If the cable routing isa problem, just run Vs on the front, thats where most of the braking is anyway.
If my menmory serves, the best way to set up cantis, was to do away with the Shimano pivoting Y piece that held the cable, fit a ordinary, or purple yoke, and run the straddle wire as near to the tyre as you dared.

Our lad got a Rothan at 18 months, he was straight on it and wheeling round the house, and looking at it longlingly, but it took him until just over two for it to click. He’s five now and on 7 speed.

I used to do them,enjoy them and not do too badly in the results.
But in those days, other than XC racing it was the only thing going. The last TQ that I did, left me believing that the guys who rode it for fun have moved on, leaving the harcore of supefit fell runner types, sad to say it felt like a different sport.

Of course, if you’re doing something REALLY TECHY, then a fully rigid hardtail is easier to carry 😉

I’d have said Grizedale, maybe an out an back up onto Loughrigg

There is lots of good riding from there.
Check out Wheelbase, they do route cards, as do Wilf’s Cafe. Don’t forget to visit the Hawkshead Brewery while you are there.

Two routes on the Sam Houghton Challenge, website;

http://samhoughtonchallenge.co.uk/routes.html

Have fun!

Here you go, all you need to know;
http://www.biketreks.net/

Thanks, time to do some fettling then… Not looking forward to that,

It must be great to work on the council, all you need to do to meet customer expectations is to be crap and incompetent, anything else is a bonus.

Possibly not a lot of help, but when mine wore out, I replaced with an FSA orbit 11, used these before and they last ages. When the bearings finally go you just replace the cartridges, and you can get spares for these anywhere.

Do you know if 20″ kids MTB is the same as 20 BMX, and 20″ Brompton style?

it’s the lttle barrel at the end, it’s way past bending back I’m afraid, tried that first.

you can pick up the classic Ambleside, Lougrigg, Langdale route, ride to chapel Stile and start from there.

I did the blue with our 5 year old a month or two back. He’s a good rider, but it was too much, he crashed twice. He insisted on carrying on, but walked most of it. He would have been better on the railway path.

We have an older model, it’s great, very roomy, easy to put up and it was still standing after the wind had blown lots of smaller tents down.
The only downside is the size, but I guess you, like us need a big tent, it takes ages and lots of space top dry it. To the extent that we’ve been away less than we used to with a smaller tent.
If you get one, get the footprint as well, it keeps the underside of the groundsheet clean and makes packing up easier.

Do you mean camping pods? if so try Grizedale campsite.

Gortex cables. Fit em, forget em, shifting will be great for years.

Beats me, good luck I suppose. First thoughts were along the lines of “bloody Halfords muppets”, but I’ve been using hope hubs myself for 15 years, so took the chance that Halfords may have known what they were doing.

Sorry, wrong end of the Lake, I’d mixed up Lakeside with Waterhead….
There is some good riding to the east of you, around Whitbarrow and Witherslack

While you are up there, have a look in Biketreks for routes.
Riding from Lakeside and using the ferry, you should be able to adapt routes for Grizedale, Loughrigg, and Claiff Heights, or even add bits together.
I wouln’t fancy riding the A591 from Lakeside either, try going over Jenkins Cfrag and Robin lane to Troutbeck, then make your way to Bowness using the back roads.

You can definatley take them on the ferry, we do it all the time, just ride past all the cars queing and on you get. It makes for a great link into Grizedale.
Not sure about the Steamers though.

A newer mech may have problems with the cage width, nine speed could be too narrow for the seven speed chain. the bolts will be the same, you may be better searching e-bay for old mechs.

Hope the link works,

Grizedale was there when all bikes were rigid only. You’ll be fine, pick your route, if it gets really rough, you can always push!

As for Dr Beeching in popular culture; my 5 year old Thomas fan, and lover of all things railway, said the other day about the “trains being sad, do they think they will be shut down?” I say, “no it’s just the slow music”, him ” but what about Dr Beeching?”. I imagine that in his head the good doctor appears as a deranged Scooby Doo style mad medic!

Goretex cables?

This brings the memories back…
“yer spawny eyed wazzock!”
that dosn’t seem to be heard very much anymore.

Edinburgh cycles do steel forks fro kid’s bikes.
http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/ebwPNLqrymode.a4p?f_ProductID=1657&f_SupersetQRY=KFORKS&f_SortOrderID=-1&f_bct=

I’ve been recently watching Thunderbirds with my 5 year old son, it seems more futuristic now than it did in the sixties.
I was talking to some friends kids, I don’t think they believed me when I said that men had already been to the moon, they think it’s something still to happen.

The future is getting further away all the time, it was about 40 years ago!. When we were kids we had space rockets and man on the moon, supersonic airliners, space stations, fast ocean liners, new exiting tall buildings, and fully expected more of the same.

If it’ not fitted with Hope, I don’t want to ride it…

They are right about the prices though, I would’t be getting another full suspension bike now, if I need to buy a new bike.

I plan local rides according to the conditions, if I know a track will be very muddy, I may give it a miss. But you should ride through the mud, going round only widens the track.
Walkers with thier goretex boots always seem to go round, and remember, the mud was created by dozens of walking boots in the first place.
As for tyre tracks in the mud, the human eye is great a spotting patterns even when there isn’t one, you will see the obvious straight bike track, but not the random jumble of hundreds of foot prints.

Unfortunatley it’s trhe saloon, good idea though

For future reference, if it gets stuck again, don’t knock it out and risk damaging the threads. What you need to do is put an open end spanner between the nut and axle and use the QR can action to pull it out.

Try this, all in French, but the maps, routes and grades are easy to understand.

http://www.gaia-store.com/catalog/details_produit3.php?products_id=7022

Had the same problem with a 3.0 on my son’s Islabike. Just buy a new shifter, it comes with a cable fitted!

Try one of these cheap and rufty tufty;
http://www.russia4u.co.uk/products.php?cat=17

I’ve used re-usable cable ties before. the theory being that the thief dosn’t see it, pile of bikes fall over and we rush out if the cafe. Never been tested though, my bike must not be appealing enough.

try here, Dinah Hoggus camping barn, right on the Borrowdale Bash route.

http://www.lakelandcampingbarns.co.uk/barnview.asp?ID=4

It does depend on your definition of “top quality” though, the location certainly is.