Burn it!

Started off at Derbyshire Bridge and turned left at the Cat and Fiddle then added in Cumberland Clough before climbing back up to all of the stuff mentioned above by Jekkyl and it was all running brilliantly on Tuesday evening :D

I think Cumberland was the driest I’ve seen it, and it should be even drier now!

Here’s the Strava link for my route:

Clicky

First ride last night with the BT70 and it’s good!

Didn’t bother with a helmet light as I knew I’d get 3/4 of the ride done in daylight/twilight but the last descent with just the BT70 on the bars was more than fine. Turbo is bright :D

Much brighter than the MTB Batteries light I’ve used on the bars for the last year or so.

Seems very well made too, a step-up from the other Chinese lights I’ve bought and used. Carry case with all of the accessories etc. is a nice touch as well.

Cheers mr blobby and Northwind!

Deep clean first of all it is then!

proutster
So, as I’m being thick, you don’t clean the chain before bunging it in the tin / deep fat fryer / saucepan etc.?

Anyone?

So, as I’m being thick, you don’t clean the chain before bunging it in the tin / deep fat fryer / saucepan etc.?

Another vote for the Maverick Suspension versions, great instructions too!

The Winter Lights Arms Race is on!!

Nitefighter BT70 just ordered :-)

Thanks all!

@carlos – saw the Beast of Llangollen route on the Edge website as well, so might try that.

Bump for the evening crowd – anyone?

The posters have been up for a couple of months now. We walked up it a few weeks ago to check the state of it and the only thing that was taken down was the big ladder-drop. So we rode it and everything else was still there, including a few big puddles on some berms!!

The closest ones to you will be those organised by Northern Downhill.

First Enduro I did was at Hamsterley with them and since then I’ve been hooked on ’em!

Looks like they’ve got three races left this year – clicky[/url]

Just looked at my results slip and I see that the transfer from Stage 4 to 5 took me over 92 mins!! I was hanging by then and any uphill was a real challenge!

The energy conservation tactic of pushing on quite a few of those final climbs must have helped though, as Stage 5 was my best of the race with 308th fastest time – looks absolutely sh!t now that I’ve written it down though :oops:

That’s my 4th Enduro of the year and 7th ever, and I have to say it was the best – hardest by a mile, but definitely the best.

Brilliant fun and even though my legs are still sore I have a sneaking feeling that I’ll be in it again next year.

Hob Nob
Just heading off to do a practice loop of the EWS In Whistler. Little bit of the same tomorrow, and race day Sunday.

Should be good, little tough, but good.

OK, you saw our ‘Ard Rock and raised it with an EWS in Whistler – I fold, you win :D

‘Ard Rock for me too. Practice tomorrow afternoon then full GNARRRRRR on Sunday :D

Packing just finished, excited now!

Yay! I’m off at 8:15 too – see you at the start :lol:

We’re booked in for mid-October with Just Ride Finale for their Enduro long weekend (mixed uplift and pedalling) clicky, so if you can wait until after that time then I’ll be able to give you an update!

5’11” and 33inch jeans = large 29er for me.

My Reign is a medium 26er, I like the larger frame for miles and the medium for Gnarrrrrr.

My 30mm external and 24mm internal 29er rims arrived yesterday and, I’m hoping, they’ll be perfect for my Anthem X.

They’re still 5mm wider than the Giant rims currently on there, so (I’m hoping again) a good half-way point between that and the 33mm wide ones on my 26er Gnarpoon.

FYI they weigh 388g and 390g each.

Now to get them built-up 8O

Racing innit! PMBA Enduro practice tomorrow and race Sunday – yippee, really looking forward to it :D

footflaps
You’re right, it’s all the liberal’s fault, What we need are lynch mobs, shoot on site policing and ask questions later. Then the world will be so much safer….

Nice leap.

Sorry to have to say it, but yes:

NW Alps Jeyer aka Boz
Smoke = fire.

You hand-wringing liberal ones have, I would guess, never had to try to go to sleep the night after your house has been broken into (whilst you are asleep upstairs) to steal 2 sets of car keys like Renton’s mate.

It’s shit, believe me.

And, by the way, they had to let two of the four go because of lack of evidence – despite the fact that the key to Mrs P’s Golf was found in one of their houses.

The other two were put away because one was out on licence and the other had been “not very nice” when he couldn’t find the keys in a similar style break-in.

Wait until it happens to you, then let’s see how liberal you are.

