre choice being a big one, I’d grab a 2.8 Mary if it were available. A lot of puncture talk too – presumably more on rears of HTs?

you’d also be buying a new design – pretty sure Cannonade are dropping the trigger pull shock design soon.

Have you looked at the Bad Habit?

looks good, just missing the dropper post. It’s a good price but not one of their half price crazy deals.

I got the trigger carbon (red one) and I’m well chuffed with it.

I have a Fenix3HR on one wrist and an Apple Watch on the other. They’re both great but very different.

The Apple Watch puts others to shame re notifications – actually being able to reply to stuff is so good I’ve turned it off on the Fenix. Remote camera control of iPhone is good, daily fitness stuff is great too

For proper GPS / outdoor stuff, the Fenix is on another level! Just done the Cape Wrath Ultra and the Fenix was my best friend.

Decide what you want first I think.

The thing that I find staggering is that anyone other than the top 5% of earners votes for the inhumane, casually heartless, self-serving shower of shits!
^
from Binners.

This. I just don’t get the justification for most people to vote tory.

I have a large F29 carbon 3 that I love, but might sell. Just not using it having got a Trigger recently.
The Lefty on both is great but the Supermax on the Trigger is particularly amazing – the F29 isn’t getting a look in. There’s no issues with cracking frames.

We have the Withings scales. My stick thin, healthy, fell running, 9 year old measures about 80% fat, she’s a human pork scratching.

Judging by the skin over her sixpack, I’d guess she’s basically zero fat!

The scales are indeed… bobbins

Bialettis utilise the boiling of water, which is too hot for coffee. Surely they’ll always be a slightly burnt taste?

Garmin Vivoactive worth looking at, for around £150 it’s a great allrounder. VERY slim too and does notifications.

I think it’s fair to say ANT+ on phones won’t take off but bluetooth on watches will.
920 has basic notifications which is a ‘nice to have’ bluetooth feature.
Also the smartphone app is good now and makes for super easy uploading to Garmin Connect, which in turn seats to Strava in seconds.

It’s a good watch – very light weight too. Great charging clip although it won’t charge while using which is daft.

Only downside is it’s a bit plasticy!

£300 with HRM at Wiggle although it’s a basic HRM I think

This is footage all filmed at the same time for a magazine. I taped them all to an old handlebar, so it’s all a bit shaky but good for comparisons…

Garmin virb – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0pxwWwnEyo
tomtom bandit – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9G1yj_Egs
iON air pro 3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p01virE9lZk
panasonic – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzcZvBOx5Oo
GpPro silver – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT5mu8kmkW0

iON on handlebars – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6n5VUBh9I4

The verb is a good option if sub £100 – the screen is useful, it’s well built and the footage is ready to go vibrancy wise (as is iON) – GoPro can be great but needs ‘post’ fiddling. TomTom is great to use and has the best app but footage a bit pasty.

I’ve just finished a review of 6 action cams so it’s all fresh

The one I really wanted to test was the Sony, high end ones look great on YouTube but they wouldn’t send me one.

Thanks for the Uberbike code howsyourdad1

it’s worth watching for the tippy toes on keyboard alone! nearly spat my coffee!

newsreader might not be on a fastback to hollywood though.

i know 142 is possible

I think I just emailed you Jonny – cheers

Or… pauljonathanbarton AT gmail.com

Mine the 2 also so any advice on your oval would be relevant and appreciated – does it sit where your big one was? did you get to keep the cranks?

Ooh, jonnytheleyther, which oval 32t did you get?

did you go hope t-rex? – any shift issues with 42 (vs 40)?

rascal, i did 32 thin/fat front with a regular 11-36 out back and was almost ok in the Peak (my old rush)

Just wanted a bit lower up tech climbs – so a 40t extender should do it I think

Ah… 20 mm not 35mm! thanks CaptMorgan – it does say 35mm but there’s a supplement sheet that says 20mm!

followed instructions that came in the manual.

Previous leftys lost travel as the bearings migrated – a ‘reset’ involved yanking the lower down.

This one (post 2012 prob) loses travel at the bottom-out end, so geometry doesn’t slowly change.
The ‘reset’ is the opposite too – take air out, bottom it out firmly a few times until the O-ring in 35mm from the bottom – air back in, check sag, done.

Not sure 125mm is acceptable though?!

Thanks captmorgan, you were right – i hadn’t even thought of that as the bike is so new (it says every 50 hours) – i’ve ridden 113km says Strava

Interestingly, after doing the reset as described, i’m getting 120mm travel – tug up to full height, 125mm. Seems a way off a described 140mm.

Help needed from anyone with the lefty supermax 140mm – I’ve measured my travel, so fully extended all the way to bottom out (taken air out) – my travel is 99mm!

Has anyone else measured theirs?

I’ll contact Pauls asap – see what they say

“Obviously. It’s almost like you’re being intentionally obtuse.”

Not at all, just pointing out the myriad variables in bike design and rider influence – literally thousands of aspects coming together to influence the ‘ride’.

Pulling out single aspects and angrily attacking / defending them is nonsense.

“IME on a 29er you can really feel the gyroscopic stability, which like everything has its pros and cons.”

Yep, but weight would play a major part in gyroscopic effect too. How would a heavier 650b feel compared to a lighter 29er for instance? I’m not sure.

And wheel size is something most people think they can feel.

What about that horst link?

“I like horst links”

Does that statement even make sense?

Single pivot, virtual pivot, how is the shock compressed? There’s so many parts of the suspension design that would affect the bike other than the horst link

really? A typical 29er hardtail will ride loads differently to a 650b enduro bike, sure.
But how much of that is wheel size?

A stone hitting the tyre a few mm’s further up the 29er…

vs – head tube angle vastly different, rake / trail, height of bars, stem length, CoG of rider on the bike etc…

I’d love to put a geometry ‘expert’ (wearing a dog’s cone collar from the vets) on some bikes. Find out if they really can feel a horst link! Ask them the steering angle and rake!

I’m not convinced everyone would know the wheel size.

is this road bike talk?!

nice pic in the woods!

This is sorta relavent – PoV footage of me riding my trigger in the Peak!
2nd half looks fairly fast – it really does ‘flow’ over stuff. It’s way more capable than I am of-course. Except for the french tyres, really need to swap those.

“pjbarton – should a compressor be used? When I swapped over most of the guides said not to bother, if you needed to make a running repair trail side you wouldn’t have a compressor (although wouldn’t most revert to a tube?)… Anyway, most said to use CO2, I managed it with few problems.”

Hammerite – Most guides say DON’T use co2 as it dries out the fluid faster – so compressor or track pump. But track pump can be frustrating verging on impossible. And yes, you’d always stick a tube in when on a ride. Shouldn’t have issues though, no punctures – air can burp out if your pressures are too low.

Batfink is right – there’s no iplayer on current Apple TV but you can stream from iOS pretty easily. If you’re an iOS family get an Apple TV, but wait for the new one – You can buy it now for £130, delivered in a week or so. BBC have announced they’ll support it.

We use a sony ‘smart’ device for iPlayer, it has ITV and 4OD but they’re so bad it’s not worth trying.

crazymac680, close to impossible without a compressor IMO. Even then, having a tube in and taking one bead off is fairly critical.

Eddiebaby, sounds like you’re a couple lb heavier than the C2trigger – not bad for the extra beefiness!

crazymac680, there’s certainly a big difference between elevate and flow but I’m not sure there’s much point having a 140mm bike and only ever using 85mm! Maybe your pressures were a little low?

Although it depends where you’ve ridden it – down Jocobs ladder in the Peak, flow was essential!

yeah, the lefty on my f29 is buttery smooth, zero stiction – i guess they take a while to bed in. If you’re lightish, taking the volume spacer out the bottom might be worth a try, or replacing with a smaller one. You seem to utilise full travel more easily without going to low on pressure

How’s the weight on the Jekyll Eddiebaby? How does the lefty feel? are you getting full travel?

(I’m in a similar place click-wise)