The best mount that I’ve found to securely hold my Edge 800 whilst on rocky, rooty trails is this one, keeps it nice and out of the way as well:

Enduro

IMO you’ll be lucky to still have your Garmin on your bike if you use the supplied rubber-band type mounts and ride rocky trails fast.

It also uses the, now essential, Enduro buzzword :wink:

Just go for Tesa 4289 tape, I just paid £12.45 on Ebay for 25mm wide x 66 metres and it is exactly the same as Stans Tape – except it is less than 1/6 of the price!!

Thanks! Ordered!

Ah, just remembered that I “cheated” a bit. LB suggested this:

We will declare the value at USD90 for a pair wheels and write “sample only” and “bike rims” on the delivery document. Then you do not pay much for the tax. Is it OK for you?

So I agreed and only paid the £37 odd above.

Not quite sure where you get £170 import taxes from, I paid £37.26 Customs charges on the LB wheels that I bought (built up onto Hope Pro IIs) – that was for an invoice (before shipping and PayPal charges) of $813.

Everyone that I ride with regularly in the Peaks are all on 1 x 10 or 1 x 11, some with 42T One-Up extender rings and some just using 11-36. All but one of us are on 34T fronts. We vary in age from 23 to 53…
The simplicity, lack of dropped chains and lack of noise from a proper narrow/wide clutch-mech set-up far outweighs the (supposed) disadvantages IMO.

Sold my 2012 Medium Summum on Monday for £1100 after it’d been on Pinkbike for less than a week.

I’m lucky I didn’t pay anywhere near RRP for it (£3700 8O 8O ) or I would’ve been sick as a parrot. As it was it only cost (lost?) me £600 over 2 years of DHing fun.

By the way, I presume that you’ve got more (and better) pics than the one above – it looks like it’s been shunted at the front…

As above, they’re worth nowhere near what they used to be…

P.F.Jones in Old Trafford fitted me a Westfalia detachable tow bar with dedicated electrics (apparently exactly the same as an OE one) to my Audi Q5 for £530.

Can’t be too much different to a VW one, so worth a try.

That was already in my plan. For the 29er wheels, as njee20 had pointed out he’d done a while ago, I was planning to ask for some light wheels as these are for the XC bike (even though I seem to rag it as much as I do the other bike).

Thanks for the heads-up on the Park tension gauge and faster ratchet, will have to investigate.

Perfect for Gee, even more so if it rains (as they keep saying it might).

C’mon you big jawed wonder!

Just ordered some of these as I’ve been looking for some second-hand DT240s (a la Northwind) ready for an LB build for my 29er – but these are far cheaper than any second-hand pair that I’ve seen.

Now to order the rims, spokes and nipples in readiness for my first ever wheel build…..

When the hubs arrive I’ll let everyone know how they seem

I’ve got a “custom” one from Tiger log cabins and I’m very impressed.

Admittedly they could have been a little more communicative but the cabin is just what I wanted and was easy to build.

Here’s mine:

I know what you mean, I hit a new record HR of 186bpm for me on stage 3 of the PMBA Enduro at Gisburn earlier this month!!

Shows what b*llocks the 220 – your age calculation is, that only “allows” me a max HR of 171 :oops:

But here’s the quandary, to try the Scout you’d have to ride it…… :wink:

Giant Poitiers – Clicky – I got my 2014 Reign from them for a bargain price and they only charged €90 to deliver to the UK.

You don’t need a time shed, you need a Zombie Fortification Cabin (Clicky)[/url]

deviant
Dual ply.

There is a weight penalty, are dual ply tyres any heavier than a tubeless setup with loads of sealant chucked in?…who cares, we’re talking mere grams of weight here.

Sorry but, IMO, utter tosh!

Dual ply, 60a, wire, High Roller = 1075g plus tube at 150g = 1225g
Single ply, 60a, folding, High Roller = 690g

That’s over 530g difference. With an assumed SG for Stan’s sealant of 1.2g/ml you’d need to squeeze in 440ml of sealant to be at the same weight. Squeeze-in would be appropriate as I don’t think it would all go in :-)

Stans recommend 120ml of sealant, so even going to 180ml (“loads of sealant”) you’ll still be 300g lighter with tubeless – per wheel!!

That is very noticeable.

BTW I’ve never had the need, even with brand new tyres, to use more than 120ml.

So, as above, the answer is tubeless.